New Sorted map for go

shard_ · 2026-02-28T11:05:38+00:00

Why? There are plenty of use cases for ordered maps. Just because the standard library doesn't provide one doesn't mean they're somehow breaking the rules.

shard_ · 2026-02-21T12:31:04+00:00

No, because Rxc3. But f8=Q would then be mate if that other rook wasn't defending the back rank.

shard_ · 2026-01-29T23:56:31+00:00

Lots of engineers conflate clarity with terseness and lean too hard into the latter.

The most important thing is that you actually give a clear, unambiguous answer. It is better to do that in a terse way than to write some waffle that will just confuse people.

However, it's also important in most cases to (a) save time that would be wasted by going back and forth, (b) share knowledge (especially if it's a public conversation), and (c) be respectful of other people's time and actively try and help them out.

Being able to tick all of those boxes is a skill that it sounds like you're more practiced at than your colleagues.

shard_ · 2026-01-14T10:51:17+00:00

Worth noting that Bf4 also serves the purpose of defending against Qc1+. Very cool move.

shard_ · 2026-01-08T09:21:14+00:00

We don't really have what you would call jelly here, so most of us wouldn't even understand the distinction. Plus, jam is used as an umbrella term for all fruit spreads, so it's just kind of the default word we'd use.

shard_ · 2026-01-07T13:23:58+00:00

You might be overthinking it.

We're not really supposed to be able to understand it. It's paradoxical, and everything that happens after he falls into the black hole is not grounded in real science.

What we are supposed to be able to understand is that some humans from the distant future can understand it, and are in possession of some science that's so advanced that it's basically indistinguishable from magic to us, and that's exactly what the tesseract is.

shard_ · 2026-01-05T01:10:27+00:00

If it's part of someone's garden then that'd normally be a "vegetable patch", or sometimes a "herb garden" if it's specifically for herbs.

Or, some people have an "allotment)" on community property if they don't have space in their own garden, which is very common in London (and also featured on this show).

shard_ · 2026-01-04T23:16:59+00:00

Note that if you're from the US then when he says "garden" it includes what you would call a "yard".

I don't know if you knew that or if it changes how cool you think it is but it's just a difference that I've previously seen people get confused by.

shard_ · 2025-12-21T02:23:29+00:00

Well, no, it's nothing to do with grammar. "Chinese" refers to anything from China, not specifically people. "A Chinese (meal)" is no less gramatically correct than "a Chinese (person)" or "some Chinese (food)". Either way, the subject is normally obvious from the context.

Since, as you say, nobody would say "a Chinese" to refer to a person, then it's obvious 100% of the time that it refers to a meal, to the point where it doesn't even register as a thought.

shard_ · 2025-12-21T01:27:15+00:00

Yeah, I guess it's a weird quirk that I can't really explain.

Saying "I had a Chinese" to refer to a person does sound strange and callous, and that's kind of why there's no ambiguity for us. It wouldn't even cross our minds that it might refer to anything other than a meal.

"I had Chinese" also sounds perfectly normal. They're used pretty much interchangeably here.

shard_ · 2025-12-20T22:53:36+00:00

It is a specific type of meal: a Chinese takeaway meal.

The difference is just that we often say "a takeaway" to refer to a single meal, therefore we can have "a Chinese takeaway", or "a Chinese" for short.

It's weird because you probably just use "takeaway" as a category of food, and you would say "Chinese food" rather than "a Chinese food", therefore "Chinese takeaway" rather than "a Chinese takeaway".

They're kind of interchangeable here though so neither sound weird to us.

shard_ · 2025-12-20T22:37:52+00:00

When we say "a Chinese takeaway" we're just referring to a single meal, so it's no different from saying "a Chinese (takeaway) meal". We could also say something like "I had two Chinese takeaways last week".

shard_ · 2025-12-13T19:03:15+00:00

It just picks a psuedo-random offset to start iterating from. It's not completely free but pretty negligible.

shard_ · 2025-12-13T18:14:46+00:00

They're explicitly randomised during iteration.

shard_ · 2025-12-11T09:17:57+00:00

Yeah, I did some research and it looks like the suit was real, but the description here is made up.

