This time I decided I should probably conceal carry. I’ve done it before, so it’s not like I don’t know what I’m doing, or am generally unsafe with a firearm. I went to the bar I used to cook for, and after I got in, this hick just loudly proclaimed every minority by slur they didn’t like and wished them all dead. He...
I did read incorrect info when I said that it’s illegal. You’re right it’s not as long as you’re below .05%. But frankly that’s an absolutely absurd law. I have 0 problem with concealed carry in bars or really anywhere. But to carry while drinking any amount of alcohol is absolutely inappropriate
lol, math is literally the only subject that has rules set in stone. This example is specifically made to cause confusion. Division has the same priority as multiplication. You go from left to right. problem here is the fact that you see divison in fraction form way more commonly. A fraction could be writen up as (x)/(y) not x/y (assuming x and y are multiple steps). Plain and simple.
The fact that some calculator get it wrong means that the calculator is wrongly configured. The fact that some people argue that you do () first and then do what’s outside it means that said people are dumb.
They managed to get me once too, by everyone spreading missinformation so confidently. Don’t even trust me, look up the facts for yourself. And realise that your comment is just as incorrect as everyone who said the answer is 1. (uhm well they don’t agree on 0^0, but that’s kind of a paradox)
But subtraction and division are not associative. Any time you work on paper, 2 - 2 - 2 would equal -2. That is, (2-2)-2=0-2=-2. If you evaluate right to left, you get 2-2-2=2-(2-2)=2-0=2
It is 50-50, though. The remaining possible states are BG and BB. Both are equally likely. Any further inference is narrative… not statistics.
The classic example of this is flipping 100 coins. If you get heads 99 times in a row… the last coin is still 50-50. Yes, it is obscenely unlikely to get heads 100 times in a row. But it’s already obscenely unlikely to get heads 99 times in a row. And it is obscenely unlikely to alternate perfectly between heads and tails. And it is obscenely unlikely to get a binary pattern spelling out the alphabet. And it is obscenely unlikely to get… literally any pattern.
Every pattern is equally unlikely, with a fair coin. We see 99 heads in a row versus 1 tails at the end, and think it narrowly averted the least-probable outcome. But only because we lump together all sequences with exactly one tails. That’s one hundred different patterns. 1-99 is not the same as 99-1. We just treat them the same because we fixate on uniformity.
Compare a non-binary choice: a ten-sided die. Thirty 1s in a row is about as unlikely as 100 heads in a row. But 1 1 1… 2 is the same as 1 1 1… 3. Getting the first 29 is pretty damn unlikely. One chance in a hundred million trillion. But the final die can land on any number 1-10. Nine of them upset the pattern our ape brains want. Wanting it doesn’t make it any more likely. Or any less likely.
It would be identically unlikely for a 10-sided die to count from 1 to 10, three times in a row. All the faces appear equally. But swap any two events and suddenly it doesn’t count. No pun intended.
If this couple had eight children, for some god-forsaken reason, and you saw seven boys, the eighth kid being another boy is not less likely for it. The possibility space has already been reduced to two possibilities out of… well nine, I suppose, if order doesn’t matter. They could have 0-8 boys. They have at least 7. The only field that says the last kid’s not a coin toss is genetics, and they say this guy’s chromosome game is strong.
Looks at how Canadian ISPs led the world in early internet technology then once privatized, ignored it and allowed Nortel to be infiltrated and shut down by CCP spies, allowing then to steal 5G technology.
Hell, in Vancouver you have the private Canada /RAV line, and the public Skytrain line. One was built in the 1980s and isn't at capacity yet and the private one was finished in 2008 and is already over capacity.
Yeah there really is 0 comparison between public and private.
The story of a true outsider: Steve Jeltz. One of the only MLB players to be born in Paris. He was the worst baseball player in 1988 in the MLB with a .210 batting average but he was a reliable infielder.
June 8th 1989. His team, the Phillies, started a game against the Pirates with a rookie Barry Bonds helping lead the Pirates to an astounding 10 run first inning. The Phillies basically gave up trying and Jeltz took the opportunity to try new stuff. He hit 2 home runs that day. One as a lefty and the other as a righty - one of the only players to hit a home run from each side of home plate in a game. It was a first for the Phillies. Even more amazing is that before today the last homerun Jeltz hit was 7 years ago. He never hit home runs and today he hit 2 wild ones.
His team saw him smashing dingers and thought “if the worst player in the league can do this, maybe I should fuck around”. The Phillies rallied and went on to upset the 10 - 0 lead by winning 15 to 11. Because Steve Jeltz inspired a bunch of fuck ups to fuck around and, against all odds, it worked.
