"LOVE AND DEATH ON LONG ISLAND" (UK-Canada, 1998) A Film Review by James Kendrick ***1/2 (out of ****)
Director: Richard Kwietniowsk || Screenplay: Richard Kwietniowsk (based on the novel by Gilbert Adair) || Stars: John Hurt (Giles De'Ath), Jason Priestley (Ronnie Bostock), Fiona Loewi (Audrey), Sheila Hancock (Mrs. Barker), Maury Chaykin (Irv), Gawn Grainger (Henry), Elizabeth Quinn (Mrs. Reed) || MPAA Rating: PG-13
Humans are strange, emotional creatures, and sometimes we react to each other in unexpected ways. It is easy for a person to become caught up, fascinated with someone else, often blurring the line between interest and obsession. With the advent of movies and television, it has become even easier, because the screen gives us a plethora of beautiful, fascinating subjects to observe and wonder about. What else explains all the fan clubs, teen picture magazines, fan mail, Web sites, and girls who cry when they see Leonardo DiCaprio?
"Love and Death on Long Island" is about this very subject, but it goes about it in a peculiar and surprising way. The object of affection is a B-movie star named Ronnie Bostock (Jason Priestly), who stars in cheesy flicks with titles like "Hotpants College II" and "Skid Marks." The person who is so taken with him is a stuffy, British intellectual author named Giles De'Ath (John Hurt), who discovers Ronnie only because he accidentally goes into a theater showing "Hotpants College II," instead of the latest adaptation of an E.M. Forester novel.
Giles is a secluded man, a reclusive widower who has buried himself in his mahogany office, surrounded by books. As a man resistant to change, he doesn't so much despise technology as he ignores it. He doesn't own a television, a VCR, a microwave, or an answering machine. He refuses to give interviews, and spends all his time hand-writing long, probably unreadable books about distant academic subjects. He is the last man in the world who would become obsessed with a bad American actor, which is what makes the entire premise of the film both hilarious and poignant. Here is an unreachable man whose armor is cracked in the most unexpected way.
Giles' obsession with Ronnie is never fully explained, nor should it be. Some will narrowly interpret it as homosexual love, but I think it's bigger than that. There is never an instance in the film where Giles seems interested in sex - he is simply fascinated by Ronnie. He returns to the theater to see "Hotpants College II," and then begins to research. He discovers Ronnie's picture plastered all over fan magazines like "Sugar," the title of which proudly declares it "The #1 British girls magazine." Giles is so embarrassed about buying it, he wraps it up in another magazine to hide it.
Giles then looks up Ronnie's other movies on video, which prompts him to buy a VCR. When the delivery boy arrives with the new machine, he is quite surprised to find that Giles doesn't realize the necessity of a TV to make the VCR work. After seeing the other two movies Ronnie has starred in as well as a really bad sitcom, Giles decides to find the man himself. As part of the trivia gleaned from the fan 'zines, Giles learns that Ronnie lives on Long Island in New York. There's an amusing dream sequence where Giles imagines that he's on a British game show, answering trivia questions about Ronnie "life work," such as what his dog's name is and what he has a weakness for (pizza with extra anchovies).
"Love and Death on Long Island" is an odd, but thoroughly insightful, touching, and entertaining film. The first half is funny in a goofy kind of way. We watch Giles hide the teen fan magazines from his maid and watch bad straight-to-video movies with the misguided interpretive eye of a Shakespearean critic. There's another funny sequence when he's supposed to be lecturing on "The Death of the Future," and ends up rambling on a tangent about the subtleties of acting (with Ronnie in mind, of course).
The second half of the film is more thoughtful and pointed, when Giles finally meets Ronnie and his fiancee, a likable model named Audrey (Fiona Loewi). Giles tries to convince Ronnie that he can be more than what he is, that his career deserves better than the next sequel to "Hotpants College." But, even as Giles is saying the words, we know as surely as Ronnie does that it's not right. No matter how intense Gile's fascination is, Ronnie is not a great actor and probably never will be.
