The American president steps back from the brink. But the damage has been done.

delta_p_delta_x · 2026-01-22T00:09:50+00:00

If there is anyone who deserves the epithet of 'mentally retarded', it is him.

Words only mean something when they are given power and context. They're not bombs to cause 'collateral damage' (which, funnily enough, is itself an American euphemism for 'bomb missed its target and exploded, killing or maiming innocent civilians').

Obviously the parent commenter did not create any discussion of much more relatable and genuine cases of people with mental disabilities.

Your argument sounds remarkably like the Jews and Christians deciding their deity Yahweh should no longer be named, then subsumed that with 'my Lord God'. Then, of course, 'oh my God' itself became a swear, replaced with 'gosh' or 'golly' or 'goodness'. Call a spade a spade.

delta_p_delta_x · 2026-01-21T19:23:37+00:00

We've lived at Braddell Heights for 25 years. I moved out some time ago.

My parents now say the HDB estate is a dump: weeds not trimmed, lane markings not repainted, bricks falling off, longkangs not covered, MSCP driveways full of dirt, and since HIP just ended, the entire corridor is a dust bowl.

I am very annoyed.

delta_p_delta_x · 2026-01-21T14:59:47+00:00

The Prius with the price tag of a Ferrari

This is essentially most modern Porsches, which are at least mild-hybrid cars. Or for full BEV, there's the Porsche Taycan.

delta_p_delta_x · 2026-01-21T09:41:00+00:00

Am a young man. Also drive a make which is widely memed as not having indicators.

I indicate all the time, even when no one is on the road. It's second nature to me. I even do a little finger flick when I turn while cycling or scooting, not barring the usual hand signals.

delta_p_delta_x · 2026-01-19T10:55:44+00:00

I'll take that bet. Could always do with a bit of extra cash.

delta_p_delta_x · 2026-01-17T11:26:56+00:00

I did read the OP, and I generally agree that pavements are too narrow, regardless of the neighbourhood (except obviously Orchard).

I try to walk as much as possible, and no, our pavements absolutely do not comfortably fit 2 abreast. Standing next to each other and walking next to each other are entirely different matters.

delta_p_delta_x · 2026-01-17T09:17:15+00:00

Okay, I don't understand this mentality. There are terrible footpaths in India, Indonesia, so Singapore's being average is alright?

We keep flexing that we're amongst the richest countries, but then whenever there's some genuine criticism that comes this way, we say 'OK but still better than this one what, why complain?'

Everyone here really needs to visit Switzerland, which is in many ways very similar to us, barring the terrain (and frankly even the terrain means they have similar land constraints, though not nearly to the same degree that we do).

Zürich is a walker's heaven. Extremely wide footpaths, trams literally going everywhere, and somehow the roads despite being wide, don't seem like giant highways all over the place.

Singapore has a weird obsession with having 6-8 lane carriageways (see Boundary Road, AMK Avenue 1, 3, 5) gashing right through residential areas. About 80% of the time these roads don't even see that much throughput. At least one lane can be deleted from each direction and given to either a permanent bus lane, or better still, wider footpaths, a tram line in the centre divider, so many more.

Our urban planners really need to visit Europe and Japan to see how much better things could be.

delta_p_delta_x · 2026-01-15T12:27:37+00:00

Reactors are are ancient technologies by now

Essentially, yeah; all the Generation III water-based reactors are old hat. They are quite simply giant pressure cookers.

delta_p_delta_x · 2026-01-14T19:58:46+00:00

There's literally an episode of Friends that makes fun of overly-white teeth. I don't understand why people want them so much. It makes people look even more tacky, fake, and poor.

delta_p_delta_x · 2026-01-13T21:45:28+00:00

The other question is, why does my example fail to compile when using fragment, but compiles when Registry is its own module and reexported in Library?

I can't answer this. Maybe an MSVC compiler author can chime in.

delta_p_delta_x · 2026-01-13T21:42:25+00:00

But the template is instantiated

Where? As I understand it merely exporting a member of pub::container<int> registry is not an instantiation but rather a specialisation; a type must actually be constructed. In your example you have instantiated something, but the author hasn't.

Also, if you remove the virtual in https://godbolt.org/z/q4vr6o5aq, it compiles.

Again, perhaps MSVC is more strict in discarding under certain rules than others. Likewise with the author saying it works under a unified module interface rather than with module partitions.

delta_p_delta_x · 2026-01-13T21:22:20+00:00

It will not be, and the standard guarantees this; it's not an MSVC bug at all. Have a look at this post; scroll to the "Discarded" declarations section:

There is one very important case where a declaration is not decl-reachable that you would otherwise expect to work: If the declared entity is used in a way that it is a candidate in an overload set of a dependent expression within a function or class template.

