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I had a quick reflex reaction akin to reverse peristalsis to Bjarne Stroustrup's paper "Generalizing Overloading for C++2000" when I first saw the title then read it, until I finally realized he wrote it on April 1.

https://www.stroustrup.com/whitespace98.pdf

>Generalizing Overloading for C++2000

>Bjarne Stroustrup, AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NJ, USA

>Abstract: This paper outlines the proposal for generalizing the overloading rules for Standard C++ that is expected
to become part of the next revision of the standard. The focus is on general ideas rather than technical
details (which can be found in AT&T Labs Technical Report no. 42, April 1,1998).

>Introduction: With the acceptance of the ISO C++ standard, the time has come to consider new directions for the C++
language and to revise the facilities already provided to make them more complete and consistent.
A good example of a current facility that can be generalized into something much more powerful and
useful is overloading. The aim of overloading is to accurately reflect the notations used in application
areas. For example, overloading of + and * allows us to use the conventional notation for arithmetic
operations for a variety of data types such as integers, floating point numbers (for built-in types), complex
numbers, and infinite precision numbers (user-defined types). This existing C++ facility can be
generalized to handle user-defined operators and overloaded whitespace.

>The facilities for defining new operators, such as :::, <>, pow , and abs are described in a companion
paper [B. Stroustrup: "User-defined operators for fun and profit," Overload April, 1998].
Basically, this mechanism builds on experience from Algol68 and ML to allow the programmer to assign
useful - and often conventional - meaning to expressions such as

double d = z pow 2 + abs y;

>and

if (z <> ns:::2) // …

>This facility is conceptually simple, type safe, conventional, and very simple to implement.

At least I'm not the only one who fell for it:

https://groups.google.com/a/isocpp.org/g/std-proposals/c/uTO...
Hmmm. Didn’t he often use the word himself?
https://www.nytimes.com/1863/05/16/archives/what-shall-be-do...
No. What happens is people fail to login several times in a row and complain about it. This approach changes the security of a password basically not at all while reducing the number of people who become aggravated by not being able to login because they don't realize their capslock is on.
Spanish fashion brand Desigual approves 4 day working week
Can someone explain these two decisions for me?

>DO NOT DOWNLOAD TRON FROM GITHUB, IT WILL NOT WORK!! YOU NEED THE ENTIRE PACKAGE FROM r/TronScript

> Download Tron. The download links are in the top post in /r/TronScript. If you download the self-extracting .exe file, run it and it will extract tron.bat and the \resources folder to the current directory. Copy both of them to the Desktop of the target

Why package a BAT file with an EXE? Even if it has to be distributed in a container, why not a simple ZIP?

And the subreddit literally has a thread with a table that contains download links and a torrent, why would you not include that in the readme?
So you’re infinitely short? Joking.

What I meant is that the cap table was not disclosed and changed so often that nobody really knew what it was at a given moment in time.
"> The CDC researchers found that people previously infected but unvaccinated were 2.34 times more likely to get reinfected than people who were previously infected and fully vaccinated."

That's not comparing vaccine vs natural immunity. That's comparing vaccine + natural immunity to natural immunity alone. Not what the question is, even though the framing of the study implies otherwards.
Most places grow by sprawl with few if any complaints.

Density would be contentious anywhere; the coastal housing crisis cities are unique in that it's their only option.
FWIW, the ICAO standard[1] mentions ISO 14443 for communication, which (seems) to only cover RFID and not NFC.

[1]: https://www.icao.int/publications/Documents/9303_p9_cons_en....
Pfizer vaccine doesn’t prevent infection from delta. Vaccines prevent hospitalization. This is well documented. My friend, a doctor, was just infected by delta this week and she’s vaccinated. Getting kids vaccinated wont prevent other vaccinated kids from being infected.

The kids vaccine is 1/3 of the dose of the adult vaccine. And the adult vaccine is known to drop down to 20% efficacy after 4 months. Kids already have an extremely high resistance to severe problems from Covid.

