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Weird that you don't understand it. Have you read any of the replies in the multitudes of times you've invariably seen this discussion come up online?

OK. Is it a sensible thought? Did VPNs exist in 1949? No, it's trite and useless. You don't need to refer to popular literature to talk about authoritarianism, there are plenty of …

In addition to the sibling comment: I really dislike opening my Photos app in front of other people.

Aw, I missed it

I don't see why this wouldn't just lead to model collapse: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y If you've spent any time using LLMs to write documentation you'll see …

You seem to be blaming the OS for how you broke it?

I'm not the PC but I think you miss most of the pain points due to: 'personal' projects. There's not a compatible format between different compilers, or even different versions of …

Source of quote: https://youtu.be/tzXu5KZGMJk?t=3160

How would you have minimised migration costs for std::map?

>1. Somebody verifies with the users that speed is actually one of the most burning problems. Sometimes this is too late. C++98 introduce `std::set` and `std::map`. The public inte…

> and the missing context is essential. Oh yes, I'd recommend everyone who uses the phrase reads the rest of the paper to see the kinds of optimisations that Knuth considers justif…

A state machine is a perfect example of a case where you would benefit from linear types. Some things just need precise terminology so humans can communicate about them to humans w…

...a far better place than 2011.

Come on, the 6th word after 5 English words is obviously going to be a rare word in your second keyboard language, not another common English word.

>You see, the shapes of roads in real life come from an underlying essential fact: the wheel axles of a vehicle. No matter how you drive a car, the distance between the left and ri…

Is your take that the way we view sexuality today is not meaningfully different from the Victorian era?

> Do they have ABS sensors that can detect wheel lockup/speed status? Because I don't. You should fix that. Go out on a rainy day and slam the brakes hard enough for it to kick in.…

It's his favourite joke, see Space Sex.

This is how you end up with O(n^2) algorithms that 'work' until you run it with production-size data. If the context your code runs in is small enough to be in a test, you're proba…

I have the desktop app open right now. In the top-right corner is a nag saying 'Share your plan'. It's an ad for Proton Duo. I just clicked 'Don't show again'. I get a toast saying…

I had the same problems with Bridge 5 years ago - what platform is it still needed on?

The indexing needs to be refreshed almost every time I use it.

I guess you also received the Linkedin Gaming spam a couple of weeks ago? I opted out of almost every category and I never opted in to a category like that. So why is there now a n…

When you (try to) use libre software, the problems you run into tend not to be related to insufficient engineering, but more societal and economic, where they would be less likely …

Ah, the mid-2000s, just before Linux became the dominant user kernel on Earth.