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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

For my use cases (audio, programming, engineering school, watching crap on FreeTube) I value stability and predictability over security and shiny new stuff. In the rare cases that things break, they break in ways that are already well-understood, so usually have workarounds or solutions.

In the few cases I do need something newer than the Debian repos provide, I just use Flatpaks or get an updated .deb from the devs of the particular software.

So yeah, zero rush for Plasma 6 for me. It looks nice, but I’ll just be chilling on Plasma 5 until it comes out.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Theoretically this exists: github.com/Nikilites/nuzu

Also, I managed to install the Flatpak of Yuzu off FlatHub about a half hour ago.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

I’m a simple man. I see Fisto, I upvote Fisto.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

I pretty distinctly remember being introduced to square roots at the same or nearly the same time as complex numbers. Obviously we didn’t do the whole Complex Numbers Extended Cinematic Universe, but I think my class did learn to solve quadratics with complex roots in middle school.

I mean I did go to Catholic middle school, but I don’t think the math education was that weird.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

You can literally take a class on Complex Analysis. Turns out that those “small” modifications have huge ramifications. They add a ton of extra structure to the real numbers which can be exploited, particularly if your problem can be expressed in terms of sines and cosines, or if your problem lives on a plane.

For example, complex differentiability is much more stringent than real differentiability, to the point that the existence of one complex derivative implies the existence of all of them! Furthermore, you have to be really careful extending the classic functions to the complex numbers. Typically, you either end up with a multivalued function, or you have to pick a specific branch that is single-valued.

If you want to learn more, Theodore Gamelin’s Complex Analysis book is a good place to start. But to read it, you’d really benefit from a background in vector calculus. For a more “practical” but still detailed account of complex variables, check out Complex Variables and the Laplace Transform for Engineers by Wilbur LePage, which just assumes basic calculus.

Is there much beyond i^2 = -1, z = a + bi, and e^iθ = cosθ + isinθ

What does electric current “i” have to do with the glorious imaginary unit j ?

This post was brought to you by Electrical Engineering Gang.

!In electrical engineering, we use the letter j instead of i because historically, i is reserved for electrical current. Gamelin uses i in his book which is wrongthink, but LePage uses j. !<

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

I don’t like furry textures, so I would not pay any amount of money to pet the cat. Actually, I’m more likely to pay money to not have to pet the cat. However, I would accept $800 to pet the cat.

I love cats, just, like, not touching me lol.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

But they’re so fluffy

Yeah that’s kinda the “problem.” Unfortunately my brain doesn’t have the tools to deal with those kinds of textures.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

In the ASCII character encoding, the hexadecimal number 61 is the letter ‘a’. (Yes, it is lowercase.) 0x is just a notation that indicates a number is in hexadecimal, as opposed to decimal or binary.

Therefore, 0x6161616161616161 translates to the string “aaaaaaaa” (without the quotes or a null terminator).

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

Me lol

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

I don’t want spam

Well I know what I want, so I ask for it in the username.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

Depends on the cookie and what I’m trying to achieve.

Chocolate chip? Zero unless it’s uncooked dough, and I will be quietly annoyed that chocolate chip cookies were chosen.

Lofthouse sugar cookies from the supermarket? With the frosting and lethal amounts of sugar? A lot.

Lofthouse’s birthday cake flavored sugar cookie with that weird French vanilla flavor and even more sugar that’s like an orgasm in cookie form? As much as I can afford to buy. I’ve been trying to eat no more than three at a time simply because I don’t want to blow all my money, but it’s so good.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

EDIT: I rolled a critical fail in reading comprehension and I thought the other track was N per integer instead of 1 per real number in the previous version of this comment.

The people in the real number track are already dead by the time the trolley arrives due to the forces involved in cramming them so tightly together. I.e. they are basically just a gore pile the moment after the people are somehow arranged like that.

I pick the real number track so that no one new has to die.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

Actually, while you are correct about weight in general, the pound is legally defined as a unit of mass, which is exactly equal to 0.45359237 kg. Then, multiplying this pound-mass by 1 ft/s^2 gets you a pound-force which is a unit of weight. This implies that the pound-force is a derived unit in US Customary, British Imperial, and the other countries that agreed to the 1959 definition of the avoirdupois pound as a unit of mass.

So while the earth would induce less pounds-force of gravity on an object high in the atmosphere than at sea level, the object would not lose pounds-mass, which is what pounds actually are unless the multiplication by 1 ft/s^2 is specified explicitly or implied. This is the case for any systems that use the avoirdupois pound.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

I couldn’t find the text of the agreement, but here is the notice from the US Department of Commerce based on that agreement. What’s interesting is that they discuss the relation of the 1959 definition to previous ones, and even back in 1893 the pound was standardized as a unit of mass.

So it seems like, for at least 130 years, we have been “using the pound wrong” and no one bothered to correct us.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

live spongebob AI youtube stream

Please I need the link

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

So I was going to write a comment about how you actually can adjust weight and mass independently based on W = mg if you can control gravity, and that comment relied on the assumption that kg measures mass and lb measures weight…

Except the latter is not true! In US customary and other systems that use the avoirdupois pound, 1 lbm := 0.45359237 kg exactly. However, there is also a pound-force, which is lbf := (1 lb) × (gravitational acceleration in ft/s^2 ). This gives rise to the slug, yet another unit of mass defined as slug := (1 lbf) ÷ (1 ft/s^2 ) = 32.17404 lbm. I actually used this unit in my differential equations class because my professor was really old-school.

The source of the confusion is that the “pound” as a unit of measurement (really one of several units) predates the distinction between mass and weight.

