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nemetroid

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About nemetroid

Currently employed by a mid-size company.

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    Comment #48419348

    How are any of these achieved by a vector-like type with capacity frozen at construction time?

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    Comment #48229512

    Just poking fun - the ad is for a "composing machine", so the joke wrote itself.

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    Comment #48168639

    From the last image: > No Type. No Distribution. No "Pie"-ing. > Self-spacing. Self-justifying. Looks machine-composed.

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    Comment #47973529

    The west, you mean?

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    Comment #47158461

    Using '=' for both assignment and comparison is awkward when parsing incomplete code. Consider e.g.: j = 5; The user starts writing ( is the cursor position): i = j = 5; This is a …

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    Comment #46763630

    Not common for showers, though. Those almost always have separate temperature and flow controls.

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    Comment #46719767

    I read it and thought it contained several good ideas, but was excessively wordy and would have benefited from being half as long.

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    Comment #46567454

    Why would I leave it open once I'm done with the task for which I opened the terminal?

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    Comment #46457172

    Yes, many or even most domains where C++ sees a large market share are domains with no other serious alternative. But this is an indictment of C++ and not praise. What it tells us …

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    Comment #46419866

    You can throw in a destructor but not from one, as the quoted text rightly notes.

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    Comment #46403060

    Slop. https://github.com/Cranot/tieredsort/blob/4091f66c31b4d2f8a1...

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    Comment #46344582

    The new profiling.sampling module looks very neat, but I don't see any way to enable/disable the profiler from code. This greatly limits the usefulness, as I am often in control of…

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    Comment #46329438

    RHEL10 has been released and does require x86-64-v3. https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7066628

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    Comment #46276165

    Each entry in the map will be copied. In C++, const T& is allowed to bind to a temporary object (whose lifetime will be extended). So a new pair is implicitly constructed, and the …

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    Comment #46275540

    Close, it is a std::pair, but it differs in constness. Iterating a std::map yields std::pair , so you have: std::pair vs std::pair

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    Comment #46134117

    > Both Microsoft and Google seem to do it just fine Microsoft sends me DMARC reports saying "yes, everything was accepted 100%, all good". The delivery logs on our end look good as…

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    Comment #46039298

    A nice way to fix bugs is to make the buggy state impossible to represent. In cases where a bug was caused by some fundamental flaw in the original design, a redesign might be the …

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    Comment #46038867

    You're right and I edited my comment.

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    Comment #46038435

    > The effect of referring to a copy of the object when locking, unlocking, or destroying it is undefined. https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/V... I.e., if I…

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    Comment #45937245

    PLEASE mention INTERCAL!

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    Comment #45868261

    Did you read the essay?

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    Comment #45845647

    The article has an off-by-one error. There are 45 characters in the basic alphanumeric alphabet, and / is the missing one.

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    Comment #45720341

    The tracks on the Gothenburg side have since been removed, so even this workaround would not be possible today (they would have to go to Trelleborg instead).

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    Comment #45544552

    It is interesting though that when he mentions AI as one of the non-silver bullets, one of the arguments is that the AI models of the time were problem-specific and not easily tran…