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C++ creator calls for help to defend programming language from 'serious attacks'(theregister.com)
3 points by zombot 2y ago|2 comments
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by zombot 2y ago
And what is the "find anywhere" hotkey that works everywhere?
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by zombot 2y ago
I must have missed the "breaking up" part. Anyway, the article is just a really long ad for the author.
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by zombot 2y ago
I know one thing for certain: The future ain't what it used to be.
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by zombot 2y ago
This has to require some central server. If the app is free, how are hosting fees payed?
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by zombot 2y ago
You have one guess.
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by zombot 2y ago
If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell. https://blog.simplejustice.us/2017/04/11/f
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by zombot 2y ago
If they yowl so loudly, it must have hit a nerve.
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by zombot 2y ago
Maybe they want to see the Streisand Effect in action?
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by zombot 2y ago
The most horrifying aspect of UB is that it can affect your program without the instructions triggering it ever being executed. And many greenhorns don't know that or even believe it to be false. So the effects of Dunning-Kruger may be
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by zombot 2y ago
Good bye, then, whois. I can remember times when you could still see the names and addresses of registrants in whois records. That was before abuse and fraud became everyday occurrences in today's internet. I miss the times when we cou
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by zombot 2y ago
Now that the government is openly corrupt, they even have a chance of success.
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by zombot 2y ago
> who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a massive spying program that violated the rights of millions of Americans. That's how corrupt the system is. You get punished for revealing crimes against everyon
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by zombot 2y ago
It's not about being pedantic, it's about building the right habits. Building a habit of using x++ instead of ++x is suboptimal.
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by zombot 2y ago
It was unwarranted sarcastic snark. That commenter was bitten by some bug.
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by zombot 2y ago
No, it's not TypeScript that is 10 times as fast, only the TypeScript compiler. Bad title. Also, "10x fast er " would be a factor of 11.
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by zombot 2y ago
> Let me be upfront: there is no commonly-used and accepted metric for code readability. Indeed, I haven't found an autoformatter yet whose default settings I find "readable". The best of them is still clang-format, becaus
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by zombot 2y ago
> maybe they could have gotten it 1,000,000x faster. WTF.
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by zombot 2y ago
> At the time that was a huge enabler for tracking down obscure references and authors. Would that still work today, in the highly commercialized and highly sanitized/censored internet? Where Google wouldn't show you those sear
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by zombot 2y ago
Articles like this are worth the author's weight in gold. But as evidenced by the comments here, only few people understand the argument. The rest just "know better".
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by zombot 2y ago
"Reality" is an alien concept to an LLM. All they have is sequences of words that they can complete.
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by zombot 2y ago
The a-hole convention here disapproves of such leniency.
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by zombot 2y ago
> it++ Should be ++it. Post-increment is generally more expensive, especially when you don't know the exact type you're applying it to.
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by zombot 2y ago
> native support for ARM64 on macOS I'm still missing x64 support on macOS in Wineskin.
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by zombot 2y ago
As a matter of fact, I don't. Spell it out if you dare.
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by zombot 2y ago
It may be normal, but is it productive? What will you do? Stop loving your child, punish the mother? You may be better off not knowing the answer and being OK with that.
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by zombot 2y ago
Rooting for the Canada goose, regarding the symbolism. Not that I have anything against bald eagles, they are magnificent creatures.
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by zombot 2y ago
> it's an open invitation for abuse. And I refuse to believe that the politicians behind that travesty don't know that. Also, if you already go to prison for not handing over your decryption keys when asked, the one purpose lef
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by zombot 2y ago
Once Trump is through, America will lie in ruins. The only question is whether his followers will have the guts to acknowledge that.
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by zombot 2y ago
Both variants (+3 & -3) have the same shape, and so do their derivatives, but they do land in different places on the X axis. Is that irrelevant?

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