I love all of this, but at least let your students use vi, it was around back then (or close). plus they don’t have to give it up when they go back in the real world, it’s an evergreen skill!

To be fair, it's mostly an evergreen skill because people don't know how to exit.

Is there a genuine opportunity to overturn either Wickard or Raich? That would be exciting.

Raich is teed up. See our opening brief[0] at pp. 38–39.

[0] https://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/library/docLib/2025-06-24-T...

Wonderful news. Inch by inch maybe we can finally reclaim some freedoms.

I know the kinds of weddings you speak of, and it’s sad, and hard to disagree.

Even more sad that for $20-$50k you /could/ have a super unique, awesome and even low-stress wedding (ok that last part depending on parents/relatives may be impossible), yet so many are the same songs (you know them all), same venues (estate, banquet hall, rooftop, etc), same food.

A quite memorable article [1] described a “backwards” message-passing technique in C++ using operator overloading so you could do stuff like:

    obj<-method arg1 arg2;

[1] https://jacobfilipp.com/DrDobbs/articles/DDJ/1996/9608/9608e...

I skimmed the article and haven't gotten out the compiler or source files, but does anyone understand how arg1 and arg2 with space and no operator in between are syntactically valid C++, and what do they do?

Aha, the syntax is actually `button <- setSize << 10 << 20;` according to DEMO.CPP in /1996/9608/dynacpp.zip of the ISO. So operator-() initializes the Message object, operator<<() stores the parameters into it, which is then passed to operator<() to invoke the function. I guess the HTML page was badly transcribed or failed to escape the characters.

Yes! The linked article didn’t capture all the symbols in the original DDJ article. There were in fact `<<` preceding each arg. The actual line was:

    obj<-method << arg1 << arg2

which requires overloading the less-than, unary negation, and the double-less-than operators.

I guess something like https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1642028/what-is-the-oper...

Wasn’t this an April 1st entry? :-)

My horn is my larynx. I usually belt out “please don’t kill me” in a stern voice-of-command at my “max volume.”

A loud voice travels very well through car windows at short distances, even for big soundproof vehicles.

I assumed this bell was for alerting pedestrians or other cyclists wearing noise cancelling headphones.

imitation learning is widespread among animals including many nonhuman species

8 years is an extraordinarily long lifespan for a rat, isn’t it? And he got a lot done!!

Apparently it's about as expected for a southern giant pouched rat. But he was indeed a particularly good one!

They are not the same species than rats and mice longers

For certain kinds of software (financial systems, safety-critical systems) it may be very unwise to go beyond level 5.

There may be certain fields where you can't even get to 5.

Before the US it was the British with BP.

Before the British with BP it was the British East India Company.

Before the British EIC there were various periods of Arab, Turk and Mongol control.

Persia has been a political football since Alexander the Great. Cursed geography.

Picar [1] loads a SOUL.md file each session.

I don’t think it’s a real soul but it’s absolutely “a start”.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T3ogtB5YS0