The one tool I’m actively using all the time is git. I mean, I know I’m probably using the Linux kernel more than that, but when it comes to a conscious choice, it’s git. My documents are all version controlled. It gives me such a peace of mind.

Got an iPhone from my work… I really want to like it, but damn, I miss the back button.

Commiserating

Also, just to follow up on this, it’s for the largest part not scientists that got us into this mess, whatever in particular that may be. The world would be much better off if people had more trust in science. That’s too much to demand though it seems, especially from boomers. So here we are, with populists and companies messing stuff up and people like you blaming scientists for the results.

i don’t like trusting scientists in fact. trusting scientists is how we got into this mess. people let themselves be manipulated by scientific results. people need to think for themselves. yes, that includes not believing certain scientific results, but IMO it’s better to deny a scientific result that I dislike and do not understand than trusting scientists that spent their entire lives researching that particular aspect of the universe

by the way i’m not a science denialist

Can’t make that shit up.

Aaaahhhhh, you’re one of those… Good to know. Yeah, your reply makes sense then. Also thanks for telling me early in the discussion that you’re just a science denialist, then we don’t need to waste precious time with a discussion about things that you’ll just disregard at will anyway.

welllll i say that’s a reaaaly sketchy and irrational way to look at things.

Okay? You be you, I guess. I mean, stupid physicist eggheads, what do they know?

Since the 1950s, it has been conjectured that quantum fluctuations of the spacetime metric might make the familiar notion of distance inapplicable below the Planck length.[23][37][22] This is sometimes expressed by saying that “spacetime becomes a foam at the Planck scale”.[38] It is possible that the Planck length is the shortest physically measurable distance, since any attempt to investigate the possible existence of shorter distances, by performing higher-energy collisions, would result in black hole production.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units#Planck_length

Same is true for the Planck time, although the English Wikipedia is oddly blank for that one: there can be no space or time smaller than that within the physics that we have come up with.

I think it’s (1 Planck length / 1 Planck time). If you take the smallest distance that exists and divide it by the shortest amount of time that can pass, you have exactly c.

When Germany first came up with the idea of subsidising electric cars, we were able to snatch an electric golf for about 20k€. We’re commuting a lot, making roughly 25k km per year on each car.

When we were using our regular electricity provider, we reduced our monthly gas bill from more than 300 € to less than 100 € for the golf. Since we switched to a contract that is bound to stock market prices, we lowered it to less than 40. Saving about 270 € per month now.

Factoring in about 500 € of taxes saved each year and between 1000 and 2000 Euros worth of repairs for our old combustion engine cars per year, the car already paid for itself and saves us money.

It’s times like these when I wish I could just block an instance that isn’t defederated from mine.

That would only mean you should bathe more (in the sense of “amount of bath per bath”), not less.

“I’ll go absolutely barebones on electricity usage. Just a router and my gaming console!”

I don’t think it’s a good idea to opt out of something like a fridge or lighting.

Nvidia making bank though.

If life ain’t just a joke

Absolutely not.

Mutually exclusive options

Another classic. Pick one output format: JSON, YAML, or XML. But definitely not two.

Emphasis mine.

It takes the input and fails if there is more than one valid one, which decidedly isn’t what’s an “or” in comp sci.

The result type in rust does not return a true/false but a type. More importantly though, it doesn’t return err if both values are set but simply returns the first value:

So… It’s not only not mapping your input to truth values, it also behaves more like I’d expect an “or” to behave, which is not “xor” or, if there’s more than two inputs, “exactly one”, but succeeding if any input is set.

The or() combinator means exactly one succeeds.

Using “or” to define a function that does “xor”… Did that guy never hear about formal logic? That’s, like, first or second semester stuff…

Here’s the thing: I don’t have a CS degree.

sigh

Love it. But:

But you see, they’re on me, they are not my family my employee

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