So what exactly is the point of vaccinating kids? It sounds like a way for Pfizer to justify vaccinating and then boosting the vaccine every 6 months for nothing.
But vaccinated still spread the virus. So it’s just personal risk to not get vaccinated.
Replacing Google Photos with PhotoPrism
I’m surprised the performance overhead of running a whole web browser inside a debugger was remotely tolerable for daily use.

Wouldn’t it have been easier (and way more performant) to just whip up a quick extension that dumps the list of open tabs to disk every time a tab is opened/closed? I recall session savers being some of the very first extensions available for Firefox.
Many years ago I had a after school job working at the local newspaper office. They used some very expensive and somewhat quirky accounting software. It turned out to have a hard coded(!) percentage baked into the binary for the country's sales tax rate when issuing invoices.

Of course the government eventually decided to change that rate, and it sounded like the vendor wasn't going to be able to get them upgraded to a corrected version in time. I overheard the discussion and offered to try and help by seeing if I could hack in a fix. Rather surprisingly they agreed, and after a bit of debugging I found the problem and patched the binary. It did the trick and they successfully used that patched version for a couple of weeks until they got their upgrade.
So in that case, you would put the carseat in the taxi.
Exactly, this political drama is advertising. Truck will hit next year and true Texans will buy it, prolly will throw in that dont mess belt buckle..
Need a source for some of the DNC leak stuff was forged
How to Understand LTV and CAC Once and for All
Ask HN: Is all code patchy and bad in FANG?
Hi all, this might be naive or silly but I would greatly appreciate your experiences

Android dev of 9 years, past: agencies, freelance, research companies, joined FANG 6 months ago.

My product is filled with odd side effects, buggy and slow.
In my opinion the code is overly complex, classes >2000 lines, doing so many thing with the 20+ class scoped booleans to check for edge cases. Weird architecture that one person holds.

Easy to break this, bad customise implementation that tries to take care of every possibility.
People make small changes to get impact and push code, I think this loses the bigger pictures and turns ugly quickly.

I'm (think) the only one that complains and is worried about this. Is it me or do other people experience the same at FANG?
I talked to the authors for a dialog, I think I stepped on toes. Communication was bad, but now has grinded to a halt, with no responses, diffs taking ages to review, no replies, just cc's.

It all feels like patch work, these are all smart people. Some coworkers just say "just go with it and do the same".

Is this the attitude of FANG? I'm legitimately thinking im a bad fit and leave.

How do I validate that I'm not the problem? Maybe it's not overly complicated and I'm too stupid to realize it.

Anyone have any tips on how to talk to coworkers without stepping on toes regarding this code?

Sorry for chaotic questions.
I just feel bad complaining, not being able to offer a solution and coworkers ignoring me.
Thanks a lot.

Edit: also talked to my managers, it's being discussed higher up apparently.
That's a great resource, thank you.

I learned just a little about these after making the decision that my drives through Nevada would never again be boring. Once I started asking questions about what I was seeing, the "ice cream cones" or horn antennas really did stand out in a fascinating way. And $25K to buy one does seem like it could be a terrific deal in the right situation.

Another thing I asked about: When I stopped to get gas or groceries, I realized there were tall visibility flags on the back of so many Nevadan trucks, even what looked like personal vehicles. I had overlooked them for years. An interesting dive into an industry and its culture started there.

BTW, speaking of old towers that went up for sale and are possibly interesting to ham radio operators: Here's one near me (NorCal Bay Area) that was purchased by a local bay leaf grower and then opened for ham radio use--in exchange for a refurbishment effort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMtkLjHUgYU
What the hell, is that a thing? Does it have a name?
If it's an undergraduate degree just get it done, you can do all kinds of things with a civil engineering undergraduate degree. It seems you might imply you picked your major when you were young and had no idea what you actually wanted. The same thing happened to me, and from the UG student perspective it seems like your degree type will define you, but reality is with something as broad as civil it won't. You could get into graduate schools for basically whatever you'd want to do. From marine science to graphical design to creative writing, and of course engineering.
Mechanical enigneer in transport & logistics. I like keeping abreast of the tech industry and I'm a nerd at heart with an interest in a lot of things posted here. I get more out of it from interest's sake than from a career perspective. I think like several others here that had I pursued this hobby as my career, I'd enjoy it a lot less and probably wouldn't even post here.

