Why “Sort” is being discussed
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> I am not sure how you are saying a place is inviting of druggies, what are the physical designs that you think make it so? The concrete voids, semi-open outdoor stairwells and…
by Nursie · Sep 16, 2026
BA (and presumably other airlines) run fear-of-flying courses where you have some ground sessions with flight crew explaining what happens during takeoff/landing, what nois…
by cjrp · Sep 16, 2026
I work for IPinfo. We offer a residential proxy detection service, which you can check at ipinfo.io/my. We had a previous discussion about surfacing visitor IP address resp…
by reincoder · Sep 16, 2026
I agree with this, and I'll offer a rationale. Because the US largely "grew up with cars", the economy was built around the expectation that folks can drive to work. The populat…
by piker · Sep 16, 2026
That depends on how you see it. I started off studying physics, but transitioned to CS. I found I was good at CS and loved tinkering, but the tinkering was always for the explor…
by munksbeer · Sep 16, 2026
Yeah the Actor model just doesn't fit well with Rust without feeling like a DSL. Tokio works well because Rust's ownership model overlays with tokio nicely. The language is alre…
by CoolestBeans · Sep 16, 2026
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Sort may refer to:Sorting, any process of arranging items in sequence or in sets Sorting algorithm, any algorithm for ordering a list of elements Internal sort, the process of sorting data entirely in main storage External sort, the process of sorting data too large to fit in main storage Mainframe sort merge, sort utility for IBM mainframe systems Sort (Unix), which sorts the lines of a file Sort (C++), a function in the C++ Standard Template Library SORT (journal), an English-language open-access statistics journal published in Spain Sort, a domain in a many-sorted structure Sort (typesetting), a piece of metal type Sort, Lleida, a town in Catalonia Selective organ targeting, a drug delivery method Special Operations Response Team, a tactical unit of the US Federal Bureau of Prisons Special Operations Response Teams, specialist ambulance service teams in Britain related to hazardous area response teams Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty, between the US and Russia Symantec Operations Readiness Tools, a web-based suite of computer tools Read more on Wikipedia