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The reason the world didn't end is because people refused to upgrade Visual Studio, in particular Microsoft's bigger customers. Microsoft surveyed their users for why people weren'…

Knowing a definition is not the same as understanding. I know this first hand from interviewing people who at the beginning of the interview can confidently tell me the definition …

What is the relationship between your claim, and the claim I replied to about GSL having special treatment? In other words, why did you reply to me with an interpretation about a p…

Here is the original statement about special treatment: "It was originally created by Microsoft and as Herb mentions "all our target platforms", so most likely it gets special trea…

How does a library writer testing that their library works with a specific version of a compiler that was already released have anything to do with a compiler implementation provid…

>A program with undefined behavior is by definition an incorrect program. This is simply false and an oft repeated myth. Undefined behavior has a specific technical definition that…

I have no idea where you possibly got this idea from since the Github Issues tracker for GSL has numerous instances of new releases of MSVC breaking GSL compilation.

There is absolutely no special treatment afforded to the GSL by any of the target platforms. While we can't inspect MSVC's source code, both clang and GCC do not have any support o…

Yes, this is all true but Sutter's comment is that the specific platforms that this specific implementation of the GSL targets results in the correct output. The platforms official…

Yes that's true, many classical civilizations saw work as a role for slaves. The ideal for classical elites wasn't to work, it was to have enough slaves that you didn't have to wor…

Yeah it's a nice and pleasant story, assuming you've never actually met or seen the working or living conditions that most of the fisherman in your story actually live in and the t…

I adopted it by growing up poor to immigrant parents who had to work day and night to provide for me the best life they could. Having goals other than financial well being is a lux…

This is an absurd statement. Lets use bank accounts instead of CO2 to point out the absurdity. Imagine every year a company makes $730,000 in revenue but spends $730,000 on various…

You might be reading the prompt far too literally then. LLMs interpret words not based on literal and rigorous definitions but based on how those words are actually used in reality…

There's a distinction between claiming something is objectively better, which is what Fil-C claims with respect to its "idea" about memory safety compared to Rust... and claiming a…

So put in the enormous effort needed to change the Constitution all towards a goal of some superficial and ineffective measure instead of taking a fraction of that effort and putti…

There are only 900 billionaires in the U.S. Do you think if they lost their voting rights it would affect the outcome of even a single election whatsoever?

The article addresses this.

So data structures like std::vector should never be copied - period?

Settlements do not in any way establish legal precedent or any legal standing. This is simply an agreement between two parties.

Not sure about Codex but Claude Code works with Github Copilot and can even work with open source models like Kimi/Deep Seek.

There are but then you're required to pay API prices for them which can end up costing significant multiples of the price of the subscription.

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