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by usefulcat 8mo ago
I thought of “people who have enough time to exercise because they don’t have to work multiple jobs in an attempt to scrape together enough to make ends meet”.
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by usefulcat 8mo ago
That is a different approach, but I don't think you've demonstrated why it's better. Seems like that approach forces you to introduce a new scope for every resource, which might otherwise be unnecessary: using (var reso
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SnkvDB – Single-header ACID KV store using SQLite's B-Tree engine(github.com)
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by usefulcat 8mo ago
> It took away potential contributors There were multiple times I wanted to contribute to SO but couldn't because I didn't have sufficient "reputation", or something. I shrugged and moved on.
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by usefulcat 8mo ago
Economically, producing less to start with is not very different from what is currently done, destroying excess inventory. Therefore I don't think it's at all a given that prices will go up.
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by usefulcat 8mo ago
> The world is yet to create a lab as innovative as Bell Labs. That was entirely accidental. There's absolutely no guarantee that any given monopoly will produce anything remotely like Bell Labs, and I don't believe that a mono
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by usefulcat 8mo ago
If you're talking about remote editing (editing files which reside on a remote server), Zed already supports that?
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by usefulcat 8mo ago
Yes and no. AIUI there's generally a lot less liquidity available in prediction markets, which limits the profitability. Even if you have perfect clairvoyance, you still need someone to take the other side of the bet.
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by usefulcat 8mo ago
> Taxing assets is inflationary because it forces sales. I can see how taxing assets could result in more selling than would have occurred otherwise. But all else being equal, an increase in selling tends to put downward pressure on pric
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by usefulcat 8mo ago
I've been using c++ for over 30 years. 20-30 years ago I was mostly using MSVC (including version 6), and it absolutely had bugs, sometimes in handling the language spec correctly and sometimes regarding code generation. Today, I use g
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by usefulcat 8mo ago
You're saying I might have trouble getting a date if I don't have a Mac mini?
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by usefulcat 9mo ago
> Texas was Democratic 35 years ago. As I believe were many southern states at that time, but certainly not because they were at all "liberal", either by the standards of then or now. Both parties have changed so much since the
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by usefulcat 9mo ago
I don't know. What is your answer to my question?
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by usefulcat 9mo ago
Whataboutism is almost never a compelling argument, and this case is no exception. ETA: To elaborate a bit: based on your response, it seems like you don't think my question is a valid one. If you don't think it's a valid que
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by usefulcat 9mo ago
How is knowing what word is most likely to come next in a series of words remotely the same as having "the concept of truth and facts"?
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by usefulcat 9mo ago
I can relate. I often feel like my earliest memories are now more like memories of memories, and I dimly recall that it wasn’t always like that.
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by usefulcat 9mo ago
There's a rather fine line between "don't believe everything you read" and "don't believe anything you read". At least in this case.
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by usefulcat 9mo ago
I doubt that it's common for anyone to read a research paper and then question whether the researcher's calculator was working reliably. Sure, maybe someday LLMs will be able to report facts in a mostly reliable fashion (like a ty
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by usefulcat 9mo ago
> I can take my time to actually look up all those random candidates' policies But you can already do that, regardless of mail in voting or not?
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by usefulcat 9mo ago
After reading the reddit comments, it looks like a primary problem is that the author doesn't (didn't?) understand how to benchmark it correctly. Like comparing the time to mmap() a file with the time to actually read the same fil
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by usefulcat 9mo ago
It's not much different than other forms of advertising. Compared to typical total advertising expenditures during a presidential election, my guess is that $4M is close to a rounding error.
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by usefulcat 9mo ago
Some are down over the previous 6 months, but not by 50%. At least among the largest. Company: 6 month change: ============================ Palantir: +20% Salesforce: -9% Shopify: +40% Intuit: -26%
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by usefulcat 9mo ago
As did some models of Honda Prelude starting in '87.
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by usefulcat 9mo ago
I've been enjoying Total Annihilation since 1997. Still works fine on fairly modern hardware with Windows 11. No modifications other than some additional maps that I downloaded decades ago.
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by usefulcat 9mo ago
I don't like all the changes either, but I just opened the contacts app and started typing a name and it showed me exactly what I expected--several of my contacts with the name I typed. iOS 26.2.
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by usefulcat 9mo ago
std::allow_move probably would have been a more accurate name for std::move.
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by usefulcat 9mo ago
> C++ smart pointers (eg std::unique_ptr<>) are likewise to handle ownership and incur a runtime cost where in Rust they are handled by the compiler with no runtime cost. What additional runtime cost is incurred by the use of std::
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by usefulcat 9mo ago
That still leaves the problem of when to use std::swap vs ordinary assignment in generic (i.e. templated) code. Like when std::vector needs to resize its underlying storage (as a result of push_back, for example), it has to decide which app
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by usefulcat 9mo ago
> I can’t understand why a language’s choice to impose complex rules like C++ move constructor hell is an inevitable outcome of irreducible complexity in systems programming It's not about irreducible complexity in systems programmi
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by usefulcat 9mo ago
Agreed that c++03 was much simpler, but that doesn't change the fact that there are useful things that are possible in modern c++ that simply were not possible before. Like if I have a vector<std::string>, in c++03 when it resize

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