thewakalix

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1. 331.▲
   by thewakalix 6y ago

   I’d think that the curvature of spacetime due to the ball’s mass wouldn’t affect the ball’s trajectory, for similar reasons as why the electric field from a charged particle doesn’t move the particle itself.
2. 332.▲
   by thewakalix 6y ago

   The curvature depends on the mass of the earth, but it _doesn't_ depend on the mass of the photon/ball.
3. 333.▲
   by thewakalix 6y ago

   And that brings fluid dynamics into the picture, which produces discrepancies orders of magnitude greater than the parabolic/elliptical/etc. distinction!
4. 334.▲
   by thewakalix 6y ago

   Are you talking about the local web interface (localhost:631)? Why would it matter whether you're using GNOME or KDE?
5. 335.▲
   by thewakalix 6y ago

   I never thought I'd see the lack of unicode support in my terminal as a feature...
6. 336.▲
   by thewakalix 6y ago

   Isn’t that a perfect example of a situation where stringly-typed-data-by-default would help?
7. 337.▲
   by thewakalix 6y ago

   > Lists can only contain strings, not other lists or dictionaries. I don’t think this is true. None of the examples have lists containing non-string objects, but the documentation doesn’t seem to draw a distinction between lists and dict
8. 338.▲
   by thewakalix 6y ago

   It seems like this article is about accounting for Goodhart's Law[0], to give a pointer to another expression of this idea. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
9. 339.▲
   by thewakalix 6y ago

   There could be other factors involved, but it takes longer for fr.wikipedia.org to load on my computer than en.wikipedia.org. I hope Wikipedia will remain usable on old and slow devices.
10. 340.▲
    by thewakalix 6y ago

    Using right-associativity of function types, and by sugaring the lambda into another function argument, we can rewrite this as (*-) :: (a -> b -> c) -> b -> a -> c (*-) f x y = f y x This reveals that (*-) is simply
11. 341.▲
    by thewakalix 7y ago

    Ah, a fully general O(1) algorithm. Amazing.
12. 342.▲
    by thewakalix 8y ago

    Wouldn't the Spacetime Cube be just as vulnerable to the perpendicularity problem, though? It might have more sensitivity in near-perpendicular cases, but that's simply because there are more detectors.
13. 343.▲
    by thewakalix 8y ago

    Was the essay any good?