I feel like switching to a 100% non-animal diet just out of protest.
A chemistry degree is required to understand the additives in the ingredient list, but ‘PLANT-BASED sausages/burgers/whatever’ are confusing. Whoever can’t figure that out shouldn’t be allowed to shop without supervision, in my opinion.
The more experience I gain over the years, the more this feels relatable. I had to pull myself together to keep my comments regarding kaputt Nvidia APIs civil in my code and commit messages.
Ah Nvidia. Always a fucking PITA (not the bread kind). I wonder how they have managed to become the most valuable chip manufacturer worldwide.
A lot of museums have such (“toy”) replicas or other merch stuff themed with the respective topic.
It’s just more accurate replicas that are hard to come by.
From what I have gathered, when I read through some criminology papers, it’s less about the severity of punishment and more about being caught and prosecuted which is more effective as a deterrence.
The death penalty for example has been proven in numerous studies to be ineffective.
Consequently, increasing the severity of punishments can become useless and possibly more based in a (public) desire for revenge.
We, as a more or less civilised society, should also be mindful about why we prosecute someone and how we want to treat people in the long run. For example, just imprisioning someone for life – apart from being ethically debatable – will not solve problems but only move them somewhere else.
Recently it feels like the news on this are flipping each week.
EU wants chat control.
EU does not want chat control.
EU want chat control (again).
EU backs awax from chat control (for now).
I have lost track.
The logic behind the voice controls sounds pretty questionable, but it’s supposedly backed by data showing that users spend billions of minutes talking in Microsoft Team meetings, according to Mehdi — so they’re already used to talking on the computer, right?
Do they really reason like this? Oh my. That’s stupid. And here I was thinking Microsoft employs clever people.
Next up: Slovakia changes the constitution to enforce a flat earth world view, because scientific facts are ignored and they’d prefer to stay idiots.
/j: joke
/s: sarcasm
/i: irony
Easy:
You take GPU. And then you put GPU.
Understood? /j
Das Budget wurde um 8% gekürzt. Ich denke, es handelt sich dabei auch mehr um eine Konsequenz genereller Sparmaßnahmen und weniger um ein hirntotes Kopieren der Trump-Regierung.
My nieces. I don’t understand it. Maybe it’s something like with Pokémon or Yu-Gi-Oh cards back then. It’s popular for some reason, children get on board with it and want to be a part of it and then we get this trend.
My keys feel suddenly very drawn to these cars.
switch case structures are very efficient in c and c++. They work similarly like an offset into memory. Compute the offset once (any expression in the ‘case’ lines), then jump. Using primitives directly, like here with chars, is directly the offset. Contrary to if-else branches, where each case must be evaluated first and the CPU has basically no-op cycles in the pipeline until the result of the branch is known. If it fails, it proceeds with the next one, waits again etc… (Some CPU architectures might have stuff like speculative branch execution, which can speed this up.)
However, code-style wise this is really not elegant and something like your proposal or similar would be much better.
At first I thought, "How are they going to compress 256 values, i.e. 1 Byte sized data, by “rearranging into integers”?
Then I saw your code and realized you are discarding 228 of them, effectively reducing the available symbol set by about 89%.
Speaking of efficiency: Since chars are essentially unsigned integers of size 1 byte and ‘a’ to ‘z’ are values 97 to 122 (decimal, both including) you can greatly simplify your turn_char_to_int method by just substracting 87 from each symbol to get them into your desired value range instead of using this cumbersome switch-case structure. Space (32) and dot (46) would still need special handling though to fit your desired range.
Bit-encoding your chosen 28 values directly would require 5 bit.
I ended up not getting it because the whiteboard guy didn’t like that I didn’t remember the formula for an n-dimensional plane off the top of my head.
What do they want? A walking wikipedia or someone who knows how to look up necessary stuff, evaluate it and put it appropriately into practise?
Don’t participate in such a process and the problem solves itself (unless you are very desperate). As long as companies find some idiot who jumps through these hoops, they will continue to do this. When they realize that they are deterring candidates with this shitty process, they might start changing it.
Aren’t they already doing that?
That’s a complicated way of saying that Microsoft recommends switching to Linux. /j
I don’t care about votes. I just hope that people start to comprehend this field a tiny bit better .
I wasn’t talking about (just) the ingredient list in plant based meat alternatives, but rather about food ingredients in general. Seems like I said it in a slightly confusing manner.
My point is: several food items that can be purchased list ingredients that are not easy to understand nor evaluate for a layperson. This is confusing. In contrast, “plant based” labled food is not difficult to understand, imo.