I read an old post here that really intrigued me. It had to do with this Chinese guy, having trouble at work,
>when he presented his analysis based on his company reports to the investors it did not match thier independent research. The deal went sour and his company blamed him for it. Thats when he said he had a "iris Chang" moment.
He appeared to find out how fucked up things are, and how deep the rabbit hole is.
One person said he used the same expression in reply to a comment about the sad state of affairs Asian people are in
>That's how I feel generally when I read up on Asian history though, particularly the wars, conflicts, and human suffering we've been through in the last century alone, and relate that to the lack of awareness and care and the self-hate of Asian people today.
>Though I never contemplated suicide because of this, it does bring about a feeling of helplessness for me sometimes, which often spirals to utter disgust in Asian people. During these bouts, it's one of the few times that I would actually "hate" being Asian. It's not the intrinsic quality of being Asian that I hate but rather the attitudes of most Asians today and their lack of care and compassion for other Asian people.
Men and women alike here, pour out your thoughts. Did you guys ever have such a moment, in the past or very recently? What sort of unsettling or even horrifying revelation have you had?
I invite you guys to think of this as a chance to ignore the usual non-Asian naysayers who in other situations may accuse you of being a 'tin-foil' conspiracist, and share your suspicions and beliefs about some of the more hushed up ugly truths related to Asians in the diasporas, or about race in general.
This is without doubt the stupidest thing a Roman General has ever done.
After we cleared the river bank, myself and a dozen of my soldiers stole horses from a nearby pasture and made hast toward Changโan. After over a day of riding, we could see the city. My ships were already there, bombarding the cities defenders with ignitum weaponry. The city wasnโt ready for this assault and fell rather quickly, fortunately for us. The walls that did exist were only about 5 meters tall and made of clay. Long in disrepair, the citizens had actually carved ladders and stairs into the brittle walls. When my 5 legions and ships took over the artificial harbor, the fight was basically over. I met up with the men at said harbor and quickly ordered that no sacking was to take place, and that we were there to restore imperial rule to Han. Loyalists were to be given administrative positions and extra rations, while those who support Stakhanov were to be thrown in prison. Shockingly enough, most of the ancient city actually DIDNโT want a foreign tyrant telling them when to breathe. The soldiers ran through most of the city with ease, or rather paraded through. We were treated as a liberating army, at least superficially. My soldiers enjoyed silk and food thrown at them as gifts. The resistance began at the imperial palace, but it just wasnโt enough and my vicious Celtic warriors had a field day butchering the traitors. Anyone high ranking was captured if they didnโt fight. Unfortunately, those were few and far between. These men fight with such ferocity for Stakhanov itโs shocking weโve won any battles. Regardless, the battle was won and the city is ours. My strength gone, I sleep in a demigods bed tonight.
Tomorrow I announce my imminent death and the restructuring of command. I hope the gods look on my achievements with respect and show me mercy as I pass. But donโt count on me going away yet, I still have a triumph to celebrate.
See you all soon,
Foodatron, Commander of the Germanic Legions.
A couple of days ago this got posted to /r/programming : https://github.com/mkirchner/linked-list-good-taste
It took me a moment to understand what the elegant version is doing, but I understood the branching version immediately. The quote from Linus, and reactions from other people, all seem to point to the elegant version being less legible. I noticed is that if you reframe the problem so p is a ptr to an index the code becomes much more clear. This got me thinking that the problem with the elegant version is actually a notational problem: The double ptr only tells you how many levels of indirection are in play, not what the indirection actually means. In this case the only thing that matters about p is that it's acting like an alias for a non-local variable. In a language with type inference you could express that with a partial type annotation like this:
p: *? = &list.head;
The idea here being that the only part of the type that you're specifying is the part that's important for communicating how p is used. I believe that *? is an excellent example of a zero-cost abstraction because it abstracts away a significant portion of p's type, but its purpose is only to augment notation. It cannot have an impact on code gen. There's no question about whether you're paying for features you don't use, or about the compiler being incapable of perfectly optimizing away something that should have been elided. In a way comments are similar, but there is an important difference, which is that the meaning of *? is at least partially checked by the compiler.
This has me wondering about how far you can actually take this idea of abstractions that only exist to improve that notational qualities of a PL. For example, in data-oriented design a big idea is that you shouldn't encode your model of the world into your program's structure because it likely has nothing to do with how the hardware works. The hardware should dominate your program's design if you want it to be fast. What if you were able to encode your model of the world into your notation instead? Would that give you any benefits, or would it just make refactoring more of a chore?
I feel like I've been circling around this idea for the past few months, but only now am I able to put it into words. My thoughts about this are still very immature, so I don't have many examples of how this could apply yet, although I will say that language features that let you safely remove explicit casts tend
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I just realized this. I know they run more or less parallel for most of their trip, but didn't realize that they intersect twice.
