I think it is to cut the host's cost on disk ? Not necessary for the benefit of user.

Thank you, very informative on how low cost low power LED is achieved. It seemed like magic at first but after reading your comment it is more like dark art.

I every much think it's the point of this, if you haven't understand the meaning behind the texts then you didn't know those concepts.

IMO the point _should be_ to educate, and not to belittle readers. The list looks very interesting, but it's too terse to take away anything from it.

seriously, is he a polymath.

I believe all the goods of Vim comes from lightness and portability. There are plenty of Vim emulators on other editors. Emacs for example are ricer's heaven.

What is the meaning of "ricer's" in this context?

The only thing that springs to mind is 'Racing Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements'.

Ricer is a slang term for a supped (souped?) up/tricked out Japanese car, usually with lots of aftermarket parts which make it go faster than stock. Think civics and supras.

He’s making an analogy between those cars with tons of modifications and the extent of customization that seems common in emacs.

Yes, we're talking about the same thing.

See https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rice

Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements. (R.I.C.E.)Parts put on cars to make them look fast, when they have no internal tuning, and are actually slow as hell. Parts usually consist of excessivley angular bodykits, large rear spoilers, neon, sponsor stickers, chrome rims, fake "coffee can" exhaust tips, and loud, annoying paint jobs and/or vynils. Sometimes parts are do-it-yourself installed and are basically duct taped to the car. Most commonly known for being done to Honda Civics, but can also be done to slow domestic vehicles, such as a Chevy Cavalier, etc.

In the common vernacular where I live it's generally meant as a pejorative.

I'm pretty sure that's a backronym and that "ricer" is a contraction of "rice rocket," i.e. a pejorative and slightly racist term for performant asian automobiles.

That sounds pretty likely.

I am not a maths major, however as I currently self-studying Mathematics, so I hope this would come as a good reference points for you.

I think we both should prepare for a long journey, cause it is the nature of maths.

I prefer formal and classic textbooks/notes as I think they are the best resources. Mathematics has been around for a long long time, keeping things up to date isn't really what should most concerns you.

[0] : https://www.quantstart.com/articles/How-to-Learn-Advanced-Ma... This article aims at kick-starting a career in quant, but the bullet points are really similar to any undergraduate program.

[1] : Schaum's series Really good textbooks on basic maths, helped me a lot on those maths modules during my study.

[2] : Any Massive Open Online Course of your choices. I am currently using MIT OCW. They are basically an Undergrad Course minus interaction with lecturer. You should ask some of your maths friends to help you out. Good, intuitively explanation in person helps a lot.

[3] : And last but not least, have fun while doing it. You can participate in maths competition, watch Youtube videos( 3Blue1brown / Numberphile) Read Magazines and Journals too, admires the Apollonian aesthetic of Mathematics.

Maths is one of the few subjects where nature > nurture, I think ( and observed). But take heart.

I listen to music. A while ago, I would turn on some symphony piece and air-conducting along. Greatly helps with anxiety attack at night.

I think you have taken the context out of the comparison.

In terms of CPU, GPU, thermal systems, PSU... yes computing people do whip out a lot of numbers. But when buying a laptop, assembling a gig, we consider of the overall experience, more abstracts and qualitative measurements: ease of maintenance, aesthetics even.

On the other hand, car guys do get nerdy on number crunching when they tune their turbo/ exhaust system, IE: optimizing a very specific component of the system.

I'm not trying to say it's black and white; enthusiasts certainly care about the design of a computer and stats for cars. however, I do feel that car enthusiasts have different priorities than computer geeks.

I personally am way more interested in computers than cars, but I do feel that cars are more "emotional" possessions than computers. some laptops are ugly and made out of plastic, while others can be quite attractive, but my selection strategy is always to filter out the downright ugly machines and then compare the others component by component. my process for cars is pretty much the reverse; I want one that exceeds some bar for performance and then I will pick the one that feels best to drive around.

my car is far from the fastest in its category or price segment, but imo it is definitely the most pleasant to drive. my desktop is a bunch of high end parts inside an ugly leet gamer case that I bought ten years ago.

Please more levels

You've already finished wat, undef, random3, and random4?

> wat, undef

Oh, undef is as easy as knowing HTML trivia. Getting a falsey value to return an arbitrary string when invoked as a function is at least a little harder...

> random3

... is almost as easy as random1

> random4

is exactly as impossible as it looks