sushibowl

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[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago

Don't be too hard on yourself. I've seen this post come up on Reddit many times over the years, and every time the comments are full of people who think various letters are missing.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 10 points 1 month ago

Never in the history of time has a minute contained only 59 seconds. Even in Africa. And it has been decided that from 2035 onwards, we need to alter time itself in order to eradicate this irregular minute.

We can only hope that before that time, we get to experience one of these magical short minutes. It may happen yet.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Batch brew just means making a big batch of coffee with a machine. Kind of like a drip filter coffee machine, but generally modern cafés have evolved machines that are more precise and consistent. V60 is a thing that holds a coffee filter that you can put over a cup to make a single cup of coffee (this is usually called pour over coffee).

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 30 points 2 months ago

There are open tournaments and women's tournaments. The open tournaments are for anyone. Women have competed in them but at the top level it is somewhat rare.

The women's tournaments are intended to provide an environment that encourages more women to play chess. There's considerable sexism among men (not only in the chess world, hah) which is not always very welcoming.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The basic problem is that identifiers can be either types or variables, and without a keyword letting you know what kind of statement you're dealing with, there's no way of knowing without a complete identifier table. For example, what does this mean:

foo * bar;

If foo is a type, that is a pointer declaration. But if it's a variable, that's a multiplication expression. Here's another simple one:

foo(bar);

Depending on how foo is defined, that could be a function call or a declaration of a variable bar of type foo, with some meaningless parentheses thrown in.

When you mix things together it gets even more crazy. Check this example from this article:

foo(*bar)();

Is bar a pointer to a function returning foo, or is foo a function that takes a bar and returns a function pointer?

let and fn keywords solve a lot of these ambiguity problems because they let the parser know what kind of statement it's looking at, so it can know whether identifiers in certain positions refer to types or variables. That makes parsing easier to write and helps give nicer error messages.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 6 points 3 months ago

Not so sure. Stuff like ITAR exists to prevent exactly that. The us could also declare SpaceX to be some kind of national security interest.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 7 points 3 months ago

It will not, actually. This bill is far from budget neutral. The tax breaks for rich people are so massive that they far outweigh the big cuts to vital social programs. This bill will grow the deficit by trillions of dollars over the next decade.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 4 points 4 months ago

Butter corn miso ramen is a thing in Sapporo. Probably invented to promote regional products (Hokkaido is famous for corn and dairy) to tourists.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 5 points 4 months ago

AC is not common in Europe. There's a variety of heating systems: gas boilers, direct electric heating, district heating, etc. Heat pumps are a growing market though.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, when you do find a text article explaining the thing it's often unnecessarily long and padded out with meaningless fluff, just so more advertising can be stuffed within the contents.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Pretty sure the ace is actually scored as part of a five card straight here, skipping the K, 10, 8.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 2 points 4 months ago

Technically any Catholic male is eligible to become pope, it doesn't even have to be a cardinal. But yeah cardinals are the only ones voting so they always elect one of their own (with a few historical exceptions)

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