professoretc

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by professoretc 6y ago
I took a design course in grad school and one of the things they emphasized was that it's impossible for everyone to be wrong about something. If everyone is using something the wrong way, then its the design that's wrong, not
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by professoretc 6y ago
Your mind already does this by itself. Of course, nobody knows what would happen if we left our natural "garbage collector" running for multiple centuries.
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by professoretc 6y ago
> No, it mostly affects execution time. That's what I was thinking, too, but most of the time (even if the index is not static) the -1 can be eliminated by just modifying the address at which the array is assumed to start. That is
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by professoretc 6y ago
It's not even that natural; with a new baby in the house I've really grown to dislike Alexa just for how much I have to yell at it. We're not a loud household, but talking to Alexa is like talking to my grandfather without
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by professoretc 6y ago
For myself, I was one of those new users, but not by choice. Someone created a Parler account using my email. I guess that's one way to bump up your numbers?
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by professoretc 6y ago
"They" has been used as a singular gender neutral pronoun since at least the 14th century. The modern prohibition against it is just that, modern.
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by professoretc 6y ago
> Stuff like multiple cursors are a few elisp lines away... Last time I tried to get multiple cursors/selections working, it was definitely more than that, and the result was awkward and cumbersome at best. The problem is that every
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by professoretc 7y ago
The point of uintptr_t is that it's an integer type to which any pointer type can be cast. If you introduce a new class of pointers which are not compatible with uintptr_t, then suddenly you have pointers which are not pointers.
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by professoretc 7y ago
At a community college: don't screw up too badly for four years. (And at least in California, it pays better than university, too!)