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.
Immediately after your death, you hear, "focus tester #503, thank you for participating in Earth. Remember: your feedback will likely be incorporated into future updates."
From an AskLemmy question by @[email protected]
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.
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.
Oh, you're coming from Ubuntu! That's a much more manageable transition.
Yeah, going directly from Windows to NixOS is a harsh transition.
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.
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
/is an operation, and becauseopposite / hypotenusewill 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.
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.
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.
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.
What are some promising solutions to solar power's lack of night time availability? Is "transoceanic power transportation" on the list?
EDIT: Submarine power transportation is indeed on the list
Not transoceanic, but there are two projects currently proposed that will -- when constructed -- break the current record for the "longest undersea power transmission cable" (a record currently held by the North Sea Link at 720 km, or 450 miles.)
One of these projects is the Xlinks Morocco-UK Power Project which aims to lay 3,800 km (2,400 miles) of cable and sell Morocco's solar power to England.
There is, as of yet, not enough cable in the world to even begin this project. The company proposing the project is building factories to produce this cable.
The other is the Australia-Asia Power Link, which aims to provide Australian solar power to Singapore using a 4,500 km (2,800 miles) undersea cable.
Where the Xlinks project ran into a "not enough cable in the world" problem, Sun Cable's AAPL has apparently been running into a "not enough money in the world" problem, as it has repeatedly gotten into trouble with its investors.
EDIT: But also, storage is scaling up
@[email protected] provided a fantastic link to a lot of energy storage mediums that are already in use in various grids across the world. These include (and the link the professor provided gives an excellent short summary on each)
- Pumped hydroelectric
- Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES)
- Flywheels
- Supercapacitors
- And just plain batteries
Also, this wasn't in the Gumby's answer, but Finland's Vatajankoski power plant uses a hot sand battery during its high-demand, low-production hours.
Hydrogen is projected to grow
@[email protected] noted that hydrogen has advantages no other energy storage medium possesses: duration of storage and ease of piping/shipping. This is probably why numerous governments are investing in hydrogen production, and why Wood Mackenzie projects what looks like a 200-fold increase in production by the year 2050. (It's a graph. I'm looking at a graph, so I am only estimating.)
Is this significant?
I have questions about this event.
First of all,
Democratically Elected
> As the first-ever democratically elected leader of the UAW, Fain, a long-time union member himself, has taken a more confrontational approach to negotiations than his predecessors — including filming himself throwing Big Three automaker proposals in the trash.
What was the process before? Was it worse?
Has UAW been a sleeping giant this whole time on account of its leadership selection process?
Stand Up Strikes
> But the strike won't involve all of the nearly 150,000 union members who work at the three automakers walking off their jobs en masse.
> Instead, workers at three Midwest auto plants — a General Motors assembly plant in Wentzville, Missouri, a Stellantis assembly plant in Toledo, Ohio, and part of a Ford plant in Wayne, Mich. -- were the first to walk off the job under UAW president Shawn Fain's "stand up strike" strategy.
Are stand up strikes common? Do they win concessions?
Official diagnostic tests?
I want get myself an official diagnosis on ADHD and an answer regarding whether I'm autistic.
Typically, a "10 minute test" takes me several hours. I spend a great deal of time contemplating the questions, filled with indecision. So I want to fill out the test before I even get to the psychologist's office.
Which is why I plugged "official ADHD test" into a search engine, and got overwhelmed by the choices. And my main questions are:
- do some websites offer a test they inaccurately describe as the official test? (If so, do those show up high on search results?)
- do some websites offer the official test... and also augment the test with extra resources that help a cripplingly indecisive person answer more efficiently? (That would save me time.)
You have recently noticed that your friends will do everything you tell them. Is it a prank? A superpower? Doesn't matter. You won't let this opportunity go to waste.
From an AskLemmy post \[link here\] by @[email protected]
You have a writer's block breakthrough at the worst possible moment.
You have a writer's block breakthrough at the worst possible moment.
Posted September 21st, 2018 on blog.reedsy.com
When an elderly person went to their local mall, they had no idea they'd wind up saving the world.
When an elderly person went to their local mall, they had no idea they'd wind up saving the world.
Another prompt from the reedsy list. From September 21st, 2018.
"I'd like to buy a plane ticket to your furthest destination today," you told the airline employee.
I'd like to buy a plane ticket to your furthest destination today, you told the airline employee.
From blog.reedsy.com, September 21st, 2018.
[Meta] How do you folks feel about pulling prompts from writing prompt lists online?
One of the prompts on this list here is
> "Describe an everyday item as if it's magic."
is vaguely similar to my cyberpunk prompt.
Which makes me feel like I'm kinda reinventing the wheel here.
