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There's no need: there's std::copy already. Or maybe the idea was to create a typesafe template wrapper around the generic function which is also very common and really nice. No ne…

There is in France a kind of shared network of hot water used to heat up our homes (well, those that are connected and paying into the system at least). Part of the system works by…

Because most maintainers love it compared to Sys V scripts. In the end, users might complain about purity of things or something but the mainteners are the ones doing the work main…

This is short sighted too It can also turn out worse for the Venezuelans, it doesn't have to become better.

Or maybe we should stop the propaganda arm of the US fascists distorting the reality around here and inventing needs that our population doesn't actually need so that they are push…

The reality is that it's probably mostly about incompetence and lazyness. And tight purses of course. When some country parliament decides to mandate age verification, it's really …

This mostly means richer people have too much money if they can do that. What's next, a new tech allowing you to turn food into money at a rate nobody can afford to eat anymore?

I thought the point (which the article misses) is that a token gives you an identity, and an identity can be tracked and rate limited. So a crawlers that goes very ethically and do…

In a similar vein, I remember people advocating for replacing new untrained hires with AI. After all, a competent senior engineer is needed to validate the contributions of the new…

It's just a matter of working with base elements that are divisible by 3 and 4 really. So instead of buying 100cm planks, buy 120cm planks?

We'll also need to raze our cities to make bigger roads for their cars. Unlikely to say the least. Or the US companies could do a minimum amount of effort to tailor their product l…

Epic did say that you might in some situations forego normalmaps with Nanite and save disk space even though you have super detailed models so it DOES fit in this context. Also, vi…

As if that would even have any effect in that situation. No amount of audits and rules would prevent TikTok from collecting data and manipulating the public opinion.

You know what is neat when housing prices go down? You pay less to upgrade your house size than when the prices go up. Despite the fact your own house value dropped. Housing price …

There is a good technical reason behind that. As far as I can see crossplay doesn't work well at all in the game right now. Mostly issues where inviting friends to play is broken. …

They are free to return to the office and work with each other in person then.

I don't understand that point. Of course you use gamma so that you have a more perceptually correct colorspace, mostly because 8 bit isn't enough accuracy to represent correctly th…

It also makes the info follow around if the folder is moved, something that an externally maintained database file will have difficulties doing.

ECS systems are gaining a lot of popularity for games and those are pretty similar to having some SQL database in your engine when you think about it. So it's actually not that sur…

That's pretty old 3D rendering tricks causing those overall though. Like I fail to see recent games doing those at all. Overall, shadows aren't the hard part nowadays, it's light t…

I question the integrity of the journalist reporting those tweets (Matt Taibbi) at that point I must admit. So many people seem to conflate the requests for review of ToS violating…

> It feels likely that these report judgements disproportionately had the outcome desired by the requester It's not a hard outcome to achieve. Only report things blatantly violatin…

I'm testing the beta version of their Android ticket software and it works pretty well (and not limited to Samsung phones). It should be available soon I think.