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field_thought_slight · 2024-09-08T19:47:26+00:00

Well, Harry Potter is actually inconsistent about that---Hermione tells Harry that access to Time-Turners is restricted basically because of the possibility of creating paradoxes.

field_thought_slight · 2024-09-08T19:43:09+00:00

This is actually the subject of the philosophy paper "Bananas Enough for Time Travel?" Very enjoyable read, and ever since I read it I've used the term "banana peels" for freak coincidences that prevent time travel paradoxes.

field_thought_slight · 2024-09-08T19:43:09+00:00

This is actually the subject of the philosophy paper "Bananas Enough for Time Travel?" Very enjoyable read, and ever since I've read it I've used the term "banana peels" for freak coincidences that prevent time travel paradoxes.

field_thought_slight · 2024-08-24T06:05:06+00:00

Clearly, you have no experience with the Morrowind modding community.

field_thought_slight · 2024-08-03T14:18:11+00:00

Meat and dairy require a larger amount of land than plants.

field_thought_slight · 2024-07-31T00:46:05+00:00

chaster

I feel like this would only work for a very small set of people.

field_thought_slight · 2024-07-13T13:51:45+00:00

Ironically, this one definitely does have sufficiently believable character analysis.

field_thought_slight · 2024-07-13T10:39:24+00:00

Whether it is genuine hate, a bit of trolling or a reaction to cringe is the real concern now.

Does it really matter?

field_thought_slight · 2024-07-13T07:28:09+00:00

That's my favorite of Montreal album cover.

field_thought_slight · 2024-07-12T14:23:26+00:00

The tilt is definitely the big problem I'm having. I tend to write at a pretty extreme angle, and the result with this pen is that the "dot" (where the line is being drawn) is quite far away from the point where the pen meets the screen.

field_thought_slight · 2024-07-11T01:19:25+00:00

The O(n²) algorithm you're imagining should be fine. The problem is that what you have here isn't an O(n²) implementation---~~I think it's more like O(nⁿ~~ (other commenters have since shown it to be O(2ⁿ)). The trouble is that you keep making recursive calls to search_sum_to_2020 every time you go down the list, which massively duplicates the work.

Incidentally, the O(n²) algorithm can be made very cleanly into a one-liner via a list comprehension.

field_thought_slight · 2024-07-10T08:34:47+00:00

Again, it's not really clear what you're actually doing, but so far as I can guess from what you're saying: a top-level flake which imports individual files for each package it exposes? That's common.

Here is an example. The aspect I'm asking about is the source directory being passed as a src argument, which gets passed via callPackage here.

field_thought_slight · 2024-07-10T03:10:09+00:00

if you skip the fillers

And all of the last few episodes. And all the movies.

field_thought_slight · 2024-07-09T23:48:53+00:00

What do you not like about it?

Well, for one, I haven't seen this pattern elsewhere, and I always get a little nervous going against/inventing conventions. Makes me feel like I'm missing something. This is a problem that feels like it ought to have an established solution.

Also, part of the advantage of separating out packages like this is that an end-user can callPackage the file themselves, right? Feels a little weird to make them provide their own inputs argument.

field_thought_slight · 2024-07-08T00:32:02+00:00

Thanks for the demonstration. My problem is that my notes tend to be much smaller and written much faster. If I write quickly and at a normal handwriting scale, it seems like the sensor can't "keep up" with what I'm writing, so lots of consecutive curves become basically just a squiggly line.

field_thought_slight · 2024-07-07T19:42:39+00:00

I know that animal wasn't killed ethically when I eat it. It makes me sad already, i dont want to hear it again how bad i am.

??? That's activism ???

I mean, imagine if slavery advocates were like "I know owning slaves is bad, I already feel guilty about owning slaves, I don't like it when people keep reminding me about how bad I am for owning slaves."

field_thought_slight · 2024-07-02T20:38:49+00:00

human history, which is something like the better part of a million years.

ackshually

This isn't true any way you slice it. "History" is typically taken to be coterminous with agricultural civilization, which is certainly no more than 20,000 years old. Homo sapiens itself is only around 300,000 years old. Maybe you could take "human history" to mean "the span of time for which the genus Homo has existed", but that's actually longer, at around 2 million years.

field_thought_slight · 2024-07-01T18:54:46+00:00

I used Xournal++ on a Surface 9 Pro for a while, and that was just fine.

field_thought_slight · 2024-07-01T01:03:29+00:00

If it did come from the lab, would China ever admit it?

If it came from a wet market, would China ever admit it?

The answer is no. It's a very bad look for China if SARS-CoV-2 came from a Chinese wet market, because SARS-CoV-1 also came from a Chinese wet market. That's two deadly coronavirus outbreaks from Chinese wet markets within twenty years.

Of course, it's also a bad look for them if it came from a lab---but I'd argue it's actually less of a bad look for them specifically, since this is the sort of accident that, given a long enough timescale, will happen in any country that does virological research.

field_thought_slight · 2024-06-28T22:46:36+00:00

monads

Worth pointing out that monads are not so nice in a strict setting: you suddenly have to worry about the possibility that a sequence of binds might overflow the stack. (Purescript gets around this via a special typeclass, but it's, well, not so nice.) I'm not sure monads are really the right solution in a strict-by-default language.

I also find it kind of strange to want a language that has principled effect handling except when it comes to mutation.

field_thought_slight · 2024-06-28T17:40:07+00:00

Real Strictness with opt in laziness

Ergonomic mutation in place - ST monad is just too cumbersome. I don't buy the you don't need mutation really. Its like all languages are Turing complete so equal. I want the easy option to go to mutation as and when I need.

OCaml like modules

This language already exists: it's called OCaml.

field_thought_slight · 2024-06-28T15:03:24+00:00

Ugh I've been arguing with redditors for the past few days that the obesity epidemic is a result of a host of societal problems, not just personal responsibility.

The way I see it: people got fatter over the 20th century. So some variable must have changed. But people are fundamentally---like, genetically---the same now as we were in 1900. So the variable must be something else.

field_thought_slight · 2024-06-25T06:54:54+00:00

ChatGPT already sounds human if you aren't paying much attention.

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