The strength of the film is in its cast, especially John Hurt. He creates a wonderfully memorable character in Giles - a dignified man of superior intellect who finally discovers his weakness. Hurt's performance simply embues intellect, distinction, and a disdain for all things non-academic. In his tweed jackets and wide ties, Hurt is utterly believable when he still refers to the movies as "pictures."
As Ronnie, Jason Priestly displays a fine knack for serious acting, even if he is essentially parodying his own teen stardom from eight years of "Beverly Hills 90210." But, let's not forget that Johnny Depp got a cinematic jump-start in John Waters' "Cry-Baby" (1990), parodying his stardom from "21 Jump Street." Priestly certainly holds his own during the film's most important moments near the end of the film, where much is said but not spoken between Giles and Ronnie.
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ALDERSHOT, England: An 82-year-old man on Thursday (Nov 7) became the first British cyclist to register one million miles on his bike with a five-mile ride to a cafe.
Russ Mantle, a retired civil servant, has recorded his mileage since he got his first bike in 1952.
He has meticulously noted every ride as he cycled to work, participated in local races and pedalled up mountains in Europe and America.
"It is just another milestone to pass a million and then on to one one, one two and so on. I should probably finish up close to 2,000,000 by the time I die when I am 100," Mantle said.
While it is unknown how many people may have cycled such a distance, Mantle is the first to register his mileage and have the proof.
"I have always recorded things. Naturally, my brain tells me to record things, even my accidents. I have always done it and at my job I was keen on figures and I could convert from metric to English measurement quickly," he said.
The Englishman has had his fair share of scrapes.
“I can remember other things very clearly despite me having been knocked off by cars, lorries and suffered concussion, three days in Southampton hospital through an accident with a lorry," Mantle said.
Nikola Marshall, director of UK Cycling, is hoping Mantle will encourage more Britons to get on their bikes.
“Our mission is to get a million more people on bikes," she said.
"Lots of people have a bike in the shed or in the garage they maybe haven’t ridden for a while and we really hope that hearing Russ’ story and that he has cycled all the way to 82 will make people get back on their bikes.”


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Carrier Double Differencing
We can actually go one step further beyond single differencing, and that is to difference across two reference GPS satellites. This step is called double differencing, and it is the backbone algorithm used in LEOGPS. This removes the relative receiver clock bias estimation errors, and this section will detail the algorithm and the results below.
The key idea behind double differencing, is to create a differential between two single difference equations. For example, between two LEO units A and B, if some GPS satellite P was taken as the reference emitter satellite in the single difference equation, then a second single difference equation would be taken with respect to a different GPS satellite Q as the reference emitter. In both single difference equations, it makes no difference to the relative receiver clock bias estimation which reference GPS satellite is used, as these are the errors specific only to the receiver-side in the relative sense.
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In a similar fashion to the single differencing algorithm, the double differencing algorithm requires the estimation of the unit direction vector from the LEO A to reference GPS satellite P, and from the LEO B to the reference GPS satellite Q. Once again, with the double-differenced relative range, and on the assumption that the signal path pairs from P to A and P to B are parallel, and the path pairs from Q to A and Q to B are also parallel, one can de-construct the baseline vector AB since each single difference observation forms the base of a right-angled triangle.
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At this point though, it becomes arguable that estimating the ambiguity with the C/A range (float ambiguity resolution) on a double-differencing measurement would give a better accuracy than performing triple differencing. This is the reason why LEOGPS does not use triple-differencing.


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module OpenSSL::KDF
Provides functionality of various KDFs (key derivation function).
KDF is typically used for securely deriving arbitrary length symmetric keys to be used with an OpenSSL::Cipher from passwords. Another use case is for storing passwords: Due to the ability to tweak the effort of computation by increasing the iteration count, computation can be slowed down artificially in order to render possible attacks infeasible.
