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Apple doesn’t increase prices most years, so that doesn’t really make sense. The iPhone Pros this year also look to be a minor update.

Zuckerberg looks like Woody Allen in that photo. :)

They currently don’t accept orders from people without an existing Steam purchase from before May. (Otherwise I might have been interested.)

The downside, apart from privacy concerns, is sending your money to parties you don’t want to support.

One of the facts is the existence of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act , in conjunction with https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2705 …

The issue is that apparently AI coding means that developers stop caring about software quality. Which puts the whole purpose into question.

Symlinks aren’t portable.

> translating C's semantics into those of a related language with arbitrary but technically defined behavior instead of having UB There is no “instead” here. A C implementation defining behavi…

The second sentence is making vague claims though.

…in the US.

Better link: https://old.reddit.com/r/SplitDepthGIFS/top/?sort=top&t=all (The original defaulted to “past 24 hours” for me, which didn’t show anything.)…

Many people can’t, there is significant variation in how people’s visual systems work. I myself can’t anymore after my eyesight got worse.

People who bought a Commodore typewriter in the 1950s probably weren’t particularly interested in the C64 in the 1980s either. It would be more interesting to talk about the actual merits of the produ…

A BSTR object is compatible with functions expecting a C string. The other direction obviously never holds, unless the C string is a BSTR to start with. Yes, there is a trade-off between slices using …

No, it’s like saying how many goals you personally score is insignificant for how many goals are scored in total in football matches worldwide. It’s like Down’s paradox ( https://en.wikipedi…

NUL was always just an abbreviation for null: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc20.html#section-4 I don’t think anyone in this thread is confusing the null character with the nul…

There is a middle ground that Visual Basic (and then COM) took, with the BSTR type: It’s still a pointer to a zero-terminated char array, but there is a length field immediately preceding the first p…

The decision was made almost 55 years ago for C and Unix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null-terminated_string#History …

Almost as bad as newline-terminated lines. ;)

That doesn’t help the developers who have high standards.

It used to be slower in software development as well. The internet and the exponentially increasing number of software developers accelerated it. And of course new hardware that made things practical …

The difference, as I tried to explain, is that identity comparison does not expose the internal representation. So while you can know that two objects with the same value are different objects, you ca…

Elected local administration is the correct level for deciding policy and allocating funding for such programs. Policy and funding through UBI would be like direct democracy, as opposed to representat…

We shouldn’t expect markets to solve all problems. That’s why there are public institutions and government regulations, to take care of the issues that the markets can’t. That the room only exists due…

Not everything needs to be a mainstream movement, and not being one doesn’t automatically make you a “true weirdo”.

That’s just not true, you can have a completely value-based language without OOP that still doesn’t leak implementation details of the values, while also supporting UDTs.

My point is that pass by copy and pass by value do the same thing, they copy the value representation. In other words, pass by copy means exactly pass by value.

There’s nothing wrong with having non-normalized representations, that’s why there is equals(). For example, you might have a value class for representing (limited-precision) fractions using two long…