Also the people are gorgeous and friendly, though the extreme politeness takes a lot of getting used to.

Do you mind elaborating a bit on this? I’m interested to hear.

This is the real explanation. Couple that with a push in the late 90s/early 2000s to roll out high-speed unmetered internet in the form of ADSL and later fiber.

Iceland runs plenty of these and has a nice culture of frequenting the public bathhouse. It’s one of the few things you can do that is actually affordable there.

They do have the advantage of having essentially infinite clean energy in the form of geothermal heat. As do Japan in many cases, for that matter. I’m sure that has something to do with these institutions having staying power there.

Anyway, I think this idea has merits, but not as an energy saving measure. The reason for this is that in order to maintain good water quality, you have to shower thoroughly before getting into the bath, negating the potential energy benefits of the initiative. We can bring it back for it being nice, though!

I don’t think I’ve ever experienced this while flying in the EU, and I’ve done my fair share of it, living here and all.

Possibly. I’ll have to add it to the mix when comparing. Thanks for the suggestion.

I was mostly against having the amount of ads that it blasted on me. They had a setting to turn off the recommendations, but that made it nigh-unusable.

You can do a lot of things! I’ve replaced the launcher and installed an altstore on it, giving me access to plenty of good stuff.

It’s running Android under the hood, so any APK is theoretically installable, but most won’t run well unless they are optimized for the use-case.

Healthcare is pretty rough, I’d be willing to bet that the grass actually is greener in this case.

It’s more likely that the military is behind this call. Thailand may be a monarchy but the monarch is not strictly speaking in charge as far as I know.

Oí! You got a license for that sword?

WFH means less carbon emissions, less time wasted in traffic, and less time literally putting your life at risk from vehicle collisions.

It speaks volumes that all of these problems are car-related. The whole push for WFH is a massive condemnation of how badly people actually feel about the effects of the car-oriented development that the U.S has been spending so much time championing.

Given Putin’s long history of violating Swedish airspace over Gotland, I feel like the statement has at least some amount of credibility.

In fact, I would not be surprised if that is a large part of why public sentiment finally swayed in favour of NATO in Sweden after so many years of public sentiment being against the prospect.

Yeah, they don’t care that senior talent left because that was the whole point.

• General purpose LLMs are starting to replace everyday queries I used to posit to Google. Perplexity can be quite good for this.
• Copilot as enhanced autocomplete when writing code. A particularly good use-case is writing tests: with a few test cases already written, a sufficiently good test name will most often generate a well-written test case.
• LLMs for lazy generation of SQL queries can sometimes be quite nice.
• Writing assistance for things I find myself struggling to get written by myself. A writing unblocking tool, if you will.

It’s reducing the effort and time I have to put into some things, and I appreciate that. It’s far from perfect, but it doesn’t have to be perfect to be useful.

A switch statement is probably a decent option here, yeah. You trade off a little bit of memory for what might be a few more instructions executing the switch statement, unless the compiler picks up on it and optimizes it. Maybe check godbolt for what gets generated in practice if you really care about it.

A few things come to mind:

1. The array is probably fine. It’s not going to be particularly large and lookups are O(1)
2. It’s a bit weird to me that you’re using the char pointers as indices. I would probably use actual indices and spend the miniscule amount of additional stack data to improve the clarity of the code
3. You could save on some indentation by returning early instead of nesting the for-loop inside the first if-statement
4. Is the call to the lookup-table really safe? Maybe checking that the token from RNA is within the bounds is the way to go?
5. The only thing I would even remotely care about with regards to performance is the malloc, and that’s not that big of a deal anyway unless the length of dna is really large. Streaming the result or overwriting the presumably already malloc’d input would be the only thing I would touch, and only if I could prove that it improves performance in practice.
6. (added in edit): if you can guarantee that the input is well formed, you can omit the bounds check and save some effort there.

That’s where you’re wrong, bucko

You upload the binary to the App Store, and as a part of the release process they may inspect the binary to figure out what it’s doing.

They of course don’t do that for everything as it’s a bit complicated to do for everything, but it can be an effective means to for example figure out when an app is calling an API in a prohibited manner.

1.8B was the fine they got for anticompetitive behaviour with regards to Apple Music, which is not an insignificant amount for that business unit.

The fines for DMA-violations go up to 10% of global revenue for first-time violations and 20% of global revenue for repeat violations. I would love to see Apple continue fucking around and letting Apple find out in the form of a fine of that magnitude. It would be so damn sweet.

The former.