What is meant by family name?January 16, 2023 – 12:57 pm
Do you think your family originated from the top 1 percent? According to a new study of unique last names from around the world, moving in or out of the upper class doesn’t take just a few generations — it takes centuries. Measuring not just income and wealth but also occupation, education, and longevity, researchers found that upper-class families took 300 to 450 years before their scions fell back into the middle class. Throughout society, poor…
What does family traits mean?January 11, 2023 – 06:15 am
This code would work just fine, but it has some interesting properties that we may not have expected. In particular, floatify can convert any collection of integers into any collection of floats, but those collections can be of totally different types. For example, I could convert from a List to a Vec like so: fn foo(x: &List) -> f32 { let y: Vec = floatify(x); // notice the type annotation y.iterate.sum } This is more flexible, which…
