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> Would you use the Builder pattern if the language had named variables in arguments? Yes, absolutely. I see it all the time in the Ruby ecosystem and have used it myself in Ruby. …

> On the other hand, what's the chance of something like this happening with a much bigger asteroid. Bigger asteroids are easier to see.

Sure thing! I'd reframe this as a nearest neighbor search over (start time, duration) tuples. KD trees are what I'm most familiar with for that problem, but there are others that w…

Elsewhere is the thread, it sounds like your range queries with inequality constraint might actually be a nearest neighbor query with inequality constraint. I'm not sure off the to…

"Nearest gap" doesn't sounds like a range query to me. It sounds more like a nearest neighbor query. It sounds like you have (start time, duration) tuples and want to search for ne…

> Many range queries also have a minimum duration requirement, so it could be useful if a data structure could take advantage of this to quickly exclude intervals during the search…

It's really going to depend on the queries that you want to optimize. I think the best help might be to point you to a book: https://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Multidimensional-Str…

Case in point: the same equations predict white holes, which today are widely believed to not exist.

I am taking kids out of school for a few days and driving 13 hours to a cabin that I rented on a lake on the centerline. It helps that my 40th birthday is within a couple days of t…

I've looked into some workshops, including his. It's not in the cards for me now, but something I'd like to do someday. I also enjoy coming back to the central coast (I went to col…

Jory Brigham? Edit: Nevermind. Answered down thread. Lucky you. Beautiful area and Jory's work is phenomenal.

I'm not sure about the history of these words, but astronomy also uses the noun form: "occultation" [1], for which there's not an obvious equivalent for "occlude." > Did occult mea…

Physical can be understood to mean "of or relating to matter and energy or the sciences dealing with them, especially physics." Light, temperature, and time are described by physic…

A similar thing happened in my community (not historically prone to wildfire) on December 30, 2021. 1000 homes destroyed. Fortunately far fewer casualties. Similar proximate causes…

> Does a garden count? Yes, absolutely! :)

My dining table. It's a trestle design, made from walnut, breadboard ends, wedged and drawbored tenon joinery for the base assembly, and large enough to fit 10-12 people around for…

> If all countries were like Bangladesh, it would cause massive issues in addition to what we have now. Isn't that exactly what they're representing by a country's overshoot day? F…

> just no release for openbsd itself it seems. It was posted to announce@openbsd.org a few hours ago. Binary patches are available through syspatch and source patches on the errata…

Wow, no. Just no. That's not how research is done. What you're describing sounds more like writing a clickbait article than writing a research paper. Writing a research paper in th…

The link you provided contradicts your comment. From the link in your comment: "The average rate of cosmic-ray soft errors is inversely proportional to sunspot activity. That is, t…

> It's really frustrating to see most of the top comments calling out that it only looks so pretty because of exposure. Why? That's actually true. I've been to many truly dark sky …

> Do you mean big red and not big blue with that statement? I assume you're referring to Oracle here, but Oracle didn't invent Java either. Java came out of Sun Microsystems, whose…

> If a breaker pops, it's easy. You have a box, maybe two if you live in a really huge house. Go there, look for the switch that's not quite lined up, toggle switch, done. FWIW, yo…

SEEKING WORK | Boulder, Colorado | Remote only Principal engineer at a billion-dollar e-commerce company. Now a stay-at-home dad. I'm available to take on part-time contract and co…

Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: I've picked up a ton in the past 20 years. Most relevant today are Ruby (Rails), Elixir…