crystalgiver

A fully electric Los Angeles would be encouraging. Paris, Shanghai, and Beijing too.

Do you also miss when it was common for people to smoke in public spaces?

Now we have Rust and Go for that. Unlike you, I won't miss them when they're gone.

I think rust has its merits, don't get me wrong. I just think it has a large cargo cult following of inexperienced script kids who have never used it for anything other than pretending to know what they're taking about.

Ugh, if you bring up Rust in this thread it's clear you have little to no experience actually writing large amounts of system-level code. Rust has been around for all 2-3 years now? 1.0 for what? Months? What large successful Rust code bases have you worked on? What have you actually built with Rust?

C++ is for people who work on large mature codebases, deal with practical issues, and actually build stuff. Talk to me about the virtues of Rust when you actually have real experience.

I run Windows as a guest with vga passthrough and completely disable networking (though a very strict firewall could also work, e.g. For online games).

Interesting approach, this is how I do it:

   cc -std=c++14

No preprocessor necessary! Also it checks the type of both arguments.

The nuance in "worse is better" is that it's about the approach, not the output. libav's approach is to focus on an elegant API and software architecture instead of focusing on development speed and features.

The output in the short term is that libav is riddled with bugs, the hope is that in the long term this will pay off. Unfortunately in the interim ffmpeg seems to have propelled ahead.

Yet another instance of "worse" is better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better

Why can you not just use the canonicalized URL to detect dupes? That is infinitely simpler than doing text analysis.