Breeding mosquitoes should help attract them.

Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve heard of it, but haven’t tried yet - but I will.

I gave up on Google over a decade ago - maybe two decades by now. Way back when I was using Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, Astalavista, and others. When Google came, it somehow beat them all at finding exactly what I was looking for.

Later they stopped searching for the exact words you typed, but it was okay because adding a plus in front of terms, or quotes around phrases, still let you search exact things. The combination of both systems was very powerful.

And then plus and quotes stopped working. Boolean operators stopped working. Their documentation still says they work, but they don’t.

Now, it seems like your input is used only as a general guideline to pick whatever popular search is closest to what it thinks you meant. Exact words you typed are often nowhere in the page, not even in the source.

I only search Google maps now, and occasionally Google translate.

Exactly. LHC also didn’t find that breathing air is good for you. I’m still not going to stop.

This man walks so others can ride.

Personally I’d rather buy the slaves. And set them free of course. Yes, of course.

Our code base is filled with “//constructor”, “//destructor”, “//assignment”, or the ever enlightening “Foo GetFoo(); // GetFoo”.

This is not what they mean by self-documenting code.

If the Internet has taught me anything, they’re 42 and 69.

So it is indeed greener where you water. Try the body thing next and let us know.

I miss Windows phone, still the most intuitive phone UI I’ve ever seen.

There’s an old but IMO still very relevant white paper by Microsoft titled “So Long, And No Thanks for the Externalities: The Rational Rejection of Security Advice by Users”. It argues that security measures often cost more in employee time (and hence wages) than the potential benefit. It’s an interesting read and I think about it whenever our chief of security cooked up with another asinine security measure.

You got a lot of great recommendations already, but I want to add one more indie game: Lost Words Beyond the Page. Gameplay is simple and it’s not very long, but the writing is excellent.

You should be aware that “maintaining” that PC may be more than you expect. Just this weekend I had to help my aunt because the bank’s website had a “big thing in front of it” that she couldn’t get rid of. It turned out to be a cookie banner that was just a bit too big for her laptop screen, and the buttons to close it were out of the frame.

That’s just an example of course, but depending on the person(s) using it, there may need to be someone at hand to help at all times.

Don’t worry, DRM-ed content isn’t recorded, so big companies’ IP is protected.

I tried, but it always comes up with pictures of airplanes for some reason.

Violations of privacy. Microsoft has that too though, so unless Google has wallpapers they need to step up their game.

As a late Gen X, I was completely lost. So, I guess it’s official: I don’t get your generation.

Ah thank you. I was unaware of the matrix protocol.

I’m obviously out of the loop, because I don’t know. Can someone explain?

I think of std::any as a void* that retains type info.

A typical use case for void* is user data in callback functions. If you’re writing a library that offers callbacks to client code, you may want to provide a way for the user to pass along their own data when registering a callback. Then when calling it, you return that data unmodified*. The library doesn’t know nor care what this user data is. Since the days of K&R C, this has been done with void*.

But void* erases the type. The library may not care about the type, but the client code does. The only way to get the original type from a void* is an unsafe cast. std::any mitigate this.

*edit: unmodified, not modified!