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The sun?

It’s a banana, Michael, what can it cost, $65?

Who are you?

Well no because no one is going to be coming in to work building the next AI model after the Singularity.

We’ll all be bblbrvkxn46?/4!gfbxf’mgv5fhxtgcsgjcucz to buvtcibycuvinovrYdyvuctYcrzuvhxh gcuch7…:!


Mayonnaise jar buried in the backyard.

Do I have to clean out the mayo first? I am wondering if it will fester, or if most of the smelly decomposing microbes are aerobic?

Are we talking paper money? A bitcoin wallet? Trump dollar coins?


It’s just like Gandhi said, you gotta fight genocide with genocide. Or maybe that was RTLM.

Yeah but is anything really that important in the long run? We’re all just weird monkeys who are all going to die eventually. If President Trump really wants to do something, why not just let him do it and stop complaining? Do you really want to make President Trump sad?

Is this a serious comment?

> why not just let him do it and stop complaining?

Because I have to live on this planet for a few more decades. I feel like I'm being trolled?


Okay yes I am joking.

There, I added an extra sentence to make it approximately 20% funnier.


Right but how do you expose your state machine and epoll logic to callers? As a blocking function? As a function that accepts continuations and runs on its own thread? Or with no interface such that anyone who wants to interoperate with you has to modify your state machine?

Even if it would serve the same population, I don’t think a system like this would have the same level of demand as France’s high speed rail.

Frankly, these don’t look like locations that that many people want to travel between.


Most travel happens between cities that are close together, and Chicago has always been the larger gateway to the rest of the nation and the world.

The French urban areas on the TGV aren’t very big; Montpelier, for example, has a total of 600,000 people in its metro area, which is roughly the same size as Toledo, OH or Wichita, KS.


Montpellier probably gets more tourism than Toledo though. And most people taking the train to Paris are probably not doing it so they can fly somewhere else.


You actually can book an Air France/TGV combo ticket: https://wwws.airfrance.fr/en/information/prepare/voyages-com...

And yeah, there would be a fair amount of demand just to Chicago the same way there is a fair amount of demand to Paris, in that they’re both the regional powerhouses with finance, HQs, etc.


Everything you’re saying is true but I don’t think any of it contradicts what I’m saying.


Can I interest you in indigo or violet? Or a nice orange?


Genuine q: how close can you get to magenta with the rainbow?


What we call "magenta" is the sensation of both red and blue color-sensitive cells in the eye being excited at the same time. There's no single wavelength that produces this effect (unlike e.g. yellow). The closes you can get is violet, which looks faint to the eye.

A rainbow gives you both red and blue; mute everything else, and you'll get magenta. That's what magenta pigments do when illuminated by white light (which is a rainbow scrambled).


It never clicked before that yellow and magenta are snowflakes to each other in this regard. I thought they were equals, but magenta is more majestic!


Saying a wavelength doesn’t do it doesn’t make any sense. If you can perceive it visually, a wavelength is doing it.


Two wavelengths do it; one does not suffice. It's like a perfect fifth can not one note.


The interference is a wavelength too. Maybe not pure but it is one. Afaik they cannot be interpreted as two separate wavelengths and then “brain combined” when the aperture (the retina) is so small.


I haven't heard of a wavelength of 2 frequencies merged. It is like saying what is the wavelength if you tune to 2 radio stations with 2 radios (assume silent transmition for simplicity). There are 2 wavelengths.


> I haven't heard of a wavelength of 2 frequencies merged. It is like saying what is the wavelength if you tune to 2 radio stations with 2 radios

No, any wave has a wavelength. You can add sin(3x) to sin(2x) and the resulting wave is a perfect fifth. Its wavelength is determined by its components; since sin(2x) has a wavelength of π and sin(3x) has one of 2π/3, the combined wave will have one of 2π.

The difference is that sin(2x) and sin(3x) are both sine waves, while their sum is not. There is no such thing as a pure tone of two merged frequencies, but there are many possible waves at any given frequency that aren't pure tones.


Thanks, interesting!


Not very! This is on the "line of purples".

Here's a nice visualization of color perception (there are more modern ones, but we used the 1931 color space when I was working in the field). The horseshoe shape on the outside is the single wavelength colors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space


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