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> Java does just fine without goto (or have they added that since 2010?).

C++ is quite literally meant for use cases where Java (or Python or C# or Go or pretty much any other language) is not "just fine". And as I mentioned above, you CAN get by without goto. You just have to go through (go to?) contortions in certain cases without it that make the situation worse rather than better. (And there is no reason to believe such use cases are equally common across all languages, so keep that in mind. For example hardware contexts require dealing with explicit state machines a lot more than software contexts do, and C/C++ are used more in those contexts—to name just one example.) Remember Java was doing "just fine" without lambdas, and it's still doing "just fine" without templates, value types, manual memory management, and a million other things you find in C++. Even C was also doing "just fine" without generics and destructors, but then they realized they're missing out and finally added it.

You have to realize, goto is basically a religion nowadays. People want to believe goto has no legitimate use cases, because (I can only assume) they're scared someone will use it as an excuse to utilize it irresponsibly outside those contexts. Kind of like why some drugs require prescriptions, I guess. I can't stop people from believing what they want, but as far as facts go, it does have use cases that many people simply don't encounter, and I tried to list some of them in my comments above.

> Minor nit: you can't use static_cast to cast away constness.

You actually can! Check this out:

int const b = 1;
int const *p = &b;
**static_cast<int **>(static_cast<void *>(static_cast<int const **>(&p))) = 2;
assert(p == &b && *p == 2);

If this is surprising... I would take it as an indication that it's difficult to foresee what can be done even with the commonplace features in the language (in both good and bad directions), let alone the rare ones (like goto).
No problem :) Only other talk so far is a very similar talk from the iOS side available here - https://youtu.be/rvfVs_29MsI?t=4578. We do intend to talk about many more things in the near future. Ill try to remember to report back here when we do.
Same people keep winning Maryland lottery, audit finds
What about algebra? Which I consider the field of math that actually carries over to many many other things. Like physics and chemistry. And certain skill level in it is required to be able manipulate expressions in other fields.
Coal is already not competitive.

So, do short coal, but not because fusion will ever produce so much as one solitary kWh of commercially competitive energy. It will not.
Keep Up the Good Work
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> just check licensing in realtime

And be locked out of your music if either the internet or their servers are down.
Someone said

> the Plaid is still the fastest car you can buy without dropping a half million

And you said:

> Nope: https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/19/23312956/lucid-air-sapphi...

Except you can't actually buy the car you linked to. That's a pretty big miss in a conversation about cars you can buy. In fact, I would say one of the two defining features of "cars you can buy" is the fact that you can buy them.
I'm sure tiktok runs circles around Chrome on tiktok, too.
The article uses "new field" as a relative term -- a field that the researcher is not an expert in.

> A question [BD14] had to address in this connection is: what constitutes a
brand-new direction? Again MathSciNet guides the answer. For each pair of the 73
Mathematics Subject Classification numbers, the authors worked out the likelihood
that a paper in one area is referred to by a paper in another area. Thus, for instance, they see that 35 (Partial Differential Equations) is closest to 58 (Global Analysis)and 76 (Fluid Mechanics) but furthest from 08 (General Algebraic Systems) and 19 (K-theory). Borjas and Doran deem a topic brand-new if it is not among the 15 closest to the researcher’s original area. This is a conservative choice and probably underestimates the cognitive mobility
> this might be an unpopular opinion

I don't think anyone is thinking that AT&T certification (beyond blocking actively harmful devices) is an unpopular opinion tbh.
if there is a shortage, shoudn't the wages go up? Or has the invisible hand failed?
Curious if that's still the case if you disguised the User Agent as Chrome. I used to have to do that on FF mobile to make any of the Google products usable.
You Have No Idea How Good Mosquitoes Are at Smelling Us
Epic giveaway tactics is mainly targeted at their Fortnite audience. There are some kids who never had a Steam account before, but who play Fortnite. So Epic goal is to get them on the hook by providing them with a library of free games.

