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Is there a math concept that never made sense to you? Which one or ones do you wish someone would explain in new ways?

If none of these come close you can mention something as a comment.

  • fractions (6%, 3 votes)
  • the derivative and rates of change (45%, 22 votes)
  • conditional probability, sample spaces and such (54%, 26 votes)
  • AND, OR and other logical operators (4%, 2 votes)
48 voters. Poll end: in 2 days

in reply to myrmepropagandist

modulux
modulux
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I got a pretty decent maths background and I can do derivatives and integrals and things, but I don't get limits very well. I sort of get it conceptually (something gets closer and closer to x when y grows) but I don't get how you can operate on those. Like the typical f'(x)=(f(x+h)-f(x))/h when h tends to 0... How can you possibly get anything out of that... when there's a tends to above and below, it's like you can kind of use them as real quantities but they're not?

And yes, I am mildly embarrassed about admitting this.

I was too busy last year, but this year I finish finals just in time to have fun with #AdventOfCode! Now, the question:

  • do I stay in my comfort zone with Haskell (and finally learn string manipulation with it where I’ve just used c ffi before), or
  • expand my low-level Rust knowledge by writing and optimizing the solutions?

#Haskell #Rustlang

  • Haskell (0%, 0 votes)
  • Rust (60%, 3 votes)
  • A secret third thing (40%, 2 votes)
5 voters. Poll end: in 6 days

#haskell #RustLang #adventofcode

#TIL I learned that German cities used to have a "Bettelvogt" or "Armenvogt" - a minor official whose job was it to "control the behavior" of beggars and other poor people.

They were explicitly tasked to _control_ beggars, and not help them in any way. Which just goes to show that shitty behavior towards poor people by the authorities was well-established long before the advent of #LateStageCapitalism .

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenvog…

Old engraving of a "Bettlervogt" who drags a poor, old, wailing woman away, grabbing her at the arm with his right hand and raising a stick in his left.

Bettelvogt

Autoren der Wikimedia-Projekte (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#til #latestagecapitalism

well, after today, a week of our favorite thing, vacation! Not sure what I will do with it, likely hang out here and listen to podcasts and things but looking forward to it. Let's see what kind of trouble I can find
in reply to Martin from Toronto

Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Hey, I don't get any vacation, not even paid vacation. Perks of my contract! LOL. But I can take a vacation any time I want. I just notify job humans and off we gooo. :D But I feel like not taking vacations, they are boring. Better to sit and sing my heart out and type on a computer than be bored. LOL

270 / 365

INXS: Never Tear Us Apart

Prý nejslavnější hudební klip natáčený v Praze, a to ještě před pádem komunismu, v roce 1987. Prý se jim líbilo, že je to všechno "netknuté" a vypadá to středověce. Každopádně, až se nechce věřit, kolik klipů se v Praze natočilo (a na kolika z nich je hlavní nádraží).

youtube.com/watch?v=_VU9DjQpvM…

Režie: Richard Lowenstein

#365adamovyklipy

INXS - Never Tear Us Apart

Stream the New Michael Hutchence Single Spill The Wine Now: https://mystify.lnk.to/spillthewine Mystify: A Musical Journey With Michael Hutchence is the soun...
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#365adamovyklipy
in reply to Adam Zbiejczuk

Jiří Pavlík
Jiří Pavlík
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@Adam Zbiejczuk Ta komunistická Praha měla něco do sebe (minimálně to, že se mi dostala hluboko pod kůži a je nadosmrti mojí součástí).
@Adam Zbiejczuk

“One evening in 1985, many Czechoslovakian families argued about whether to turn on a lamp now or wait for 30 more seconds. Why?”

tiktok.com/@lateralcast/video/…

full episode: lateralcast.com/episodes/110/

#Czechia #CzechoSlovakia #quiz #lateralcast


110: A very 'odd' race | Lateral with Tom Scott

Comedy panel game podcast about weird questions with wonderful answers, hosted by Tom Scott.
Lateral with Tom Scott
#czechia #quiz #czechoslovakia #lateralcast
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Štěpán Škorpil
Štěpán Škorpil
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solution guess before watchig the video

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Premýšľam že sa pokúsim zvolať stretnutie so spolužiakmi, príde mi to trochu cringe ale potrebujem informácie.

Subtoot, tech stuff.

