Ben James

They're not feeling very blessed any more theguardian.com/business/2024/…

I just thought of a witty response to a 15-year-old tweet. Why are the tweets from 2008 gone?

@adamnfish Bring your daughter to the sorter

@bmjames 22 Acacia Avenue London N17 8LN

Iron Maiden postage stamps. I think they should also release a mail-themed song. Fear Of The Dog? bbc.co.uk/news/uk-641738…

@TheCheapShowPod Not sure who I was expecting to come out as Inch Man's nemesis, but I wasn't expecting Trump's former secretary of state

The herbs have opinions on methods of application

@alexofbroheim All the more impressive considering @alimbada was in the lab before 5am

@bmjames Just give me something to bake, how 'bout your fuckin' face. Talking of sick rap bars:

If my day keeps going this way I just might bake something tonight

@TheCheapShowPod @PaulGannonShow @elisnoid The first CheapShow episode I've listened to in a while, and I had to choose this one...

@paulgannonshow & @elisnoid present Ep 280: Sea Shanties #podcasts #weekendvibes #comedy #humour thecheapshow.co.uk/ep-280-nasty-s…

@channingwalton @andertonsmusic Did you buy something nice?

Current life stage: Ritter Sport seems like a viable chocolate choice

@jimblimey Now and then I remember this beer exists and it's always a nice surprise

I'm not sure what I'm going to make of this - smells very banana-y!

@wiredsis As a lead developer I get excited when I convince someone not to write any code in the first place.

This is it. My whole life has been leading up to this moment. Both tin openers in the kitchen are broken. I can now use the one on my Swiss army knife.

Pay what you like for our album Also why not buy this tin of 8 biscuits for £25 merch.kida-mnesia.com/products/kid-a…

@schrodingerskit I'm glad you're reciprocating my like

@schrodingerskit If I hadn't saw that tweet I miter thought you were just a twitter hack

This is a fantastic pun and I need more people who know carpentry and handtools to appreciate it GODDAMMIT

I haven't been active on StackOverflow for over 5 years, but my old answers keep gaining reputation and I recently hit 100k rep so they are sending me some free swag. Beat that for an investment, crypto dudes

So you've heard Iron Maiden's new music, then

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@mausch @kurt2001 ScalaCheck was the first of this type of library that I used extensively, yes. It seems a no-brainer to try max and min numeric values early on, because lossy conversions and overflows are an insidious source of bugs (on .NET and JVM, at least).

@kurt2001 @bmjames I agree with you, I didn't mean to say FsCheck should change, my comparison was just to show that other impls do things differently, and Ben is probably coming from ScalaCheck mainly.

F# tweeps: Am I using fscheck wrong? The default generators for standard number types are terrible. I can reliably get it to pass a property that all int64 values are less than 100. Why isn't it generating a better random distribution by default? Am I expected to write this?