Women are not good for the press in England under martial law…
… and the hacker was just posting spam on the receiving end from neurodivergent overexplaining.
Women are not good for the press in England under martial law…
… and the hacker was just posting spam on the receiving end from neurodivergent overexplaining.
That’s a lot of lightning symbols
I love that movie! It got bad ratings?
You succeeded at XKCD 2184
Edit: wait, it has to have come out after 2000. You almost succeeded at XKCD 2184.
You’re welcome. I’m glad I was able to help.
A lot of people are offering explanations, but I think I’m going to give one too.
Think of recoil in a gun. If you don’t have a mental image of it, watch a few youtube videos of people firing handguns. Look for videos of big, high-recoil handguns, like the Desert Eagle or the Magnum (or the Super Ruger Redhawk according to chat-GPT).
You need to get a good look at handguns pushed backwards as they are fired.
Now think about this: those bullets aren’t pushing against an atmosphere. They are pushing only against the inside of a gun.
But when this tiny, tiny bullet pushes super-fast against the gun, using the gun to accelerate to incredibly high speeds very quickly… it pushes the gun really hard in the other direction.
Get that mental image into your head. Small object can push large object with a lot of force by kicking off of large object with insane speed.
Now: Take away the person holding the gun. Take away the planet. Take away the atmosphere. Put that gun in space and pull the trigger again. (Just make sure to use a gun that has modern ammunition that doesn’t require oxygen to fire).
What happens to all that recoil? What does the recoil do to the gun now? The bullet still goes flying out of the chamber. Still does this by pushing against the gun.
Hopefully it should now be easy to imagine that the gun will start moving.
Rocket fuel is basically a tank full of bullets.
The main function of rocket fuel is “heavy stuff that is shoved out of the spaceship to make it move.”
The reason we use highly explosive fuel is because “shoving heavy stuff away from you at the speed of a bullet” is going to move you more than “shoving heavy stuff away from you at normal speed.”
Does this make any sense?
I think the idea that billionaires are created by any kind of motive is the wrong lens.
Their wealth doubles faster if they lack egalitarian values. So the millionaires who end up becoming billionaires are the ones who lack egalitarian values.
The values they do hold could be anything from, “everyone wants to win; I’m just winning harder” to “God told me to” and it won’t matter as long as they keep reinvesting and growing their wealth faster than the economy or ecosystem can sustain.
What we’re witnessing right now is not a set of ideas or beliefs, but an exponential growth equation – with all of the overwhelming speed and transformative power such an equation carries.
Exponential growth is the reason for everything from the mammoths’ extinction to rotten food and the lethality of cancer. It transforms entire systems, outgrowing (and often destroying) its own host.
If your society has currency but lacks any chemotherapy / surgery to remove concentrations of the aforementioned currency that start growing at a cancerous rate…
Then it won’t matter what values are common or uncommon: your society is eventually doomed.
It could take a hundred years or a thousand, but eventually, a pile of wealth will emerge that multiplies until it consumes everything.
“children are not born with Daily Wire subscriptions” is one of the most eloquent ways I’ve ever seen someone express the idea that children don’t hate until they are taught to.
Yikes. My condolences. That sounds stressful, to say the least.
Yeah, I ended up looking up the actual Flynn effect numbers AFTER leaving my comment, and had to edit because I was way off.
Oh yeah, they normalize IQ every year, and 100 is always used as the median.
But thanks to the Flynn Effect, getting a 100 (the number they always choose for the middle) in 2024 means you’re significantly smarter than someone who got a 100 in 1990.
So when Carlin said, “think of a person with average intelligence” he was calling to mind (to his 1990 audience) a person who was average in 1990 but would score [EDIT: I originally said 70s to 80s, but I was off by a lot. Such a person would actually score right around 90 points] today.
This is what happens when you take the lead out of gasoline.
Alternatively, it’s possible cell companies like T-Mobile will lobby against these anticompetitive agreements, since it does reduce their number of potential customers. I don’t like cell company lobbying any more than ISP lobbying, but in this case, let them fight.
Something tells me T-Mobile’s got a little too much class solidarity to have any interest in reducing the profits of Charter Communications.
Hmm… so an approach that would have gotten Rodeo’s point across better might have been to say,
“so anarchy is just another name for the purest form of democracy.”
Because democracy is such a broad word that it is occasionally applied to the United States, despite the CIA’s history of coups and the FBI’s history of extrajudicial assassinations of citizens.
Thanks for the well-written explanation, stranger.
Who knew a company with an unhealthy obsession with harvesting every screen tap of data from every person using their services… would chicken out from connecting their servers to a bunch of clients they couldn’t monitor.
… That said, I actually didn’t see this coming. It baffles me that I didn’t, but I didn’t.
Oddly enough, on a computer, I have not seen secant, cosecant, or cotangent.
I have seen sin, cos, tan, arcsin, arccos, and arctan.
Though the arc functions will only have one parameter, so if this is homework, you’ll probably be avoiding the arcs and using secant and friends
Anyways:
Term | In this example |
---|---|
Parameter | Angle is the parameter. It’s in radians, so in Java you’ll use a conversion like Math.toRadians(a) on whatever number you’re going to use as an argument |
Argument | If I were to call sin(Math.PI / 4) then I would be passing the argument π / 4 to the function. |
In other words, if a parameter is a question, then an argument is an answer. If a parameter is a coin slot, than an argument is the coin you choose to insert. | |
Operation | An operation is practically synonymous with “function”. It is performed on inputs to arrive at an output. However, usually in code, I hear “operation” used to describe things like / , * , and + . Things that have multiple inputs and a single output, all of the same form. |
If someone is asking you, "which operation should you use in the body of function sin ( hyponetuse, opposite )
then I imagine the expected answer would be, /
because
/
is an operation, and becauseopposite / hypotenuse
will perform the division that yields the sine of whatever triangle those two sides belong to.An algorithm is the meat of a function. It’s the “how.”
And if you’re using someone else’s function, you won’t touch the “how” because you’ll be interacting with the “what.” (You use a function for what it does.)
You will be creating your own algorithm by writing code, however. Because an algorithm is just a sequence of steps that, taken together, constitute an attempt at achieving an objective.
Haus is saying all the little steps that go into approximating sine occur directly on the hardware.
It sounds like you were distressed and left because you didn’t know what to do or how to help.
That’s empathy. Feeling uncomfortable when you see people in pain is empathy. And it’s normal. It’s normal for you to feel distressed around her as you hear her account. It’s normal to want to leave. It’s normal to feel guilty about leaving. It’s normal to wonder if you could have done more to help catch the bastard.
This is awful. What you just saw is awful. What you just experienced is legitimately uncomfortable.
And it’s hard for people to wrap their heads around, because how could your pain be valid when it’s a response to seeing someone in “real” pain? How could your pain be important when it’s nothing more than the faint echo of the pain you’re witnessing someone else go through?
But it hurts. As selfish as it feels to hurt at a time like this, it still hurts.
Wow. That’s Linus Torvalds levels of screaming, “ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID?!”
People got really worked up back in 2008.
Ah, the same way Linux was able to thwart hackers for as long as it did.