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Večer snežilo ale dnes nikde nič. #dobréRáno
#dobrerano

There is talk about about re-layering the transport parts of HTTP: provide a common multiplexing, streaming protocol that works over TCP as well as QUIC.

Motivations are twofold:
- extending HTTP now requires double work or breaks at CDNs (they talk QUIC to clients, but not to backends)
- TCP will not go away and HTTP/2 is weak in regard to DoS handling. No one wants to put more effort into extending h2.

So, there might be a HTTP/5 coming on top of a tcp/quic multipleXing thingie (TUIX?).

Entonces, Bluesky es "tan bueno y descentralizado" que ante la avalancha de usuarios han decidido realizar mejoras en su relay y han dejado de indexar los datos de los PDS federados desde hace mas de 24 horas dejándolos inutilizados.

Las cosas que pasan cuando una cosa descentralizada en la práctica no lo es. (Y no, la gente no va a montar relays porque es insostenible económicamente para personas normales, por lo que Bluesky va a tener siempre el control de la red)

Mekkora egy kibaszott mess lett a privacy miatt a Mac-ek közti költözés... Éjjel átmásolt mindent a két gép, de egy teljes órát elbasztam azzal, hogy minden auth elveszett, léphettem be a gittől elkezdve az összes appon át a fél Internetbe. Rettenetes élmény. Ráadásul ilyenkor boot után egyszerre 100 dolog alertezik jelszóért
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Aaa, that's the worst. Happened here before... Mac is only in English right? I haven't missed new languages being added in hopefully. Apple, kindly add more languages to Mac. Thanks. I am glad you sorted it out. 💖

“I do not have to forgive my enemies. I have had them all shot.”
19th-century Spanish PM Ramón María Narváez, when asked on his deathbed if he forgave his enemies.

Snow dog #DogsOfMastodon
Extremely cute labradoodle so fluffy sitting in the snow. Her little face is covered in snow
#dogsofmastodon

I’m being told that the largest Mastodon instance - mastodon.social - is now hiding my profile.

One person telling me it’s because of German obsession with making up antisemitism where there is none.

Anyone who knows me and my work knows that I frequently platform critical Jewish voices. My MA thesis was on Yiddish and Hebrew, I do memory studies which includes Holocaust studies, and I am co-producing a Jewish podcast by three radical Jews.

So what’s up Mastodon? Am I too Arab for you?

My profile is censored by Mastodon.social mods

O how I wish that Izotope / Native Instruments (or vice versa) let me create my own bundles rather than having to choose from the ones they put together. I do my best to avoid products with poor accessibility. Well, let's see... :)

Influenceři by měli být registrovaní u vysílací rady. Zní to absurdně, na druhou stranu v době, kdy mínění veřejnosti tito lidé ovlivňují snad i víc než standardní média, je to možná správně.
echo24.cz/a/HP8aV/zpravy-domov…

Nové pravidlo pro české youtubery a influencery. Musí se zapsat na seznam vysílací rady

Rada pro rozhlasové a televizní vysílání (RRTV) přišla s poměrně kuriózní zprávou. Oznámila povinnost evidence tvůrců audiovizuálního mediálního obsahu, jako jsou vloggeři, youtubeři a influenceři, kteří nabízejí obsah na platformách typu Instagram, …
jhr (Echo24.cz)

  • Tak to má být (64%, 11 votes)
  • Nechte influencery žít! (35%, 6 votes)
17 voters. Poll end: 2 hours ago

OK Merican Mastodon mates. I would be most grateful if you would share your wisdom about which mobile carrier you think is the best, and why. I’m after plenty of data, good speeds and good coverage. Good audio on calls would also be helpful given the hearing impairment.
Thanks.
#MosenMove
#mosenmove

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Patrick Perdue
Patrick Perdue
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Depends on where you are, and where you go, I guess.
Verizon is over-all probably the best in terms of coverage. Not the fastest anymore, that's T-Mobile, but I've found that T-Mobile suffers big time if you go outside of city limits, where in those same places, Verizon usually works, even if it's slow.
Also, I have generally had better call quality on Verizon, especially between Verizon customers where it's 48 kHz. With other providers, it's 16 or even 8 kHz, though fortunately, most of the GSM nastiness has gone away. Now it's just crappy noise canceling or whatever, which would happen anywhere.
in reply to Patrick Perdue