Currently, OpenSSL::KDF provides implementations for the following KDF:
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PKCS #5 PBKDF2 (Password-Based Key Derivation Function 2) in combination with HMAC
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scrypt
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HKDF
Examples¶ ↑
Generating a 128 bit key for a Cipher (e.g. AES)¶ ↑
pass = "secret" salt = OpenSSL::Random.random_bytes(16) iter = 20_000 key_len = 16 key = OpenSSL::KDF.pbkdf2_hmac(pass, salt: salt, iterations: iter, length: key_len, hash: "sha1")
Storing Passwords¶ ↑
pass = "secret" # store this with the generated value salt = OpenSSL::Random.random_bytes(16) iter = 20_000 hash = OpenSSL::Digest::SHA256.new len = hash.digest_length # the final value to be stored value = OpenSSL::KDF.pbkdf2_hmac(pass, salt: salt, iterations: iter, length: len, hash: hash)
Important Note on Checking Passwords¶ ↑
When comparing passwords provided by the user with previously stored values, a common mistake made is comparing the two values using “==”. Typically, “==” short-circuits on evaluation, and is therefore vulnerable to timing attacks. The proper way is to use a method that always takes the same amount of time when comparing two values, thus not leaking any information to potential attackers. To compare two values, the following could be used:
def eql_time_cmp(a, b) unless a.length == b.length return false end cmp = b.bytes result = 0 a.bytes.each_with_index {|c,i| result |= c ^ cmp[i] } result == 0 end
Please note that the premature return in case of differing lengths typically does not leak valuable information - when using PBKDF2, the length of the values to be compared is of fixed size.
Public Class Methods
HMAC-based Extract-and-Expand Key Derivation Function (HKDF) as specified in RFC 5869.
New in OpenSSL 1.1.0.
Parameters¶ ↑
- ikm
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The input keying material.
- salt
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The salt.
- info
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The context and application specific information.
- length
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The output length in octets. Must be <=
255 * HashLen
, where HashLen is the length of the hash function output in octets. - hash
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The hash function.
static VALUE kdf_hkdf(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE self) { VALUE ikm, salt, info, opts, kwargs[4], str; static ID kwargs_ids[4]; int saltlen, ikmlen, infolen; size_t len; const EVP_MD *md; EVP_PKEY_CTX *pctx; if (!kwargs_ids[0]) { kwargs_ids[0] = rb_intern_const("salt"); kwargs_ids[1] = rb_intern_const("info"); kwargs_ids[2] = rb_intern_const("length"); kwargs_ids[3] = rb_intern_const("hash"); } rb_scan_args(argc, argv, "1:", &ikm, &opts); rb_get_kwargs(opts, kwargs_ids, 4, 0, kwargs); StringValue(ikm); ikmlen = RSTRING_LENINT(ikm); salt = StringValue(kwargs[0]); saltlen = RSTRING_LENINT(salt); info = StringValue(kwargs[1]); infolen = RSTRING_LENINT(info); len = (size_t)NUM2LONG(kwargs[2]); if (len > LONG_MAX) rb_raise(rb_eArgError, "length must be non-negative"); md = ossl_evp_get_digestbyname(kwargs[3]); str = rb_str_new(NULL, (long)len); pctx = EVP_PKEY_CTX_new_id(EVP_PKEY_HKDF, NULL); if (!pctx) ossl_raise(eKDF, "EVP_PKEY_CTX_new_id"); if (EVP_PKEY_derive_init(pctx) <= 0) { EVP_PKEY_CTX_free(pctx); ossl_raise(eKDF, "EVP_PKEY_derive_init"); } if (EVP_PKEY_CTX_set_hkdf_md(pctx, md) <= 0) { EVP_PKEY_CTX_free(pctx); ossl_raise(eKDF, "EVP_PKEY_CTX_set_hkdf_md"); } if (EVP_PKEY_CTX_set1_hkdf_salt(pctx, (unsigned char *)RSTRING_PTR(salt), saltlen) <= 0) { EVP_PKEY_CTX_free(pctx); ossl_raise(eKDF, "EVP_PKEY_CTX_set_hkdf_salt"); } if (EVP_PKEY_CTX_set1_hkdf_key(pctx, (unsigned char *)RSTRING_PTR(ikm), ikmlen) <= 0) { EVP_PKEY_CTX_free(pctx); ossl_raise(eKDF, "EVP_PKEY_CTX_set_hkdf_key"); } if (EVP_PKEY_CTX_add1_hkdf_info(pctx, (unsigned char *)RSTRING_PTR(info), infolen) <= 0) { EVP_PKEY_CTX_free(pctx); ossl_raise(eKDF, "EVP_PKEY_CTX_set_hkdf_info"); } if (EVP_PKEY_derive(pctx, (unsigned char *)RSTRING_PTR(str), &len) <= 0) { EVP_PKEY_CTX_free(pctx); ossl_raise(eKDF, "EVP_PKEY_derive"); } rb_str_set_len(str, (long)len); EVP_PKEY_CTX_free(pctx); return str; }
PKCS #5 PBKDF2 (Password-Based Key Derivation Function 2) in combination with HMAC. Takes pass, salt and iterations, and then derives a key of length bytes.
