How the fuck is that helping people? Throwing people into poverty to fill the pockets of criminals who end up leaving lavish lives that the people they scammed it from couldn’t even dream of? I mean, it’s already happening, but fuck no.

Lol, we have plenty of this shit on Lemmy too.

Lol, the one guy on CBC even talked about having a Fetterman resistant Senate majority

A jet with a hundred civilians on board? Definitely not.

What do you mean bringing hibernation back? Why the fuck was it gone?

Yeah I wish the price had gone up without the war, then it would have really been a benefit.

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Honestly, I’m glad to have them, it can make a number of things simpler. For instance, a program I wrote had a number of duration fields that had to be stored in XML files and updated every once in a while. It was something that had to occur very often in the code: add a value to the duration, set that value in the XML data, and save the XML file. So I created a class that stored the date/time value and a pointer the XML element (it could be assumed that nothing else would be changing the value in the XML file and if it did, then that change should be overwritten) and overloaded the += operator (among others), so then all I needed was to create the DurationField object, and then I could go durationFieldX += time2 - time1 for instance. I could abstract all the logic away and make it very clear and easy to write. Could I have made it so that I have to to durationFieldX.add(time2 - time1)? Of course I could have. But IMO that variant is less neat and less readable.

Except it’s not capitalism, either. If you take capitalism at face value, if you fail as a company you fold. That’s essentially where the incentive to innovate comes from. If you don’t innovate, someone else will, and you’ll go out of business because of that competition.

Of course, reality is more complicated than that, but the point is: corporate bailouts don’t fit into any proper economic system as such.

Yes, to be fair it was, at least practically. It was one of these government owned companies - so that they’re still expected to work kind of as a private company. So sort of an in between thing.

What I find crazier is the next sentence:

You can decline the recording by informing the healthcare professional treating you at the beginning of the appointment. The recording will be deleted immediately once the functionality has generated a proposed patient record entry [own emphasis].

The way I read it, you can’t even prevent the AI from listening in, you can have the recorded conversation deleted, but only after the AI has processed it.

It seems to me the main point from that post was the text above (which was not from an LLM AFAICT), which I do think is in the spirit of the com since it is a response to criticism of spaces like this.

I’m sort of surprised there’s no conscious effort to counter that. In other areas where automation has taken over they will ensure that people can still do the work manually. I visited an automated metro system a while ago, and they explained that even though certain lines are GoA 4 (in other words so highly automated they don’t need staff on board anymore), they still have people operating the trains manually every once in a while, specifically so that they don’t forget how to do it if need be, and that the new recruits can learn as well.

And Hulk Hogan. And I think there’s another MAGA name I’m missing.

That’s beside the point. The point is that it took Apple that fucking long to implement it, and Apple users will start acting as if it’s something new, even though it’s absolutely not.

Wow, demeaning, insults, death wishes, and “just wait and see what horrible things we’ll do to you when we get to power” - at this point this is just deja vu from arguing with right wingers.

It’s not that clear. Hillary won the popular vote by several million votes. Hillary Clinton - yes, that clusterfuck of a candidate. Yes, there were plenty of misogynists who voted against her on the basis of her being a woman. Many also voted for her because she’s a woman.

Agree on that. It cuts both ways. On the one hand, it gives you access to a fuckton of libraries so that you can chose the one that best fits your use case. On the other hand a lot of those libraries don’t use modern C++. And I haven’t even started on things like the win32 API, which is essentially a C library masquerading as a C++ API.

That’s essentially the thing with C++: when you’re chosing which library to use, the level of C++ should be a factor in the decision making process, along with things like performance and functionality. And if I do end up using a library that was written for an old C++ version, I create wrappers for the things I use the most to bring it to the level of C++ I’m working with. Sometimes it’s also interesting purely from a learning perspective. That’s what I did for a lot of the win32 APIs I worked with.

You mentioned tutorials - I learned C++ from learncpp.com, and I couldn’t recommend it more. It does a really good job at going deep into the technical stuff, but also understanding and using the most modern features of the language, as well as best practices.

The cope is strong on this one.

I know C++ is hated a lot, but I’ve grown quite fond of the wide range of options it gives you as a programmer. Have fun!