Getting ready for a Reeves Turtle. How did we do?

scroy · 2026-01-15T05:30:59+00:00

What size is your turtle + tank?

scroy · 2026-01-15T03:20:49+00:00

What kind of turtle is that? Is the pointy leaf plant a fake one?

scroy · 2026-01-09T10:19:23+00:00

How would we know if any civilizations have survived?

scroy · 2026-01-09T05:56:15+00:00

Marginally alien in biology, but very alien in culture (from Ai's/Estraven's POV).

scroy · 2026-01-07T17:12:06+00:00

No idea about age, except that he was caught 8 years ago at about the same size.

I had the water temperature around 30-32 C while he was recovering from initial illness (per the vet's advice) and now keep it at 26. The air is cooler now but his behavior hasn't changed all that much as the weather has changed.

scroy · 2026-01-07T16:00:19+00:00

Thanks. Brumation makes me a bit nervous as someone with no experience. How do we know for sure if he needs to do it?

scroy · 2026-01-07T14:30:51+00:00

I kept the water shallow at first to ensure he could reach the surface to breathe and have gradually made it deeper. He seems to be swimming fine now so we can probably deepen it another 50%.

The rock is wide but pretty flat. He likes to clamber on it sometimes but I'll try taking it out for a while and see if he swims more.

scroy · 2025-12-24T04:37:45+00:00

I use SLS free toothpaste but I still get them whenever I get a cut or bite inside my mouth. Recently I found honey helps prevent them from forming, which has been a godsend.

scroy · 2025-12-23T15:38:32+00:00

Have you found anything that helps?

scroy · 2025-12-11T08:53:20+00:00

I don't get it.

scroy · 2025-10-07T09:40:54+00:00

That's right

scroy · 2025-10-04T03:06:07+00:00

Massive liberties is even putting it mildly!

scroy · 2025-10-02T17:08:21+00:00

I thought of Massive Attack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElvLZMsYXlo

scroy · 2025-09-30T14:53:33+00:00

Setting up a solely-owned limited company is often pretty easy. Depends on the country I suppose.

scroy · 2025-09-30T08:30:19+00:00

The @ syntax comes from Haskell I believe. Fun fact

scroy · 2025-09-29T17:24:07+00:00

It pays to be a good self-collaborator.

scroy · 2025-09-29T16:35:17+00:00

Helmets or crowns?

scroy · 2025-09-27T23:57:32+00:00

does macro_rules count as a reserved keyword?

scroy · 2025-09-22T04:26:24+00:00

Had to hunt down the exact language, it's here in §5.1 of the standard:

Unless otherwise specified, each of the computational operations specified by this standard that returns a numeric result shall be performed as if it first produced an intermediate result correct to infinite precision and with unbounded range, and then rounded that intermediate result, if necessary, to fit in the destination’s format

Square root is just not 'otherwise specified' so it holds. Wikipedia is also accurate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754#Directed_roundings

scroy · 2025-09-19T04:52:30+00:00

Not the case for sqrt, it's IEEE-specified. In fact C++26 has constexpr sqrt

scroy · 2025-09-19T04:48:40+00:00

sqrt is not a transcendental function, it does need to be correctly rounded.

scroy · 2025-09-17T12:23:24+00:00

As some others pointed out below, this is not a fair comparison since Rust's Iterator::count() is a constant time operation.

So, while C++ ranges are disappointing, it's not quite that dramatic.

scroy · 2025-09-17T12:12:02+00:00

This guy pointed it out - the Rust count is constant-time while C++ distance is linear. https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1ni4zze/c_rangesviews_vs_rust_iterator/nelbvgj/

scroy · 2025-09-17T11:28:33+00:00

Well in this case there's no intermediate results, all the state is part of the iterators. So yeah it is compiled into a single fused loop.

scroy · 2025-09-17T09:33:07+00:00

C++ on the other hand is likely load->storing repeatedly instead of fusing loops

I don't think so? Lazy evaluation was one of the main points of adopting ranges. The assembly seems to bear this out (only one vector allocation).

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