At the same time giveaways mean very little for existing Steam audience. Piracy was always easy on PC and gamers choose Steam over piracy not jusf because of law or moral reasons, but because Steam is more convinient and offer tons of features.

EGS is simply lacking a lot of niche, but importanf features. Most people likely only ever 5% of Steam features, but you soon find how useful are some of them when you try other platform.
I saw the reference, and my explanation is CompuServe, and especially Prodigy, lied, precisely for the same reasons Facebook lies, about the number of subscribers. You think any BBS users ever patronized more than one BBS? I wonder what the record is for the most logins on one BBS in a day was, but I expect the average to be close to 10 logins a day, because the day is so short, starts after work ends at bedtime, and because the bandwidth was so small, every execution took forever, so logging in and tying up a BBS for 2 hours was probably a very short session. Also, rhetorically, of the 14K alleged BBS that supposedly existed, how many of them could be considered popular among BBS users? I wonder how many would go days or weeks without a login.

If you've ever browsed old newsgroups, you'd get an idea of just how many people were online. By 1983, thousands of people participated from more than 500 hosts, mostly universities and Bell Labs sites but also a growing number of Unix-related companies; the number of hosts nearly doubled to 940 in 1984.[1] The number of newsgroups grew from more than 100 as of 1983 to more than 110,000... some newsgroups receive fewer than a dozen posts per year while the most popular can get several thousand in under an hour.[2] Presumably, each newsgroup had a creator, and my hope is to give you better perspective on how many were using the Internet daily in the early 1980's, which would have only increased massively by 1990. The more than a million Internet users by 1990 figure is extremely soft. The reason the WWW exploded is probably due to Berners-Lee announcing it on Usenet. Just sayin' every Usenet user was using the Internet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet#Network

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_newsgroup#Types
In the same way my c++ code is safe, yeah, the 'unsafe' code in this random-looking repo very well may be safe.
I have a 46 inch Panasonic plasma which is still my favourite TV. Colors are great, changed channel in an instant. Nothing smart on it. It's pretty big and heavy and huge bezels by today's standards though.
I was driving along E80 from Nice to Genoa once, in a fairly standard diesel stick Audi A4 rental. I drove fairly normally at start, but then many cars kept passing me and in a typical Italian fashion with plenty of directional signals.

There was no consistency, sometimes they would indicate right seemingly to suggest they want to pass, sometimes they indicate left seemingly suggesting the other car to move aside, but I digress.

Since I have bit of a way to go (Innsbruck) and I was a hot headed young man I decided to follow one of the cars that zoomed past me. I think the speed limit was 120km/hr or 130km/hr, but they were passing me at such speed suggesting they were going at least 190km/hr or more.

So I let my throttle wide open through many tunnels and followed these faster cars. There were many other cars travelling under the speed limit, but I was flying with the faster crowd.

After a while I've realised something, all these faster cars were pretty darn flash. Porsche GT3, Lambos, Ferraris, and then I realised, them getting speed tickets might not mean a thing, but me in a rental just there on a honeymoon have better things to spend my money on. So I slowed down and disappear into the slower crowd.
If Valve ever stabbed me in the back I could just pirate my library back, so I'm not that worried.
Uhh, 24FPS is always choppy, even without judder. Stuttering is not even a possible result of pixel response speeds. Only choppiness. So I assume that's what you mean. The only way to "fix" this is interpolation.

So what are you claiming, that some slower pixel response times act as interpolation? Then just interpolate. Insert frame 1.5 (1 and 2 overlayed on top of each other with 50% opacity) between 1 and 2. Still not smooth enough? Just add more interpolation. There is literally no difference between this and slow pixel transitions that supposedly were timed such that they hide the choppiness. You can even do this all in software and hook it up to the TV. And of course OLED TVs can handle this as long as they allow higher refresh rates. Also some OLEDs just have this built in. Enjoy your soap operas.

