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by wsve 8mo ago
I tried to make this shift, but managed to somehow brick Linux Mint, so now I'm back on Windows for now... I was already not very impressed when I attempted to okay a video file, and VLC told me I didn't have the right codec insta
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by wsve 11mo ago
It was that small in 2020, it's more in the 5-10 range these days
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by wsve 1y ago
> Rather than implicitly importing a library when the variable is first used, why don't you just explicitly do it? I think it's on you to explain why that's a better approach for everyone's use cases instead of this
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by wsve 1y ago
The author is talking about owning a domain and how having that domain gives you ownership over your data... But I can't but think that, at least in the US, domain names are rented from private Internet service providers. There
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by wsve 1y ago
I was hoping to get some commentary about the project and what lessons you learned from it. You wrote an OS in 1000 lines of Zig, but... So what? What should I take away from this? Are you posting this to encourage people to use the OS, or
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by wsve 1y ago
This seems harsh to the point of being untrue...
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by wsve 1y ago
Sometimes I look at the way C macros are used to simulate generics and wonder to myself... Why don't y'all just put templates into the standard? If the way you're writing C code is by badly imitating C++, then just imitate C+
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by wsve 1y ago
Do you plan to branch out to new coin lines?
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by wsve 1y ago
That seems unlikely, the code to do that would be part of the OS or maybe even part of the hardware, not really trivial things to hack. Plus, what could a hacker really do with voice recordings that they couldn't do more easily with ke
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by wsve 2y ago
I work at Microsoft, so I'm biased, but C# may be my favorite language I've worked with compared to C++, Python, Type/JavaScript, Java, C, etc. I see/hear jokes often that it's Microsoft Java, and yeah definitely gr
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by wsve 2y ago
This is exactly right. DOGE deserves no praise. Their goal is not to cut spending to bring money back to the people. Their goal is to gut the government itself and make it ineffective in improving people's lives. They don't actual
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by wsve 2y ago
This is much more of a manpower and money problem than it is a technical one. Of course it's possible to fork Linux and rewrite it in Rust. But who would spend all that time and energy doing that without the Linux foundations funds and
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by wsve 2y ago
I'm absolutely not bullish on LLMs, but I think this is kinda judging a fish on its ability to climb a tree. LLMs are looking at typical constructions of text, not an understanding of what it means. If you ask it what color the sky is,
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by wsve 2y ago
Not familiar with "boosting", but I'm definitely a fan of concepts and reflection. Reflection is absolutely gonna feel completely alien to people for a while, but there's a lot of areas in our codebase where I wish I cou
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by wsve 2y ago
I often feel that when C++ posts come up, the majority of commenters are people who haven't deeply worked with C++, and there's several things people always miss when talking about it: - If you're working in a large C++ code
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by wsve 2y ago
That sounds like a good thing to me. I would prefer the people who hold power in our society be the ones democratically elected, not the ones who lucked into a leviathan amount of money and can now buy Twitter for fun.
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by wsve 2y ago
Where is that line for you? Is occasionally checking for security updates strictly necessary? Is reporting a crash to the devs so they can fix it necessary? What about sending system & usage telemetry so they can prevent future bugs?
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by wsve 2y ago
I'm open to being convinced otherwise, but I feel like I'm the only one who doesn't get why opt-out telemetry is such a big deal. Sure, if it's a software library, I don't want it doing random network calls during m
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by wsve 2y ago
OP is obviously talking about people whose area of research/development/product would involve web scraping... This feels like being purposefully obtuse
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by wsve 2y ago
"face scan" doesn't imply "3d face scan", it just implies additional data beyond a regular photograph. Isn't a 3d scan just a bunch of 2d scans lumped together? How many photos need to be taken before it's
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by wsve 2y ago
Isn't this literally a gag in The Office...? Which would unfortunately make this author Michael Scott in this situation...
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by wsve 2y ago
Win+. opens an emoji keyboard??? How the hell have I not heard about this
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by wsve 3y ago
I would agree with all of this, _except_ maybe the first bullet. Async can be fine so long as there's a mechanism for flushing all buffers before crashing. Otherwise, there's a high risk that you're gonna miss logging an impo
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by wsve 3y ago
Something that would have been really helpful to me: If the big pitch is "how easy it is" and "the mental model", get to that part sooner! Put up some pictures of what I'm supposed to visualize when I'm dealing
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by wsve 3y ago
"Season 9" is a spin off. I don't care if they still had a few of the OG cast pop in, when you have a whole new main cast and a whole new premise, that's a different series
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by wsve 3y ago
"Kernel C" is the name given to the subset of C (read, Linux's flavor of C) that was formed by deciding which language features/compiler extensions they would/wouldn't use. Hardly a new or unsolvable problem. B
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by wsve 3y ago
Now that we've seen this pattern emerge multiple times in the past (people losing a large chunk of their games due to the shutdown of the online catalog), I think it begs for a killer feature in the future: the ability to burn the game
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by wsve 3y ago
Well, historically yes, but this has stopped being true for the past ~80 years
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by wsve 3y ago
Does that make it not an improvement? There's definitely issues with C++'s syntax...
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by wsve 3y ago
Not just that, but a big part of Herbs feature set are things that can work as proof of concepts and proof of usefulness that could be presented to the C++ committee as actual features that can be added to C++. Many of the features of cppfr

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