the downside with this approach is that it will eventually terminate. the version in the original post has the advantage of giving me plenty of time to contemplate life’s many mysteries.

i was told you’re not supposed to microwave metal

i’m the same way, and after a while i’ve come to appreciate feeling like i don’t need the strength: if i set up my environment properly then eating healthy is one less thing i have to worry about, and i can use the leftover mental strength for other things.

i have brute forced this by not buying any kinds of snacks or sweets from the grocery store. so if i want to eat something i have to either go hungry or make a real food. (usually i end up doing both)

this is what motivated me to switch to pdfs/ebooks. i can now read any of my books on my phone/laptop whenever i want with no planning required. although i know it’s not for everyone, and i am missing out on building up a cool bookshelf.

imagine my luck at joining lemmy.world before they created an affiliates program.

don’t do this to me

the only possible way this could be worse was if it was called CloudChain and also had weird blockchain/crypto nonsense.

if (bed->isTooCold()) {
    return;
}

we have always been at war with Eurasia.

yeah exactly. i understand it as follows:

• in the manhattan metric, points have length one if the lengths of their coordinates sum to 1. so you get the points (1, 0), (0, 1), (-1, 0), and (-1, -1). and then you connect these four points with straight lines to get the diamond shape. this follows from the observation that if the x coordinate decreases in length by 0.1, then the y coordinate must increase in length by 0.1.
• in the euclidean metric, the points of length one lie on the unit circle, since x² + y² = 1 is the equation defining the unit circle.
• in the chebyshev metric, points have length 1 if one of the coordinates has length 1 and the other coordinates have a length smaller (or equal to) 1. and these conditions also describe the square with sides x = ± 1 and y = ± 1.

i think that’s a good point and that is a nice way to remember them. i think a lot of it just comes down to personal preference.

i like calling them the diamond/square/circle metrics because those shapes describe the sets of points that have unit length. i’ve found this wikipedia picture to be very helpful, and the diamond/square/circle terminology is my way of paying my respects to the picture.

i wish that it was more common to refer to the metrics in terms of what they are instead of who discovered them. i can’t ever remember off the top of my head if the chebyshev one is supposed to be the diamond metric (L¹) or the square metric (L^∞).

now we’re talking

i’m guessing he got punched in the head a few too many times

☝️🤓 that would still only be a quadratic rate of increase, not an exponential rate of increase

what if they were all named odysseus

it’s in situations like this where i eat a few spoonfuls of peanut butter and then call it a day

this will be a competitive prompt engineer salary in about two years time.

i’m going to start saying this at every thanksgiving. if anyone questions me i’ll just say i’m the acting thanksgiving director.