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A frequent API design problem is the inability to use a more specific return type when overriding a method "It means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less"
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It might be slightly less work to type the code, but I don't see any performance figures.
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As it generally should come down to a pointer cast, performance impact should be zero or extremely close.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Probably, but it would still be one of the first things I'd test and report.
"Does it make it better for us" should be the last thing to consider.
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As covariance and contravariance have both made it into C++, with its zero-overhead abstraction policy, I'd be shocked if we saw it hitting performance, but I do take your point, measure first.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I've been made to look like an idiot before, after making assumptions about this kind if thing (and since it's one of the things I always push for, I mean made to look like a Big idiot!)
Performance tests can be a bit of a pain, but it's one of the things that really matter to the people who are indirectly paying our salaries.
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modified 27-Jan-20 15:53pm.
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In this blog post, I’ll talk about the C++ Lifetime Profile, explaining what it is, how it intends to reduce the problems typically caused by the memory-unsafe characteristics of C++, what the status of the current implementation of the Lifetime Profile is, and what the current limitations are. Convert it into Pascal code?
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But that means it'll remain my responsibility until it's fixed!
Wotta revoltin' development!
And after we'd only just finished discussing the reason for working as part of a team, too!
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sounds rather Rust-like. I like the idea.
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You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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From the brief look I had, not as powerful as Rust's lifetime guarantees, but for C++ it's a massive step in the right direction.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The BlueDot algorithm scours news reports and airline ticketing data to predict the spread of diseases like those linked to the flu outbreak in China. "In time you will come to regard me not only with respect and awe, but with love."
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Wired said: BlueDot uses an AI-driven algorithm that scours foreign-language news reports, animal and plant disease networks, and official proclamations
They then immediately went on to say: tight-lipped Chinese officials do not have a good track record of sharing information about diseases
They're so tight-lipped that there was nothing in news reports or on animal- and plant-disease networks, and there were no official proclamations?
If the AI is just repeating what they're saying, they've already said it.
Or if the company is saying that it managed to shout out about it before there was an official proclamation, that's because people who make official proclamations have to take it seriously, and get facts checked thoroughly, before risking unnecessary panic.
This is right down there amongst the worst marketing bull ever. The world really needs a loud-mouthed AI shouting out scare stories based on unconfirmed data.
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modified 26-Jan-20 18:30pm.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: The world really needs a loud-mouthed AI shouting out scare stories based on unconfirmed data.
We already have Twitter for that! 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: We already have Twitter for that!
We do, but twitter's an NI, not an AI.
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If by NI you mean Negative-Intelligence (IOW it reduces one's intelligence to less than zero) then I agree.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I thought NI was for Natural Idiocy
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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That works too. 
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I meant "no intelligence", but I'm very happy to update my definition to match your more appropriate one.
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Jeff Bezos might be (much) wealthier than you, but he’s not smarter than you—at least, not when it comes to basic smartphone security. Don't accept calls from Saudi princes?
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That entire article is based on a false premise. The malware was delivered through a WhatsApp message that didn't need to be opened, due to an exploit for WhatsApp, so the fault was with WhatsApp rather than Bezos. Of course, it could be argued that installing messaging services like WhatsApp on a phone was the mistake, but that didn't seem to be the point of the article.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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A bitcoin programmer recently used an electric Tesla car to run a full bitcoin node. 2.3 hashes/km
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But can it run DOOM?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Visual Studio’s native support for CMake allows you to target both Windows and Linux from the comfort of a single IDE. "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."
That is far and away the best quote that could possibly have been brought up for this.
Multiple kudoses.
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