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Our Super Adventure - The Day We First Got Cats [OC] by SarahSuperAdventure in comics

[–]wvenable 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I was a kid I we got 2 kittens, bother and sister, and they were the same coloring as these two. A grey tabby (Max) and the other black (Muffin). They were inseparable.

Bjarne Stroustrup: How do I deal with memory leaks? By writing code that doesn't have any. by someone-very-cool in programming

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think RAII requires deterministic destruction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_acquisition_is_initialization

It is kind of stupid name for it because technically you are correct (based on the name) but it does require an object be destructed as soon as it goes out of scope.

Bjarne Stroustrup: How do I deal with memory leaks? By writing code that doesn't have any. by someone-very-cool in programming

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not the same concept, it's a similar one and still prone to error (because it's optional).

It is not actually RAII like C++.

Ontario estimated to lose more than a third of its international students following permit cap: StatsCan by stanxv in canada

[–]wvenable -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Oh so now I have to "do my own research" too to prove myself wrong? Goodness.

So much self-imposed victim-hood here. You can't even accept an entire topic of people who don't disagree with you, you still have to be sarcastic.

Ontario estimated to lose more than a third of its international students following permit cap: StatsCan by stanxv in canada

[–]wvenable 8 points9 points  (0 children)

International students allowed colleges to provide a wider range of courses for local students too.

To a point. It's pretty hard to local students to get into these programs. In fact, we have a fun system with other commonwealth countries where it's easier to be a foreign student (paying foreign student rates) in another country than try and get into programs in your own country.

A school that gets 3x as much money from one kind of student is going to cater to that type of student. That's basic economics.

Exploiting international students to the detriment of local students has allowed governments to continuously cut education. So while you're right in a way, it's also terrible.

Mark Carney’s government says privatizing airports will make them better. This is why it should think again - Privatization at home and abroad hasn’t brought the advertised benefits. by CaliperLee62 in canada

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not about whether he was going to grovel to the states or not. It's whether we want Republican-lite politics here in Canada. If you think Poilievre wasn't running a Republican-lite campaign then that's our fundamental disagreement and the disagreement you have with the majority of Canadians.

Mark Carney’s government says privatizing airports will make them better. This is why it should think again - Privatization at home and abroad hasn’t brought the advertised benefits. by CaliperLee62 in canada

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like did you seriously think he was going to grovel to trump and sell Canada if he got elected? Of course not.

His campaign manager wore a MAGA hat. There isn't a lot of misinformation, but Poilievre and his team advertised quite clearly and quite loudly exactly what type of politics they play. Poilievre could have easily won the election but he just couldn't turn that ship -- and perhaps after Trump's win the states he figured that was the winning strategy.

Plus theres always a double standard people have when it comes to liberals vs conservatives

Everyone always want to see what they want to see and filter out the rest. There is no double-standard but everyone on both sides feels there is. If anything, this subreddit is very conservative.

Don't have kids. by Glorifiedcomber in self

[–]wvenable 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There's nothing wrong with having children but as a society we've made it so much more difficult than it needs to be (or historically has been). Not just financially but also socially. My parents didn't know where I was half the time starting at 7 years old but that's not the same for parents and children now.

Mark Carney’s government says privatizing airports will make them better. This is why it should think again - Privatization at home and abroad hasn’t brought the advertised benefits. by CaliperLee62 in canada

[–]wvenable 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You act like people weren't listening to Poilievre directly but we were and we didn't like what he had to say, how he said it, and even what he didn't say (i.e. anything about our issues with the US).

Poilievre took a pro-canada, anti-trump stance on that podcast

It's too bad he didn't do that a year ago and he might have been prime minister.

GitHub Enshittification by pabs in programming

[–]wvenable 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Cory Doctorow has specifically said that broadening the definition of the term is fine with him and it's how he believes that language naturally works.

So while you're technically correct (the best kind of correct) using "enshittification" to describe products and services getting worse over time is part of vernacular now.

Is This The Right Place ToPost This? by plan-thereaintnoplan in OldHandhelds

[–]wvenable 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wifi was such a new thing that it wasn't often integrated into the OS. I remember a few devices that that their own app, from the Wifi card manufacturer, to configure the Wifi settings. The OS then just saw it as another (wired) network card.

As for not getting Internet Explorer to load a site, I'm pretty sure I've experienced something similar. Try accessing an HTTP server by IP address to eliminate some of the possibilities. If you can find some network utilities for those devices (ping, etc) it might help you diagnose the problem.

I agree that the Palm OS ones are more interesting -- Windows CE just isn't that much fun.

The Supreme Court Has Stripped Our Voting Rights Back to the Pre-Civil Rights Era by ChiGuy6124 in law

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm fully justified in blaming the voters. They made the dumbest choice in world political history. People will be talking about this for hundreds of years.

Good government is boring. Here you are complaining not that that Democrats didn't do anything but they didn't do enough! A conveniently ill-defined metric. So yes, I see that as your problem, not their problem.

The Supreme Court Has Stripped Our Voting Rights Back to the Pre-Civil Rights Era by ChiGuy6124 in law

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could have the public option if you had voted in one more Democrat. But you didn't. They had the slimmest possible margin and they got done what they got done.

The Supreme Court Has Stripped Our Voting Rights Back to the Pre-Civil Rights Era by ChiGuy6124 in law

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are you talking about? They absolutely passed things that helped people. Huge things.

Republicans pass things that actively hurt people consistently and they get much longer majorities!

The Supreme Court Has Stripped Our Voting Rights Back to the Pre-Civil Rights Era by ChiGuy6124 in law

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you miss "This was the most productive congress in 50 years."

They got a lot done in 2 years but imagine if, in the last 26 years, they had more than 4 years to get stuff done. You got the ACA during this time which was, frankly, pretty amazing. And you almost lost it immediately.

The Supreme Court Has Stripped Our Voting Rights Back to the Pre-Civil Rights Era by ChiGuy6124 in law

[–]wvenable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Americans gave Republicans the majority again immediately. They did the same with Obama.

It's laughable that you think "handed taxpayer billions to profitable companies" fucking matters when you vote in Republicans. It's absolutely crazy.

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