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by jordigh 4y ago
White Noise is way older than 2021. I read the book last century. I guess it's a coincidence that this was filmed a bit before an actual airborne toxic event, but I wouldn't think too much about it.
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by jordigh 4y ago
That url must have the highest linked-to-read ratio on the internet. Although it seems to be fading away, linked to less frequently.
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by jordigh 4y ago
Because it's a nationalistic thing to insist that all languages spell your country's name in the script and spelling of the source language. It's a stupid move by the Erdogan government to get people to stop thinking about tü
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by jordigh 4y ago
Erdogan wants English to use the Turkish spelling because he's tired of English speakers thinking of the bird when they're talking about the country. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MyNay
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by jordigh 4y ago
The recent wave of Twitter immigration has reignited the quote-toot discussion. People mostly want a silly copy of a half-baked Twitter feature. If we get something like it in Mastodon, I hope it's better thought-out. For example, edit
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by jordigh 4y ago
No! :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34696041
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by jordigh 4y ago
Some of us who have been on Mastodon for a few years now insist on calling them toots, despite the official renaming in the original Mastodon repo. A toot is the sound elephant friend (our mascot) makes with their trunk. Also it's sill
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by jordigh 4y ago
I don't like the idea of Twitter-like quoting. Linking to the original toot is fine, it's clear that there's a link. The Twitter-like quoting was used way too much for abuse. It had legitimate uses, but the abuse it generates
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by jordigh 4y ago
> By B.S. [...] > The era of Donald Trump seems to have strengthened the diversity bureaucracy’s belief that students’ feelings must be protected. This article is very weird. I realise that The Economist isn't just journalism, bu
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by jordigh 4y ago
This is poetry. I almost could fit it to the tune of Favourite Things, which coincidentally these thing are. My favourite things, I mean.
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by jordigh 4y ago
Exceptions are actually part of floats, they're called "signalling nans". So technically Python is correct when it decided that 0.0/0.0 should raise an exception instead of just quietly returning NaN. Raising an exceptio
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by jordigh 4y ago
> What's the result of 1.0/0.0? It's not a number, so it's a NaN It's not often that I get to correct Mr D himself, but 1.0/0.0 is...
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by jordigh 4y ago
Python's decimal absolutely is IEEE 754 (well, based on the older standard, which has now been absorbed into IEEE 754): https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/_pydecimal.p... Cool, did
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by jordigh 4y ago
The only implementation of IEEE754 decimals I've ever seen is in Python's Decimal package. Is there an easily-available implementation anywhere else?
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by jordigh 4y ago
Oh man, those 80-bit registers on 32-bit machines were weird. I was very confused as an undergrad when I ran the basic program to find machine epsilon, and was getting a much smaller epsilon than I expected on a 64-bit float. Turns out, the
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by jordigh 4y ago
In my opinion, that's in the realm of "you can only delay it". Sure, you can treat real numbers via purely logical deductions like a human mathematician would, but at some point someone's going to ask, "so, where is
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by jordigh 4y ago
One thing that pains me about this kind of zoo of problems is that people often have the takeaway, "floating point is full of unknowable, random errors, never use floating point, you will never understand it." Floating point is am
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Menace (The Machine Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine)(mscroggs.co.uk)
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by jordigh 4y ago
> Invariance under linear combinations / convex combinations / algebraic operations -> suffices to check basis elements / extreme elements / generators Linear combinations of a basis (b1, b2, ..., bn) are
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by jordigh 4y ago
He's talking about the general principle that if something only depends on composable atoms, then in order to know how that thing changes, you only need to know how those composable atoms change. Probably a simple example is a rotation
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by jordigh 4y ago
I'm pretty sure it's a subtle union-busting doublethink. When the Starbucks employees started unionising, they said things like "if you're going to call us partners [the Starbucks name for 'employee'], then sta
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by jordigh 4y ago
Any word except "employee", because that makes people think too much about contracts and worker-boss relationships. We're all cool people with a cool name here! Nobody is merely an "employee"! It's not just in
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by jordigh 4y ago
Is there a good book to learn Godot? I've been waiting for such a book for some time. I have only been able to find online tutorials and videos, but I would like an offline book.
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by jordigh 4y ago
Oh, huh, I first knew about this from Peertube, and I assumed they were the ones who had created it. It seemed like a really clever solution to the problem of "how do I host my own YouTube without needing a massive infrastructure to de
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by jordigh 4y ago
C-w is "wipe", and M-d is "delete". C-d is also "delete" but one character. There are several Emacs combos where C- is for single characters and M- is for whole word, like C-f/M-f, C-b/M-b etc. M-w al
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by jordigh 4y ago
I have heard older Soviet Russians use the word горко, but this was about ten years ago. They were trying to express that the food tasted bad and they really just called it bitter when they meant it had capsaicin.
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by jordigh 4y ago
The problem is that there just isn't a good English word to distinguish it, I have to explain every time that I don't mean flavour, I mean pain. (Russian also has this problem, ambiguity is in every natural language.)
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by jordigh 4y ago
Your body can react to the pain excitation in some slightly harmful ways, such as diarrhea, overproduction of mucus, altered digestion, etc. True, the capsaicin itself doesn't harm your body, but the pain can in itself cause some sligh
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by jordigh 4y ago
But it is an annoying ambiguity in English. You would probably say that curry paste is spicy even it had no capsaicin, which does happen. People also mean "has spices" when they say "spicy". I have heard Russians use the
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by jordigh 4y ago
> I'm genuinely confused by people who avoid adding additional flavour to their food It's not a flavour, it's just pain. You can experience capsaicin on any mucuous membrane of your body. Your tongue and lips just happen t

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