TheMonarchist

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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
This has been my primary research strategy for the past decade. It's digging gems from piles of rubbish, but when you find them you know that they are genuine.
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
> I'm not aware of a way to construct an std::vector without throwing an exception. You use an allocator with enough pool for whatever you need to do and avoid out of bounds access.
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
> Calling Thing::default() clearly communicates that your just getting baseline values and not a lot of magical other initialization stuff going on— with a Thing::Thing() in C++, you're really at the mercy of whatever the project co
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
> Like maybe checked exceptions in C++ would work https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/except_spec
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/basic_ios/exceptions
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
I wish people were content at thinking that they know better. Right now they try to coerce others to act like they do in many parts of the world.
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
To me it seems like a naturally arising question, but these days people aren't always rational so IDK.
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
I wish I could say just "no" but nowadays you can't be sure where used laptops have been anyway. If you can't buy a new laptop, you could as well just buy one that has been in China.
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Embracing Modern C++ Safely (book)(informit.com)
1 points by TheMonarchist 5y ago|1 comments
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
Experience-based guidelines for adopting C++11/14 at scale if you haven't already. (The experience requirement ruled out C++17 and C++20.)
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
> Lambdas, Streams… Java is far from "80s style OOP" today. Streams are a library feature. At a cursory look Boost seems to have had something similar since 2003: range adaptors[0]. Moreover lambdas have existed since 70s. They
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
Java was designed to support 80s style OOP. While many mainstream languages do the same, it isn't particularly modern. I haven't followed Java's evolution in the recent years but as I recall it is the last language to adopt a
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
The interesting languages are those that don't need killer apps to succeed.
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Why Bloomberg engineers wrote Embracing Modern C++ Safely(bloomberg.com)
3 points by TheMonarchist 5y ago|0 comments
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
Represent it as a bitmap - people are good at seeing patterns.
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
> there are places on the internet that do the bare minimum of moderation and only remove illegal content. Unfortunately, only the worst members of society seem to frequent these types of forums Could you link to worst examples? I think
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
I tried to add "self-proclaimed" to it but updating seems to fail. Update: resumbission with new title seems to be the way to go. Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30252507
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
I bumped into this recently. What do you think?
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
The dynamics of the KJV were different. N competing Versions had caused divisions among the people, so the king ordered the making of one universal standard. The translation committee was aware of the goal and tried to avoid bias. Curiously
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
It is waiting its turn on my table btw.
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
I have read it cover to cover multiple times and plan to continue reading for the rest of my life.
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
> Even Christians these days pick an choose which parts of the Bible to read and then distil those down into short stories and songs rather than reading the texts in full. It is lamentable if true. They don't know what they miss.
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
> "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath." There he implicitly refers to the creation week, that is the rationale for keeping the sabbath: "For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all t
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
NWT also contains small changes to accommodate the Russellites' belief system. I don't even speak English natively and can read KJV. I guess it just isn't more difficult than reading in foreign language in general. Update: Sa
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
How about designing a DR balloon instead? Costs would be divided by mass production.
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
I guess they are addicted in spite of the flaws.
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
This has been posted multiple times in the past 24 hours.
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
The article has been discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30067100 that links to a republication on another site, which is why I resubmitted with url to the original article; for there seems to be no way to alt
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
The new submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30080819
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What Americans Lost When We Abandoned the Secret Ballot(realclearpolitics.com)
8 points by TheMonarchist 5y ago|1 comments

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