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A contest between on one side a comedian with joke policies and on the other side Count Binface!

The citizens of Byzantium identified as being Romans. Interesting, many Greek Christians still did at the time that the modern Greek state was created. When told they are "Hellenes" they responded that they have always been "Romioi".

Being pedantic the only nuts we generally eat that are actually nuts are hazelnuts. The rest are seeds, drupes, or as in the case of peanuts legumes.

Yes and as a corollary, it has nothing to do with Venezuela having the largest oil reserves of any country.

Is one reason that Russia is an empire, created as the same time as the British and French empires, ruling over countries with their own long histories and separate cultures that would break apart without an autocratic government?

Sure, but my point was that RAII doesn't need to involve the heap. Another example would be acquiring abd releasing a mutex.

Open a file in the constructor, close it in the destructor. RAII with 0 allocations.

If they are trans or not he still "died for his beliefs", as he had said:

"I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our God-given rights."

Reminds me of parts of Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Model

Why can't you use this for the comparison operator:

  bool operator<(const interval& x, const interval& y)
  {
     if x.min < y.min return true;
     if x.min > y.min return false;
     return x_max < y.max;
   }

Possibly however homo erectus used the same design for their hand axes for over a million years. This implies the design was hardwired in their brains, in the same way the design of nests are hardwired in bird brains, as opposed to a rationally thought out design.

English and Scots are also of course remnants of a foreign invasion.

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."

Donald E. Knuth

Single cell organisms can be light sensitive. Can move away or towards light. The signal cell erythropsidinium even has an "eye":

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

It also the fault of the guys in Marketing and Product Management who want features to match a competitor's, or to beat a competitor on some pointless metric, or to create different versions for different market segments, or because some corporate big wig made an off the cuff remark wouldn't it be nice if ...

Also there would be the use of new materials, such as diamond films.

An amnesty for what, mass murder, a policy of multiple genocides?

Also the Nazis claimed the German army was not losing WW1, but were betrayed by politicians. Perhaps WW2 would not have started if WW1 ended in unconditionally surrender?

No doubt he is intelligent but intelligent people can still behave stupidly, a "wise fool" to quote Gandalf.

Dropping a lump of plutonium on the heads of the inhabitants of Europa might be seen as an unfriendly act! :)

You could argue education is wholly about the transfer of knowledge, but research isn't. The fundamental difference between research and education is the discovery of new knowledge. You can be educated without doing research, and you need an education to do research, but without this discovery of new knowledge you are not doing research. You can also do research without communicating the results, just like you can write a book without publishing it.

I don't disagree with what you have just said except I understand education to refer to the transfer of knowledge while research is the discovery of new knowledge.

But he is not talking about education, about doing a course, where "getting the right answer makes you file smart". He is talking about research where nobody knows the right answer.

Just clicking the "continue reading" link worked for me, no email address needed to be entered

when each competitor would use one of their country's official languages and poetic forms.

$30.59 per ounce (current)

Yes, it is bad. The distribution of wealth determines the distribution of resources. The housing stock is limited. It ends up being mainly owned by those with a lot of money, in the process putting prices up beyond even what the middle class can afford. Building new houses won't fix this as the new houses will end up being owned by the rich as well.

Link times are the main pain for our edit, build, debug cycle.

VTunes can tell you the average time that functions take to run but which tools can highlight functions that very occasionally run a lot slower than normal?

I don't know of any actual technical reports but this is interesting, https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/09/how-the-post....

"One, named the “Dalmellington Bug”, after the village in Scotland where a post office operator first fell prey to it, would see the screen freeze as the user was attempting to confirm receipt of cash. Each time the user pressed “enter” on the frozen screen, it would silently update the record. In Dalmellington, that bug created a £24,000 discrepancy, which the Post Office tried to hold the post office operator responsible for."

https://clarotesting.wordpress.com/tag/dalmellingto-bug/

"The Dalmellington Bug entailed a user repeatedly hitting a key when the system froze as she was trying to acknowledge receipt of a consignment of £8,000 in cash. Unknown to her each time she struck the key she accepted responsibility for a further £8,000. The bug created a discrepancy of £24,000 for which she was held responsible."

A highly intelligent jerk is still a jerk. No surprise there.