sramsay64

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by sramsay64 1y ago
This was my experience of Ada as well. Beautiful language, that somehow seemed to combine the best parts of Haskell and C. But so difficult to find documentation online. C++ has it's footguns, but it's hard not to learn them all j
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by sramsay64 1y ago
This list's Zig as an entry, despite the Zig project having very clear plans[0] for a 1.0 release. That's not 0ver, it's just the beta stage of semver. [0] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/milestone&#x
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by sramsay64 1y ago
I think I mostly agree, but I do have one war story of using a C++ library (Apache Avro) that parsed data and exposed a "get next std::string" method. When parsing a file, all the data was set to the last string in the file. I cou
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by sramsay64 1y ago
In fairness there are also several ambiguities with JSON. How do you handle multiple copies of the same key? Does the order of keys have semantic meaning? jq supports several pseudo-JSON formats that are quite useful like record separator s
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by sramsay64 2y ago
Then why do I have it the other way where when I cast from a yt premium phone it still shows ads.
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by sramsay64 2y ago
> I would look into countries where euthanasia has been already implemented. That's what puts me off of the idea in the first place. Cases like Christine Gauthier (a former army corporal and paralympian) who was offered euthanasia w
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by sramsay64 2y ago
There is in other areas of copyright law, like romhacks and action replay codes. Romhacks seem like a very grey area but generally don't get DMCAed when they distribute large binary patch files of the original roms. And "Lewis Gal
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by sramsay64 2y ago
That's kind of almost been me with eurorack. It is in many ways just a toy to play with. But it's quite a lot of fun, and it's allowed me to experience what it's like to create music far further than just playing sheet m
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by sramsay64 2y ago
It's funny seeing this after the arguments in the mpv thread a few days ago[1] where over if VLC's extra bloat (and lack of features like stepping back a frame) is justified by it coping with diverse formats. This file doesn'