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Re:Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI
on Saturday August 08, 2026 @04:05AM (#49219799)
When the C++ standards committee make decisions crippling the language to preserve ABI (see std::regex), it's defacto part of the standard.
Re:These European airports now allow up to 2 litres of liquids in hand...
on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @11:12AM (#49098584)
ok. But do they still need to scan it separately? I take contact lens fluid and I always have to wait for someone to check it before moving on.
Re:Cpp2Rust: Translates C++ to safe Rust automatically
on Friday July 10, 2026 @04:06PM (#48864590)
Why does the example not show an example of unsafe C++?
Re:Small Penis Rule
on Sunday July 05, 2026 @03:41PM (#48797302)
I can't imagine judges would normally except this especially since it seems to be a known way to skirt law.
Re:24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (2012)
on Thursday July 02, 2026 @01:00PM (#48764286)
As they say, most people listen to their music with equipment. Audiophiles listen to their equipment with music.
Re:Israel's Paid U.S. Influencer Network Exposed – – Imemc News
on Thursday June 11, 2026 @04:31PM (#48495997)
What about it? It was also exposed much more publicly than this.
Re:The Lottery – Shirley Jackson (1948)
on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @12:22AM (#48274962)
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.
Re:Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)
on Thursday May 07, 2026 @12:20PM (#48051249)
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.
Re:Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)
on Thursday May 07, 2026 @06:02AM (#48047512)
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.
Re:Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn't know it
on Thursday May 07, 2026 @02:32AM (#48046138)
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.
Re:Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons li...
on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @12:47PM (#48038394)
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.
Re:Germany's far-left war on infrastructure
on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @04:38AM (#48019652)
I had no idea Politico was Axel Springer or that Axel Springer owned so much. The article is indeed dishonest.
Re:It's OK to compare floating-points for equality
on Sunday April 19, 2026 @02:10AM (#47822156)
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.
Re:C++26: `Std:Optional<T&>`
on Saturday October 04, 2025 @05:19AM (#45471952)
The assign operator rebinding is yet another thing that behaves slightly different from the rest of the language.
Re:Elements of C Style
on Friday September 19, 2025 @06:36AM (#45300077)
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.
Re:UTF-8 is a brilliant design
on Saturday September 13, 2025 @01:15PM (#45233670)
kill Unicode. Done with this after these 25 byte single characters.
Re:Microsoft PowerToys
on Thursday September 11, 2025 @07:53AM (#45210492)
I wish I could find the pull request associated with that issue.
Re:Microsoft PowerToys
on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @01:48PM (#45201261)
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.
Re:Things you can do with a debugger but not with print debugging
on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @02:57AM (#45194198)
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.
Re:Notes on Programming in C by Rob Pike
on Friday August 29, 2025 @06:08AM (#45062231)
Not this article again. His opinions on include files don't make sense anymore. Modern compilers keep track of what includes are necessary to reprocess.
Re:Google to require developer verification to install and sideload An...
on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @06:57AM (#45024856)
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.
Re:Microsoft calls protest a 'destructive' act by outsiders
on Saturday August 23, 2025 @07:19AM (#44995130)
They're not acting like idiots though?
And they're trying to raise awareness that Microsoft helps Israel surveil and attack Palestinians, not raise awareness that there is a war going on.
Your comment is a typical one that protests should be less disruptive, but only disruptive protests have historically been effective.
Re:Zig's Lovely Syntax
on Sunday August 10, 2025 @01:34PM (#44856797)
Even if we ignore solutions other languages have come up with, it's even worse that they landed on // for the syntax given that it's apparently used the same way for real comments.
Re:Zig's Lovely Syntax
on Sunday August 10, 2025 @01:18PM (#44856660)
> Raw or multiline strings are spelled like this:
const still_raw =
\\const raw =
\\ \\Roses are red
\\ \\ Violets are blue,
\\ \\Sugar is sweet
\\ \\ And so are you.
\\ \\
\\;
\\
;
This syntax seems fairly insane to me.
Re:Show HN: Whittle – A Shrinking Word Game
on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @02:49PM (#44802463)
I had the same issue. I went back to the calendar and it said I got 100% of the words. So I guess it's not always possible and I spent all that time trying for no reason.
Re:Ask HN: What change enabled you to consistently finish your side pr...
on Monday August 04, 2025 @02:20PM (#44789591)
Not a great answer but finish them broken. If they're just for me and/or my company, document when they fail and be done with it.
If it's documented then it's not a bug
Re:Design patterns you should unlearn in Python
on Friday August 01, 2025 @01:14PM (#44759578)
He didn't mention the worst pattern, the visitor pattern, which has extremely few use cases.
Re:Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++
on Thursday July 31, 2025 @04:54PM (#44750023)
Are all major programming languages going to come from corporations in web 2.0?
Re:Lisp Project of the Day
on Friday July 25, 2025 @10:51AM (#44683824)
printf("x = %6d\ny = %.8E\n", x, y) ;
What's the equivalent lisp?
Re:Lisp Project of the Day
on Friday July 25, 2025 @10:40AM (#44683674)
Lisp is great until I have to do something complicated like manipulate a string or add a small feature without rewriting the entire structure of the program.
Good thing those never happen.