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What, you rewrote std::deque? Whew!

It’s heartbreaking to think of what treasures were lost when they were using mummies as locomotive fuel in the 19th century.

Perhaps, but municipal water runs by gravity whereas your well pump doesn’t operate during a power failure.

SBC = Single Board Computing Betriebsblind

Agree. I love UDLs, use them in my code for improved legibility. I hadn’t realized how badly you can screw up if you don’t define all the operators correctly.

I thought User-Defined Literals were a great idea until I saw all the pitfalls listed in the Google style document. Dangerous indeed.

The UK was not part of the Euro economy.

I'm a Windows/macOS developer, but I strongly feel that all national governments need to convert to Linux, for strategic sovereignty. (My customer demographic is seniors & casual u…

I'm a Windows/macOS developer, but I strongly feel that all national governments need to convert to Linux, for strategic sovereignty. I'm sure Microsoft, under orders from the U.S.…

Qt has many good features, but it is not as robust as Visual Studio. It can lock up while debugging. will take you to the extern in the same module, not the actual definition. Vari…

Totally describes my experience, since 1965.

I appreciate how lower-case ‘L’, digit ‘1’ and upper-case ‘I’ are differentiated. Also alpha ‘O’ and zero.

CI = Continuous Integration

There are three things a nation needs to accept about universal health care: (1) It’s expensive (2) Everybody has to pay (3) The government’s gotta run it

The WiX installer is a byzantine incomprehensible mess. Its only appeal was that it was free. If I have to pay, I'd rather have a commercial product that is supported and easier to…

What makes the author think we are entitled to free search? How much would you pay for ad-free search? The “golden era” of free search was just setting us up for the plucking.

Would this also apply to a vendor’s encrypted file format?

There would be a broader area affected.

Yeah, SPF, DKIM and DMARC are incomprehensible. The only people with the time, motivation and expertise to understand and apply them, are professional spammers. Most of the legitim…

I write a genealogy app (family history). Recursion is the foundation of the code, and permeates everywhere. The call stack can go 200 deep or more (~4,000 yrs). The code has been …

It is possible to store three decimal digits as three groups of four bits, in every 12-row column. You can insert and delete when duplicating cards, by pressing with your fingers o…

This is about the root of humanity’s problem: the inability to avoid misusing knowledge and technology. All our inventions are but improved means to an unimproved end (Thoreau)

The car should have an option to stop, let the passenger & baggage out, then resume its search for a parking spot. Or leave altogether since it no longer needs to be in the airport…

There were real bugs and there was a real possibility of major disruption. We were spared because of mobilization of resources and the dedication of the programmers involved.

I did this for a while. I found a roll of heavy-duty aluminum foil (not quite pie-plate thick), and scavenged some old dot-matrix printers. Removing the ribbon, I printed text and …