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Software engineers are facing an 'identity crisis bordering on depression,' Menlo Ventures partner says

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There are many C++ features that make the language worse. Exceptions is one of them. It's not strange to have them banned.

Critical systems often only allow you to use a subset of the language. Dynamic (heap) allocations, recursive functions, exceptions are features that are often banned. In medical devices, safety is critical, so it makes sense. Otherwise you could get a Therac-like scenario due to an unhandled exception.

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Prediction vs Reality

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The problem with humid heat is that it doesn't give a fuck about shade. Europe in general is humid.

When it is humid, there's barely a difference of temperature between shaded areas and unshaded ones.

When it is dry, all you gotta do is find some shade and temperature drops fast, to the point where you might even have to wear a jacket because it's too cold. That doesn't happen with high humidity.

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Spain has massively increased it's population. Even though the birthrate is below replacement level. All of that is immigration.

You can move to basically anywhere. Most countries offer legal immigration paths. Some are of course harder than others, but it's possible.

Especially if you are highly skilled. Such as a medical doctor.

Countries love already educated professionals, since they basically get all the benefit of a fully working adult without the downside of paying for its childcare or education.

And even if low educated, most first world countries want low educated foreigners that can do the "dirty" physical work that the locals don't want to do, such as construction.

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It's a simple concept.

You need at least 2 people to form a conversation.

One of them has Whatsapp, Telegram, signal, MSTeams, smoke signals and those flags that ships used to communicate.

The other only has Whatsapp.

They are going to communicate over Whatsapp.

Even if the dude with 1000 communication methods meets another dude with 1000 communication methods, they are going to use WhatsApp, because they are used to using Whatsapp with everyone, so it's just easier to have everyone on WhatsApp.

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Vivaldi's Leader Has a Bold Pledge: No AI in Your Web Browser

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Chromium based ones are at the mercy of Google. Firefox, however, is independent in that sense.

When google decides to drop support for manifest V2 (which is the one unlock origin uses), every chromium browser drops support for it. Unless they make a fork of chromium and add manifest V2 back in. Which means extra effort every time they want to update with upstream, since there probably will be merge conflicts.

Firefox can just not drop support for it, literally 0 effort.

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Even with ublock, since it doesn't stop the cookie banners. I struggle whenever I have to to consult the ASCII table. Why does a website whose whole purpose is to serve a static page of ~1KiB need a cookie banner and ads? Just put a fucking "reject all" button, you don't need to suck in all my data to share with your 849 partners to show me an ASCII table.

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It's not anecdotal fallacy if the study you linked to shows that Amsterdam -> Brussels would be a train between the 2nd and 3rd less delayed countries at 93-88% of trains on time.

And I don't see Spain in that list which is the other country mentioned.

Germany is known to have a shit train system, which brings the European average down by a lot. That doesn't mean that your European train will be delayed. If you don't touch a German (and apparently, italian) train, your experience will be way better than the average.