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For AAA / high-performance / console / close-to-the-metal video games, at least.

There are tons of games where exceptions are perfectly fine. Though still more often used for "probably going to crash soon" situations than otherwise, I'd wager.
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Abkhazia and South Ossetia would seem to be the more relevant examples that go counter to your implied argument.
I'm having a hard time understanding your objection. From the article "Trump touted these as major achievements", but because he complained privately to his staff they .... somehow don't count?

But because Biden something something something, when he removed sanctions that somehow doesn't count either?

Since when do actions not speak louder than words?

(Not to mention these tell all Trump books are unlikely to be reliable sources.)
Thank you, your comment back brought warm memories for me! I grew up in the Canadian rockies, but my family moved to Ontario in my teens. The skiing was terrible there so I switched to snowboarding to keep it interesting. But, we used to come down to Killington in the winter to get some real mountain time in. Thankfully I'm in California now so I've got some good mountains nearby. Thanks again and I hope Killington is still as great, or maybe even better, than it once was.
I'm very curious what you think of this interesting article[0] I read yesterday which ties into your point.

[0]: https://wisdomofcrowds.live/email/725986a1-fc00-4962-a1dc-c3...
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Some additional details: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/02/22/apple-store-amsterdam-r...

For a moment, I thought this read “App Store” and thus was satire for the dating app debacle, holding Apple hostage until the regulators’ demands are met.
I actually stopped purposely reading/watching the news some time around 2016 - and it's been a very positive experience for me.

I had enough negativity in my life as it was, and it just felt like every media outlet overwhelmingly pursued negative stories - war, famine, corruption, FUD etc. I dwelt on such stories, fretting about what might happen. And it frustrated me greatly that I could do nothing about any of these events - technically I live in a democracy, but it counts for little if both main parties are 2 sides of the same coin, and the others have zero chance.

So, I took the drastic step of stopping watching and reading news. I still inadvertently come across some small snippit from time to time, and events that directly impact me, like covid, are apparent without 24-hour death toll coverage.

It's been great - I feel "unburdened", and definitely happier.
If you like to understand things, understanding things is its own reward.

However, there is also voting.
At it's peak less than 4% of Rhodesia population was white. Less than 8% of South Africa is white. Was apartheid and other policies morally justified? Because those there at the time certainly felt so (otherwise they wouldn't). This isn't evolution but evil taking form.
This somehow reminded me, wasn't there a competition years back to see who could generate the most compiler error output with the least amount of C++? A few too many templates and you could generate terabytes. Edit: don't think it was this but this is still a fun read https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/1956/generate-t...
I am glad more people are raising the issue with C++ exceptions. Unfortunately I don’t think the argument made in this article is compelling enough. Bjarne is against replacing the current model and has written an entire article responding to various criticisms of the current model. http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p194...

In particular he has already responded to the efficiency argument with the counter argument that current implementations can be optimized. Even if that optimization process breaks ABI compatibility, it’s still better than breaking source compatibility, which is usually what is being proposed. He is right about that so I don’t think efficiency arguments are going to sway him.

I used to embrace C++ exceptions until I had to use C++ in non-conventional environments. For me C++ exceptions are wholly inappropriate for real-time programming since it’s difficult to statically quantify how much time an exception handling sequence may take. There’s also the issue of it requiring malloc() which has its own issues from an interface standpoint in the real-time context. To avoid unbounded malloc, you’d have to set aside a per-thread area for exception storage and require that you never throw an exception value past a certain size.
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I think this is addressed in the article in the section starting "A less radical change would be to change the global mutex into an rwlock, but unfortunately that is not easily possible either..."
I've just gone back. I ran my own mail server from 1999 on a residential cable IP until taking the Gmail for your domain bait. Hey, free mail hosting with XMPP and nice webmail!

Last time I was on exim/cyrus/spamassassin. Now on postfix/dovecot/rspamd. Nextcloud for calendaring because I had it already.

I miss the old set up and even feel nostalgic for the perl I wrote to glue things together (evil SMTP time rejection on spam scores). Haven't written perl in a decade...

I don't miss having to fix things when they break. But I also don't miss being able to fix things rather than dealing with unresponsive support.
I'm a bit of a pessimist here. Finding open minded people has been very difficult. I've got a set, they are my oldest and best friends, spread across the continent now.

What is your reading list and hours per week spent?

If you are regularly reading several publications like the economist and keeping tabs on diverse set of news outlets, then you might be able to see the forest. But that takes significant time, and I don't know anyone who does that or has the time to in between working and taking care of themselves/family - which is why I view it as more of a niche hobby nowadays.
It may make more sense in the context of his successful attempt to avoid going to prison or otherwise get a severe punishment.

