After reading about a function decorator that rewrites the bytecode to enable goto in Python, I realized a very similar technique could be used to manipulate the bytecode in luajit. Of course, being the superior language, Lua already has goto, so for this example we need to add even more advanced control flow, comefrom.
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Computers are kind of fast these days, which means a lot of little inefficiencies vanish from sight. In theory an idle system with nothing to do should be doing nothing, but frequently enough it turns out to be doing nothing. A couple examples.
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I consume earbuds at a fairly constant rate. They get lost, or washed, or fall apart. And then I need new ones. Unlike the collection of large headphones, or “cans” if you will, that I’ve accumulated over the course of ten years without casualty, earbuds are practically disposable. So I don’t like paying a lot of money for them. Nevertheless, I want a product with some level of quality.
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Regarding I Could Care Less. My theory has always been that at some point, long ago, the phrase was “Like I could care less.” You still hear this variant today. It means the same thing of course, that one could not care less, but the word like makes it clear. Over time, the phrase gets used and repeated and some of the sarcastic intonation drops out, but people still know what the words, in this particular formation, mean. Then the leading word gets lost.
Just pretend it’s really a single word, couldcareless, meaning apathetic. We already pretend that awful means something other than awe full.
Sort of. Maybe. It depends.
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Everybody knows the best sandwiches in town are made by your local neighborhood deli.
Or, apparently, Delhi. Good work Apple.
Having burned out both the original flash drive and its replacement, I can’t recommend using an ERL in a serious setting.
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There’s been a lot of fuss recently about the state of the web. quirksmode got the party started by telling us to stop pushing the web forward . Enough, enough, there’s too much! From the other direction, The Verge points out it’s really only too much because Microsoft refuses to release IE for iPhone. Whatever. For the morbidly curious, two fairly long recaps are Stop blaming the web. Stop breaking the web. and What’s wrong with the web?
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From a random spam:
font-family: Cambria, "Hoefler Text", "Liberation Serif", Times, "Times New Roman", serif;So we’ve got Windows, Mac, and... Linux? Well, some Linux. No love for DejaVu fonts I guess.