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Re:She went to sleep and woke up 30 years later (1998) on Sunday February 27, 2022 @04:42AM (#30486762)
> The Vietnam War ended, astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, Richard Nixon resigned over the Watergate scandal, communism collapsed and the world entered the computer age.

Americans tend to overestimate the importance of their events to describe the world changing.

Poland has a collective memory of Russian oppression and aggression
Re:The cats sitting on a fence in early builds of Windows 8 on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @09:45AM (#30441520)
> Overlay a semi-transparent competitor logo for a single frame.

I have to ask: is this serious or not? While extremely funny, are you guys all working for places where this is not potentially billions in damages?

Re:Try Clojure – An interactive tutorial in the browser on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @07:14AM (#30426930)
There is nothing worse than library or language maintainers who do not understand that "pure" error messages are absolute hell. If 99.99 % of the time a user should simply write x instead of y, the message should absolutely state that if possible.
Re:Who is squatting IPv4 addresses? on Thursday February 17, 2022 @01:57PM (#30377100)
I don't understand why was the next version of IP not just identical to IPv4 but with more bits in address space? Were they trying to do too many things at once in the 90's?
Re:The harsh truth of video games programming on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @02:26PM (#30364545)
> Your boring programmer maintaining a 10 year old Java app written with vanilla Js earns more than most game programmers.

I have a feeling this article is not written by any professional programmer

Re:Why won’t anyone teach me math? on Friday February 11, 2022 @02:18PM (#30305808)
I find it so hard to believe American Universities give out grades based on hand-ins at all. It seems more similar to High School
Re:Why won’t anyone teach me math? on Friday February 11, 2022 @02:16PM (#30305775)
from the coursepage

>Brief Course Description: More abstract than calculus, this course aims to develop basic algebraic tools for work with problems involving many variables. Starting from systems of linear equations and vectors in 2-space and 3-space, this course develops ideas about length, angles and resolving a general vector into useful components, identifying features of linear systems or processes in order to choose a basis that is well-adapted to studying a particular phenomenon and move between different points of view to reveal the essential underlying structure. Companion course to 201 (Multivariable Calculus). Discusses matrices and linear transformations, linear independence and dimension, bases and coordinates, determinants, orthogonal projection, least squares, eigenvalues and their applications to quadratic forms and dynamical systems.

Definitely NOT a math class

Re:Why won’t anyone teach me math? on Friday February 11, 2022 @02:15PM (#30305751)
this is an exceptionally bad take imo and seems extremely degrading towards women
Re:Why are semi trucks in the US and Europe so different? (2018) on Thursday February 03, 2022 @04:21PM (#30199066)
Most truckers in Denmark own their own trucks?
Re:If Looks Could Kill on Friday January 28, 2022 @11:52AM (#30117190)
Before/while they have an important exam where they need their phone
Re:If Looks Could Kill on Friday January 28, 2022 @11:46AM (#30117088)
Because of the people continuing to defend this kind of behavior, and blaming the poor sales guy for not being "technical" enough.
Re:If Looks Could Kill on Friday January 28, 2022 @03:23AM (#30112051)
Imagine someone messing with your car. Might be an easy fix if you are a mechanic. Most people are not.
Re:If Looks Could Kill on Friday January 28, 2022 @02:50AM (#30111812)
and retold with pride
Re:If Looks Could Kill on Friday January 28, 2022 @12:29AM (#30110973)
That was extremely inappropriate behaviour from you if this story is true. I feel bad for everyone else involved.
> It'll solve all of their energy woes without becoming dependent on Russia.

Could you stop being so xenophobic?

Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage on Sunday January 23, 2022 @12:35PM (#30048200)
Please see this https://www.indeed.com/career/semiconductor-engineer/salarie...

I promise you that there are not millions of kids. Your argument may still hold, but the was majority of children knows no one with this level of technical experience, let alone any programmers.

Re:22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage on Sunday January 23, 2022 @07:37AM (#30045708)
> Zeloof’s family was supportive but also cautious. His father asked a semiconductor engineer he knew to offer some safety advice.

As impressive and independent as this is, you have to wonder if any other gifted child could have done the same feat. The article seems to skip over this point, how many people know a "semiconductor engineer"?

Re:The case for a modern language on Saturday January 22, 2022 @09:28AM (#30036889)
Another programming language being popular by no means mean that it is a derived language of any sort. Any development is of course retrospective, but it is sorta like saying all music is descendant from pop.
Re:The case for a modern language on Saturday January 22, 2022 @08:43AM (#30036530)
While a programming language and ecosystem includes some of the culture, bad code and project structure IMO should not be blamed on C. Modern C projects are a breeze
Re:The case for a modern language on Saturday January 22, 2022 @05:40AM (#30035500)
If a user wants to parse integers etc. from a string, the function snprintf and family is often applied. It is a neatly simple function. This article seems to invent a problem rather than an organic one.
Re:The case for a modern language on Saturday January 22, 2022 @05:38AM (#30035496)
the build process of C is one of its absolute benefits. Each unit compiles on its own, producing an object file. The fact that people have now started to make header-only libraries makes the story even better! Each function gets a name. No namespaces, classes, scopes, modules, w/e. You can even just declare a function as extern at compile time!
Re:The case for a modern language on Saturday January 22, 2022 @05:36AM (#30035490)
Why would you think Java is a descendant of C++? There may be overlap in some syntax, mainly from C. C++ is not, and was not, the only OOP language, and I have heard no such that that is should be descendant of C++.
An actual belief in this is ridiculous, and taking light on literal war and anti democratic effort and meme'ing it as "freedomed" is absolutely disgusting. You know that these are real human beings we are talking about right?
Why is it that all weed enthusiasts always believe that MJ has any relevance to the, in this case Danish, economy? The amount of MJ use in Denmark is minimal compared to other countries, and certainly there is no where near "billions" of Euros sold. Certainly "drug tourists" make little to no impact on the tourism of Copenhagen.
Why is it that everytime a bad story about MJ is mentioned, there are always so many people in comments doubting authenticity and relevancy? It is almost like an agenda or something
Re:I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @02:13PM (#29998539)
On a gist?
What on earth are you talking about? Some science yes, but certainly there were scientist from the "West", e.g. aristoteles
Re:Failing to Learn Zig via Advent of Code on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @07:38AM (#29978138)
That should be strictly related to the rendering
Re:Failing to Learn Zig via Advent of Code on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:20PM (#29970593)
Of course it is incorrect, the system is of course not stochastic, not even floating points.

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