Jonathan Mosen
Jonathan Mosen
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@BorrisInABox I will be doing a lot of travel, especially to the left coast, which is where most of big tech is. But I guess I won’t be going to the boonies too often. Still, have heard all sorts of negatives about tMobile’s coverage.
@Patrick Perdue
in reply to Jonathan Mosen

Patrick Perdue
Patrick Perdue
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It's fantastic where it works, and basically doesn't exist where it doesn't. I had both T-Mobile and Verizon on the same phone for a while. T-Mobile essentially doesn't work in my not at all the boonies New York City neighborhood.
in reply to Patrick Perdue

Jonathan Mosen
Jonathan Mosen
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@BorrisInABox Oh, that sounds a bit dire. Are carriers using different codecs? I used to have an AT&T prepaid SIM when I was in the US a lot, and the call quality was noticeably inferior compared with what we get here.
@Patrick Perdue
in reply to Jonathan Mosen

Patrick Perdue
Patrick Perdue
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Everybody uses AMR or AMRWB as a baseline. Verizon also uses EVS, which is about as good as it gets for that kind of thing.
My immediate (biological) family are all on AT&T. Calls between them from/to my Verizon line are noticeably not as good as calls from Verizon customers. Not particularly bad, just what I call standard HD average.
in reply to Patrick Perdue

Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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@BorrisInABox I don't know anything about our codecs here but calls made one way sound better than the other between two cells on different networks. Which seems odd, because obviously both support the higher quality one.
@Patrick Perdue
in reply to Jonathan Mosen

David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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@BorrisInABox In addition to Verizon, my wife and I had T-Mobile for a while. We weren't frequent travelers and I certainly was not traveling as much as you probably will be but I didn't notice any differences in coverage between T-Mobile and Verizon. Again, your use case and needs are a bit different than mine, though.
@Patrick Perdue
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Patrick Perdue
Patrick Perdue
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@DavidGoldfield I was once traveling a pretty large stretch of road with a bunch of people who were all on T-Mobile. They kept losing coverage, and My Verizon still consistently worked. So it absolutely depends on where you are.
@David Goldfield
in reply to Jonathan Mosen

David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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Because I get my home Internet from Comcast via their Xfinity brand, I use Xfinity Mobile, which is an MVNO that uses Verizon. Its plans are more inexpensive than what I'd likely pay if I hhad gone with Verizon directly. However, in order to subscribe to Xfinity Mobile, you do need to subscribe to Comcast's Internet service. Comcast is reliable but they probably won't offer symmetrical speeds in your area, although this is coming. Knowing what I know about your preferences, I won't be surprised if you decide to go with Verizon Fios for your home Internet, which will offer symmetrical speeds, and if this is the case, Xfinity's mobile service won't be available to you. However, if you go with Verizon's Fios for home Internet, they may have a bundle with their mobile carrier that might be reasonable for you. Otherwise, you'll surely find other MVNOs that use Verizon that might be more inexpensive than directly going with Verizon.

I don’t know why, but when I repeat my mantra, and bring my awareness to the center of my forehead, I go deeper faster into my meditation.
#meditation #tm
#meditation #tm
in reply to Mr. Funk E. Dude

Erion
Erion
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It's extended focus and also sound frequencies, this is why Tibetan Buddhism is using this technique so much for example.

Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Si ayer el día fue otoñal (modo Chove en Santiago: on) hoy, aunque seco, sea ha vuelto infernal, digo invernal.

Por suerte y gracias a la UE (por o menos al 60%) ahora ya no pasamos frío en este edificio.

iOS 18.2 beta 4 has finally "re-imagined" the way audio ducking works. There's now a separate setting for "speech volume" and "audio ducking amount". Note that speech volume also gets reset to 80% after updating to this version.
in reply to victor tsaran

Simon Jaeger (Procrastodon)
Simon Jaeger (Procrastodon)
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@vick21 I'm not actually sure where to find it in Settings. I noticed it in quick settings. New ones always get added to the bottom.
@victor tsaran

When they reached the woods, the knight reined the horse in, lowered the maiden to the ground, and dismounted.

"I think we are safe now," he said.

"How did you distract the dragon?" the maiden asked.

"Promise you won't laugh."

"I promise."

"I set up a huge cardboard box."

