zabzonk

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by zabzonk 2mo ago
innovation in what areas are you talking about?
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by zabzonk 2mo ago
> Every time I leave the US, I’m always struck by how happy other people seem to be. Seems more than a little rose-tinted. I live in the UK and I can certify that there is a lot of misery here. Overloaded NHS, lack of housing, the Byzant
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by zabzonk 2mo ago
Obviously not a flying fish.
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by zabzonk 2mo ago
> I literally have never found a place where `std::variant` has any positives that can't be written a different, clearer way with drastically better compile time and run time performance. So, don't use std::variant? To produce
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by zabzonk 2mo ago
> stuff you shouldn't need to care about Such as? I don't believe any C++ compilers are producing extra machine code just for the fun of it.
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Russian drone chasing Ukrainian street vendor(bbc.co.uk)
9 points by zabzonk 2mo ago|4 comments
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by zabzonk 2mo ago
> If you aren't writing it in assembler, you're writing slow code. Depends in part in how good you are at writing assembler.
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by zabzonk 2mo ago
> would return 7 more pedantically, it would push 7 onto the stack
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by zabzonk 3mo ago
Dr Who and the Silurians had this covered: https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Silurian
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by zabzonk 3mo ago
Bah, people who use .CC or .cc for C++ files deserve to be beaten about the head with a baseball bat. It's not clever.
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by zabzonk 3mo ago
What happened to the little tramp with the walking stick? I had one of those sticks (as a biro) off an IBM salesperson, early to mid 80s, and IBM must have paid an ungodly amount to Chaplin for the IP. But I really did love the IBM PC. And
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by zabzonk 3mo ago
> PIMPL is the typical solution here, since the inner/impl class is not part of the public ABI. Yep, that's what I've used it for. Didn't find it too difficult to implement it myself, but I guess every bit of convenie
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by zabzonk 3mo ago
Hmm. Do people use PIMPL that much (I have used it, but rarely) that we need std library support (and testing, documentation, understanding)? Just asking.
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by zabzonk 3mo ago
> just show up at a branch In the UK at least, there are very few brick & mortar branches anymore - banks expect everything to be done online.
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by zabzonk 3mo ago
how do you ship a "wysiwyg"? and my point is he is doing the hand-waving. i'm quite happy to hear success stories - we get so few concrete ones here.
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by zabzonk 3mo ago
> I’ve used it for several improvements to our wysiwyg. I was able to refactor to a much more cohesive architecture that is making future work much easier/safer. We got a fzf like search algorithm for an autocomplete that includes m
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by zabzonk 3mo ago
Well, it does say: "Everything is stack-allocated by default; heap is opt-in through the standard library." So it supports both stack and heap, and I guess static allocation too.
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by zabzonk 3mo ago
> Do we have a great poet who captures the American spirit, the American story, the American identity? Dare I suggest Bob Dylan?
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by zabzonk 3mo ago
> isn't British English. Eh? Most commonly uttered words in UK English: "Have you put the bins out?"
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by zabzonk 3mo ago
Lessons from Vasa regarding C++ standardisation [pdf]: https://www.stroustrup.com/how-to-write-a-proposal.pdf
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by zabzonk 3mo ago
You are not alone in his style, but in what he actually says, all of which seems to me to be wrong.
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by zabzonk 3mo ago
Yep, tulips 1630s, south sea 1720s.
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by zabzonk 3mo ago
> Grading exams is tedious, but invigilating them is a neutral experience. I don't mind grading exams (though I think grading is somewhat futile - see my link elsewhere). Sometimes an examinee will come up with a new idea, but we d
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by zabzonk 3mo ago
I have learned a lot about computer programming from reading books and from more experienced programmers. This is what Illich was talking about - give people an allowance and let them spend it as they will, for example on books and mentors,
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More fun with high-speed rail in the UK(theguardian.com)
2 points by zabzonk 3mo ago|0 comments
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by zabzonk 3mo ago
While I am in no way a supporter of AI cheating, or whatever we want to call it, I can tell you from experience that there is nothing more tedious or soul destroying than invigilating a written multi-hour exam. It put me off teaching in hig
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by zabzonk 3mo ago
I did about the same, until my GF said "it's them or me". Haven't touched one in over 30 years, thank god. To anyone out there that does smoke - stop. You will improve your health, your finances, and you won't smell
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by zabzonk 3mo ago
> I have no clue what brand it is You must have clue! If there is one thing tobacco companies are brilliant at it is branding. Why else would I have smoked Marlboro (and I am English) for all those sad, sad years.
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by zabzonk 3mo ago
More or less. I remember the first time I flew in a tri-jet (after a 747), I was a bit worried on take-off about how we were still on the ground as the end of the runway approached. To clarify slightly, I first heard "tower of power&qu
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by zabzonk 3mo ago
Oh no - you were THOSE kids.

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