Reading F.c. Puns

That macro split should only be 144 calories, unless my math is wrong

Okay, let me explain.

Let's say that you're reading some jazz sheet music, and you see the chord "Fm7".

Is the 7th note always gonna be a D#? Or will it go to an E or a D when it's being played in an different or unusual scale? Does it even matter and I'm just supposed to play what sounds good?

Am I even making sense?

Bro I'm just, I'm confused. This is coming from a teenager who was self-taught and learned by ear. I didn't start by playing jazz either, I started by learning video game soundtracks.

Any and all advice is appreciated, and regardless if you give advice I hope you have a great day/night :)

Tsar Peter the Great founded St. Petersburg in 1703. The city was named after Saint Peter, his patron saint. In Dutch, it used to be spelled Sankt-Pieter-Burch, and then under German influence it became Sankt-Petersburg. Two centuries later, in 1914, at the start of World War I, the city changed its name to "Petrograd" because its original name sounded too German. Petrograd means "the city of Peter" in Russian. The city was renamed Leningrad in 1924 in honor of the recently deceased leader of the Bolsheviks Vladimir Lenin. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the original name, Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербург,[ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk]) was restored by a citywide referendum. In English, it is called Saint Petersburg today. At the same time, many organizations retained the name 'Leningrad', and an area around St. Petersburg is still known as 'Leningrad Region'. Many older generations still refer to the city as Leningrad out of habit. It became popular to shorten the city's name to Pieter (Piter), which is still the most commonly used nickname.

Leningrad Hero City Obelisk

I'm not sure how many were/are in the same boat as me, but I'm through week 1 of CS50 and I found that I just didn't have the background knowledge to write my own code. I could read it, well enough, but writing it, and all the little details, were a little too foreign for me. I found to solve the psets, I was just copying previously written code, adding my own touches relating to the problem and hoping for the best. If it worked, I didn't know EXACTLY why it worked, it was mostly luck and to me, it felt like I was not really being taught anything.

I'm the type of person that likes to know stuff inside and out, I struggle when the response to a question like "What exactly do the { and } do, beyond just outlining the body?"

Is "Just put them, you don't need to know more."

I like, no prefer to learn more, so answers like that just don't do it for me.

But I've found reading through the book "The C Programming Language" which was written by the creators of the language to be a big help. My knowledge is much deeper, and it's a surprisingly easy read with exercises that give you simple challenges, aimed at teaching you the language. Highly recommend it, if your goal is to actually learn how to program, and not just solve psets.

https://archive.org/details/the_c_programming_language_2_20181213

Enjoy :)

So to preface my concerns I'll give a little backstory. Years ago me and two of my friends were arrested in Mexico for an extremely serious crime that we were completely innocent of. Shortly after we were arrested it became pretty obvious this was an attempt to extort money out of us/our families. Our accuser hired a lawyer/agent/whatever who contacted our attorney and said, in no uncertain terms, that this case could go away for the right price. The situation was even further complicated by people within the Mexican government who also wanted a payday. But that's sort of beside the point. After a trial me and my friends were found innocent and released. After we get back to the U.S. we get hit with a civil suit in U.S. court. We weren't found liable for any damages and the case was dismissed with prejudice.

Anyways, fast forward about 5 years and I'm applying to law school. Obviously the law school applications asks you to disclose any criminal convictions. I also figured it was like that box you check on job applications about being convicted of a crime in the U.S. I can't remember the exact wording of the application but I remember thinking the whole Mexico situation didn't apply because: (1) it wasn't in the U.S. and (2) we were found innocent anyway. Plus, I was completely unaware of how intense the C&F evaluation is for the BAR, and didn't even realize my law school application would come back up for the BAR C&F. I had a DUI I got when I was 18 and stupid, which I disclosed.

