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Wow. I'm trying to make some of these template instantiations explicit on a large project I'm on as magic_enum is one of the largest contributors to our build-time. It's nice to know I …

magic_enum is killing my build time with endless template instantiations. Is this going to be faster?

gcc comes to mind. Remember when every computer came with its own C compiler? LaTeX also killed proprietary mathematics typesetting.

The goal of this is so that end-users can modify or update Qt, the LGPL licensed component. The LGPL is working as intended.

Right now, a world where the food industry doesn't deliberately put sesame in food so they can dodge compliance with this legislation. Especially without notice to consumers. To use the wheelchai…

There's no federal constitutional requirement for anyone to have legal training or certification to practice law in the USA. The requirements to practice law in the federal system are set by th…

America has decided that able-bodied consumers should subsidize people with disabilities; companies are generally expected to make their products accessible even if there's not enough market de…

So, direct wealth transfer is happening from the rich to the poor. The only flaw with this is that people have to work economically inefficient jobs delivering food, instead of the wealth transfer occ…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly Competition theory assumes that if firms are abusing their market position by overcharging consumers, competitors can enter the mar…

Roblox isn't a simple game anymore. They have a new anticheat (Byfron) that detects virtual machines and refuses to start.

Journalists generally avoid asking for classified information. The belief is that (in the US) a journalist that passively receives classified information & publishes it isn't committing a cri…

Cargodist isn't the same as what I'm describing. It creates destinations for cargo and passengers based on the existing network you have. In other words, "demand" is changed to fit…

Factorio is a bad railroad simulator because you cannot do grade separation (bridges or tunnels). This means all of your rail networks are artificially limited to being planar graphs which kills your …

If you want to fight that fight, instead of putting hundreds of thousands of books on the internet, you start with a few books and get sued over that. That way, if you lose, the actual damages are min…

The US Navy has over 300k active-duty personnel. I suppose it's easier to just go somewhere else where no-one knows who you are.

> The theory that the removal of lemon laws would result in a more informed consumer base has no basis in reality. That's not what the paper says. It proposes government intervention and preda…

If you want a service guarantee for longer than 1 month don't sign a contract for 1 month at a time. If you want a guarantee of more time to transition you are expected to pay for the privilege.…

I half-agree with the above, which is that loser-pays is a good system and it's necessary to stop enabling companies. The problem with your theory is that market forces incentivize firms to take …

Even though it's much more expensive to lose a lawsuit over an issue than it is to resolve it through customer service, most people choose not to sue. Facebook can fulfill all of their current le…

Buying equity in a person is literally what indentured servitude is. Someone making a deal to give up their future earnings for several years in exchange for a trip to the American colonies and a bett…

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/world/open-secrets-ukraine-in... To summarize, there are many people in government who are interested in open source intelligence. Traditional sour…

Well, such an algorithm existing would be a massive breakthrough in cryptography research. The answer should be no since that make it easier to do a preimage attack than brute-force.

The goal of using secondary sources that summarize what others say is to prevent bias introduced by individual editors. As you acknowledge, the media can pick and choose which domain experts to highli…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_figures Trailing zeroes convey information about the measurement precision of a number. If you're doing math with real-world measur…

The analogy assumes you already know where the gold is. Right now companies are spending a ton of money trying to find gold, and that costs capital. That's why they're slapping the word &quo…

In my opinion, that kind of material would fall under that rule, but I can't find enough discussions to tell you if they should be treated as especially reliable. The closest thing to a discussio…

I've made a decent chunk of edits especially in the area of reliable sources, so I might as well extend on what the article is saying. First off, Wikipedia is pseudonymous. You can't cite yo…