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811.
by zem 2y ago
I love fantasy in general, and have read a ton of it. other than tolkien, I have never read a novel with that strong a sense of geography in a constructed world - specifically, that there is an entire rich land out there, and not just a gra
812.
by zem 2y ago
thanks, that was wonderful
813.
by zem 2y ago
having been in your position a year ago, I can definitely sympathise :( the one thing I can say (again, from experience with having worked for google while engaging with the open source world as part of my job) is that the relationships you
814.
by zem 2y ago
yeah, it would be really nice if it turned the brackets around the word you guessed green and then filled it in automatically once the subclues were solved
815.
by zem 2y ago
do tell!
816.
by zem 2y ago
reading that really makes me wish there were a compiled-to-static-binary language with a reasonably easy migration path from javascript (sort of like ruby->crystal, where the latter tries hard to look like ruby so that at least some frac
817.
by zem 2y ago
I find it super satisfying, and would probably be some sort of computer programmer even if it paid a lot less and was generally looked down upon as mundane clerical work by most people. I am thankful to live in a time where it is a high pay
818.
by zem 2y ago
that was more fun than I was expecting it to be, but it just ended abruptly at some point. also you really need to filter the word list (or use a better one to start with); it was jarring to see "cumshots" in there!
819.
by zem 2y ago
true, it wouldn't do a 100% job, but it would be another line of defense. the reason I was wondering about it was that the gp cited an example that was easy for humans to miss, but would be caught at once with a spell checker. there ar
820.
by zem 2y ago
out of curiosity, wouldn't an automated spell check pass help catch ocr errors? e.g. "tne" would be caught immediately.
821.
by zem 2y ago
true in the SF bay area too, but reading the article made me think that was an aberration. maybe the mom and pop restaurants only survive in big cities. or maybe the article was just over focused on the chains and ignoring the smaller resta
822.
by zem 2y ago
yeah, having grown up outside the US I kept wondering why exactly there aren't local, independent restaurants in that price point. do the economics just not work out over here due to disproportionately higher rent and labour costs?
823.
by zem 2y ago
lots of suggestions here: https://old.reddit.com/r/crosswords/comments/kqkbrq/what_are... the new yorker archives are a great place to start https://www.newyorker.com/tag/cryptic-cro
824.
by zem 2y ago
there are some good american and canadian cryptics but i agree, it's a largely uk-centred pastime.
825.
by zem 2y ago
ah, neat if it's becoming a standard convention of sorts. i haven't used odin either.
826.
by zem 2y ago
python's use is the unusual one; the most common use (dating all the way back to algol) is to use it for assignment, so you can use = for equality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignment_(computer_science)#...
827.
by zem 2y ago
interesting example of swizzling ``` int[<3>] a = { 11, 22, 33 }; int[<4>] b = a.xxzx; ``` I assume that the `xxzx` is translated directly by the compiler. not seen that in any other language though ruby can fake it pretty easil
828.
by zem 2y ago
I am going to keep this post bookmarked to send to everyone who says "AI art isn't plagiarism, they're just using the corpus to learn from the same way human artists do"
829.
by zem 2y ago
guess their jobs were just automatted away!
830.
by zem 2y ago
a lot of companies ask for equipment to be returned due to security concerns, or just on principle
831.
by zem 2y ago
on the positive side, it's a small thing monetarily, but retention of company laptops is a nice goodwill gesture
832.
by zem 2y ago
oop is just another tool in your toolbox; if f# provides it and it's the best way to express a given algorithm you should definitely go ahead and use it. oop got a bad name due to people trying to shoehorn it into places it was not the
833.
by zem 2y ago
I'm sure Microsoft has developed a lot of bad tech, but by and large their languages have been great. msvc c++ compiler as a possible exception, but f# in particular is excellent.
834.
by zem 2y ago
I subscribe to the guardian specifically because it is not paywalled - I get to feel like my subscription helps keep it free for everyone to read, which is genuine value for money.
835.
by zem 2y ago
how do you ban shifting defenders? i admittedly know nothing about baseball, but surely the team can dispatch its people wherever it likes within the legal zone for them to be at all.
836.
by zem 2y ago
relatively cheap event space and hotels. it's hard to find a city to host a large conference.
837.
by zem 2y ago
pretty sure they were referring to vacuuming up of actual people, not just their details
838.
by zem 2y ago
polling enjoyment is superbly pragmatic! this is a volunteer project that depends critically on the developers continuing to enjoy working on it. once you get past the first cut of "is this a reasonably mature language with a lot of co
839.
by zem 2y ago
chances are you have at least heard "the locomotion" without knowing who sang it - I remember that song being played everywhere!
840.
by zem 2y ago
despite the extra boilerplate, I feel like it's still better to undef the macros in the same scope they were defined in, so that they clearly delimit the code in which the macro is active.

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