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If only someone could back-port Quick Look into Panther! I didn't realize how much I use that feature as I spammed the spacebar in these emulators.

holmium

2 lata temudiscuss

Damn, I was hoping this bridge would stay in its current limbo state where it's open to pedestrians and bikes but closed to vehicles. It's so much nicer not having a five lane stroad that lets cars go 50mph into a park, and instead having a pseudo-community space.

holmium

3 lata temudiscuss

Maybe there were thinking about it in terms of disinhibition?

    A --| B --| C

Where `A` inhibits `B` which inhibits `C`. So, while the repressor `A` is present, `C` will be transcribed. I'd imagine that simple repression is probably more common than disinhibition in gene networks, but idk.

holmium

3 lata temudiscuss

But, it's the DM that would provide the heat/glow for the star:

> If the DM particles are their own antiparticles, then their annihilation provides a heat source that stops the collapse of the clouds and in fact produces a different type of star, a Dark Star, in thermal and hydrostatic equilibrium.

> Three key ingredients are required for the formation of DSs:

> 1) sufficient DM density

> 2) DM annihilation products become trapped inside the star

> 3) the DM heating rate beats the cooling rate of the collapsing cloud.

holmium

3 lata temudiscuss

> I believe moderators on Reddit like to think that they're that important and integral to the site functioning smoothly, but I think the reality is upvoting/downvoting/reporting works perfectly fine in nearly every subreddit.

This seems very naive, since afaik the mods also deal (thru 3rd party apps or extensions) with the large amount of spam that reddit gets. And, of course, who is going to deal with those reports?

I mean, sure, Reddit could close everything but the top 20 or 30 most popular subreddits, hire some offshored mods, and start the content moderation speedrun[1] anew. But, why? And how bad will it get before the IPO? Reddit has spent the past two decades washing their hands of any moderation tasks, as their first party mod tools show. Starting now, with a pissed off power user base, seems suicidal.

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[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you...

holmium

3 lata temudiscuss

> Sad that I had hoped some exec at Nintendo would veto this approach as "Not Nintendo" rather than choosing to tarnish the brand and take the money, like Apple did.

They did, originally. They released a $10, no microtransactions Mario game (Super Mario Run) in 2016. The general consensus is that the game did not live up to Nintendo's commercial expectations[1], and I think that's true. Nintendo entirely switched to the more standard App Store game model for its later mobile titles, and they print money.

As for "tarnishing the brand," Nintendo still hasn't really put a "full title" on mobile, with the maybe possible exception of Mario Kart. It feels like they are still keeping their distance, but who knows what would have happened if the Switch sales were more like the Wii U than the Wii.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Run#Commercial

holmium

3 lata temudiscuss

haha yes the discourse level thread is like perfect for all us "we've read the Book" people to comment on.

holmium

3 lata temudiscuss

you can do it that way if you wanted to

    let mut i = 0;
    for item in items {
      item.method(i);
      i += 1;
    }

I don't know why you'd it that way, but Rust definitely isn't stopping you from doing that.

e: and as running example: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

holmium

3 lata temudiscuss

It looks like there was a control group:

> However, an additional control was undertaken where colour contrast thresholds were measured in the morning and then re-measured 3 h later without exposure to 670 nm. This comprised of ten subjects (six Females and four males). To determine if there were significant shifts in colour contrast sensitivities across the day that were independent of 670 nm and might undermine outcome measures for their exposure, six subjects were repeatedly tested at 0, + 3, + 6 and + 9 h (four Females and two Males).

Figure 2 shows the (lack of) effect in the no-light control group at T0 and T+3hrs. Interestingly, they don't compare to baseline like in figure 1 with the AM light group. However, Figure 4 does show a lack of training effect when repeating the same test 4 times throughout the day within the same subject.

(Also, interesting that your first response to a paper in Nature is that they don't have a control group...)

Edit: And presumably they took the design of their study into account when calculating their statistics (https://www.stat.cmu.edu/~hseltman/309/Book/chapter14.pdf). Their methods seem to imply that, but I'm not familiar with it so I'll pray the reviewers checked for that lol.

holmium

4 lata temudiscuss

As another not-physicist who is interested in physics, I've found the articles/explainers at Of Particular Significance very helpful. There are a few on particle decay, and I think that these two provide a longer answer to your questions:

Most Particles Decay — But Why?

https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-ph...

Most Particles Decay — Yet Some Don’t!

https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-ph...

Neutron Stability in Atomic Nuclei

https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-ph...

holmium

4 lata temudiscuss

Have you read (or "read"; I don't want to be responsible for your death lol) the Texas GOP platform[1] for this year? The first sentence in the "Homosexuality and Gender Issues" section is "Homosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle choice". And they follow it up with "we oppose any criminal or civil penalties against those who oppose homosexuality".

They are rearing for another battle in the gay rights culture war.

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[1] https://texasgop.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/6-Permanent-...

holmium

4 lata temudiscuss

Riccardo Mori has a great series of articles comparing Snow Leopard with modern macOS if you're looking for something to read:

http://morrick.me/archives/9220

http://morrick.me/archives/9246

http://morrick.me/archives/9265

holmium

4 lata temudiscuss

> People play Melee with ping differences bigger than that and it works fine lol. Waaay more technical game shows that there's tolerance.

I dunno; I'd imagine people would be mad if there was a 15ms ping differential in Melee. I think the online/netplay tournament results are already looked at different than offline, console results.

Moreover, I'm pretty sure that you can't have a differential ping in a P2P game with rollback, so the competitive issues are different between the two scenes. I understand Riot wanting to equalize them. In Melee specifically, I think that the players have to decide on a common frame delay to play, right? If so, then the Melee community has come to the same solution for competitive netplay as Riot has.

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