There’s evidence that knights would dismount before battle to prevent their horse from being injured, even though they knew they were exposing themselves to greater risk. Although we have more technical knowledge about how to “optimally” care for horses now, there’s no reason to believe that we aren’t as or more exploitative of them, rendering them as or less healthy than horses back then.

I would say his mouth-region is neutral, but the region around his eyes are focused, almost to the point of being intimidating.

Exactly this: I remember meeting some Russians that had moved to Belgium a few years ago, and we got to talking about this topic. These were well educated young people, yet they told me the thing that surprised them the most when moving to Belgium was that people actually cared about elections, and that elections actually mattered. They had been completely convinced that elections in the west were just like the “elections” they were used to from Russia.

Even in a well provisioned lab you’re gonna have a hard time coming across large amounts of nitrogen rich compounds, exactly because they’re crucial to making explosives.

Theres plenty of cases where I would like to do some large calculation that can potentially give a NaN at many intermediate steps. I prefer to check for the NaN at the end of the calculation, rather than have a bunch of checks in every intermediate step.

How I handle the failed calculation is rarely dependent on which intermediate step gave a NaN.

This feels like people want to take away a tool that makes development in the engineering world a whole lot easier because “null bad”, or because they can’t see the use of multiplying 1e27 with 1e-30.

Read up a bit on this now, and it definitely looks like something I want to try out! One of the beautiful thing about C is its simplicity, and it looks like Odin has been able to keep that, while introducing some nice convenience features that I often feel like I miss when writing C.

I don’t know if this is done in practice, but if you have a nuclear powered sub, implementing a water electrolyzer that makes oxygen is fairly trivial. Then you have air as long as you have power, so they could in principle stay submerged for ≈ 20 years, or however long the nuclear reactors can go without refill.

I think that’s reasonable. As long as someone is posting relevant content, there should be no obligation to interact with their own posts.

I think people talking about premature optimisation are often talking about micro-optimisations. Those are almost always unnecessary until you’ve identified choke points. Optimising the overall architecture of the code base on the other hand, is in my opinion something that should be thought about before you even start coding. That’s where the major gains can often be done anyway.

I definitely see your point, but at the same time, isn’t public debate in text the best tool we have here for an open discussion?

Regardless, I can understand, and respect, that you don’t want to spend time on public discussions about moderation. As “some mod somewhere” once said: If you don’t like how it’s being done, become a mod yourself. I can respect that.

I agree that moderators have an important job, and I appreciate the effort you put into it, but is

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really necessary? I can’t see how it hurt to let them explain themselves in the comment section where everyone can see.

My void* doesn’t care about your const!

I typically don’t declare them as such - bring the pitchforks!

Unironically: For in-house scripts and toolboxes where I want to set stuff like input directory, output directory etc. for the whole toolbox, and then just run the scripts. There are other easy solutions of course, but this makes it really quick and easy to just run the scripts when I need to.

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