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I think this is no longer true. C++26 implemented a change to make trivial loops like these defined behavior (and therefore will loop endlessly as you'd expect). And this example w…

This risks getting into the Fisherian/Bayesian stats wars again, but it would be possible to project a revenue gain, even in advance of making the change. You'd do this in terms of…

Probably because some people want to feel like they're succeeding in the 'actual game' and not the 'Fisher Price version of the game'. For those people the solution is ultimately t…

> SBMM also a double-edged sword. Some people like to play game relaxed. That's just a different way of saying some people like to play games where their opponent has no chance. So…

> There was a time when these were considered super sharp high-resolution monitors. I think that time corresponded to when monitors were smaller than 27 inches though. A "good" CRT…

Ukraine is also running headlong into the reality of kill or be killed.

Yes, but the military exists for the nation, not the other way around, so a military success that turns into a national disaster is not a military success at all. That's why even i…

The hidden implication in your extension of the foodie analogy is that consistent food must have worse quality. That's not true, and if anything in software having consistent softw…

Yes

I don't know, did the prior vibe-coded Zig code not ever have pointers aliased to data? Might be preserving semantics too well, if anything.

People absolutely will sell you Linux, and they make a lot of money in the process. I'm not even sure I'd describe it as a monoculture either, if it was that would probably have ac…

Couldn't they already do this today, without an additional regulation? Why is a charity supposed to be able to magically conjure sales the original seller was unable to find? I jus…

Sure. Until it wasn't. Even if Linux was a monopoly that would not necessarily be the case for ever, as the example of the Windows monopoly demonstrates. But Linux isn't even a mon…

At the time that may even have been true, there was essentially nothing else for personal computer usage, and there were no alternate form factors like mobile. But even there the i…

The invisible hand of the market has been handcuffed a bit here though. Though I imagine this will simply show up as higher cost rather than blanket inavailability.

> Typescript isn't nearly as popular as C++ Huh? You should reassess how your current understanding of language popularity compares to what's actually going on outside your environ…

The Linux kernel isn't even a monopoly though.... FreeBSD, OpenBSD, heck even ReactOS are all things you can use and make better instead. No one is forcing you to use Linux any mor…

Typescript is an even better example. And there are some domain-specific languages that aren't meant to become popular general-purpose languages, but succeed in their niche through…

> No they weren't, in fact they were very surprised by the adoption from Python folks I'm kind of surprised that the Go creators were surprised by this. Like I know they didn't lik…

> But it also stands to ask, why isn't the bridge being constantly targeted? What factors are weighing ukrainian decisionmaking to not simply strike the hell out of this bridge unt…

> Where are the armored vehicles now in Ukraine? A more appropriate question might be, where are the armored vehicles now in Russia? And as it turns out, they have indeed started a…

I still have my CD for Office 97 and (somewhere) SuSE Linux 7.2, but I can't honestly say I can continue to use those. The way to get around that is either continually releasing fe…

> However, if my continued use of a specific version of your software has no continued cost to you That's just it, it does carry a cost, at the least for security updates and allow…

Nintendo does it the right way. I'm not at all afraid to say I want more Mario, Samus, Fox McCloud, Fire Emblem avatars and the like. But they don't simply do roster updates, they …

C++ has std::reduce for that, which is std::accumulate except it's defined to operate without any specific ordering.