yuushi

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by yuushi 5y ago
Except this (attempted) mask mandate ban was for kids - i.e. those who are often too young to receive a vaccine. Yes, our federal government absolutely failed when it comes to vaccine supply. It is our state governments that have instituted
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by yuushi 5y ago
It is not endemic in many states in Australia. But please, continue looking on in horror at us from (I'm assuming) America. Your post is a wonderful mix of condescending tone and factual inaccuracy, with the added cherry-on-top that yo
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by yuushi 5y ago
That's because modules and namespaces are the same thing in languages like Python, whereas they are separated in C++. The code in the imported module will go into whatever namespace it is in within that module, not the global namespace
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by yuushi 5y ago
Modules have nothing to do with shipping libraries (or dependency management), they are purely about encapsulation of interface and (API) implementation.
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by yuushi 6y ago
If by "reload" you mean "drop in an updated shared library and let the runtime loader do its job", I suppose so. Yes, it only applies if you don't make any API (and ABI) changes, but that's what major, minor, p
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by yuushi 7y ago
> I can't remember the case in C, but in C++ the initialisation of a function local static variable is guaranteed to be thread-safe. Only in C++11 onwards.
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by yuushi 7y ago
Depending on what you required, it can still be significantly faster than std::map. Any tree-based data structure is going to play havoc with cache. Also, it will perform an allocation for every single node inserted, which can become rather
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by yuushi 7y ago
Define "way easier". The interface, at least for day to day operations, is basically identical.
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by yuushi 7y ago
I remember this being in the context of video games, and from some time ago (so things may have changed with Steam sales and the like), but it said that something like 85% of sales occur in the first two weeks. Thus the DRM was there to (ho
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by yuushi 7y ago
Correctness defined as "this produces the right answer" vs correctness defined as the above with the addition of "this does not leak information / is not highly vulnerable to side-channel attacks" are very different
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by yuushi 8y ago
I mean, you really are a special case - I have only lightly dabbled in Rust, but I immediately recognize your name because of the work you've done in the Rust community.
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by yuushi 8y ago
If you have the luxury of choosing between C++ and Java/C#, then you don't need C++.
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by yuushi 8y ago
This doesn't take into account the alignment of the type though (you'd want to use std::aligned_storage<sizeof(T), alignof(T)>), but that requires knowing enough about T to be able to use sizeof() and alignof(), which means
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by yuushi 8y ago
This could only ever be doable with extremely simple architectures anyway. Off the top of my head, add in just one of branch prediction, micro-op fusion, out-of-order execution, pipelines and pipeline stalls, or cache misses, and this beco
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by yuushi 9y ago
Sure, you can pass by pointer instead of reference, but the post also mentioned that they didn't use the STL (hence no std::vector) and I'm curious if that means they used a replacement library or something else.
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by yuushi 9y ago
> SIMD Intrinsics are directly callable from C++. > likely/unlikely branches Most compilers have extensions that will allow you to do this (__builtin_expect and so on). > in-lining can't be forced when you know it gives b
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by yuushi 9y ago
The second is absolutely an advantage of references, and other than having to use (if I'm being honest, legacy and/or bad) interfaces, there is absolutely not a downside in this regard. The first can be a legitimate complaint, alt
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by yuushi 9y ago
Out of curiosity, what do you use? I hope it isn't back to raw pointers and size_t offsets for lengths. What do you do if you want to pass a container of ... anything around? What's the replacement for: U do_something(const s
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by yuushi 13y ago
Go is not even close to being any kind of replacement for C++. Also, not all "real programmers" think that C is a better language than C++.
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by yuushi 13y ago
They were bought out by iiNet. Apparently Adam also signed deals for a takeover by iiNet in August this year.
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by yuushi 13y ago
It shouldn't be the standard way of managing memory; it should be a part of the toolkit. In order, it should look like: 1) Stack allocation 2) std::unique_ptr 3) std::shared_ptr You should be properly thinking about onwership semantics
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by yuushi 13y ago
Sure. Think of void * in C. interface{} in Go isn't really that different, there's just a bit more language support for testing if it satisfies a specific type or not. Add in type assertions, and it's basically as though you
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by yuushi 13y ago
I think interface{} is a horrible, horrible hack. For me, the answer is an emphatic yes.
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by yuushi 13y ago
I remember having read this before, but I always get a good chuckle from it; all of the snark is incredibly well done. I always burst out laughing when reading "Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by n
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by yuushi 13y ago
Why does it have to be limited to a single language at all? Exposure to multiple languages should be the norm.
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by yuushi 13y ago
I agree with this, although I live in one of the smaller Australian cities and cannot move for various reasons. I am desperately trying to find a reasonable programming job, but having quite a hard time. Pretty much all the jobs around here
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by yuushi 13y ago
Which languages makes all the difference. It's more important to know at a language from a broad number of paradigms, rather than knowledge of a bunch of C-syntax-derived object oriented languages (I say this, but I'm just as guilty of it a
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by yuushi 14y ago
This is actually discussed in some length in Jacques Hadamards "The Mathematicians Mind" - although I'm certainly no psychologist or neurologist, and some of the ideas are probably incredibly out of date, it was interesting reading nonethel
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by yuushi 14y ago
Actually, a WRX won't have the luxury car tax applied to it; from Wiki: The LCT threshold is currently $59,133.00AUD. Car pricing in Australia is pretty horrific, which is probably due to both taxation and the government trying to protect l
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by yuushi 14y ago
That sounds fine for intra-school comparisons, but as far as I know, the teacher comparisons are inter-school, which is a whole lot less random in student assignments.

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