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C++ safety, in context

Sutter's Mill

To talk about C++’s current safety problems and solutions well, I need to include the context of the broad landscape of security and safety threats facing all software. When I say “safety” unqualified here, I mean programming language safety, which benefits both software security and software safety. Acknowledgments. Let’s dig in.

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Copyright, AI, and Provenance

O'Reilly

Is it possible to distinguish between creative output (“Write in the style of Jesmyn Ward”) and actionable output (“Write a program that converts between current prices of currencies and altcoins”)? But Google has the best search engine in the world. Ask this course, expected to go into beta in the first half of 2024 Footnotes 1.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 27th, 2018

High Scalability

143 billion : daily words Google Translated; 73% : less face-to-face interaction in open offices; 10 billion : Uber trips; 131M : data breach by Exactis; $123 billion : Facebook value loss is 4 Twitters and 7 snapchats; $9.1B : spent on digital gaming across all platforms; 20-km : width of lake on mars; 1 billion : Google Drive users; $32.7

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