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by zabzonk 9mo ago
Yes, you are right, it is a (bad) representation of what the My Asus app puts up on the Windows taskbar - I hadn't noticed that. But even then, I can't see it as M & A. But this is all OT, and I'm not expecting any explan
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
Off-topic, I guess, but on-screen icons are not the only things you have to puzzle about. On my quite new Asus laptop (which I really like) there is a key on the keyboard that launches Asus's My Asus application, which does hardware-sp
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
"Each man's death diminishes me, For I am involved in mankind. Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee." John Donne
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
As maggots have been around a lot longer than humans, perhaps there are evolutionary reasons that (in general) humans prefer not to eat them?
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
I develop on Windows. And I use bash and (gnu) make - combination that cannot be beat, in my experience.
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
butter burns more easily, unless clarified. for things like chips/fries i've always found goose or duck fat to be best, but high end UK chip shops swear by beef lard.
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by zabzonk 10mo ago
> another silly thing you often see is people allocating something with a big sizeof on the stack and then std::moving it to the heap, as if it saves the copying never seen this - an example?
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by zabzonk 10mo ago
Of course it is not reserved for library writers - nothing is. But it is not a feature that application writers should worry about overmuch.
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by zabzonk 10mo ago
Or Mint? Works flawlessly for me when I need a Linux, which is not so often these days, but if I was still doing cross-platform software development it's what I'd use. Minimal fuss.
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by zabzonk 10mo ago
> So, what are the forces that have determined the current state of C++? A subset of the language aimed at library writers. As a user of those libraries all these weirdo features are likely to be transparent.
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by zabzonk 10mo ago
Naming things is hard.
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by zabzonk 10mo ago
This made me think that, for a band known for its guitarists, what great vocalists the Dead had - Weir, Garcia, Lesh, Pigpen, particularly when doing harmonies. Anyway, bye-bye Bob, thanks for all the music.
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by zabzonk 10mo ago
> strength training why do you think you need to do that? most people don't.
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by zabzonk 10mo ago
> How on earth did wokeness even come up there? Wokeness is a control mechanism. If you tread one inch off the "correct" path (as any normal person is going to do occasionally), you will get stomped. For example: [jane] Using &
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by zabzonk 10mo ago
An interesting question, but I think it would be very hard to do it accurately. Also, some of the reports the needed to print during testing were looong.
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by zabzonk 10mo ago
At one point on an international project I had to fly a box of UK A4 to the USA in my luggage so the Americans could check their software could cope with the different size. It did, but lugging it around was a pain - paper is heavy!
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by zabzonk 10mo ago
> then burn it and all the source Nah, don't do that. You will enjoy looking back at it in your old age. I wish I had all my old code now.
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by zabzonk 10mo ago
Speaking as someone that was a SO front-page contributor, and at one brief time the top of the pops on the C++ tag, I didn't think it was so bad. And you got a free t-shirt! What you have to understand is the avalanche of low-quality q
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US seizes Russian tanker – are we all going to die?(theguardian.com)
17 points by zabzonk 10mo ago|9 comments
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by zabzonk 10mo ago
In the UK, War Office --> Ministry of Defence, in the 60s I think.
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by zabzonk 10mo ago
Well: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/new/nothrow.html I thought you were talking about the use of malloc in both languages - you never mentioned new in your first post. and i think we have diff
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by zabzonk 10mo ago
how exactly do you think C and C++ differ here?
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by zabzonk 10mo ago
Department of War.
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by zabzonk 10mo ago
Since C++11 it is required to be null-terminated, you can access the terminator with (for e.g.) operator[], and the string can contain non-terminator null characters.
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by zabzonk 10mo ago
> Ask an examiner from 20 years ago the risk of allowing people to take exams in their own home. Isn't this like an "open-book" exam? We had them 50 years ago when I was doing my A-levels in the UK, and I always thought it
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by zabzonk 10mo ago
OS/2 had some of the ugliest icons I've ever seen (and that elephant!) - looking cute always wins.
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by zabzonk 10mo ago
> It’s interesting that Apple is buying real estate like there is no tomorrow. Well, as the saying goes, they ain't making more of it.
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by zabzonk 10mo ago
it's not just a good idea for raid
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by zabzonk 10mo ago
she didn't. she was on a united way charity comittee with an ibm executive
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by zabzonk 1y ago
Morrowind has zillions, largely because the original CD version (the one with the big colour map) came with its own mod editor, used by bethesda to develop the game. I remember using it to cut down on the cliff-racer count.

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