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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2025-01-24 at 01:30

TIL https://www.startpage.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startpage.com

This is super cool stuff.

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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2025-01-23 at 18:13

Retro C++ quiz #19

void f() {

double a[]{1,2,3}; // Well-formed

double* p = new double[]{1,2,3}; // but is this well-formed?

}

Without checking:

A. Yes

B. No

C: Show answers

[#]cplusplus

[#]Cpppolls

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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2025-01-23 at 02:02

A little after minute 38 they do an excellent job of explaining how the meme coins can be used as a shadow form or bribery and if it was not so destructive to democracy I would say it is brilliant: https://megaphone.link/VMP8821670451

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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2025-01-23 at 01:53

Teen Vogue yet again doing the needed work that few others in the media seem willing to do.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-watch-programs-immigrants-how-to-start

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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2025-01-21 at 01:01

Anyone who does not know qntm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qntm

and loves sci-fi and some horror should read his books.

I read "There Is No Antimemetics Division" not too long ago and it was great but I just finished "Fine Structure" and I have not read a sci-fi novel this good since "A Fire Upon the Deep".

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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2025-01-21 at 00:58

For those who don't know what it looks like, this a piece on "Where did the Nazi salute come from": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8iujof6IL8

I grew up watching WWII movies for most of my childhood, it is pretty clear what it looks to me and anyone remotely born around the 70s absolutely should know this as well.

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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2025-01-21 at 00:55

[#]287 Given the following in C++

template

using T = int; // Well-formed?

Without checking:

A. Yes

B. No

C. Show results

[#]Cplusplus

[#]Cpppolls

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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2025-01-21 at 00:54

The answer is A Yes,

Although prior to by p0487: http://wg21.link/p0487 this was not safe and almost as bad as gets()

Which forbid use pointers in this case but allowed arrays b/c we could deduce the array bound at compiler time and limit the character read based on this.

Also see [diff.cpp17.input.output]p1: https://eel.is/c++draft/diff.cpp17.input.output#1

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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2025-01-16 at 05:51

Folks are surprised how people are tricked into believing LLMs have some sort of understand but folks this happened fifty years ago with ELIZA which was way more primitive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

It is not the LLM, it is us humans are too easy to fool.

One thing working in finance and doing a financial engineering degree taught me is that folks really don’t know their islands of ignorance. Often even when they have the knowledge to work it out, they often just yolo it.

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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2025-01-14 at 02:47

It is easy to convert an atheist to a theist

Just give them a little space 🥁

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Written by Shafik Yaghmour on 2025-01-13 at 17:46

"A breach of Gravy Analytics’ huge trove of location data threatens the privacy of millions": https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/13/gravy-analytics-data-broker-breach-trove-of-location-data-threatens-privacy-millions/

The problem with tracking or any gathering of huge amount of sensitive information is that the hackers will always get a hold of it and use to cause great harm to many.

The only want to prevent this is to make it illegal to track users in this way.

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