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What is so objectionable about data centers anyway? That they consume utilities without employing a substantial amount of people? Compared to actual manufacturing like fabs the pol…

It's hard to find anyone that doesn't have some motivation in this problem. I won't claim any percentages because I do not know them and I would not trust them even if I did. That …

It sounds like std::atomic_ref ::{load,store}(relaxed) to me. 1. ad-hoc atomicity with ref 2. no ordering https://godbolt.org/z/4h893P7hG

You cannot use the rust standard library in environments where arbitrary allocations may fail but neither can you use the STL. The difference is the rust standard library doesn't p…

You are correct, it does not affect the lifetime of the pointed object (pointee). But a shared_ptr manages at least 3 things: control block lifetime, pointee lifetime, and the life…

Average citizen on receipt of news that swiss business is impaired

If you squint hard enough, any potentially allocating function is fallible. This observation has motivated decades of pointless standards work defending against copy or initializat…

Assuming memory is infinite for the purposes of a program is a very reasonable assumption for the vast majority of programs. In the rare contexts where you need to deal with the al…

Trying to apply heuristics like patterns to this problem is attacking the wrong thing. It boils down to a lack of belonging, trust and motivation of reviewers to do the right thing…

Be that as it may, from cursory research, there is a body of US law on these kinds of practices under the term "commercial bribery". I can't speak to the legal details at all but t…

This is exactly the kind of scenario that the foreign corrupt practices act identifies as a crime. It would be kind of ironic if it wasnt recognized as a crime in the US.

Author is untrustworthy and misrepresenting the actual details of the purported misdeeds if the sources cited in this thread are accurate. Whether or not there is some legal argume…

It may be obvious but rarely is it the focus of public discourse on drug companies. Basically the only thing that gets discussed is the apparent naked greed of drug research compan…

It's a creative thought but this kind of thinking is in direct contradiction to the widely accepted principles of safe firearm handling. Trying to mitigate the damage of negligent …

I think the dark side of it is unintentional ADL but it's mostly good. C++ gets a lot of mileage out of concepts in templates. The newer language feature just makes the existing pr…

This seems to be saying nothing. constexpr allows you to maintainably express the computation of a constant. This is useful, even if it morally is a script generating that constant…

To my understanding there is and there isn't. The driving force behind this demonstrated that it was possible to speed up the existing CPython interpreter by more than the performa…

Better odds and no work at a game of chance. That's pretty damning.

Have you ever taken a cab?

As far as design and ergonomics go, I'd compare servicelogs to a pile of trash that may yet grow massive enough to accrete into a planetoid. A text based format whose sole virtue i…

Is there a better way for something like an optimizing (jit) compiler? My barely informed understanding is that many of these bugs aren't soundness issues in the compilation proces…

You can't be everything to everyone. Packaging considerations for niche use cases rightfully take a back seat to debuggability and packaging considerations in modern web deployment…

It's not the same. You expect that the other team will score with so many possessions remaining. And when they do, they will be able to capitalize on the information gained from yo…

please. i'll take any odds that the vast majority of people on the plane are voluntarily flying for leisure. it's hysteria.

It's a symbol. Basically a glorified string literal.