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I'm sorry to hear it :( That may be what's happened here, an innocuous comment mis-taken by myself. But before I go finally, tell me please in your view what was a reasonable inter…

Thank you for the perspective. I suppose it was ad hom. I can't take his post in any way constructively (if it was a warning what am I supposed to do about it? Does he think I'm so…

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I'm a londoner and we have here a system of public transport which is controlled by cards ('oyster' cards, RFID credit card sized things - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_card…

Utterly dumb question but why is tail recursion necessary in the JVM given that the compiler is better placed simply to turn recursion into a loop. TR removal should be done best a…

If you've done game AI then you're the expert, not me. I threw it in as it seemed relevant. I dunno. Granted evaluation is key but so is branching, surely, as that is what generate…

Thanks, will follow up.

Branching increases because a piece is not constrained by other pieces. A (say) 20% branch increase will increase exponentially through the tree. Branching is probably higher earli…

> indemnified up the wazoo Really? Are you sure boeing is, given the cost-savings that not being insured would make (I mean the mgmt is clearly penny-pinchingly stupid enough). But…

Aside: I grew normal and F1 hybrid courgettes (american = zucchini) as a kid and can confirm the hybrids were proper little triffids compared to the pure-strain plants. Regarding t…

There is a variant that allows you to take your own pieces https://www.chessvariants.com/difftaking.dir/selfeliminator.... This always attracted me as a concept and seems well rece…

'garbage' because those claimed hoops were never listed, strangely enough. Even when I asked for them. > you stress that you have "a perfectly open mind" and yet when people disagr…

It certainly is not functional. It cannot fly in air. Like penguins, it can only 'fly' using a liquid medium. Hence the nickname. Coming soon to a river near you.

Interesting response. OK. > 1) by relating experiences and impressions, 2) and listening to those of others with an open mind 1) may not be correct (plus my own impression that SO …

How do we "reasonably discuss any issues" unless someone presents examples of the "issues"? I suspect most of these "issues" don't exist. > reasonable people do not keep lists of e…

One of the irritating things about SO is people who don't read the question before answering it[0]. As you apparently haven't read mine. Are these your questions, as I asked? Of co…

You (claim to) delete useful answers, then complain about SO's behaviour? Wow.

Yes. You post a question of yours that's been unfairly shut down. If you have no such question you clearly don't have a problem with x.

I asked "if you say it's happened to you..." therefore you don't need a log. Just log in to SO and bingo all your Q's with their A's are available. It's not difficult.

True. If they can discern a newbie question from a idle do-my-homework for me question, people tend to be very good. I grant there are some exceptions, but few (though irritating).…

I guess I'm the only one who doesn't seem to have any problems with wiki[1] or SO. Every time this comes up people will shout about how unfairly they've been treated, and sure I've…

> But now I've just polluted my once-pristine grammar file What's bollixed up your grammar file are the users who absolutely insist on not writing syntactically perfect programs ev…

Maxwell's demon, again?

Well maybe. There were a class of very birdlike creatures called enantiornithines which I suspect are a completely different line and quite possibly not dinosaurs, however I've dug…

The problem is to me that you're imprecise in your claims, which is OK (edit: changed my mind, it's not ok because it's too close to ex falso (sequitur) quodlibet ), and won't admi…