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static_noise
12y ago
Being able to run old legacy code is one of the most important arguments for C++. Every new feature is add-on (not "upgrade" and not "migration"). At the fast pace things develop for Rust I hope that the language will ha
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You want a full disc encryption which adds plausible deniability in the case the KGB sees you have an encrypted file named "Nuclear Launchcodes_2016_final2.docx" on your USB drive. Truecrypt has that - who else has it?
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static_noise
12y ago
Smart pointers are pretty easy to use. They basically just delete the object they are pointing to if they go out of scope. You never have to worry about when and where to write "delete" again. What if an exception occurs in your c
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12y ago
Current stdies should account and compensate for the placebo effect (double blind study). I think there was a study which compared different placebos and the more expensive ones showed better effects. So your hypothesis may be right.
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If you need 50 experiments to actually show that the effect exists, then even a small fraction of fraudulent experiments can heavily skew the result when looking at confidence intervals. Think of selfhealing as a coin toss with 50/50 c
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You can bash C++ all you want yet it is the one language that stands in the middle of high performance and systems development. Somehow all the "alternatives" fail in some part and all you're left with is C++. Rust may be get