For more information about PBKDF2, see RFC 2898 Section 5.2 (tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2898#section-5.2).
Parameters¶ ↑
- pass
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The passphrase.
- salt
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The salt. Salts prevent attacks based on dictionaries of common passwords and attacks based on rainbow tables. It is a public value that can be safely stored along with the password (e.g. if the derived value is used for password storage).
- iterations
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The iteration count. This provides the ability to tune the algorithm. It is better to use the highest count possible for the maximum resistance to brute-force attacks.
- length
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The desired length of the derived key in octets.
- hash
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The hash algorithm used with HMAC for the PRF. May be a String representing the algorithm name, or an instance of OpenSSL::Digest.
static VALUE kdf_pbkdf2_hmac(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE self) { VALUE pass, salt, opts, kwargs[4], str; static ID kwargs_ids[4]; int iters, len; const EVP_MD *md; if (!kwargs_ids[0]) { kwargs_ids[0] = rb_intern_const("salt"); kwargs_ids[1] = rb_intern_const("iterations"); kwargs_ids[2] = rb_intern_const("length"); kwargs_ids[3] = rb_intern_const("hash"); } rb_scan_args(argc, argv, "1:", &pass, &opts); rb_get_kwargs(opts, kwargs_ids, 4, 0, kwargs); StringValue(pass); salt = StringValue(kwargs[0]); iters = NUM2INT(kwargs[1]); len = NUM2INT(kwargs[2]); md = ossl_evp_get_digestbyname(kwargs[3]); str = rb_str_new(0, len); if (!PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC(RSTRING_PTR(pass), RSTRING_LENINT(pass), (unsigned char *)RSTRING_PTR(salt), RSTRING_LENINT(salt), iters, md, len, (unsigned char *)RSTRING_PTR(str))) ossl_raise(eKDF, "PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC"); return str; }
Derives a key from pass using given parameters with the scrypt password-based key derivation function. The result can be used for password storage.
scrypt is designed to be memory-hard and more secure against brute-force attacks using custom hardwares than alternative KDFs such as PBKDF2 or bcrypt.
The keyword arguments N, r and p can be used to tune scrypt. RFC 7914 (published on 2016-08, tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7914#section-2) states that using values r=8 and p=1 appears to yield good results.
See RFC 7914 (tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7914) for more information.
Parameters¶ ↑
- pass
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Passphrase.
- salt
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Salt.
- N
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CPU/memory cost parameter. This must be a power of 2.
- r
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Block size parameter.
- p
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Parallelization parameter.
- length
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Length in octets of the derived key.
