OwenEverbinde

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OwenEverbinde,

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.

ELI5 why is anarchy not "the guy with the bigger stick" making the rules?

I’m politically agnostic and have moved from a slightly conservative stance to a vastly more progressive stance (european). i still dont get the more niche things like tankies and anarchists at this point but I would like to, without spending 10 hours reading endless manifests (which do have merit, no doubt, but still)....

OwenEverbinde,

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.

OwenEverbinde, (edited )

The game is hampered by a lack of any retry-mission/save/load feature. Right now, players are stuck indefinitely with the negative consequences of their mistakes.

OwenEverbinde,

btw, I’m stealing this and turning it into a writing prompt over on Literature Cafe.

The post is here

OwenEverbinde, (edited )

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.

OwenEverbinde,

Thanks for the well-written explanation, stranger.

OwenEverbinde,

I like Joplin’s cross platform sync. I hop between phone and PC constantly with it.

OwenEverbinde,

Plus “math skills” is one of those areas where stereotypes and self-fulfilling prophesies have incredibly influential power.

Math is difficult for everyone, and emotional factors like, “having the confidence of yourself and your peers” are important in making it through difficulty.

OwenEverbinde, (edited )

I’m finding some details in this stackoverflow question

According to the question’s first comment,

Those default arguments get filled in when you’re invoked with pkgs.callPackage, but nix-build doesn’t do that. –

Charles Duffy Dec 2, 2022 at 16:05

Then one of the answers says:

This worked for me:

nix-build -E ‘with import {}; callPackage ./default.nix {}’

Definitely try this more complicated nix-build command.

I don’t currently have a NixOS system myself, though, so I’m not really able to test it out. I switched back to Debian because it’s more user friendly and I’m not quite ready for NixOS.

OwenEverbinde,

Yeah, going directly from Windows to NixOS is a harsh transition.

OwenEverbinde,

Oh, you’re coming from Ubuntu! That’s a much more manageable transition.

OwenEverbinde, (edited )

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.

OwenEverbinde, (edited )

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:

sin ( angle )

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

  1. / is an operation, and because
  2. opposite / hypotenuse will perform the division that yields the sine of whatever triangle those two sides belong to.
OwenEverbinde,

… and maybe that’s why it was “previously active”?

OwenEverbinde, (edited )

Australia too, according to a video I found.

OwenEverbinde,

Oh thanks for the link! This is a good one. According to the article we’re already using:

  • Pumped hydroelectric
  • Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES)
  • Flywheels
  • Supercapacitors
  • And just plain batteries

And the article ends with,

“The price of storage is coming down. The price of solving the problems in other ways is going up. Pretty soon, these prices are going to cross,” notes Boyes, suggesting cost could spur the addition of storage to the grid.

OwenEverbinde,

Which is, I’m assuming, the reason that hydrogen use and production are expected to vastly increase in the next 30 years.

OwenEverbinde,

Yeah, the 450 mile one – the North Sea Link – is the “longest subsea interconnector in the world.”

I think over land, you can manage longer distances (China’s transmission projects go thousands of miles), but even those aren’t going the full 3310 miles it would take to cross the Atlantic.

OwenEverbinde,

I believe the article is arguing that we need to scale them up. Although: it mentions that the Tennessee Valley Authority already uses pumped hydroelectric storage at the foot of Raccoon Mountain (side-note, I know nothing about Tennessee, but somehow naming a mountain “Raccoon Mountain” confirms all of my stereotypes about the state), to supplement its grid during low-production hours.

OwenEverbinde,

That said, R.J. Gumby was able to give a fantastic link about the storage technology currently in use.

OwenEverbinde,

So we heavily incentivize industrial sites to shift operation to hours during which power production exceeds demand?

OwenEverbinde, (edited )

The only way I can make sense of Lurker’s comment is:

maybe Lurker didn’t realize my edits to the post came after some people’s comments (my edits definitely came after your comment, derf). Lurker may have assumed you were dismissing the practicality of the Asia-Australia Power Link, mentioned in my edit but not in the original post.

Assuming the above, this is a miscommunication.

Assuming anything else, Lurker’s comment doesn’t make that much sense.

OwenEverbinde,

Ahhh… okay, yeah. That also makes sense.

OwenEverbinde,

that indecisiveness would be taken into account in a professional screening

These words have been helpful to me. I kind of stopped worrying about it after reading this, and just started focusing on getting myself a referral and appointment. It’s ridiculously slow getting any kind of appointment through my healthcare provider (and I still haven’t seen them yet) but I appreciate not having to worry about “should I be preparing for this?” in the interim.

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