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I know this is naive but I wonder why the CCPA, together with the Department of Agriculture, chose not to purchase the peach canning facilities that Del Monte Foods was running. I …

Yes, the city of Seattle instituted a sweetened beverage tax in 2017 and there was a study with results published in 2023. https://www.seattle.gov/sweetened-beverage-tax-community-…

I feel like this article is missing one of the most useful idioms of parameter packs which is when you want to accept a variety of parameter types to a non-template function. You c…

J, K, and L are keyboard shortcuts for "skip back 10s", "toggle pause", and "skip forward 10s". Left and right arrow keys do the same skipping. On mobile a double tap on either sid…

It's because the algorithm is easy to implement and efficient in terms of compute usage to match a gesture. It's a "cheap and easy" recognizer, a $1 recognizer. The name has spawne…

We can see it and it’s called the Cosmic Microwave Background https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background . It’s not t=0.0000001 though as the time before the cosmi…

> All you need for a stable stablecoin is to save every dollar put in to it. That’s the issue right there. How does Tether save its dollars? We can see it in their transparency rep…

This is probably my most used C++17 feature too: for (auto& [key, value] : persons) The nested bindings are neat. Don’t think you can do that in c++ yet.

Thank you! Yes I do intend to cover build systems, libraries, static vs dynamic binaries. All of these are an important part of working with C++ often overlooked.

Thanks!

I think the nice language is in there, but it’s buried within the backwards compatibility as you mentioned. I’ve started putting together https://cppbyexample.com as a way for newc…

Thanks for the feedback. The site is still young and smart pointers are definitely on the list of things to discuss. I’ve bumped their priority.

Shameless self promotion but my static site tool Static-Fire is based off Git. Everything from the config to the python source to the articles you write is all in the same repo. ht…

I think long term you're right but at the moment str.replace() solves the problems I've encountered. That's the way I tend to develop things. Do the simple stuff simply and then ex…