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811.
by bmitc 2y ago
I have always understood black holes to be "failed" wormholes. How does that fit into these new ideas?
812.
by bmitc 2y ago
That's not a great comparison. Einstein had already turned physics on its head and kickstarted several foundational paradigms in 1905, when he was only 25-26 years old.
813.
by bmitc 2y ago
It's not trying to explain gravity. It's trying to visualize it.
814.
by bmitc 2y ago
It's true that it's a poor library implementation, but it's also a fairly natural consequence of a language with exceptions plus some other way of handling errors. Even in a language like F#, just becauase a function returns
815.
by bmitc 2y ago
Just to clarify for the crowd though. In F#, `List.head` throws an exception when it fails whereas `List.tryHead` returns an `option`, which returns `None` when it fails instead of an exception. A general confusion of mine in Elixir is gene
816.
by bmitc 2y ago
What's unfriendly about just clicking through the options? Anytime I want to install .NET, I just go to that exact documentation, click on the distribution I want (usually Ubuntu), and then just click on the version ( https:/&#x2F
817.
by bmitc 2y ago
While I don't have much direct experience with it, as it was easy to migrate my personal projects, it seemed the idea was sound. It seemed like it was a way to encourage people to write libraries against the new .NET Core (at the time)
818.
by bmitc 2y ago
For modern .NET, you don't need to know anything about the legacy terms of Mono, .NET Core, .NET Framework, .NET Standard, etc. All you need is .NET 8 SDK. It's fully-cross platform and installs support for both C# and F#. For exa
819.
by bmitc 2y ago
Yep, that's a reasonable argument that people aren't going to have issues with. It would be news to almost anyone that the fifth amendment protects against not having to film yourself in the process of performing your civic duties
820.
by bmitc 2y ago
> The FTC says the choice is yours, and companies that void your warranty for choosing an independent shop or to fix it yourself may be breaking the law. That's a very strange decision to me. While a customer should be able to choos
821.
by bmitc 2y ago
Texas doesn't have winters.
822.
by bmitc 2y ago
Does MyPy properly validate the use of these types? Do you have anything public that elaborates on this?
823.
by bmitc 2y ago
A good book is Visual Complex Functions: An Introduction with Phase Portraits : https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Complex-Functions-Introduction...
824.
by bmitc 2y ago
Flutter is not bad, but I hesitate diving into it based upon who controls it. Using a Google product feels like you're in constant threat of it just disappearing. It also still has all the remnants of mobile and fingers and not desktop
825.
by bmitc 2y ago
Exactly, so why take the time to remind her of that? Ego is why.
826.
by bmitc 2y ago
Yes I did. And?
827.
by bmitc 2y ago
Is an interesting read, but it's striking how condescending he is at the outset. How about let the reader decide what they understand or not? There's no use in saying anything regarding that.
828.
by bmitc 2y ago
Do you have contact information?
829.
by bmitc 2y ago
People in general are pretty good at finding ways to feel superior to someone else, and that includes both audiophiles and musicians in this case.
830.
by bmitc 2y ago
More than who? Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, etc.?
831.
by bmitc 2y ago
The issue is that it's a numbers game right now, and it's tilted poorly in their favor. Yes, butterflies have to deal with natural predators, but their low numbers amplify their susceptibility to predators. If we can restore their
832.
by bmitc 2y ago
Performance is the main one. Another is not having to use a browser or program in JavaScript.
833.
by bmitc 2y ago
It's what makes Python tolerable .
834.
by bmitc 2y ago
> I'm surprised that they decided to take out the part in the About section mentioning that this is a continuation of the ideas from Processing There was a schism between Ben Fry and the Processing Foundation, so I would reckon it&#
835.
by bmitc 2y ago
Thanks for the great writeup and inspiration. Nothing much more here to add, but I like the idea of hobbit software that you presented and the fact that you stick to what you want to do. It's a great thing to see someone not search for
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by bmitc 2y ago
Quit naming projects after endangered species. When people search for "orca", they shouldn't be pointed to random software projects but instead research and advocacy groups fighting for orca rights and wellbeing.
837.
by bmitc 2y ago
To be fair, the book is just a scanned copy of the original spiral bound book.
838.
by bmitc 2y ago
Thanks for the anecdotal perspective. That's interesting! As someone who cut their teeth on a graphical language and is a big diagramming person, it's always been curious to me as to why people want to write out stuff in text. It
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by bmitc 2y ago
I think a lot of developers and companies interpret "that's the way the code or process works" as intentional behavior, which is not always the case.
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by bmitc 2y ago
What is common sense about it? > is there ever any concern we are making too many redundant concepts I need to read the contextual work, but I think it's actually the opposite here. Turing is a mathematician and is transferring a &q

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