msfroh

At Costco, they're less "greeters" and more "people who check your membership card". Actually, since Costco switched to automatic card scanners, they're "people who watch to make sure you scan your card and the machine makes the happy beep".

That said, at least at my local Costco, they also smile and welcome you into the store -- it's just not their primary function.

But (-i)^2=-1 as well. So we still need a convention to distinguish i from -i.

Is it its own continent? Because each sphere is a continent.

Sorry -- I misread it as you reported it. Makes sense, thanks!

If you read the copyright notice on the website, it links to the relevant law, which starts with:

Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise.

So it's not a copyright violation, since it's a US government work (and doesn't fall under the exceptions listed in the law).

Ooh! There was an episode of the Past, Present, Future podcast a couple of months ago that touched on this very subject. Tariff policy was set by congress up until the Smoot-Hawley act, which was considered such garbage that they decided that it should be left to the executive.

Back when it was a congressional power, it was also the source of some of the worst horse-trading, as representatives from rural areas would seek protection on agricultural imports (with low tariffs on imported machinery), while representatives from manufacturing areas would seek to lower food prices and increase the cost of imported manufactured goods.

Edit: Not saying that handing it to the executive is the best plan, as we can see by what's going on now, but letting congress do it was also problematic. It's funny how a lot of us grew up with the idea that no/low tariffs are the natural order, when it's actually been a fairly short-lived anomaly in historical terms.

The problem is that a lot of the people that attend sporting events come from the 905 areas outside of TTC service. There are commuter trains to those areas, but they taper off as the limits of "working late" are hit.

Oh, maybe! I didn't understand how it chose the points, but it does look like the random convergence approach.

Nice, thanks!

I'm disappointed that none of them seem to have gone with the random convergence approach.

Set the three corners of an equilateral triangle. Pick a random starting point on the canvas. Every iteration, pick a random corner from the triangle and your next point is the midpoint between the current point and that corner. While the original point is almost guaranteed not to be a point in Sierpinski's triangle, each iteration cuts the distance between the new point and the nearest Sierpinski point in half.

If you start plotting points starting with (say) the 50th one, every pixel is "close enough" to a Sierpinski point that you see the triangle materialize out of nothing. The whole thing could be programmed in about 20 lines of QBasic on DOS 30 years ago.

My biggest beef with playing it on SteamDeck was related to network connectivity.

I was playing at home and went a long way from base. Then I had to take my daughter to a class and threw the Deck in my backpack to play while I waited for her to finish.

The game opened, said it had lost the connection to the server and killed me. I respawned back at base, thought about how far I'd need to walk to recover my body and noped right out of there to play Vampire Survivors instead. I never returned.

That was a couple of years ago while the game was still in early access. If it's now possible to play offline, I might give it another go. (It's a nice game.)

I may be remembering incorrectly, but after the 2019 Supreme Court ruling that federal courts can't address partisan gerrymandering, a couple of blue states (New York and Illinois maybe?) tried doing some gerrymanders after the 2020 census. Then their state courts struck them down.

Several blue states -- I think Washington and Oregon are among them -- created non-partisan redistricting commissions before 2019, so they can't be gerrymandered.

They installed efficiency modules to reduce biter expansion?