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.
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.
The article summary in the post explains that it will be transferred to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation just before he leaves office. So it won't be available for future presidents.
Remember when Kevin O'Leary considered running for the leadership of the Conservative party, but dropped it because he's too stupid to speak French? I love the fact that our two official languages saved us from getting our own Trump wannabe.
I started taking antidepressants a few months ago to treat ADHD-related anxiety and depression. (The doctor suggested that I could try ADHD-specific meds, but pointed out that I'm already a relatively successful adult, so clearly I've built coping mechanisms over the years.)
I'm surprised by how much more rational I've become when dealing with stuff.
I first really noticed it when I was crossing at an intersection and a driver turning right didn't see me and almost hit me. She slammed on the brakes and waved her hands in a clearly startled and apologetic way. Before the meds I probably would have flipped her the bird and had my heart pounding in my ears for the next half hour as I seethed with anger. Now, my thought was "She made a mistake. I'm fine. She knows she made a mistake and she'll certainly be more careful next time. It's okay."
That's not to say that I don't get angry anymore. I just get angry about stuff that matters or where I can change something. It feels a lot healthier.
Standard disclaimer: I'm not a doctor. This is not medical advice. It's just my anecdotal experience. Maybe talk to your doctor about getting tested for depression and/or anxiety. (I had never thought to before this year, because in my youth I was just called "disorganized", "lazy", and "scatterbrained".)
The US doesn't have a national ID card. I have a federally-issued ID card as a lawful permanent resident, but the typical US citizen has what? Their main proof of citizenship is their birth certificate, issued by their state, and doesn't have a photo (and if it did, would probably be a baby photo). The people with passports tend to have enough money to travel internationally, which is a pretty small proportion of the population (as it's a big country, so even a lot of people who can afford vacations will vacation in the next state over at most).
What I've read in recent weeks is that people have been donating to the "Biden-Harris campaign", so Harris has access to all that money by default.
While I would love a stronger candidate (Whitmer, perhaps), I understand that Harris is a lot less complicated. My understanding is that she can just take the money and run (for the presidency).
Edit: Personally, I think (and thought back in 2019/2020) that Biden should have pulled the same move as James K Polk, and declared upfront that he would be a one term president. Then we could have had a competitive Democratic primary, which would have stood out against the Republican coronation.
Inferring doesn't mean the same thing as implying. They're kind of complementary, like borrowing versus lending.
The OP may have been implying something, but it looks like you're inferring something (which may or may not what they're implying; I don't care enough to parse that out).
The quick adjustments to tileable blueprints sound amazing. Such a great idea!
Somehow I thought the pipette on water to get an offshore pump (like how you can pipette on an ore field for a miner) was already a thing. That and the quick access to landfill will save so much time when designing nuclear plants.
The spidertron stuff sounds nice too, but they're usually so late game that I haven't minded the slightly clunky v1.1 status quo.
The ASF has renamed their conferences from ApacheCon to Community over Code, so foundation leadership seems receptive to moving away from the Apache name.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the name is changed in the next couple of years.
The name was originally just a silly joke, since it was "a patchy web server" (as it was an open source web server abandoned by the original author, but kept going by a community sharing patches to fix bugs and add features).
Oh, maybe! I didn't understand how it chose the points, but it does look like the random convergence approach.
Nice, thanks!