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Comment #49217266
Congratulations your language is trying to solve an hard problem. But .. your language mostly hide when you're doing an 'inside' function call or an 'external' function call. I'm n…
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Comment #49209706
> The car industry is constantly innovating trying to prevent accidents and make them less damaging to occupants And at the same time, they make bigger and bigger cars which make m…
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Comment #49080861
This part is very bad, 99% of the time if you overflow a 64 bit variable it is because you did the wrong computation , not because you need BigInts..
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Comment #49059289
Not the only one though: I remember what happened when we 'invaded' Lybia: not one criticism in the French news anywhere, total censorship, even though our media had widely and cor…
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Comment #49042810
> In France, there has been some ban on advertising alcohol, cigarettes. So technically, it's possible but of course politician's corruption is a big issue..
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Comment #48892745
> And, on the other end, C's warts, footguns and ancient quirks also matter less if you have an LLM plow through it. 'plow through it's?? An LLM can definitedly fall into these tra…
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Comment #48739179
> Human beings are rational animals as such Really? Explain the success of advertising, superstitions (including religion) then.
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Comment #48518207
Bah, each time someone say this they "forgot" that one side effect of 'every frame is perfect' is that it can increase latency.. Perfection or latency? That should be the user's ch…
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Comment #48415695
1) the name is a discoverability issue for non-german people. 2) In the examples, the placement of & is incoherent: sometimes it's 'i64&', sometimes it is 'i64 &', pick one (I pref…
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Comment #48357812
Bah, I think that these kind of vulnerabilities exist in any "packaging ecosystem" where the base language offer "ambient authorities"(any library can access your filesystem) which…
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Comment #48266268
> In fact I think atheists should make more effort to learn about the vast diversity of other faiths. It's very narrow to be atheist only about the Abrahamic deity. Your sentence d…
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Comment #48168443
Is there an OS whose primary FS is a taggedFS? It'd be interesting to hear from the users if this is nice to use or not..
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Comment #48114969
Yes and being 'opposed' to QM contributed to expose the 'spooky action at distance' that QM implies, which is very important.. It's a pity that experimentators were able to demonst…
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Comment #48108369
> - Tabs. Tabs aren't really new: look at BeOS which could "tab" windows.. That said I agree with you that tab are really nice, especially the way VSCode manage them with the verti…
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Comment #48087046
Well, it dépends: there are a lot of places where the locals goes because they are cheap not because they are good. But yes, ask the locals.
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Comment #47993847
Note that in Zig, unsigned integer have the sqle semantic qs integers on overflow (trap or wrap or UB). You also have operators providing wrapping. That is the correct solution.
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Comment #47322927
And the Chrome capsicum hallucination got me..
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Comment #47066907
It may gives them less headache but if the part about the antivirus flagging the exécutable as suspicious it may give the users headaches..
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Comment #47045073
I still find weird that they didn't make A,B... just after the digits, that would make binary to hexadecimal conversion more efficient..
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Comment #46971510
I worked (a long time ago) on a C project where every int was wrapped in a struct. And a friend told me about a C++ project where every index is a uint8, uint16, and they have to m…
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Comment #46914009
I've seen some issue with this approach is that management will want to sell the prototype, bypassing the "rewrite from the lesson learned" step, and then every shortcut took into …
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Comment #46863096
It's a minor detail but list starting at 1, with -1 being the last élément and 0 being 'none' is weird.. Why did you make this choice instead of 0 for the first élément, -1 for the…
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Comment #46767349
> Eventually both Windows and Linux programs moved to a model where the OS just gave you the window as a drawing surface, and you were supposed to fill it. If you follow this model…
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Comment #46616227
>signed integer overflow being UB would count for C/C++ Then, I raise you to Zig which has unsigned integer overflow being UB.
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Comment #46366414
> Java everything is boxed anyway Not true, there's int and Integer.