BoringTimesGang

If you are waiting for studies that perfectly model every variable before you spend 5 minutes walking, you are unlikely to be satisfied within your rapidly decreasing lifespan.

It's not a 'Japan thing'. I pay a higher rate on my mortgage because my spouse was not a citizen of where we live when we took it out. There are fewer providers willing to offer mortgages in this situation but, presumably, there's still enough of a price incentive that the premium isn't pulled out of thin air.

It's also common for landlords to ask for higher deposits or months paid up-front.

Settled at the eleventh hour

This is how I got MSI to honour their warranty in spite of their stance that any failure at all is due to user error, since their products don't fail

Ah, I hope nobody ever uses that additional bit for additional encoding. That could cause all kinds of incompatibilities...

This is such an odd thing to read & compare to how eager my colleagues are to upgrade the compiler to take advantage of new features. There's so much less need to specify types in situations where the information is implicitly available after C++ 20/17. So many boost libraries have been replaced by superior std versions.

And this has happened again and again on this enormous codebase that started before it was even called 'C++'.

haven't followed closely

Don't worry, most people complaining about C++ complexity don't.

Because human language is hard to boil down to a simple computing model and the problem is underdefined, based on naive assumptions.

Or perhaps I should say naïve.

to_lower is in the std namespace but is actually just part of the C89 standard, meaning it predates both UTF8 and UTF16. Is the alternative that it should be made unusable, and more existing code broken? A modern user has to include one of the c-prefix headers to use it, already hinting to them that 'here be dragons'.

But there are always dragons. It's strings. The mere assumption that they can be transformed int-by-int, irrespective of encoding, is wrong. As is the assumption that a sensible transformation to lower case without error handling exists.

Now double all of that effort, so you can get it to work with Windows' UTF-16 wstrings.

It is issues like this due to which I gave up on C++. There are so many ways to do something and every way is freaking wrong!

These are mostly unicode or linguistics problems.

Is the misspelling (dallars) a reference I've missed?

I hope it's boxxy on purpose.

The default branch is `mistress`, I suspect the author has a sense of humour.

Picking an analogy that is actually how DRM worked is fitting.

Denuvo isn't just a flag on a process

Nor would be PC's solution. That's why they added it, making it relevant.

The 'tech bros reinventing trains' refrain fails to take into account that the same people would love 1/100th of the coverage of the global road network for rail.

Sad. Today's children will never learn how to generate a valid CRC for a hex-edited save file.

People who are capable of setting world records are capable of beating the competition, to allow them to qualify for a more prestigious competition, without 100% effort.

Well, for one thing, world records don't get ratified in a local pool.

And athletes are competent enough to achieve the time needed for qualification without going all-out. Look at the finish times of the heats. Pan Zhanle was over a second slower.

No, that's according to a theory to which you've added a strange caveat that a year is insufficient advance knowledge to know how to peak, despite annual world championships - and them often being the reason a competitor knows they're going to the Olympics at all.

Allow me to be equally facetious: according to your theory, Lamine Yamal is currently doing the same training he'd be doing deep into a season. Which is impressive, because his Instagram page currently suggests he's on holiday in another country.

Perhaps comparing records across different times and places is meaningless.

This is a line of thought that leads to the consideration that sports as are whole are rationally meaningless. That leads to hobbies being meaningless. That leads to emotions and ethics being meaningless.

You can't apply rationality to explain why people care about things. But people do care about it, so it matters.

We've just finished Copa America, where players and managers complained about the pitch and its dimensions.

Or it could happen that the training, diet and injury-avoidance regime for long term success is different from that for short term optimisation. As it is for many, many sports.

The motivation of a commute is not comparable to the motivation of a swimmer in 4th place of a medal event, etc.

You're comparing the science of electronics and sound (well understood, rigorous) with sports science (cesspit of low-N, hard to study well). In sports, anecdata are valuable - putting guff in a journal doesn't make it any less guff.

A convenient alibi?

Ah, you mean my good friend 'heart emoji wife heart emoji'

That's what studying Japanese is like for Chinese speakers.

Reading ebooks doesn't mean submitting to Amazon's ecosystem.

And when you read lying on your side, no awkward holding for the nearside pages!

My laptop and phone can't last through a long-haul flight. My e-reader doesn't need charging until I come home, fits in a jeans pocket and is a similar weight to my passport.