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Hey fellow TU/e'er :) I followed his course as well, somewhere around 2004/5. Executing man in the middle attacks, writing buffer overflow exploits. Good memories!

Could not agree more. As a child in the 80s I read a programming book (can't remember the name anymore unfortunately) where the reader was encouraged to write software that is alwa…

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Seems he is using trade deficit percentages in his chart instead of tariff percentages ... :/

Could have been if backwards compatibility was not a thing indeed. Move constructors are not needed , they don't solve a 'problem', but improve on previous semantics.

This is becoming such a tiresome opinion. How are concepts fixing a problem created by previous features to the langue? What about ranges? Auto? Move semantics? Coroutines? Constex…

AFAIK, 250W is the net energy of light arriving at the wafer after it has reflected off of many mirrors, with a very inefficient process to generate light from the tin plasma on to…

I wrote this library once; https://github.com/ton/fast_int . Removed `std::atoi` from the benchmarks since it was performing so poorly; not a contender. Should be easy to verify. R…

Did you verify their claims or are you just calling BS and that's it? The new functions are in fact much faster than their C equivalent (and yes, I did verify that).

I implemented GJK almost a decade ago now based on this excellent explanation from Casey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qupqu1xe7Io

Ok, I'll bite. What happened at Canonical?

I did not know about `includeIf`...this allows getting rid of the hacks I used to achieve something similar, great!

There are so many examples in the insect world of mind control its truly bizarre. The other day I encountered an example in David Goulson's recent book Silent Earth ( https://www.g…

I'm not sure why you are downvoted; I have the exact same on an up-to-date Firefox.

I didn't know about `jump`, that is super useful.

For the text rendering part, is there no off-the-shelf library that provides that functionality?

This times 100 :) It is only recently that I started to realize this and once you do it makes a lot of sense.

Does anyone know what happened with Herb's idea for zero-overhead exceptions? I remember liking the idea when he presented it at CppCon ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARYP83yNAW…

I'm wondering, when will programmers be replaced by AI? Or less strong, when is the fun, creative job of programming replaced by entering queries for some AI code bot? I've always …

Same here, computer flagged, nothing happens.

I fail to see the point of this, in fact, I think this is a fundamentally flawed approach to dealing with your revision history. The problem is that rebasing commits has the potent…