fernmyth

8 ms·

31.
by fernmyth 6y ago
Market cap is a stock. GDP is a flow. Comparing the two is nonsense.
32.
by fernmyth 6y ago
In a declarative language, nothing.
33.
by fernmyth 6y ago
You may have color receptors that are not defective, but too close in activation spectra. If that's the case, then there's a workaround. Block out the light in the spectral overlap, and then the receptors will only activate on sep
34.
by fernmyth 6y ago
Every time you make a compiler faster, I add extra dependencies to all of your projects. I am Wirth’s Demon - the enforcer of Wirth’s Law!
35.
by fernmyth 6y ago
> To be honest programmers have a habit of being very loose with language. I wish this weren't true. It's quite damning. It's less bad in a real-time conversation, with fast feedback about how well we're being underst
36.
by fernmyth 7y ago
Jushi: “Is nature or nurture the primary driver of human development?” Sensei: “First tell me, what is the sound of one hand clapping?” Jushi: “Huh? That doesn’t even make sense to ask! You can’t get a clap without two surfaces interacting
37.
by fernmyth 7y ago
I made blurb.cloud so that an old phone or tablet could serve as a shared billboard.
38.
by fernmyth 7y ago
Your `xgb` and `xgbutil` libraries did exactly what I needed, and helped me write a nifty little window management utility for myself. Thanks!
39.
by fernmyth 7y ago
Huh, if the pay is better, why is it challenging to get physicians to work in rural areas? If you don't mind sharing, why wouldn't you do it?
40.
by fernmyth 8y ago
Not nitpicky at all. It's a pointless, obfuscating blob of unhelpful colors violating basic principles of data visualization: - Sequential income brackets are not adjacent. The wage of each blob can only be understood by reading every