Machinist
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Russ Bishop
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No Such Thing as Speed of Light
I'm no physicist particle farmer so take this opinion for what it is worth. Using the phrase "Speed of Light" is such a misnomer I believe it actively causes harm and makes some things in physics more difficult to understand than they otherwise would be. Why should light's chosen speed have anything to do with, well, anything at all? Why should time travel being impossible be related to light? Why…
String Interpolation
Swift 5 added some nice improvements to string interpolation that many people may not be aware of. The first is the ability to control interpolation into a custom type that adopts ExpressibleByStringInterpolation . This allows you to create types like HTML and drives the new OSLog string formatting (eg log.debug("value \(x, privacy: .public)") . Becca Royal-Gordon provided some nice examples of…