RicardoLuis0

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by RicardoLuis0 16d ago
bjarne/hsutter and their whole "club" have been (from my admittedly outsider perspective) using the "founding principles" in bad faith in the c++ comittee for a while now, see the strong-arming of safety profiles in
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by RicardoLuis0 21d ago
smoking tobacco is bad, but smoking cigarettes is much, much worse because of all the extra shit that's added in to make them even more addictive (and more carcinogenic) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_additi
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by RicardoLuis0 2mo ago
> Measuring productivity with LoCs is like measuring output with cash burn. companies are doing that as well lol (re: tokenmaxxing)
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by RicardoLuis0 3mo ago
more that, most C++ developers aren't "C++ people", the ones that are are a very vocal, but very small minority, though they're disruptive enough that some projects (re: the aforementioned linux kernel) elect to abandon
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by RicardoLuis0 3mo ago
> I wonder what starting point and success criteria do you assume for that 2 year timeline. About a year ago I wrote a deferred renderer with dynamic lights, and shadow mapping, and few post effects in about a month of free time (Less th
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by RicardoLuis0 3mo ago
just because someone writes or wrote C++ doesn't make them a "C++ person", and "C++ people" are very much against rust
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by RicardoLuis0 3mo ago
while SEO has made search worse, i don't think it's the core reason why things are impossible to find, i think it's simply the fact that, over time, google has been butchering the ability to search for exact terms in favour o
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by RicardoLuis0 4mo ago
yeah, but those are using conventional explosives, only countries like the US and Russia have enough nukes to do the same with nuclear explosives, a country like japan would need a sophisticated missile instead
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by RicardoLuis0 9mo ago
that's exactly the point, the _lack of_ humans during its evolution is what it has to do with us, a mushroom may be poisonous to the species that it evolved around, while at the same time not being poisonous to humans
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by RicardoLuis0 1y ago
consumer cards don't share dies with datacenter cards, but they do share dies with workstation cards (the formerly quadro line), ex. the GB202 die is used by both the RTX PRO 5000/6000 Blackwell and the RTX 5090
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by RicardoLuis0 1y ago
it's worth noting as well that the windows API has been a thing since 1985, _before_ C was standardized, such old versions of C were incredibly untyped
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by RicardoLuis0 2y ago
or possibly the malware has spread to multiple of their devices?
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by RicardoLuis0 3y ago
that's the altered part -- those more restrictive terms of the VVVVVV license only apply to the _assets_, and the license for the source code itself is far more liberal: https://github.com/analgesicproductions/Even
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by RicardoLuis0 3y ago
if your data's sequential, creating an iterator in C++ is as simple as returning a begin and end pointer, and will be optimized away by any level other than O0 https://godbolt.org/z/WEjzEr5j4
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by RicardoLuis0 3y ago
> So why aren't we doing this? isn't IPv6 is basically that? just restricted to internet addresses
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by RicardoLuis0 3y ago
and it's not like SRAM isn't used in modern computers -- it's baked directly into the silicon of your CPU to serve as register banks and cache
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by RicardoLuis0 4y ago
> the case of a run-away string that, i'd guess, is one of the reasons why most languages don't allow multi-line strings without special syntax
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by RicardoLuis0 4y ago
it seems to be on github, but the commit history doesn't go beyond 2017: https://github.com/beejjorgensen/bgc
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by RicardoLuis0 4y ago
that one in particular was not really caused by goto, but rather by braceless if statements, it'd be a vulnerability all the same if the line was a "fail" function that was called instead of a goto.
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by RicardoLuis0 4y ago
just about any electronics here in brazil are ~2x the price, be it phones, computers, computer parts (CPUs, GPUs, MOBOs, etc), or anything else (not just apple, any brand)
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by RicardoLuis0 4y ago
it's not guaranteed atomic, and if you ARE using volatiles, "maybe" doesn't really cut it, so now you need to do `++*v` the proper way (ex. `lock cmpxchg` / `__atomic_compare_exchange`), or explicitly write it out t
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by RicardoLuis0 4y ago
that's still wrong, the integer data model is defined by the target, which is not specified in the quiz, not solely by the compiler, ex. clang uses 32-bit longs when compiling for windows, and 64-bit longs when compiling for linux: * w
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by RicardoLuis0 4y ago
there's a minecraft-style 4d sandbox game, with a playable demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1941640/4D_Miner/
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by RicardoLuis0 4y ago
"survived to update the file" implies that the one to add it to the list must be the one to have landed there
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by RicardoLuis0 5y ago
> Also i think that the reason C has -> is because in C pointer de-reference is a prefix whereas in Pascal is a suffix so without it you'd either have to write (*ptr).foo. Pascal avoids that by having both be suffix operators. Th
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by RicardoLuis0 5y ago
> The HTML and JS specs are absurdly complex to the point where there's basically no hope of anyone implementing them from 0 That's actually being done in the Serenity OS project! HTML renderer, JS interpreter, and Web Browser,
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by RicardoLuis0 5y ago
have you considered using C11's _Generic feature? It allows you to maunally implement function overloading: https://godbolt.org/z/jxjvnMTPT
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by RicardoLuis0 5y ago
I've been using a free tool by voidtools tool called "Everything" for years, it provides almost-instant search on windows NTFS volumes: https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/
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by RicardoLuis0 5y ago
while the word 'master' can indeed be used in the sense of "master and slave", its use in git is more akin to the use of 'master' in "master record", and doesn't refer to 'ownership' in
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by RicardoLuis0 5y ago
the windows 7 start button still "pops" out of the taskbar if you're using the taskbar in small mode

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