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Immigration

Sometimes people ask me questions about what it’s like living in a different country. The Netherlands is not all that different from the US, as these things go, but it’s still different enough. This is a collection of things I miss from life in Boston and things that make this place feel foreign.

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Notebooks

First, context. Skip to the next section for the important bit.

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Gorging

When I tried to search for the demand version of dumping, I found a lot of articles about regular dumping. A few of those had good definitions, so here’s one:

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Why I like Zig

I’ve been writing C code professionally since about 2006, and while I look at a lot of languages (I have varying levels of familiarity with Python, Erlang, Ada, Haskell, Go, Rust, C++, OCaml, D, Javascript, Prolog, Lua, Lisp, Bash, Perl, Forth…you get the idea) I have yet to find one that I would rather use in cases where C is appropriate. Part of this inclination is that I mainly write for embedded systems where a lot of the features of higher level languages either don’t help or cost too much.

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