rbancroft

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by rbancroft 4mo ago
Cppreference.com is my favorite resource for up to date info.
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by rbancroft 5mo ago
When I attended back in the late 90’s, there was a view that once y2k was over and that crisis was dealt with the industry would collapse and there wouldn’t be any jobs. What’s happening now reminds me a lot of that.
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by rbancroft 8mo ago
Where is the sense of dread coming from?
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by rbancroft 9mo ago
Listening to Dario at the NYT DealBook summit, and reading between the lines a bit, it seems like he is basically saying Anthropic is trying to be a reponsible, sustainable business and charging customers accordingly, and insinuating that O
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by rbancroft 9mo ago
Convenience and cost seem like big advantages.
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by rbancroft 10mo ago
If it works, he gets credit. If it fails or never happens, someone else gets the blame. pretty classic.
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by rbancroft 10mo ago
Very impressive, nice work!
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by rbancroft 2y ago
Interesting, I really like balsamiq and still use it personally, despite work being a figma shop.
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by rbancroft 2y ago
I think it's great, nicely done! Tools like this to condense and cross-reference complex information to something you can reference easily is very useful to a human like myself.
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by rbancroft 2y ago
There are effective and ineffective MBA's.
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by rbancroft 2y ago
It is cynical and is simplistic but there is an element of truth to it. Maybe is republican ideology, I don’t know about that.
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by rbancroft 2y ago
I think you are right about starting early in education and exposing disadvantaged children to things they wouldn't otherwise have available to them, and supporting them throughout their education. This would benefit organizations that
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by rbancroft 2y ago
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Secondly, there will be those dedicated t
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by rbancroft 2y ago
If you are selecting for anything besides competence, your chances of getting competence is effectively random. It says nothing about one group of people being more or less competent than another. I have observed that selecting for competen
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by rbancroft 2y ago
emacs works great on windows. I'm not sure if there are things notepad++ does that emacs can't but I've never had any windows-specific issues with emacs.
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by rbancroft 3y ago
I think there is a lesson here, something I have learned once or twice as well. Just because all incentives, reasoning and wisdom align with your position, you need to be prepared that people will take actions against their own interest out
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by rbancroft 3y ago
I'm not a lawyer but their original announcement seemed very close to libel and I would think Sam has some legal options should he choose to pursue them.
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by rbancroft 3y ago
The article is well-written and detailed, however I was taken aback by the claim that meson is 'widely used for C & C++ projects'. I've come across bazel more often than meson. I guess because meson is written in python i
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by rbancroft 3y ago
That's pretty cool. I notice how MS has become so much more respected as they have embraced open source. Is the next frontier for companies to become open process where the best companies attract the best people because of their open p
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by rbancroft 3y ago
Not necessarily, although it's a bit complicated to understand in C++. Starting with C++17, there is a feature called guaranteed copy elision that works for many/most scenarios that you would want. You need to read through the fol
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by rbancroft 3y ago
Changing something so fundamental seems like it should be a rewrite.
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by rbancroft 3y ago
It's not guaranteed, but caring and working hard can pay off over time and can give longevity to what you do. If you are working with the right people, they tend to notice and reward this. The result of not caring shows over time and c
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by rbancroft 4y ago
And he was probably one of the worlds foremost experts on this at the time given his position at google, haha.
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by rbancroft 4y ago
The storage is the problem. How do you store them? edit: I am thinking mainly of espresso and now that I fully read your comment, I see you acknowledge that. Espresso in a sealed bag is pretty good for months. But once you open it, the flav
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by rbancroft 4y ago
in fairness most of his points were probably accumulated before the poster joined the site.
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by rbancroft 4y ago
That fun rating is a great idea, and something I was thinking of as well. The data science folks could have some fun figuring out what to do with it. But for my own psychological health, just telling the matchmaker how I felt about the matc
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by rbancroft 4y ago
Also, I don't mean to come across more negatively than I actually feel. The game can be frustrating at times, and there could be improvements made to reduce those frustrations. But overall, it's still possible to have a lot of fun
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by rbancroft 4y ago
In the hots casual 'lobby' aka quick match, you often don't have enough players of similar skill level, so the match maker tries to create balanced teams with quite a large mmr spread. There are many ways this goes wrong, but
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by rbancroft 4y ago
I got sucked into this with Heroes of the Storm, where I mistakenly bought into the belief that win rate was reflective of my skill. I hate the games I lose because there is usually (9 times out of 10) nothing I can do to affect the outcome
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by rbancroft 4y ago
I wasn't expecting any controls to be outside the main grey area, so it's a bit weird the content width button is placed where it is. Also, I wonder if defaulting to wide mode when a wide monitor is detected is a better choice. Ei

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