Viewing profile — wenderen

Thanks, it looks like it's only visible if you're signed in. When signed out, only a few of the FAQs are shown.

From the about page ( https://specification.website/about/ ): > Not a framework. Not a guide. A spec — what is required, what is recommended, and what to avoid. It's hard to tell h…

Neat! I translated my code to Rust line-for-line and the iterator approach significantly outperforms it. Rust newbie q - why use `x.wrapping_sub()` instead of regular old `x - 1`? …

To help debug - which browser are you using and on which OS?

This article is a specific case of a more general piece of advice: ask questions well (provide context like clickable links, trim down your query to the minimal reproducible case, …

In addition to the feature being auto-on (for me, at least) and unasked-for, you also need to perform multiple clicks through non-obvious menus (I think one of them was "Audio trac…

> I scrolled back, thinking I had missed where they described that The explanation of that phrase is in... the very next three sentences.

Lawrence => Law => Lawson

Anecdote to support your comment: The Chinese Remainder Theorem has featured in Advent of Code at least twice IIRC. Not an algorithm the average programmer (average is a very fuzzy…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect

(genuine question) Were their ads being placed next to pro-Nazi content at the same rate a few years ago?

I'm seeing multiple examples of it in this thread at the time of writing! It's baffling. Do they not know how humans brain generally work or are they just being willfully dishonest…

I'm no adtech expert but I suspect that potential customers would form mental associations between two things that often show up together, like pro-Nazi content and the ads I'm spo…

> The contrary is almost certainly true: picking fights with well-selected made up enemies is an effective way to promote a brand that is based on virtue. I concur. Anecdotally, I …

Another cool solver for the same game https://www.michaelfogleman.com/projects/ricochet-robot/

Merlin's pretty at good at identifying mockingbirds by sound alone but once in a while it outputs a bird that's not even expected in your area. It rarely makes the reverse error (i…

Caution for folks learning about the Merlin app from this thread: it's good at identifying bird calls, especially in North America, where there's a lot of training data, but it's n…

Collecting some of the points other posters made: 1. Languages don't always neatly map to country borders. 2. Linguistically diverse / multi-ethnic countries can have multiple offi…

Would you happen to have a link to your solutions (Github, Gitlab, wherever)?

https://twitter.com/jdjkelly/status/1598143982630219776/phot... I went and checked out the Borges fable mentioned here: https://kwarc.info/teaching/TDM/Borges.pdf Looks like the Ch…

Love this satire. Especially the ominous but completely unhelpful "be very, very careful with this one."