I’m not very aggressive about disabling[0] notifications. I don’t install apps that try to sell me stuff or otherwise manipulate me though so it’s rare I get unwanted notifications.
Quite a few commercial apps have perfectly good websites, and I use those in preference to apps most of the time.
[0] Technically just not enabling; Android now requires them to ask for permission before sending any
We estimate that by 2025, Signal will require approximately $50 million dollars a year to operate—and this is very lean compared to other popular messaging apps that don’t respect your privacy.
Signal has people who are experts in their field. They engineer solutions that don’t exist anywhere else in the market to ensure they have as little information on you as possible while keeping you secure [0]. This in turn means high compensation + benefits. You don’t want to be paying your key developers peanuts as that makes them liable to taking bribes from adversaries to “oops” a security vulnerability in the service. In addition, the higher compensation is a great way to mitigate losing talent to private organizations who can afford it.
[0] Signal has engineered the following technologies that all work to ensure your privacy and security:
Das Verständnis bei den aktuellen Jugendlichen beim Thema Internet und Computer ist erschreckend. Hab schon mehrere Lehrer gehört die wieder verzweifelt bei 0 anfangen mit Themen wie “X schließt das Fenster”
I’ve been here a week ago already asking if Arch would be fine for a laptop used for university, as stability is a notable factor in that and I’m already using EndeavourOS at home, but now I’m curious about something else too - what about Arch vs NixOS?...
Disclaimer: I only tried NixOS for less than a month when I was a complete Linux noob, I have since then been daily driving Arch Linux for about 2 years now.
For me, at least on the surface level, NixOS just felt like Arch Linux, with more similarities than differences.
What was nice about NixOS was the single config file for everything, although iirc I had to reboot every time for it to be applied while with Arch you can just install something and run it immediately.
Edit: I either remembered it wrong or I was doing it wrong because you don’t have to reboot the whole system according to the reply from hallettj.
What I didn’t like however was all the packages that got installed (through the list in the config file) had really strange directories which I couldn’t find easily.
like on Arch the packages and the executables are basically all at /usr/lib/ and /usr/bin/ and iirc it was pretty much the same on NixOS, except on Arch I’ll have usr/lib/firefox but on nix it would be usr/lib/u123uadqasd782341kasjhiu3sh932s9sdasdsapzxcqw-firefox
Another thing is that it works great for everything you install through the Nix config file, but it’s not necessarily going to clean up any files created by programs that got installed through it when you remove the packages from the config file.
Like say you have installed steam and then you install some game through steam, well that game wasn’t added through the config file so there’s no guarantee that if you decide to remove steam that you will also remove whatever the programs steam installed or if they created some new files somewhere.
Of course the same thing already happens on other OSes as well, so you could say that it’s an upside that Nix is better at cleaning up after itself whenever you remove something, but also because it’s supposed to all be controlled through a single config it just feels that much worse when you have to hunt down some file somewhere.
Again these are mostly my anecdotes from 2 years ago when I was a complete noob. Maybe I wouldn’t have any issues if I tried it today. And chances are I was just trying to do something you shouldn’t even be doing.
Plus at the start I used KDE Plasma 5 on Nix and Arch, maybe it will go better if I use i3wm on NixOS like I’ve been doing for a year and half or so on Arch now.
At least I’m pretty sure that having daily driven Arch for 2 years now I would have much better chances with NixOS now than when I tried it with 0 experience on Linux.
So since you’ve already got the experience from using EndeavorOS you might not have any big problems using NixOS, or at least learn how it works pretty fast.
I used to like Firefox (been using is since 2002ish…). But after a lot feature removals and, last but not least, the ugly UI redesign (despite the negative feedback in the nightly/beta phase) I just jumped ship. I’m not going to waste my time fixing it with CSSs, unfucking what Mozilla did wrong. Anyway, Brave is just faster, it performs better and has a no-shit UI.
This, plus the disappointment I’ve had with Mozilla, gives me exactly 0 reason to go back.
If I remember my Clancy books right a lot of modern military radars are powerful af. They CAN detect things like birds, terrain, falling bombs etc, but that level of sensitivity creates a ton of noise for operators to sift through.
So computers apply filters so only things that meet certain parameters (speed, size, altitude) are visible to the operator. In theory a jet flying vertically at 0 ground speed could be invisible on a radar screen until they move horizontally again. The radar can see it but it isn’t showing it.
