Amazing he can run a rocket company without being able to do arithmetic.

In Computer Science, specifically the theory of Garbage Collection, this is known as a semi-space copying collector under high utilization. You used the wrong algorithm. An in situ merge sort would have had more appropriate dynamics..

I once had a great night out in Toronto and woke up to realize my plane was in the air. They just put me in the next one.

I like to cut it fine. My wife likes to show up for flights so early we once took separate cabs hours apart. Win/win!

100%. We need to demolish that arch, whatever the cost.

If there’s one thing the crews of the USS Gerald Ford and the floating cholera resorts can agree on, it’s that when you gotta go, you gotta go.

Let's talk space toilets! A weekly-or-more deep dive on technical topics surrounding Mars exploration, from microbiology to rocket science and everywhere in between.

Speaking of space toilets, this is a fascinating survey of the difficulty of the problem, and a reminder of how much we get for free on Earth and why it is quixotic to talk of visiting Mars.

mceglowski.substack.com/p/lets-talk-...

There do not exist billions of grad student noises on every narrow topic. I get where you are coming from but this is not just a monkey at a typewriter.

New theory: chili cultivation was a human v feline food security innovation.

No, I don’t think it’s smart because it talks (Trump talks) but because of what it says in a situation, same standard I apply for people. It is sometimes able to critically discuss an idea or explain a flaw in thinking at the standard of a grad student. Other times it’s just sophisticated bullshit.

Yes there was. Cleaning shit off shoes was unfortunately a regular event. And (rightly or wrongly) Paris was notorious for it among Brits.

Some people post interesting stuff but... so much. Is there an alternative to “unfollow” such as rate limiting them to n posts per day?

I think it’s fair to criticize current AI as being a morally problematic, environmentally catastrophic, and profoundly unreliable simulation of an inhuman, sycophantic, and psychopathic zombie, but we are past the point where we can deny that it has some kind of intelligence.

confused but intrigued

Does Vance not realize that when the Pope sits in his special chair he *cannot be wrong*?

In that sense push iterators are akin to goroutines: a simple concurrency abstraction that moves the tricky bits into the compiler and runtime.

Go’s push iterators can be strange at first but they are so much easier to write when the algorithm to visit the elements has nontrivial control flow (recursion or conditionals) such as for a tree; you just call yield. In Java/C++ one must explicitly materialize all state implied by your SP and PC.

Me, at dermatologist: “My wife, who worries a lot, is concerned about this here dot.”
Doctor: “Wives save lives!”

I’m so used to discovering “Brad wrote that” that I had to check whether that you were responsible for that portion of Unicode!

Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–87) An illuminated prayer book woven on mechanical looms programmed by punch card.

Lucky you! For years I knew vaguely that IBM punch cards came somehow from Jacquard's loom but it completely blew my mind when I finally read all about it. The patience and skill that went into "programming" that book is just unbelievable. publicdomainreview.org/collection/l...

Tate writes? Weird for someone that proudly doesn’t read.

The Dawn “AI for mental health” app (whose ads NYC commuters cannot avoid) asks you to agree not to use it “for any mental health decision”. It’s pure doublethink. They want the money you pay your therapist without the license your therapist needs to legally operate.

Foxes will remember this decade as their 1840s: when rural life became too meagre, and city life, though squalid, cramped and hungry, seemed the better of two bad choices. But later generations of affluent urban foxes won’t look back.

Christ Returns to NBA After a two-year hiatus, Jesus Christ returned to the NBA last night, taking the court with his former team, the Atlanta Hawks. Christ, who quit the sport in May 1994 to focus on spreading His message...

That winning play was of course the Ascension Dunk.
theonion.com/christ-retur...

I suspect an AI hallucinated this bird, along with its Wikipedia article!

Not that I know of, other than one fairly esoteric setup within Google.

Slow I imagine: Gopls is highly concurrent, WASM is not.

Curious: did addressing Y2K help? I like to think so but opinions are divided like blue dress/gold dress as to whether nothing happened “because” or “despite” the lucrative heroics of overtime contractors.

Which spheres? Earth/Moon axis difference is much less than 60° IIRC. The text in the stylesheet seems rather cryptic to me.

But what does that actually mean? It doesn't sound like astrophysics.

Trams always look like expensive rigid buses at first, but the rigidity is the point: it’s a promise that a neighborhood is worth investing in because the transit service can be relied on.