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by zach43 9y ago
I’ve never tried Boxes before...will probably update tonight and see if I can get a Tiny Core Linux running in a VM using it. Since Bluetooth updates were mentioned, I’ll also have to try connecting my AirPods with my Linux box again, since
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by zach43 9y ago
yes, as someone with minimal knowledge of bitcoin and blockchains, this helped with visualizing the roles of the miner, blockchain, and bitcoin wallet. As a sidenote, I have been working in C++-land for a while now, and its really cool to s
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The Treacherous Optimization (2006)(ridiculousfish.com)
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Defective C++ (2009)(yosefk.com)
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by zach43 9y ago
Maybe I’m remembering this wrong, but doesn’t Adobe Air work on Windows and macOS only? I was trying to install an Adobe Air app on a Linux machine a while back and ran into this problem.
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by zach43 9y ago
> It only has happened that way because our industry has been so web focused for so many years, that very little brain power has gone into cross platform desktop apps for a long time. While there is an ongoing trend to move towards web a
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by zach43 9y ago
Yep, I also ordered a $20 set of Mpow bluetooth headphones on Amazon ~3 years back, and they have been just great. While the sound quality is not that good, it is good enough for my daily gym and running sessions. Ive also used them in the
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by zach43 9y ago
Maybe this is just my experience, but it took me far longer to understand the subtleties of move semantics, rvalues, and RVO than to understand pointers and references in C++. And this is not even getting into “universal references” (which
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by zach43 9y ago
One fairly common example of a bad C++ design edge case is the “Most Vexing Parse” problem [0]. I frequently find myself constructing objects using the () syntax will produce parse errors as the compiler is expecting a function declaration.
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by zach43 9y ago
NB, by “teens” this article is referring to a study of 14 year olds. Also, it seems like the teens had to self-report whether they engaged in “hacking” on a survey.
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by zach43 9y ago
> it can’t even put astronauts in orbit anymore But this isn’t really a NASA problem, this is a US government funding problem right? I can’t imagine how anyone can put people in space without the budget for it
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by zach43 9y ago
A friend of mine joked that a recent Windows update “downloaded the entire internet and then proceeded to install it”. The next day, I watched with horror as my computer restarted with the same Windows update...it took a similar amount of t
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by zach43 9y ago
Interesting article...I did not realize that the WASM needs to be compiled into machine code on the client system, I just assumed it would be directly interpreted by the JS engine. As a side note, it is interesting to see that multithreaded
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by zach43 9y ago
Can you provide a summary of Satoshi’s argument here? I’m failing to see how the usage of electricity, which is an entropy-losing process, leads to added value through bitcoin
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Writing a Self-Mutating x86_64 C Program (2013)(shanetully.com)
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by zach43 9y ago
Maybe something like this was added to make debugging/testing of the OS easier? maybe they just forgot to remove it before shipping the new macOS
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by zach43 9y ago
They already have a pretty decent tracking protection app built-into the browser, and if I remember correctly it can also be enabled outside private browsing mode I’m guessing that they are slowly moving towards implementing a full ad block
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by zach43 9y ago
> Firefox is right now truly the best browser, at least for my usage patterns and needs, but even if it weren't, I would still use it, because when web standards are endangered due to a monopoly, then I consider it my duty to suppor
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by zach43 9y ago
Why do you think the parent comment is trying to silence anyone? To me it just seems like they’re providing evidence of a hypocritical attitude here.
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by zach43 9y ago
I’m not very familiar with C++ build tools which parse source code for header dependencies, but I know that C++ compilers (the preprocessor specifically) does this. From what I know of cmake and gmake, neither of these build tools automatic
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by zach43 9y ago
I am also very interested in learning more about using WebAssembly as a primary deployment target for desktop applications. Recently when I was working on a cross-platform C++ application using Qt and boost, a major pain point was in unders
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by zach43 9y ago
Could I also suggest Tiny Core Linux [0]? It still seems to be in active development, and the ISO which includes the kernel, shell, and window manager (FLWM, based off FLTK) weighs in at only 16mb in total. It's pretty impressive, and
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Why Semantic Versioning Isn't (2015)(gist.github.com)
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