As I go through school, I hear more and more about character and fitness and how rigorous it is. I was slightly concerned so I talked to a close family friend who's an attorney and she told me that it's definitely something I need to disclose to the BAR when the time comes but it shouldn't prevent me from practicing law. She made it very clear they value candor more than anything else. At this point I'm still not thinking about my law school application; I'm just preparing myself for the uncomfortable disclosure to the BAR association. My plan is to just bite the bullet and explain the entire situation in detail in my C&F application. The absolute worst part about the entire situation is that even though we were found innocent, I know people still may harbor their own suspicions about me just because of the seriousness of the charges. It's something I've struggled with immensely, so I wasn't stoked about an in-depth interview with the BAR association about it.

Club: Reading FC

Manager: Mark Bowen

Subreddit: r/Urz

Current table position:

How the season has gone so far: By and large it's been a quiet season, much to the relief of most Reading fans after flirting with relegation for the last few years. After a poor start, picking up just two wins, and two draws in the first 11 games popular manager José Gomes was sacked. He was replaced surprisingly by the clubs sporting director Mark Bowen. Under his new direction we started picking up results, with a particularly good run over Christmas leading to Bowen being nominated for Manager of the Month. Since then the momentum has faltered a bit leaving us just under mid table. John Swift continues to be our star player providing most of the creativity in midfield. 18 year old Michael Olise has come through strongly, already making 14 appearances for the club this year. Finally I should mention Jordan Obita who was injured in September 2017 and has battled back into the first team after two years out. Read more about his story here.

Unsurprisingly then my moment of the season was Obita's goal against Millwall, which can be seen here.

Key stat(s) of the season: Incredibly Reading have the most successful dribbles of any team in the top 4 divisions of England and UEFA's top 5 leagues with 445 opponents dribbled past. Otherwise I don't think anyone will be too surprised to read that our stats are bang average for the league. Swift has managed 5 Goals and 10 Assists over 31(1) games highlighting his importance to the team. George Pușcaș is currently top scorer with 9 goals, closely followed by Yakou Méïté on 8.

Any news from the season break?: It's been a reasonably quiet break from the club, with Chief Executive [Nigel Howe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wi

Hello all.

I am planning on reading a book about the C language once the semester ends, so what books do you suggest

Edit: thank you so much everyone for all the recommendations. Hopefully it will be fun diving into them, and hopefully there will be other people online who would find this thread useful

Mild spoilers ahead.

The German complete paperback of this trilogy (published 1994) has been sitting on my shelf for quite some time after I picked it up from a free books shelf and over Christmas and New Year’s I finally found the opportunity to burn through it.

Thanks to this sub I found it that the author is actually a very big name in SF. Cherryh wrote a more than 60 novels and won lots of awards, the Hugo among them (1989 for ‘Cyteen’). ‘The Faded Sun’ trilogy, consisting of the novels ‘Kesrith’, ‘Shon’jir’ and ‘Kutath’ and first published in 1978 and 1979, is part of Cherryh’s Alliance Union universe, but it can be read separately and without prior knowledge (that’s how I did it). So what is it about?

The story starts on the backwater world Kesrith, a desert planet home to the warrior people Mri, think of them as leonine matriarch Arabs. The planet is in transition of power from its former masters, the Regul, a species of scheming trader imperialists resembling Jabba the Hutt, to humanity. The Regul used the Mri as mercenaries in their wars against humanity, which cost millions of lives on many planets.

So there is a larger conflict in the background which the story only rarely touches. The human special ops agent Sten Duncan finds himself stranded with the last Mri – Niun, a warrior, and Melein, a matriarch, after a Regul ambush. Slowly he takes on their ways and wins their trust. Over the course of the trilogy the trio travels from Kesrith to the Mri home world Kutath, pursued by Regul and humans alike.

I’ll be honest here: At the end I loved the series, but in the beginning I was thinking about quitting. This has been because of the lengthy descriptions of the characters and their inner workings with which I could not identify. Also book two was chapter after chapter in a space ship and Duncan converting to Mri, which could have been shortened in my opinion. Cherryh also uses loads of invented vocabulary, which to me was clearly inspired by Arabic (after a while I found it really cool to actually understand the differences between Kel’en, Sen’anth and Kath’ein for example). While similar in setting to Dune’s Arrakis, Kesrith did not have a factor like Spice that made it attractive to all the factions. It’s not explained further than the Regul giving this system to humanity for reasons other than a buffer zone.

