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In my view, this is a good thing. As a C++ developer, I regularly deal with people that think creating a compiled object file and throwing away the source code is acceptable, or decide to hide source …

C++ ABI stability is the main reason improvements to the language get rejected. You cannot change anything that would affect the class layout of something in the STL. For templated functions where the…

> > once AI agents equipped with MLS access > The data is the moat here, I'm sure even today individual consumers would be happy to have direct access to MLS to find properties and cut o…

From the main article, I2P has 55,000 computers, the botnet tried to add 700,000 infected routers to I2P to use it as a backup command-and-control system. https://news.ycombinator.com/…

Yes, that's why modern literature and media dealing with diverse opinions are terrible now. You are expected to caricature and refute people saying "bad" opinions in the work itself sin…

I've never used PayPal because someone signed up with my email to buy internet pornography before I could legally create an account at 18 years old. PayPal allows people to buy things without ver…

These are the best paragraphs I've read on the rise of fascism, made even better by the fact it was written a year before it happened: > Economic depression and political radicalism go hand in…

> This problem has already been solved with networks like Tor and I2P. It seems like it would be more strategic to fund those projects instead. The US government is responsible for 35% of Tor'…

I actually love the smartphone appification. Whenever I get lunch or dinner north of Toronto with colleagues, the restaurant has no English signage. But because the Chinese restaurants have no waiter …

The question is why European/Arabs/Africans aren't moving to China. > Chinese is not too difficult a language, but it’s likely very different from your native language. It is much ea…

Chinese is too difficult of a language. I have spent 5 years learning it part-time and have gotten to a level I can understand 30% of a TV show and 20% of a newspaper. Unfortunately it's two diff…

FP64 performance is limited on consumer because the US government deems it important to nuclear weapons research. Past a certain threshold of FP64 throughput, your chip goes in a separate category and…

Officially, exam scores are based on knowledge, not ability to think fast enough to solve a problem. In practice, the easiest lever professors can pull to reduce test scores is to decrease the time li…

Unfortunately, they changed the name to Rocq.

I learned coq as a teenager because the name was funny and one defined everything in terms of the `succ` function. Never underestimate our motivation.

It's pretty depressing yet motivating seeing SWE bifurcate. This is an app that would've normally had a dozen or so people behind it, all acquihired by OpenAI to find the people who really d…

If you want to live with no electricity, no running water, and a lack of refrigerated food, you could do so purely on welfare. In that sense, we already have the UBI that Marx predicted. However, most…

The law was passed due to sustained lobbying from a man, Greg Gulbransen, who ran over his child

Gwern is a blogger who gets posted to Hacker News a lot. Your comment is hilarious and I would like to use it whenever someone cites a blogger as authoritative.

I don't care what people say. I love brutalist architecture. I love the exposed concrete forms. I love the giant concrete turkey in Toronto and plan to one day visit the UK to see the Barbican. C…

Good job! When can I buy it? I am sold on the game and wishlisted it but lack of release date saddens me. I love spreadsheet games like Terra Invicta/Paradox/Simutrans and this seems like a …

Check out Terra Invicta. It's like the modern-era Paradox game you wanted but all the mechanics synergize with each other. Unfortunately it's a bit too complicated as a result.

Unlike most common law jurisdictions, the United States doesn't have a central land registry due to lobbying from the title insurance industry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…