What about goats in circular pens? A goat is tied to the fence of a circular pen. How long does the rope need to be so that the goat can reach exactly half of the pen’s area? What sounds like a high school math problem was eventually solved in 2020 via complex analysis.

Here’s the answer:

Unix is the single user version of Multics, an operating system for that could handle multiple users simultaneously. The multi user stuff didn’t actually work great, but the other tech it had was great, so they made a single user version. The name was made to sound like it was Multics without the “Multi”.

Unix became a proprietary, paid operating system. Linus Torvalds took a Unix course at university and became interested in operating systems. He didn’t like that rules prevented him from actually modifying the Unix system even if he knew how. So he made his own free and open source version of the Unix operating system and named it after himself, because of his “big ego” as he puts it.

Now this is where I have to interject for a moment because, actually, Linus only wrote the kernel of the operating system. He didn’t write any of the common programs and tools. For that he used GNU software, which are all free and open source themselves.

There’s a Kurzgesagt video that talks about how it’s not so much that the internet is forming echo chambers as it is encouraging arguments. People aren’t just finding others that they agree with, they’re attacking people they don’t.

Finding people who agree with you isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Attacking everyone who don’t because you now know a bunch of people have your back is the dangerous part. Algorithms play this up because it drives engagement. Two tribes arguing keeps people coming back for more, so it ends up being all you see online.

Even this comment is filled with hatred. Why are you so angry?

YanDev is a literal pedophile. It’s honestly mind boggling people care more about a guy who won’t sign a petition on preserving video games than pedophiles and bigots. I don’t get the hate.

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Me, every time I try searching a Rust question.

That’s easy. Just do:

fn is_second_num_positive() -> bool {
    let input = "123,-45";
    let is_positive =
        input.split(',')
        .collect::<Vec<&str>>()
        .last()
        .unwrap()
        .parse::<i32>()
        .unwrap()
        .is_positive();
    is_positive
}

The flag on the far left is labeled as “Germany” but it doesn’t look like any German flag I recognize.

It is true. Math.min() returns positive Infinity when called with no arguments and Math.max() returns Negative Infinity when called with no arguments. Positive Infinity > Negative Infinity.

Math.min() works something like this

def min(numbers):
  r = Infinity
  for n in numbers:
    if n < r:
      r = n
  return r

I’m guessing there’s a reason they wanted min() to be able to be called without any arguments but I’m sure it isn’t a good one.

depending on pronunciation and tone of voice.

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My understanding is German memes are often written in broken German on purpose as some kind of meta joke. It might be trying to learn English to understand “I can haz cheezburger?” memes

Norway’s wealth comes almost entirely from their nationalized oil production

Where is the gold chain?

I went to a car show recently and a lot of cars had their hood up. Every single one had an engine under the hood. Talk about unoriginal.