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This is a wonderful idea, and although I don’t have kids, I think I want to have the pieces to put it together for when there’s one to play with.

That first one sounds so much like a folky, jokey etymology, and yet, it’s true…

Given the existence of “logarithms”, it’s doubly surprising…hey, why are they called that?

Wikipedia says “Napier coined the term for logarithm in Middle Latin, "logarithmus," derived from the Greek, literally meaning, "ratio-number," from logos "proportion, ratio, word" + arithmos "number".”

The canonical example of this phenomenon, IMHO

Oh crap that’s a really good example

Yes, things are often named after people. That alone does not make it unexpected and notable here.

-self-appointed policeman of this thing

Not surprising, not a good example of this phenomenon.

-self-elected policeman of it

I don't think this is one of those kinds of things, is it?

See, this here is the -real- problem: prescriptivist tendencies in those players of a certain age who insist that, say, the Coltonshire Maneuver’s success must be determined by the application of what is rightfully analogous to the reading of chicken entrails. Read the room! The shift is towards rightbottom. LET IT SHIFT. You can always deploy cannons at High Barnet to prevent map-bleed.

Ah, I hadn’t heard he’d passed away. He was important to me growing up as a nerdy trombone player.

I remember attending one of his concerts, arriving a little late, and I stepped into the concert hall, walked a bit down the aisle to a seat, and less than a minute behind me the door opened again and another man - must have been PDQ, can’t quite remember now - tore down the aisle, leap on stage, and played the final chord of the piece, a comic touch characteristic of his work.

I like this quote:

“Concrete is an artificial stone, and like stone, it does not want to be a straight beam, it wants to be a masonry arch.”

Like in Spanish, where the formal second-person pronouns are the same as the third-person pronouns.

That would be true for many, many projects, wouldn’t it? Every project that isn’t in the LLVM tree?

Yeah, there’s that, stuff just keeps happening, repeating, but also, the magical realism, stuff happens, and I’m like “did I read that right”? Plus the vocab is really broad.

Quite - venga, hispanohablantes, dígannos!

Although the beautiful prose of Marquez comes through even to me, and I doubt such literary style will be found in Mesopunk.

Well this is awesome for me; I’ve been studying Spanish for a few years, and want to read fiction, but jeez, A Hundred Years of Solitude sure is difficult. I love SF and generally want to read works original in the language.

We’ll see how the genre pans out, but regardless, I’m happy with those offerings that debut in Spanish.

MISRA is there as a standard for safety-critical code. Some contracts, some customers, some regulatory regimes will require compliance with MISRA, or perhaps another embedded coding standard, like AUTOSAR.

Generally, your customer/regulator will allow you to deviate from the standard; you just need to document and explain the deviations.

A static analysis tool like Helix QAC or Klocwork (bias: my company Perforce sells them) will capture your compilation and scan your code in detail to find deviations from the standard. You can then fix those deviations, or use the tool to document and explain them.

Yeah, this is like, incitement to get them killed, so: no. Even if they were murderers, instead of people who said stuff - and believe me, I hate what they said - you wouldn’t stick their faces on a truck and flirt with getting them killed.

There is zero description in the video notes, so a description here would be helpful for one deciding whether or not to watch it.

Thanks, the article is paywalled, so this link is very helpful

Maybe compile it for Webassembly?

My friend’s boy died just after entering college with it. Ugh.

I’ve been really curious about this device, glad to see the article

I asked for it backwards too, at level 3. It gave me the wrong answer twice, but the second one looked enough like an backwards English word that I was able to deduce the password correctly from it.

I notice that this user’s name is in green. Does that mean it’s been verified in some way?

She’s not actually a cop, as far as I can tell. It’s a little weird that the union would employ a civilian for the job, but not unimaginable.

Why they heck does an American use the word “bespoke”? It’s freaking CUSTOM, Mark, we are Yankees, cut the shit.

I keep hearing that ROCm is DOA, but there’s a lot of supercomputing labs that are heavily investing in it, with engineers who are quite in favor of it.

Took the words right out of my mouth

I don’t share this concern about over-estimating this bad behavior. Yes, normal people don’t do this. But there are a lot of people who take advantage of other people, leverage authority (their own, or others), and even tell themselves that they’re doing the right thing. That’s not super uncommon. And true scammers aren’t super rare.