Moral of the story: if handed US customary units, just convert to metric (SI). And I guess I have to write lbf or lbm now whenever I’m forced to use US customary.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

I mean I’m 100% not above chewing literal plastic if I’m bored enough.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

Thanos Shaq

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

Honestly I doubt it ever will.

I somehow doubt it won’t soon.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

Okay so I promise you that this will be the only “Linux proselytizing” comment I will make to you, after this I’ll shut up forever about Linux lol. I know we can be a bit incessant…

Well, older versions of windows still exist so it would be years before put into the position of having to consider a subscription. Even then? I would rather that than Linux.

Windows 10 was released in 2015. It will be a decade old next year, and support for it will begin to vanish soon. Windows 11 has stringent hardware requirements that means it won’t run on most of my devices, so it’s not even an option if I wanted it.

Anything before 10 is too old to run a ton of new software. I actually moved to Linux in June because I finally could no longer put off upgrading from Windows 7 on my audio PC. A few programs needed to update but would not do so for Windows 7.

Those being that very little of what I use/am interested in has any Linux support

I feel you there. I have years of old work on Windows, so I still need to keep my Windows partition lying around.

Last time I tried to use the Windows partition on my laptop, a Windows update broke it. According to Microsoft, I basically have to reinstall from scratch. So even when I gave Microsoft a chance to play nice, they burned me.

I recognize that some users cannot fully abandon Windows, myself included, but it might make sense to partially abandon Windows or move new work to a new operating system. Also, WINE allows you to run many Windows programs on Linux. Anecdotally, Fallout New Vegas played better on Linux in WINE than it did on Windows 7 with the same hardware, even with like 100 cursed mods.

At a bare minimum, definitely give it a shot if you have any old computers to revive. I put Debian on my grandmother’s 10 year old computer that could barely handle Windows after being factory reset, and it runs like a treat now.

Linux being needlessly complicated for the average/casual user

Short version: it can be as complex or as simple as you need it to be. For a no-fuss option, go for Linux Mint.

My daily experience of using a computer has scarcely changed. It’s still “point and click to reach your destination”. I do use BASH commands pretty often, but only because I’m trying to do something too technical for a graphical interface on any platform, or because the command is a few seconds faster than doing it in the GUI. The terminal embedded into the file browser I use (Dolphin) makes using BASH commands so much easier, because I’m a very “visual” guy.

IMO unless you’re doing something where a program needs serious hardware access, just go with Flatpaks (or a distro with baked-in Flatpak support) for programs. I use KDE Plasma and it has a lot of Windows-like features (actually, it’s the other way around—Windows has a lot of Plasma-like features, because Windows “takes inspiration” from Plasma). By default, it has a Start menu and task bar, and it uses the desktop metaphor just like Windows. IMO it’s like the Windows desktop with a ton of extra options and telemetry disabled.

I use Debian as my daily driver on all my computers. It was mildly complicated to set up, no more so than Windows, but after about two weeks of acclimating it’s been zero drama ever since. In contrast, Windows machines usually failed to boot about twice a year per machine for various reasons in my house. If you need those complex features that Linux has, (1) they’re available for you, but you don’t have to touch them, and (2) they’re not kept secret like many undocumented features in Windows.

I actually wouldn’t recommend Debian for most new users, since it’s more focused on stability than being new, fresh, easy to use, or basically anything else. It has been there literally longer than I have been alive, and I expect it will be considering how many Linux distros reuse their work as a base. Also, it doesn’t come with Flatpak support by default, but it can be enabled in one command. I come from the school of “never update ever” and I’m slowly unlearning I same thing that habit, so Debian works for my use case. Also, some of my applications do need to be tightly integrated with the hardware. However, these applications are inherently technical, and would be difficult on a default Windows setup (i.e., Windows sucks by default for pro audio work, which needs to work fast). I’d recommend Linux Mint if you’re really not interested in tinkering.

and it being such an enormous departure from windows

Internally it definitely is different from Windows, but again my experience so far has not been markedly different from Windows other than that it runs with less drama. Actually, Linux is internally more like almost every other OS being a Unix derivative, particularly OSX and the BSDs. It is Windows that is the “odd one out”.

And like…yeah, that’s kinda the point. As a desktop environment, Windows is fine and usable, but as an operating system it sucks. It has a ton of bloat, it keeps too many secrets, and it doesn’t give you the stability you pay for. It’s no better than Linux, just better supported because of the network effect. If you like the look and feel of Windows, you can get that with the right choice of desktop environment (IMO KDE Plasma or Cinnamon) without giving your money and data to Microsoft.

IMO if you really want to check if a Linux distro (or any other OS with a live version) is right for you, try out a live USB of a given system for a few days and see if you like it. Most importantly, make sure you can connect to the Internet and you can see your screen. Then the rest should be fixable without an external computer. That’s how I got roped into this. I tried it for like a week and I didn’t want to go back.

There is literally nothing that Linux offers that I find outweighs the enormous downsides of the OS.

IMO Linux offers freedom, security, privacy, auditability, control, documentation, diversity, and decentralization. Each of these are worth an essay and this comment is already getting long so I’ll spare you the details. Freedom alone would make the switch worthwhile IMO, and I wish I understood that sooner.

And now I will shut up about Linux forever to you unless you want to know more.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

I’ll take 20

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

Actually if the pee is distributed throughout both balls, then it is stored in the union of the balls, i.e. all the space in one or both balls by definition.

Furthermore, the intersection as depicted in the diagram only includes the area common to both balls. If we take the “balls” (sets) to be the testes themselves, then anatomically the pee is stored nowhere because the two testes are physically separated and therefore have an empty intersection.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

Oh whoops I didn’t know. Yeah then just pirate that shit.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 3 months ago

Yeah, it would be nice if they are accepting donations.