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by twic 3y ago
There is a proposal for C++ to zero-initialise automatic (ie local variables): https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2023/p27... If that goes through, zeroing automatics would jus
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by twic 3y ago
I suspect there is a bit of a tipping point effect though. If only 0.1% of your profession is an abuser of power, then those around them will react when they see them do it. If 10% are, it's normalised, and people will let it slide. So
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by twic 3y ago
They are certainly pulling already in supercomputing drip. In the West, I think only MareNostrum looks that cool.
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by twic 3y ago
Sounds like the opposite of my experience with Java in 1996. I had some great thick book on it (as was the style at the time), and after chapters on language basics, streams, collections, etc, it quickly got on to GUI programming with AWT.
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by twic 3y ago
I'm not sure if it is an unpopular opinion; i'm not sure it's an opinion at all, since it seems like a statement of fact - no programming language lives forever, eventually being superseded by newer languages designed with th
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by twic 3y ago
If you worked on these images, surely you would be irresistably tempted to leave little easter eggs referring to past characters? "Hey Kim, how are you doing?" "Great, thanks! Apart from going a littleh hard on the ravioli la
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by twic 3y ago
It's a UK website. Cheerios are relatively new here, and my impression is that they aren't very popular. In particular, i suspect they haven't caught on with the demographic of people who write articles for the BHF website.
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by twic 3y ago
I'm writing this comment on a 2011 MacBook Pro (admittedly a fast machine at the time) with a busted graphics chip, running current Linux and Firefox, and my experience of the web is basically fine, including video. Some JS-heavy app-l
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by twic 3y ago
Both. That horrible Finnish salty liquorice is made salty by the addition of ammonium chloride, which has no sodium. Sodium acetate and sodium glutamate taste salty, despite having no chloride in. My speculative guess would be that the salt
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by twic 3y ago
Counterpoint: people who aren't scientists kill animals all the time, and don't even genetically engineer them first.
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by twic 3y ago
Wayland is like systemd all over again. We had something ancient and crufty which just about worked, but was a genuine obstacle to progress. A group of crazy people got together and designed a replacement. Everyone else pointed out that the
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by twic 3y ago
Maybe we don't watch films like this any more, but this is akin to how one consumes an immersive theatre experience like the ones Punchdrunk puts on. The structure of those is quite different, and designed to be engaged with like this,
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by twic 3y ago
I once watched an Eastern European abstract animation, following a marble bouncing through a surreal world, and only realised it was in the projector backwards when at the end there was a mirrored opening title card.
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by twic 3y ago
I immediately thought of volunteer moderator ÆrosTwiceChastened53: https://achewood.com/2005/02/10/title.html
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by twic 3y ago
Properties files have been fine, i guess since 1995.
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by twic 3y ago
Given that it's a new venture continuing their work together at an old one, I thought 100 would be a more appropriate name, but that's pretty obscure even for an HTTP status.
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by twic 3y ago
More likely to be a scalar electromagnetic weapon of some sort, a Tesla howitzer etc.
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by twic 3y ago
They seem to work for me.
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by twic 3y ago
I think the spot in the middle is dirt. Could be a five and a half?
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by twic 3y ago
> Midjourney prompt: a pair of dice, impressionism Pictures shows three dice. Two dice have five spots on all visible faces; the other has six adjacent to five in an abnormal pattern.
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by twic 3y ago
In case what i wrote wasnt clear: Java's streams are (or can be) parallel, and can saturate as many cores as you like. But parallelism is not compatible with early stopping at any stage - early stopping is inherently serial! - and tran
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by twic 3y ago
Okay, so you know streams in Java. You know a Collector? A transducer is roughly a Function<Collector, Collector> (with some more type variables to make that valid). Given a Collector, a transducer will make another Collector which do
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by twic 3y ago
Indeed. We ought to be eating them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37297360
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by twic 3y ago
> I actually chose that example partly because there's an immediately actionable lower-carbon substitute: Dua Lipa?
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by twic 3y ago
> Indeed, homes are some of the most liquid form of wealth "Liquid" means fast to sell without giving a deep discount. Homes are far less liquid than listed securities.
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by twic 3y ago
Although given that the Australian version is "autofilled with any data they've already received (e.g. salary paid and tax withheld by employers)", it's definitely not as good an example as them. The UK system requires y
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by twic 3y ago
I think the idea is that things like that should be static constexpr. They have the same lexical scope but don't take up space on the stack. Surely any competent optimiser will make them the same though.
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by twic 3y ago
In British English, 'artic' is short for articulated lorry, which is what we call a semi-trailer truck (I think). So the title suggests a secret truck full of code, out there on the road somewhere.
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by twic 3y ago
Hans Moravec is really into space elevators. Is there some correlation between being an AI researcher and having an interest in space mega-engineering?
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by twic 3y ago
Depends how you sample. If you look at all current employees, and ask how long they were in their previous job, i don't think it does.

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