Example¶ ↑
pass = "password" salt = SecureRandom.random_bytes(16) dk = OpenSSL::KDF.scrypt(pass, salt: salt, N: 2**14, r: 8, p: 1, length: 32) p dk #=> "\xDA\xE4\xE2...\x7F\xA1\x01T"
static VALUE kdf_scrypt(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE self) { VALUE pass, salt, opts, kwargs[5], str; static ID kwargs_ids[5]; size_t len; uint64_t N, r, p, maxmem; if (!kwargs_ids[0]) { kwargs_ids[0] = rb_intern_const("salt"); kwargs_ids[1] = rb_intern_const("N"); kwargs_ids[2] = rb_intern_const("r"); kwargs_ids[3] = rb_intern_const("p"); kwargs_ids[4] = rb_intern_const("length"); } rb_scan_args(argc, argv, "1:", &pass, &opts); rb_get_kwargs(opts, kwargs_ids, 5, 0, kwargs); StringValue(pass); salt = StringValue(kwargs[0]); N = NUM2UINT64T(kwargs[1]); r = NUM2UINT64T(kwargs[2]); p = NUM2UINT64T(kwargs[3]); len = NUM2LONG(kwargs[4]); /* * OpenSSL uses 32MB by default (if zero is specified), which is too small. * Let's not limit memory consumption but just let malloc() fail inside * OpenSSL. The amount is controllable by other parameters. */ maxmem = SIZE_MAX; str = rb_str_new(0, len); if (!EVP_PBE_scrypt(RSTRING_PTR(pass), RSTRING_LEN(pass), (unsigned char *)RSTRING_PTR(salt), RSTRING_LEN(salt), N, r, p, maxmem, (unsigned char *)RSTRING_PTR(str), len)) ossl_raise(eKDF, "EVP_PBE_scrypt"); return str; }


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This (not serious!) project is based on a blog post which recently went viral: The author trained an LSTM Recurrent Neural Network on the first four Harry Potter books and used it to produce an additional chapter.
Using the same LSTM setup for word-level language models, this model is trained using a selected corpus of user postings/comments from an Austrian online newspaper.


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Class representing a callback, which is a function as an object. To be used inside API JS functions/methods.
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#include <Types.hpp>
Class representing a callback, which is a function as an object. To be used inside API JS functions/methods.
◆ Callback()
Gets the callback function from the given index using the given context. If the argument is not a function throws an error.
- Parameters
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| Context | The context to use it with. |
| Index | The index of the argument of the API JS function. |
- Note
- This should NOT be CALLED manually. use FunctionHandler::GetCallback(...) to get it.
◆ AddBoolean()
| void bjs::js::Callback::AddBoolean |
( |
bool |
Value | ) |
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Passes a boolean as an argument for the callback function.
- Parameters
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| Value | The boolean to pass. |
- Note
- The value is added as the next argument.
◆ AddDouble()
| void bjs::js::Callback::AddDouble |
( |
double |
Value | ) |
|
Passes a double as an argument for the callback function.
- Parameters
-
- Note
- The value is added as the next argument.
◆ AddInt()
| void bjs::js::Callback::AddInt |
( |
s64 |
Value | ) |
|
Passes a signed integer as an argument for the callback function.
- Parameters
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| Value | The signed integer to pass. |
- Note
- The value is added as the next argument.
◆ AddNaN()
| void bjs::js::Callback::AddNaN |
( |
| ) |
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Passes NaN as an argument for the callback function.
- Note
- The value is added as the next argument.
◆ AddNull()
| void bjs::js::Callback::AddNull |
( |
| ) |
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Passes null as an argument for the callback function.
- Note
- The value is added as the next argument.
◆ AddString()
| void bjs::js::Callback::AddString |
( |
std::string |
Value | ) |
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Passes a std::string as an argument for the callback function.
- Parameters
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| Value | The std::string to pass. |
- Note
- The value is added as the next argument.
◆ AddUInt()
| void bjs::js::Callback::AddUInt |
( |
u64 |
Value | ) |
|
Passes an unsigned integer as an argument for the callback function.
- Parameters
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| Value | The unsigned integer to pass. |
- Note
- The value is added as the next argument.
