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by gignico 10d ago
This sounded to me like that old “would you steal a car?” anti-piracy campaign until I clicked to read the post :)
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by gignico 11d ago
In the contrary it’s one of the best design decisions of the language. The rules for object safety are the same C++ applies to virtual functions. On the other hand you don’t have to choose a priori whether you’ll need dynamic or static poly
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by gignico 13d ago
Indeed, thanks :)
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by gignico 13d ago
Unbelievably I read this news while visiting Cork. Went to Kinsale yesterday. Never been to Ireland before. What a coincidence!
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by gignico 20d ago
I thought the US government had just decided that the cause of autism was vaccines </sarcasm>
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by gignico 29d ago
Yes, C++26 reflection is nice, but also extremely complex to understand and use well. The rest of C++26 is the usual series of too-little-too-late additions. Meanwhile I’m still waiting for pattern matching to become a thing (a proposal has
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by gignico 29d ago
I understand the issue about the ever-moving target etc., but almost fifteen years later do you really believe C++98 is better than C++11 without move semantics and decent smart pointers? I remember working with Qt5 and C++98 and yes, it wa
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by gignico 1mo ago
What is a product? So you take two natural numbers `a` and `b`, and you want to sum `a` for `b` times, or vice versa. Then things become complicated if you want to do that quickly...
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by gignico 3mo ago
I was about to start arguing why I don't agree but then I thought it was better not to :P
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by gignico 3mo ago
Yes, but logic gates with constant fan-in, crucially, otherwise that's called AC.
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by gignico 3mo ago
That's true for two `rectangle` paths, but for two nodes that's what I would expect as a user. Anyway, not an easy problem for sure.
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by gignico 3mo ago
I've tried it now a little. The UI looks very cool, and generally the project is cool so congrats! However, the generated TikZ code is not good in my opinion. Everything uses absolute coordinates, which in TikZ is seldom needed. Just t
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by gignico 3mo ago
Indeed! Not scientifically controversial at all, but politically controversial, unfortunately.
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by gignico 3mo ago
We all should feel sad and angry. That said, this was never about saving money. This is about keeping scientists under tight control by the government, in order to suppress research on climate change and other controversial topics. If the g
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by gignico 3mo ago
Afaik std::span does not need anything that was not in C++98 already, or am I missing something?
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by gignico 3mo ago
> It seems that some people are really losing the taste for good readable code. It seems that some people never had taste for good reliable code. Use `void ` and now any error whatsoever is a direct undefined behavior. Moreover `std::
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by gignico 5mo ago
Too bad HN nicknames cannot be put for sale :)
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by gignico 5mo ago
So LLMs are destroying the economy and the environment but at least “catastrophic risk” is still low. Ok then…
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by gignico 5mo ago
Off topic, but I sincerely ask: am I the only one that is disturbed by the use of the term "Mac OS X" to refer to modern versions of the OS that is currently called "macOS"? (and not MacOS either) I mean, the name was ch
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by gignico 5mo ago
Is it really worth? YMMV, but yes if you ask me.
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by gignico 5mo ago
For reasons, I used to go to Rome quite frequently in the 2010s, and the construction of Metro C was already a meme. But now some of the stations are quite interesting indeed.
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by gignico 5mo ago
Thanks! The arXiv submission says the paper is submitted to SAT26, did it get accepted?
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by gignico 5mo ago
Positively surprised to see stuff like these on HN first page! If any author is around, do you have an implementation that can be compared with CUDD and similar BDD libraries?
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by gignico 5mo ago
I know about reproductive pressure and I’ve read The Selfish Gene. What you say is correct but does not explain that “if evolution did not, better not do it” attitude of the original comment, which I think is wrong for many reasons as I’ve
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by gignico 6mo ago
The problem is implying that “if evolution did not do it there must be a reason”, because 1) it makes evolution look like an engineer evaluating trade offs, which is not and 2) it considers the current state of affairs the final “product”,
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by gignico 6mo ago
> Running Windows 3.1 in True Color Full HD People from the time would be astonished by the hardware we have now yet bloated software globs up every ounce of performance. What a waste! </granny mode=off>
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by gignico 6mo ago
Evolution is not a process toward better quality of life and life expectancy of individuals. As long as enough individuals can reach the age to procreate in their environment evolution is done. Evolution didn’t train our bodies to reject th
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by gignico 6mo ago
Until you need to do more than all-or-nothing parsing :) see tree-sitter for example, or any other efficient LSP implementation of incremental parsing.
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by gignico 6mo ago
I don’t know if someone said it already, but when Steve Jobs said this famous quote (“reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”) he then died maybe just a couple of years later. Hope this does not happen to code :)
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by gignico 6mo ago
Your statement contradicts itself. It was unusable hard before non-lexical lifetimes, but they vastly increased the complexity? Then maybe what’s complex for compiler writers to implement can make the user’s life easier by lowering the co

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