I don't think it's sarcastic exactly, or feigned, I think he genuinely respected the working people on the security staff, and didn't mean them or the mall any harm. (I'm not sure I believe he genuinely respected the mall and its owners in an unfeigned way). But, yeah, the choice to emphasize that in his narrative seems probably affected by his hope to avoid going to jail.
Agreed. I also hung up my skateboard tricks in favor of a longboard for the same reason.
I just wonder what kind of extra hoops we'll have to go through to use an existing login.gov account with the IRS. I read in some article somewhere that the IRS didn't use login.gov because it isn't "as verified" or some kind of thing as the IRS needs.

Yet the reason I have a login.gov account is for my NEXUS enrollment which means I've been fingerprinted, background checked, had my passport number linked, and been interviewed in person by two different governments. That seems pretty identity verified to me.

If I have to go through some other step, especially if it involves yet another biometric or interview check, that's going to be annoying.
Why would anyone want superfluous data stored by their government? What purpose does it have?

In my mind, governments are like companies both are comprised of people making decisions which may or may not align with my personal interests. I want a GDPR for the government.
Thanks for the tip. I looked around and for my x1 carbon it looks like "tools required" but still, too much work for me to feel certain on the outcome.
My 5 cents: optimize for working with great colleagues on things you are passionate about, with leadership caring about those things and giving you freedom to do that. Keeping up with general tech trends helps too, and stay curious.

In my experience, if you follow this, the appreciation with follow, either inside or outside your company (or both).
> A less radical change would be to change the global mutex into an rwlock, but unfortunately that is not easily possible either. Unwinding is not a pure library function but a back and forth between the unwinder and application/compiler code, and existing code relies upon the fact that it is protected by a global lock. In libgcc the callback from dl_iterate_phdr manipulates shared state, and switching to an rwlock leads to data races. Of course it would make sense to change that, but that would be an ABI break, too.
Use revokable public/private keypairs.

The two options presented before my comment are not the only ones.
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Neat, thanks for the update :)
Putin literally wrote an essay on how he sees Ukraine:

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181

It's agitprop, of course. But it's agitprop for both external and internal consumption, and the latter parts are very telling.
Yeah, I think this is the first Ukraine story that has survived more than 30 minutes on the front page, so, well done!
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I call it the "Fox Detox" for fun, but is not limited to Fox, although they are the biggest Point of view purveyor. I have challenged friends and family members to try eschewing all point of view media for 30 days and to instead do other things, oh you know, going for a walk, visiting friends, reading a book, watching a good movie, you know normal life. The regular 5 o'clock local news and perhaps a few mainstream ones online, AP, Reuters or whatever, people know when they are consuming Pov channels, the confirmation makes them feel good, like drugs, is not good for your mind. When people try it, they report similar things like "I feel better" or "I am less stressed". Too much of anything is bad for you, including "News" and especially PoV news.
> just a dirty bomb

You'd be just as dead.
As someone who lives in private browsing mode only, and stores no history ever... yeah. This is a service I wouldn't use.

Developer convenience over user experience, is great, until you realise your users are crazy.
My suggestion is don't even bother with the economist. It's news in more pretentious and intelligent packaging. It's honestly better than some other sources for sure, but that isn't the point.

The point isn't to find good sources of news. I think the point is that most news, no matter how good it is, is largely pointless.

I'll pick up the economist if something in it interests me. Otherwise I largely ignore all news.
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"... The record shows that the temperature began going up at both locations on the palm of his hand, and then the thermistor went down to where it had been but the W thermistor kept increasing in temperature until it reached 95F. Eventually the two thermistors were 11F apart, an increase of 9F over the original temperature difference. The Swami told us that this differential control of temperature in one hand was one of the most difficult things that he had learned to do, more difficult than stopping his heart. That seemed unlikely to me at first, but on thinking about it I realized that the neural controls over the radial and ulnar arteries in the wrist and over the arterial shunts in the hand probably were located within a few millimeters of each other in a section of the central nervous system. The Swamiís demonstration showed exquisite differential control over this normally uncontrolled piece of the neural apparatus..."
It really is a beautiful building, though. Scroll down a smidge for the gallery.

https://www.arcadeprovidence.com
> The EU still has to consider how other nations will react to their policies.

To be clear, their policy is "we will not ban nations from joining on the basis that a non-EU nation objects". I think they're aware that this may make some nations unhappy, but it's better than the alternative, which would make it very difficult to ever expand the EU (beyond how difficult it is already).

