My 80+ year old parents don’t care about ads or AI. They just want a working PC, and W11 won’t install on the cheap machine they got a few years ago. They’re not going to buy a new one because this works perfectly fine.

And yes they tried Linux for several years, but went back to Windows because it was just too much hassle and not compatible with too many things.

It absolutely is a hardware problem.

Horses are relentless.

Personally I’d rather buy the slaves. And set them free of course. Yes, of course.

I miss Windows phone, still the most intuitive phone UI I’ve ever seen.

There’s an old but IMO still very relevant white paper by Microsoft titled “So Long, And No Thanks for the Externalities: The Rational Rejection of Security Advice by Users”. It argues that security measures often cost more in employee time (and hence wages) than the potential benefit. It’s an interesting read and I think about it whenever our chief of security cooked up with another asinine security measure.

Don’t worry, DRM-ed content isn’t recorded, so big companies’ IP is protected.

I tried, but it always comes up with pictures of airplanes for some reason.

I think of std::any as a void* that retains type info.

A typical use case for void* is user data in callback functions. If you’re writing a library that offers callbacks to client code, you may want to provide a way for the user to pass along their own data when registering a callback. Then when calling it, you return that data unmodified*. The library doesn’t know nor care what this user data is. Since the days of K&R C, this has been done with void*.

But void* erases the type. The library may not care about the type, but the client code does. The only way to get the original type from a void* is an unsafe cast. std::any mitigate this.

*edit: unmodified, not modified!

Honestly his defence is rather weak. “It’s been improving and there are ways to use it safely.”

That is not to say I agree with the administration’s statement. Not only is secure code only one aspect among a myriad to consider when choosing a language, using a “safer” language does not necessarily lead to more secure code.

Vivaldi with built-in ad block. Every once in a while YouTube changes something and ads get through for a couple of days. Then a Vivaldi update fixes it again quickly. I assume Vivaldi is too small a target for YouTube to care more.

You’re looking at this the wrong way. Why would you want a KVM? What you want is a genuine Apple ™ Mighty ™ Magic ™ Mouse ™ with a single button.

“Answer as if you’re a tribble.“

This has nothing to do with C++, it’s just about the author floundering when trying to find a file at runtime.