And regardless, how idiotic is it to grade someone based on the number of pages of their notes anyway?

It's unbelievably idiotic and absurd... until you consider human nature.

The people above you are incompetent (cf. "Peter Principle") and will latch onto anything that they can use to judge you to avoid appearing as the incompetents that they are. Even when it makes no sense from an analytical point of view. We humans seem to be hardwired to avoid (being perceived to be, or actually) being wrong. (The book's also pretty good!)

Anyway, hope it wasn't too traumatic :).

Are you saying that gravitational lensing is just an anomaly?

Gravitational lensing seems to be one of the major evidences in favor of dark matter/mass, but it'd be interesting to see you (or anyone for that matter) argue that it's just an anomaly given that it can be observed in multiple distinct locations.

(Now, I think we both agree that dark energy is still just a hypothesis, but I think you'd have to come up with something better than claiming that it's "just an anomaly" to explain the existing evidence.)

One of the few languages in recent times with an interesting type system which isn't just a trivial rehash of existing (in practice) ones.

Of course they hadn't considered it earlier! What fools they've been shown to be!

(Hint: If you're a random commenter on Slashdot, then, yeah, the experts in the field have probably considered your idea before you suggested it.)

GOD FUCKING DAMMIT...

"switched to FF<N>"

PDF.js is unbelievably bad at font rendering and rendering in general. (Compared to Okular and whatever backend it uses.)

Hopefully Mozilla have some metrics for the number of users who switched to FF (where PDF.js was added as default) and immediately switched to the system PDF viewer. What a collosal waste of JS code.

... if all the lauch codes are zero anyway?

(Well, alright that was some time ago, but really... this points to systemic issues, and I don't think they'll have been fixed within a few years.)

We don't always agree, but well put, sir. (This and your original post.)

The thing non-experts always neglect when thinking about high performance is the importance of cache locality and memory locality... and the fact that these can often dominate even algorithmic improvements (for realistic N).

that the experience is real. Doesn't mean that you are actually out of your body. (There's a similar effect with lucid dreaming -- the experience itself is very real, but it's a product of your brain.)

Google became big. This happens to all big companies.

It's just the way of the world.

(/me goes back to reading Antifragile...)

Hats off to you, Xir!

(*) Xir = gender-neutral Sir... I think?!?!

.. better yet, buy an additional 2 or 4 GB of RAM. Given the prices, complaining about RAM usage(*) is absurd these days.

Btw, I'm impressed with how quckly the OP was able to try out 4.11 given that it hasn't reached most distributions yet...

(*) Unless you are are on a truly embedded/minimal platform.

not see any of them.

Find something more productive to fantasise about.

Yes.

On the other hand there's Betteridge's law of headlines, so... Yes.

Billions of McDonald's burgers have been sold. What does that tell you?

Come back with something substantive and maybe we'll talk like adults.