I’ve wondered for years when we’d reach this point. Optics-based processors have the potential to blow way past the limitations of electrical/copper circuits, at least in theory. I’m curious to see where this leads.

If you happen to be using an ethernet cable, a PoE hat can work great as well. Just be sure to check the voltages and wattage compatibility, as there are multiple specs for PoE.

This looks relevant and also way over my head at the moment. Looks like I have some reading to do.

Correction, turns out doing it entirely in Excel was the answer for me. The points I found were correct, but the area calculation in my code was wrong.

I had to visualize it before I could even attempt to solve it. Still did it mostly intuitively based on the visualization.

Apparently this is wrong. Not sure what I’m missing here. correct, my code was borked I guess (maybe an overflow or something?).

Thanks for your thoughts! For the input data, I did notice that every substitution goes from 1 element to 2-8 elements. I suppose I could take that into account, and order them from “most efficient” to “least efficient”, and that way I might be able to stop iterating earlier?

I also haven’t looked into whether there are any combinations that are impossible to build from (or inversely to break down into e).

Those two are probably good avenues to try.

Thanks again!

Did you also try to implement a sort that ended up being magnitudes less efficient than calling .sort(), or are you normal?

I’m gonna say >!Ba1, then take whichever piece black moves for mate!<

Yep, another example of boots theory

Politics

I’ve responded with “check page 3 of the docs” before.

Assume spherical child

Apparently cheetahs aren’t “big cats”, they’re just large versions of small cats. They share features like purring and meowing, and their temperaments are closer to housecats than a tiger or lion.

Linus himself sees his own behavior as problematic and has put significant work toward changing it. Call it whatever you want, I guess, but just because it doesn’t result in physical bruises doesn’t mean it’s not problematic.

My general policy is to buy stuff from GoG that I will likely want to replay in the future and prioritize Steam for anything that I primarily play with friends (as that’s the main advantage of Steam for me). If it’s neither, I’ll default to GoG.

There’s some controversy around him–he has a history of anger issues and it’s impacted his work. But his contributions to the open source community are practically unquantifiable.

Overall, I’m incredibly grateful for him and his work, but still hope that he continues to work on his personal issues and becomes his best self.

Ah, the danger blep

Okay, realistically, if Mozilla continues to shit the bed with everything, what’s the future of Webkit browsers? How tied into Mozilla is it? I’m using Waterfox at the moment, will I need to be looking for a new browser in the next few years or is it decoupled enough that we can keep the forks and root out the bullshit?

I guess I would classify features like variable refresh rates and fractional scaling as “advanced”, but that’s fair. I moved from Cinnamon to Gnome because wayland was working better for me, so fair point. I imagine it won’t be too long before Cinnamon catches up, though.

For now, I’m just using a handful of extensions to make Gnome feel more like Cinnamon. Can’t say I’ve ever been a fan of KDE, but that’s just me.