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In the C programming language. Or do you mean which C project specifically? Because as Technus surmises in their response, it’s usually a better idea to set up aliases (typedefs or heck, even #defines) so that you’re offloading some of the mental strain keeping track of the layers, and that’s likely to be what happens in production code.

But the underlying data type is still T***.

Dynamically allocated multidimensional arrays.

Yes.

Amplification does not require electronics. Good acoustics in a hall can be all you need for all vocal registers to be heard. (Edit: Whether a hall is a church isn’t strictly relevant. Took that part out.)

Even if you can’t quite pick out the low notes in poor acoustics, they’ll be bolstering the sub-harmonics of the higher pitches, giving weight to the performance anyway.

And for small groups around a fire you don’t need a hall at all, which gets us back to prehistory easily.

Brian almost definitely slept with Marsha. As best as I remember from subtext and possibly the DVD extras, he was behind on rent, and Marsha made an indecent proposal. Add that to the fact that he’s hung like a horse and you understand why Marsha might retain some interest.

Also, Tim and Daisy do eventually get together, but officially only after the series ends. Tyres saw what was going on a lot sooner than that though.

Finally, there’s the potential that Mike might actually have more than a man-crush on Tim. They have a bromance, sure, but there might be other things going on in Mike’s head that Tim is completely oblivious to.

Rupert Murdoch.

Edit: I see the title has been edited and so Murdoch doesn’t count (and it was a stretch given the qualifiers in the post text anyway.)

[Data] doesn’t have emotions

I wouldn’t be so sure. Without the emotion chip that he obtains later, he’s programmed to think he doesn’t have them, and will thus deny he has any, but a lot of his responses, programmed, learned, or otherwise, are analogous to, if not actually emotions. Muted though they may be, and whether Troi can detect them or not.

For example, there’s one episode where his latent gut instinct literally forces him to comment that he wishes he had one, caused by the impasse of having that response and being prevented from acknowledging it.

It might be the same episode where he catches himself drumming his fingers nervously because something is bothering him, and he registers surprise (another emotion) at that fact.

I reckon it’s the same programming that prevents him from using contractions in speech, and might go some way to explain the “mistakes” where it sounds like he’s contracting words anyway.

Maybe if they set the timer to go on and off at set intervals or made you eat the meal in the chair, which is unusual.

Otherwise you could take your sweet time eating that brain stem and they’d be unable to put you in a live chair without risking anyone else.

There’s also the problem of what to do if there’s a power outage.

Someone has to tell the bot when. There’s always a human if you go deep enough.

Paradox: Request to eat the brain stem of the person who will deliver the killing blow / throw the switch / administer the injection / etc.

If you are then killed by their replacement, then you weren’t given what you asked for, contradicting rule 1. If you succeed, rule 2 has been contradicted.

But seriously. It’s hard to choose. There was this one pub I visited (with parent) as a child that made the most delicious, dare I say, succulent, miniature pasties. I think I’d like to gorge on those.

Ditch the lemon. Pork needs apple sauce.

The very moment itself is nothing to be afraid of. It’s a moment. How many times have you fallen asleep in your life? How about passed out by other means?

I imagine it’s going to be more like the latter than the former if you’re still in your right mind when it happens, but both ultimately happen outside of conscious control. Consciousness shuts down and then it’s all over.

As you rightly surmise, it’s the indefinite period of time that leads up to that moment of no control that is the most difficult and is what requires the coping, if any.

For that, it’s down to your own beliefs. If you’re not sure what they are, you might want to think about who’d be hurt by your “leaving early”, so to speak. (One of the main reasons I’m still here is that people I care about would be upset by it.)

And don’t think that any decision you make now is set in stone. The day may come where your existence is unbearable. If you think you’re there or about to be there very soon, that would make it an excellent time to seek some kind of help. Therapy. Pain relief. Emergency hotlines. Those sorts of things. (Been there. Done that. Will probably be there doing that again at some point.)

You may also want to take your religion, if any, into account, if your actions before the very moment are supposed to affect what, if anything, happens afterwards. (And if you don’t know your religion, I can’t help there.)

Ah. You’re from the post-Simpsons generation. Prior to the Simpsons writers popularising the egg line, the most common version had “Robin flew away”.

Where I am, the next lines usually had Batman losing his underpants in a location that rhymed with “(a)way”, most often a motorway.

I remember the last line as “Have you ever seen a cat as flat as that?”

On the one hand, the thinly-veiled homophobic joke in front of a bunch of dudes who I had no idea were gay is something I’d like to take back, but on the other, if I hadn’t done that, I might not have taken steps to be a better person since then.

This does not mean I’m the best I could be, but because of that and a few other things, the fact I’m not bothers me a lot more.

(If you want to know how the initial scenario panned out, it was awkward. They didn’t explain why they weren’t laughing, and then later introduced me to one of their more flamboyant friends. I was polite and confused at what was going on, which lead them to understand that I was just ignorant, not actually hateful. It took me a lot longer than it should have to put it all together.)

The word you’re missing is “arithmetic”. For most people “math(s)” and “arithmetic” are the same thing, when the latter is only the commonly encountered part of the former.

And for many of those people, algorithms are the only way they can use arithmetic to reach a goal because the intuition isn’t there otherwise.

I say this in full knowledge that even though I’m pretty good at arithmetic, much of the intuition I have now took me years after leaving school, and sometimes for more advanced things it’s still not there.

For example, on a good day I can complete the square, and I understand the geometric intuition, but most of the time I’m just going to plug and chug with the quadratic formula.

My local buses used to have something on the screens that would occasionally get stuck in a reboot loop between something that looked a bit like BIOS text and then MS-DOS. This was over a decade ago though. The screens were designed to switch between different views from the bus’s various cameras. I think the idea was to discourage anti-social behaviour by reminding people they were being watched.

But I guess the contract ended and things proved too expensive or too hard to maintain because the next batch of buses didn’t have screens in them. The cameras didn’t go anywhere though.

english teachers who […] don’t read

Not having time to read I could understand. Teaching comes with a lot of overtime. But actively bragging that they don’t?!

My head hurts just thinking about that.

This is called “Jumping the Shark” after a Happy Days episode where The Fonz literally jumps a shark while water-skiing, and the show was mostly downhill in quality there and after.

The opposite, and an answer to OP’s question is “Growing the Beard” due to Star Trek: The Next Generation’s apparent increase in quality after Will Riker grew a beard.

Stress-induced tinnitus is definitely a thing. I once “caught” mine turning itself on one morning as I was waking up. That is, there had been bliss overnight, only for it to pop into existence the moment I started contemplating the day.

My left ear also used to squeak when I was in deep thought / spiralling about stressful things. I would not be surprised if there’s some kind of unconscious control of one of the inner ear muscles going on. I’ve not had the squeak in a while, either because of medication or because I’m aware of what might be the cause.

That said, I also prefer to keep water out of my ears because that triggers tinnitus the other way: water or wax on the eardrum. Which can then perpetuate itself through the stress form once the physical problem sorts itself out.

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