Oh, I literally misread it as OpenSCAD. Laughing at my stupid brain right now.
monotremata
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I'd say it's more like Premiere vs ffmpeg.
It really sounds like you're describing Make (or LLVM). Is there something you need it to do that those can't handle?
I still use reddit for some of the niche community-based subs that haven't been replicated here, like What's That Book?, a place where a while bunch of readers and librarians try to help people find books they remember a bit about, but not the title or author. That one is a lot of fun because people are so excited when they get an answer, and because the community is strong enough that most people do get answers. It seems like it would be hard to recreate that experience here. Similar is the Learn Math subreddit, where people ask about things they aren't understanding or can't figure out in their math studies, at pretty much any level, and the community comes up with multiple explanations and thoughts. The variety of questions and the in-depth answers are remarkable.
Generally it just feels a lot smaller and a fair bit more homogenous here. I like this site too, but it kinda feels like what reddit used to be is just gone now.
The only real objection I have to this as a term is that it's too easy to confuse with "rubber ducking": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
I wouldn't really call it a favorite, but I definitely ended up liking Nier: Automata pretty well after bouncing off it really hard when trying it at a friend's house. That's because we were trying from the start, and it starts with a section that's about half an hour long, with only two checkpoints, vastly harder than anything else in the game, and in which the first half isn't even the same genre as the rest of the game. It's seriously one of the worst intros I can think of in a video game. The rest of the game is, y'know, a pretty good third-person action RPG.
Was it possible that she meant that regular drug testing with Vyvanse is a standard for her hospital/clinic/whatever? There doesn't seem to be any national standard for this, but googling brings up a bunch of other folks who have been required to have regular drug testing with this prescription at the VA specifically. So she might have been telling you the truth that she's expected to require this. It might also mean that your next doc would make the same demand.
That doesn't make it any less invasive, obviously, and I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with your reaction to the demand. But it might be worth talking with the doctor about your reaction to this situation before you decide to entirely cut off communications with them (whether that's with this doctor or the next--it seems like this may not have been the first straw with this particular doc), because it's possible that neither of you has much alternative, and if the doctor is sympathetic there may be ways they can make the imposition less onerous.
It all kinda sucks, but, y'know, that's true of most US healthcare and often particularly for the VA.
Yeah, you're right. This is something I was taught at one point, and I guess I never questioned it because it sounded plausible. Sorry! I have updated my comment to reflect this.
~~It's also because the bacterium in question is anaerobic, so it dies in an oxygen environment; rusting consumes oxygen, so it helps preserve the bacterium longer out of soil.~~
Edit: I had always been told this, but evidently it isn't true. The rust does not seem to have any effect on the bacterium that causes tetanus. Apologies for spreading misinformation.
Turbo Pascal was the first language in which I had serious classes (I had tutoring in Applesoft Basic earlier on, but that language has a lot of limitations), and I used it for years afterwards. You could write auxiliary functions in Turbo Assembler and link them in; I used that to write a library that allowed access to the 320x200 256-color VGA mode (the built-in graphics only did EGA and were super slow), and other libraries for mouse and joystick control. I tried to control the soundblaster for FM synthesis, but it was too complicated for me to figure out how to do anything useful without better access to documentation (this was before the world wide web). The experience also taught me a lot about assembly language basics, function calling conventions for C and Pascal, stack manipulation, and so forth, which gave me a huge head start in my compilers courses at university.
On the whole I would still recommend C over Pascal as an early language--it gives you much better insight into memory layout and so forth, where Pascal kind of obfuscates such things, and C just generally kind of acts like both Pascal and Assembler rolled together. But Turbo Pascal definitely gave me a good foundation.