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by shadedtriangle 10d ago
This happened to my website about learning c++. I was posting new articles daily for a while there and traffic was slowly but steadily rising. Then one day traffic from search went straight to zero and never recovered. The whole project was
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by shadedtriangle 13d ago
Keep trying to educate them how? By your own admission data centers: * use a lot of water to build one * the power is a problem * the noise is an issue * the power is coming from non-green sources * the government could “easily” fix all thi
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by shadedtriangle 5mo ago
I know this is naive but I wonder why the CCPA, together with the Department of Agriculture, chose not to purchase the peach canning facilities that Del Monte Foods was running. I suppose that it's more risk for the farmers in a world
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by shadedtriangle 2y ago
Yes, the city of Seattle instituted a sweetened beverage tax in 2017 and there was a study with results published in 2023. https://www.seattle.gov/sweetened-beverage-tax-community-adv...
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by shadedtriangle 3y ago
I feel like this article is missing one of the most useful idioms of parameter packs which is when you want to accept a variety of parameter types to a non-template function. You can stuff a parameter pack into an array/vector of union
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by shadedtriangle 3y ago
J, K, and L are keyboard shortcuts for "skip back 10s", "toggle pause", and "skip forward 10s". Left and right arrow keys do the same skipping. On mobile a double tap on either side of the screen again skips fo
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by shadedtriangle 3y ago
It's because the algorithm is easy to implement and efficient in terms of compute usage to match a gesture. It's a "cheap and easy" recognizer, a $1 recognizer. The name has spawned a whole host of similarly named papers
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by shadedtriangle 4y ago
We can see it and it’s called the Cosmic Microwave Background https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background . It’s not t=0.0000001 though as the time before the cosmic microwave background the universe was
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by shadedtriangle 4y ago
> All you need for a stable stablecoin is to save every dollar put in to it. That’s the issue right there. How does Tether save its dollars? We can see it in their transparency report[1]. Whether you believe them or not it’s not just cas
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by shadedtriangle 4y ago
This is probably my most used C++17 feature too: for (auto& [key, value] : persons) The nested bindings are neat. Don’t think you can do that in c++ yet.
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by shadedtriangle 5y ago
Thank you! Yes I do intend to cover build systems, libraries, static vs dynamic binaries. All of these are an important part of working with C++ often overlooked.
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Show HN: C++ by Example – A new website for learning C++(cppbyexample.com)
18 points by shadedtriangle 5y ago|2 comments
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by shadedtriangle 5y ago
Thanks!
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by shadedtriangle 5y ago
I think the nice language is in there, but it’s buried within the backwards compatibility as you mentioned. I’ve started putting together https://cppbyexample.com as a way for newcomers to learn because pointing them to a refere
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by shadedtriangle 5y ago
Thanks for the feedback. The site is still young and smart pointers are definitely on the list of things to discuss. I’ve bumped their priority.
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Show HN: C++ by Example(cppbyexample.com)
16 points by shadedtriangle 5y ago|4 comments
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Show HN: Clue – Command Line User Experience – v1.0(github.com)
3 points by shadedtriangle 7y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Clue – Command Line User Experience – C++17(github.com)
1 points by shadedtriangle 7y ago|0 comments
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Data Oriented Design and the Structure of Arrays(shadedtriangle.com)
5 points by shadedtriangle 9y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Static Fire. A Git Based Static Blog Engine(github.com)
5 points by shadedtriangle 9y ago|3 comments