CoastalCoder

It's a civil hierarchy, but I doubt that's what GP meant by "caste system".

I grew up in New England.

My experience is that "thuh" is basically a lazy / informal pronunciation of that word.

But it's also by far the most common pronunciation. "Thee" would sound strangely hyper-formal, at least in my circles.

Edit: the sibling comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49770609) also rings true to me.

Just curious, what is your native tongue?

Crunchyroll is skating very close to this line.

For paid accounts they don't show ads during an episode, but they're injecting their own little things before some episodes.

My policy now is that every time they do this, I suspend my membership for 2 months. So basically I pay them for 4 months of the year.

That lets me binge each complete season of anime, while still punishing their misbehavior.

It's trivial for them, but it feels like a small win for justice for me.

Nice summary.

> I thought a flag is 1 bit

Well you see, it has to implement IStateful and IBooleanExpression, and both of those involve virtual methods so you have a vtbl pointer as well.

So that's 64+1 bits right there.

Then you also have the address-alignment requirements for that vtbl pointer, so practically speaking were talking 128 bits.

Or 80 bits of you're rolling dirty and say "screw it" to that alignment assumption.

Now if your on x86-64 and want to smuggle that bit value into the unused part of that "64" bit vtbl pointer, you could probably bring it down to just 64 bits overall I guess. Well probably want to let the compiler know about that though, before anyone tries actually using that vtbl pointer.

But, if we also need to make this accessible to Python, then...

Thanks for the tip about that book!

I'm case it's helpful to anyone, here's one review of it: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2vxts5/comme...

Seems like a tough area of history to be certain about.

> This is kind of stuff is absolutely as old as time,

I've only very recently become interested in ancient history, so I'm still very ignorant about this.

Are there any particular examples of this tactic you'd suggest studying?

> Prompt processing on Macs is VERY slow...

That sounds like a contradiction.

/J

Just mentioning this in case it's helpful:

If you know ahead of time which programs / processes are at risk of unacceptably high memory usage, check out "ulimit".

I think it was either the "smooth" or "acute" symbol, but it was originally rendered as (approximately) a vertical line.

I think I've heard late-career engineers from the past century say similar things, although I can't remember exactly quotes.

I wonder if every generation of engineers ends up with such hand-wringing about the next.

I'm also genuinely curious what fraction of the time they were right to worry.

I had a similar issue yesterday with classical Greek. Some website used a typeface that renders one of the diacritics in a totally unfamiliar way.

I had to copy and paste the text into another doc and change the typeface to understand.

That really interesting.

To be fair, modern "English" is a nebulous smorgasbord of words from a lot of different languages. I'm sure we could afford to drop a lot of the words from clusters of synonyms.

Vim!

(Mostly joking.)

In the US, the equation isn't quite so simple. Being unemployed can mean poor or no health insurance, which is also a health risk.

The economy is not in good shape right now.

Wow! I wonder what the physiology of that was.

Ooh, next do "MBAs" ;)

Okay, let's use a car analogy...

> Their incident-free uptime on 9-5 EST, Mon-Fri, is probably like 60%.

And it may be even worse in EDT, which is currently in effect!

I don't have my reading glasses on, so at first I read the title as "My Friend Arson".

Different kind of story I reckon.

I'm not sure I'd be able to (confidently) tell the difference between human and SOTA bot comments.

Is there something trick to it?

I think I'd want to know.

It would affect my financial and estate planning, and how I'd like to navigate the disease's progression.

> ... without having at least some old systemd ...

Back in my day, visas were handled by init scripts. And we like it that way!

> A dog cannot launch a cyber attack.

Maybe not, but a cat would certainly try.

Relevant as always: https://theoatmeal.com/%2Fcomics%2Fcats_actually_kill

A bit of a tangent, but I never understood the legal reasoning for how (states having the right of well-regulated militias) implies (individuals having the right for private ownership of arms).

> Countries tend to be excessively sociopathic because you have large scale 'intelligence' organizations who see their entire point of existence as being to engage in misdeeds.

This theory interests me.

I'd love to understand how different individuals within intelligence orgs have reasoned about the morality of their actions.

Would AI tokens count as a kind of prepaid micropayment?

> The one thing I find slightly grating about links to Kagi blogs is the top comments are almost always "I use Kagi and it's great!" rather than about the content of the blog. And I'm a happy Kagi subscriber!

Okay, new topic then. Have you heard of InstaPot? ;)

Are we using the same kind of bidet? Or maybe we have to very different diets?

For me they're a huge upgrade.