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Re:An Introduction to Obsidian on Monday April 13, 2026 @04:25PM (#47757377)
I'm just so bummed that multiple vaults are pretty much unusable. I can't sync my sensitive work notes. But I want to sync general programming notes between work and other PCs. But multiple vaults hardly work. The just open in a new window.

Other than that, I love so many things about the program. Just linking and graphs are weird and strangely overrated. Search and tags still rules over everything imo

Re:Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill on Monday April 06, 2026 @12:39PM (#47663259)
Because it's a clickbait title
Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @03:58PM (#47592629)
No they don't? You keep working for 2-10 months until you can leave whatever your contact says
Re:ISBN Visualization – Annas Archive on Saturday March 28, 2026 @05:09AM (#47552902)
Strange. People always say that Germany is connected to the internet and china bad, Germany good etc
Yawn
Being German lol
The EU has always been focused on harming its citizens. This is nothing new, very on brand actually. It's not like we have a choice lol.
Re:Windows native app development is a mess on Sunday March 22, 2026 @10:56AM (#47478180)
All my work experience with guis was mfc. And all modernizations were web based. The in betweens are usually not considered worthwhile.

But imgui is a breeze of fresh air for internal stuff

Re:German police probe student poster slur against Merz on Saturday March 07, 2026 @12:37PM (#47289670)
Politicians literally have their own paragraph with insane protections, it's §188. You don't ever want to say something negative about a politicians in Germany. The police will kick in your door within days.
"Enterprise edition" is usually a sign of parody projects. But this seems to be serious?
Re:Khamenei Dead on Saturday February 28, 2026 @04:26PM (#47200442)
Yeah NOW it's suddenly about the guidelines lmao
YouTube is completely broken with this shitty spark thing. Also yesterday I was greeted with an entire new sidebar. It's comical
It literally breaks YouTube
No you can't, or rather you only get a tiny amount in the correct wavelengths
It really is the specific wavelength. Higher or lower is easier. But euv has tricky properties which make it feasible for Lithography (although just barely it you have a look at the optics) but hard to produce with high intensities.
This is a steep increase of power to get out of a vacuum system that is highly sensitive to temperature changes.
I wrote a mildly popular header only library with exactly this pattern once. Then there came a guy adding cmake. I didn't really know it back then so I didn't stop him. The downloads went to literally zero lol. Cmake is an extremely vocal minority.
Unpopular opinion: They're one of these things that are popular because of their cool name. For most purposes, they're not a good fit
Re:It's 2026, Just Use Postgres on Friday February 06, 2026 @01:21AM (#46909730)
My perspective might be equally naive as I've rarely had contact with databases in my professional life, but 100ms sounds like an absolutely mental timeframe (in a bad way)
It's ok to have a hobby. Not everything needs to be minmaxed to extract the maximum amount of money from the system.
Re:Automatic Programming on Saturday January 31, 2026 @10:50AM (#46837683)
Because this site is mostly LLM bots
Re:C++ Modules Are Here to Stay on Thursday January 29, 2026 @10:32PM (#46820237)
It's still been the standard since c++11 and I've been using it every since in all teams I've worked in.
Re:C++ Modules Are Here to Stay on Thursday January 29, 2026 @01:55PM (#46814737)
It's been the go-to syntax for 15 years now
It's just the usual political bs. There's nothing relevant here
Re:STFU on Thursday January 22, 2026 @09:36AM (#46719753)
But the others would have advantage in numbers and the law.
He rubs me the wrong way, too. Curl is overhyped and a pain to work with. And he's getting high on the "success" while crying about not being paid for something he offers for free. I think Americans have a nice phrase about having cake and eating it, too.
Re:STFU on Friday January 16, 2026 @04:01PM (#46652161)
No. People who are loud do that because they want to be loud. They want to hurt people. And they get off to weaklings being polite. The law is too slow and too forgiving for these destructive forces. We need to bring violence back in a big way.
Re:Inlining – The Ultimate Optimisation on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @03:52PM (#46607781)
That's the reason why polymorphism is sometimes described as slow. It's not really slow... But it prevents inlining and therefore always is a function call as opposed to sometimes no function call. It's not the polymorphism is slow. It's that alternatives can sometimes compile to zero
Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype on Monday January 12, 2026 @08:58AM (#46588579)
But LLMs aren't advertised as some future thing. They're advertised as being almighty and replacing devs in great numbers. And that's simply not true. It's a fad like 3D movies
Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype on Sunday January 11, 2026 @08:31AM (#46575608)
Another one of these sickening pieces. Framing opposition to an expensive tech that doesn't work as "anti". I tried letting the absolutely newest models write c++ today again. Gpt 5.1 and opus 4.5. single function with two or less input parameters, a nice return value, doing simple geometry with the glm library. Yes the code worked. But I took as long fixing the weird parts as it would have taken me myself. And I still don't trust the result, because reviewing is so much harder than writing.

There's still no point. Resharper and clang-tidy still have more value than all LLMs. It's not just a hype, it's a bloody cult, right besides those nft and church of COVID people.

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