rvbissell

The name changed when Slashdot lost significant mindshare among tech nerds.

It also said in an html comment,

  there are no secret messages in this html
  there are no tyops in this html

which at the time I took as some inside joke.

> anything but regular

From context your meaning is clear, but I think you got that idiom inverted.

Are you me? I think you might be me.

'headcanon' is jargon within general fandom. The term refers to the application of imagination against the established canon of a body of fiction, to expand upon that body of work.

Example:

- Superman being from Krypton is canon.

- Superman not truly being the son of Jor-El, because his mom slept around, might be one fan's headcanon.

I was about to recommend "Satisfaction High, Information Tenuous"

> He's being interviewed and some people blink a lot when they're nervous!

We're talking about a guy that chooses to be in front of a camera, weekly, for millions of views.

Someone who doesn't care about polluting our corpus is not going to care about your robots.txt

Catch 22: and if there is no air inside the box, then you are certain the cat is dead.

There might be, I don't know. But as you're already aware, we are culturally stuck with pi and so that's how it is taught.

Actually, no: that Tau-centric area formula you gave derives naturally from taking the integral. Your example actually fits the expectation you have from what you learned in Calculus I. You should _expect_ that 1/2 scaling to be there.

If it seems awkward to you, it's only because of a lifetime of seeing it done in terms of pi.

No, Tau is fundamental. Pi only exists because someone mistakenly thought the formula for circumference involved diameter, when in fact it involves radius. ("Quit factoring a 2 out of Tau!" I tell them.)

There are only so many TLAs...

My guess is: economies of scale, in 2024 (vs say, 1990)

That's cool. The news front-page screenshot & calendar use-cases appeal to me. (Although, it seems like I could just do the news FP thing myself, with "Any image URL", rather than your $3/mo service.)

Is it touch interactive? Like, can I tap on a cell in the calendar to see "... and 2 more" details?

Can I easily create my own replacement frame?

Can I hang it on the wall in a manner where I can rotate between portrait & landscape orientations, and have it react in an appropriate way for the running app?

Is there an SDK for app development?

It seems to me that GP was using sarcasm to express agreement with your comment.

Do you have any examples of the pretty-printing that you've generated?

I missed your suggestion about Cantor's diagonalization earlier today, but I thank you for bringing it to my attention. That is quite clever.

That's an interesting statement about rationals. My intuition would be to consider them a subset of the reals, and for natural numbers to be a subset of the rationals. How is my intuition failing me, in this case?

EDIT: found the answer: with Cantor's diagonalization, you can count all the rationals -- effectively mapping each one to a natural number. Since this mapping is demonstrably possible, they have the same cardinality.

Thank you. It seems absurd that 'next largest' could mean 'larger than the largest'. Hence my (OP's) interpretation.

>He obsessively pursued the ‘continuum hypothesis’, which states roughly that the infinitude of real numbers is next largest to that of natural numbers.

That sounds backwards? There are infinite real numbers between just 0 and 1, alone.

EDIT: my respondents so far seem to be stating the same thing I was. I interpreted the phrase "next largest" from TFA to mean that the infinitude of real numbers was a smaller than that of natural numbers. (So: not the largest, but rather the "next largest"). That, to me, is what sounded backwards.

Moon phase is caused by moon position, relative to the sun-moon-earth system.

My point was that the moon can be directly above or below, regardless of phase.

.... but thinking about it a little more, the tide probably gets an additional boost when the sun is contributing (i.e., the 3 bodies are lined up)

> In addition, they only spawn during full or new moons – because they need a high tide.

Seems like tides should be dependent solely on moon position, not moon phase.

> They move at the speed of light and thus time does not advance for them.

Isn't it more accurate to say that photons move at the speed of causality, when the medium is a pure vacuum? Because in some other medium like glass, the speed of light is slower than the speed of causality.

So my follow-up question is: do slower photons (such as those propagating through a fiber-optic strand, or water) then experience the advancement of time?

John,

Even though this HN post is about GMSL specifically, I want to use it to thank you for writing "The GNU Make Book"[0]. It was a veritable treasure trove that greatly increased my competency with GNU Make.

The experience of using that book, and playing with GMSL, was one of the sparks that inspired me to start experimenting with Guile-enabled GNUMakefiles (no public release yet.)

[0] My tech books are packed at the moment, so I can't be sure but: I have a fuzzy memory that your book originally had a different title, or at least a different cover?

EDIT: seems I have nostarch PDF, so I'm probably conflating two memories.

EDIT 2: Hold-up, I have this in my CREDITS file:

  The author would like to thank the following   
  people for their insights:

  * Scott McPeak for his article "Autodependencies with GNU make"
    available at http://scottmcpeak.com/autodepend/autodepend.html

  * John Graham-Cumming for his indispensible book, "The GNU Make Book"
    (formerly known as "GNU Make Unleashed") ISBN: 978-1-59327-649-2

Let's call those tweaks epi(stemological)-cycles.

Abomination. That's where \| should be.

Oh man, 3 more novels to read -- thanks!

Same. Maybe I was a naive young adult, but I totally did not anticipate the twist in that plot. So in that regard I felt like I got my money's worth.

I knew the exact scene you were going to link to.