All of this is made tf up btw correct me if I’m too non credible
Sur le tableau de bord de la Banque centrale européenne (BCE), le chiffre de l’inflation annuelle du mois d’octobre, + 2,9 %, n’est plus si loin de la cible de 2 %. Faut-il y voir le succès des hausses des taux effectuées par la BCE au fil de ces derniers mois ou, au contraire, la preuve que le phénomène était transitoire et ne justifiait pas de remonter si vite et si fort le prix de l’argent ? Peut-être ni l’un ni l’autre car, à bien y regarder, cette moyenne masque une mosaïque de situations fort contrastées entre les pays membres.
En Belgique et aux Pays-Bas, le niveau général des prix des biens et services consommés par les ménages a reculé entre le mois d’octobre de 2023 et celui de l’année précédente : l’inflation y est donc… négative. Ce recul est le plus fort en Belgique, où le taux a baissé de 1,7 %, tirant vers le bas la moyenne de la zone euro. Dans quatre autres pays, le taux d’inflation se situe en dessous de la moyenne : Italie (1,8 %), Luxembourg (2,1 %), Lettonie (2,3 %), Finlande (2,4 %). Mais dans les quatorze autres pays, le taux d’inflation la dépasse, parfois de beaucoup. Le taux annuel a certes baissé en France, mais il atteint encore 4,5 %. Il baisse en Allemagne (3 %) et au Portugal (3,2 %), mais reste au-dessus de la moyenne. Il continue d’augmenter en Grèce (3,8 %) et en Espagne (3,5 %). Le taux le plus haut est celui de la Slovaquie (7,8 %), suivie d’assez près par la Croatie (6,7 %) et la Slovénie (6,6 %). Des résultats trop contrastés pour que l’on puisse parler d’une désinflation généralisée.
Là où le taux d’inflation est devenu négatif, en Belgique (– 1,7 %) et aux Pays-Bas (– 1 %), il est trop tôt pour parler de déflation. D’une part, la baisse des prix devrait aller de pair avec un recul de l’activité. Or, si c’est le cas aux Pays-Bas, où le recul du produit intérieur brut s’accentue légèrement au troisième trimestre (– 0,5 % après – 0,2 %), en Belgique au contraire la croissance a légèrement accéléré au cours de la même période (+ 1,5 % au troisième trimestre, contre + 0,1 % dans la zone euro).
Menace d’explosion des bulles
D’autre part et surtout, alors qu’une déflation implique un recul généralisé des prix, la baisse de l’inflation dans les deux pays tient pour ainsi dire à un seul poste de dépenses, « logement, électricité et gaz », dont les prix ont baissé de près de 30 % en Belgique comme aux Pays-Bas entre octobre 2022 et octobre 2023, et qui pèse lourd dans le calcul de l’indice des prix (20,1 % en Belgique, 16,4 % aux Pays-Bas). En revanche, les prix des autres postes de dépenses, en particulier l’alimentation, continuent d’augmenter. Belges et Néerlandais ne ressentent assurément pas la déflation quand ils vont acheter de quoi manger et paient leurs loyers, d’autant que la part des loyers est bien plus basse dans l’indice des prix, compte tenu du fait que cette dépense est nulle pour les propriétaires, que dans le budget des locataires.
Bref, c’est de la facture de gaz et d’électricité que vient la baisse de l’inflation, ce qui n’a pas grand-chose à voir avec un succès du resserrement de la politique monétaire, mais bien davantage avec la baisse des importations de gaz résultant de la guerre en Ukraine et les mesures prises par les gouvernements de ces deux pays pour contrôler les prix de l’énergie. Face à une telle hétérogénéité des taux d’inflation entre Etats membres de la zone euro, on en viendrait plutôt à douter qu’une politique monétaire « unique », c’est-à-dire calibrée pour la moyenne de la zone, puisse être utile.
En réalité, ces évolutions traduisent le caractère déterminant des prix de l’énergie, qui eux-mêmes reflètent notre dépendance aux énergies fossiles. Les mesures de contrôle des prix ont assurément une capacité plus grande que la hausse des taux d’intérêt à neutraliser des hausses de prix issues d’une inflation structurelle et non pas d’un excès de monnaie (inflation monétaire). Mais cela ne signifie pas pour autant qu’il s’agisse d’une inflation transitoire, ainsi que l’affirment certains économistes, comme James Galbraith. Une inflation sous contrôle, peut-être, le temps que durent les mesures de contrôle de prix, mais qui demeure latente tant qu’on ne l’attaque pas à la racine, c’est-à-dire tant qu’on ne réduit pas notre dépendance aux énergies fossiles par une transition énergétique qui parvienne à en réduire drastiquement la part dans le mix énergétique.
