drewolbrich

There's a Claude settings option to use the system font instead.

101010 in decimal is 42.

I have a 2021 M1 Pro MacBook Pro that I use every day, and I don't hear the fans...at least not yet.

I wonder how my situation differs from Christian's.

I remember writing one of these and typing "put bag in bag" and then being confused why the bag disappeared from the world.

https://archive.ph/h60EP

Another way is to do a Google image search for "black".

The Moon's tidal forces are already slowing down the rotation period of the Earth, which was apparently only 5 hours long about 4.5 billion years ago.

My issue with this setup is that it doesn't emit as many neutrinos as the Sun.

I asked Claude if it would be appropriate to use it for localization of text during app development and it strongly recommended avoiding using itself.

Thank you for sharing. This is a wonderful experiment and I think this concept has a lot of potential.

This isn't the most important reason, but compared to similar web sites, Mastodon's user experience is awkward.

I didn't know about this one, thank you for posting.

Also, on most windows, you can option-click the green window bar button and get this same behavior. However, some apps, like Safari, will instead expand the window to "a reasonably large size" that will not necessarily cover the whole screen.

I have zero tolerance for wasting time watching long YouTube videos and I didn't think I had any interest in historical ship construction, and yet I couldn't stop watching all 40 minutes of this. Amazing.

TIL, Orson Welles' last movie role was playing the voice of an entire planet.

I'd like to submit my blog, but I can't.

The "Submit your blog or podcast" button at the top of the page takes me to an advertisement for an unrelated website.

TL;DR: Bjarne Stroustrup is frustrated that the authors of the government's proposal don't realize that, theoretically, there may exist teams of talented developers who are able to consistently write safe C++ code.

This makes sense though, because in Swedish, the words for restore and destroy are homonyms.

I rewatched it recently and I had forgotten how fast everything goes wrong. One of my favorite films.

Random thought. Are you taking into account relativistic effects? What is your velocity relative to the Earth's inertial frame?

It's disturbing to me that I remembered this, but the IBM Pascal Compiler for DOS (1981) had two passes. https://winworldpc.com/product/ibm-pascal-compiler/100

I think there's a similar story for the HDTV 16:9 aspect ratio.

Please use this approach for something more constructive, like designing an FTL drive.

Yes, but this requires specialized equipment and a licensed technician.

In a gigantic universe, it’s statistically more likely that something interesting like you will happen in it.

At this scale, I'm concerned about latency due to the speed of light travel time.

I'm proposing why Wörd might have been rejected, not suggesting that the App Store review process is perfectly consistent.

The App Store reviewers are people, and some of them follow the rules more strictly than others. Perhaps Wurdle passed review because it got lucky and was paired with a permissive reviewer, or a reviewer who happened to be unaware of Wordle.

Is it possible it was rejected because it's called Wörd which is too close to Wordle? Try naming it something else and resubmitting.

Could this technology be used to communicate with teenagers?

Apologies, I didn't mean to suggest that the two concepts are related.

For SR, I'm looking for an answer to "why?" that only has same satisfying flavor as the sphere question. I want the same "aha!" feeling.

For example, if I stand up from the sofa and walk across the room and come back and sit down next to my friend, I want a deep intuitive sense that of course it must be the case that less time has passed for me than the amount of time that my friend has experienced. Why does this happen?

An answer like "t'=t/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) describes what happens", while correct, is not satisfying.

Similarly, if I wave my hand in front of my face, I want it to seem obvious to me that less time must have passed for my hand than for the rest of my body.

Given your experience writing the book, you must have developed an intuitive sense for the behavior of the effects of relativity and why they happen, so I am wondering how you would translate that into words for a general audience.

Imagine the context where a random person with a minimal math background at a party was to ask you why less time passes in the sofa scenario, using an actual sofa to demonstrate it.

They stand up and walk away from you and return and sit back down next to you and they want you to explain to them why less time has passed for them. They want you to explain why the room around them got shorter in the direction that they were walking.

These are effects that, while undetectably small, really happened.

They want to know why.

How would you answer their question?

@fferen Thank you for sharing your work. This is an excellent resource.

If you don’t mind, I have a question.

If I drive in a straight line on the Earth’s surface without stopping and I ignore mountains and oceans and other obstacles, then after 16 days, I will arrive at my starting point.

Why is this?

It’s because the Earth is a sphere.

This is a nice satisfying answer, whereas x^2+y^2+z^2=r^2, while perfectly accurate, is arguably less satisfying.

Given this context, my question is, for special relativity, why do time dilation and length contraction happen?

Ideally, I’m looking for an answer that has the same satisfying intuitive flavor as “Because the Earth is a sphere”, or at least is suggestive of that kind of answer.