exasperation

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Kevin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  When I learned about taxonomy in the 90’s they hadn’t really sequenced many genomes, so taxonomy was still very much phenotype driven, rather than the modern genetic/molecular approaches. I just assumed that everything I learned has become out of date.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Kevin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Gray sex.

  You know, sex between people of Pierce’s age.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Kevin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Black, brown, then the fucking colors of the rainbow in order, gray, white.

  If you need a mnemonic to memorize that, you’re gonna have some trouble actually building out your lookup table in your head of immediately knowing that red=2, yellow=4, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are drink coasters for people who frequently spill their drink or have trouble drinking without dribbling down the cup?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there another kind of table?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are drink coasters for people who frequently spill their drink or have trouble drinking without dribbling down the cup?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the possibly apocryphal origin story of Spanish tapas, too: a slice of bread to cover the wine glass between sips (hence the name “tapa,” which means a “cover”), then a few things to dress up that slice of bread, maybe a piece of meat or cheese. So traditionally a single tapa is served for each glass of wine you order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  10 digits gets the diameter of the earth to within an inch.

  Put another way, 10 digits means that your error will be caused by your imprecise model of the Earth’s shape, rather than imprecision in the value of pi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What would be the “n” in that Big O notation, though?

  If you’re saying that you want accuracy out to n digits, then there are algorithms with specific complexities for calculating those. But that’s still just an approximation, so those aren’t any better than the real-world implementation method of simply looking up that constant rather than calculating it anew.