@Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. Intellectually, I understand this.
I think that computers just trick us into believing them to be deterministic.
They aren't quite as deterministic as we might like them to be these days. I think some CPUs have a quantum randomness source, and task-scheduling across multiple computation units often _feels_ non-deterministic to me.
Plus, I do believe the term "Heisenbug" can be applied to bugs that go away when you turn on debugging/profiling/tracing or any other type of monitoring system that might be useful to diagnosis, even if everything is perfectly deterministic.
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Just received an emergency tornado alert recommending to take shelter in a basement.
I live in an apartment. We don't have a basement.
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I hate it when I make an official release of a program with an ugly snippet of code that I can't figure out how to write more cleanly, only to come up with a solution 10 minutes after pushing the release. I just make the change in the dev branch so it gets incorporated into the next version.
In my defense, the thing I was overlooking was that #Haskell's Maybe type is an instance of Foldable. It's not the kind of data type that exactly screams Foldable, is it?
Side note: I should use Hoogle's search by type signature feature more frequently. I needed a function that looked like this: Monad m => (a -> m ()) -> Maybe a -> m (), which is literally just mapM_.
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FFS.
There's a notice posted on the front door of the building. Apparently the landlord is bringing in an exterminator tomorrow and we have ~24h to empty out all the cabinets, pull appliances away from the walls, etc. in preparation for their arrival.
Welp, I did have other plans for today, but I guess not any more. ಠ_ಠ
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So, my partner who's "not into anime" and insistent that she dislikes the fantasy genre may or may not have spent the past three days binging on Frieren.
Now she wants more anime recommendations.
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Ep. 321 Churches of Christ - Episode 158 Remastered Part 2
In this episode I speak with activist Evvie about their experiences in the Church of Christ. Evvie talks us through their activist work, parentification, and hoSpreaker
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@Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now! I noticed on the official trailer for Kitsune Tails that it's coming for the Nintendo Switch. I have two questions:
1) Is there a planned release date for this? (I couldn't find it in the Nintendo store)
2) Does Nintendo take a less drastic cut than Steam does?
I have a stainless steel travel mug that I have my coffee in (almost) every day. It's supposedly dishwasher safe, but I still usually hand wash it.
A few months after I got it, the paint started peeling. Within a year, it had all completely peeled off... except for the logo, which is painted over top of the said peeling paint and still in pristine condition.
I feel there's a lesson in this story somewhere.
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@Celeste Ryder 🐾 🐀🏳️🌈 Apparently, it's because we've gotten a "loyalty discount" for being with them so long.
We actually had this discount with them before, but lost it because they dropped us briefly, and forced us to go with another company.
I love insurance.
@jeremy_list Insurance, maaaan! 🤷♀️
I live in an area where I can safely leave while leaving the door wide open and nothing happening(1), no thefts, no fires, no flooding (top of the mountain, no public works), no tornadoes, no nothing, but seeing the rates go up every year, you’d never know that!
(1) Literally did that once, unknowingly
I never got a discount after 20+ years!
I did switch this year because by doing so and getting both cars and the house on the same one (previous best deal had them separated), I ended up saving some $1,000 a year…
… I was like, wut? Yes please! And took it before they changed their mind 😅
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Ep. 321 Churches of Christ - Episode 158 Remastered
In this episode I speak with activist Evvie about their experiences in the Church of Christ. Evvie talks us through their activist work, parentification, and hoSpreaker
High demand groups must always have an enemy. This enemy must constitute an existential threat to the group (real or imagined). It's what enables the group to make the demands it does of its members. The ends need to seem to justify the means, though actually achieving those ends are unnecessary. In fact it's not even desirable, because once they do, they need to manufacture a new enemy.
This understanding gives interesting context to the Mormon obsession with the quote "there needs be opposition in all things." There literally does.
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Whoops!
Accidentally left my #sourdough starter unattended for just shy of 48 hours. I had intended to refrigerate it.
It got a bit runny and had a bit of a vinegar-ey smell to it but no mould, so I think it's salvagable. Just fed it and we'll see how it fares.
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It’ll be fine, I leave mine weeks without feeding sometimes.
Treat it mean, keep it keen.
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Pi is an irrational number. This means that its digits continue indefinitely without ever repeating. Every possible finite combination of digits is therefore contained therein. This would technically include a digital representation of every possible copyrighted work.
Does this constitute prior art?
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I'll bite, but not about the IP part.
Just because an irrational number's digits continue indefinitely without ever repeating, does that necessarily mean that it contains every arbitrary finite sequence of digits?
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Is there at least one finite sequence of digits that isn't represented in pi? If so, there are probably an infinite set of finite sequences of arbitrary numbers not represented in pi.
*something something* Cantor's infinite set of infinite sets...
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OTOH, if every finite sequence of arbitrary digits is represented in pi, then we should be able to find in pi a representation of, say, Euler's number to any given precision...
3/3 Enough for now. I don't have the math-fu to know if I'm being rational.
@bobjonkman No. Consider 1.0100100010000100001..... This is irrational but it doesn't contain any sequence of digits containing digits other than one or zero.
As for the irrational number pi, I think maybe it is unknown whether it contains all sequences of digits, but I don't know where to quickly check that.
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@soaproot ...though could it not then be argued that this number contains a binary encoding of all possible sequences?
Edit: actually, not necessarily.
Edit 2: Okay, I see the pattern now. Definitely not.
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data Foo = Bar { val :: Int } | Baz { val :: Int }is valid #Haskell. I wouldn't have thought you could define
val twice like that.
I have a messenger bag that I typically carry around with me. Sometimes things go in there and I forget about them.
Katy was looking for something and discovered that for some reason I had put our marriage certificate in there. The last time I needed the physical certificate was years ago, so it must've been sitting in there and I've just been carrying it around with me unknowingly for quite some time.
I imagine I should probably find a better place for it.
I should probably also go through it to see what else I've put in there and forgotten about.
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Ep. 320 Trapped in Treatment - The Troubled Teen Industry - Episode 156 Remastered
Remastered: Trapped In Treatment is a new docu-style podcast series from Paris Hilton & Warner Bros. Unscripted TV in Association With Telepictures, and iHeSpreaker
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