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I enjoyed the part about factoring in unpredictability. One of my peeves with weather apps had been that they do switch the forecast on the fly if it is inaccurate, and I have joked before that what we need is a derivative weather app accountability app that tells you how often a weather app corrects itself. So I'm excited to see if Acme makes a meaningful difference!

a textbook example of an algorithm that works very well with union-find is the kruskal's algorithm to find the minimum weight spanning tree given a graph. Using union-find improves the time complexity of the algorithm from O(V²) to O(ElogV).

This happens because kruskal's algorithm essentially selects the cheapest edge not already included in our spanning tree that won't cause a cycle. So union-find is able to speed up this potential cycle check which would otherwise be naively quadratic.

Yeah, but the fabric of my shirt seemed noticeably worse at cleaning my glasses, so I stopped using that completely. Having a microfiber on hand at all times is very helpful for that

My opticians have always given me a microfiber whenever I got a set of glasses made, and last time I went I asked for a spare as well. Now I have the habit of having one in my pocket at all times so I don't have to devolve back to using the bottom of my tshirt.

I swear by Paste as well, since coming from Windows, it mimics the Windows clipboard ui and hence was easy to get used to. I do wish that macOS at some point makes a native clipboard manager.

it appears the author has changed the link, so this is deadlinked now.