Notices by Steve Canon (steve@discuss.systems)

@dalias @tess @eniko @0xabad1dea @governa is that actually true? S-cones are only like 2% of retinal photoreceptor cells and are mostly not foveated.

Restaurant & Bike Shop was a new one on me.

✨ artificial intelligence ✨

@inthehands @Catfish_Man well, on 64b Apple platforms. On 32b they’re 12B (holding 8 utf8 units, or 10 but non-contiguous if code was built with an older Swift version and inlined), and on Android 64b they hold 14 instead of 15 utf8 units because of memory coloring. There may be other platform-specific oddities I’m forgetting.

@inthehands @Catfish_Man I’m going to be angry about the 0124567xx89 32b layout for a long time.

@thomasfuchs The story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die than spend one more minute with a woman his own age?

@dalias sees like you’d be trying to move most of the heat at the point in the loop where the phase change happens, while a normal convective loop bleeds heat evenly over its full length.

@dalias Systems I've seen (including the one in our house) are operating above atmospheric pressure; there's no phase-change in the ground loop, just convection.

@dalias Agree no need, but (at least for systems I'm familiar with), it (or water / glycol mix) is definitely the norm for existing systems.

@dalias IIRC the change in water density across the temperature range for a ground-source heat pump is less than 0.1%, so I expect you’re not going to get that much flow just from gravity unless the pipe is really large, so probably not economical?

Or are you thinking of using some medium other than water?

Happy #caturday

Jen is off to South America, so back to working on the second movement of the moonlight for me:

Update: he fell asleep

@inthehands @mattiem if there were a rich literature of novels composed entirely of nouns, I’d agree with this metaphor.

TFW you don't sext correctly: https://github.com/swiftlang/swift/pull/84655

@inthehands I’m more than happy to play it for them on bass clarinet.

In other news, I’ve been playing cello for a lifetime total of about 20 minutes now (for Suzuki class) and the other kid is already demanding that I play the second Bach cello suite. Tough crowd.

TFW your kid is screaming your name from the bathroom, so you hustle in and they say “what day is the middle of the week?”

@rygorous @regehr yeah, this

Saddened to find that the NYT's obituary for Tom Lehrer does not mention him granting permission to 2 Chainz to sample "The Old Dope Peddler":

"As sole copyright owner of 'The Old Dope Peddler', I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?".

RIP to a master lyricist.