When the C++ standards committee make decisions crippling the language to preserve ABI (see std::regex), it's defacto part of the standard.

> Many airports across Europe are now introducing new high-tech 3D scanners (C3/CT) that allow passengers to bring up to 2 litres of liquids in their hand luggage and keep electronics and liquids inside their bags during security checks.

Second sentence of the article

Why does the example not show an example of unsafe C++?

The Readme is slim, with the intent to show a hello world but the tests do. Look in https://github.com/Cpp2Rust/cpp2rust/blob/master/tests/ub/

I can't imagine judges would normally except this especially since it seems to be a known way to skirt law.

It's not a legal defense strategy, it's a social engineering strategy

If nobody brings forward a lawsuit in the first place, why would there be a judge?

The judge doesn't accept it, and the Wikipedia page points out that this isn't a good legal strategy for that reason.

But it can be a good social-engineering strategy: the "rule" is based on the hope that the person on the other end of it won't bring legal action in the first place, for fear of socially confirming their association with a small-penis'd character.

I think the point is that you can apply it to any shameful-enough aspect of the libel/parody.

As they say, most people listen to their music with equipment. Audiophiles listen to their equipment with music.

This is perfect, thank you this goes straight into my long-term memory bank.

On a tangent, whenever someone mentions LP sounding warmer or whatever I like to point out that I prefer wax cylinders (a.k.a. phonograph cylinders).

Those wax cylinders are a modern hack. The curved surface distorts the real artistic intent. The only way to appreciate the true beauty of sound is a the purity of soot etchings on a phonautogram.

I will add this to my repertoire :)

I had a good laugh listening to the sample at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonautograph

The sound is very pure indeed.

You Edison shill.

I might be something from the middle. Yes, I did spend a hefty 5000 euros to my headphone setup. And yes it sounds absolutely magical and every day I'm happy listening to music with it.

But I also have a large multi-terabyte music collection, I follow new music, go to concerts, go to parties, talk about music with my friends in signal group chats.

It's a hobby, and when you get a bit older and start having some savings, if you love music treating yourself with a better system is not that crazy.

When I got old enough to finally afford those toys I discovered I couldn't hear above 16khz anymore.

It is not only that. It's the spacing, how the bass sounds, separation of instruments. There's so many interesting headphones in the midrange to try out. Compare the Hifiman HE1000se to Heddphone 2 GT, or to Focal Clear MG and you'll understand.

Also with HEDD you get a handcrafted device made in Berlin. And if you go with nicer cables, they are very beautifully done and feel great. There is no difference in sound of course. Some people like jewelry, I can get similar enjoyment from beautiful audio equipment and cables.

What’s the quality of this trove? As in bitrate or similar.

Depends. I'm more into finding certain masters. And some of the albums are DSD tape transfers. DSD if that was the original recording format, if it was mixed and PCM was needed, DXD flac.

And so many CDs of course.

That’s true, but I consider myself a collector. Think of how a comic book collector operates.

If I have an option to get a 16bit version of a recording or a high-res version, I choose the highest quality version very time

Same with a physical copy. A limited edition, better quality vinyl LP is more attractive if you are going through the trouble of curating a collection.

I’ve been curating a music library of digital files since before the iPod was released and I will always go for the highest quality version out of principle. I can always downsample it to any thing that makes sense.

Why not to listen to the equipment from time to time? And why not to learn how class D sounds?

What about it? It was also exposed much more publicly than this.

This is the typical interpretation.

I remember a question in English class asking what I think this could be about given the context that it was right after the war.

It's funny how many software developers got into it due to being bored in class with a TI-83 and randomly trying to create programs.

That’s me with a TI-85 in 7th grade in ‘95 or so.

It was effectively a portable computer that I was allowed to use and play with in most classes.

Started with TI-BASIC, then discovered ticalc.org and the shell and assembly programming hacks, games, and home brew transfer cables.

It effectively started my electrical engineering and computer science career.

I know I’m not alone.

Indeed, +1. I was the same though with a TI-83 instead. I had to get good at hiding the calculator under the desk in non-math classes because the English teacher (for example) would press me on "why do you need a calculator for English class?"

I'm kicking myself for not saving the game code I wrote for some of those early games. They weren't very good, but I'd love to see the code, despite the horrifying spaghetti that it was.

Almost identical boat here. Had a borrowed TI-83, freshman year wrote 2048 && 1/2 of chess with only knowing basic variable usage, if, goto, and matrix indexing. Found out about actual loops and the ability to call a basic program from another latter.

Ah I was a few years later on the TI-86. Around 1999.

Between this, and SNES emulation (searching memory for values and adjusting things to see how they'd affect the game), I was destined for computer science.

We had a chat program on the TI-85 over an extended (10m) link cable.

Good times, indeed.

