One of the things I loved about Reddit was the super niche experts dropping into the comment section. I’m so glad Lemmy has this too.

To answer your question without being a dickhead: The given x indicates the point on the curve you need to find the slope at. In other words, find the derivative and then evaluate that function at the given x.

470 upvotes on a post which isn’t a meme? Come on, we’re better than this

This is too good

There are a fair few examples in the book itself. https://qntm.org/clean

Secoooooond… paaaaaaaarts… iiiiiiiin… ooooooorchestraaaaaaaa… muuuuuusiiiic

“WYGIWYG” - love it

Yes

Originally? Probably lack of options. These days the aim of the game is sounding “like a violin”, so naturally there’s very little innovation in violin technology.

Violinist here.

Violins make sound by dragging the bow (stretched horse hair) over a string, causing the string to vibrate. At the micro level, the bow pulls the string to one side using friction, until the tension on the string pulls it back - this happens hundreds of times per second, and forms the basis of the sound we hear. Horse hair is slippery by default. To create the necessary tension violinists apply a small amount of solidified tree resin by wiping a piece along the length of the bow. This piece of hardened resin has the same approximate texture as glass or hard candy, and is called rosin.

If you’re moving away from text formats, might as well use a proper serialisation tool like protobuf…

Oh, it wasn’t bought… It was bough

“They were always green”. I wish

https://youtu.be/22vbhTi1ieI?si=pS1mcII10zdelEan

“Introductions and a bit of smalltalk” - I would shit myself if an interviewer started asking about smalltalk… /s