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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Perfect assembly is marginally faster than perfect C, but perfect C is way faster than perfect python. You have many valid points though. Also C can be very safe if you don't use the standard string libraries and stuff. It depends on what you are trying to do. Sometimes it's worth giving up safety to have a better program.
Also as a side note, when God instructed Terry Davis to build his third temple do you know what language God told him to use? C... That's right. God himself endorses C as the greatest language mankind has ever developed.
I'm talking mostly about corporate software development. You know, the kind of projects that run for 20 years with multiple teams and half a dozen cycles of "let's outsource everything" - "oh, it sucks, let's insource everything" - "oh, it's expensive, let's outsource everything again". Doing that in C without major issues is rare.
In that kind of context, safety is everything and performance doesn't matter.
This is why I don't run corporate software if I can help it. Ain't nobody got time nor the battery capacity for that.