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pstch··on What’s a fire, and why does it burn?
"Particle" is used at all scales, most usually subatomic, but also microscopic and macroscopic. A car can be viewed as a particle, so I'm not sure it's so wrong to label a group a molecules as "particles".

Also, the author was only referring to particles when trying to explain the concept of thermal radiation where he is actually speaking of subatomic particles, not of molecules.

pstch··on LiChess: Learn from your mistakes
I should reread my posts before sending, this was a mixup between "6 years old" and the launch year. Thanks for the correction.
pstch··on LiChess: Learn from your mistakes
It was launched in 2016, with a much simpler interface (no accounts iirc), which evolved a lot to come to this day.

Its source code is also really interesting, it makes me want to learn Scala.

pstch··on LiChess: Learn from your mistakes
LiChess also provides post-game analyse features, allowing Stockfish to determine alternative lines, and also learn from your own mistakes.

I never used chess.com, so I cannot really compare. I'm an avid user of the linked site, and use it play both with friends and users around the world. So far it's been a great experience, and I still have lots to discover : chess studies, tournaments and alternate game modes.

pstch··on European Union dedicated questionnaire on the Encryption of Data
What is freedom of information if countries can decide on their own whether they will release their answers on not ? It is disappointing that rebuttals to information requests do not have to go through any judicial system.
pstch··on Qt binding for Go with support for all major operating systems
This is a very interesting question (to which I don't know the answer), I'm curious how the coroutines will interact with the Qt events.

Sidenote: It's also possible to build Qt applications in Python using AsyncIO (using quamash), by integrating the Qt event loop as an AsyncIO event loop. This can be helpful to avoid race conditions, as much more interactions can be handled without thread concurrency.

pstch··on An Important Message About Yahoo User Security
The chapter on parameter subsitution in the LDP's Bash Scripting Guide is nice for this : http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/parameter-substitution.html
pstch··on A bite of Python
The speed of these operations isn't on the same order of magnitude as floating-point operations. I do agree that literals for `Fraction` and `Decimal` would be interesting.

Also, I think that '2.2' is better represented as `Decimal`, as it's a decimal number (which is a subset of rational numbers, that are usually better represented using `Decimal`) (edit: that of course depends on the use case, as Decimal uses fixed-point precision).

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