Fitzgerald's style is a pretty linear development out of early Joyce, say Dubliners and the first episodes of Ulysses. It compares to Woolf and McCarthy just fine.
Your list reminds me of a joke from Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise:
So
Walter Arensberg,
Alfred Kreymborg,
Carl Sandburg,
Louis Untermeyer,
Eunice Tietjens,
Clara Shanafelt,
James Oppenheim,
Maxwell Bodenheim,
Richard Glaenzer,
Scharmel Iris,
Conrad Aiken,
I place your names here
So that you may live
If only as names,
Sinuous, mauve-colored names,
In the Juvenalia
Of my collected editions.
We're deep in a thread questioning a founder's choice not to sell their company. a) The company is 8 years old, b) the founder's stake is 9 figures, and c) they've done at least one secondary, meaning d) the founder has almost certainly cashed out $10m exempt from federal taxes (founder has held shares > 5 years for QSBS treatment, and $10m < 10% of founder's stake, a common threshold of concern for investors).
Wish the full results were available to look over. I scored 23,300, but they only share the reliability data:
* Correctly avoided fake words (5/6)
* Answered word-meaning checks correctly (6/6)
The fake word I missed was 'ventrel', but come on, 'ventral' (with an 'a') is a word. That's just mean! Anyway, it would be fun to see (and argue about) which of the words I didn't recognize are real.
This is because the ABC system is defined such that MutableMapping is a subtype of Mapping. Which mostly makes sense, except that if we suppose there exist Mappings that aren't MutableMappings (such that it makes sense to recognize two separate concepts in the first place), then Mapping should be hashable, because immutable things generally should be hashable. Conceptually, making something mutable adds a bunch of mutation methods, but it also ought to take away hashing. So Liskov frowns regardless.
It really doesn't make sense for there to be an inheritance relationship between Mapping and MutableMapping if Mapping is immutable (it isn't, of course), but the weirder part is still just that the typing machinery is cool with unhashable key types like:
> "Till this moment I never knew myself." - Sense and Sensibility again? I can't remember off the dome. That's a gorgeous strict Iambic.
"Till this moment I" and "I never knew myself" would be trochaic and iambic, respectively, but they don't strictly scan when you overlay the 'I's. You can of course get them to by e.g. eliding 'moment', or adding a line break and taking '-ment' as a feminine ending, or just scanning according to the writer's idiosyncrasies.
And individual writers can be very idiosyncratic here. Shakespeare, for example, if I remember right, lets monosyllabic words occur in almost any position. Disyllabic words on the other hand can have any combination of stresses (iamb, trochee, spondee, or pyrrhic), but only if they're foot-aligned. And so on.
The field has probably evolved since I was last part of it, but I'll still recommend Kristin Hanson's work in this area: https://linguistica.sns.it/RdL/9.1/Hanson.pdf. (Actually the second time I've recommended Hanson on HN. The last time was, let's see, 6 years ago!)
+1! Hanson is one of the gold-standards on this. It is idiosyncratic, you're right - to the speaker / reader as much as the writer (is my contention with their work).
Personally, I do take 'ment' as a feminine ending there, or - more specifically - the T sound runs into the I sound when I read it, the way it would in the predominantly Italian stuff she's likely referencing.
I'm very much with Gordon Lish on Shakespeare's monosyllabic drift words - that he was educated in Latin, and integrating Germanic vocabulary into that structure relatively freely, and further analysis is almost impossibly complex. That said, there's a lot of moments in those where I'd kill to hear where the stress landed when first performed.
This specific area is really one of those "What if?" moments in literary criticism, I think - I believe it would be incredibly beneficial for the form if this was the dominant focus of critique, rather than thematic stuff. On the rare occasions I teach at universities, this is all completely new to students, which sucks - it's entirely possible to approach prose theory with the same rigour as music theory, and it seems (in the UK, at least) to be very quickly becoming a lost art!
Do people use advisory locks as the actual locking mechanism? I've always used them to synchronize access to a flag on the target resource, so the advisory lock is only held long enough to query or update that resource as locked. The alternative seems, yes, incredibly brittle.
I don't disagree broadly (other than to fault you for not including The Wire!), but the counterpoint is: House of Cards, Queen's Gambit, Stranger Things, Dark, Ozark, Orange is the New Black, Mindhunter, Squid Game, Adolescence, Narcos, The Crown, Godless, Dept Q, etc.
Years ago people routinely uploaded all kinds of sensitive corporate and government docs to VirusTotal to scan for malware. Paying customers then got access to those files for research. The opportunities for insider trading were, maybe still are, immense. Data from AI companies won't be as easy to get at, but is comparable in substance I'm sure.
They are now, although to be clear there was (is?) nothing nefarious going on, just people not understanding that public submissions are available to VirusTotal's paying users. These days VT has private scanning, too, but the issue was always one-offs from random finance or investor relations teams.
Cuckoo filters can do even better with the small adjustment of using windows instead of buckets. See "3.5-Way Cuckoo Hashing for the Price of 2-and-a-Bit": https://scispace.com/pdf/3-5-way-cuckoo-hashing-for-the-pric.... (This significantly improves load factors rather than changing anything else about the filter, and ends up smaller than the semi-sorted variant for typical configurations, without the rigmarole.)
My fairly niche use case for these kinds of data structures was hardware firewalls running mostly on SRAM, which needed a sub one-in-a-billion false positive rate.
Your list reminds me of a joke from Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise:
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