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sus, 4 days ago

When you meet a bear in the woods, there is a 0% chance they will notice how the situation bears a resemblance to the popular meme and proceed to mansplain about how bears are more dangerous.

This is and has always been the one and only reason women choose the bear. But one question yet eludes us: how did the cycle start?

sus, 4 days ago

are you a goldfish.

sus, 5 days ago

or that I don’t want to (google what it is and then) press some weird keybind and spend minutes scrolling through the list of emojis when good ol’ emoticons do the trick

sus, 5 days ago

not that weird, every low effort meme uses the default settings of the most popular free image generator

sus, 5 days ago

aliens decide to shoot a literal star at earth

sus, 8 days ago

this summary doesn’t have some information that is pretty critical if you want to compare it to the meme

Searches for that simple 3-torus have come up empty. But scientists haven’t yet searched for some 3-torus variations. For example, the sides of the cube might be twisted relative to one another. In such a universe, exiting the top of the cube would bring you back to the bottom, but rotated by, for example, 180 degrees.

So to ruin thine dreams, a summary:

Season 10 was in 1998

A “donut-shaped” universe (3-torus) was proposed in 1984 (the paper also points out it’s the simplest finite 3d topology, so it’s probably been considered even earlier)

This article talks about more complicated “donut shapes” that haven’t been ruled out before

sus, 8 days ago

It’s just the paradox of tolerance again. Too much freedom causes a power vacuum, which almost inevitably causes some small but determined authoritarian group to gobble up that power until they get so big they can overthrow the whole system. And then you’re back to square one, except now the system is probably fascist.

sus, 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

That group won’t exist in a vacuum. It needs to be resilient to outside interference. Even inside that group there are going to be people that only identify with it out of convenience rather than true belief. It is still possible for individuals to accrue social capital, form “inner circles” and individually stockpile resources - and stopping them would logically infringe on their freedoms to associate, freedom to dig holes, etc.

sus, 7 days ago

Why would anyone let you stockpile resources they create?

the same reason people let it happen now: people aren’t actually a hivemind where every individual steadfastly holds to your chosen ideology and ceaselessly watches each other and keeps precise track of what everyone is doing. Surveillance states can’t root out crime and black markets, so I very much doubt a loose association of stateless communes can do it either.

sus, 10 days ago

there was only space for 5 things ( *** Debloat Mindset *** )

sus, 9 days ago

Paychecks? I am a self-made billionaire, all thanks to the Free Software Grindset

sus, 9 days ago

This is not a joke. If you don’t wake up at 4 am to start harassing windows users, you will never become a GNU/Linux Trillionaire.

sus, 7 days ago

nah, but in hindsight it may be a bit too subtle

sus, 12 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

a shadow is just a silhouette cast on a surface, so it can move much faster than light. An object moving near the speed of light in front of a small light source that casts a shadow on a very large, very distant object could appear to move billions of times faster than light (though you would need an extremely bright light source for the shadow to be noticeable to the naked eye)

there’s really no upper limit, just how far you’re willing to stretch the definition of “shadow” and “movement”

sus, 16 days ago

Nokia bought the parent company of bell labs in 2016. By that point bell labs had already been completely restructured to the point that it has basically nothing to do with the historical bell labs.

sus, 26 days ago (edited 18 days ago)

eh, I’d say rust’s problem is more that it’s marketed as a general-purpose language, when in reality it is rare for software to need a language that is both very highly performant and memory safe, and rust makes heavy sacrifices in terms of complexity to achieve that. Most popular languages are garbage collected which can cause performance problems, but makes code much simpler to read and write.

sus, 26 days ago

You can, of course. And if you’re good enough at it, and focus on keeping it simple, you can keep the complexity down to a minimum, at least with most straightforward programs.

Buut you can say the same about other complicated languages like c++. And things like writing quick “shell script” type things are going to be pretty simple in almost every decent language. Even if the result is slightly more verbose it won’t really matter.

sus, 26 days ago

yeah rust along other new languages takes package management (and some other “hard learned lessons”) seriously, which gives it an advantage over most older languages (and it’s ahead other newer languages in that there is a serious amount of adoption for rust… a package manager that has no packages to manage is not very useful)

sus, 28 days ago (edited 21 days ago)

found a few examples of how to do it on a github issue:

<span style="color:#323232;">var script = GDScript.new()
</span><span style="color:#323232;">script.source_code = "func say_hello():ntprint("Hello!")"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">script.reload()
</span><span style="color:#323232;">var script_instance = script.new()
</span><span style="color:#323232;">script_instance.call("say_hello")
</span>

<span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">var MyClass = load("myclass.gd")
</span><span style="color:#323232;">var instance = MyClass.new()
</span><span style="color:#323232;">assert(instance.get_script() == MyClass)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span>

sus, 29 days ago (edited 22 days ago)

slow inverse square root:

<span style="color:#323232;">float slowinvsqrt(float x)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">{
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    const long accuracy = 100000000;    // larger number = better accuracy
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    if (x <= 0.0f) {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        return NAN;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    }
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    if (x == 1.0f) {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        return 1.0f;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    }
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    if (x < 1.0f) {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        return 1.0f / slowinvsqrt(1.0f/x);
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    }
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    int max_power = log(accuracy) / log(x);
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    long pow1 = pow(x, max_power - 1);
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    long pow2 = pow(x, max_power);
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    double current = 1.0;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    double previous = 1.0;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    for (long i = 0; i<10*accuracy; i++) {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        current = sin(current);
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        if (i == pow1) {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">            previous = current;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        }
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        if (i == pow2) {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">            return current / previous;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        }
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    }
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span>

sus, 1 month ago

if you accelerate it to exactly the speed of light, it will destroy everything within about 15 billion lightyears (galaxies further than that are safe because they recede from you faster than light)

sus, 1 month ago

it soars because the profit was near zero before and is now returning to “normal” (their competitor SK hynix made a 5 billion operating loss in one quarter last year)

sus, 1 month ago

and the carbon fiber hull was cheap because it’s shelf life had expired.