> This isn't an issue with plasma screens as you get some natural motion blur with the pixel response times giving a smoother overall presentation.

I thought plasma pixel transitions are as fast as CRT?
I've found Brave without its bells and whistles to be really great compared to FF. On macOS, FF was causing heat problems (M1 Pro) but Brave has been consistently using half CPU.
I assume you do understand that you seeing ads for outdoor headlamp you've ordered weeks ago is a proof that you actually have some privacy? Conversion signal (as in - you've purchased the product) didn't reach the ad network, for whatever reason.

Also - what do you think brings more money for the publisher - ad for outdoor headlamp (that you already bought, but still, you're potentially "lucrative" customer, as you are interested in this product) or a same ad for Windows 10 for 3 years, while you run everything on Linux and never touched Windows in your whole life?

"Tech" is a very very broad category. There's a reason why tech sites serve non-tech ads and personalized ads took over internet.
You choose homeostasis. Feeeling good about the future makes you feel good. This leads to immediate improvements in one's quality of life. People are attracted to those who have a "positive outlook." No one likes hanging around a doomsayer.

This author clearly lives in a place where he can afford such optimism. It's not so easy in the slums of Tanzania.
See also the BADA55 curves:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7763957
I still have my Hotachi plasma (1080i) and I won’t get rid of it till it dies! Great TV but power hungry, hot and extremely heavy!
The title feels very cheesy and reeks of clickbait. The fact that it claims the distribution of the program is illegal, and then rushes in with "I am not a lawyer." to signal uncertainty, does not leave a very good taste in my mouth.
Where can I learn more about this Pixar concept? Fun photos!
I think I’d have to look at your service to figure out what the issue is, but if you’re legally required to make a 1099-K… then you’re legally required to make a 1099-K.

I would point out that avoiding paying tax is a crime, that you don’t want to go to jail because of their preferences, and invite the people that want to commit the crime of tax avoidance (with your help) to take their business elsewhere.
Volvo/VW/Mazda/Honda/Nissan all make EVs too, and they all look pretty normal to me...
XC40 or C40 are probably what you're after? look just like any old matchbox cars..
For me Twitch, Netflix, a bunch of my banking websites and random others all have issues in Firefox. For twitch and Netflix it’s massive cpu spikes and battery loss, for the others typically just a complete failure to load properly.
@dang can you replace the link?
I'm sure there are some extremely intelligent and driven people working on internet surveillance or psychological manipulation, but if the only reason they're doing it is for the dump-trucks of money then I have zero confidence they will go work on interesting and important problems should MetaGoo somehow tank.

They'll just go wherever the largest dump-trucks are offered. Because they already did that, and it made them relatively wealthy, and yet there they still are.
I wish I'd taken a picture. Pretty sure you'd agree and despise what's coming off the line.
I tried submitting an idea. The permalink is being set to 127.0.0.1
That article makes me wonder if this is another reason video calls remain inferior for connecting with coworkers: It’s impossible to (appear to) respond quickly with even the slightest network lag.
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yea YT does suck a bit on FF, but there's some settings to try make it better - turn off the hover preview (https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/130441859/how-to-d...).

Also try switching to av1 codec, if you have a recent video card (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/03/firefox-will-efficie...), but not sure if it will help much if it's not the video lagging.
Not as hardcore as throwawaylinux about it but I can understand the idea of:

- why am I voluntarily restricting what I can do so that others can have more leeway to do whatever they want?

For my part, I ride a motorbike. I enjoy it, it uses less fuel, running costs etc than most cars. But I am not going to give it up while my neighbour's family in their multimillion dollar mansion drives 3x 2 ton+ SUVs around.

A work colleague of mine bought a Dodge RAM 2500. To tow his boat and carry his multiple dirt bikes.

I ignore people asking me to do more now. I do enough. Go after the worst offenders first.
> I think among the ultra rich are very, very few climate experts

They are far better informed and advised by experts in climate than you or I though.

