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There's no need: there's std::copy already.

Or maybe the idea was to create a typesafe template wrapper around the generic function which is also very common and really nice. No need to create one wrapper per type, a single template should work.

There is in France a kind of shared network of hot water used to heat up our homes (well, those that are connected and paying into the system at least). Part of the system works by burning trash and capturing the heat in the process. Supposedly they also work on using renewable energies to do the work.

Some people argue that the whole system is going against the objectives of recycling stuff but at least it's better than just burning it to get rid of it.

Because most maintainers love it compared to Sys V scripts.

In the end, users might complain about purity of things or something but the mainteners are the ones doing the work maintaining all that and end up deciding what gets used.

Honestly, I'm rather outside of all that stuff and I had my share of problems with systemd issues but that's mostly because I've been using pretty old systems anyway with thus older and buggier versions of the code. And I also remember the pain it was before unit files to get those sys V scripts working correctly. From my perspective, both systems had weird bugs I had to track but systemd clearly wins on the "creating a new service" part.

This is short sighted too It can also turn out worse for the Venezuelans, it doesn't have to become better.

Or maybe we should stop the propaganda arm of the US fascists distorting the reality around here and inventing needs that our population doesn't actually need so that they are pushed towards far right parties?

Or how about making sure the corrupted US society do something about them messing up the world economy because rich people want to be richer and so they bought their governments through once again their propaganda arms of all the social media and news corporations they bought?

What about the parts where the US would bomb constantly the ME thus making the people living there want to move out. But of course they won't go to the place that bombed them, especially since there's a whole ocean between them so instead they come to us in the Europe. Oh and if it's not bombs, it's global warming anyway, another thing the current US government pushes hard for.

The reality is that it's probably mostly about incompetence and lazyness. And tight purses of course.

When some country parliament decides to mandate age verification, it's really easy and lazy for them to just say "verify ages and do it reliably!" and stop at that. As a result, the services affected don't really have a choice to go towards those horrible solutions of scaning our faces or IDs or both and all the issues around that.

What should happen rather is "we'll build a system for age verification that is privacy focused and all you sites that are adult only will have to use it or any other system we deem acceptable" But this requires effort on the part of the government doing the law. And money.

This mostly means richer people have too much money if they can do that.

What's next, a new tech allowing you to turn food into money at a rate nobody can afford to eat anymore?

I thought the point (which the article misses) is that a token gives you an identity, and an identity can be tracked and rate limited.

So a crawlers that goes very ethically and does very little strain on the server should indeed be able to crawl for a whole week on a cheap compute, one that hammers the server hard will not.

In a similar vein, I remember people advocating for replacing new untrained hires with AI. After all, a competent senior engineer is needed to validate the contributions of the new hires anyway and they can do the same checking the AI code.

But then, how would you even train and replace those competent seniior engineers that do the filtering when they retire? The whole system was predicated on having a chain of new hires that gain experience in the process.

It's just a matter of working with base elements that are divisible by 3 and 4 really.

So instead of buying 100cm planks, buy 120cm planks?

We'll also need to raze our cities to make bigger roads for their cars. Unlikely to say the least.

Or the US companies could do a minimum amount of effort to tailor their product line for the target market.

Epic did say that you might in some situations forego normalmaps with Nanite and save disk space even though you have super detailed models so it DOES fit in this context.

Also, video games are used to take a high poly model and bake a normalmap corresponding to it on a lower poly model anyway so it might also be used that way. I think Doom 3 was the first game to show the technique?

As if that would even have any effect in that situation. No amount of audits and rules would prevent TikTok from collecting data and manipulating the public opinion.

You know what is neat when housing prices go down? You pay less to upgrade your house size than when the prices go up. Despite the fact your own house value dropped.

Housing price dropping is good for basically everyone I say.

There is a good technical reason behind that. As far as I can see crossplay doesn't work well at all in the game right now. Mostly issues where inviting friends to play is broken. This isn't surprising when you do not have a common identity system to fallback on for all players.

