doug363

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by doug363 13y ago
I'm aware of at least one PS3 game port that had around 40GB of data at launch. I'd be surprised if that were the only one. Most games' source data is much larger than the shipped data size for a number of reasons, mostly bec
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by doug363 13y ago
It allows multiple (equivalent) definitions from different translation units to coexist in the same program. That's the only actual meaning attached to it by the standard.
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by doug363 13y ago
I've got a similar view on the situation - perhaps technical people are trained or enculturated to look out for the things that can be improved/fixed, rather than taking time to celebrate progress and achievement.
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by doug363 14y ago
Things like racism (and other related -isms like sexism and to a lesser extent, ageism) are considered bad because they can be, and typically are, exercised against people based on largely uncontrollable aspects of their outward appearance.
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by doug363 14y ago
Why do you say they're not the same? I would tend to think that they are essentially the same.
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by doug363 14y ago
I get the impression that state laws are significantly more uniform in Australia than the US... IMHO, it's more that distributors are "used to" a lower AUD, have exclusivity/best price guarantees, and so can prevent anyone importing goods (
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by doug363 14y ago
But the reason why there is an explicit flag in the first place is that there's a lot of code out there that doesn't work with pointers >= 0x80000000, or when pointers could differ by more than that. Things like pointer "tagging", and s
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by doug363 15y ago
In overloaded or argument-deduced contexts, then "0" is preferentially an int, but nullptr is never an int.