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    Comment #36178334

    I'd also like to throw https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex in the mix here.

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    Comment #33214557

    Responsibility sink.

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    Comment #31375638

    > tesla does not need to advertise What do you think Elon's shenanigans are exactly?

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    Comment #30967992

    > 2x memory looks like a naive implementation of just allocating an std::string from heap for each line. Due to heap fragmentation and various overhead it would quickly blow up. Lo…

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    Comment #30958256

    "Recycling" means "the landfill is on the other half of the globe".

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    Comment #30737744

    > Barcode scanners are hilariously bad Aren't they just USB HID (previously: serial) devices that literally just output key codes for the numbers detected?

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    Comment #30732172

    In the Challenger case, the bad information has been deliberately hidden within the structure. They could just as well have pulled it up in the structure. It's like saying variable…

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    Comment #30597319

    A small set standardized data structures (vectors, maps) would do so much good for C.

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    Comment #30451411

    For me, The Witcher 3 and Red Dead Redemption had the most compelling environments. I spent probably half of my play time just walking-riding around.

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    Comment #30297896

    > it's a book filled with solutions to imaginary problems. Have you even read it? I'd say it has more deep real world examples than almost any other SW engineering book I've read.

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    Comment #30203625

    Obligatory plug for Simon Tatham's (the author of Putty) puzzle application.

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    Comment #30112177

    Trade shows are a particular kind of crazy.

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    Comment #30059772

    > Nobody is forcing anyone to partake in this new technology. Like I wasn't forced to participate in the resolution and the fallout of the housing crash?

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    Comment #29996015

    > For a while I felt guilty, like I was ripping the law-firm off Laughed out loud at this.

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    Comment #29995989

    620M is too much for a password manager, so we can safely assume it is no longer one.

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    Comment #29918218

    You could get hundreds of thousands of European developers (West as well as East Europe) by offering 80000 EUR comp and a reliable contract.

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    Comment #29909199

    The Amish use compressed air: http://www.amishfamilyvalues.com/amish/amish-electricity/

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    Comment #29873530

    > Anyone that's worried about autoimmune phenomena after vaccination should look at autoimmune phenomena post Covid infection Hard to ignore, what with this being shoved down my th…

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    Comment #29837030

    Using Statecharts or FRP is completely orthogonal to the choice of polling vs. event driven.

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    Comment #29716674

    Sophistry and rhetoric are not "thinking". They are intellectual sleight of hands.

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    Comment #29638318

    I hope you use the standard Windows OS.

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    Comment #29636460

    > and only add nuance later When would that be?