Back when I'd go to bars, I'd go with a friend of mine. He'd just get a drink and stand at the bar. I'd tease him that his pickup line was "ok". (He was tall and handsome.)
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A 4 cylinder is very annoying.
A Detroit V8 sounds very good loud, with the large displacement and the right cam.
The most heavenly sound in the world is a Merlin V12 aircraft engine. (The yootoob videos with engine starts just cannot capture it.) There's even a book about it - "Sigh of a Merlin".
My dad was an Air Force P-51 pilot (with Merlin engine). When he passed, the local aviation museum said they'd do a memorial P-51 flight at the funeral for free, as long as I paid for the gas. Best money I ever spent.
Sometimes I'll hear the distinctive sound of the 4 engine B-17, and they'll be flying low and slow over Lake Washington. A marvelous sight and sound.
A pointer is declared as `char* p`, and an array as `char[] p`.
A two dimensional array parameter is declared as:
void transpose(double[][] a);
1. It's clumsy to have to carry the dimensions around as separate items, rather than as one item
2. If the wrong X or Y is supplied, you have a massive memory corruption problem
> how to generalize it to, e.g., struct members. (Maybe you can speak to that.)
I don't know what you mean by that?
1. never walk behind a car with its backup lights on
2. when climbing a ladder, only move one limb at a time
3. never walk in front of a car that has its engine running
4. wait for traffic to stop before setting a foot in the crosswalk
5. floss every day
6. keep your shoes on when taking off or landing in an airplane (can't run barefoot over burning, torn metal)
7. if you smell smoke in a building, exit immediately. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200
8. take the stairs once in a while in your workplace, as then you'll know where they are when the building fills with smoke
9. wear a life jacket on a small boat, even if you look like a dork. The water ski vests are less klunky
> Clean water depends on how you define "clean"
Always, back to arguing about the definitions of words. Let's put it simply. People before 1800 had little idea about clean water. They didn't know what bacteria was. They didn't know about contaminants. They had very poor sanitation practices. They died of cholera regularly.
Probably the greatest advance in health care in history was the introduction of a clean water supply.
So if you want to quibble about what "clean" means, I'll take municipal water, water filters, and boiling any day over what anybody in medieval times drank. If you don't think your water is clean enough, get a water filter from Amazon. They're cheap, and they work.
In the US, emergency rooms cannot turn away anyone. The care delivered there is light years ahead of anything any king got in medieval times.
The government provides food to the poor with SNAP.
The only starving people in America are drug addicts or very ill people. Obesity is the usual problem for poor people.
C VLAs are a terribly clumsy design. Here's the right way to do it in C:
Another word for that is freedom. With freedom comes personal agency and personal responsibility.
The massive shift away from cigarettes is incredible. I didn't believed it possible.
No, it doesn't.