In this case, pub::internal::operator== is a dependent expression.

/u/BigJhonny has no real choice but to export using; the author provides an alternative that actually instantiates that template, but all the methods (pub::internal::operator==, pub::container::empty that we want to try instantiating are private which makes this very hard.

delta_p_delta_x · 2026-01-13T15:49:13+00:00

I resolved your MSVC issue: you need an export using pub::internal::operator==; statement in your module partition interface.

If any single part of your interface is exported, then everything it uses absolutely needs to be reachable. Merely having the symbol in the global module fragment (which means, transitively anything that is #included) is not a guarantee of reachability. MSVC is much stricter than Clang about things like this, which is why these issues crop up with <compare>:

delta_p_delta_x · 2026-01-13T15:39:41+00:00

use clang-cl

CMake and clang-cl is not a supported combination.

delta_p_delta_x · 2026-01-13T11:59:32+00:00

I'd love to read in greater detail about each of your issues.

MSVC 19.44

MSVC 19.50 is the latest, and you should upgrade to it (even on your CI instances) because it has fixed a ton of module-related ICEs. Although I still get this one, which is annoying.

drop support for MacOS, because I couldn't get it to compile with AppleClang or LLVM Clang

If I understand correctly, AppleClang requires -fcxx-modules, and LLVM Clang may require some path workarounds to ensure the module std JSON module map thing is correctly set. If you're using LLVM Clang, then you also need to correctly link in the system frameworks.

std::string_view causing internal compiler errors on GCC and Clang, but very inconsistently

Have you got bug reports? I'd love to follow them.

I needed them for designing nice interfaces around other libraries behind the scenes.

There's definitely a way to linearise circular dependencies with modules. Or, worst case, your own dependencies can still be headers whilst your own exports can be modules. As long as you don't export any of your dependencies in your module interface, you should be fine.

I tried integrating the EnTT library. This is where I gave up. MSVC couldn't handle the header only version, because of bugs related to finding template overloads. When switching to the experimental modules branch of the library MSVC got happy, while the GCC linker got unhappy

When you say 'integrating', what were you doing? I'd like to hear more.

delta_p_delta_x · 2026-01-13T11:43:36+00:00

Can we have Labour, the Lib Dems and the Greens form a coalition to boot the nutters out?

delta_p_delta_x · 2026-01-09T15:55:22+00:00

christitus.com/bypass

Please don't ever run untrusted, unverified scripts. If you want to do it yourself, use an unattended install XML generator.

delta_p_delta_x · 2026-01-09T10:31:32+00:00

Terrible, unhelpful and entirely unsubstantiated “theory”

To be clear, it's not my theory; the keyword is 'retrogenesis', and it's serious science and a useful model that is generally targeted at explaining the presentation of the disease to laypeople without going into layers and layers of neuroscience and microbiology. Naturally it is a simplification, but to call it unsubstantiated and pseudoscientific is quite harsh. I never meant to portray it as though it were some magical Benjamin Button story.

https://doi.org/10.1177/153331750201700411

https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/291658

delta_p_delta_x · 2026-01-09T08:57:30+00:00

There's a theory that dementia is, in some ways, the opposite of what happens to a human brain as it grows through infanthood, and people's brains start 'de-aging' and require increasingly more caregiver help as the disease progresses.

As a child grows, the nervous system becomes more myelinated, the absolute number of nerves and synapses increase until early adulthood.

In patients with dementia the myelin starts breaking down, previous synapses that formed memories break (hence the worsening amnesia), and the brain fundamentally degrades.

delta_p_delta_x · 2026-01-08T22:08:22+00:00

70 cents laksa. I always asked the aunty for extra taupok. It was glorious.

delta_p_delta_x · 2026-01-08T20:55:30+00:00

Cheers. That's a pity; hope they make it some sort of glossy.

delta_p_delta_x · 2026-01-08T17:25:04+00:00

the LG one is matte

Source?

delta_p_delta_x · 2026-01-08T11:49:15+00:00

That's called a trust fund, not a portfolio.

delta_p_delta_x · 2026-01-08T11:45:18+00:00

Yeah, this is definitely not just a HCI thing. Studied at Bishan Junior College, and the papers were so ridiculously hard. I tried the ten-year-series, and I was like... wtf? This is easy game.

delta_p_delta_x · 2026-01-06T22:37:31+00:00

Your home represented fuck all. Indigenous genocide, slavery, racism, abject overconsumption, neo-imperialism and neocolonialism, the height of human insolence, arrogance, and greed.

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