There are many of benchmark projects that include D and don't appear to be struggling under any kind of massive burden. For example:

https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks

What are your actual reasons for not keeping D... "scala... and Clojure and ..."? The results in the previous link show D as a massive competitor (sometimes 1st place beating C and C++) on both memory and speed. Wouldn't the purpose of benchmarks be... to highlight useful, highly-scoring languages? Isn't that one of the primary reasons people read benchmarks?

(The D implementations are also often smaller in lines of code, as per this benchmark project:

https://togototo.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/benchmarks-round-t...

)

Except you CAN'T sign away your rights in many jurisdictions, including this thing called HIPAA. So if Facebook sold people's mentions of health problems to third-parties... is that a violation?

I mean, this is the exact scenario people grilled Windows 10's spyware. But somehow, Facebook doing it, isn't an issue? What's the difference? I'm honestly asking.

HOSTS files are static. They were never designed for blocking ads or tracking. And for all we know, every connection does a linear search through the HOSTS file so the larger it gets, the more wasted time, because it was never designed to have millions of entries.

ala

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/06/peter-thiel-i...

(Kind of strange how they can target a gay guy for getting mad at being outed by a media company. Victim blame much?)

Meanwhile, he apparently called Uber "ethically challenged." So far, he's got 2 and 0 for good quotes.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/richkarlgaard/2014/12/10/do-jer...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/

The code in question was like 11 lines of code (with curly and spaces!!) for calculating left-hand padding for a syntax highlighting code box.

So you'd pay money for a tool that copies your data, but not simply pay the money to access said data?

This doesn't make any sense at all.

So if you've never taken a class on FPGA's and learned how netlists work, et al, Lattice may be a harder time. I ended up buying a cheap Altera afterward just to learn.

You know, this really sounds like a "win" only in the sense it's the "win" we're "allowed" to have.

Everyone's lives were ruined for years. They almost lost their business. They lost a product they had poured countless hours into. They had to pay up front for attorney's fees (even though they were completely in the right), and spent years in court.

And all the Secret Service lost was some "sharply worded comments" and a tear-drop amount of taxpayer money that wouldn't even register on their budget and had zero affect on their future budgets.

The only brightsides were indirect ones. The EFF was founded, and their case law would likely be used for future cases and possibly future government actions (before they act) since they know they wouldn't be able to get away with it.

It can't cost "that much" for someone to download Wikipedia pages. And if so, you can still buy a Wikipedia snapshot CD/DVD.

- But if Wikipedia is "too much" bandwidth (1) then what CAN you access on the internet? Why would you expect any utility from the internet at all, if a mostly text page is too much?

- Unlike Wikipedia taking on the world itself, Wikipedia should be LOBBYING people with even more money to do it for them. You know... building internet infrastructures. Think how bad our internet would be today if in 2005 they said, "Let's work on minimizing the bandwidth usage instead of complaining that our ISPs need to get faster." It's like someone who wants to get out of poverty by spending less. Yeah, that's great. But you want an easier way to get out of poverty? Make more money. Trust me, I know. We should be elevating internet quality (and incomes) around the world, not minimizing usage for one of the already tiniest bandwidth websites on the planet.

(1) BTW, there's also bandwidth reducing plugins for Chrome that have a 3rd-party convert them to black-and-white/low-res.

[edit] There's even an official Google plugin! (If you're okay having them basically store the contents every site you visit...)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/data-saver/pfmgfdl...

I don't recall the 3rd party one I used but it definitely worked when I tested it out. It might be this one, Bandwidth Hero:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bandwidth-hero-liv...

(Basically search "Bandwidth saver" in extensions.)

For all the "omg it's slow" posts about compiz and x-server, it's fast enough to run on my netbook with a 5-watt processor.

As I'm older, I'm actually able to sit down and appreciate slower-form / long-form RPGs with lots of text that adds the real texture to the graphics--which only really form a symbolic / tactical representation of the world, and the flavors, the smells, all come from text. In many ways, the game mechanics of most games are all the same and the flavor is what sets them apart.

Exile 3: Ruined World for example. (And the two remakes Avernum 1 and 2 series.) Are legendary for their novel length text and story.

