BoringTimesGang

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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
If you are waiting for studies that perfectly model every variable before you spend 5 minutes walking, you are unlikely to be satisfied within your rapidly decreasing lifespan.
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
It's not a 'Japan thing'. I pay a higher rate on my mortgage because my spouse was not a citizen of where we live when we took it out. There are fewer providers willing to offer mortgages in this situation but, presumably, th
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
Settled at the eleventh hour
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
This is how I got MSI to honour their warranty in spite of their stance that any failure at all is due to user error, since their products don't fail
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
Ah, I hope nobody ever uses that additional bit for additional encoding. That could cause all kinds of incompatibilities...
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
This is such an odd thing to read & compare to how eager my colleagues are to upgrade the compiler to take advantage of new features. There's so much less need to specify types in situations where the information is implicitly avai
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
>haven't followed closely Don't worry, most people complaining about C++ complexity don't.
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
Because human language is hard to boil down to a simple computing model and the problem is underdefined, based on naive assumptions. Or perhaps I should say naïve.
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
to_lower is in the std namespace but is actually just part of the C89 standard, meaning it predates both UTF8 and UTF16. Is the alternative that it should be made unusable, and more existing code broken? A modern user has to include one of
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
Now double all of that effort, so you can get it to work with Windows' UTF-16 wstrings.
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
>It is issues like this due to which I gave up on C++. There are so many ways to do something and every way is freaking wrong! These are mostly unicode or linguistics problems.
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
Is the misspelling (dallars) a reference I've missed?
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
>I hope it's boxxy on purpose. The default branch is `mistress`, I suspect the author has a sense of humour.
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
Picking an analogy that is actually how DRM worked is fitting. >Denuvo isn't just a flag on a process Nor would be PC's solution. That's why they added it, making it relevant.
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
The 'tech bros reinventing trains' refrain fails to take into account that the same people would love 1/100th of the coverage of the global road network for rail.
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
Sad. Today's children will never learn how to generate a valid CRC for a hex-edited save file.
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
People who are capable of setting world records are capable of beating the competition, to allow them to qualify for a more prestigious competition, without 100% effort.
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
Well, for one thing, world records don't get ratified in a local pool. And athletes are competent enough to achieve the time needed for qualification without going all-out. Look at the finish times of the heats. Pan Zhanle was over a s
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
No, that's according to a theory to which you've added a strange caveat that a year is insufficient advance knowledge to know how to peak, despite annual world championships - and them often being the reason a competitor knows the
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
>Perhaps comparing records across different times and places is meaningless. This is a line of thought that leads to the consideration that sports as are whole are rationally meaningless. That leads to hobbies being meaningless. That lea
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
We've just finished Copa America, where players and managers complained about the pitch and its dimensions.
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
Or it could happen that the training, diet and injury-avoidance regime for long term success is different from that for short term optimisation. As it is for many, many sports.
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
The motivation of a commute is not comparable to the motivation of a swimmer in 4th place of a medal event, etc.
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
You're comparing the science of electronics and sound (well understood, rigorous) with sports science (cesspit of low-N, hard to study well). In sports, anecdata are valuable - putting guff in a journal doesn't make it any less gu
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
A convenient alibi?
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
Ah, you mean my good friend 'heart emoji wife heart emoji'
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
That's what studying Japanese is like for Chinese speakers.
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
Reading ebooks doesn't mean submitting to Amazon's ecosystem.
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
And when you read lying on your side, no awkward holding for the nearside pages!
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by BoringTimesGang 2y ago
My laptop and phone can't last through a long-haul flight. My e-reader doesn't need charging until I come home, fits in a jeans pocket and is a similar weight to my passport.

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