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Not technical/concrete (examples are missing!) enough for me to really understand what techniques the author is getting at. How would the author achieve all these exclusion mechani…

Those cat corridors are cool as shit. I love little doors and hidden hallways, it's almost victorian. I would only worry about "noise" leaking out of the bedrooms...

I don't understand how this is a relevant criticism of my system. If you are already ignoring the actual chord "voicing" as written in the "classical" system, then just keep doing …

E-G is a 3 semitone interval and G-C is 5 semitones so it's an E+3+5 chord. If you wanna play it on piano, that means leave a gap of 2 keys and then a gap of 4 keys. Known in weste…

Unpopular opinion: if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then dude, it's a duck. Inverted chords have, in my ears, never sounded anything like the chords they are suppose…

Russia has plenty of meat for the grinder. Being embarrassed isn't gonna stop them.

After some thinking, the ternary conditional operator can be decomposed into 2 composing binary operators like such: ? takes a bool, a T, and returns option true?b == Result b fals…

> Your answer makes me not like you in fact it incites hatred. Why are you so aggrieved? What's the big deal?

The second way is the antiquated british english meaning of the phrase. It's got a kind of "all but" deal going on: two ways to interpret it. Really annoying how the English langua…

The VW Golf manual does 4.7L/100km

What makes for a good or bad virtual desktop implementation?

> In Go or Rust, returning an error is also a “color” that spreads out to the top of the call stack. That's wrong... Suppose A calls B and B returns a Result (so it's colored as yo…

Swift solves this by using witness tables. Witness table is a skeleton of the desired record shape. It records offsets of desired fields as found in the actual supplied record. Eac…

Use a generic function signature that takes in a `void*`. Inside the specialized function bodies, cast the void* to an `actual_type*`, then dereference.

For the same reason python is seen as easier: guardrails and checks are just an impediment right?

It's not well laid out. The examples are malformed/illegal and the ifdef thing is stupid. The author admits to not being a C undefined behavior expert and yet acts like they might …

It's worse than that. This guy takes a void* function and casts it to a char* function, then passes it a char**. void (*name)(char *ptr); typedef void (*name_func)(char *ptr); void…

Man rants about not expecting weird type system abuse that works on his machine to be undefined behavior

> A government paying for a thing does not in any way imply that the thing is a good use of money. Agreed, nor is the inverse implied of course. But what is your point? > How many …

In the Netherlands it costs around a grand, as for maintenance... Haven't needed to do any in more than 15 years. The actual screen retracts into a weather proof metal casing, so t…

Flies: they get inside and nestle in my fruit, annoy me and distract me, get in my face. Bees and wasps: they settle and build nests in nooks and crannies of roofs. I don't have a …

What scares me about eaves and cupolas is that they seem attractive spots for bats and insects to nest. I have a covered sort of outdoor hallway leading to my home, and it's swarme…

It surprises me to read about "fixed metal frame" awnings. You don't _have_ to make that trade off. In the Netherlands a lot of houses have electrically retractable awnings (or eve…

FBO = fixed base operator = private jet terminal or service provider at airports that caters to general aviation (non-commercial) flights. FBOs provide services like fueling, hanga…