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by tom_ 1y ago
> Europe just sucks in oil, gas, uranium and some coal from the rest of the world to give back what exactly? It's called "money". Numbers on a screen that you can exchange for goods and services. The people with the oil ar
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by tom_ 1y ago
See also, perhaps, Killer Arguments Against Land Value Tax... Not: https://kaalvtn.blogspot.com/p/index.html
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by tom_ 1y ago
I use a guid. (A different one each time, of course.)
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by tom_ 1y ago
But there's already a Zorin OS! Example footage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=043WEs_6TAo
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by tom_ 1y ago
The mid-1980s Acorn 8-bit range all used dynamic RAM for the onboard memory. The BBC Micro range all had 250 ns DRAM, with the CPU getting 2e6 accesses and the video getting the other 2e6 (taking advantage of the 6502's predictable RAM
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by tom_ 1y ago
Ha. I was starting to find the article a bit tiring and the moment my eyes landed on the Conclusion heading I stopped right there. You shouldn't trust my criticisms either.
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by tom_ 1y ago
For the amount of time and effort that went into that article, the author could surely have fixed at least one of the things they complain about! And they don't seem to understand the C #include mechanism at all , so should we even pa
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by tom_ 1y ago
Flag it if you're unhappy with the submission.
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by tom_ 1y ago
My makefiles ran it 4 times, i think. I still preferred it to Word.
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by tom_ 1y ago
Ahh, something approximating a substantive criticism! You should have put this in your first comment.
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by tom_ 1y ago
Right Alt doesn't exist on all keyboard layouts. On the UK layout it's replaced by AltGr, which doesn't do much appart from fail to act as Alt for Alt+F4 purposes, but it has actual uses in other layouts: https://e
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by tom_ 1y ago
It's quite possible that there are just people flagging things without commenting. I do this all the time if the discussion looks particularly stupid, unproductive, bad-tempered, pointless, and so on - or some combination thereof. (I h
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by tom_ 1y ago
I figured enough people just flag the submission, because they don't want to put up with the Xlibre guy's specific category of shit, or that of his inevitable hangers-on. Are they right? Are they wrong? Well, it's their decis
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by tom_ 1y ago
Save it for something that matters. See also: FED and GIT.
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by tom_ 1y ago
I can't do it either. Something about typing commands that have some kind of grammar and pressing Return to submit each one for consideration just throws me off. Don't make me think. Thinking is typically what got the code into th
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by tom_ 1y ago
Everybody has their own BS detector, and mine happened to go off in this case. But you're quite right.
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by tom_ 1y ago
You're quite right. How could this possibly be worth investigating? There is nothing useful that we could discover here.
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by tom_ 1y ago
Why not? I expect they're already categorised to some extent - after all, how many straight men would want to read the ones where gay men are fucking each other and sucking each other's cocks and whatnot? - and this would just be
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by tom_ 1y ago
And another one dies every time you need to step through a call to std::function. Whatever you do, the kittens are never going to escape.
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by tom_ 1y ago
Yes, this was a video game, targeting games consoles - so the executable statically links with pretty much everything, including stuff that would count as part of the OS on a PC. And then, if you can make sure everybody builds with the same
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by tom_ 1y ago
It's a fairly typical Unix tool, but: worse! It's got a rather cryptic and unhelpful command line UI that's often fiddly to use, rather requires you to understand its internals in order to work with it, and has lots of perple
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by tom_ 1y ago
Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 2 had a track listing that was 6 pie charts, one image per slice, 1 slice per track. I assume it came on 3 LPs, but I had the 2 CD version, and there were corresponding pie charts printed on the face
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by tom_ 1y ago
But if you have to do this via Visual Studio, it's no good for the people that don't use Visual Studio. Also, where does nuget get this stuff from? It doesn't build this stuff for you, presumably, and so the binaries must com
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by tom_ 1y ago
It's only considered a bad idea because git handles it poorly. You're already putting all your code in version control - why would you not include the compiler binaries and system libraries too? Now everybody that gets the code
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by tom_ 1y ago
Interesting to hear it was so much of a problem in terms of onboarding time. Maybe Source Depot was particularly weird, and/or MS were using it in a way that made things particularly complicated? Perforce has never felt especially diff
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by tom_ 1y ago
If you're worried about your brain, reading the entire article might be good exercise for it.
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by tom_ 1y ago
The return value refers to the same element that you'd reach by skipping over the elemnent(s) rather than deleting them. So if doing 1 elemnt at a time, you can ++it (and now it is the next element), or you can it=erase(it) (and now t
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by tom_ 1y ago
The whole point of gofmt is that you type in whatever you like and gofmt sorts it out for you. So if you're typing your code in a HN comment box, you'd surely just enter it roughly like that - though i recommend not even including
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by tom_ 1y ago
And today everybody has a smartphone, pretty much. So what difference did it make, the opinion you had, whatever it was? In the end, none at all.
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by tom_ 1y ago
Iterator-based std::unordered_map::erase and std::map::erase return a new iterator, one past the range erased, specifically so that you can erase while iterating. Along these untested lines: for(decltype(cont)::const_iterator it=cont.

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