Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

@henryiii This is honestly pretty shocking to me. I would have been confident that the bottleneck for `pip` was disk I/O and network latency, in which case rewriting in Rust would not really matter.

Is `pip` just slow now because of the resolver? Or is `pip` leaving a lot of performance on the table?

Also if someone has a better version of this please let me know I am not interested in maintaining any kind of shell code.

Any #bash experts out there have an idea why this function isn't working well with `ps`? If I pipe `df -h` into it, it works fine. If I redirect the out put from `ps -aux` to a file, then `cat` that file into it, it works. When I pipe `ps -aux` directly into it, I only get the header.

https://github.com/pganssle/dotfiles/pull/2/files

@freemo That is actually a myth. I have played a lot of Minecraft recently and the actual rule is that if you fall into *water* you won't be hurt at all, no matter how shallow the water.

If you are working at high heights, it is best to keep a bucket of water on you in case you fall.

The Japanese version of Jeopardy! is basically exactly as I expected (though I didn't think they would have more than 3 contestants)

(Note: I am watching a different episode than the one I linked)

They seem a little looser with the rules, too. At one point there is a question about Batman where one contestant answers, "Poison Ivy" and the host is like, "No we want the actress" and the guy says, "Uma Thurman" and gets it right.

Later on no one buzzes in on one of the questions and after the host is ready to move on one guy tries to hit the buzzer and the host is like, "Oh hey you want to answer?" And the guy gives a response.

In the late 90s there was a Mexican version of Jeopardy!, and for some reason they decided to add dancing girls to it: https://youtu.be/P0DUhx0avLw?si=9-eF21sIIsSz68eF

I did not expect them to dance for quite so long at the beginning there...

@eric I remember the first time I saw them I was like, "Oh that is an interesting duck wait what the fuck is going on down there‽"

@Log3overLog2 I wonder if a generalization exists for N paper l parties? Can you start with 4N districts, have party 2 combine, then party 3 combine again?

I'm guessing no, since in the extreme case you have log2(population) parties, the "define" party is forced to define 1-person districts and is effectively left out of the process...

@brainwane I have been learning Spanish with Dreaming Spanish last 6 months or so and I do sorta see where they are coming from on waiting to acquire a lot of the language before speaking. With ~400 hours of Spanish, I am comfortable enough understanding the language that I have noticed a bunch of things about the pronunciation and differences in accent that I am sure I would have to consciously change if I had been speaking from the start.

@brainwane The comprehensible input people apparently agree with you, since they think you basically don't talk at all until you basically know the language 😛

https://comprehensibleinputwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

@kevin I think the idea is that they are not going to make a second season, so the expectation is that the entire story will be told in 8 episodes or whatever, rather than just having a season end in a cliffhanger or dragged out for several seasons or whatever.