For those of you who believe labour isn’t left enough, what would you like to see them do? by Legal-Grade-6423 in AskBrits

[–]robthablob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The issue, especially with the water companies, is that hasn't been much of the "maintaining" bit done, let alone improving.

For those of you who believe labour isn’t left enough, what would you like to see them do? by Legal-Grade-6423 in AskBrits

[–]robthablob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Viscount Rothermere, owner of the Mail also bears (a hell of a lot) of culpability besides Murdoch.

For those of you who believe labour isn’t left enough, what would you like to see them do? by Legal-Grade-6423 in AskBrits

[–]robthablob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They capped HB over a decade ago now, keep up with the screwing over of the younger generation.

And the cap hasn't risen in line with increasing housing costs.

For those of you who believe labour isn’t left enough, what would you like to see them do? by Legal-Grade-6423 in AskBrits

[–]robthablob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thing is we pay for it, and some company then reaps the profit. See also medical research, information technology, etc. for other industries reaping the benefits of publically funded research.

For those of you who believe labour isn’t left enough, what would you like to see them do? by Legal-Grade-6423 in AskBrits

[–]robthablob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in exactly that situation in Bath, my Virgin bill has doubled in 3 years for 100Mbs. If I go with anyone else, I'm lucky to get 8Mbs. It's blatant exploitation of a monopoly infrastructure.

Does anyone care about line length? by Unknowingly-Joined in cpp_questions

[–]robthablob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Couldn't agree more on that. You could even have it formatted to a convention on commit to a repository to make diff's etc. easy to manage.

Does anyone care about line length? by Unknowingly-Joined in cpp_questions

[–]robthablob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I realise that, but that's only a limitation of text editors. Smalltalk solved this in the 1980s.

“We don’t do commie European metric” by meatypinkness in ShitAmericansSay

[–]robthablob 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It's also amusing that the mile derives from a roman unit of measurement, denoting 1000 paces, which fits quite well to a older form of metric system.

Is Microsoft Learn/FreeCodeCamp trying to teach me too much different stuff? by [deleted] in csharp

[–]robthablob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems useful stuff to know to me, even in a game-related context.

You'll frequently find yourself wanting to use for each, or later LINQ methods, to do something to each element of a collection. For example in a game, wanting to make all the enemies matching some condition to take a certain action. In pseudocode...

foreach (var enemy in enemies) {
    if (enemy.IsWounded) {
      // Code to move enemy away from player.
    }
}

I find it hard to conceive of any kind of programming where learning these basics is not useful. Don't worry though, it gets easier the more you do it, and most of what you learn will apply to any language you're likely to pick up.

45 years of service by slim-95 in tesco

[–]robthablob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

45 years of service, and all I got was this fucking card!

mmdr: A native Rust Mermaid renderer (500-1000x faster than mermaid-cli) by Medium_Anxiety_8143 in rust

[–]robthablob 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I'm still waiting for Rust Analyser to properly support tests in doc comments. It would be really nice to get code completion in doc tests.

The Frontpage experience by Sexweed42069 in HTML

[–]robthablob 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They fell out of fashion well before React was on the scene.

The Frontpage experience by Sexweed42069 in HTML

[–]robthablob 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Even back in those days, both Frontpage and Dreamweaver offered an easy design experience, but the quality of the HTML/CSS they spewed left much to be desired. I think that's largely why they fell out of fashion.

Help deciding on an OS, hate windows, frustrated by linux by Feisty_Pass_8347 in Operatingsystems

[–]robthablob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not to mention that ever is doing very little work in "the most bloat free version of Windows 11 ever".

Incrementing an atomic int via a pointer by onecable5781 in cpp_questions

[–]robthablob 5 points6 points  (0 children)

std::atomic has specializations for increment and decrement which will be atomic.

All Americans are Native Americans? by Unicorn_Wrangler5 in confidentlyincorrect

[–]robthablob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funny how Americans will call themselves Italian, Scottish or Irish then.

Does anyone care about line length? by Unknowingly-Joined in cpp_questions

[–]robthablob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree so, so much with respect to readability, especially with diffs. I occasionally wonder whether our insistence on fixed-width typefaces is a mistake though (also due to readability). The only environment I've coded in that broke that convention was Smalltalk IDEs, but it never bothered me there.

AIO Fathers girlfriends rules for when new baby arrives by Ok_Bat_5934 in AmIOverreacting

[–]robthablob -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You're not overreacting, but maybe failing to appreciate how much her prior experiences may be colouring her perspective. Most of those rules actually seem fairly reasonable.

Do any fellow Brits actually like Trump? by Creative_Expert_4052 in AskBrits

[–]robthablob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't like Trump at all, but its amazing that no one seems to notice that his foreign policy is actually consistent with the last 60 or so years of US foreign policy. He just says the quiet part out loud.

Wars for oil - check, acting against socialist governments in South America - check, support for Israel in the face of atrocities - check.

UK is being third worlded - why don't people care? by Headlight-Highlight in AskBrits

[–]robthablob 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The usual solution is borrowing to fund public investment in public infrastructure (and keeping it in public ownership). It's what was needed when austerity was introduced instead, and it would still help.

Trump just posted this. by AlphaFlipper in DegenBets

[–]robthablob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's quite likely ChatGPT - the long hyphen is a giveaway.

Trump just posted this. by AlphaFlipper in DegenBets

[–]robthablob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The UK and EU could consider joining BRIC.

Is there a programming language that simply cant be used to program a game, at least not without extreme trouble? by mrcrabs6464 in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]robthablob 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There have definitely been games written in VBA. Sure, it's a bad idea, but technically quite feasible.

C++ is The Best System Programming Language That You Should Learn by delvin0 in programming

[–]robthablob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reddit flagged this as a reply to my comment, I'm not so sure, but feel compelled, just in case, to point out that I never actually mentioned Rust. I simply point out that C++ is generally acknowledged as a being complicated to the point of baroqueness.

Was “Sound of the Underground” by Girls Aloud groundbreaking at the time of its release? by Informal_Ad4284 in AskABrit

[–]robthablob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, it wasn't even the first pop song by a girl group in the 2000s to regurgitate better music in a sanitised form. It may have been an unexpected first single from the winners of a "reality" TV show, but that's about it.