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by simplotek 3y ago
> Yes I’ve seen these statistics a number of times and it really goes against so much of the “lol Americans are bad at math” meme all over the internet. I never came across any of the sort. What I come across frequently is the extension
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> I completely disagree. Where exactly are you going to put a power supply in a room? Make a special electrical box for it? Won't it be unsightly in many rooms, or need some huge special panel that looks like a breaker panel? This s
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Yes, it's a separate little preprocessor binary instead of using C++'s built-in macro system, but the concept itself is not foreign to C++. It does have it's drawbacks. The MOC heavily penalizes build times, and build ca
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by simplotek 3y ago
> The scope of HTML/CSS shifted vastly. No, not really. HTML was from the start and always has been designed to specify UIs. From the very start HTML had support for specifying UI element trees, including higher-level UI design patt
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by simplotek 3y ago
CSS sounds like the poster child of feature creep. It started as the right way of specifying styling (colors, fonts, line weights, spacing, etc) and now it's so extensive it looks like it's competing with OpenGL.
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by simplotek 3y ago
> This process, while obviously is much slower on spinning HDD, it surprisingly isn't really that fast on NVME SSD, either. Windows is renowned for having awful performance in usecases involving accessing many small files even for r
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by simplotek 3y ago
> (...) they’re nearly equivalent if you have a good team that (...) That's a lot of hand-waving weasel words to blame those experiencing problems for the naturally occurring problems. If it was the same thing, we would not be havin
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Note that MPAs can also opt-in to prerendering, where the browser spins up a hidden background tab (sort of) that renders the next page, and then gets activated when the user clicks a link. This gives truly instant-feeling navigations.
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Almost any country does. Spain provides 6 weeks of mandatory paid parental leave that come into effect once the child is born, and an additional 10 weeks to be used during the year.
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by simplotek 3y ago
> What everyday UI thing is better done with this than other methods? All of them. > Why is it better? Because it specifies a workflow that actually matches what you want to do instead of employing a pile of ad-hoc rules that quickly
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Wow, being sarcastic about AI! (...) OP presented a clear and insightful comment on these critiques of AI. You, on the other hand, added zero to the discussion. If you have nothing to add, add nothing.
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> and then immediately scrapping and recycling it You seem to be confused. Using steel as a raw material is not "scrapping and recycling". The value of steel in engineering applications is that you can trust that the properties
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Octopuses have demonstrated significantly more intelligence than cows. I fail to see how this is has any relevance. The ethical or emotional argument of killing an animal does not depend on vague assertions over the problem-solving ski
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by simplotek 3y ago
> We should either require this for all buildings or for none. You do understand that "requiring this for all buildings" has a name: urban planning. This sort of analysis is basically what engineers do when assessing the enviro
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Just don’t eat octopuses, please. I don't see any difference between this and, say, kill cows. Also, the news piece sounds too desperate in it's attempt to appeal to an irrational emotional response. The author goes to the ri
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by simplotek 3y ago
> If you take "raw" steel and process it, you can look green from your operations... I'm not sure the people complaining about Chinese steel imports are thinking about environmental footprint. It's all a chain of simp
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by simplotek 3y ago
> It's just that I really really hate maintaining Makefiles and CMake configs. CMake is a high level makefile/build system generator. There is nothing to maintain in modern cmake. You just set what executables/libraries yo
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by simplotek 3y ago
> such a build graph Nonsense. All build systems implement a DAG of build targets. > why caching tools can't be used effectively Nonsense. There are a myriad of caching tools freely available, from ccache, sccache, build cache, e
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by simplotek 3y ago
> (...) brought to the USA, melted in an arc furnace, and suddenly it's "made in USA"! I don't think this assertion makes sense. Making steel is way more than getting iron and mixing it up with some carbon. You need s
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by simplotek 3y ago
> In addition to the problems stated in the article that you're ignoring here What problems, exactly? The author acknowledged cargo works but hand-waves over vague claims of "it does not track dependencies well or support arbit
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Code coverage is pretty well supported in the internal ecosystem (...) What you're actually saying is that internally Google managed to get a single and very specific use case to work and forced all projects to either adopt it or
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by simplotek 3y ago
> But the open source world has the resources to write new build systems (and ecosystems!) time and time again. What leads you to believe that writing new build systems is a popular hobby? I mean, cmake is the de facto standard for C++ p
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by simplotek 3y ago
You have people in this discussion claiming otherwise, and I also know for a fact that in the past it did not supported either. Can you actually provide a working example?
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by simplotek 3y ago
> I mean for C++ having the caching just work like you get with Bazel is a huge thing. It's a good thing then that cmake+ccache work out of the box by passing the caching tool of your choice like ccache to the compiler launchers.
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Every time I have to learn a new build system in open source work I groan. Why are there so many systems for essentially the same thing? I'd love to hear what leads you to believe that adding yet another build system in the form o
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by simplotek 3y ago
> You can get coverage working for almost anything by having each test convert its coverage data to LCOV before stopping, in the same sandbox as the test. I have to call bullshit on this. With C or C++ you need to build the whole project
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by simplotek 3y ago
> We had a googler at our company switch everything to bazel and it just slowed everyone down. I'd love to hear if anyone can make a case for Bazel knowing that cmake+build cache tools like ccache buy far better performance improvem
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by simplotek 3y ago
> No Make is not a replacement, or ninja. Why? The world has been running on make for decades, and it runs just fine. Meanwhile, does Bazel support basic stuff like shared libs or vended libs that are not deployed system-wide? Last time
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by simplotek 3y ago
> its about ALL of your organizations languages being built with one tool, Yeah, that's an effective way to sell someone's promotion, but it's always a promise that is never met and instead it's a constant source of p
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by simplotek 4y ago
> For the love of god, please Google what fizzbuzz is. Yes, please do google what fizzbuzz is. You'll eventually stumble upon resources on how to memorize fizzbuzz, which is such a Hallmark of the test that it's even explicitly

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