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New comment by drunkboxer in "Roget's Thesaurus"

drunkboxer — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:21:09 +0000

Can't mention Roget's Thesaurus without thinking of The Chaser.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn0ufJgtDko

New comment by drunkboxer in "Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus (2018)"

drunkboxer — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:51:59 +0000

It's not really possible. It's akin to saying simplify multiplying large numbers or long division. It can be sometimes done by having a heap of tricks up your sleeve, by practicing a bunch you might get better at guessing which trick to use when. The usefulness of knowing these tricks and recognising when to use them is entirely dependent on your motivations.

New comment by drunkboxer in "Delta"

drunkboxer — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:07:23 +0000

And exactly where the seams are

New comment by drunkboxer in "Delta"

drunkboxer — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:05:47 +0000

AoE could do this too by both selecting the same colour

New comment by drunkboxer in "Carl's Required Reading"

drunkboxer — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 06:17:50 +0000

Is there a video presentation to go along with the slides that you know of?

New comment by drunkboxer in "Carl's Required Reading"

drunkboxer — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 02:47:08 +0000

Yep, I have the wrong abstraction on my list as well. There's a couple on ratfactor that really hit the same point home.

I think the lwn article on "the midlayer mistake" is somewhat the same point but to a different extreme, and in some ways libraries not frameworks too.

New comment by drunkboxer in "Carl's Required Reading"

drunkboxer — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 01:33:15 +0000

I have a similar list I like to share, had a few from Carl's list, will probably add a few from it.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom... https://www.parsonsmatt.org/2017/10/11/type_safety_back_and_... https://lwn.net/Articles/336262/ https://tomasp.net/blog/2015/library-frameworks/ https://ratfactor.com/cards/not-quite-the-same https://matklad.github.io/2023/11/15/push-ifs-up-and-fors-do...

New comment by drunkboxer in "The Religion of Speed"

drunkboxer — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:48:02 +0000

JIRA?

New comment by drunkboxer in "Half-Baked Product"

drunkboxer — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:52:56 +0000

I loved every paragraph

New comment by drunkboxer in "NUMA: Cores, memory, and the distance between them"

drunkboxer — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:42:10 +0000

There are in fact two instances https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBKm1MBsTbk

New comment by drunkboxer in "Reading the news is the new smoking"

drunkboxer — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:16:31 +0000

I don't know about you but Know Nothing November has been going extremely well for me this year.