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A common UI pattern is something like this: People do lots of stuff with that “4 hours ago.” They might make it a permalink: Or they might give it a tooltip to show the exact datetime u…

Big-O Complexities / Poster of common algorithms used in Computer Science - ro31337/bigoposter

<p>I am deciding which lisp to invest my time learning, and I am really struggling to make a decision between Common Lisp and Racket. I was curious of the opinions of people on this site. The main conclusions I have gathered from reading about them is:</p> <p>Racket:</p> <p>Simpler to learn</p> <p>More momentum in the community, likelihood of broader adoption</p> <p>Has gradually typed extension</p> <p>Common Lisp:</p> <p>Better tooling / dev environment</p> <p>Better for industrial uses - code is faster</p> <p>Neutral (I don't know enough to have an opinion)</p> <p>Lisp-1 vs. Lisp-2</p> <p>Hygenic vs. Unhygenic macros</p> <p>Smaller amount of well documented libraries vs. lots of half implemented undocumented libraries</p> <p>What would you choose to learn in 2019, given that you plan on using it well into the future?</p>

When integrated circuits were too expensive for common hobby use, we had to build digital logic out of discrete transistors.

Coupling and Cohesion in practice: meaningful quantitative metrics and the common ground behind software design principles.

My last two posts gave rates with a self-selected denominator. This one fixes that: a generation-sliced sample of active repos (6.2%) and a uniform sample of the whole repo population (1.0%), plus the ecosystem numbers that surprised me.

[Go] seq - a gentle overview of the common ways to tackle the problem of distributed sequential IDs. - teh-cmc/seq

A common argument for ‘ethical’ use of GenAI in academic research and practice is that it’s okay to use these tools to write the final product that you claim authorship for, i.e. drafting, editing …

That “magic” sponge under your sink may be hiding an environmental downside. While melamine sponges are famous for effortlessly scrubbing away stubborn stains, they slowly break down as you use them—shedding tiny…

Common preservatives hiding in processed foods may carry unexpected heart risks, with heavy consumption linked to substantially higher rates of high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease. Researchers identified…

While the study of death records across 500 occupations is US based, experts say the finding could be similar in Australia and suggests more radiation monitoring of airline crew is needed.

100 top UXD methods ranked by breadth, altitude, persuasion, and cost.

One of the most common requests I've gotten from users of my little Firefox extension(https://timewasterpro.xyz) has been more options around the categories of websites that you get returned. This required me to go…

Coupling and Cohesion in practice: meaningful quantitative metrics and the common ground behind software design principles.

It may sound improbable: Latin, often described as a dead language, becoming a common language understood across Europe.

A live self-modifying terminal agent with RLM. The Emacs of agents. Autolith can mold itself to any usecase, is fast and efficient, and can process large amounts of data at once.

Old-fashioned striped barbershop poles turn in place on a vertical axis, but humans typically perceive the stripes moving upward rather than turning with the pole. It's a well-known visual illusion arising from processing biases in human vision. According to a new paper published in the journal Nature, a similar effect could explain how butterflies often evade predatory birds: Their flight patterns and wing patterns combine to make it hard for predators to accurately gauge speed and direction. "The stripes and spots on many butterflies’ wings interfere with the way visual systems try to guess the direction and speed of moving things, boosting false motion cues while hiding the butterfly's true heading," said co-author George Hancock of the University of Exeter in Cornwall. "The illusions interfere with the predator’s most basic visual targeting system and disrupt the final ‘ballistic attack’ in the tens of milliseconds when it commits to grabbing its prey, with no time to change course. As a result, birds and other predators will often simply miss." Butterfly wings have long fascinated scientists, ever since the first documentation of the growth of said wings back in 1938. By 2021, researchers at MIT had captured on video the unique structural growth of butterfly wings—continuously, as a butterfly develops inside its chrysalis—for the very first time. Butterfly wings are an example of structural color in nature: the bright iridescent colors don’t come from pigment molecules but from what physicists call photonic crystals . The scales of chitin (a polysaccharide common to insects) are arranged like roof tiles. Essentially, they form a diffraction grating , except photonic crystals only produce certain colors, or wavelengths, of light, while a diffraction grating will produce the entire spectrum. Read full article Comments