◆ AddUndefined()
| void bjs::js::Callback::AddUndefined |
( |
| ) |
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Passes undefined as an argument for the callback function.
- Note
- The value is added as the next argument.
◆ Call()
| void bjs::js::Callback::Call |
( |
| ) |
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Calls the function with currently added arguments (in order). Like doing "Func(Args);".
- Note
- This should be called after adding all the arguments in order.
◆ CallNew()
| void bjs::js::Callback::CallNew |
( |
| ) |
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Like Call, but like calling it with "new" keyword. Like doing "new Func(Args);".
- Note
- This should be called after adding all the arguments in order.
◆ GetBooleanArguments()
| std::vector<bool> bjs::js::Callback::GetBooleanArguments |
( |
| ) |
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◆ GetContext()
◆ GetDoubleArguments()
| std::vector<double> bjs::js::Callback::GetDoubleArguments |
( |
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◆ GetIntArguments()
| std::vector<s64> bjs::js::Callback::GetIntArguments |
( |
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◆ GetNaNArgumentCount()
| u32 bjs::js::Callback::GetNaNArgumentCount |
( |
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◆ GetNullArgumentCount()
| u32 bjs::js::Callback::GetNullArgumentCount |
( |
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◆ GetStringArguments()
| std::vector<std::string> bjs::js::Callback::GetStringArguments |
( |
| ) |
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◆ GetUIntArguments()
| std::vector<u64> bjs::js::Callback::GetUIntArguments |
( |
| ) |
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◆ GetUndefinedArgumentCount()
| u32 bjs::js::Callback::GetUndefinedArgumentCount |
( |
| ) |
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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:


tea drops
What should I tell you about them? I could tell you how exactly they met, or maybe the first time they went bowling? I could tell you about their high school days or I could tell you about all the skipped college lectures. Hell, I could read to you from their yearbooks. But what would you to with that? Would you write this story instead?
 The train is silent now, no longer hissing or puffing as it was when it first stopped a few minutes ago. The train is on time, but he had prepared for a 1 hour delay. He takes in a deep breath and realizes that he is early. This is not a bad thing, he's never had a chance to look around before. All the prior visits have been strictly "business", if you could call it that.
It's been 6 months since the last time, he starts to wonder how different she will look today. He wonders if she'll even show up. They haven't really communicated since the last time, and because there was no communication, today should still be a go. Surely she would have said something if there was a change of plans. As he wanders around everyone else notices how his walking stick doesn't really slow him down. It does make walking easier for him, but if you didn't know that it would just seem like it was for show. Time flies when you're wondering or wandering, it flies faster when you're doing both.
He recognizes her by the cross she's wearing.  She's reading a book. So that's what she does, he thinks, she shows up early and reads.  This is the only piece of jewelry she wears now. Through out the years she's had rings on all fingers (at different times), earrings of all sorts, shiny watches, and even fancy hair-clips. And through the years they've all somehow managed to dissolve or disappear, leaving her with just the cross.
He walks towards her and she notices the walking stick approaching. She raises her head to make sure and then she stands up. Neither of them have changed much since the last time. He smiles, his lips part slightly as if he was going to say something, but then they join again. She smiles back. This is them saying hello.
Without skipping a beat they start walking. It's unclear to either of them what their next stop will be, so they walk in a certain way that shows this condition. Shop and stand owners catch onto this very quickly, after all they make a living from people who're just walking by. "Bhai sahaab, bhel puri?", shouts one of them. "Chai paani, chai paani", says another. She gives him a disapproving look, she remembers that they visited that stand last time. She wants to try and visit a different stand each time, adding a unique flavour to each meeting.
They settle on a stand. "Ji behenji?" asks the man behind the counter, waiting for an answer.  She starts to lift her head up to take a look and notices from the corner of her eye a smile forming on his face. She searches for clouds, but the sky seems as if it has none. It's all one big cloud, she thinks, covering the entire sky.  Catching raindrops as they fall. She gives him a little nudge with her elbow, the tongue goes back in. "Bhai saab?" the man behind the counter tries to appeal to his sensibilities instead.
