it seems like the figure shows the percentage of crimes committed by political party, and isn’t adjusted for the size of the political party. i’d imagine there are quite a few more republicans than libertarians, which might help to explain why the percentage is lower.

i can already see it: The Great Democratic Policy for Redistricting (GDPR), which prohibits any redistricting vote from passing unless it gets 60% approval from all sitting Republicans in the state.

at first i thought this was an onion article and stephen got melted by the fire

honestly thought this was an onion article. wtf

yeah exactly. i understand it as follows:

• in the manhattan metric, points have length one if the lengths of their coordinates sum to 1. so you get the points (1, 0), (0, 1), (-1, 0), and (-1, -1). and then you connect these four points with straight lines to get the diamond shape. this follows from the observation that if the x coordinate decreases in length by 0.1, then the y coordinate must increase in length by 0.1.
• in the euclidean metric, the points of length one lie on the unit circle, since x² + y² = 1 is the equation defining the unit circle.
• in the chebyshev metric, points have length 1 if one of the coordinates has length 1 and the other coordinates have a length smaller (or equal to) 1. and these conditions also describe the square with sides x = ± 1 and y = ± 1.

i think that’s a good point and that is a nice way to remember them. i think a lot of it just comes down to personal preference.

i like calling them the diamond/square/circle metrics because those shapes describe the sets of points that have unit length. i’ve found this wikipedia picture to be very helpful, and the diamond/square/circle terminology is my way of paying my respects to the picture.

i wish that it was more common to refer to the metrics in terms of what they are instead of who discovered them. i can’t ever remember off the top of my head if the chebyshev one is supposed to be the diamond metric (L¹) or the square metric (L^∞).

the mustache binds them

are they standing in front of a wall filled with framed photos of trump?

breaking news: trump has just anointed hulk hogan as the next pope

what a strange way for me to find out the pope died

the days of slamming are over. it is time to start blasting.

god, what a beautiful language. it brings a tear to my eye

i will never forgive C for making the type syntax be

char* args[]

instead of the much more reasonable

&[char] args 

it also bothers me that char* args[] and char c are “the same type” in the sense that the compiler lets you write

char c, *args[5];

with no problems. i think the C languages would be way easier to learn if they had better type syntax. don’t even get me started on C++ adding support for

auto fn_name() -> ReturnType { … }

my microwave beeps if you hit the cancel button. it makes me avoid using it.

rest assured that the plane will fly, it’s the landing part that might be a problem.

i’m partial to “eviscerate”. but i agree, i feel like these headlines are just a more clickbaity way of communicating “X says Y” and typically that’s not super interesting. especially when lots of other people are already saying Y.

slamming alone is not enough i’m afraid. they also need to “rip” and “jab” them

mtg would have a meltdown if you asked her what day of the week it is. it’s the only reaction she’s capable of

i don’t know about you but i’m still in 2024. didn’t seem like 2024 would be worth switching to