Also one can not just be an expert in climate science. A climate scientist could tell you the effect of increasing CO2 concentration in the atmosphere on the climate. They can not tell you the social and economic cost of that, or the best and most efficient technologies or social and economic strategies should be to address this problem. That requires a whole cohort of experts from all different fields.

And that is where the ruling class -- our betters -- have so much information and clarity that we can not hope to match.

> and someone can be a hypocrite regarding their lifestyle while being correct about the need for change. People are local optimization machines and one can know that there is a great danger lurking in the future whilst over dosing on consumption.

If that's the case and they are hypocrites who do not in fact consider themselves as being all in it together with the commoners, and they are not actually acting for the greater good, then it's even simpler: I won't listen to anything they have to say because we can assume it's all selfish lies. Which leaves me at the same place.
Let's just remember that most Internet services nowadays measure their traffic as "7-day actives" and sometimes "30-day actives." (Maybe for Twitter it's "daily actives"?)

That's a way of distinguishing people who are just signed up from those who've actually done something in the last N days. I doubt that either the Internet or the BBS's have those numbers for 1990 or thereabouts.
Did I just enter some bizzarro world where 500W is now considered high?
Care to give any examples? I am not having any issues at all. Not only that, but I don't feel like FF is getting in my way somehow and that I should try a different browser.
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My mac and Linux laptop setup are ultimately what made me give up on FF. The heat and battery aren’t a consideration on desktops really but chrome et al really shines on battery comparatively
Given this story, you’d expect Google to make a yearly report saying that they successfully threw X number of pedophiles off their services, and the FBI convicted Y% of them. You’d think it would be something they and the government would love to crow about. But they don’t. Why?
This saying is generally best-practice to CYA in case anyone reading the statement thinks you might be giving them actual legal advice [0] - although for something as benign as this, it might be overkill.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IANAL
> I also do not see the purpose of comparing prices for different prices of labor for justifying the prices.

Then you're unable to see that market forces are making it incredibly unattractive to be a teacher.

The comparison is to point out the following: Why bother to take loans for college, then complete the additional certifications required for teaching, only to spend more effort at a career that will pay you considerably less well than simply working as a McDonalds manager? And seriously, my mom taught for 48 years - McDonalds manager is an easy job compared to handling 32 kids a class, for 5 classes, and their ~320 some parents (seriously - the parents are usually the pain).

You could have instead spent 4 years generating income roughly equivalent of the same job, spent no money on school, and end up making far more by just going the corporate McDonald's route - not even discussing the "buy your own class decorations bullshit", or the hours lesson planning and grading, or the certification required once every three years to stay current.

This has EVERYTHING to do with how much other professions are getting paid - it's just become incredibly clear we don't value or respect teaching - so why fucking do it?

And that's my point with the daycare workers - it's objectively an easier job, with less education and certification requirements, that also lets you work with kids, and pays almost the same as intro physics teacher. Why wouldn't people choose that instead? Love of physics is bullshit - that's not enough, it has to be genuine respect and the compensation that follows. And that clearly isn't happening.

So we can argue about why that isn't happening, but "nobody wants to teach anymore" is because teaching has become a fucking terrible, shite, job. No fucking duh no one wants to teach anymore.

So 13k per kid clearly isn't getting enough money to the people we need. You can claim that's due to inefficiencies in the system, but given that we pay more for a daycare that pays roughly the same... I suspect we're just genuinely not paying enough - although at least we could have a fair discussion around how that money for each child is allocated.

For comparison - the well known private schools in our area (Paideia, Woodward, Lovett, Galloway, Westminster, etc) all charge at least 22k per student, and many go as high as 36k for high school.

And that's with an expectation that parents are more available and involved.
There was another that also collapsed a few years earlier —so it seems outdoors applications would not be recommended.
Just a couple CPAP notes:

- It can take a while to get used to it. A month is not unusual.

