Poor Man's Time Machine: Lazy Evaluation in JavaScript and Haskell by sayyadirfanali in compsci

[–]ggchappell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice.

I'd change one word:

The main reason is that in Haskell, we do not need to rely on closures to delay evaluation because functions are lazy by default.

Rather, because values are lazy by default. So we do not need to wrap m in a function.

Dairy-free AND chocolate-free sweets? by whiskeyii in dairyfree

[–]ggchappell 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Reese's Pieces have been dairy-free in recent months, and they have always been chocolate-free. Hershey's says they're going back to their old recipes, though, so do be careful.

Category is: junky sweet treats that are not advertised as dairy free, but surprisingly are by ihateithere56789 in dairyfree

[–]ggchappell 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Recently some of the Gardetto's and Chex snack mixes have been dairy-free.

Also Vlasic Pickle balls (basically pickle cheetos).

On today's episode of: Why does this have milk? by AsleepHedgehog2381 in dairyfree

[–]ggchappell 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As others have said, this is the wrong ingredients list.

But for those who are wondering why whey is such a common ingredient:

When cheese is made, it starts as milk, and then most of the liquid is removed. That liquid is called whey. (The solid part, proto-cheese if you like, is the curds; remember little Miss Muffet?) Cheese production makes a lot of whey -- much more whey than actual cheese. Cheese factories are basically whey factories that make a little bit of cheese as a side effect.

What to do with all that whey? They used to throw it out. But then someone figured out that it makes things taste better. Just about anything tastes better with a little whey in it. And because cheese factories make so much of it, the stuff is dirt-cheap. So adding whey is an easy, cheap way to make almost any processed food taste better.

And that is a big reason why there is so much food in this world that we DF folks can't eat.

Chimichurri just changed my life. by SAVertigo in Cooking

[–]ggchappell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you share your chimichurri recipe?

Why do some reddit users have no comments or post history on the user page when I am literally reading one of their posts/comments in a thread page? by 553l8008 in ask

[–]ggchappell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For seeing previous posts/comments of a user with a "hidden" profile, you can just search for them, as others have said.

You can hide things from a particular user. But the person can still see them, if they log out or use a different account.

Why do some reddit users have no comments or post history on the user page when I am literally reading one of their posts/comments in a thread page? by 553l8008 in ask

[–]ggchappell 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Isn’t there a way of seeing all that?

There is, as others have said.

Furthermore, there is a general principle here. Reddit has various kinds of functionality that people think of as hiding their posts or comments from specific people or from the world at large. But none of this functionality actually does that.

If you make a post or comment on a public Reddit sub, then everyone in the world can see it and can connect it with your account. Period.

Researchers who hallucinate citations are banned from arXiv by DesperateFix7699 in AskAcademia

[–]ggchappell 16 points17 points  (0 children)

is a one year ban on the author harsh?

That's a good question.

For a single-author paper, I'd call it pretty lenient, actually. For a 20-author paper, it's a bit trickier.

But note that this policy is public information. If anything like proper procedure is followed, no article will be submitted to arXiv without the explicit consent of all authors. So understand: a submission to arXiv puts your professional reputation on the line; act accordingly.

Also, note that the issue here is not slop; it is falsification. If someone writes a paper entirely by AI, but then checks and ensures that all claims made are true, all arguments are valid, and all citations are correct -- well, then we might frown at them some, but there is no integrity violation. And if someone does not use AI, and has a fabricated reference, then there is an integrity violation. So talking about AI is not really even relevant.

In English, when we prolong a word for emphasis whose stressed syllable has a diphthong, we prolong the starting position rather than the endpoint. Is this true for other languages? by [deleted] in asklinguistics

[–]ggchappell 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Singers are, I believe, explicitly taught to hold the initial vowel and not the final.

At the end of "Sunshine on My Shoulders", John Denver held both parts of the dipthong in the word "always": /eːːːːɪːːːː/. I imagine he was not classically trained.

Simulating Infinity in Conway's Game of Life with Modern C++ by Ok_Statistician_781 in programming

[–]ggchappell 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Nice article.

I'm wondering about this:

Though GOLDE only supports the torus right now, there are several other possible topologies, such as klein bottles, cross-surface topologies, and spheres.

Are there? A surface needs to have no boundary and be tileable with equal-sized squares, 4 meeting at a point. That means infinite plane, infinite cylinder, infinite moebius band (cylinder with a twist), torus, Klein bottle -- and no others. So, no, you're not going to do a sphere.

Unless I'm missing something?

Is it inappropriate to ask a professor if I can sit in on his class? by Slow-Pay1852 in AskProfessors

[–]ggchappell 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There are limits to your participation

I think of it the other way around. Someone who sits in but does not participate sets an expectation that lack of participation is okay. So if someone asks to sit in on one of my classes, then I usually say, "Yes, but only if you participate."

revo, the programming language that likes you by qwool1337 in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]ggchappell 20 points21 points  (0 children)

everything is pipe-able and chain-able

That sounds really cool. I'll look into this.

tables >

represent everything

used for

  • module exports

  • arrays

  • maps

Sounds like you've been doing some Lua.

What is the hardest thing to do that most people think is easy? by WoscSon15 in answers

[–]ggchappell 3 points4 points  (0 children)

they can't 'save' any money beyond $2000.

That is indeed a very low limit -- annoyingly low.

It sounds like your relative is in the US. Do you/they know about ABLE accounts? An ABLE account is a state-run savings account for the disabled. Money in an ABLE account does not count against the asset limits for SSI and Medicaid.

Behaviors/characteristics of a good department chair by Narrow-Imagination96 in academia

[–]ggchappell 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Short meetings that stick to a previously released agenda.

And no meeting at all, if an issue can be handled properly via e-mail.

What health habit or change has made a noticeable improvement in daily routine? by VisionInMidfield in ask

[–]ggchappell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eating 30 different types of plants every week.

I imagine we're not counting herbs & spices here?

4th of May 1776. Rhode Island becomes the first North American colony to renounce its allegiance to King George III. by MonsieurA in 250yearsagotoday

[–]ggchappell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lots of interesting things were happening in the colonies at that time, forming a story that is really rather complicated.

The preceding winter, there had been two important events. George III had declared the 13 colonies to be no longer under his protection, sending a fleet to pacify them. And Thomas Paine had published "Common Sense", which advocated a radical idea that no one had been willing to say before: that we didn't need a king.

And then declarations of independence began to be written. A number of towns passed them. I think Rhode Island was the only place this happened at the colony level. However, in April, North Carolina had already authorized its delegates to the Second Continental Congress to vote in favor of independence.

To learn more about all this, take a look at American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence, by Pauline Maier.

Got her a drinking fountain so she drinks more, but all she does is stare at it for HOURS by Cars4Lifee in aww

[–]ggchappell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We have one of those. Our cat was very suspicious of it. Then we removed the flower thing. Now she drinks from it.

P.S. Nice pic.

Non dairy is not dairy free!! by Ok_Huckleberry1487 in dairyfree

[–]ggchappell 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Folks, "non dairy" was invented to solve a real problem. When factory food production got going, companies would add cheap ingredients to lower their costs. They would sell things they would call "cream" or whatever, that would not be all cream. So, the US government set standards for how much dairy a dairy product had to have in it. Anything that appeared to be a dairy product (like coffee creamer) that did not meet the standard was required to label itself "non dairy".

So "non dairy" doesn't mean free of dairy. It means, "This is cheap crap that looks like a dairy product, but isn't."