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Alexis King

Jul 17, 2023 18:07

I also just found lackadaisical-appeal.glitch.me

Alexis King

Jul 17, 2023 18:05

I guess it can be obtained via SEDE

Alexis King

Jul 17, 2023 18:03

Is there a way to see a historical list of all HNQs for a given site? Or, if not that, a feed?

Alexis King

Jul 12, 2023 13:55

It’s not great!

Alexis King

Jul 12, 2023 13:54

Non-24-hour sleep–wake disorder

Non-24-hour sleep–wake disorder (non-24 or N24SWD) is one of several chronic circadian rhythm sleep disorders (CRSDs). It is defined as a "chronic steady pattern comprising [...] daily delays in sleep onset and wake times in an individual living in a society". Symptoms result when the non-entrained (free-running) endogenous circadian rhythm drifts out of alignment with the light–dark cycle in nature. Although this sleep disorder is more common in blind people, affecting up to 70% of the totally blind, it can also affect sighted people. Non-24 may also be comorbid with bipolar disorder, depression...

Alexis King

Jul 12, 2023 05:51

What changed to make it no longer a good excuse

Alexis King

Jul 12, 2023 05:49

I was considering making the joke “you should vote for me because I can cover all timezones”

Alexis King

Jul 12, 2023 05:47

taking bets on whether I am elected

Alexis King

Jul 12, 2023 05:47

PLDI moderator election ends in 14 hours

Alexis King

Jul 12, 2023 05:43

if you ever see bjb again please let him know the answer to his question

Alexis King

Jul 12, 2023 05:35

This is that chart :^)

Alexis King

Jul 12, 2023 05:35

Alexis King

Jul 12, 2023 05:35

Yesterday I charted all the time I’ve spent asleep over the past year

Alexis King

Jul 12, 2023 05:34

In the past year, I have bought a device to actually track when I am asleep

Alexis King

Jul 12, 2023 05:34

Alexis King

Jul 12, 2023 05:34

Many years ago, in this very room, I had this somewhat amusing interaction

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 21:00

yes

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:48

so eventually the site gets flooded by amateurs who just want to bikeshed and all the experts leave

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:47

@JasonC yeah, I hope so. I think these sorts of attempts within PL have basically always failed, though, mostly because of the “everyone’s a critic” problem: there are lots of people who know relatively little about PLs but use and think about them enough to have strong (but extremely superficial) opinions

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:45

and tbh I still sort of believe this. but it’s worth a shot

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:45

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:45

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:45

see, when I first discovered the site via HNQ my immediate reaction was to post this in a discord group chat:

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:44

I think I have a decent chance of winning the election so I would probably not be laughing

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:43

technically probably true. but please don’t

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:43

well, we don’t have moderators yet, so

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:42

he has been asking/answering actually good questions

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:42

I think this user is just infodumping lately which is good actually

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:41

oh but wait it was self-answered and it already mentions Felleisen expressiveness

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:41

there’s a paper by Matthias Felleisen that answers that precise question

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:41

oh I actually have a really good answer I can write for that

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:40

these questions all suck

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:40

there is no good reason!!

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:39

idk how we seem to have three questions in HNQ at all times

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:39

I feel like SE needs to increase the PLDI HNQ penalty or something

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:38

and it still got +10 lmao

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:38

10

A: Why do most languages use the same token for `EndIf`, `EndWhile`, `EndFunction` and `EndStructure`?

The reason most languages use } is C did it that way.

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:38

after getting fed up with these questions I posted this answer

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:38

I would say “it’s easy just ask yet another question about programming language syntax and it will hit HNQ” but I actually really wish people would stop doing this

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:37

there’s still time left today!!

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:37

I’ve hit rep cap every day since I’ve joined except one lol

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:36

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:36

yah

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:35

you should vote for me for moderator :)

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:34

however they made a new website specifically to bait me back in (programming languages stack exchange)

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:33

but I sure answered a lot of blender stack exchange questions in 2022 lol

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:33

okay I checked and apparently the last post I made on SO was in 2021

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:33

I think it’s plausible that I answered a question in 2022 or something

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:32

I don’t think I’ve participated on SO this year

Alexis King

Jul 4, 2023 20:31

I don’t post on RC but I read it a lot

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