zeckalpha

> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

I didn't see any mention of this so thought I would add:

This sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retinal and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Earth_hypothesis. Going through history, there have been times where the Earth has had oxygen spikes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geological_history_of_oxygen (Examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoproterozoic_oxygenation_eve...) Cool image showing how this process is unstable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event#/media/F...

You might be interested in the different photosynthesis cycles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C3_carbon_fixation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4_carbon_fixation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crassulacean_acid_metabolism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_photosynthesis - this one was only discovered in 2016!

Research into these may have profound impact on climate change.

No mention of the Taj Mahal, which famously is not square so it appears square.

The article mentions Erowid

Yet, mille and milli- mean thousand.

N-illion = 1000^(n-1)

Oracle wouldn't let you do that with Sun.

Atari has been brought back! https://atari.com

HPE is using the Cray brand: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/compute/hpc/supercomputing/cray-ex...

Coincidentally, https://www.sgi.com/ redirects to the HPE Cray link above.

Screenshots can easily be forged.

Back it up now so when the encryption is broken, it can be read!

Another term for theses is "raster pyramids". Here's an example from 1993: https://www.usgs.gov/publications/pyramid-system-multiscale-...

Disappointed there’s only two mentions of GAAP on this thread.

This change aligns (to a closer extent than before) Tax accounting with GAAP accounting. Let’s say the tax code returns to pre-2017. Would the same people seeking this change seek a change to GAAP? No, because it would hurt their profitability.

Replying to you from an iPhone 7 that I use daily.

Physics and computing aren't all that different.

Surely, this was an oversight without oversight.

RCE as a service!

This may be a Pythonism, where the exception raising convention is inverse of Ruby's.

{}["key"] # KeyError in Python

Graph traversal is a classical AI problem. See Ch. 3 from AIMA: https://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/index.html

I assume you mean non-LLM.

Peer review need not be synchronous.

Ambiguous but different semantic commas.

In one interpretation, it is a connective between two "claims" in a list.

In the other, it is a consequence of the response (as you interpreted).

This is worsened by the convention of putting punctuation inside quotation marks.

Distribution has a pretty low bar.

If your private fork is on GitHub, have you distributed it to GitHub?

Would be a good trial of the GPL.

How many bars do you expect are in Ohio?

Uh well https://ua-edu.us/

NaN boxing?

Sounds both like quantum foam and not at all at the same time

However: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00616-5

At least a mechanical engineer can estimate their rigidity.

He's describing the current market, not speaking about how the market should be.

Cozy! Midnight.pub is a Gemini protocol instance with a time in the name (but not the access window).

Unless you are taking it as a laxative.