[–] 6 points 2 months ago*

Website is down but I was able to find an archived copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20260702032135/https://slicker.me/cpp/cpp-readable-code.html

Unfortunately, it's an extremely shallow and low-quality article. There's no reasoning or analysis, just a list of rules that were probably copied from other, better style guides.

If you want C++ style advice, skip this and read the Google C++ Style Guide or the C++ Core Guidelines instead.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    It could also be that the "direct blog post to video" format doesn't cut it.

    This specific format is strongly associated with low-effort content-farm channels that repackage other people's posts from sites like Reddit and Medium.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    I honestly don't understand why it wasn't shut down a long time ago.

    Because if it was shut down, the Epstein class couldn't abuse their insider knowledge to make money. Laws are only for the proles.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    I haven't had the attention span for more than short pick-up-and-play sessions lately, so I've been trying out Psycho Pinball for the Sega Genesis on my handheld emulation console. I'm not very good at it, but I'm having fun!

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    The real underlying issue here is that the OS interfaces these programs rely on are extremely error-prone and difficult to use correctly. A naive implementation of these system utilities in any language is basically guaranteed to stumble into bugs and vulnerabilities like the ones described in the linked message.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago

    People don't want Firefox translation because they "want AI," though. They want it because being able to translate web pages is a useful feature. I think it's quite telling that nowhere in the linked article does the author actually defend Firefox's new "Window AI" feature as useful. Instead, the only argument he can make for it is that AI is popular.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    If Henry Ford had given his users what they wanted, he would have built a faster horse.

    Users want AI right now because a lot of people have spent a lot of money to convince them they want it. A few years ago, they wanted crypto and VR; a few more years from now, they'll want something else. We're already seeing evidence that the current AI boom is an unsustainable bubble. Will "hundreds of millions of users" still be using ChatGPT after OpenAI's investors get tired of losing billions of dollars every year, and decide it's time to start squeezing their customers for more cash?

    This kind of trend-chasing is what happens when the people in charge have no real principles or vision underlying their actions. Firefox didn't beat Internet Explorer by following the crowd; it won by delivering a product that was better, and doing things nobody else had done before (like tabs). In order to do that, the people making it had to have a strong vision of what a "better" browser would look like.

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