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by sqeaky 9y ago
Tang isn't a NASA invention, it was invented by Kraft. It tastes terrible and no one bought it until NASA used it[0]. But lets run with that. If NASA had invented they wouldn't manufacture and give it away, they would give away th
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by sqeaky 9y ago
How much memory do you have and what are building? Last I was memory constrained I was trying to build Clang on a Raspberry Pi.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
If you aren't writing libraries you rarely need to be concerned with move semantics. At one of my two C++ jobs, literally no class has any && shenanigans and at the other.. we are making libraries, so yeah we care about that, b
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Well that is something I hadn't heard of. Now I am curious how hard it would be to get CMake to do this?
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by sqeaky 9y ago
NASA is obligated to share their work with Americans. Many products ship with tech NASA invented that probably would not have been shared if a private enterprise came up with it.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
> Space hostile and empty and we have no guarantee earth won't become that way too. If the worst should happen we will need to live without Earth or we will stop living. A big rock could come through any day.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
"in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." — Benjamin Franklin So I guess Ben just knew that aliens would never be a problem because Death and Taxes. Apparently the IRS is more powerful than Statist
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by sqeaky 9y ago
> an effort to once again become relevant. I was unaware that being the 2nd and 3rd most popular language made it not relevant when I guess nothing is relevant except Java. (Per the Tiobe index) If you need high level abstractions and th
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Yes, and it took about 5% off my link step. It was nice, but no a fundamental game changer. I suspect someone who didn't already a bunch of smaller link steps would benefit more.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Sean Parent does love squeezing all the performance out of even the tiniest devices. There is a video of him loading the largest (he knew of at the time) JPG on an iPad 1. The image is several gb and it works pretty well on a machine with m
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Build Time! I will pay a great deal of money to reduce my build times. Building is readily parallelizable and with a good enough build scripts and system design there are several smaller linking steps instead of one huge serialized one at t
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I think there are some really hard limits on this now. I think the better at branching a chip is the worse it will be at SIMD and vice versa. Barring some crazy breakthrough I don't see what you want coming soon. Which is sad, because
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by sqeaky 9y ago
That's a shame. C++11/14/17 each make the language better and deal with many of the might have pushed someone away in the past. The typing is getting stronger, the library richer and hard things easier. If you know about or c
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I think we can all agree that actively re-purposing the postfix-- operator to perform a dereference on a smart is definitely not idiomatic. Idiomatic might be fuzzy, but it definitely does not include active attempts obfuscation, malice or
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by sqeaky 9y ago
That isn't a real solution. Searches are imperfect and this forfeits the entire foreign market. I think Musk has the right idea on novel inventions, the only way to keep them secret is to actually keep them secret. An honest patent for
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by sqeaky 9y ago
At both of my jobs, I am working way too much, I am working in pre-C++11 codebases which now allow C++11. Both are working to for -Werror everywhere and that helps a huge amount, and we can try to get more warning listed and make broad but
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Could you share this evidence? Because I haven't seen it.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I agree that there are technical limitations, but I think those should be sought to be overcome. I disagree with your implicit assertion that all languages are equal (or close enough). If it is possible to make a class of error completely d
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Well written the hard part there. I am riding on on the idiomatic C++11/14/17 train right now. Life over here is great, but I can the warts of the language looking backwards. The promised land in the future doesn't look quite
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Please, step away from "formal verification" and come back to world the rest of us devs work in. I have never seen a formally verified piece of software even once. I don't know if its too hard to do to real software or if C
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I am not sure if you are serious or not. How does verification prevent buffer overflows? It can reduce their frequency, but you can never know you got them all. They find issues in libCURL and openSSL that have existed for years. Very few p
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I think I covered one major distinction well. Copy software has 0 cost, copying matter has some. This is just a re-wording and perspective change on "software patents are just math" angle. Some people feel that since there is no c
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I routinely have VMs and images of VMs taking about many hundreds of GBs. I could get by with 256GB, but it wouldn't be comfortable. I would clean up old images and software on my schedule, then be dictated when because someone cheaped
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Trade secrets. As long as they remain secret they have protection, but the very act of outing them makes them not secret. I am aware of very few successful suits defending trade secrets.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I don't think many do conflate the two, I think most people just don't see value in software patents. Software is great because it has no cost to copy, so when someone creates a new algorithm it can be put in use everywhere applic
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by sqeaky 9y ago
CO2 is invisible. Pictures makes articles more appealing, easier to understand and profitable. It's not like they are even lying, you agree there is some smoke an pollutants in there. What should they take a picture of? Can't smok
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I don't think it is a straw-man to point at a real problem and demand answers. A straw-man argument is creating something that doesn't exist then attacking that. He didn't call them evil, you are accusing him of doing that (Y
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Do you think there are enough disreputable people to make that a problem? I mean it chip has a unique ID or its not doing its job, and you get the payment info of each user. There are incentives to not stealing these things, so you are real
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I think that only re-linking should be required if you only change source files and not headers. Headers implicitly convey are the sizes, inheritance and other stuff that dependencies need for compilation. I suppose you could have some extr
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I am not sure how they thought this would succeed, unless they plan on pivoting into the most distributed umbrella retailer ever. Umbrellas are too cheap to defend with technology. Something like GPS wouldn't help recover umbrellas in

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