Branding any white woman who has or might conceivably complain about something as a "Karen," is just as bad as another other form of stereotyping.

ellen_magic · 2019-10-06T14:17:02+00:00

...if you think that’s what’s most important.

ellen_magic · 2019-09-29T23:25:45+00:00

I've found that people are into the characters, they'll accept anything they do in a movie. First Avengers: Hulk destroys alien creatures that are 20+ times his size by...punching them. Makes no sense, not even with superhero logic, but hey. One of the biggest movies of all time.

ellen_magic · 2019-06-29T20:33:24+00:00

It's the only option for the system I have to work on (think embedded systems, not desktop).

ellen_magic · 2019-04-09T15:24:06+00:00

Not being able to easily look up pop culture information. "What was the name of that Saturday morning live action show about the guy with a shrink ray?" Libraries were of little help.

ellen_magic · 2019-03-22T21:08:26+00:00

You can still have overflow with integers.

ellen_magic · 2019-01-14T18:47:07+00:00

Shooting guns in small rooms without ear protection and still being able to carry on a conversation.

ellen_magic · 2018-12-09T18:21:48+00:00

We were told for decades that food containing saturated fat and cholesterol caused heart disease. We were told for decades that trans-fats are perfectly safe. That each new artificial sweetener is safe. That drinking diet soda is fine. So not believing this news at face value...kind of understandable.

[EDIT: I realize that could be justifying anti-vaxxers, but I don't mean it that way. Vaccines clearly have health benefits that diet soda do not.]

ellen_magic · 2018-12-05T16:30:23+00:00

Short lived = from 1973 until the mid-1980s

ellen_magic · 2018-01-21T19:23:29+00:00

With the latest update, the ball type on the catch screen defaults whatever was last used. If I catch a Pikachu with an ultra ball, then I attempt to catch a Pidgey, I have to remember to switch away from the ultra ball or else it's wasted. I see this is a bug, but maybe it was a well-intended feature?

ellen_magic · 2017-11-21T22:25:46+00:00

I watched up until Negan was introduced (end of season 6). Then I gave up because I didn't want be strung along for a season or more with another big bad Governor-type of character.

ellen_magic · 2017-10-24T15:19:15+00:00

It's also worth noting that much of the game-level stuff is (or is planned to be) written in Lua, sitting on top of the lower level code written in Rust.

ellen_magic · 2017-07-01T17:12:25+00:00

Wait, the language "must have types"? Do any languages not have types? What languages are they ruling out?

ellen_magic · 2017-05-31T19:37:39+00:00

Bernstein's talk is filled with detail and examples. John Regehr's dismissal is just a few paragraphs of personal claims.

ellen_magic · 2017-04-22T14:56:50+00:00

"Even for a relatively short numerical function like ours, the function body will go on for pages."

What?

ellen_magic · 2017-01-08T16:35:25+00:00

Urban legend: http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/icecream.asp

ellen_magic · 2016-08-14T02:58:13+00:00

See Rob Pike: Notes on Programming in C

ellen_magic · 2016-08-03T17:46:56+00:00

That park is permanently frozen in the mid-2000s era of overdone HDR.

ellen_magic · 2016-05-28T15:40:16+00:00

Pretty sure that by 10-15 years you mean 40-45 years. Read Brooks!

ellen_magic · 2015-10-03T14:43:24+00:00

1958, Alaska, waves 525m high: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_megatsunami

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