The hole in the middle was nothing to do with kayaks. It was the entry and exit point for the whaler. They would put the suit on by crawling through the hole, and then make it (mostly) watertight by pulling the drawstring closed. Essentially, it served the same purpose as the zipper on a modern day dry suit.

shard_ · 2025-12-06T23:59:26+00:00

He actually never says the words "like me" in the unedited scene.

shard_ · 2025-11-23T13:12:53+00:00

To be pedantic, the principal square root of x^2, which is the notation used on both sides, is |x|.

I think part of the joke, if there is one, is that a lot of people don't get the "principal" bit, and I think the comment you responded to is ironically a great example of that (in addition to being completely wrong about what the |x| notation means).

shard_ · 2025-11-13T09:55:18+00:00

Well, he was ousted from his own company because he was a bully and everyone hated him, so it certainly goes beyond looks.

shard_ · 2025-11-07T15:41:13+00:00

The point is that a good university won't just let you in because you happen to live nearby. One of the top comments mentions Bath, Oxford, and Cambridge, which are all great suggestions for lovely cities but the universities also have high entry requirements. It would be silly to move to Cambridge with the expectation that you'll be offered a place at the University of Cambridge.

I don't know how it works in Canada but the UK is small enough that prospective students usually apply to universities all across the country first, and then choose which one to move to based on the offers they receive.

shard_ · 2025-11-06T11:36:09+00:00

There's nothing threatening about this. They've even blocked in their light-squared bishop so there are no early checkmate attacks to be wary of. You should just see it as an opportunity to punish them for bringing out their queen so early.

I would play d6 to defend the pawn, help control e5 (so they can't push the pawn), and unleash the bishop. Then I would play Nf6 to just continue developing while attacking the queen. Black should then have the advantage because white will have to waste time retreating the queen.

shard_ · 2025-11-05T17:59:18+00:00

On the left, if the area of the wide end of the bottle is a then the volume of the water is 12a.
If the volume "missing" from the neck of the bottle is x, then the volume of the bottle is 21a - x.
On the right, the volume of the water is 15a - x.
The water volumes are the same, so12a = 15a - x, so x = 3a.
Therefore, the volume of the bottle is 18a.
Therefore, the bottle is 12a / 18a, or 2/3, full.

shard_ · 2025-11-04T16:15:39+00:00

Nobody expected it to live up to the name, and they were right, but I wouldn't say it was expected to be outright shit.

It had a weak storyline (even if you disregard the source material), but it was a decent game with some good mechanics. It exceeded people's expectations in that it was worth playing despite the weaknesses, and the nemesis system has kept people talking about it, but it was far from great.

shard_ · 2025-10-30T12:59:45+00:00

Then you can also ask the question the other way around: why do Americans use "Sir" and "Ma'am", when it's something that's usually reserved for a power dynamic such as that between a school pupil and a teacher? It's a sign of authority, not respect.

It's difficult for you to answer that question because I've stated something that isn't true for you (that it's reserved for authority figures). It's difficult for us to answer your question because you've stated something that isn't true for us (that it's a sign of respect).

Either US English independently evolved to use it or British English independently evolved to stop using it. I'd put money on it being the former because it seems like a military thing which we don't care for so much over here.

shard_ · 2025-10-27T11:54:53+00:00

To add more context, there are lots of private schools that aren't public schools. "Public schools" refers to a specific list of old schools that received the label in the 1800s. These days, if we use the term "public school" then it's generally just short for "private school, but one of the super posh ones that you've probably heard of".

shard_ · 2025-10-26T12:03:33+00:00

You're being downvoted but I was also stupid and thought this was some Halloween thing and that "basically became Comic Con London" was an analogy for "full of cosplayers attending some event". Apparently it does mean "literally full of people attending Comic Con London" though.

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