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This is a web server, but not a full TCP/IP implementation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19146767
auto_ptr was effectively split into std::unique_ptr and std::shared_ptr. The problem was that before C++11, there wasn't a way to distinguish between copy assignment and move assignment.
The class(metaclass) {...} syntax is not part of C++ yet. It is part of a proposal targeted for C++29.
It seems that someone sent a DMCA complaint months ago relating to this: https://lumendatabase.org/notices/53130362
Re:YouTube as Storage on Saturday February 14, 2026 @05:45AM (#47013453)
There is a channel with 2 million videos: https://www.youtube.com/@RoelVandePaar/videos One with 4 million videos: https://www.youtube.com/@NameLook
Re:The Saddest Moment (2013) [pdf] on Saturday January 31, 2026 @07:32PM (#46842421)
"Listen, regardless of which Byzantine fault tolerance protocol you pick, Twitter will still have fewer than two nines of availability. As it turns out, Ted the Poorly Paid Datacenter Operator will not send 15 cryptographically signed messages before he accidentally spills coffee on the air conditioning unit."
What if the user keeps their PC on and never logs off?
Re:All 23-Bit Still Lifes Are Glider Constructible on Friday January 16, 2026 @08:26AM (#46646132)
You can make a Turing machine that contains self-destruct circuitry which destroys all moving parts upon halting. The resulting pattern will be a (pseudo) still life.
I don't know much about lighting, but looking at the source code of the shaders might give a clue. https://modrinth.com/discover/shaders has a lot of shaders that change the lighting. In other parts of the rendering pipeline, there are some very impressive mods utilizing GPU magic. One of them is Voxy (https://modrinth.com/mod/voxy), one that massively increases render distance with mesh shaders and level-of-detail based rendering.

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