I had a TI-81 (and then an 85 later on). I wrote a blackjack program. There was no link cable for the 81, so other kids had to type it in manually.

Same here! TI-85, and then HP48G series after that!

+1 ti85 7th grade '95

That was me. Algebra clicked for me so I found the pace of the class to be slow. Ended up creating a few programs to solve tedious things like the quadratic formula incrementally while displaying the intermediate steps so I could write them down on tests.

Authoring programs using the buttons on the calculator was not fun.

> so I could write them down on tests.

We had show our calculator had been memory wiped before any tests.

Although in retrospect we only had to show the wipe screen which we probably could have coded up as its own program.

Most teachers were not good at checking this. There was an archive mechanism which would compress the file and IIRC, prevent it from showing up in the program list. You could of course just unarchive it.

Even though I never cheated, I never wanted my programs to get erased... I just created an image of the "memory erased" screen and showed that to the teachers.

It was OK, just needed to memorize the commands, they are all reachable via a combination of number keys :-)

Absolutely! It started with MENU() text adventure games and then got to drawing custom UIs with DRAW(). iirc, you could get small text by using TEXT() in the DRAW() command. The specifics might be wrong on that one though!

And many of the people I knew who went on to become real incredible software devs got tired of the limitations of basic and went to ASM. My friend and I started building (and selling) graphlink cables made from old printer parallel cables, mainly for the ASM hackers. We even sold them with a warranty!

Hey, some of us are old enough to have done it on a TI-82 instead!

I already knew Basic from a DOS PC, but did write a Breakout clone while bored in classes on my TI-82.

TI-BASIC was also the gateway drug to writing assembly for TI-83.

Says something interesting about education. Exposure to tools had perhaps as much impact than what the high schools were actually teaching .

productive procrastination!

Wait, I'm not the only one ? :P . I was def the only one in my class and maybe we were 3 of all classes doing that

Same. I even convinced my mom to buy me a transfer cable so I could distribute my programs to my classmates. I was the "plug" for a brief time. Probably my closest taste of being "popular". It was nice.

I ended up building my own by "repurposing" and old printer parallel cable that my dad wasn't using. He wasn't thrilled about that, but seemed a little bit proud at what I did with it.

I eventually made enough money from "donations" from people to buy a proper cable, which did improve my DX quite a bit. The hacked up parallel cable wasn't the most reliable...

Yes that’s exactly how I started coding!

I remember putting Street Fighter and Drug Wars on my TI-82.

I got Super Mario onto my TI-89

I think the obvious question is are humans deterministic? A lot of inputs but it's a reasonable belief that humans are in fact deterministic.

How is it a reasonable belief that a highly complex entity beyond our comprehension is a deterministic machine? Aren't deterministic machines simply the limit of our knowledge for now?

Except the human mind isn't at all just "software". If the human brain is deterministic, nothing is not.

The human brain doesn't have "a lot of" inputs, but rather infinite inputs. Cosmic rays, (self-emitted) electromagnetic fields, bacterial/viral activity, nutrition, genetics, epigenetics, immunity, cellular function ... all these things effect a mind. There is homeostasis, but that's not like error correction in silicon computation. Neurons do have excitation thresholds which are somewhat digital, but they are embedded in analog signaling and interference.

Row-hammer-like interference is a normal state of affairs for the brain. You cannot core-dump a mind. Measurements will change its state since it's inherently linked to the state of its matter. You could halt an LLM and predict its state the next cycle going by the program's logic. Or you could halt it, copy the state and get two identical instances. To clone a brain, you likely need to halt time itself.

Semantics aside, there is clearly a different deterministicness.

> The human brain doesn't have "a lot of" inputs, but rather infinite inputs.

That's not true though. It's 'a lot', not infinite. Not everything affects the output that our brain produces.

As far as we're currently aware the brain IS deterministic. If you were able to perfectly duplicate a brain and it's environment/state, the resulting output of that brain will always be the same.

> Not everything affects the output that our brain produces.

It responds to EM fields...so yeah, basically infinite.

> If you were able to perfectly duplicate a brain and it's environment/state

Big if. As I said, if the brain is deterministic, everything is. And then it's a meaningless discriminator. I already explained why I think you can't duplicate the state/environment perfectly.

How does it work if this is under the creative commons license? Can 3rd parties sell this controller per the model? Other 3rd party vendors got around this by making a very minor change.

There exist multiple CC variations, this instance is Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 wouldn't let you sell it no

It's just the external topology so it's really only going to be useful for making things that attach to the controller (skins, mounts, accessibility adapters, etc) or just toy models. Valve asks you to contact them if you want to sell an accessory using this model.

You could use the shape of the controller, but I don't think that is really giving much of an advantage to third party manufacturers. Scanning the shape of the controller and creating a clone with that shape is the easiest part of creating a generic competitor.