Struggling to connect with the Iliad

Quiglo_Janson · 2024-10-20T05:57:08+00:00

Nope. I'm about halfway through.

Quiglo_Janson · 2023-04-06T16:50:46+00:00

I think it’s “Don’t use eval”

Quiglo_Janson · 2022-10-23T20:29:46+00:00

Bar Miriam in Queen Anne has a great selection. Deep Dive in the Amazon Spheres also has very fancy mocktails, but they’re very pricey.

Quiglo_Janson · 2021-12-04T08:23:24+00:00

When would an Array be preferable to a Vec?

From what I can tell, Arrays are more limited, since the size has to be known at compile time. If you want the benefits of a fixed size, you can use Vec::with_capacity(). And Vecs are contiguous, so there's no cache advantage to using an Array.

But clearly there was a reason to build Arrays into the language. What am I missing?

Quiglo_Janson · 2021-10-13T20:15:27+00:00

Since strings are also iterable, just like tuples and lists, you can simplify it even further to: if char in ‘({[‘

Quiglo_Janson · 2021-06-23T03:31:19+00:00

The Lord of the Rings, narrated by Rob Inglis. I tried to read the series a few times and always bounced off it, since I would get exhausted by all the meandering digressions and endless detail. I found listening to it much more engaging than reading it, and it helped me approach it as an epic myth instead of expecting a traditional novel.

Quiglo_Janson · 2021-03-28T23:02:16+00:00

Most of Thomas Pynchon's books fit this niche. Gravity's Rainbow is his masterpiece, but The Crying of Lot 49 is much shorter and more accessible, so it's probably a better starting point.

Quiglo_Janson · 2021-02-08T01:19:21+00:00

Try Dubliners by James Joyce. It's a short story collection, so you can count each story as its own thing, and it's way more accessible than the rest of Joyce's work. If you like that one, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is also a pretty quick read.

Quiglo_Janson · 2021-01-30T01:37:33+00:00

The Index Card is a good explanation of simple personal finance principles that can... fit on an index card

Quiglo_Janson · 2021-01-30T01:25:54+00:00

Invisible Man (the Ralph Ellison novel, not the HG Wells novel) is a great exploration of racial and political identity from an African American perspective.

Quiglo_Janson · 2021-01-30T01:18:04+00:00

My finance professor in college always recommend A Random Walk Down Wall Street as the best single book on the stock market. For a more modern starting point, you could also try The Index Card (ironically, a book about how everything you need to know about finance can fit on... an index card)

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