I saw some of his work in person once. A real treat.

Almost the same as me. All kinds of programming jobs. I usually end up working in Python or C, for embedded systems work.

Of course, if you’re talking hobby, it could be anything.

You’re right. It’s a stop gap, but when you’re talking about a code base that has been maintained for 20 years plus you can’t really sell re-implementation.

Most recently it was with an older version of C++ using shared pointers.

You can also make everything a smart pointer and be done with it.

I can count on more than one hand the number of large scale projects where converting everything to smart pointers fixed major memory issues. Even if smart pointers can’t handle circular references, the number of projects that just don’t manage their memory correctly at all and were fixed by introducing these tools is way too high.

It’s almost backwards compatible. You can use old or new foot guns.

Ah, C++. An endless supply of footguns where the difference between a junior and a senior dev is knowing what parts of the language to never use.

This is such a nerdy meme I love it.

I think the downside is one of consent. There’s no way to categorically indicate that you don’t want to participate in the play protect program.

This is an update to the standard, right? No actual software support, so we still don’t have it. Is that correct?

It is Linux, but with a bunch of non-free software on top of it.

It’s a problem with the business in general. As an employee, you’re not rewarded for good practices and maintaining systems. You’re rewarded for new ideas, which sounds good on paper, but creates a massive motivation to throw everything out and start over each year. Google can’t commit to anything because of that culture problem.

It’s reflected in their products, their hardware, how they treat developers, and so on.

I love weird antenna. My balcony itself is a surprisingly good radiator.

It’s always a good idea having multiple accounts. Not for smurphing, but honestly just for having a backup option if there’s performance or connectivity problems.

Every once in a while I recommend backing up your subscribed communities and importing it into your secondary account as well, just in case.

P O W E R H O U S E

I’m not really sure that the article title matches the content. It looks like some great improvements in game development, but I’m missing the part where this is specific to porting PC games. Maybe I missed it in the article.

I thought it was a computed/estimated value rather than one maintained explicitly by the platform. Of course, with Federation, there’s multiple services running that might take different approaches.

It’s a healthy change. You can always make another post, and just because people disagree with you doesn’t mean that your account wasn’t contributing and should have a score penalized in some fashion. It depends. We should get exposed to different ideas, even ones that make us uncomfortable.

I upvote this man’s wife.

Some legend did it with a can of beans. In fact we’ve had posts in the past that got a few thousand, but they are less common these days.

I can’t decide if it’s pathological lying or he honestly doesn’t remember anymore.