That said, occasionally there's some nice cross-over content that gets me thinking, generally in the deeper soft-skills such as the contrast between the consequences of systems and process management in tech vs my industry. One particular example for me is the criticisms of perceived bureaucracy and red tape in tech (particularly in start-ups), and the idea that it is the scar tissue of former corporate mistakes. That example is interesting for me because the criticisms often levelled from the tech scene are frequently benefits in my industry - slowing down and forcing multiple checkpoints hinders iterative process, but it's really important when making a mistake results in a multi-fatality and the cost of rectification is going out and modifying thousands of assets rather than pushing a new code update.

I think there's value in general in taking off the blinkers and looking over the fence at other industries. It's a healthy way to ensure the groupthink isn't being too blinding.
Tetra demonstrates its buy 'n' fly single-seat eVTOL in California
Nowadays folks like to call "hybrid app" as "native app". The bottomline is "native app" is what allowed to be listed on the "app store".
But those simple math calculations don’t factor in the chance of getting corona in the first place. 2 years in the pandemic and I only know 3 people who got corona.

People act as if it was 100% certain one would get corona.
Excuse me? are there not senior officials [0] in these organisations that convene these things, set timelines and such? I’m sorry if I am using some definition of the colloquially term “brass” that you are not familiar with.

You condescending fool.

EDIT [0] https://search.oecd.org/about/structure/
Yep it's definitely those damn poor people who aren't pulling their weight
OpenBSD Webzine #1
You have to go to the site and paste in the url you want to see.

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles...
It’s still not 0. So it’s an unnecessary risk.
A long time ago, I was building a payment integration between shopping cart software and a e-check processor. I was testing my half-done work, and got an inscrutible error; finding access to the server source (because IIS exposed the data fork of the VBS) made it a lot quicker to figure out what I did wrong. Not exactly the same scenario, but close enough.
"Stay for the empathy" which really is "how does that make you feel" versus "intellectual curiosity". Little surprise.
The protocol is that everyone tries to be louder than everyone else.
> I'm reading this to say that custom UI components will be replaced with UIKit components that will be customized to have Google's design language. But at a high level, the apps will continue to look the same as they currently do.

Yes, going back to the source Twitter thread I also believe that's the correct conclusion. Jason Snell and Steve Troughton-Smith misinterpreted the deprecation of this Material Design implementation to mean that Google was deprecating the use of the Material Design design language on iOS.

In reality, Google is building a new Material Design implementation on UIKit to get better OS integration and a bunch of capabilities (such as accessibility features) "for free".
My interpretation is that he’s saying they’re right if the only priority is money, but otherwise they miss the point. He didn’t go to the new job for money. However, money isn’t totally irrelevant, so he wrote this article detailing what he knows about the process of assessing offers.
So only a PhD can innovate?
yes we're talking about living in today's world but... off the grid.

no one said "historical reenactment"

?
thank you for consistently posting against the suppressions
> since it doesn't have Windows' first-class driver, hardware, and software support.

Ironically, Linux sometimes has better driver and software support for specialized things like Thunderbolt ethernet adapters, or software if it was written for MacOS but later adapted to Linux because of their similarity within the scope of POSIX. And, because Windows can't run 16-bit software on 64-bit CPUs at all, Linux has the total advantage here because WINE works with 16-bit as well.
> In my country's case, it's quite clearly defined by law.

