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ChrisRR··on Ask HN: Do you still enjoy coding in C++?
My day job is writing in C, so I love C++ on the rare occasion I get to use it.

Classes and smart pointers make some things so much easier that would take an age in C

ChrisRR··on When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sells for $385
If you care about performance then don't use a raspberry pi. Its value is in its community, not its specs
ChrisRR··on Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
I don't see what that has to do with my comment. Intentionally lying in the job application would be fraudulent.
ChrisRR··on The Hackintosh Reborn
Yes and no. Apple was a co founder when ARM was spun off from Acorn and the ARM processor already existed for 5 years.

Acorn supplied the engineers, VLSI supplied the manufacturing, Apple supplied the money

ChrisRR··on Apple's predictive text restrictions include 'Dictator Trump' and 'Sleepy Joe'
100,000 sounds less like a list of restrictions, and more like training the prediction model based on how often its used
ChrisRR··on Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
You're really clutching at straws to spin this pro-employee move into some way to claim that Labour are bad
ChrisRR··on Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
Why would you sue for that? There's no contract in place
ChrisRR··on Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
Well then they'd be interviewing for a different job. I assume it's no different at any other company where they actually do include the salary range
ChrisRR··on Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
Of course it helps. Often if a company is not advertising their salary it's because they're either trying to lowball you or the current staff
ChrisRR··on Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
I don't think you can lie because that would be fraudulent. You can definitely refuse to answer though
ChrisRR··on Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
Agreed. I don't know what niche of software dev that is but we pay our graduates more than that
ChrisRR··on Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
In my experience companies in the UK have a habit of labelling devs and engineers as senior extremely early in their career
ChrisRR··on The Hackintosh Reborn
Including non-PowerPC machines with PowerPC daughter cards
ChrisRR··on Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory
There's multiple reasons companies don't want to publish salaries, but they almost all boil down to wanting to pay people as little as they can get away with
ChrisRR··on Sshole
Can we just have a site with the text and images without the awkward scrolling crap? Hijacking basic features is an instant click away from sites for me

Edit: It seems to work fine on mobile. I'm not sure why the scrolling behaviour was added on the desktop version of the site

ChrisRR··on Images 2.6
> Coding flattened out like 9 months ago

Opus 5.5 begs to differ

ChrisRR··on Images 2.6
"It takes 90% of the time to do 90% of the work. The other 10% takes the other 90% of the time"
ChrisRR··on Images 2.6
I don't personally see the issue. It's a highly stylised image so there's not any reflections or anything that immediately jump out to me as obviously wrong
ChrisRR··on Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
You don't even need to start off with Fable. Give Opus 5.5 a try first and then then try Fable if you feel like you need to push it further
ChrisRR··on 512GB Mac Studio
5/3/27 if you're in one of the ~150 countries that use date first

27/5/3 if you're in one of the ~15 countries that use year first

5/3/27 If you're in the 3 countries that use month first

ChrisRR··on 512GB Mac Studio
The state of the web when every site that is just text and images, for some reason uses javascript
ChrisRR··on Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
These comments read like people just bragging about having multiple AI subscriptions but not actually giving any info about what they're using them for
ChrisRR··on Katamari Damacy but it's The Met collection
There's a million ways to already explore these artifacts. A silly game to mess about with them isn't a bad thing
ChrisRR··on Katamari Damacy but it's The Met collection
What you mean is you only played the first level. The game gets bigger with each level
ChrisRR··on Katamari Damacy but it's The Met collection
There's no single thing that made katamari great. It's the sum of its parts

It's the chaos, the music, the growth over a level, the characters, the visual design, the sound effects.

The sequels showed that when any one of them suffers then it makes for a less endearing game on the whole.

ChrisRR··on The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading
> who read the original post

I think there's your answer. A hell of a lot of people will often read the title without reading the contents of the article. I admit I'm often guilty of that

ChrisRR··on US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
Probably more in the US. In the UK John and Jean (with a french pronunciation) sound completely different. John has a hard O sound, and Jean has a soft J and an elongated aw sound
ChrisRR··on No AI, 52 min. Build all Linux Files utils in C by Hand [video]
It doesn't really if you're already reviewing you team's code anyway. In that case it still saves the time writing the software
ChrisRR··on No AI, 52 min. Build all Linux Files utils in C by Hand [video]
Being realistic about the future doesn't necessarily mean you're in favour of it
ChrisRR··on BioWare co-founder: game execs "have never made a game" and don't get it
> guaranteeing physical disks

I wouldn't be so sure about that

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