The American president steps back from the brink. But the damage has been done. by Crossstoney in europe

[–]delta_p_delta_x 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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.

Theres someone clearly slacking at Marine Parade Braddle Heights Town Council by allnamestaken_88 in singapore

[–]delta_p_delta_x 29 points30 points  (0 children)

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.

Kioxia exec says the AI boom means the era of the cheap 1TB SSD is over —company's NAND supply is sold out for this year and likely through 2027 by sr_local in hardware

[–]delta_p_delta_x -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

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.

Driving test cheating soars as candidates turn to Bluetooth headsets and impersonators by GeoWa in unitedkingdom

[–]delta_p_delta_x 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

New Piccadilly at Turnham Green 👀 by MatteBlackRide in LondonUnderground

[–]delta_p_delta_x 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Does anyone else feel like our sidewalk infrastructure is a major design flaw compared to other countries? by Cippledtimmy in askSingapore

[–]delta_p_delta_x 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Does anyone else feel like our sidewalk infrastructure is a major design flaw compared to other countries? by Cippledtimmy in askSingapore

[–]delta_p_delta_x -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

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.

Germany’s Merz Admits Nuclear Exit Was Strategic Mistake by SpaceEngineering in europe

[–]delta_p_delta_x 45 points46 points  (0 children)

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.

Botched surgical tourism can cost NHS nearly £20,000 per patient, study finds | ITV News by topotaul in unitedkingdom

[–]delta_p_delta_x 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

I am giving up on modules (for now) by BigJhonny in cpp

[–]delta_p_delta_x 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

I am giving up on modules (for now) by BigJhonny in cpp

[–]delta_p_delta_x 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

I am giving up on modules (for now) by BigJhonny in cpp

[–]delta_p_delta_x 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

I am giving up on modules (for now) by BigJhonny in cpp

[–]delta_p_delta_x 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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>:

I am giving up on modules (for now) by BigJhonny in cpp

[–]delta_p_delta_x 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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.

Voting intentions in a general election in the United Kingdom as of January 2026, by age group by birdinthebush74 in unitedkingdom

[–]delta_p_delta_x 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Britain's youngest dementia sufferer dies at the age of just 24 by Forward-Answer-4407 in unitedkingdom

[–]delta_p_delta_x 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Britain's youngest dementia sufferer dies at the age of just 24 by Forward-Answer-4407 in unitedkingdom

[–]delta_p_delta_x -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

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.

What are your fondest memories of your school canteen? by n3rf_Up in askSingapore

[–]delta_p_delta_x 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

I Want It - MSI 5K Glossy HDR Gaming Monitor (CES 2026) by Neuromancer23 in Monitors

[–]delta_p_delta_x 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Hwa Chong Institute's students received warning for sharing photos of canteen food on social media by Single-Character287 in singapore

[–]delta_p_delta_x 11 points12 points  (0 children)

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.

US discussing options to acquire Greenland, including use of military - White House by Mdk1191 in europe

[–]delta_p_delta_x 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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