Plus, the lists I am talking about are enormous! It would take years for us to run out of prompts from them. Definitely a good way to keep the community's pulse going until the prompt posting process starts to happen more organically.
- 100 Creative Writing Prompts for Writers - Writer's Digest
- reedsyprompt's weekly writing prompts \(1800+ prompts available!\)
I'll be sure to hyperlink the source of the prompt in the body, (or in the case of reedsy, possibly the URL field.)
So what do you say? Shall we borrow prompts until we've gathered some steam?
It's our world, (and the events can be ordinary and boring), but the narration and main character's internal monologue are in the tone of a cyberpunk dystopia.
Example:
> Darren operated the mouse and keyboard, aware of them only as mundane extensions of himself, told his computer's web browser to establish a connection with the address called "Amazon." As if an online "marketplace" (powered by an ever evolving, manipulative artificial intelligence) bore any resemblance to the wilderness that used to cover the earth. > > Especially when said stretch of wilderness was already a fraction of itself, eaten up for strip farming or land speculation by dozens of corporations driven by the same profit-seeking mindset that motivated Amazon itself: infinite growth. > > Millions of microscopic lights flashed to show images of "products you might be interested in." Darren, like any other person, had to constantly relearn how to push past and ignore the suggestions. A subtle arms race between humans and the AI built by the rich to control the poor.
Fringe right and fringe left both make this conversation difficult
Image Transcription:
An 8-panel Phoebe Teaching Joey meme.
The first panel is Phoebe from Friends saying "Russia".
The second panel is Joey from the same show replying with "Russia".
The third panel is Phoebe saying "has invaded".
The fourth panel is Joey repeating back "has invaded".
The fifth panel is Phoebe saying "Ukraine".
The sixth panel is Joey repeating back "Ukraine".
The seventh panel is Phoebe saying the completed phrase "Russia has invaded Ukraine".
The final panel shows Joey proudly proclaiming "NATO just started a proxy war".
Is there a file extension (and major mode) for monospaced unicode "art" ?
I derive a lot of benefit from mind-mapping in the style shown below. I usually do this in .txt files. But is there some generally accepted text file extension specifically for monospace art?
``` ┌──────────────────┐ ┌┤ Current Projects ├─────────┐ ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │└──────────────────┘ ├─┘ ┌──────────────────┐ │ │ │ │ Possessions List │────────────┐ │ │ □ Forever Park │ └──────────────────┘ │ ┌──────────────┐ │ │ └────────────── │ │ │ ┌┤ Forever Park ├────────────┐ │ │ │ │ ░ Some reboxing would be │ │└──────────────┘ │ │ │ □ Possessions List │ │ ░ nice │ │ │ │ │ └─────────────────── │ │ │ │ ░ Not much. Just keep │ │ │ │ └──────────────────────────────┘ │ ░ plugging away at that │ │ │ □ Healthcare Application │ ┌────────────────────────┐ │ ░ outline. │ │ │ └───────────────────────── │ │ Healthcare Application │───────┐ │ │ │ │ │ └────────────────────────┘ │ └────────────────────────────┘ │ │ □ Tapstry Map │ │ │ │ │ └────────────── │ │ ░ Previous healthcare expires │ │ │ │ │ ░ Sunday, April 30th │ │ └┬────────────────────────────┘ │ │ │ ┌┘ └───────────────────────────────┘ │ │ │ │ ┌─────────────┐ │ │ ┌┤ Tapstry Map ├─────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │└─────────────┘ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Explore: │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ░ line endpoints │ │ │ │ ░ text box wrapping │ │ │ │ ░ google sheets and csv files with real datasets │ │ │ │ ░ d3 pointer events so I can see mouse coordinates │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ │ │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```
Tankies - pushing reasonable people out of the Communist Party since 1950!
From the article: When Marguerite Duras Got Kicked Out of the Communist Party
This was part of their justification.
Technically speaking, it was probably happening sooner than 1950, since Trotsky arrived in Turkey in 1929.
I want an alt account for writing. Is there a corner of the Fediverse you recommend?
I want to respond to writing prompts, but from a separate account. That way, if someone enjoys a story, they can scroll through my (alt account's) history for more writing without needing to dig through all of the dramatic, vitriolic, shit-stirring my main account will be regularly diving into.
I was wondering if one of you wonderful people was familiar with some corner of the Fediverse perfect for this sort of use? Or would you recommend I create the account here on Lemmy?
- If I do go outside of Lemmy, I want to go somewhere capable of commenting on lemmy.ml and lemmy.world posts (in particular, commenting in the WritingPrompts communities on those servers).
- I would prefer to join a public instance, like I did when I signed up for Mastodon and Lemmy.
- Note: as mentioned above I have used Lemmy and Mastodon so far.
So: is there a part of the Fediverse I ought to be examining for this? WriteFreely, for example? Micro.blog perhaps?