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This reminds me of a trope in some fairy tales where a flying monkey (in a Chinese fairy tale) or a wizard (in a Korean movie) performs the magic of contracting space in the direction of travel.

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occurring for billions of years

Was there a period of rapid climate change before humanity that was as speedy as this one?

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That style of indentation seems good for readability. I don't know about others but I for one will start writing in that style.

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Looks like that will help. I will change color defaults though.

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Some might find it very mysterious that often the same kinds of fractals can be generated from deterministic algorithms and also from probabilistic algorithms at the same time. To make this less mysterious, one can think of it this way in case of the Sierpinski triangle:

Plot a point inside the triangle

Let that point be x.

Plot a point half way between the previous point (x) and a corner

Let that point be y. Relation between x and y is deterministic in one way and nondeterministic in another way. If you plot x, then there are three possibilities for y: going from x to y is nondeterministic. On the other hand, if you know y, you know what x is: going from y to x is deterministic. For many fractal shapes, you can find this kind of "deterministic in one way, nondeterministic in another way" stuff going on.

Actually, even you. Today's you don't know what tomorrow's you is going to do, but tomorrow's you know what today's you have done.

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what is the shared property of light and gravity that means they are constrained to travelling at the same speed.

C is also the only speed which doesn't change among different inertial observers.

Maybe instead of imagining comparing light and gravity, it may be less mysterious to compare light and light, and then gravity and gravity. Then the question becomes "when a photon is travelling, why should different inertial observers see it travelling at same speed?" and another for gravity.

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TIL two of my favorite actions movies didn't exist

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People think it's far-fetched because it violates information theory

Reminds me of how some non-techie people think lossless data compression is impossible and how even some techie people think compressed sensing is voodoo magic.

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Reminds me of a Skeptoid episode Medical Myths in Movies and Culture:

who among us does not have a mom who has whacked us with a ruler for cracking our knuckles? ... Never pay attention to your mother. I'm pretty sure my own mom's not listening, so I can say that.

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Does this mean that Church has a definite stance on this particular trolley problem?

You have two options: (1) Do nothing, and the trolley kills the five people on the main track. (2) Pull the lever, diverting the trolley onto the side track where it will kill one person.

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Edit1: I just realized that OP was talking about "long functions" as in many lines of code, not as in function names being long. What's wrong with me! Anyway, this comment made under my mistaken assumption will stay.

I think the main reason is no namespace. Maybe flet is a good way for living with long names.

``````;; some-library.el
(defun very-long-function-name (a b)
"sum of two numbers"
(+ a b))

;; using-the-library.el
(require 'some-library)
(flet ((sum))
(fset 'sum 'very-long-function-name)
(print (sum 10 20))
(print (sum 30 40)))
``````

Writing a macro with-temp-defalias would be good. I don't know if there is a built-in one already. Is there?

Edit2:

On second thought, I just found that usage of flet/fset has a gotcha I didn't expect.

Let's say Alice writes a library alice-library.el that depends on some-library.el and defines two functions alice-double and alice-triple that are intended to be used by others.

``````;; alice-library.el
;; -*- lexical-binding:t -*-
(require 'some-library)
(flet ((sum))
(fset 'sum 'very-long-function-name)

(defun alice-double (n)
(sum n n))
(defun alice-triple (n)
(sum (alice-double n) n)))
;; alice-library.el ends here.
``````

Bob tries to use alice-library in his dotemacs file.

``````;; bob-dotemacs.el
(require 'alice-library)
(alice-double 10)
``````

But that results in error (void-function sum). Alice can fix the bug by using let instead of flet and using funcall to call sum.

``````;; alice-library.el that works as expected
;; -*- lexical-binding:t -*-
(require 'some-library)
(let ((sum 'very-long-function-name))
(defun alice-double (n)
(funcall sum n n))
(defun alice-triple (n)
(funcall sum (alice-double n) n)))
;; alice-library.el ends here.
``````

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Even if one doesn't use `s.el`, its source code is still a nice elisp string manipulation cheat sheet.

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Good movies of this year and last year

• Front Line (고지전) - war
• Helpless (화차) - thriller
• War of the Arrows (최종병기활) - action, lots of arrows and chasing

Good movies but not recent

• the good the bad the weird - action
• Bittersweet Life
• Save the Green Planet - comedy, horror, sci-fi
• 3-Iron - drama, romance
• Castaway on the Moon - drama
• King and the Clown - clowns in trouble
• and everything from Bong Joon-Ho

controversial choices

• Jeon Woo Chi - wizard action
• My Way - WWII
• Haunters - a dark superpower movie

I listed too many. If I have to recommend just one, Jeon Woo Chi.

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Learning cooking made me realize that cooking is not so simple after all. so many things to consider

• what makes food healthy

• how to store leftover for how many days
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