- It's easier if you put the excess tubing on the bed with you, instead of dragging over the edge of the mattress as you turn.
>Collectively owned self driving cars could really help reshape our cities, reclame the insane amount of space we dedicate to roads and parking spots and funnel money into more public transit.

A collectively owned car that you don't have to drive yourself? Isn't that an existing and well known solution: public transportation?
Science discussion here is often lacking. I'm not sure where the right forum is for that :P

I think the topological bond analysis is actually really cool, and I think it might have wide-reaching implications in the study of liquids. I wonder if you looked closely at liquid phases without "long-range order", if you might occasioanlly see something resembling order if you looked through this lens rather than through the radial density function.
I think the new Zenfone 9 might be what you're after. One handed size (5.9"), almost stock Android, flagship specs, decent cameras, headphone jack.

I'd be buying one if my phone died today.

https://www.asus.com/uk/Mobile/Phones/ZenFone/Zenfone-9/
Machine learning is the new hotness in computer graphics. It drives me insane (I don't do ML).
Jamie Lee’s breasts were definitely a highlight. Surprising how the n-word was utilized in 1983.
I used Firefox as my daily driver and haven’t encountered this at all.
Sure but do you pull in any other libraries or dependencies in your development that are newer than the 90s?

Why must the build system stick to POSIX when your libraries don't?
I like that first escalator shot. It really embodies the 2+2 concept. At first I didn't get that the photos were related, but then it snaps that you are going to the focal point in the first photo.
The First Chrome Exploit (2012)
Yes rollback really is that good. Guilty Gear Strive is an excellent example of it.

Why are you ignore the obvious issue of distance? LANs are great, you just have to be next to each other don't you, which is kind of a HUGE problem.
Teachers have strict licensing requirements in literally every state.

Although the bar exam specifically is probably harder than any single component of teacher licensure, overall they are comparable, as teachers have more components.
Yes. My doctor suggested a choice between a CPAP machine to maintain a positive pressure of oxygen through a mask attached to a machine, and a plastic mouthpiece that would keep my lower jaw projecting forward. That cost $2000, and insurance refused to pay for it.

That worked well enough, but what worked better was exercising and losing weight. Exercising was not what achieved the weight loss, although it had myriad good effects. What made losing weight possible was eliminating sugar. In particular, eliminating all sugar not accompanied by fiber. Sugar in fruit is fine because (except in grapes!) fruit has plenty of fiber. Juice doesn't.

Actually having sleep apnea can itself interfere with losing weight. So, get treatment for that, then work on losing the weight.
The last I saw, it is indeed a complex patent and licensing issue. I don't have the source for that handy, but since you seem to be getting many answers blaming the market I figured I'd chime in.
On a Mac or Windows (or Linux)? I find Firefox Mac a lot less pleasant to use than Firefox on Windows.
Wow, I had no idea. What a bunch of bullshit!
>The main thrust of your claim obviously can't be true

It's surprising that iterating a dense array is faster than iterating a hashmap? I don't think you are parsing the parent post correctly.

If dictionaries are commonly iterated in python, then iterating an array of 100 items that fits in one cache-line will be faster than iterating a hashmap which might have 100 items in 100 cache lines.
I work in Emergency Services telecommunications. It is by far the most fulfilling role I've ever worked in during the last 20 years of my career, and I have worked in gambling, banking, managed hosting industries amongst many other things.

It's by nature a rather conservative environment, but that's one of its strengths - less continual churn, and getting to make focussed changes that improve performance and reliability, which in turn contributes to helping first responders save lives.

One of the best parts has been able to integrate the best aspects (IMHO) of what you'd call "agile" and "devops", without having to include the whole box and dice of bureaucracy and gesturing/posturing that comes with that. Another has been working in an environment that is not "just" about making money, but also has an impact on people's lives. I've never been happier with my job in my life.