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just show up at a branch

In the UK at least, there are very few brick & mortar branches anymore - banks expect everything to be done online.

how do you ship a "wysiwyg"?

and my point is he is doing the hand-waving. i'm quite happy to hear success stories - we get so few concrete ones here.

I’ve used it for several improvements to our wysiwyg. I was able to refactor to a much more cohesive architecture that is making future work much easier/safer. We got a fzf like search algorithm for an autocomplete that includes marking which characters matched. It fixed some jank performance issues I was struggling to track down.

so, basically did some vague, almost incomprehensible stuff. seems par for the course.

Well, it does say:

"Everything is stack-allocated by default; heap is opt-in through the standard library."

So it supports both stack and heap, and I guess static allocation too.

Do we have a great poet who captures the American spirit, the American story, the American identity?

Dare I suggest Bob Dylan?

isn't British English.

Eh? Most commonly uttered words in UK English: "Have you put the bins out?"

Lessons from Vasa regarding C++ standardisation [pdf]: https://www.stroustrup.com/how-to-write-a-proposal.pdf

You are not alone in his style, but in what he actually says, all of which seems to me to be wrong.

Yep, tulips 1630s, south sea 1720s.

Grading exams is tedious, but invigilating them is a neutral experience.

I don't mind grading exams (though I think grading is somewhat futile - see my link elsewhere). Sometimes an examinee will come up with a new idea, but we don't need formal examinations to check that kind of thing out. And you can do it in a comfortable chair, while listening to Miles Davis, unlike invigilation.

I have learned a lot about computer programming from reading books and from more experienced programmers. This is what Illich was talking about - give people an allowance and let them spend it as they will, for example on books and mentors, or indeed on classic universities.

The whole grades-are-racist nonsense.

Wow, swerve off topic. I never mentioned anything like that and I do not want to.

While I am in no way a supporter of AI cheating, or whatever we want to call it, I can tell you from experience that there is nothing more tedious or soul destroying than invigilating a written multi-hour exam. It put me off teaching in higher education.

IMHO to solve many problems we should go with Ivan Illich's ideas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deschooling_Society and make education about education, not testing and certification.

I did about the same, until my GF said "it's them or me". Haven't touched one in over 30 years, thank god.

To anyone out there that does smoke - stop. You will improve your health, your finances, and you won't smell (well, no more than you would otherwise). And you probably don't look much like James Dean anyway.

I have no clue what brand it is

You must have clue! If there is one thing tobacco companies are brilliant at it is branding. Why else would I have smoked Marlboro (and I am English) for all those sad, sad years.

More or less. I remember the first time I flew in a tri-jet (after a 747), I was a bit worried on take-off about how we were still on the ground as the end of the runway approached.

To clarify slightly, I first heard "tower of power" used to describe the Saturn V. So two icons of the late 60s.

Oh no - you were THOSE kids.

I hated the top deck when flying east from NY to London. The rising sun poured in every time a crew member opened the cockpit door, waking me up. Best seat for me was the single one in the lower deck at the very nose of the aircraft.

The 747 was a great aircraft to fly in though. The tower of power effect on take-off really reassured you that you were going to get where you were going.

Or, as the original article suggests, blame someone else.

The good news for the shell32 team is that they are off the hook; they are the victim. The bad news is that we don’t know who the culprit is.

The story of software development through the ages.

Well, I don't think farmers had to worry so much about those things back when I was a chid - they seemed to just like shouting. It's not like there was much we could wreck - the last use of Dunholme Lodge (as far as I'm aware) was as a Bloodhound SAM battery, notionally protecting Scampton. Anyway, I enjoyed playing at the place (RAF did not unfortunately leave the odd missile around), and as I said I never encountered your grandpa. :-)

We seem to be regressing to the overuse of classes again.

Using its text mode, WordStar made a pretty good programming editor.

Can be very dangerous: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-37115032

Actually, a large kite (I know fighters are not large) can be dangerous without glass on the string.

IMHO, you can't do better than The Penguin Book Of Kites: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Penguin-Book-Kites-Original/dp/0140...

Covers history, and building kites using all sorts of easily available materials.

One reason that alcohol is so popular is that it is easily, legally obtainable, and a social drug, unlike (say) heroin, which this article seems not to mention (I may have missed it)and might have done less damage (look at the long-lived William S Burroughs).

Or the "wrong kind of snow": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_wrong_type_of_snow

I have spekl check disabled on all my devices.

Obviously :-)

MS Word has a "check spelling as you type" option which can be turned off - same with grammar.

Same two-letter command in my muscle memory. make run. make test. make migrate

Should surely be "two-word"?

In my experience ALL Lincolnshire farmers are grumpy. But we may have escaped as one of us was the local Police Constable's son.