hummusandsushi

This reminds me why I keep going back to C. C++ features often clash with each other (especially using object oriented features with classic C), but from the C programmer's point of view the additional features don't really add too much but end up massively constraining the user.

It is astoundingly intellectually dishonest for anybody who identifies with the American right, which espouses values of personal responsibility and the rights of organizations such as companies and universities to self-govern, to imply that a direct application of these values is "authoritarian".

Free speech is understood as the ability to express yourself and your beliefs without consequences from the government, it has never meant to practically anyone that it means that as a culture no individual or organization will take action against you. This is personal responsibility in action, you must be prepared to shoulder the consequences of what you say and do.

People losing their jobs in universities and otherwise for expressing certain beliefs is not somehow unique to the American political left of the preceding decade, and it is strange that people have been misled into thinking that it is. Of course it is regrettable that some people may have lost their jobs engaging in good-faith reasoned expression of their beliefs, but you cannot argue that this is somehow the result of "the left".

I intentionally make no judgment here on whether I believe the climate that existed on American college campuses during that time is something desirable, but people doing things that you do not like is not "being actually authoritarian".

This is an overly paranoid response to someone suggesting to have compassion for others as a form of self-care. The idea is that worrying exessively about yourself can be harmful in itself, not "allow yourself to be exploited".

I believe you are mistaken. This set of numbers is just the set of reals minus the countable infinity of finitely representable numbers. This set should still be densely ordered and so for any member that could be chosen from this set, there is an infinite number of elements closer to zero.

i think you have an extraneous 0. It would not make sense for it to take a longer time to get from 1,000,000,000 to 2,000,000,000 than from the unix epoch to 1,000,000,000.

The time I think you meant to post is Wed May 18 2033 03:33:20 UTC+0000 (Greenwich Mean Time).

Wow, yeah. I have done some hobby work with digital colors and rendering and I had no idea how used to the visual artifacts from math done on sRGB values directly I was that I just assumed a "fancy" transformation. Thanks for the insight.

It would be nice to have explanations and comparisons of the techniques that are employed for the current behavior and the new behavior. The color gradient criticism feels valid from an aesthetic standpoint but the problem seems to be that a simple linear interpolation doesn't provide the desired color properties. This raises the question as to what exactly are the desired color properties from a technical standpoint and when is each technique applicable. Say we changed all color interpolations from an interpolation in RGB space to HSV space (as I imagine the color gradients suggested are achieved), would this have any unforeseen consequences?

Possible, but this seems of rather a niche interest for a successful SEO strategy. I could grant that it would then be targeted specifically at the HN sort of social networks.

The webpage appears to be made to serve as a warning to data-driven businesses to not fall into the same perverse set of incentives that McNamara created, to encourage business managers to diversify their accounts of the success of their business beyond just the quantitative narrative.