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I use the free Huawei Health for like 2 years, and it was pretty good so far. The sensors suck of course, but better than nothing. I had a special watch to test my high blood pressure, but even this never matched my special pressure device.

More like a hybrid to get to a safe C, with constructors, destrcutors, member functions and such.

Fil-C is similar, but less promising than this. But Fil-C is far more advanced than TrapC. There several more such attempts also, not just those two


They executed everybody on the streets and looked young enough. Not just protesters.

Iranian hospital workers estimated 20.000 deaths. They looked at their entrances and the morgues.

Very bad idea. I did the reverse couple of decades ago. Satisfaction doubled, income tripled.

This is about Trapc, but the best is this quote: "I said, 'China's AI-Plus plan calls for efficient AI on devices everywhere, from farm to factory to city, while the White House plan calls for building 500-billion-dollar cloud data centers ... using chips that will, inevitably, seem obsolete within two years.'"

I've watched a lot "Shiey tower climbs" in the last decade to overcome my sudden fear of heights, it didn't help. https://www.google.com/search&q=Shiey+tower+climb

Alex is just a bit too crazy to follow him. I don't like suicidal tendencies


No, you forgot that architects count the wind forces in, not just the weight of pieces hanging onto the facade. Give them dynamic spikes of factor 10, so it looks more like 1000lbs. Only once you can get your engineers to agree on only factor 2, you can build much much lighter structures.

No I didn’t, you’re talking about big sheets of stuff, which probably won’t have anything to hold onto on it. I’m talking about the fiddly little bits that he’s likely to be holding onto. A little bit of flashing around a window has a wind load approaching zero.

When I'm cleaning highrise windows I put a looot of force crimping window frames to move laterally. I haven't broken anything yet.

I've also done a facade inspection on a building where massive sheets of metal had been badly installed. The vast majority of them weren't connected to the structural steel beams, they were just held together by single screws (with no nuts!) that were falling off due to wind making the screws bore a bigger hole. A sheet had fallen off the 12th floor right onto the busy boulevard below.


you're not wrong, but i lived in Taiwan a while back for a number of years and things are built different there. it's not something you would necessarily notice unless you live there for a while, but once you start seeing it, it's hard to unsee.

the walls are thicker. everything is reinforced. external structures are bolted more securely. why is this a thing? taiphoons and earthquakes, is why.

if you like solid construction, there's plenty of it in taiwan. also, 101 is a flagship building. an item falling from the facade would kill someone or be a huge embarassment. this is not something they would let happen. just some local context fyi. that said, i wouldn't trust my life to those external structures either, but you do see alex testing as he goes.


You can see him testing pieces as he goes - tapping with his fist.

I still use a 10x faster lexer, RE2C over flex, because it does so much more at compile-time. And on top of that has a bunch of optimization options for better compilers, like computed goto's.

Of course syscalls suck, slurping the whole file at once always wins, and in this case all files at once.

Kernels suck in general. You don't really need one for high perf and low space.


The nightmare would be for the US to be blocked from foreign tech and talent. I cannot think of anything important tech to be US only.

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