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Currently working on a collection of pottery to sell in a new gallery. Cups, bowls, general tableware all in the kiln currently, hopefully no unexpected catastrophe awaits! I’ve al…

Hi from the eastern half of the US! I too am working my way deeper into visual arts. I’m excited to go see the Edward Hopper exhibit at the Whitney in NYC soon. His ability to ligh…

I don’t know how painless it actually is, but putting an animal to sleep is a quick and dignified death compared to what I have seen happen to most people. If I could choose I’d li…

I've been running Ubuntu 13.10 on an 2012 XPS 13 for a while now. The only time I have noticed that the laptop runs hot is when I have it in my lap, because it's pretty easy to cov…

If you're running a linux distro that requires compiling packages from source (Gentoo comes to mind), then you could conceivably be compiling a lot of things often.

I am jealous that your university had such good classes. Classes that did more than emphasize solving artificial problems through rote memorization, rather than real ones however s…

An incomplete type is a struct where the definition of the structure is hidden from the view of most of your source code. This makes it impossible to directly access struct element…

I just graduated, so most of the data structures are still pretty fresh in my mind. I started after getting tired of implementing data structures in my many C based classes, hoping…

Some bad habits from Java are the only reason. I thought about having obrelease and obgetCString. Putting ob at the beginning of every function seems like overkill, and I don't lik…

Sadly some form of OBString is a necessity, any string object needs a reference count and some function pointers packaged in the struct to work. Converting OBString to have the sam…

Shoot, if I had known someone was going to do this I would have made the prime number program a bit more efficient. Since it looks like you've ported the algorithm exactly it shoul…