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Why is makeup considered cheating but surgery not?

This is not really the point though. Why is "uses Chomskian language" the criteria for whether it not it's okay to to change and slaughter a living being?

So the image needs to be regenerated every time the post is read? Sounds wasteful to me.

If I remember correctly, at Google we would run a sampling profiler on some processes in prod to create these profiles, with some mechanism for additional manual overrides

On the blackboard he and his students wrote "Godel's Proof -- too important to be left to the mathematicians."

As a mathematician, I'd love if anyone here knew the context

And the not asked often enough corollary: just because there exists a technical solution to a problem, does that mean it's the right solution?

I mean I'm general, I'd rather buy fewer of the same things no matter if it's cheap or expensive if I didn't have to, and it would use less resources. Juicing someone's quarterly sales report is no good reason for me to buy a refrigerator, yet here we are.

And not necessarily the long term result anybody wants

Erdos-Bacon number is a join and sum ;)

Yes I meant specifically for Kevin Bacon. There are other all pairs shortest paths algorithms besides running Dijkstra N times

They call the dijkstra implementation slow but that's because they aren't using the full information it presents. Dijkstra gives shortest paths from one node to every other node in the graph, so you run it once and materialize it and now you have a full Kevin Bacon database

I don't understand why constexpr allocated memory can't be freed at runtime. It's not so different from statically allocated memory being freed at runtime. Maybe it requires hooks into malloc so the compile time allocations can be known at the start of the run?

Travel by bus in London and your opinion may change

Drive by appreciation of this micro bit of prose.