timorl @timorl@social.cleverlibre.org

@freemo
What is the term for the system itself then?

@design_RG You might be interested in this post exploring these effects a bit: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/05/14/age-gaps-and-birth-order-effects/ .

@design_RG I definitely will, it is not only very beautiful, but the fact that my friends bought it knowing how much I'd like the gift, gives it great sentimental value. :)

@Rovine Unfortunately I believe only the waifu version exists. You can try checking on the creators webpage (gwern.net) in case I missed it.

I don't think I bragged about the best wedding gift I got yet, so lets go. Two important things to know:

1. Part of the gift was the information that it was described as a XIX century bible in Finnish (sic!) at the bookshop.
2. I am an atheist who has no connection to Wales whatsoever.

@freemo Everytime this page gets posted I have to mention the, uh, better version: https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/ .

More to the point, I suspect because teeth are so simple it's easier to notice that the texture is wrong. Looking at a couple of generated faces I was able too notice weird artifacts on the skin in some cases, but they were much harder to notice than the teeth (if they were wrong).

@freemo @mngrif Well, that's embarrassing, the only reason I did not nominate him was because I thought he already was a mod. Anyway, consider this me seconding your nomination.

@freemo
Tamil is really pretty, but I thing any writing using the Modi script is the most beautiful. The line that connects all the letters so that they hang of it is just so pleasing.
Unfortunately I have never seen it "in the wild".

I should point out that the Armenian alphabet is from Georgia, so me mentioning it is not a result of that migration. ;) Although I agree the new perspectives are nice!

@freemo
It's piwr from the Armenian alphabet. I recommend the whole alphabet too, it looks like a version of the Greek one that is just different enough to be interesting.

@freemo
My favourite letter is փ. I always use it whenever I need to introduce a variable for a quantity with no standard notation.

@MrControll@sunbeam.city Isn't Beyblade already this? I mean "fighting" with spinning tops is a traditional childrens game in Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beigoma .

@Absinthe Keeping in the tradition of choosing the worst possible languages for #toyprogrammingchallenge this time it's Go: https://gitlab.com/tymorl/warmups/blob/master/commonListSuffix/sol.go . The algorithm is essentially the same as @khird proposed.

@grainloom Me too! Different elections though.

@Absinthe But then how many points should I add between checks whether it calmed down? If I add only one point, then it "calms down" as soon as I generated about 1k points, which is much too early. Although maybe I'm missing something.

@Absinthe Both of these are not EnterpriseSolutions™ and I like keeping my code EnterpriseGrade™, especially when writing c++. The first one would require giving Point access to dis and gen, which is hard to do without making them global variables or something and the latter... well, if something is a test it should return a boolean.

More seriously, yours are good suggestions for writing #toyprogrammingchallenge solutions in general, but if I wanted to do that I wouldn't make any classes at all, just a couple functions.

@VamptVo But they probably are. They are not evil for evil's sake, they just try winning within the system they are working in. And in that system finding a technological solution to climate change would be a huge win. Great PR, government grants and subsidies, valuable patents...

It might even work, although I'd prefer not to risk everything on that.