Tom RitchfordThe two hard problems in compsci are caching, naming, and off-by-one errors.1 min read·18 hours 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…1 min read·3 days 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…1 min read·4 days ago--1--1
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…2 min read·6 days ago----
Tom RitchfordOnly a small subset of the space of if-else statements can be replaced by case statements!1 min read·6 days 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…1 min read·6 days ago----
Tom RitchfordWhen researchers were saying, "Fusion is twenty years away" (not ten), it was also during a boom in…Then the funding collapsed.1 min read·6 days 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…1 min read·May 11, 2024--2--2
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…1 min read·May 2, 2024--1--1
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.2 min read·Apr 30, 2024----