A follow-me tandem (which couples a kids bike to your bike) is a much better solution than giving a 9yo a poorly controlled motor.

I’m pretty sure I’d have preferred a poorly controlled motor over staring at my dad’s ass at 9 years old. Luckily we didn’t have either, we used a dog leash for towing.

Yes, we already have this (Follow-Me - the swiss company). However, my 9yo and his bike is too heavy for that. I was able to carry/drag his bike from about 3y till about 6yo.

But a 9 year old is dependant on their parents ...?

...yes? The child bicycling their own bike, vs being attached to the parents bike is a tiny bit of independence to grant a child at that age.

I have the opposite experience. With the HP docking station, we were unable to drive a 4k monitor using windows. On linux thisnjust worked.

Going outside for lunch is a great idea.

Here's an article from 2002 talking about how we could just have data-based sizing:

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/15/magazine/the-year-in-idea...

I am cleaning up some pointer arithmetic stuff for multi-dimensional C style arrays. I managed to replace the code with a std::inner_product minus a std::accumulate (to accomodate for the fact that the upper array bound is exclusive, ie one-past-the-end).

I once "fixed" a port of a program to Linux.

It was generating the wrong output — that is: not the same as on Windows.

My fix initialized a thitherto uninitialized array with the VisualC++(ca. 5.0) debug build default value.

What is the bioinformatic application? Could you point me towards some programs that use this?

I was thinking about mafft in particular. You should know though that there are many different MSA tools out there.

Because they have so many car chases on the news. So people get the idea that car chases are a solution that people use to get out of trouble.

Seems like a vicious cycle, fed by the terrible news media.

That is really more of a switch from CUDA to HIP; for most HPC applications, cpu speed isn't the question any more.

I write code and also cycle. I built a bike shed in my back yard. It has become quite difficult to search for advice on how to actually build a bike shed.

Enlighten us!

What differentiates a good shed from a bike shed?

That's actually a great point. If this community keeps claiming building a bike shed is trivial, surely we can expect some good ideas. My acceptance criteria would include a solution for water damage, and anchoring - based on previous failed attempts to do that task :-)

The colour, of course.

Let's crowdsource that question on HN.

> What differentiates a good shed from a bike shed?

If my bike is there when I go to it.

Or just not have pardons at all.

This.