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> you cannot pass it a list of records where all contain the x field of int but some also contain an irrelevant y field and others contain an irrelevant z field. Yes you can - that…

$ units You have: 25m2 / 2tau(700km)^2 You want: /billion * 0.0040600751 / 246.30086

> such that at least every sentence is on its own line Yes, with the obvious possible exception of trivial/degenerate cases like "i++; j--;" in C or "This is a cat. That is a dog."…

Yes, exactly. Which means that, while the speed gains are real, they only apply in cases where your libc is dangerously defective.

> given not-pathologically-short line length limits like 20 characters Poor phrasing; 20 characters was meant as a example of a limit that is pathologically short.

> Instead, I would prefer a soft semantic wrap So would I, but... > if a single semantic unit (be that a word, a clause, or whatever else) extends beyond, say, 80 characters, we ke…

> How should it be wrapped semantically? I have no idea what the semantics of that word are, which is information that is required in order to properly semantically wrap it. (Inher…

> But if that sentence runs over e.g. 80 characters, > you still need to decide > whether you're going to hard wrap or soft wrap that sentence. No I don't. Semantic wrapping all th…

> vitalik didn't credit him in his article You mean this article? https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2021/06/18/verkle.html > Verkle trees are still a new idea; they were first intro…

Of course, you also need to use solid gold audio cables, or you're just throwing away the extra precision via poor signal fidelity.

See also: https://blog.plover.com/math/finite-projective-planes.html .

> There is no antimimetics division V2 "antim e metics". Antimimetics is also a thing, and might be interesting to read about, but it's not the same thing.

I hope to write code that warrants a description at least twice as scathing as this one. But, you know, on purpose; when I'm intentionally fucking with someone. (I don't know of Ma…

Evidently I should have been more explicit: > > A much simpler[-and-more-nitpickable] version Myhill uses a parlor trick to make his version continuously differentiable. It's a pre…

> The key detail here is that the bumps grow exponentially smaller Pedantically, it's that the bumps grow exponentially narrower . IIUC, a simpler (but more nitpickable) version wo…

You're thinking of "self-aggrandizing" (and I think doctorpangloss is too, although I'm less certain since they didn't mention Wolfram).

> The number of floats between 0 and 1 is the same as the number of floats between 1 and 3 No, the number of floats between 0 and 1 is (approximately) the same as the number of flo…

The real article appears to be https://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0210024 .

> It would be interesting to see a [not gratuitously inefficient] uniquely decodable code that is neither a prefix code nor one in reverse. This can be done by composing a prefix c…

> That link doesn't work at the present time. Try: $ A='https://web.archive.org/web/20240701123410' $ B='https://staging.cohostcdn.org/attachment' $ C='11357255-b6b9-4a57-98eb-8237…

> I don't expect to see code evaluation on untrusted input as intended features in web browser I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry at that. Suffice to say that ship has sailed all…

You do need (some subset of) associativity: (y0 * x) * x ?= y0 * (x * x) y1 * x ?= y0 * x y2 ?= y1 y2 is not in general constrained to be the same as y1 otherwise.

> A few years ago I saw someone calculate the energy required to melt the ice in front of a locomotive (I think) at speed; IIRC it required a (not small!) nuclear reactor's worth o…

Actually, "bank" isn't just homonyms; both senses derive from circa-Proto-Germanic benc/bank: a bench or other raised area (either a bank counter or the raised ground adjacent to a…

> Sleep(1) sleeps for approximately 1 second. This is correct - Sleep(1) does sleep for approximately 1 second; the problem is you're confusing the 95% confidence interval (which m…