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C++ modules are slated to be the biggest change in C++ since its inception. Above my pay-grade, but seems like some might be interested
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Above my pay-grade, but seems like some might be interested
I'm going to patent it, even though I have nothing to do with C#, and despite the fact that C# isn't the first language to use such constructs.
Then I'm going to patent the For loop.
I shouldn't have read that article about apple and swift. I am soooooo pissed off, right now.
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Quote: Top-down isolation - The “importer” of a module cannot affect the content of the module being imported. The state of the compiler (preprocessor) in the importing source has no bearing on the processing of the imported code.
Shared libraries already do that.
Quote: Bottom-up isolation - The content of a module does not affect the state of the preprocessor in the importing code.
Shared libraries already do that.
Quote: Lateral isolation - If two modules are imported by the same file, there is no “cross-talk” between them. The ordering of the import statements is insignificant.
Shared libraries already do that.
Quote: Physical encapsulation - Only entities which are explicitly declared as exported by a module will be visible to consumers. Non-exported entities within a module will not affect name lookup in other modules (barring some possible strangeness with ADL. Long story…)
Shared libraries already do that.
The only thing needed would be something to mark in shared libraries the layout of a class so that it becomes possible to instance objects from library defined classes without jumping through hoops.
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Somehow, in my few decades of working with C++ I have never seen a need for something like this. Everything I have read about it makes it seem like a solution in search of a problem.
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Imagine a world where smartphones, laptops, wearables, and other electronics are powered without batteries. Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have taken a step in that direction, with the first fully flexible device that can convert energy from Wi-Fi signals into electricity that could power electronics. Paging Mr. Tesla
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If you set up a portable hotspot on your phone; would you in essence be creating a "perpetual energy machine" ?
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MadMyche wrote: If you set up a portable hotspot on your phone; would you in essence be creating a "perpetual energy machine" ?
With the amount of advertising through mobile networks, these days, it would certainly be a perpetual bullsh1t machine.
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God forbid that MIT should know anything about the law of diminishing returns.
Scenario 1, Device-based:
0. Devices expend energy to send wifi signals
1. Devices absorb wifi energy from devices
Result: Everything stops, because you can't absorb more energy than is produced.
Scenario 2, Transmitter-based:
0. Devices absorb wifi energy from cell towers/whetever
1. Some little piece of sh1t finds a way to monetise this, even though no more wifi energy is being expended than previously
2. People start to pay 500x more than charging batteries costs
Note that there is extremely pertinent precedent for scenario 2 -- you young-'uns can look up the history of the SMS, to see it.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: 0. Devices absorb wifi energy from cell towers/whetever
Free Bitcons!
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David O'Neil wrote: Free Bitcons!
Well spotted!
So its first two major uses will be:
0. Pron (don't ask me how, but don't deny the inevitable)
1. Bitcoin mining
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Lasers have been used to send targeted, quiet messages to someone from several meters away, in a way that no one nearby would be able to hear. And if they can't hear it, you can always up the wattage and really let the message burn in
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But does it work on sharks?
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Typically, though, almost no-one who is several metres away has anything to say that I want to hear.
That works for other distances, too, so it's more versatile than this new invention.
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Microsoft engineer wants Mozilla to climb down from its "philosophical ivory tower", stop making a browser that few use, and become a research organization. This blurb viewed best on Netscape Navigator 2
Because everything was so much better when Mosaic was the only browser available
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Egads, no. Some of us avoid chromium like the plague that it is.
Quote: He also disagreed with the idea that Chromium would dominate the web as Internet Explorer did because the former is open source
With critical thinking like this...
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So this browser deal that ms has obviously made with google: Has the Monopolies and Mergers Commission been informed of it?
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I was surprised to see that Firefox had less than 2% of market share.
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The service would function like Netflix for games, allowing users who pay a subscription fee to access a bundled list of titles. Apple began privately discussing a subscription service with game developers in the second half of 2018, said the people, all of whom requested anonymity to discuss unannounced plans. That's going to Steam someone out there
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I'm all aGoG at this great new idea!
It's like when apple invented the idea of having front and back cameras on phones, or when they invented the curve (which naturally led on to the invention of the wheel)!
They've been such great innovators, since the Syrian guy died! I'm in awe of them!
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The disappointing thing with digital news articles is you can't rip them up when they are full of "odd" statements.
Quote: The service would function like Netflix for games
And not directly mention how any other current services function, despite being a website that apparently specialises in the media and entertainment.
Relying on the quote to provide some help
Quote: Brandon Ross, an analyst at BTIG that covers the video game industry. “Subscription has proven to be a successful way of monetizing on mobile."
Back in my day you could rent games at the local blockbuster.
Quote: "It is completely unproven in games except for some minor success from Microsoft, Sony, and Electronic Arts.”
Quote: unproven
Maybe my English is broken, but is that not a negative saying the 2 of the 3 companies that own the platforms for gaming have game subscription services.
Last point is, of that 100$ billion industry projection, is 99.9$ billion for just the top 3 games, and everyone else managing on the remaining 100 million, like the music/movie industries.
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YouTube has announced today that they will reduce recommendations of videos that promote misinformation and conspiracy theories such as the earth being flat or 9/11 never happening. So, *THEY* finally got to them!
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They're trying to silence us!
We have to get together and have secret meetings, to discuss what we're going to do about it!
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This may be a storm in a teacup, or it may be a typhoon massing off the port bow. Apple has applied for a patent that appears to cover the whole idea of the Swift language. Because that's what people are looking for in a programming language?
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Once again, the US patent office proves that it is either f***ing insane, f***ing incompetent, or f***ing corrupt -- or a combination thereof.
This is unbe-f***ing-lievable.
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modified 29-Jan-19 12:16pm.
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I couldn't agree more. Companies I have worked with have had to fight several patent lawsuits and in every case we were the plaintiff being sued to invalidate patents we owned and we settled just to cut the cost of the litigation. On principles alone we should have won every one of those suits but they didn't want to spend the money. My point is, there should not have been any money spent in the first place because those secondary patents were already covered by ours. The others should never have been granted in the first place.
I get the feeling the patent office only hires people from the bottom twenty percent of their respective graduating classes.
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