Tom RitchfordThe two hard problems in compsci are caching, naming, and off-by-one errors.17h ago17h ago
Tom RitchfordMan, that was a tough read - not that anything you write is unreasonable!I wish I could say, "The world will get better", but I don't think either of us believe that. All we have are fleeting moments of joy, and…3d ago3d ago
Tom RitchfordSorry for the delay!My father started teaching me French as a young child, I did French immersion in high school and 40 years later, it is miraculously mostly…4d ago14d ago1
Tom RitchfordYour rule is sometimes true and sometimes false. "It depends".The general consensus is that each control structure adds some logical complexity and the more logical complexity there is in a small…6d ago6d ago
Tom RitchfordOnly a small subset of the space of if-else statements can be replaced by case statements!6d ago6d ago
Tom RitchfordI grew up in the 60s, and after the moon landings, they were promising space bases and Mars…Scientists have stopped promising this, because it's obviously very hard, but even in 2024, a lot of people honestly believe that we can…6d ago6d ago
Tom RitchfordWhen researchers were saying, "Fusion is twenty years away" (not ten), it was also during a boom in…Then the funding collapsed.6d ago6d ago
Tom RitchfordIt takes a special sort of attention to focus on the 4,431 US military who were killed in the Iraq…The US military is volunteer-only. All of these 4,431 soldiers volunteered to go to another country to kill strangers who never offered…May 112May 112
Tom RitchfordYou don't name these several crimes, so I'm very skeptical.Imagine you are at a party. There is a (voluntarily) naked person there. Later you discover this person was 17. What crimes, exactly, did…May 21May 21
Tom RitchfordFirst, what possibly about my postings demanding socialized medicine and enforcement of laws on…I am not. Probably the word "socialist" covers me best.Apr 30Apr 30