I theory the same is true in my country. But clearly someone forgot to inform the populous that not using the official standard is criminal, because I’ve seen plenty of “valid” addresses that don’t follow the standard. These addresses are clearly encoding local conventions, which makes decoding using the official standard not only impossible, but nonsensical, because manipulations that assume the standard will produce unusable addresses.

Best part is, i know this because i was responsible for the system that was then to munge these addresses into the “official” format for tax reasons. That code is 99% edge cases, 0.09% “well shit, just shove it all in the last line and hope for the best” and 0.01% “official” standard.
because the EULA is the only thing that authorizes you to use the software to begin with

Do you have a source for this claim? I'd say that the primacy of having (legitimate) access to the software trumps any EULA provision concerning its use. The logical consequence of your assertion would be that software without an EULA can never legally be used.
I don't see "the sun isn't shining at night" as a good argument, yet it always comes up in these discussions.

We have a lot of ways to store energy. Molten salt, pumped storage, hydrogen gas from water just to name some. All of these are possible in some places and impossible in other places, but there is no place where nothing is possible.

Since the "fuel" for wind and solar is "free" it doesn't matter that you spend more energy saving energy than you get back later. Anything you can save is a plus. And then you get to use it whenever you want.

In short - when the sun isn't shining you spend the energy that you saved when it WAS shining.
Maybe, but coming out with a chronic condition like an autoimmune disease is maybe not so comparable to emotional trauma that can be healed from. Also, why is school still in session? There are other ways to meet needs besides school and they're way healthier than how we do school anyway. That's why I advocate for large pandemic bubbles designed to be as self-sustaining as possible, and not isolation or remote learning.

The adult world's perspective is super skewed. The options most people consider are isolating, bubbling small, or denying the risks. There's more we can do.
I don’t watch sports.
Your previous comment asked incredulously whether its mandatory to have a car when you have a baby, since the poster before you commented on mandatory car seat.

Now your current comment about taxis may enable you to put the whole puzzle together :)
Staffer at a labor union. I'm interested in tech and how we can use it to further labor organizing.
There's even a FOSS alternative for the server, so there's even flexibility there.
Doing this reduces way more the space of characters and reduces security.
It's kind of like a tax on the entire industry. I've had so many experiences with subscriptions being excessively tough to cancel that I'm very reluctant to start a subscription to anything. Unfortunately, it isn't in many people's interest to make it smoother.
Their with microsoft, you mean. Considering microsoft's reputation with regard to telemetry and other abuses, I'd say it doesn't mean much.
Just imagine the politician of your nightmares being in control of the regulations.

I think the real issue is that people live in black holes of misinformation on the internet because that is where they want to be. When I look at the many Herman Cain Award threads on reddit, it seems the predominate original source of most posts is groups that the user signed up for.

This isn't new, before Facebook, there were usenet and forums, AM Radio and even mailing lists and magazines.
IANAL but what's the point/use of having a rule (like an EULA that forbids decompilation) that cannot be enforced?
The “closed source ecosystem” is not nearly as restrictive as people make it out to be and is something that you willingly sign up for when buying apple products.

Not sure where you got the idea of “icloud syncing your every move” but literally every icloud implementation can be disabled at your discretion.

I for one only have my reminders, wallet, calendar and drive synced.

Even with that said, none of this implies a lack of privacy in any way.
It doesn't mean that they store in cleartext, but they may as well.

They can generate the phone password on the client side and send both passwords to be salted, hashed, and stored separately.

That much seems OK.

But the salted+hashed phone password is incredibly weak. It can be brute forced readily unless it is very long.

From the brute forced phone password, the regular password can be brute forced as well, since the digits of the phone password tremendously constrain the characters of the regular password.

It's very much like the Hollywood hacking where the hackers progressively lock digits of your password and eventually discover the whole thing.
Hey, my old cofounder just did this to me!
Where Go and GraphQL collide: Behind the curtain with genqlient
No, even if you fix it... it will went wrong on the moment you click enter to save.
Some mobile keyboards are just dumb enough to fight against users even they explicitly change it back. Some will have a option to disable it, but some probably won't.
Maybe youtube will finally get a “back” button on ios!
CPU Caches and Why You Care
> Getting kids vaccinated wont prevent other vaccinated kids from being infected.

