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·14 hours ago·discuss
Why does the example not show an example of unsafe C++?
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·6 days ago·discuss
I can't imagine judges would normally except this especially since it seems to be a known way to skirt law.
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·9 days ago·discuss
As they say, most people listen to their music with equipment. Audiophiles listen to their equipment with music.
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·30 days ago·discuss
What about it? It was also exposed much more publicly than this.
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·2 months ago·discuss
This is the typical interpretation.

I remember a question in English class asking what I think this could be about given the context that it was right after the war.
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·2 months ago·discuss
Most teachers were not good at checking this. There was an archive mechanism which would compress the file and IIRC, prevent it from showing up in the program list. You could of course just unarchive it.
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·2 months ago·discuss
It's funny how many software developers got into it due to being bored in class with a TI-83 and randomly trying to create programs.
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·2 months ago·discuss
I think the obvious question is are humans deterministic? A lot of inputs but it's a reasonable belief that humans are in fact deterministic.
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·2 months ago·discuss
How does it work if this is under the creative commons license? Can 3rd parties sell this controller per the model? Other 3rd party vendors got around this by making a very minor change.
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·2 months ago·discuss
I had no idea Politico was Axel Springer or that Axel Springer owned so much. The article is indeed dishonest.
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·3 months ago·discuss
Why is that NaN handling sensible? I don't think it makes sense to say log(-1) equals log(-2). Mathematically it isn't true and your implementation would say it's true only because of limitations in IEEE754.
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·9 months ago·discuss
The assign operator rebinding is yet another thing that behaves slightly different from the rest of the language.
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·10 months ago·discuss
Lots of bad advice. Using unsigned for normal integers when you know they will be positive does worse for optimization, not better. Also for (;;) {} is convention because older compilers would give warnings with while (1)

I stopped reading there.
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·10 months ago·discuss
kill Unicode. Done with this after these 25 byte single characters.
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·10 months ago·discuss
I wish I could find the pull request associated with that issue.
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·10 months ago·discuss
Tried it and realized it was gimped compared to the Linux tools it was trying to emulate. Monopolies will always be playing catchup with basic functionalities people have done for free because they make sense.
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·10 months ago·discuss
printing is never the appropriate tool. You can make your debugger print something when that line of code is reached anyway and automatically continue if you want. So what's the point of pritntf? It's just less information and features.
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·11 months ago·discuss
What the hell do the antitrust people in the US do? Google should have been chopped to bits a decade ago and Microsoft buying Github is just nonsense. Way too much potential for abuse all around.