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One tiny piece at a time. That what the foot knives are for.

Including the URL isn’t to act as a check on the contents of the QR code, but to act as an alternative for those who don’t want to scan it at all.

The problem is “cuteness” is very much in the eye of the beholder for things like this, and I’m with neatchee here, it’s not cute, and it makes it basically unshareable, and hence unusable in a lot of contexts. I appreciate the effort that’s gone into the project, but the name and publicity massively detract from that.

FOR MORE HORSE STORY, INSERT COIN

Oh great, the coin judt scratched my phone screen. You owe me a horse story!

If there’s one layer of clothes then you’re correct, it O(1). On further thought deeper piles are not O(log N), but O(N). Once the number of items exceeds C it takes more than a single operation to retrieve an item from the bottom layer, and the number of operations is proportional to the number of layers, or N/C.

If you consider either picking an item up or moving it aside as a single operation, then retrieval from a single layer take 1 operation, and is O(1), but retrieval from the bottom of a two layer pile actually takes 3 operations (move the top item, retrieve the target item, replace the top item into the bottom layer, or you risk getting a deeper pile in one slot in the pathalogical case). Retrieval from the bottom of 3 layers takes 5 operations (move, move, take, replace, replace). in other words we have an O(1) process for taking the target item, and an O(N/C)=O(N) process for uncovering it in the first place, giving O(N) over all.

Your statement that “considering that the naximum amount of clothes is likely very small, it can be treated as O(1).” is true iff N<=C, which, I concede, is a likely scenario in any well managed laundry pile, hence comment about cache sizing.

Not if items are covered by other items. You’ve got a layer of fast L1 cache that is O(1), but exceed the limit of that layer by placing an item of clothing on top of it, and some elements are effectively “pushed down” to a higher latency tier, which is going to be closer to O(log N) as you have to move some percentage of the items out of the way to get to the target item. Cache eviction (doing the laundry) will reset this.

As always careful optimisation of the cache size, in relation to the expected distribution of items to be accessed, is key to maximising performance.

Thus is basically the same as the, now banned, flying wedge in rugby. The manouver aparently lead to twenty two fatalities, as well as inumerable injuries, in a single year.

To stop it sinking too far into the sand, right? … Right?

I had planned to do some productive work tomorrow, but this is calling to me. I must be strong…

“I don’t need anyone’s approval, but I’m glad to have it.”

Ok, it’s a detail from the Procession of the Magi fresco in the Medici chapel in Florence, specifically part of the Procession of the youngest king. There’s images of parts of it in the link above, or a full landscape here. Our chap is near the left end.

Benozzo Gozzoli, the artist, seems perfectly capable of painting hands, so it seems likely that he did this deliberately. He’s included the likenesses of key members of the Medici family as the kings, and more of the family and their friends as the retinue, so it is very likely that the image represents a specific person. There’s another figure, in the next panel, wearing a bright red cap, holding his hand in a similar way, so I suspect it is just supposed to show them relaxed, although the way the figure in the OP is holding his belt and staring at the viewer in an alnost challenging way makes me wonder if there is more the artist was trying to communicate.

It’s not the hand I’m worried about, it’s the wrist! I wish I knew what painting this is from, I really want to see everyone else, and what’s going on with their hands.

I’m wondering if it some sort of signal, his other hand is holding his belt weirdly, so maybe something like a gang sign that his contemporaries would understand? That or that painter wanted hum reaching for his dagger, but got the arm position wrong?

Which one do you hate more?

• I was looking for a en ee ess game on gog.

• I was looking for a ness game on gee oh gee.

Set up a shell company. Set up a trust somewhere with no capital gain tax. Shift ownership of the shell to the trust. As the shell, come to an agreement in principal with the bank to buy it. Use this as colateral to raise a loan from the bank for the purchase amount. Transfer the debt to the bank as part of the merger with the shell company. The bank now basically owes itself to itself. Sell the combined company from the trust, thus avoiding capital gain tax.

In the UK you don’t pay directly for most things. The big things you do pay for are; dental, opthalmology checkups, if you go to a highstreet chain rather than a hospital, and prescriptions, unless you are exempt.

Git gud

Git, indeed, good.

I find it genuinely bleak that we’ve got to a situation where someone would ask an LLM for something as fundamental as this. You could write a script that is considerably shorter, and vastly more reliable, than that prompt to get the same results. You could add the backup jobs to your monitoring system. You could actually test your backups. Regularly.

Worse than only finding old posts about the issue is when you find an old post, then notice that it’s got your name as the author, and you realise you’ve been fighting the issue for so long you’ve forgotten where you posted about it.

Nobel committee? Yes… that one right there… they’ve just solved the world’s energy problems forever, please give them all the medals!