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The first book is one of my all time favorites, highly recommend. I didn't know there were 2nd and 3rd ones!


2nd is good and Third is ok


+1


How about using something like NaN instead of 0? To not have a small set of calculations being all 0 and missing from a larger end result (which would go to NaN instead).


Nice!


I hope this is a joke and not serious.

Bicycles are supposed to be on the road, pedestrians are not.


> Bicycles are supposed to be on the road

The point is, that they aren't suppose to be in the middle of road.


Why?


Because that's where the cars go?

You see, there is a system. Starting from the right: pedestrians, bikes and lastly cars. We never deviate from that system, that way everyone always know where everything is. Sometimes there's a bike lane, but that still goes between the pedestrians and the cars.

Also, if everything else fail, and this is what kids in Denmark is taught. If you're ever in doubt if the drivers have seen you, assume they haven't and stay away from the cars. You're on a bike, it's a great means of transportation and it's really safe (at least here), but if you're hit by a car, it's going to hurt you more than the car, so stay away from them.

I think it's weird that people in countries that have the most cyclist are also the people who least of all believe that bikes have some weird right of way or than bikes should just be in the middle of heavy traffic.


Conversely, it makes sense that a country with chronic bike infrastructure baked into the legal system would assume bikes use that infrastructure. If there is a safe, protected bike lane, I’m happy to use it.

In other countries, bike infrastructure is sparse, poorly designed, and frequently dangerous. Bicyclists must drive defensively to stay alive. Sometimes this means taking the full lane because staying to the side puts you in danger of dooring or makes you vulnerable to aggressive drivers who will squeeze by without adequate space.


I'd think so to, but hope angular dart takes off as I kind of love it!


AngularDart is sadly basically dead these days at least publicly. It still runs all of Google Ads so it’s very well maintained internally I imagine but it’s officially unsupported publicly at this point which I agree is a shame.

Flutter for web is at a weird stage right now. I think once AOM, WASM-GC and WebGPU are in place and well supported across browsers it will be a very different story but thats probably a year or two away at this point.


The public version of AngularDart (i.e. not the one that Google maintains for its internal teams) is in maintenance mode, which is a shame because it was awesome.


Sorry if I didn't understand correctly, but how did you make the alcohol (celebration), work stress, pandemic stress > GMO link?


I only made it very recently. I had tried absolutely everything and gotten almost nowhere. I finally stumbled onto everlywell.com tests, took the comprehensive test of 200+ foods, and discovered almonds and dairy were the main culprits. I would ave been very unlikely to eliminate almonds as part of an elimination diet.

Anyway, once I was able to feel better again, even for a day or two, I then was able to try other changes along the decision tree in the problem space. It soon became obvious what caused what. Everlywell says that 18 months of avoidance can often allow us to eat foods we're sensitive to again. I've blabbered about it at length in my previous comments, probably too much haha.


I’m glad you’re feeling better, but it’s worth pointing out to everyone else that food sensitivity tests are total bullshit.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/igg-food-intolerance-tests-...


50cm is not really good to identify a person. And it's not real time at all. You'd be better off calling the gyms directly.


You personally might not, but the article gives plenty reasons why some might.


Well I have no plans to print counterfeit cash or tickets, commit treason, or raid an FBI field office so I think I'm good.


Well, make sure you completely destroy your printer before throwing it away or it's never stolen.


What a reasonable and not-at-all unhinged threat model. I should be kept up at night worried that currency counterfeiters will break into my house, steal my printer, use it to print fake money, the cops will find that money, use these dots to get metadata to find me, then what no-knock raid me?

idk I think I'll just accept that risk, it's a lot more likely that my ex will stab me after all


These types of threat models require a bit of creative flair:

0315 am, a drone flies over your house and hovers just long enough to upload firmware to your WiFi-enabled printer. Having not memorized your printers serial number, and certainly not checking it every day, you don’t notice the new firmware or orientation of dots.

Your printer, along with an identical model bought later and cloned to yours, are now forensically indistinguishable. Your printer driver phones TonerCo for a refill. It arrives with the fanfare of fast shipping.

11 months later, your address and credit card purchase are enough to convince the right judge to grant a no-knock warrant. Your printer has embroiled you, or someone just as innocent as you, in a very bad time.


That is even more insane and contrived, it sounds like the plot to a garbage dystopian sci-fi movie. Yes I accept that absurdly tiny risk.


Mikhail Gromov, quoted in M. Berger, Encounter with a geometer. II

http://www.ams.org/notices/200003/fea-berger.pdf


Gromov was my father's thesis advisor. From what I know, he seems an extremely intelligent and insightful person. Sadly I've never had a chance to meet him.


On a tangent here, but "not just 3d printing a plastic part" got me thinking.

Scientists, instead of requesting time on Hubble, ask time for the 3DBuilderAndExperimenter, give it a blueprint and inputs/outputs, it runs, returns any results, and is recycled.


The first scientist should ask the genie for more wishes, er, I mean, for the 3DbuilderAndExperimenter to build another 3DBuilderAndExperimenter


Certainly, professor Von Neumann: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_machine

We are such machines, so we know they’re possible to make, even though we don’t yet know how to make one on Earth let alone in space.


But we only need to make one of them!


The “and is recycled” part puts a crimp in that plan. :-)


Maybe, but that doesn't make the question invalid. If a majority decides a subset of coins is invalid or should not be used, wouldn't that work?


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