Yeah, this one’s completely different from the one I remember. I found this blogspam around a greentext that matches my memory.

I just looked it up. It’s actually 61,839 blocks in each axis.

Procedurally crafted tools, no restrictions on build height, a massive view distance are all very cool.

I’ll note that the well-established Luanti (formerly Minetest) has no restrictions on build height[1], but I have always wished I could get a longer view distance. And I’ve never seen procedurally crafted tools, but Luanti has extensive mod support, so I wonder if it would be possible.

[1] Okay, technically it’s restricted, but the limit is something like a 64 km about a 62 km cubic space, which is much more than I could reach.

Thanks, that’s an excellent article, and it’s exactly what I was looking for.

I got hung up on this line:

This requires deterministic math with explicit rounding modes and precision, not the platform-dependent behavior you get with floats.

Aren’t floats mostly standardized these days? The article even mentions that standard. Has anyone here seen platform-dependent float behaviour?

Not that this affects the article’s main point, which is perfectly reasonable.

Automatics also allow for engine braking. From a quick search, it sounds like a toss-up as to whether that triggers brake lights. Regardless, the article mentions the benefit is not only from cars slowing down, but also from indicating that a car is preparing to stop or “that a stationary vehicle might initiate movement”. Neither of those can be done by an engine brake, so front brake lights would still have a benefit even with a driver that likes engine braking.

The comic was released the day after the election, by an author who lives in the United States. I suspect the comic is explicitly about American politics.

I’ve noticed that, if an equation calls for a number squared, they usually really mean a number multiplied by its complex conjugate.

Yes, but not all clients expose dependent tasks (which is sadly a common issue with open standards: they aren’t always properly implemented). I’m using Tasks.org on my phone (which supports dependent tasks), synchronizing to a Nextcloud server with the Tasks app (which supports dependent tasks now, but didn’t for a long time), which also syncs to Thunderbird (which does not appear to show dependent tasks as dependents).

Edit: remembered that the Nextcloud Tasks app has long supported dependent tasks. I was thinking of recurring tasks, which it does not support. Again, open standards aren’t always fully implemented.

I think CalDAV (which uses the iCalendar format) may be the closest thing. It covers calendar items, obviously, but also task and journal items.