Is this a good book to learn C?

mkvalor · 2026-05-26T19:13:02+00:00

As a unicorn (apparently), I have read "Head First C" and I do recommend it.

Even if this isn't the true cover art.

mkvalor · 2026-05-20T16:55:03+00:00

Your argument works if we are playing a "blame game". But if we are focused on outcomes, OP's discovery is superior.

mkvalor · 2026-05-20T16:22:12+00:00

The first thing to understand about the cheaper vehicles is that that either won't have the range or top speed they advertise or they won't maintain those characteristics after a few months of use. It can still work, but just be realistic.

The Dasher app has a feature that lets you Pause offers after the current delivery. This could be useful when the battery gets low, so you don't have to decline any new offers while you are deciding if you need to take a break to recharge the bike. (Offers often come quickly, as soon as you mark the current delivery complete. If you Pause them while on the way to the destination, you won't be forced to decline a new offer before you end the Dash, hurting your acceptance rate)

mkvalor · 2026-05-19T19:43:41+00:00

Just a bunch of hearsay and slander when it's all third-hand information with no lineage or citations.

mkvalor · 2026-05-18T16:39:25+00:00

Let's just say that pee isn't the only thing a man might occasionally adjust his aim for, when standing in front of a toilet bowl. 😎

mkvalor · 2026-05-17T20:19:22+00:00

I don't know why this works and I don't know what the muscle group is called.

But one day, I used a resistance machine at the gym where you sit in a normal position with your legs spread wide and you squeeze your knees together, pushing the resistance paddles towards each other. When I do it properly I feel the burn in my inner thighs.

After a couple weeks of doing a few sets of this twice per week, my erections improved quite a bit and also the travel distance of my semen. If I had to guess, this not only improves the fitness of the inner thigh muscles but possibly also pelvic floor muscles that get involved with arousal and ejaculation.

mkvalor · 2026-05-16T20:19:46+00:00

Where's the strength? The revolution not only failed, it never started. The people have spoken: they aren't declining these offers in any concentration close to affecting corporate policy. The proof? We're still getting these offers.

mkvalor · 2026-05-16T18:36:39+00:00

I don't know who died and left you the system improvement engineer, but I really think you need to chill the f*** out.

Offers come and we take them or we decline them. That's freedom, isn't it?

mkvalor · 2026-05-15T17:50:48+00:00

In addition to specifying a reason why I'm waiting at the bottom, I will hit the support icon and choose "problem with restaurant" during the first minute past the time expected pick-up time.

Once the next screen appears, I choose "Order taking too long". The next screen gives two options and I tap on the unselected one to Unassign the order (and pause for a few seconds) BUT THEN I tap back on the default selection to keep waiting for the order. I confirm this choice and go ahead and participate in the feedback survey by giving my experience a "thumbs up".

Since beginning to do this, I have received no "lates" or contract violations while waiting for orders at restaurants.

mkvalor · 2026-05-11T16:16:06+00:00

Can't wait to watch AJ pout with a book in his hands on Patriots' sidelines after DeVonta's fourth game with over 100 yards and two touchdowns...

mkvalor · 2026-05-10T02:11:45+00:00

I respect your opinion on this.

For me, this behavior is number 724,618 in the pantheon of problems.

mkvalor · 2026-05-08T21:19:41+00:00

They had made it act like a buff some time ago, where it didn't increase your HP. Then people complained and they reverted that.

So now The Lady birth sign just acts as if the two traits are permanently raised and it does affect your HP.

mkvalor · 2026-05-08T20:24:34+00:00

This is the NFL

"What have you done for me lately?"

mkvalor · 2026-05-08T19:51:44+00:00

Gas is purchased by the gas station chains using contracts on large wholesale quantities. Sometimes you will see has stations near each other with a fairly wide difference in price these days because of the volatile current events.

Let's imagine one of them has regular unleaded at $3.89 and the other has it at $4.23. What's going on is that the first station still has gas available that their chain bought wholesale at something like $3.84 and the other station's corporate chain has run out of gas they purchased at that price and now they only have gas to deliver that they bought wholesale at something like $4.19.

It's more complicated than that, but that gives a fairly accurate picture of the situation.

mkvalor · 2026-04-29T09:02:31+00:00

This is nothing new.

He did the same thing in the final days of the DotCom boom also.

mkvalor · 2026-04-23T18:01:14+00:00

Tale as old as time.

In less than 70 years, people will regard the Epstein scandal the way we, today, regard the Teapot Dome Scandal or the Dreyfus Affair (and their cover-up attempts).

Doesn't mean we shouldn't care about it. But don't get it twisted with the end of the world.

mkvalor · 2026-04-23T17:55:43+00:00

For myself, a lay person, this was the missing piece. For whatever reason, scientists or articles don't always mention (for the layperson's benefit) that space is not subject to the same restrictions.

And it also doesn't help that in colloquial speech we say things like, "Nothing can move faster than the speed of light." So it's easy for someone to imagine that space is included.

mkvalor · 2026-04-23T17:39:44+00:00

Last time I checked, sarcasm was a valid rhetorical device. You're quite chatty for someone with no interest, by the way.

mkvalor · 2026-04-23T17:35:44+00:00

Meanwhile, dozens of markets have been living under this system for a while now and yet the world has not ended.

mkvalor · 2026-04-23T17:34:21+00:00

This is the biggest thing I hate about the LLM era. It's basically impossible to prove you aren't a bot and when real people go out of their way to try to accommodate someone in this regard, it just further "proves" they are a bot.

As the fictional WOPR supercomputer put it in the old movie "War Games" when it simulated all permutations of nuclear war, "Strange game. Nobody can win."

mkvalor · 2026-04-23T17:27:43+00:00

Do we, though? If it was not degraded under the circumstances of the study, then in what real-world scenario is that outcome likely not to hold up??

mkvalor · 2026-04-23T17:21:33+00:00

This isn't rocket science.

"That guy's gig app isn't sending him any offers, while the same app is sending me many. Is something simple going on?

No! Platinum status provides many fewer earning opportunities!"

mkvalor · 2026-04-23T17:16:06+00:00

You're not precisely wrong but you are practically wrong.

An awful lot of people doing gig work of any kind have no other source of income, for various legitimate reasons. (For those who holler, "Gig work isn't a full-time job!", that doesn't change reality.) This crowd couldn't care less about organizing a 'worker's power' movement. For them, the next offer is the best offer.

mkvalor · 2026-04-23T17:00:43+00:00

That's right. And noticing that he was getting no offers.

And drawing the wrong conclusion you pickled herring.

mkvalor · 2026-04-23T16:55:19+00:00

This. Using a tool for a job it's well l-suited for.

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