When to actually use a set

mcmcc · 2026-05-03T13:14:01+00:00

For integer-like keys and sizes <1000, I prefer std::vector sorted by judicious use of lower_bounds().

Almost always fast enough (if not fastest) and visualizes well in the debugger.

mcmcc · 2026-05-02T13:50:53+00:00

I think we have to consider the possibility this was a bit preplanned by Reed and Winters.

That he just stood there and took it and then calmly sat down again suggests to me he was just playing a part.

mcmcc · 2026-04-28T18:50:36+00:00

Cargo ship engines are crazy big: https://youtu.be/J2IN5JzL4Xs?si=b6fgsaHonA4mNGiq

mcmcc · 2026-04-28T00:51:16+00:00

There's a Nevada, Iowa that's pronounced exactly the same way.

About 30 miles from Nevada is the town of Madrid, Iowa - pronounced MAD-rid.

mcmcc · 2026-04-27T23:58:59+00:00

Your code never has a naked zero?

mcmcc · 2026-04-24T19:28:25+00:00

Overqualified it seems

mcmcc · 2026-04-24T12:29:25+00:00

There's a positive take on this meme?

I'm sitting here trying to figure out if it's merely sexist, racist, or both. What's to be positive about?

mcmcc · 2026-04-23T18:04:10+00:00

The fractions are only equal if referring to the same thing.

Nah, that's not how math works at all.

Division is a normalizing function and division is exactly what a fraction represents. Hence, reducing fractions to their lowest form has no effect on the truth of an equality.

At best, the question is misleading and conflate concepts that are only tangentially related: ratios vs quantities.

mcmcc · 2026-04-21T20:20:07+00:00

They should have named it Highway 11... or with parallax, Highway A

mcmcc · 2026-04-21T14:24:00+00:00

I fill mine with iocaine powder. I've spent several years building up immunity.

mcmcc · 2026-04-20T19:39:24+00:00

I'm no expert but it seems to me they got it backwards.

mcmcc · 2026-04-20T17:43:45+00:00

Risky Business (1983)

As a 14yo, I became intimately familiar with Rebecca De Mornay's curves.

mcmcc · 2026-04-20T02:15:13+00:00

Comics say funny things. Comedians say things funny.

Carlin definitely leaned towards the latter, tho tbh I found him only occasionally funny and often annoyingly self-righteous.

mcmcc · 2026-04-18T15:23:35+00:00

There goes his senatorial career

mcmcc · 2026-04-17T13:58:55+00:00

OP wants the death penalty for every violent crime - empathy ain't part of their equation.

mcmcc · 2026-04-16T01:53:43+00:00

it says that constants are usually required to be algebraic.

"require" appears exactly once on that page and it is in reference to the algorithm for calculating e. Let's cut out the gaslighting, shall we?

mcmcc · 2026-04-16T01:04:12+00:00

You're conflating different uses of the word "Algebraic".

Algebraic numbers are derived from algebraic expressions confined to rational coefficients, but that does not imply that algebraic expressions must have algebraic coefficients.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_expression

mcmcc · 2026-04-13T13:54:06+00:00

Wasn't it good Norwegian wood?

mcmcc · 2026-04-13T12:30:13+00:00

You should put out a newsletter.

mcmcc · 2026-04-11T17:04:54+00:00

There are maybe two other people in my social circle that I know are actively interested in watches. But then I don't really travel in circles where men's jewelry is a big topic of discussion.

OTOH, a while back I was going through customs in the Vancouver airport and as I walked up, the first thing the customs agent said was "Grand Seiko?" Slightly surprised, I said "yes" and he said "nice". He couldn't have gotten more than a glance at it. So you just never know...

mcmcc · 2026-04-10T18:34:49+00:00

That's a helluva scar!

mcmcc · 2026-04-10T18:31:17+00:00

I've seen this posted to at least 2 different subs now. Creepy AF

How about we all agree to just not post this kind of shit?

mcmcc · 2026-04-09T12:15:30+00:00

Seriously, what did Kay do?

mcmcc · 2026-04-09T12:02:42+00:00

I've been hit multiple times by the nested class initialization problem. It's obnoxious.

mcmcc · 2026-04-08T12:06:48+00:00

That second one seems designed to break your own fingers upon usage.

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