> Just think about how much we freaked out over the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Notice how that resolved though; the United States pledged (and followed through) with not invading or overthrowing Cuba. Cuba stayed as a USSR-aligned state on the border of the United States. Similarly in the Ukraine situation, Russia pledged to respect the sovereignty of Ukraine if they voluntarily handed over the nuclear weapons the USSR had planted there. Unlike the Cuban Missile Crisis, Russia has no intention of following through with its promises.

> If China struck a deal with Canada to put a military base in Vancouver, we'd lose our shit, but we act shocked and insulted when Russia does the same.

I agree that the US would panic, but Ukraine didn't strike any deals. They weren't in the process of joining NATO (and likely wouldn't be admitted due to "external territorial disputes") and they weren't in the process of joining the EU. In addition, the EU doesn't put military bases anywhere.

The analogous situation would be if the United States invaded Canada because China refused to promise that they wouldn't make exclusive trade deals with Canada, and also refused to promise to remove soldiers from Hong Kong because they made the US feel unsafe.
maybe but in the end it turned out Cuomo was not going to be a presidential candidate and what happened to him never really mattered at all. I think this can apply to most news. You think a topic is important because it could be important months down the road. I would bet that 95/100 times what we think is going to be important ends up having no real impact on us at all and we would have been better served paying attention to our hobbies or families or friends.
the funny thing is we already have this. it's called Social Security, and it's absolutely useless as a national ID.
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I would recommend not being devoted to any political group or party. It's the greatest hack. You can chose policies à la carte, you can decide who you associate yourself with on a case-by-case basis. You can avoid group think errors in judgement.

If you must register for primaries in your state, then that's fine. But that's where the association would end in my book.
Clearly you don't have any sort of social standing to uphold and have disqualified yourself from the discussion!

Citations Needed has a decent episode on the publication and its history:
https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-98-the-refined-so...
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Ha, you totally got me :) In my defense, my comments were meant apply to mainstream world/national news. If you have a specific interest that you want to keep up on, that's a somewhat different set of tradeoffs. But, even then, I prefer places like HN where an upvote/sorting is aligned with a someone thinking the content is useful rather than just making ad money for clicks.
Thanks! Yes, it was fun to write too, for the same reason, as a refresher.
> Prices are high because more people want to live there than want to leave

Or it could be super-low interest rates and banks giving mortgages to every stripper and then flogging them off to clueless investirs as AAA-rated securities like they did before 2008.

Or it could be because we allow foreign 'investors' to launder drug-money, blood-money ads tax-avoidance money by buying luxury apartments by the dozens and leaving them empty and unused.

Or it could be outright collusion and fraud by developers or market makers. Or a hubdred other things economists write papers about - beloved 'free market' is more than one equasion.
The byzantine rules exist to create deductions and loopholes for different interest groups. Raising the standard deduction was actually a good move, as it simplified my tax filing for sure (I don't bother to itemize now) -- but I imagine the tax preparation industry (amongst others) was not pleased.
It seems like some people fall into this trap if they manage to get into FAANG. I would be scared of that happening to me. It's like, your entire view of the industry was built around hitting the winner's podium, and once you've achieved that, where do you go? There's only so many gold medals to go around on the podium itself, anyways.
No problem at all, I understand inbox fatigue. I just sent you another email so you don’t have to go looking for the others. Thanks!
CTRL+F on "epinephrine" in [1]. There are a couple of charts that show it was much higher than the control. Dopamine, as a hormone not as a neurotransmitter (I think), was also measured and seemed to be lower or equal compared to control.

But I can see why you say it's a mild MDMA effect, the WHM does a lot more than just adrenaline, but I simply use it for that. And I definitely notice the adrenaline effects of it as well. But I do agree there's more to it.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/111/20/7379.full.pdf
Love that we spend who knows how much developing a tool that nobody wanted, and would ultimately be unnecessary with the release of login.gov.
Except if you've followed Ukrainian politics since, say, 2000, you'd also know that those regions were always very pro-Russian. Yanukovych came to power twice (including after the Orange Revolution politicians self-destructed) because of it.

Without them voting in Ukrainian elections, the entire political scene in Ukraine has shifted towards the West and become somewhat more stable... Ukrainian politicians can't admit it but they don't actually want those regions back.
"You can't stop the waves, as the saying goes, but you can learn to surf. Chance favours the prepared mind."

Never underestimate such innocent looking sentences. I've learned surfing with 40. Surfing is by far the hardest craft to learn. You only have a few seconds on a wave, and hardly get anyone, esp. in crowded surfs. You need at least 5 years to get decent at it. But it's really worth it. I'm missing it a lot.
I've never liked exceptions, its always awkward combination with returning null or throwing exceptions, or error codes. It always ends up breaking some abstraction making it leaky - eg read_doc throws a file exception, or web exception or higher level exception that has no useful detail.

