Kajo [he/him] 🌈

Yeah, you’re right, it doesn’t make sense to say that O(f(n)) is good or bad for any algorithm. It must be compared to the complexity of other algorithms which solve the same problem in the same conditions.

Because they don’t need to, as long as we keep believing their nice promises without looking if their old promises have been kept.

This study was funded by a grant from the Fondation for Obviousness.

Also, part of the solution is to change our lifestyles for good. And we’ve seen with covid the problem of changing our collective behaviors just for a limited time.

Thank you for linguistic enlightenment, and for the extra smiles.

Looks like I was betrayed by deepl…

I meant formal/elevated langage.

In sustained French, “verge” is a synonym for “penis”. So, it made me smile to see an article about Pornhub in TheVerge.

One solution is to question their competence to speak on this subject, and assert the superiority of lived experience over purely theoretical knowledge.

Another solution is to weigh (their) rationality against ethics. Many purely rational policies have led to disasters and horrors. Eugenics, for example, is perfectly rational.

I would use the language I know the best which provide a library that handles .dot files (Graphviz?) and I would check if the library has an internal data structure for the graphs.

I guess it would be adjacency matrice or adjacency lists.

Thank you for the article. Opaque struct is an interesting subject for people who want to go deeper into their understanding of C.

If I could add/emphasis two points to the article:

• FILE is a famous example of struct using this trick. So, even if yon don’t often need to develop an opaque struct in C, you certainly use such struct daily without knowing.

• you can’t declare a variable with an opaque type (because the compiler would need to know its size). Everything must be handled through pointers, and the library has to provide functions to allocate/destroy the struct, like fopen() and fclose() for FILE.

I live in France. This kind of riots has been around for decades, sometimes because a cop murdered a kid in a poor neighborhood, sometimes because it’s new year’s eve (true story). What happened the last few days is not the sign of a system on the brink of collapse.

It’s the result of our colonial era, of a urban policy that creates ghettos, of ordinary racism (particularly in the police) and above all of a policing policy that has become increasingly brutal since the 2000s.

Concurrently, Macron is an authoritarian oligarch in the era of late stage capitalism. But the current riots are not related to the health care system or the worker’s rights.