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beojan commented on C++: terser (shorter) lambda == SHORTY (ab-use?) github.com/hanickadot/sho... · Posted by u/signa11

Isn’t this basically the obsolete Boost.Lambda?

beojan · 5 months ago

It's like Boost Lambda2 or Boost HOF. Boost Hana also has a similar feature.

This seems to be more fully featured than all of those though. Maybe some could be ported over to Lambda2.

beojan commented on U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine wsj.com/politics/national... · Posted by u/ZeroCool2u

ropejumper · 6 months ago

Many americans put the euro sign before the numerical value even though most (afaik all) countries that use the euro put it after. This is such a weird thing to get bothered by.

beojan · 6 months ago

The Eurostat style guide puts the Euro sign in front of the numbers for English text: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

I think the general rule is that in English the currency symbol for the primary currency goes in front of the number, while the symbol for a subunit (pence, cents, etc) goes after the number.

beojan commented on Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing "lifetime" price lock arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/rntn

vzaliva · 10 months ago

They promised to keep the files hosted forever with live URLs so people could see them. I agree; it is a bizarre business model. I recall they had a limit on how much you could upload each month, so I guess they calculated how monthly fees would cover the lifetime storage.

beojan · 10 months ago

There was no monthly fee.

beojan commented on Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands? · Posted by u/MrsPeaches

alexchamberlain · a year ago

Right, but confusingly, GB is the ISO 2 code for the United Kingdom, even though the United Kingdom is much bigger than Great Britain, where the GB abbreviation comes from.

beojan · a year ago

At least for the identification sticker / stripe on cars we've moved from GB to UK. Maybe we'll just move to uk as the ISO 2 letter code.

beojan commented on Casio FW-91 replaced with smart internals crowdsupply.com/oddly-spe... · Posted by u/sponno

maxglute · a year ago

Man I wish Casio would make a cheap fitness band in one of their entry level watch bodies. A miband in the shape of a F91W with oled and 3 programmable buttons for $40 would be amazing.

beojan · a year ago

They do, albeit without a heart rate monitor.

https://www.casio.com/us/watches/casio/product.ABL-100WE-1A/

With a heart rate monitor it's considerably more expensive.

beojan commented on Do Not Sign the Qt License Agreement Unchanged burkhardstubert.substack.... · Posted by u/LorenDB

johnny22 · a year ago

might wanna add some context as to how that's relevant to the current time frame and situation

beojan · a year ago

Nokia decided to use the LGPL and the KDE Free Qt agreement was then updated to specify LGPL.

beojan commented on Producing fuels from 1,500 degrees of solar heat thechemicalengineer.com/n... · Posted by u/doener

herewulf · a year ago

> Making fuel for those by taking CO2 out of the atmosphere is a double win.

It's just a single win because the CO2 is going right back into the atmosphere as the fuel is used (carbon neutral, not carbon negative). Still, a win is better than the loss that extracted fuels amount to.

beojan · a year ago

You don't have to use all the fuel produced.

Presumably some could be used to make plastics and everything else we make from oil. You could also bury some.

beojan commented on Department of Justice says Boeing may be criminally liable in 737 MAX crashes usatoday.com/story/money/... · Posted by u/andsoitis

gruez · a year ago

>That would be illegal

As the other commenter has mentioned, it's passed on via higher prices in the future.

>This is beside the point though. The government asks "would the average person be willing to pay $x to lower their chance of death by y%". The corporate executive asks "would I be willing to pay >$0 to lower their chance of death by y%". "Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make."

Okay, but surely you don't agree that Boeing should spend infinite amounts of money making their planes safe? For instance we don't install backup engines on the off chance that all 2 engines fail. That's all I'm trying to argue, that the cold calculation/cost benefit analysis as mentioned in the OP isn't where Boeing went wrong, it's that they they undervalued the value of a human life. This was specifically mentioned in my original comment.

beojan · a year ago

> For instance we don't install backup engines on the off chance that all 2 engines fail.

We used to. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS

beojan commented on Software glitch saw Aussie casino give away millions in cash theregister.com/2024/04/1... · Posted by u/LorenDB

mrd3v0 · a year ago

It is not, and the gambling casino's business shouldn't be protected by law.

beojan · a year ago

This isn't a case of slot machines where they got the logic for the house edge wrong. This is a case of double redeeming winnings because the machine would give you your winnings but not mark the ticket as redeemed.

beojan commented on The lifetime tooth decay vaccine is now available (in Honduras) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car... · Posted by u/mouse_

entropicgravity · a year ago

And it's not for the first time. This BBC article shows how best to keep plaque away from your teeth but no dentist or hygienist will mention it to you because, well you know why. People, mostly elderly, are literally dying because this knowledge is not being disseminated widely. Spread the word. (The first article about this technique appeared in BBC circa 1995.) [1]

[1]https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220718-the-best-way-to-...

beojan · a year ago

That technique is something you get pretty much automatically if you use an electric toothbrush.