What I really liked was Cherryh introducing a companion species to the Mri, the Dus’ei, which I understood as brute comodo varan

I'm reading through D&C section 42, and verses 22 through 26 are quite interesting. Is it me or did God reveal contradictory concepts? Or was this before he saw how pretty Fanny Alger was?

>Thou shalt love thy wife with all your heart and shalt cleave to her and none else.

I have a HUGE file full of text to process in C language (think 40 GB minimum). The text is divided into lines, but there is no uniformity or pattern that can be followed here (lines have different length, duplicates can happen, etc.) Right now it is being processed in Python but it takes forever and my team would like something more efficient. C was suggested as for various reasons it can already be used in our environment (let's not talk about alternatives now, just focus at C). The idea was to use various low-level functions of C for multithread processing of the file.

The problem is that C seems to have no function to "jump" to given line in file and has to read it sequentially (line-by-line) which makes any attempt to speed up the process futile (aforementioned Python script already does this). I just cannot divide the content into chunks to process at the same time in different threads, because it has to be read first.

Is there any way to get to those lines while skipping content before them? Is there some trick with addresses/bytes/bits or some other weird low-level shenanigans that can be used to "jump" to a given location in file? It does not even need to be a very specific line, I have to go through all of them anyways. I just want to be able to put my finger at the start of the line somewhere in the middle.

After being for some years in Siberia, with all sorts of different people (crimminals) Dostoievski found it’s way to spirituality by the hand of the Cristianity (orthodox if I am not wrong). And interpreting many stories from the evangelium’s in very unique ways: Death and spiritual resurrection of Lazarus (Raskolnikoff), the missconception/wrong interpretation of an idea in Demons (see the liberation by Jesus of the haunted guy), and the proliferation of a good idea from an ethical point of view, as an example of “eternity” or “after life” in TBK. So for example, due to the conditions I grew up, most of my teenage years I rejected the bible (not really spirituality), searching that path in many ways (drugs, meditation, solitude, multiple couples etc), and after reading Dostoievski I started to read the evangelium’s in whole different ways (also influenced by the Gospel in Brief by Tolstoy). Anyone happened the same?

http://ckraju.net/papers/Reading-list-Bengaluru.html

Dr. C. K. Raju is a highly accomplished Indian scientist responsible for creating the first supercomputer Param for India. This is a highly recommended reading list to understand the false history of science propagated by the west.

Club: Reading FC

Manager: Mark Bowen

Subreddit: r/Urz

Current table position:

How the season has gone so far: By and large it's been a quiet season, much to the relief of most Reading fans after flirting with relegation for the last few years. After a poor start, picking up just two wins, and two draws in the first 11 games popular manager José Gomes was sacked. He was replaced surprisingly by the clubs sporting director Mark Bowen. Under his new direction we started picking up results, with a particularly good run over Christmas leading to Bowen being nominated for Manager of the Month. Since then the momentum has faltered a bit leaving us just under mid table. John Swift continues to be our star player providing most of the creativity in midfield. 18 year old Michael Olise has come through strongly, already making 14 appearances for the club this year. Finally I should mention Jordan Obita who was injured in September 2017 and has battled back into the first team after two years out. Read more about his story here.

Unsurprisingly then my moment of the season was Obita's goal against Millwall, which can be seen here.

Key stat(s) of the season: Incredibly Reading have the most successful dribbles of any team in the top 4 divisions of England and UEFA's top 5 leagues with 445 opponents dribbled past. Otherwise I don't think anyone will be too surprised to read that our stats are bang average for the league. Swift has managed 5 Goals and 10 Assists over 31(1) games highlighting his importance to the team. George Pușcaș is currently top scorer with 9 goals, closely followed by Yakou Méïté on 8.

Any news from the season break?: It's been a reasonably quiet break from the club, with Chief Executive [Nigel Howe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wi