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wudangmonk
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Comment #46928587
If he doesn't use C++ features then there's no point of bothering with C++ at all. C++ is kinda but not really a superset of C. There are some nice features that are lacking in C++…
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Comment #46298415
Roman letters works somewhat with English because they are both phonetic. Japanese is phonetic too, they have an entire different hiragana alphanet with all the sounds of their lan…
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Comment #46296870
The issue is that its not theirs and that is exactly the problem. You can't just use China's writing system and try to make it fit to your language. Japan might have a high literac…
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Comment #46295588
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Comment #45942315
First one to snitch gets the best deal. Question is do you honestly think Trump wouldn't do something like that?. I don't need Epstein to tell me what type of person Trump is. Or s…
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Comment #45795788
I guess that is implied since these things always happen this way, its not like book burners are just having a nice campfire and the books they dislike just happen to be close by.
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Comment #44342815
I agree which is why we need to get all these evangelical nuts actively trying to destroy the world so that Jesus come back out of power. No more death cults!.
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Comment #41359602
The author has books on Geometric Algebra so it makes no sense to assume that he is going against GA as a whole.
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Comment #41214210
In order to make the race interesting it needs to have a balance between the two, make it too short and the horses will always win, make it too long and the humans will always win.…
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Comment #40979794
Honestly ALL diagrams are a dead end, any system where there is no single source of truth will be a big hassle to maintain and therefore will not be updated which makes the whole t…
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Comment #40970632
The problem is omniscience. With that, not only do you need a villain to take the blame, you also need a special ability called free-will that gets around the omniscience issue. Ot…
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Comment #40843253
So much time spent on creating many different web frameworks to try and replicate the snapiness of native applications when the solution was to make native applications use web-tec…
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Comment #40753987
I know nothing about rust but if you are struggling against the borrow checker because you want to implement something like linked lists or anything it doesn't want you the obvious…
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Comment #40700293
I got a chuckle out of having the 'expert' be Buffet and the subject be finance. I don't think there is a worse example of a subject that lacks first principles and where vocabular…
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Comment #40660213
It doesn't really make sense to compare it to something in the U.S where both parties fight over meaningless stuff like who can go into which bathrooms and which books you can burn…
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Comment #40634807
Its useful for small trivia answers, stuff you might ask google about and read a short paragraph about it as long as it the answer seems reasonable enough. For coding I have long g…
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Comment #40599394
Its great to have more Vulkan resources but unfortunately this one too suffers from the same problem as every other resource I've found on getting something on the screen with Vulk…
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Comment #40599058
Unreal was designed for the Unreal games, the others I have no clue but I doubt Unity has had any guiding game from my experience using it. Unity was built with the unity-store as …
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Comment #40594546
When designing anything like a language or library you always create the use cases first and then work backwards. Any game engine not created side by side with a game will be crap.…
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Comment #40586948
MBAs really is just a cult or I guess based on the amount of people it can be considered a religion?. They got a bunch of little equations they threat as universal laws of science …
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Comment #40569471
TLDR, it was cannons. Improvements in cannons so they wouldn't explode on you led to advanced metallurgy required for things like engines. Everything else about the right society, …
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Comment #40548734
Its easy to see how people would become used to expect everything to be slow. Python is the most popular programming langauge both in schools and in general. I can't think of a slo…
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Comment #40548564
Was a lot of the functionality of Quake done in QuakeC or was that scripting language added for the sole purpose of allowing for mods to the game?. I think scripting languages are …
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Comment #40545043
I can see the use of image-gen integrated into photoshop and krita. Codepilot and other code specific llms have not been useful at all. That said I do find stuff like ChatGPT and G…
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Comment #40544025
What law?, if there is a law you have to follow it, it being a law by definition forces you to follow it. Whether anything is done to those that do not follow it is another questio…