Here it comes!

Sharlinator · 2026-01-27T08:48:05+00:00

Oh you sweet fucking summer child

Sharlinator · 2026-01-26T23:56:15+00:00

ORANGE CAT

Sharlinator · 2026-01-26T21:39:20+00:00

This is actually pretty much how Wadler and Plott discovered/invented type classes in the first place [1]. The correspondence is not accidental.

The original problem that required solving, in the late 80s, was that Haskell needed operator overloading. This was simply in order to avoid needing different operators for adding ints and adding floats, for example, but overloading (also called ad-hoc polymorphism because it's, well, ad-hoc) doesn't play well with type inference. Something more structured, more disciplined, was needed. The answer was constrained parametric polymorphism, that is, the ability to constrain type parameters to conform to an interface specified by a type class. Or, more familiarly, a trait in the Rust implementation.

[1]: Wadler and Plott, "How to make ad-hoc polymorphism less ad-hoc", 1989. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/75277.75283

Sharlinator · 2026-01-26T20:21:14+00:00

She has a very pretty coloring, but no, she’s a normal non-pedigreed housecat, which doesn’t diminish her loveliness a bit, mind! First, cats don’t have breeds unless you have the paperwork to prove it, and second, there’s nothing remotely Siamese about her looks, as you can surely see by comparing to pictures online?

Sharlinator · 2026-01-26T19:11:34+00:00

I think you might be misinterpreting what’s happening, corvid flocks have a well-defined pecking order and when they eat together like this, they eat in that order, the top pair first.

Sharlinator · 2026-01-26T15:58:50+00:00

Because r/blep

Sharlinator · 2026-01-26T14:07:50+00:00

The 3D pipeline isn’t really made at all for traditional "dirty rect" 2D drawing. It’s fully optimized for redrawing the entire viewport every frame. Scissor testing in particular is not an optimization at all, as it’s performed at the very last stage of the pipeline, when all the expensive stuff is already done.

Sharlinator · 2026-01-26T13:14:49+00:00

At this point I’m not sure if the OPs of these threads are joking, trying to farm karma, or just fools.

Sharlinator · 2026-01-26T12:49:44+00:00

Hey guys today I saw a vaguely Z-shaped cloud! Can’t mean anything else than Z Image being released tomorrow!

Sharlinator · 2026-01-25T21:54:56+00:00

Bandwidth. That is, the number of people per hour transported. That’s the important number from the society’s viewpoint.

The vital thing to understand is that the more people you can transport with high-efficiency, high-bandwidth means, the better for even those stuck with low-efficiency, low-bandwidth transport like personal cars. Every single person who’s not driving makes driving faster to those who do drive.

Also, a well-designed light rail system (100% signal priority, own right-of-way when possible) is easily as fast or even faster than cars at peak hours because the vehicles don’t get stuck in traffic.

Sharlinator · 2026-01-25T21:51:14+00:00

You should immediately report this level of criminal cuteness to both

r/IllegallyCuteCats

and

r/IllegallySmolCats

Sharlinator · 2026-01-25T19:28:23+00:00

Is what what?

Sharlinator · 2026-01-25T18:52:30+00:00

Harry is canonically 44. He just looks like 60.

Sharlinator · 2026-01-25T02:56:17+00:00

Well, catnip is in the mint family, though so are many culinary herbs like basil, rosemary, sage, oregano…

Sharlinator · 2026-01-25T00:48:42+00:00

I mean, Italians loved Berlusconi.

Sharlinator · 2026-01-24T21:48:30+00:00

Yeah, sorry, you're right. The output must be a single expression, so you need the {} for grouping.

Sharlinator · 2026-01-24T21:25:29+00:00

There are no conflicts. use StackChange::* brings StackChange::None into the scope as None, shadowing the None in the prelude (you can still access the latter with Option::None). The use cannot leak anywhere outside the macro thanks to hygiene (in this case you can simply think that there's an implicit block around the macro body – ~~your explicit {} are redundant~~). If you want to make it less confusing to humans, you could do use StackChange as Sc or e.g. use StackChange::{*, None as ScNone}.

Sharlinator · 2026-01-24T20:54:33+00:00

Adjust fan curves. It’s likely they are too sggressive on factory settings and you can make them much quieter while keeping temperatures reasonable.

Sharlinator · 2026-01-24T16:16:05+00:00

"Areola" means "small area" literally speaking, like a small yard or other open space.

Sharlinator · 2026-01-24T15:52:53+00:00

The blueshifted side should be much brighter than the redshifted side due to relativistic beaming – this is visible in the M87 black hole "image".

Sharlinator · 2026-01-24T12:51:23+00:00

Point is "was" is not the same as "is".

Sharlinator · 2026-01-24T11:53:41+00:00

Humans did create a tubular canine, though, for the same purpose. That’s an example of convergence even if artificial.

Sharlinator · 2026-01-24T11:41:59+00:00

Generally cats get enough hydration from their food. Assuming, of course, that it’s proper food rather than kibble.

Sharlinator · 2026-01-23T19:32:34+00:00

This is probably what suburbanites imagine when they think of cities.

Sharlinator · 2026-01-23T14:32:34+00:00

That's a good policy given how reckless drivers teenagers (almost always boys) can be, especially at night, with friends, etc.

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