Par ailleurs, James Galbraith n’a pas tort de reprocher aux économistes mainstreamles vieux schémas dans lesquels beaucoup d’entre eux restent enfermés, comme celui d’un arbitrage possible entre inflation et chômage, faisant des récessions le prix à payer pour réduire l’inflation et offrant aux pouvoirs publics une réduction des émissions de CO2 sans effort d’investissement de leur part. Un tel schéma conduit à prescrire une solution erronée, sinon douloureuse, de hausse des taux en réponse à une inflation en grande part structurelle, sur laquelle cela ne peut guère agir, sinon en faisant baisser la demande d’énergie à mesure que ralentissent l’investissement et la croissance.
Mais pour autant, aurait-on pu maintenir encore longtemps les taux d’intérêt aussi bas sans augmenter toujours plus le risque de crise financière ? Non, car si la menace d’explosion des bulles immobilières et financières a grandi ces derniers mois avec la remontée des taux, d’ailleurs aujourd’hui mise en pause, il ne faut pas oublier que c’est avec ces taux trop bas pendant trop longtemps que ces bulles se sont formées. Les taux bas sont un poison lent pour la stabilité financière, mais la remontée des taux est une arme à l’efficacité incertaine pour recouvrer la stabilité des prix, et à manier avec beaucoup de précaution pour éviter l’explosion financière.
Note(s) : Jézabel Couppey-Soubeyran est maîtresse de conférences en économie à l’université Paris-I et conseillère scientifique à l’Institut Veblen
Maybe you’re right, maybe the metabolism changes will not kick in with 100 calories reduction.
Stil, even if all this is true (I mean, no need to get into the paywalled details) we’re taking 4kg over 3 years which in many cases will be totally insignificant. Many people will not start eating more because they lost 4kg. But even if they will then, as this article says, eating 100 calories more doesn’t require actually eating ‘more’ food, just a different one. Get a potato instead of a salad, get different type of bread, or a normal butter instead of ‘diet’ one. Figuring out if those changes are carbon negative or positive would be incredible difficult as they would depend on the specific products you’re changing, where do you buy it and so on but my bet is they will be close to 0. I still think it would take way more than that to offset the carbon footprint of a Rumba.
After the last male fail, went out boy mode again, also surprise visit from my mom and grandparents (i.pinimg.com)
This time I decided I should probably conceal carry. I’ve done it before, so it’s not like I don’t know what I’m doing, or am generally unsafe with a firearm. I went to the bar I used to cook for, and after I got in, this hick just loudly proclaimed every minority by slur they didn’t like and wished them all dead. He...
Glitch in the matrix (ani.social)
They aren't, and I'm sick of being told they are (lemmy.world)
Personal space (startrek.website)
Who's the next artist that should get a biopic?
Cash grabs aside, I really enjoy a good biopic. I’m between David Bowie and Michael Jackson
Do you disable notifications for all your apps?
let them all in or only allow for some specific apps (if so which ones)?
Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive (signal.org)
We estimate that by 2025, Signal will require approximately $50 million dollars a year to operate—and this is very lean compared to other popular messaging apps that don’t respect your privacy.
Pictrs permission error after migrating to new hardware
After a migration to new hardware, I am receiving the following permissions error from Pict-rs....
Streaming Your PS5 in HDR to Steam Deck OLED is Coming Soon - Steam Deck HQ (steamdeckhq.com)
ich🧠iel (feddit.de) German
ich❄🚝iel (feddit.de) German
Arch or NixOS?
I’ve been here a week ago already asking if Arch would be fine for a laptop used for university, as stability is a notable factor in that and I’m already using EndeavourOS at home, but now I’m curious about something else too - what about Arch vs NixOS?...
Which distro/image to use for distrobox where you just want to install tools?
The immutable state of distros like fedora silerblue and opensuse microos leads to the use of distrobox....
5 Most Privacy Focused Web Browsers (itsfoss.com)
Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates (arstechnica.com)
Fly around and find out (sh.itjust.works)
Spotify made £56m profit, but has decided not to pay smaller artists like me. We need you to make some noise | Damon Krukowski (www.theguardian.com)
NYT Sunday 12/03/2023 Discussion
Link to crossword: www.nytimes.com/crosswords/game/daily
Jézabel Couppey-Soubeyran : « C’est de la facture de gaz et d’électricité que vient la baisse de l’inflation, pas de la politique monétaire » (www.lemonde.fr) French
Cannabis use in Europe (i.redd.it)
Borrow checker woes - lifetime of borrowed var vs closure.
Ed: solved with the help of the async_stream crate....
Matic is a $1,795 robot vacuum for people concerned about privacy (maticrobots.com)
Privacy (for robot vacuums) isn’t cheap. via the Verge.