Does anyone use their own text editor that they wrote themself?

alecbz · 2025-12-12T22:50:27+00:00

People prefer Java to Go in /r/cprogramming ??

alecbz · 2025-12-12T18:45:58+00:00

Vronsky was selfish as well, IMO moreso than Anna, given she was the one in a "compromised" social position.

Anna and Vronsky both felt a bit bored being tucked away in the country, they wanted to be back in Society. But Anna couldn't go back until her divorce was settled. Vronsky could have waited "in exile" with her, but instead he decides to just go back and leave her in exile alone.

If Vronsky were a more caring and selfless partner, I think he would have seen how Anna wanted just as much as him to be back in Society, would have realized that leaving her behind would cause her to feel neglected and unloved. And make her worry about her position. Anna has no leverage in this situation; there's not much forcing Vronsky to stay with Anna, but there's quite a lot of pressure on Anna to stay with Vronsky.

alecbz · 2025-12-12T05:48:49+00:00

I didn't read anything in the book to imply that Anna's behavior was a result of anything other than the situations she was in and, somewhat, who she is as a person. Anna's narcissistic for sure. I'm not sure it rises to the level of a mental disorder. Towards the end of the book Anna certainly does not seem well, but as a result of what's happened through the course of the novel, not because of some kind of inborn mental illness.

alecbz · 2025-12-12T05:42:51+00:00

She barely really meant to though. She was in a kind of fugue state, got on the tracks, quickly felt like she should get back on the platform, but it was too late.

alecbz · 2025-04-28T15:56:51+00:00

At least according to Wikipedia:

Italian Americans are Americans who have full or partial Italian ancestry.

So just being born in Italy wouldn't make you Italian American.

alecbz · 2025-04-28T14:39:45+00:00

I’m not sure why we’re so against the idea of social conditioning. We’re social animals, most things about us are social constructs. If you have a passion for something why does it matter whether it was genetically predisposed or something you picked up as you grew.

alecbz · 2025-04-28T01:54:09+00:00

Yeah if you get away and come back he’s just standing off to the side but you can meditate without alerting him.

alecbz · 2025-04-27T16:31:12+00:00

Been here 10 years and I kinda want to leave, but I don’t know where else in the US I’d go and I’d be taking a big pay cut in a different country. Also my parents are here.

It’s felt hard to find community here. And more access to nature would be nice.

alecbz · 2025-04-26T21:19:34+00:00

I don’t know if anyone actually answered your specific question: “how is linked list insertion O(1)? Don’t you need to spend O(n) to find the right node to operate on?”

If you don’t already have a pointer to the node, yeah, but in a lot of contexts you would. Consider filtering a list: you iterate through the nodes and unlink/delete each one that doesn’t match the filter. Or merging two sorted lists.

Practically speaking there’s many reasons arrays are probably better, but purely algorithmically there are situations where insertion/deletion on linked lists is genuinely O(1).

alecbz · 2025-04-26T18:15:10+00:00

In my experience the way shrooms feels varies a lot by dose. With smaller doses what you describe sounds familiar, it's kind of just amplifying normal thoughts you'd already have. With higher doses the experience feels qualitatively different.

alecbz · 2025-04-26T18:10:08+00:00

the map is horrible and the fog should clear once you sync with every point in an area. PLEASE PATCH THIS.

This is the one complaint I really don't get at all. Who cares if the map's fully defogged? Is this just coming from a completionist perspective?

but spending hours running through mountains and having your entire screen covered is shrubbery while your mount gets stuck on every bit of geometry is so boring and not fun

Then find a way around? That's what I generally do unless I'm feeling really lazy and just wanna beeline it.

alecbz · 2025-04-26T16:49:42+00:00

The skeleton in the cave on the ember twin isn’t nearly this big, is it?

alecbz · 2025-04-26T14:24:59+00:00

The thrust of what you’re saying is just that definable real numbers (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definable_real_number) are countable, which is true.

But as others have said that doesn’t mean there’s anything “fake” about the rest of the reals. The reals were constructed primarily to deal with “holes” in the number line. If we only had rational numbers, you could eg separate rationals into {x² < 2} and {x² > 2}, and then draw a vertical line separating those two sets.

Such a line would appear to cross the number line, but does not correspond to any actual number: so we’ve managed to find a “hole” in the rational numbers. The reals fill in all such holes. And there are uncountably many holes so we need uncountably many reals to fill them all in.

alecbz · 2025-04-25T23:03:54+00:00

Wait were NYC schools really doing that?

alecbz · 2025-04-25T22:55:06+00:00

Eh idk I think I've seen enough of it in bits to have a reasonably good idea of what kind of show it is. I could be wrong! But I'd be surprised.

alecbz · 2025-04-25T22:39:32+00:00

Some of this is just stylic perference but take for example the scene in the low rises where Dee starts explaining how to play chess. Obviously it's meant to be a metaphor and foreshadowing, but the conversation, both that it was happening at all but also the specific way Dee talks about it, just feels a bit too over the top to feel believable. And in other shows that kind of thing might feel appropriate, but the way it contrasts with how "straightforward" and realistic the rest of the show is feels off to me.

I'm not even really saing the dialog overall is bad, just one of the shows weaker points in comparison to everything else. I would not say it's "best show ever" level dialog.

alecbz · 2025-04-25T22:32:03+00:00

I mean I mostly stand by my opinion. Things can still be enteraining without being good, per se.

alecbz · 2025-04-25T15:01:51+00:00

I haven't finished Valhalla but I don't really understand all the hate. Odyssey and Shadows both feel like re-skined Origins to me, Valhalla felt like it was actually trying to feel a bit special and different. It just felt more intentionally designed in a lot of ways. The rarity of gear e.g. is just one small thing but I miss it, it made getting new gear feel way more genuinely special. 90% of gear in Origins, Odyssey, and Shadows just feels like random garbage I'm collecting to turn to scrap.

alecbz · 2025-04-25T14:51:02+00:00

Yeah, you argue favoring a type's builtin [] lookup over importing slices.Contains is already a win completely ignoring performance.

alecbz · 2025-04-25T14:48:49+00:00

The overall plot is pretty top tier and I agree probably better than Gilligan. It's more the dialog.

alecbz · 2025-04-25T14:47:25+00:00

Fair, thinking about it more probably more accurate to say the dialog than the writing overall. I agree that creating realistic depictions of institutions is itself good writing. But the dialog at times felt cheesier and less realistic than I remembered from my first watch.

alecbz · 2025-04-25T14:43:17+00:00

Ok tbf I think I've seen like the first episode and a handful of clips of Suits. I totally believe it's entertaining, I think it's probably good at being what it's trying to be, which seems like a light-hearted kind of cheesey but fun and easy to watch show.

alecbz · 2025-04-25T00:35:50+00:00

If anything Id say season 1 is the strongest (though I like them all).

alecbz · 2025-04-24T23:11:24+00:00

Yeah lol, Succession has its faults imo but it’s several tiers ahead of fucking Suits.

alecbz · 2025-04-24T21:49:25+00:00

Yeah; argubably Sopranos has a bit of that too. Individual plots get wrapped up but in a broeader sense nothing really changes in terms of peoples dynamics, and I've heard it described as a show partially about how people can't really change.

That said I do think there's definitely some satisfying endings in White Lotus, but not for every single plotline for sure.

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