If I get the root of the argument in the linked article, it is that zero-based indexing is more of a optimization than anything, but I would disagree; there are reasons beyond that (see the examples in my previous comment).

Also, here's an example of an 1-index based system that has caused me some headaches: In music theory, the first note of the scale is called the "first", etc. It also talks about e.g. "stacking thirds", which means take the third of the scale, than take the third from there. However, the offsets are two. (first=offset 0, second=offset 1, third=offset 2). Which is hard to work with in my opinion.

You have an interesting argument about iterating backwards, although I would say; if we need a tie-breaker between the two, iterating forward should have more weight than backwards.

I appreciate your comment, and while trying as best I can to be convinced of the "other side", I still land on 0-indexing. The only argument I buy, is that it matches our natural language starting at 1. Which, of course, is a strong argument.

> we had better regard —after all those centuries!— zero as a most natural number

Of course, a counter argument is that we've already made the mistake of indexing with 1 in natural language (first, second, ...). That decision is not free of annoyances, though: the 19th century are year numbers 18xx, floors below the first have a varying names when they could have been negative numbers, etc.

I struggled a bit to understand the explanation on github, but eventually got to something that made sense. It would have helped me if it said up front that

- 0, 1, N and Y pass the input signal on (works like a | or - in the input direction), and that - when a circuit has both a 0 and 1 output value, the output becomes 0 (which is why 11 is an AND and not a OR)

Hopefully that's correctly understood? If so, maybe consider updating the explanation for the next person.

Also, a question: Does a 0 and 1 on the same circuit consume more power than two 0s or two 1s due to the conflicting values? Or is it solved with transistors at the cost of propagation delay? Or something else?

It also seems like someone at Slack is tasked with driving up engagement, because I get these "Your team is missing you" messages from Slack (only to be find a dead slack community). That might be a sign that they're losing traction?

I keep a slightly modified version of it as a top comment in my main C file in every pico project. Super handy for quick reference and you can annotate it with the actual uses in your project.

(By the way, the text fragment does works somewhat in Firefox. Not on the first load, but if load it, then focus the URL field and press enter)

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"Decimal" implies a ten based system, even though it's perfectly fine to say "binary decimal".

Using your own replacement words, it would be clearer to write "A floating point number is a representation of a number with a fractional part".

I haven't watched his videos, but this seems like a sign of quality. Making a video when you have a great idea vs making a video a week or day just to feed the algorithm.

I have no idea how the landscape looks in general, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation

Exposing it as a monitor sounds like a much nicer interface, although I don't think Apple wants that, since it wouldn't work wirelessly.