She points to the kettle, indicating that they want tea. "Okay, do cup chai," says the man, pulling out two empty cups. She makes repeated tsk sounds, raises her hand with her index finger pointing up and in that same rising motion she opens and spreads all five fingers. "Acha, ek hi cup," the man corrects himself. "Dood?" the man asks, and they both nod their heads from side to side. No milk. "Shakkar?" the man now wishing that they had made their own tea. She holds up two fingers. Two spoons. He holds up another, making it three. The sweeter the better, he thinks. She doesn't object. He grabs the other empty cup, putting down the money to cover it (and a little extra) before the man behind the counter could raise concern, and starts to pour half the tea into the empty cup. He hands the second cup to her. They start to walk again, each a cup in hand with half a cup of tea.
They approach the big cross atop the large gates. The cross not too different from the one she's wearing on her necklace. They all look the same, he thinks, as he sees dozens of crosses marking dozens of graves. This graveyard is decidedly a Christian graveyard. If the crosses didn't give it away, the cleanliness would have. This one is far better kept than any of the Muslim or Hindu graveyards in this city. Still slowly taking sips from their cups, they slowly approach their intended spot. This grave isn't marked like the others. Not marked by a cross, and not exactly a tombstone either. It's somewhere between a tombstone and a rock. There's nothing engraved on it. So empty and barren, he thinks, if only someone wrote a word. At the same time she ponders upon how strong and free it stands, just the way it is.
Their cups now hold half of what they originally held. They give each other a quick look, observe a quick moment of silence, then start to pour the remaining contents of the cup onto the grave. The symmetry is not exact, but it's close enough. I wouldn't ask them to do it again. They pour the tea till the last drops drop, then leave the cups on the rock. People do all sorts of things near a grave. Some shed tears, dropping tear drops. They, he and she, drop tea drops. Pouring a quarter cup each, but somehow making a whole. The math seems to make perfect sense in their minds. This is how some friends say hello, and this is how some friends say goodbye.
Time does fly when you're wondering and wandering. He looks at her watch (those can't be the original straps) and it's almost time for the next train. She understands from the pattern of his eyes, that it's time for him to go. They start heading back to the train station. On the way back, they pass by the man behind the counter, who smiles and waves at them. They respond in kind. He had already purchased the return ticket on the way here. There was nothing left, but to get on the train.
The train has already warmed up, he's just in time to jump on. He forgets that he's walking with her and starts to hurry towards the train. The limp in his step becomes evident, some of those who saw him earlier in the day now feel content. He doesn't get too far from her, nor does he get too close to the train. She jogs up ahead of him, turns back and starts to encourage him by waving him in, like she was holding a flag near the finish line. Realizing the silliness of his speed and her air-flag waving they both burst into laughter. It really is time to go. He gets on the train, and the train starts to move. She smiles at him. He smiles back, his lips part slightly as if he was going to say something, then they join back. As the distance between them widens, they both wave to each other. This is them saying goodbye.


Who am I?
I was born and raised near Paris, in a French town called Meudon. Don't worry, most Parisians have never heard of it either. At 18, I moved from the 45,000 people municipality to the 20,000,000+ inhabited Shanghai and Beijing. I think European Megalopoles are cool too, so I also went to Madrid for a while. Today, NYC undeniably has my heart.
I am passionate about technology. I have a soft spot for products in education and talent acquisition. Some day, I'd like to launch a platform helping people explore their career paths through career-shadowing and mentorship, pursuing my project Daytern.
I love to bike, especially in NY's urban jungle (it's me in the video up there ↑).
Litterature is my escape. I'm currently into Robert Musil's The Confusions of Young Törless and you'll always find Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor on my nightstand.
You guessed it, I'm also into investing. I find there is something thrilling about owning shares of companies that interest you. I also code sometimes, but I prefer talking to people. AIs got nothing on us (yet...).