observantTrapezium

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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • It hasn’t been down for me but noticeably slow, some pages took forever to load. I restarted my router and the issue got pretty much solved, so I was sure it was just a problem for me in Toronto. But now reading your post I think it could have been a coincidence that the restart helped. Right now it seems fine.










  • IMHO pointers (raw or smart) are barely necessary in modern C++. In many cases, references and standard library classes like std::vector do whatever pointers do, but without the manual memory management. I use pointers for interacting with C libraries and in HIP/CUDA. In “pure” C++ the only thing that comes to mind is storing objects of different derived classes in a vector.


  • It looked like a pretty generic alley to me 😜

    [spoiler ahead] I’m not sure what was the least believable. Bribing border guards with money earned by playing chess in the park (after splurging on a really nice hotel downtown) was definitely unbelievable, and it would have been so easy to go around it. First of all, Pelia’s place didn’t have to be in Vermont, but even if it had to, the episode revolves around this fictional Lake Ontario bridge that “symbolized international cooperation, the world getting smaller, humanity working together”. They could just extend that to say there was no hard border any more (à la Schengen).


  • A friend of mine watched the episode in isolation, being familiar with classical Star Trek and having only a vague idea of what happened in/since Discovery. He got quite confused about where and how the episode fits on the timeline. Anyway, if the events took place in New York (à la The City on the Edge of Forever) or San Francisco (à la The Voyage Home and others) this episode wouldn’t really be noteworthy: just a side quest of a character attempting to fix the timeline and learn to accept themselves in the process.