John BS @johnabs@social.cleverlibre.org

@cirnog @namark But you can do both of those things to a string vector so long as you count as decomposing to basic components as indexing the elements, and an outer product can be done using any binary function, not just functions that operate on numeric values. Right?

@jmw150 Is this algebra with worse parasitic diseases/more venomous animals, or just algebra located within certain lattitude boundaries?😂

@namark I'm going to hazard a guess that it comes from the lesser used definition of string: "a group of objects arranged in a line" similar to the phrase "a string of pearls". In this case, a string of anything is simply an array/vector. However, array/vector isn't something typically used outside of STEM vocabulary, so perhaps the more linguistically associated word (string) being aligned with linguistically associated data (character arrays) makes sense.

Alternatively, arbitrary jargon almost always finds its way into different fields via wackos who create poorly fitting analogies, so who knows lmao

@academicalnerd But how will this help me make better spherified liquids for my molecular gastronomy hobby?

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?!!?!😂

@freemo @General oh okay, gotcha. Thanks for the info!

@freemo @General How would you say this stacks up against Emacs' magit?

@jmw150 @freemo @math I actually was playing around with these in Julia a few weeks ago and noticed the same thing!

@jmw150 I actually just worked with this technique recently! It's super handy to do in Lisp, as S expressions are already ASTs, so you can just take any sub-expression and replace it with any other that returns the same type, which is pretty trivial in Lisp/Scheme dialects.

Of course, this paper you refer to seems substantially more advanced than the simple methods we leveraged.

@Pat For this assignment he grades none, for the rest it's randomly selected.

@Pat I have other important responsibilities than just this course, and I'm unwilling to deal with an (apparent) hypocrite who puts in the bare minimum amount of effort lecturing/developing problem sets but expects herculean levels of devotion because "their class is just that important".

I'd be more than happy to do supplemental exercises, but to put those supplemental exercises as a part of a tight deadline assignment and then randomly choosing what you're going to grade (thus artificially increasing my time commitment and decreasing your own in the process) is incredibly unfair and inconsiderate of my time.

I have 4 research projects, another course (which doesn't pull this nonsense) and a TA position where I'm the only experienced person - including the new professor - with the course material and expectations (so I'm training new TAs and Graders as well). Oh, and I also have a house/wife to help take care of. I'm so overloaded that I had to turn down the opportunity to get an adorable puppy that I've always wanted due to this semester's requirements, and this guy wants to make his course substantially harder than it needs to be? No thanks.

Would you want to deal with someone like that if you could avoid it?

Professor wants us to solve 57 difficult homework questions in a week that he's not even going to grade, but we'll get a 0 if we don't do them...consider this course dropped lmao

@freemo @trinsec I think that's just a symptom of mild decompression sickness and/or the stress from adjusting the partial pressures of the different dissolved gasses in your blood which can inhibit oxygen metabolism. I wouldn't expect just pressurizing and depressurizing to actually increase metabolism by any appreciable margin, though I could be wrong.

@trinsec @freemo

1. Even if we removed every nitrogen atom from the human body, including those dissolved in the various fluids, we would only lose ~3% of our body weight + 1L of nitrogen gas weighing approximately 1.25 grams. (Of course, we would also die instantly as all of our enzymes and proteins that do functional work in our cells would just be yeeted into oblivion).
2. Thicc cows probably fart more than thin cows, though this is purely speculation on my part 😂

@namark @zpartacoos I'm back and feeling better for at least long enough to respond to this thread. Let's ignore the morality part, as you've suggested.

Economically, I do think this will be of detriment to Big Tech, but frankly I don't care about them. Monopolistic business practices are known to cause economic hardship, as do oligopolies/cartels. So while I think there will be some minor pain for these trillion dollar companies, I think the net revenue generated across the country from 3rd party repair will increase tax revenue, especially considering most small businesses don't evade their taxes via foreign havens like Ireland (e.g. Apple). This isn't even factoring in the economic benefit that will come from longer lasting tools, and the reduced strain on our environment and waste processing facilities.

Secondly, I wasn't referring to my country. I was referring to countries which steal, repurpose, and resell IP anyway such as China. The fact that making direct Apple chip knockoffs hasn't taken off in China seems to indicate you can get away with selling "form over function" by selling a Xiaomi Mac look-alike, without needing to violate their M1 Arm chip copyright (which has no legal basis in China anyway). Since they don't reverse engineer these chips in the electronics manufacturing center of the world (which also has practically nonexistent copyright laws), it seems like it's not economically viable to do so, particularly in countries with enforceable copyright. So legislating right-to-repair laws in the U.S./IP respecting countries is a complete non-issue from the IP perspective.

The parts available to my computer are limited, yes. E.g. I can't manufacture a drop-in replacement for my Intel chip; however, I don't have to. I can go directly to the manufacturer and purchase a replacement chip, and use it to repair my computer if/when the processor dies. Same thing with the ram, the SSD, the wifi-module, etc. In fact, I can even find schematics and board-views and send those to a repair shop who can do the work for me. I only have this "luxury" because the computer is 10+ years old and both aftermarket and OEM parts are available. With Apple, I cannot replace the CPU, RAM, SSD, or really anything on their machines without de-soldering the components from the board and re-soldering them, assuming the BIOS doesn't use a whitelist to prevent me from replacing an SSD with another identical but "non-apple-approved" variant.

This is the kind of nonsense that infringes on user freedom that right to repair is trying to fix. Can you only replace tires with "Toyota Certified" tires on a Corolla? No, and that would be a system rampant with abuse and monopolistic price gouging. I don't want the secret sauce to manufacturing the chips/tires/whatever (which I could get just by purchasing the product and disassembling it anyway). I just want these companies to sell me replacement parts to fix my machine, even if they do it for some reasonable amount of profit. I expect to be able to care for my devices as I would a vehicle, a home, or any other piece of my property. However, my options are either nonexistent or severely limited by vendor lock-in enforced via a programmatic contract I didn't sign (or wasn't aware of when I purchased the machine).

That's wack.

I've had chronic pain issues for a while, but now they're in my temples.

Here's hoping that eating healthier, fasting, and exercise will help with both issues; I'm sick of feeling ill with no available explanation. 🤞

If you've got 12 minutes, please check this out. This is shocking and horrible that Tech giants don't only monopolize data, but are starting to monopolize water as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo7V4PPHijs

I was wrong about the mic q.q It's great as an audio sink, but not so much as a source on linux. Looks like I need to return yet another one 😖

I heavily recommend the Elgato Wave 3 microphone; just grabbed one and it way outclasses my old Yeti (and a Yeti replacement I tried recently). Great quality, no hissing, and it's pretty smart.

@freemo And the key to being unhappy, for logical completeness:

Sing like a dragon
Invest like an ogre
Eat like and Elf
Crack Skulls like Tom Bombadil
Fart like a hobbit
And dance like a Dwarf

(Note, not a real suggestion: you'll be tone-deaf, poor, hungry, passive, gassy, and clumsy 😂 )

@freemo If we're going by "The Price is Right" rules, I'm guessing at least a dollar 😂