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I liked this paper's tour through the history of various definitions of what equal can mean:
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
(if you only skim, look for the gray boxes -- the last one on page 12 is curiously relevant to how TS treats class type compatibility)
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As others mention, it lets the police harass people who don't "look right". (I had a similar experience in Japan where the police randomly stopped me, asked for my foreign identification card, and searched my belongings. They were polite, but it gave me a new perspective on how bad it could be.)
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I keep thinking about how until recently pointers were four bytes, so virtual C++ objects were 4 bytes to copy around. When you combine the Rust layout with 64-bit CPUs our dynamic object pointers are now 16 bytes. It feels like a lot!
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I'm a little anxious about this one because I'm not confident in the argument and I don't like people yelling at me on the internet, but I figure it's better to just make the argument and get corrected than it is to weasel-word every assertion with "maybe"s.
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github.com/pgollangi/ne... is a Go one that looks like it does more stuff, but I haven't looked into it more than that.
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Just for fun I wrote my own, with new bugs and fewer features:
github.com/evmar/netsel
Pretty interesting to read through a C codebase from an era where it includes a README.OS2 file.
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It wasn't "good", but: it worked to delete my account and recreate it after the name expired after one month. This let me squat my old name with a pointer saying I'd gone elsewhere.
This nuked all the posts and followers, maybe not what you want though.
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It's the combination of:
- the lovely pair of graphs at the top, Rashomon views of the same problem
- the "clever" algorithms aren't necessarily that much more complex, just need to frame the problem right (the Hilbert curve)
- the general "less can be more" idea is just my aesthetic
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One phenomenon that has been pointed out to me by the Canadians I know -- who are universally intelligent, modest, kind, etc. -- is that the Canadians who come to the US are often a certain sort of well-educated elite, making us Americans overlook that there are still plenty of yokels back home.
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Here in Oregon I appreciate the blue jays, but the one to spot is the downy (or hairy?) woodpecker because of the flash of red.
Bonus bird pic from my backyard: a juvenile bald eagle, with less color but more majesty. Mid tier rarity.
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Saw this post about how median construction in some random town is now over 8k sqft.
https://twitter.com/TheStalwart/status/1683492538030620673
Browsed Zillow to verify, it's monsters like this
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/125-Laconia-St-Lexington-MA-02420/56493360_zpid/
TEN bathrooms!
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You might be embodying the person at the top of that curve right now. :P
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The link in my previous post was not clickable. From a glance at the bluesky code, it appears it passes Text here when it would need to maybe also pass 'Facets': github.com/bluesky-social/i...