What’s that? The Berlin Phil released a recording of two viola concertos (Walton and Martinů)? Good grief, yes. And it is very good, of course! www.berliner-philharmoniker-recordings.com/walton-marti... (We don’t have nearly enough viola concertos. I have thought about writing one… someday.)

Amihai Grosz: Walton · Martinů

Our series aims to introduce the soloists of the Berliner Philharmoniker in selected recordings. The spotlight here is on Amihai Grosz, the orchestra’s 1st Principal Viola. He studied with David Chen ...

A few years ago I set a tough-seeming goal for a #Strava#Boulderthon#halfmarathon taper, and I blew past that goal at what is now a moderate effort. Persistence + good training FTW.

fwiw, this is the macro definition necessary to implement something like this:

My favorite "decl macro" shape is "markdown table". It's perfect for data like this. Also this is my "ORM" for fjall, the key + value types are used to bind the postcard ser/de code.

Obviously `replicate` and `repeat` aren’t the same verb, but they’re close. The same ambiguity you’re pointing at exists for `repeat`, too. If I say in English “repeat ‘this’ three times” nearly everyone would say “this this this”, and I think the same for a drawing of a circle. 🤔

I initially thought 4, wondered why it would be 5, and now am very confused. My initial answer was because I am thinking about it in terms of other APIs I know, e.g. `String.prototype.repeat` in JS, `str::repeat` and friends in Rust. I also just checked and Python’s `itertools` also matches that.

I really hope "the problem is new code" catches on. I described defects decaying over time in "C++ Must Become Safer," but this article from the Google Security Blog explains it more clearly: security.googleblog.com/2024/09/elim...

Eliminating Memory Safety Vulnerabilities at the Source

Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep - Android team, and Alex Rebert - Security Foundations Memory safety vulnerabilities remain a pervasive threa...

Yeah, I get why they are the way they are, but I also think the Rust design where statements are a thing, but they’re basically (hand-wave) just a special kind of expression with `()` as their value, ends up threading the expression-orientation-but-“normal”-feeling needle better for most languages.

There’s a bunch more, but that’s a good bit of coverage for today. I don’t use `less` much these days (I mostly use github.com/sharkdp/bat for a pager)… except when reading man pages, ironically! But it’s good to know a bit more about how it works. 🤓

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I haven’t even mentioned the CLI flags! There’s a ton here, but the one I’m keeping is that `+` resets options to their default!