kristjansson

My concern, and IMO what should be the overwhelming concern of the maintainers, is not the code that is being written, or the code that will be written, but all the code that has been written, and wil…

Like all of python, `a | b` operator is just `a.__or__(b)`. If you want that operator to do something different in a different context, just override __or__.

There are PEPs that are not language features, but this PEP is emphatically proposing a modification to the language.

> I was expecting a little variation in execution time for each comparison, but what I wasn't expecting was the bimodal nature of the results. For each function, there were two distinct groups…

Wage theft and civil forfeiture are both bad! And not so disproportionately so either, like $15b/yr to $3-7bn/yr. Which is why it’s so funny/weird/disingenuous to reply to “forfeit…

Larger, sure, but it's not obvious to me the resources would be better spent on labor law violations than on egregious forfeitures? They're both pretty piecemeal, small-dollar fights that i…

That's a very weak reason to allow the state to tie up property ~indefinitely on the basis of ~nothing.

Gorsuch's full opinion is worth the read, for this and the other historical notes on the origins of forfeiture.

Sure, but this clear whataboutism? But also inexplicable whataboutism?

You might find early agent-based models (e.g. the Sante Fe Institute's Artificial Stock Market[0]) interesting. IMO the short answer is that such models can be made to generate realistic trajecto…

FWIW: I read this post contemporaneous with your first comments, and saw exactly the content that's there now.

> Silurian builds foundation models to simulate the Earth, starting with the weather. It's the first line man. The visual is just a visual, their product is the data being visualized.

It’s a dusk-dawn orbit. So if it’s over an equatorial point at dusk, it’s over the antipode at dawn (and in sunlight the whole orbit).

They propose a sun-synchronous orbit[0] aligned with the terminator, so essentially orbiting around the poles, with the plane of the orbit perpendicular to the sun. That part is kinda clever, actually…

Nice, should also solve global warming when the radiators they propose to dissipate a GW of waste heat blot out the sun.

Most people want to see the broadcast, not just the game

> 50m is still a very very bad day. Just to quantify the bad day scale: Tunguska[0] is estimated to have been 50-60m. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event …

I love the existence of both this and https://blogtrottr.com/ .

I understand very little about machining, expect that _all_ materials are kinda squishy if one applies enough squish.

We can only await the revival of keyboard tuners, and the interviewees of the future puzzling over how many of them are required for a city the size of Chicago.

This is one of the claims in the California complaint discussed here a while back [0]: > 50. This data, according to RealPage, spans over “16 million units,” which is a “very large chunk of the tot…

That's just normal price-setting. RealPage crossed the line into fixing when it (a) required (or strongly pressured) landlords to adhere to their recommend pricing and (b) achieved high enough m…

While it doesn't quite recreate the dinner atmosphere of the article, the Mt. Wilson Observatory hosts a range of events[1] every year, mostly to support the maintenance of site. If you're …

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This is the future. Traders staring at 60hz rainbow static and making completely grounded, data driven trades.

If you’re comfortable in R, rgl was pretty straightforward when I used it moons ago: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rgl/index.html …

Many things can be solved by the SEP Field[0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_else's_problem#Dougla... …

The _Republican_ controlled House? Censure a __candidate__? For staying in a race?

Ben Shapiro is ... perhaps not an unbiased source on this topic.