They are free to return to the office and work with each other in person then.

I don't understand that point.

Of course you use gamma so that you have a more perceptually correct colorspace, mostly because 8 bit isn't enough accuracy to represent correctly the various shades of black the eye can percieve. Or because it's easier to make a perceptually linear gradient in gamma space.

But the blending in gamma space looks WRONG. It isn't perceptually correct! Try blending at 50% pure white and pure black and the grey you obtain is the wrong one, far too dark. Surely this cannot be what people want.

It also makes the info follow around if the folder is moved, something that an externally maintained database file will have difficulties doing.

ECS systems are gaining a lot of popularity for games and those are pretty similar to having some SQL database in your engine when you think about it. So it's actually not that surprising to see efficient snapshot/rollback/transaction features creeping in.

I know for example that EnTT, a C++ ECS project has snapshots available to allow you to save the game state in the background without blocking gameplay as an example.

That's pretty old 3D rendering tricks causing those overall though. Like I fail to see recent games doing those at all.

Overall, shadows aren't the hard part nowadays, it's light that is. Global illumination and light bouncing back around that is. Though shadows ARE very expensive still.

I question the integrity of the journalist reporting those tweets (Matt Taibbi) at that point I must admit.

So many people seem to conflate the requests for review of ToS violating messages with some kind of power the Democrats had to get Twitter to block the story.

If the Democrats had that kind of power and it was visible in the info available, no doubt this would be shown upfront. Instead we get pretty loaded (lying?) mentions of "requests from connected actors to delete tweets" when the message clearly mentions tweets to review.

In fact the answer "handled" doesn't even imply anything was deleted. Also this so called journalist didn't even try to see what had been deleted in the end to see if it wasn't just blattant ToS violations and worse, material that had really nothing much to do with the campaign in the first place. I fail to see how the right of some tweets of revenge porn to survive a few hours longer because they had to go through the regular queue of moderation was of any import.

It's easy to paint a team as having excessive influence on Twitter. Just have your own team post a lot of ToS abusing materials then later on show the stats of deleted tweets to show the "bias"

It feels likely that these report judgements disproportionately had the outcome desired by the requester

It's not a hard outcome to achieve. Only report things blatantly violating the ToS and you get that outcome.

I'm testing the beta version of their Android ticket software and it works pretty well (and not limited to Samsung phones). It should be available soon I think.

They were meant for coding C on machines that had even less than ASCII as available text encoding really. So no wonder you never see them.

Saying it's strictly better is exaggerated. The benefits of 0 indexing are well known and mostly revolve around the fact you tend to have far less fiddling with -1 and +1 as you write code.

How do you access the item in a 2D array represented on a flat array? my_array[x+ywidth]

But what is all that starts at 1? my_array[x+(y-1)width]

I did a lot of code in both systems and I remember distinctly that 1.. indexing just was more work to do, in turn bringing in more off by 1 bugs.

Of course they don't. They use decimals and say the baby is one week old or so.

As for indexing from zero, it's best understood as indexing the position just before elements in an array. Where things will be inserted if you insert an element etc...

Only small devs stick to the basic contract. Bigger games that expect to bring in a lot of money will go for a custom contract with Epic instead.

Are you trying to drag and drop the files to the destination in a file explorer window? Because when I use "extract" and point the destination folder I don't think it does what you say.

Big-O assumes that only asymptotic behavior matters, but real-world workloads have finite input sizes

Well I did have a CS teacher that said that O(log n) is basically O(1) because in practice, n usually will fit it in a 32bit and log n then is 32 at most :D

It might have been said in jest in part but really it's not that far fetched.

Except that the other MMO economies are horrible to play in. FFXIV is a lot more fun than say GW2 economy driven game.

Subjective you'd say? Maybe but it does show that maybe they know better about what a game needs than you think.