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Re:The "Most Hated" CSS Feature: Cos() and Sin() on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @07:00PM (#45269390)
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/809/
Once per ip. Presumably there's ip-based rate limiting implemented on top of this, so it's a barrier for scrapers that aggressively rotate ip's to circumvent rate limits.
Re:Emacs 30.1 Released on Thursday February 27, 2025 @11:58AM (#43196158)
> The Emacs extensible text editor (among other things) has made a security release to address two vulnerabilities. Emacs 30.1 has fixes for CVE-2025-1244, which is a shell-command-injection flaw in the man.el man page browser and for CVE-2024-53920, which is a code-execution vulnerability in the flymake syntax-checking mode. LWN covered the flymake problems back in December.
Re:Rust traits are a local maxima on Friday November 22, 2024 @08:20AM (#42213611)
> Compare that to, like, lexical scoping or parametric polymorphism, which most languages just have by default at this point. They’re almost mathematical facts.

FWIW emacs lisp (in)famously still defaults to dynamic scoping -- there's been a proposal to change that default earlier this month but interestingly, there's still pushback. See e.g. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2024-11/msg00...

Just to add to this -- In QM/QFT there is an inverse relationship between energy & distance, meaning small distances (or sizes) correspond to high energy interactions (see e.g. [1]). One consequence is that at small enough scale (the Planck scale), the energy scale gets so large that quantum gravity effects are expected to be non-negligible. Formulating a theory of quantum gravity that fits into the Standard Model of particle physics & agrees with general relativity is an open problem in physics, therefore the Planck scale is at least the smallest distance that can conceivably be modeled given our current knowledge.

[1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/731971/equivalen...

Re:The Point of the Banach Tarski Theorem on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @11:11AM (#40800957)
A physical sphere has a finite number of constituents, therefore the theorem does not apply

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