When I was a kid, I spent my time playing with character options, trying out new diseases (more diseases = less XP per level--neat idea) and skipping texts to explore. But then I'd always get stuck at some point because I missed a key piece of text when I skimmed

(That's actually one "game sin" I hate in many games. If you're going to have important text buried in tons of flavor text, COLOR or EMPHASISE IT. The last thing you want is a player who gets tired one night, skips ONE line that was important, and then hates your game because they're frustrated without information they should have had.)

http://vault.digitalmzx.net/screens2/cde248323538306a9712eb9...

MegaZeux is a ZZT successor.

https://image.dosgamesarchive.com/screenshots/zzt4.gif

And uses ASCII characters. MegaZeux up'd the ante and allowed you to edit the VGA text glyphs so you could make "sprites."

Back-in-the-day Megazeux and ZZT were like their own dedicated systems, like software console systems. It was really fun to see what people did with incredibly constrained systems.

This is pure insanity. There are tons of applications built on the web stack now that are supposed to run on local networks. There has never been a requirement that "Network == Internet".

For example, enterprise software. Dynamics CRM? Dynamics NAV? Dynamics... anything? Sage CRM? Everything runs on the browser now.

Why would anyone pass up a gigantic, proven, powerful software stack that represents >90% of all applications in the world?

The error is in the stack, not that people would want to use the easiest, most powerful tool for the job.

We might as well be advocating to go back to FoxPro.

>For the first, just tell the people to get proper devices.

It must be super nice to live in a world where you can dictate what devices the clients use, as opposed to a huge investment of pre-installed devices, or, devices users bring from home.

Whatever job you've got, I want it. Because it's completely alien to my career experience.

The kinds of features that eventually hit C++, D actually had for at least ten years. I think of D as a clean break. A major version upgrade with an API break. Whereas C++ has committees that move incredibly slowly, D has two architects who are decades long professionals and considered experts in their fields. It has focus, and it's not concerned with making code from the 70's compile on a modern compiler.

I simply cannot enumerate all of the features I use from D that I use every day that have become second-nature. Until I try to code in C++ again and I'm like, "The !@$@!ing order of declarations matter?! I can't make circular references without manually writing forward declarations?!" It feels like banging rocks together to make a 747.

What exactly did you learn?

He kept saying the i3 "life module" (agile! AGILE!) was some magical achievement. Yeah, carbon fiber is neat. They also choose the grain direction of panels for optimum efficiency.

- We've been using grain direction on wood for what, thousands of years?

- We've been made cars "strong" for century. It's called a tube frame. And it's one of the main reasons dragsters/NASCAR drivers don't die on impacts that will kill most people in consumer cars.

What's actually important these days is not how "strong" a frame is. It's how it deforms to absorb maximum energy on impact so the passengers experience the least acceleration possible. "Strong" has been solved. And crush areas have been common for decades upon decades. The only new thing here is they're using carbon fiber. And the only reason they're doing that... is 1) "marketing" and 2) weight reduction because battery cars are very heavy AND very sensitive to weight for mileage.

Automotive companies aren't on the frontline of technology. They're on the frontline of CHEAP/mass-producible technology.

Simply putting some carbon fiber on a body is not magical to us practicing mechanical engineers. But I guess it may seem like "magic" to software people, the way mechanical people see IT/software as magic.

What's actually "Cool" about this company/video is how they can tear down entire vehicles and come up with accurate cost estimates, as well as the construction order. That takes a _lot_ of work and industry experience. But the technology in those cars? It's not even remotely new.

>In October 1968, the Number 2 tank eventually used on Apollo 13 was at the North American Aviation plant in Downey, California. There, technicians who were handling the tank accidentally dropped it about two inches. After testing the tank, they concluded the incident hadn't caused any detectable damage.

>The dropped tank was eventually cleared for flight and installed in Apollo 13. The tank passed all of its routine prelaunch tests. But at the end of March 1970, after a practice session called the Countdown Demonstration Test, ground crews tried to empty the tank -- and couldn’t.

>The small tube used to fill and empty the tank of its super-cold contents had been damaged by the mishandling almost two years earlier.

Looks like it was two problems that came together. The heating insulation / voltage-change oversight wouldn't have triggered unless they also had to work around the jammed pipe.