Most humans wouldd never write the word first
followed by ()
. It absolutely should have been zeroth()
, and would not cause any confusion amongst anyone who needed to write it.
Most humans wouldd never write the word first
followed by ()
. It absolutely should have been zeroth()
, and would not cause any confusion amongst anyone who needed to write it.
It’s too late and I’m too many beers in to look this up, but I’d bet my next beer on the word pair ‘white people’ being considerably more prevalent than ‘while people’, especially around here. So you’re not necessarily in need of coffee, your brain is just doing its job—matching patterns and saving you fractions of a calorie to not have to actually pay attention to the letters.
At this rate, they’re going to need 18-year-olds to do national service as Tory MPs.
Always. https://xkcd.com/378/
And more than one skeleton.
Is there any good reason to limit a text field like that these days? Although, UCAS probably still rocking a System/360…
Seeing your kids on stage is magic—my son has been in various professional and amateur roles since he was 10. He can act and sing, which opened up musicals too. Having several aspects to performance has definitely helped him. Actor musicians can be in great demand, but since there are few (compared to actor / singer / dancer), I don’t think there are as many opportunities as there might be.
If your kids are ok with the acting side, definitely encourage them.
On a related note, I was also involved in the building of a new theatre at my kids school, and I tried to convince them to not restrict it to the music and drama departments. No matter what field you’re going to go into, being confident in front of an audience (even just presenting on your own subject) is a valuable skill that theatre can teach. I’m now grey enough to not worry about speaking to an audience. I wish I’d had that confidence earlier in my career.
I started volunteering at a children’s theatre. Just finished the third of three production runs, seeing kids from 8 to 18 astound audiences with performances that surpass professional productions I’ve seen. It’s renewed my belief in the power of the arts to change lives, when my whole training and professional life has been in the sciences.
Atheist really means a definite belief that there is no god. Agnostic is less ‘strong’, asserting that it’s impossible to know how the universe was created and whether or not divine beings exist.
That is a lovely little vignette. Thank you for a glimpse into your world :)
Plus it’s probably more complex to engineer multi-colour (well, two colour) font rendering onto the video. Getting the background brightness for each character is as simple as adding all the pixel rgb values together and threshold in. It doesn’t need to be very accurate.
Light vs dark adapted. In bright light, the best wavelength is longer.
From that source:
At threshold sensitivity, the human eye can detect the presence of about 100-150 photons of blue-green light (500 nanometers) entering the pupil.
So I guess either blue or green leds are good for this application, and green much cheaper…
It’s a great analysis, and I don’t disagree with anything you said (mostly because you’re better informed than I am). But you nailed it with “Why would I need this? I don’t know yet.” It should all be driven by need—the fact their are more options is great, but doesn’t mean they should be used just because they’re there… For many hobbyists, ease of access and speed to get started is the main driver, and for those cases, pre-built boards are the answer.
I remember talking to a car manufacturer in the early 2000s who said it would be relatively easy to make cars to a custom length / load space. But they tend to make specific models because if you give people too much choice, they get paralysed and don’t choose anything.
I suspect it’s not quite that simple but the principle seems sound.
“Almost at the deadline” and starting to collect data. Sounds familiar.
What’s your research question? Your list of questions seem quite unfocused and broad.
It’s a big of a problem.
But why on earth would you elect to name this contraption of yours the giant death—oh I see.
Red Dwarf
Of course—that’s why we have such classics as
stristr()
,strpbrk()
, andstripos()
. Pretty obvious what the differences are there.But to your point, the ‘intuitive’ counterpart to ‘zeroth’ is the item with index zero. What we have is a mishmash of accurate and colloquial terms for the same thing.