I also get annoyed at lightning fast responses. And I agree 100%

It takes no time or energy to come up with one answer to a question. I’m fact, I think most humans’ brains are built for snap decisions like that.

But to weigh multiple answers against each other, poking holes in the answers you are most inclined to believe? That takes thought. And if someone is not doing that for you, then odds are, their brain is simply letting them take the discussion less seriously than your brain (or your morality) allows.

So I think you have every right to feel frustrated at such behavior.

I think if you’re a right winger in the stock market who still has money (hasn’t lost it all yet), you’ve proven yourself capable of at least enough double-think for your WORDS to say “the market is in shambles! The economy is trash! Biden is destroying America!” while your ACTIONS express confidence in all of the things supposedly doomed by our supposed dictator Biden.

Dragged, kicking and screaming, to unprecedented wealth.

What a strange world we live in.

I feel like if I ran a company, I would have folded my hand after Kellogg’s and the Big Three automakers lost their respective labor disputes.

“Oh, these are your demands? Done. Better than selling my customers the media equivalent to glue-frosted pop tarts for the next two months because I can’t admit I need my own workers.”

I know there wouldn’t be any billionaires if people thought that way. It just seems so much more sane and well adjusted.

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.

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

The post is here

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.

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.

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

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 )

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.

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.

Ahhh… okay, yeah. That also makes sense.

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

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.

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

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