I'm really heartened in the last few years that FP popularity has caused more people to avoid exceptions and even golang doesn't support them.
I used to read Stratfor, but in the 10 years following the Iraq War, I noticed some glaring blind spots and also a political agenda. I'm not sure I would trust them alone, but if you use them very skeptically for their background history summaries, they might have value.

You can easily get lost in the weeds with something as detailed as Stratfor's reports though; sometimes you need to step back 10,000 ft to recalibrate.
Brampton Real Estate prices are outpacing Toronto.

Also, I remember 2015 Hong Kong and thinking it’s crazy that a small 400 sq ft flat would cost over 1 millions or avg persons income for 18 years. Fast forward now Toronto housing is pretty much at that point. Also keep in mind you get taxed upwards to 56% of your income if you make more than 220k
> The way the borders were set after the breakup of the USSR were based on certain assumptions that don't hold true today, and as a result Russia does not have a defensible border.

In the thirty years since the USSR dissolved no one has so much as bothered Russia or even pretended like they wanted to bother Russia. Most NATO members in Europe vastly reduced their militaries and defense spending. Everyone was content to just buy shit from them as business relationships are far cheaper than invasions and annexation. NATO only expanded east because of Russia's posturing about reclaiming former SSRs.

The only people worried about "defensible borders" are old Soviet hardliners pining for some past glory that didn't exist. They either see or pretend to see the specter of foreign invasion because it whips of nationalistic fervor. They use it to distract from their shit show governance and to blame "the West" for every self-inflicted problem they have.

The most baffling part is literally no one wants to invade Russia. Outside of their propaganda machine no Westerner has any interest in Russian territory. No one is super excited to occupy Siberia or fish the "waters" of the Aral Sea.
This has nothing to do with PLP. If the drive reports PLP then Flush is allowed to be a no-op because all acknowledged writes are durable by design - the OS need only wait for the data write and FS metadata writes to complete without needing to issue a special IO command. This is covered in 5.24.1.4 in the NVMe spec 2.0b
Not exactly the same thing

https://www.politico.eu/article/why-lobbying-in-america-is-d...
The Photo Gallery is full of interesting photos (and haircuts).

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I'm relatively new to C++ and I found absl::StatusOr<T> and its helper macros to be extraordinarily pleasant.
> Abkhazia and South Ossetia would seem to be the more relevant examples that go counter to your implied argument.

Yeah, if you were advising the government of Ukraine, you could make that argument in 2014 about why yielding in practice without formally giving up Crimea made sense.

But, given Crimea, if you were Ukraine in 2022, you’d have to consider the balance to have shifted back to the Munich/Danegeld position.
That's you, we're still 18190 years behind!
California has about 39 million people:
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A citizen database says who exists and how to contact them.

Fingerprint and DNA are a completely different thing, and crazily intrusive to collect on a central location.
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In other words, Trump may have been pro-Russia but the Trump Administration was very tough-on-Russia.

As said by the grandparent.
This is definitely a quick reference, definitely short, and definitely missing a ton of things.

And it's awesome. This is just the thing a new Linux user needs to start understanding the ecosystem.
It's all manually sourced and manually geolocated.
The mRNA era has arrived thanks to Covid. What's next in the pipeline?
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Sounds like a step in the right direction but some part of me can't stop thinking some three letter agency is holding onto all the data they can get. Just like the story that Senators Ron Wyden and Martin Heinrich exposed about the CIA retaining US citizen bulk data in the Deep Dive I and II programs.
Yes, same here... background checked by two countries! Not to mention iris scanned, and they even passports from two countries for me. Hopefully it's not too onerous, like you said... they can be pretty damned sure who we are at this point.
I'm not convinced a recursive implementation of `fib` is a reasonable example to draw such a conclusion.
If not exception, then how to fail constructor?
Interesting point about raw Li-ion cells - sounds like the result of the exploding hoverboard fiasco years ago(?).

Another unfortunate "feature" was that the device refused to be powered with it's own USB cable. It felt to me like the manufacturer were deliberately trying to limit your options as a customer so that you had to keep re-buying batteries from them - reminding me very much of the situation with printer ink cartridges.

It does feel like there needs to be a better tradeoff between consumer safety and repairability. I can replace nearly every part in my car with an aftermarket part, so why can't we do the same with these little computing devices etc?
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You might like "The Century of the Self" as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s