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by ubadair 4y ago
The silky smooth PTFE-based floss doesn't, but the cheap store brand floss is rougher and does a much better job cleaning.
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by ubadair 4y ago
Klemheist knot is a useful related one. It's easier to slide than prussik and works with webbing or rope.
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by ubadair 4y ago
LLVM is pure joy to use in every regard. A priceless marvel of open source.
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by ubadair 5y ago
I was going to say the same thing. While it may be true that beginners are not sufficiently appreciated or that error quality is not sufficiently prioritized, these extrapolations do seem a little rude in the context of what is effectively
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by ubadair 5y ago
Have a look at https://www.ocient.com Not affiliated, but I know people who work there.
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by ubadair 5y ago
I once posted a nascent open-source project to reddit and it got shredded, but someone pointed me to some prior art. I studied the suggested materials, and thanks to that feedback my project was eventually successful. Now even CERN uses it
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by ubadair 5y ago
Did you watch through to the end of the video? They show an example of using a different dataset, and it looks much less like a dashcam. I'm amazed by the results.
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by ubadair 5y ago
Boost.STLInterfaces provides a more modern alternative to iterator_facade. https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_75_0/doc/html/stl_interface...
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by ubadair 6y ago
Wow, this is the first time I've seen the computed goto extension. Delightfully gross! https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Labels-as-Values.html
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by ubadair 6y ago
I agree that CNN and Fox are both disgustingly biased. I appreciate BBC's journalistic standards, but I think they are the exception rather than the norm. I think Poland's case is more typical: https://www.npr.org/
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by ubadair 6y ago
jQuery is fantastic. I am not a web programmer by trade, but I can always get busy with jQuery and just a couple of Google searches. Last weekend I was trying to find new car dealerships in my region that carried a particular model of car t
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by ubadair 6y ago
Templates are the killer feature of C++. They add incredible power to the language, but also dramatically increase its complexity. Templates are only superficially similar to generics in C#/Java. They are essentially a type-safe, Turin
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by ubadair 6y ago
> You'll have to search very long to find a C++ game code-base that uses boost, game devs are not that stupid ;) Boost has over 160 libraries and counting. I wouldn't recommend every one of them (some have wacky interfaces, slo
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by ubadair 6y ago
Are you aware of std::reference_wrapper? https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/functional/referen...
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by ubadair 6y ago
Hey, this sounds awesome! Thanks for sharing. Please consider putting all this info in the GitHub readme, it's useful for anyone who wants to pick up the project. Also please consider posting this on relevant mailing lists. I updated m
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by ubadair 6y ago
If I installed this extension, cplusplus.com would be the very first thing to go on my blacklist. I always want cppreference.com.
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by ubadair 6y ago
Example: https://www.ruralsourcing.com
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by ubadair 6y ago
I spent a couple weeks casually studying about both, and finally hitched my wagon to Guix. The careful separation of free and non-free software is incredibly refreshing. I appreciate the emphasis on building packages from source. The docs a
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by ubadair 6y ago
On multiple occasions I have been surprised and disappointed that [my installed flavor of] awk has no native support for 64-bit integers. That aside, I love awk and use it daily. That "awk in 20 minutes" guide was a life changer w
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by ubadair 6y ago
> not just because they choose not to progress To a computer, what's the difference? Instructions are instructions.
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by ubadair 6y ago
Aren't they dropping support for the Linux kernel? I think guix is cool, but I'm not interested in being force-fed the Hurd.
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by ubadair 7y ago
Very cool. I have dreamed of building something similar. I would be interested in these modifications: 1. Change living/non-living distinction of food to two different dimensions, shared by living and non living food alike: * Compo
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by ubadair 7y ago
I imagine you sometimes have reservations about whether to make a moderation decision public, like the one in this thread, but seeing these judgements is always a reminder of how the moderation here is a huge part of what makes this site a
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by ubadair 7y ago
Source? I searched a bit, and didn't find any evidence of scam call centers with more than "dozens" of employees. I'm skeptical.
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by ubadair 7y ago
I've been procrastinating learning awk for a while now. Thanks for this, I read it and it's just what I needed.
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by ubadair 7y ago
I had to Google "sick system", which led me to this insightful post. Well worth the read. https://www.issendai.com/psychology/sick-systems.html
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STLInterfaces: A C++ library for writing containers(tzlaine.github.io)
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by ubadair 7y ago
> Your C/C++ programmers are likely not as well-trained as you think they are. > The list of people who can write C/C++ correctly, under pressure, and then keep it correct under maintenance, is very short. I see this asserti
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by ubadair 7y ago
Software engineering is all about trade-offs and making sure stakeholders are fully informed thereof. Pressure to deliver is one of the most challenging problems an engineer can face, because it stands in opposition to every ideal. Yet it&#
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by ubadair 7y ago
This is a really well-organized dive into something that, based on the title, I didn't expect to find much value in. I was wrong. Learning git was painful. It felt like an obstacle that periodically stood between me and getting my work

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