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by rpnx 23d ago
The C++ environment for builds is kind of awful. It's usable, but extremely complicated, non-uniform, and rarely well implemented. CMake isn't a good build system, it's just the least bad one we have.
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by rpnx 23d ago
Disagree. There are important things C++ gets "right" that languages like Go, C#, Java, and Rust get "wrong". It's difficult to impress these ideas on people who dislike C++, because they are largely not willing to
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by rpnx 27d ago
> no real language will spent 4 entire years and is still stuck in version 0.0.0-0. Strongly disagree. I too thought that it would be easy to implement a new language in 1-2 years. I started the current Quxlang codebase (under a differen
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by rpnx 27d ago
Worth noting, Carbon is just an experimental language, I see no evidence it's being used widely or replacing C++.
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by rpnx 27d ago
This is why I'm building Quxlang. C++ cannot evolve easily without breaking backwards compatibility. I started Quxlang because I saw the writing on the wall for C++. Doesn't mean C++ isn't good, but it has issues and needs im
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by rpnx 1mo ago
Mainly /goal mode of complex project/prompts. Example: https://doxygen.rpnx.net/cortado/ was nearly a one-shot for GPT 5.6 sol and took well over 1 hour for the first prompt before finishing. But anything to
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by rpnx 1mo ago
Obviously using work equipment is a no-no. I'm also in agreement on point #2 aside that I think it's okay to discuss such topics e.g. during lunch in the same way you may discuss any other random topic at lunch.
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Ask HN: Can we direct AI on our personal projects during work hours?
3 points by rpnx 1mo ago|8 comments
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by rpnx 2mo ago
No, we should make standard time permanent. Daylight savings time is bad for our bodies particularly in the winter. It also makes noon even more out of sync with solar noon.
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by rpnx 3mo ago
It is worth noting that if the Air Conditioner is powered by electricity that came from solar panels, the net heat produced compared to letting the sun heat solar panel colored ground is exactly 0. Air Conditioners do not produce a net he
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by rpnx 7mo ago
Good. Reduce population growth until housing buildout can catch up with population. Trying to create more babies and allowing immigration when there aren't enough homes is dumb.
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by rpnx 11mo ago
Ran across this while writing the Quxlang compiler frontend. Was wondering how GCC/Clang solved this problem... turns out at least with regard to GCC... they don't!
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GCC Operation Compile 200-ish LOC at -Os: Mission Failed (badly)(godbolt.org)
1 points by rpnx 11mo ago|2 comments
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by rpnx 11mo ago
200-ish line C++ file with no user-defined templates generates around 90k assembly lines with -Os enabled.
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by rpnx 11mo ago
GC was removed from the C++ standard in C++23 because all the compilers were like "hell no" and it was an optional feature so they could get away with not adding it. So this optional feature never actually existed and they removed
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by rpnx 1y ago
Pinephone pro... The phone was not specced well enough and had issue. Hoping the FLX1 isn't vaporware.
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by rpnx 1y ago
That isn't how chemistry works.
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Idea: Zerid Indexing(docs.google.com)
1 points by rpnx 1y ago|2 comments
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by rpnx 1y ago
A document proposing terminology to describe 0-based indexes in unambiguous language. For example, considering a sequence like [5, 4, 7, 8, 2] What is the 4th element? 8, but if I asked what is the "0th element", you would answer
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by rpnx 1y ago
I think this honestly has more to do with moslty Chinese sellers engaging in review fraud, which is a rampant problem. I'm not saying non-Chinese sellers don't engage in review fraud, but I have noticed a trend that around 98% of
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by rpnx 1y ago
I actually disagree. I think that people will pay more for higher quality software, but only if they know the software is higher quality. It's great to say your software is higher quality, but the question I have is whether or not is i
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by rpnx 1y ago
Stainless steel can be welded... just not easily and cheaply.
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by rpnx 2y ago
This is a simple problem I have met and dealt with before. The issue is the lack of synchronization between cancellation and not handling cancel failure. All cancellations can fail because there is always a race when calling cancel() where
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by rpnx 2y ago
To be clear, everyone alive today is still on average multiple iq points dumber than they would have been had we not burned tetraethyl lead 50 years ago, even though it has been banned for quite a while. Lead is THAT toxic.
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by rpnx 2y ago
Lead is toxic at any dose. This means is damages your neurons in any amount. Contrast to say, copper, which doesn't start causing damage until levels exceed a certain tolerable threshold. While lead is toxic at any amount, low amounts
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by rpnx 2y ago
I'll take microplastics over lead any day.
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by rpnx 2y ago
lead is extremely toxic even in small doses, microplastics are comparatively a non-issue.
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by rpnx 2y ago
It is a typical example of "I'm right so I should be allowed to bypass the democratic process and do whatever I want" thinking. It's quite dangerous.
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by rpnx 2y ago
This is the root of the problem. Take the whole "saturated fat is unhealthy" thing. Here's what happened: Study finds that unsaturated fat is healthier than saturated fat, but all fat is associated with lower mortality vs car
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by rpnx 2y ago
Back in university, my compsci security project didn't work on the university wifi for some reason, if we used google chrome. Firefox worked fine. Some kind of weird proxy broke the website. But to this day I don't know exactly wh

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