samatman

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by samatman 2y ago
The person you're responding to is correct. Dispersion is the result, refraction and diffraction are ways that it can happen. > The grating acts as a dispersive element. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffracti
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by samatman 2y ago
Quake terminal. I switched to WezTerm awhile ago for my main terminal emulator, a decision I've been happy with. But I keep a copy of iTerm running so I can pull down the Quake terminal. Main uses are running homebrew updates, and, p
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by samatman 2y ago
Processes can't have children either, since, being a bunch of arithmetic, they lack genitalia. You can't kill them, because they aren't alive. They can't even sleep(1), another biological process fast arithmetic has no
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by samatman 2y ago
This is a great comment, you clearly know what you're talking about and I learned a lot. I wanted to push back on this a bit: > The "Objective-C problems" they fixed were things that made Objective-C annoying to optimize,
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by samatman 2y ago
Agreed. For example, Julia (which is a compiled language) has a package called Revise, which provides incremental compilation. A cold start on a package / project / script will take awhile, and even when dependencies are precompil
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by samatman 2y ago
A much larger pool of online documentation, example code, and experienced hobbyists who like answering questions, is worth a great deal more than eighty cents. Getting more use out of the battery is a good and sufficient reason to use a les
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by samatman 2y ago
Cool. > it has associative arrays Zig also has a variety of generic data structures in the standard library for this purpose, HashMap and ArrayHashMap and variants. The main limitation in the current implementation of comptime is that
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by samatman 2y ago
This happens to be the exact one I tried. I'll probably try others in case there's one which happens to work better or be more comfortable (irritation of the nostrils at first was a real factor, took about a week to adjust), but
819.
by samatman 2y ago
There's a whole set of criteria for when Wikipedia will and will not list former names for people who transition, which boils down to whether they achieved notability under the old name. Which Lynn did not. There's a conversation
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by samatman 2y ago
In terms of cheap things to try, I'd like to recommend trying a nasal stent. I don't snore because I side sleep, but do if I'm on my back, and I suspected some minor apnea was taking place regardless of position. The stent h
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by samatman 2y ago
> As far as I can tell, D's templates and CTFE are as powerful as Zig's comptime You might very well be right. I didn't realize that D's templating was much different from C++, I don't know much about the langu
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by samatman 2y ago
You're still failing to reason this through correctly. Let's stick to the central example, since the analogous situation didn't help you. Same amount of momentum, two collisions. In one, there is one crumple zone, we will ass
823.
by samatman 2y ago
Two companies who have earned very different reputations over the decades, will elicit rather different reactions when announcing similar features, yes. I also missed the part of the linked article where it says that my Mac is going to take
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by samatman 2y ago
It was speculated when the M4 was released only for the iPad Pro that it might be out of an internal need on Apple's part for the bulk of the chips being manufactured. This latest set of announcements gives substantial weight to that t
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by samatman 2y ago
Nope. Consider the crumple zone of a trampoline, and the crumple zone of your knees. Now replace the trampoline with concrete.
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by samatman 2y ago
Consent is not necessary to take or share photographs taken in public. Also, probably yes.
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by samatman 2y ago
I'm convinced, at this point, that Zig is that language, with comptime. Caveats: the system is not mature, Zig isn't 1.0 yet, there are some arbitrary limitations, the comptime type system is somewhat all-or-nothing, TL;DR it isn&
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by samatman 2y ago
We already have that: Forth. The above sentence can be a Forth program. This? Another Forth program. What does my post do? Run it to find out! > OK
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by samatman 2y ago
Zig as a build system deserves a shout-out here. It can compile C and C++ projects, good cross-compiler story, and it caches.
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by samatman 2y ago
> In contrast, gene duplication at a large scale in any animal would probably fundamentally mess up body plan development in non-survivable ways. While unusual, polyploidy in mammals is survivable, there's a species which is tetra
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by samatman 2y ago
It was meant to be witty more than informative, but it only has one meaning: to one significant figure would mean no more than 4.9% of physicists sell books. To three, it's 00.049%. I think less than 1 in two thousand physicists being
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by samatman 2y ago
Sorry dang. I tried to explain myself clearly without making things personal, but there's no rescuing this kind of engagement once it starts. The only winning move is not to play. I'll do better.
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by samatman 2y ago
While I also find the handle quite objectionable, I wouldn't say that "racewar" and "genocide" are words which can be freely exchanged without lack of meaning. A review of the contributors, well, contributions, sugg
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by samatman 2y ago
This kind of question can only be definitively answered through market discovery. If you can come up with an economically productive use of intermittent excess electric power, which beats Bitcoin in profitability, you can make a truly enorm
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by samatman 2y ago
A filter can be good in a couple of ways: it can filter out ~all of what you don't want, and/or ~none of what you do want. Time is a good filter in the first way, which makes it a good filter. Because a filter which doesn't s
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by samatman 2y ago
You can two-finger drag to make the selected app move around, although I rarely do so. You can also three-finger drag down on the selected app to get Mission Control view for that app, to select a window directly. I do that somewhat more of
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by samatman 2y ago
I'll elaborate then. @contingencies was telling a personal anecdote about his own life, which happened to involve meeting someone while that someone was still in the closet. Unprovoked, you decided to take umbrage with this. There was
838.
by samatman 2y ago
Physicists are not in the book-selling business to at least three significant figures.
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by samatman 2y ago
This is entirely a skill issue. I don't mean that dismissively, let me teach you the Mac way to close apps. You hit ⌘-Tab, this brings up a list of every app you have open. Keep the thumb on the ⌘. More tabs go right, ` goes left. For
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by samatman 2y ago
I agree 100% with the post you're replying to. Signed, - future reader

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