Oh boy! Are you serious? Let me be more precise, in case. There aren’t actual projections that are better in all cases than the Mercator projection. There are maps that are better in given cases. ALL maps have trade offs. The one you shared, included. It certainly benefits from the humor of pointing out why this is an issue in the first place.
I don’t believe that 99% figure for a second. Unless geography is removed from all curricula worldwide. Even still, that ignorance would not signify what this movement implies. It is a useful map; end of story. If the movement were, “We should increase public knowledge of geography and how projections work,” fine. But it isn’t.
There aren’t better maps. Only maps with different tradeoffs. ALL 2d maps of spheres are disproportionate.
This is such a garbage take. There is no way to “show our world as it truly is” in two dimensions. I’m all about showing other projects and orientations. Classrooms should have “upside down” maps and Albert maps for example. But we should also teach that each projection has benefits and drawbacks. I was taught that decades ago. Have we stopped?
Python is strongly typed. I get your point since it is dynamically typed, but still strongly.
Haha. One of you chuckleheads has gone and done it. Whoever you are…
We will be watching your career with great interest.
Oh no; all good. I just didn’t understand. Price is a bit high, but I suppose just a sign of the times.
I don’t know what you mean. There is no squatting here. That is a genuine listing from marcaria.com, one of the few registrars authorized to sell Anguilla domains.
Me too. If I had something of merit to say, I’d consider grabbing it. But it is so surprising that I keep checking after posting this, expecting somebody will grab it.
Wasn’t the fun the CPU cycles we wasted along the way?
Nix and Docker / container runtimes are completely different animals. Each is good at what they do, but those are vastly different things, with some overlap. If you want to share a kernel but use fewer resources than a VM, containers can do that. If you want to go further and completely isolate, you can use microvm’s like firecracker.
I don’t follow what is wrong with that. Maybe you mean it’s use where people use it specifically as a package manager. I agree with that, but even then it has its handy place.
Some wisdom my dad shared with me decades ago: when you’ve lost everything and must rebuild, the rebuild is ALWAYS better. As a programmer for a very long time who has done what you did, I have found this to be true. So there is your silver lining.
No, people do it both ways and you’ll even find both techniques by the pros. But anybody claiming it makes them more even I really don’t think is thinking it through. By adding the extra cut across those natural layers, you’re actually making to very small bits when the crosscut is near the layer boundary.
That’s why I think it is not only easier but superior not to add the crosscut.
Recovery codes. Take them seriously. Some I trust have them for glass break.
Some of us would argue 10 is the n+1 th number because zero comes first. Otherwise you’re just throwing a new digit into the mix when you get to 10.
I was able to make no inferences about any of the statements or what they mean.
What? Map projections are not projected to manipulate you psychologically. They are projected to manipulate a three dimensional object onto a two dimensional surface.