It will. Vaccinated people who get COVID have a lower viral load and less severe symptoms (in particular, coughing, sneezing etc) that would help spread the disease. No, it isn’t 100% but it will help, and it’ll also help stop kids from spreading COVID to more vulnerable people like their grandparents.
When comparing Denmark to the US you should really be comparing the Denmark of a few months ago to the present US, because Denmark is way ahead of the US on vaccinations and on taking non-vaccine anti-COVID measures.

Due to Denmark's high vaccination rate and widespread following of anti-COVID measures their delta surge in cases was in the bottom half for Europe (and peaked about 60% below the US delta surge), and their delta death surge was almost undetectable when graphed on the same scale as the rest of Europe (their peak was around 8% of the US peak).

Denmark seems to have made it to the stage where COVID is now just another circulating cold virus (joining the previous four coronaviruses that have become endemic in humans and are responsible for about 20% of colds). About a month ago they ended all COVID restrictions. That's why no one has cared about your vaccination status recently.
>Hell, I can even choose never to use the Nintendo store, and just purchase plain cardridges.

Do you really think that Nintendo doesn't get their cut on plain cartridges?
I'm a college prof in communication. I've been a techy for a long time. Started with slashdot and eventually moved here.
A port of EmuTOS to the Alphasmart PalmOS laptop
You're not wrong, but the author might have a day job and a family.
If you forego storage and peak plants, and you need at least one.
Pretty much anywhere else with sunlight, soil and water?
Already enshrined in my country's copyright act: decompilation for purposes of interoperability, bug-fixing, or education is exempted from copyright protection, and I don't see how a legal provision could be overridden by a contract.
More info from the Associated Press.

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A widely shared video by the group Project Veritas has led to a false claim online that purported emails among Pfizer officials show that the pharmaceutical company’s COVID-19 vaccine contains aborted fetal cells. But the video — an interview between Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe and a self-identified Pfizer employee who claims to show internal emails from the company — does not support that erroneous conclusion. Instead, it shows that the company used a fetal cell line when testing the efficacy of its vaccine. Cell lines, which are key to medical research, are cloned copies of cells from the same source that have been adapted to grow continuously in labs. Nevertheless, users spread the falsehood about the contents of the vaccine widely on social media. “You are mandated to inject dead babies into your body,” one Twitter account sharing the video falsely claimed.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/not-real-news-a-look-at-wh...
Steel production needs more or less pure carbon, and lots of it.
It's not on archive. I remember someone who greets HNers with a hairy egg. How do I do something like that?
Agreed! Just wanted to pile on, the driver thing is a bit hit/miss.

Broadcom/Realtek (sometimes)? Good luck. Intel/AMD/Aquantia? Probably good to go.

There are vendors that give Linux first-class support; buy them.

edit:
Realtek is a little hard to pinpoint, they tend to have drivers... but fairly buggy.

I have to replace the r8169 module or something similar with r8125 for my (onboard) networking to work under stress. If I push too much bandwidth, it'll just drop.
>If Facebook’s actions really are a problem to most people, then most people would stop using it

what do you call this argument, best of all worlds-ism? So a priori any institution that persists is beneficial to its constituents merely because it continues to exist? Do concepts like power and dependence exist in the kind of worldview that produces these arguments?
They would rather have news that aligns with their values.
Manhattan’s office towers are a tale of the haves and the have-nots
If you don't set breakpoints, it's not slower than running the software normally.
I'd add to this sentiment, Google Adwords. Google increasingly push people to put your money here and trust our systems. Except their systems and account managers push people towards what is good for Google and not the business.

It amazes me what they get away with. I suspect it happens out of lack of awareness, but if any switched on regulatory body looked into it, its ripe ground for greater regulation.