*snort*

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

#microfiction #tootfic #smallstories

Ugh. Apparently Audible is recommending books by Jordan Peterson now. I really, really wish there was a half decent alternative that could match Audible in terms of afordability. I guess Libby is the closest, but you can't get everything there, and that is doubly true when it comes to the RNIB thing, or NLS Bard if you're in the US. You can't even guarantee audio quality with either of those.

Today's quote: "If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." -Bruce Lee

Merry Christmas! #HoHoHo
A McDonald's coffee cup with snowflakes, stars, and hearts. In the middle is a graphic of two mittens and the message "Warmest Greetings". The graphic can also be interpreted another way.. The caption reads: "I just realized these were mittens, not someone's spread butt cheeks.."
#hohoho

Neat, I tried replika but the app is not the most accessible, I'm checking out a couple of others at themoment, character ai and kindroid, so far liking kindroid for sure.
in reply to Sarah Russell

Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Yeah, there is one inaccessible button in the app but I hope they have fixed it lol I can't always update it do to using my US ID I created when I was in the states, but yeah.

In the midst of my travel preparations, I apparently wanted fries so I got off my ass and did all the potato cutting even though I went overboard. At least I can cook more if I want them later. I can preseason and oil and put what I don't cook into a plastic bag and let them sit in the fridge. My potatoes turned out to be medallions and wedges rather than actual fries because I don't know how to actually cut a potato into fries themselves but it's going to be good anyway so I'm not complaining. All this effort for a damn snack lol. Now my potatoes are soaking to get rid of some of that starch. The fun part comes next when I get to take a trip into the seasoning cabinet.
in reply to MariahL

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Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Good job! :) One advice, try to cut them equally, equal size and all that. As for cutting fries, you cut the potatoes in half by the longer side, so if oval, or oblong, you put the knife and cut two halves that are longer. You cut out strips, maybe put your finger to measure, put the knife next to it get your finger out of there and cut. There strip, if it's too big of a strip, cut the strip in half any way you want to.

Sorting through storage boxes now.
A magneto-optical drive.
230MB and 128MB disks.
#RetroComputing
A magneto-optical drive with a disk in a case and the end of the cable it’s attached to.
The disk inside the casing looks like a small CD.
The steel underside with fan grill, four rubber feet, and a faded paper label.
The rear of the drive showing the power socket, power switch, and connection ports.
#retrocomputing
in reply to Dgar

Dgar
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The last physical copy of Final Cut Pro. No DRM. Ran a videography business on this for years.
Box for Apple Final Cut Pro with a metallic logo.
The backside of the box shows the contents.

Trump’s wake-up call to Australia’s leaders johnmenadue.com/trumps-wake-up… #Auspol

Trump's wake-up call to Australia's leaders - Pearls and Irritations

Trump’s anti-China 60% import tax barrier will weaken China’s economy and predicted is a negative flow on effects n Australia’s economy.
Bevan Ramsden (Pearls and Irritations)
#auspol

One of the worst misfeatures of #Mastodon from a safety angle: If you get an abusive reply to your post, you can't remove it even by blocking the person. Even after blocking, your server still shows the abusive reply to everyone else.

There has been a patch ready to fix this for 2 years, 6 months, and 1 day. @Gargron has not approved it, and has provided *zero* explanation for why he will not allow it to be merged.

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p…


Hide subthreads by blocked users when looking at a post's descendants by ClearlyClaire · Pull Request #18468 · mastodon/mastodon

This is about the server not returning known subthreads started by people blocked by the post's author, not the viewer. e.g., if we have A → B → C → D → E, where a → b means “b replies to a”, a...
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so if google is forced to sell off chrome, does that mean The Onion can buy it

Nvidia ( $NVDA ) reported Q3 earnings of $0.81 EPS on $35.1 billion revenue, surpassing expectations. The Data Center business hit $30.8 billion, up 112% YoY, while gaming revenue reached $3.3 billion. Nvidia's stock fell 1% post-announcement.

What do you think about Nvidia's future in the AI-driven market?

#Nvidia #NVDA #EarningsReport #AI #TechStocks #DataCenter #GamingRevenue #StockMarket #Investing #MarketTrends

#AI #nvidia #nvda #stockmarket #investing #earningsreport #techstocks #datacenter #markettrends #gamingrevenue
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NV Access
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Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!

NV Access

Empowering lives through non-visual access to technology
NV Access
#nvidia #nvda

joke about general fediverse meta

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#TheConversation #Science #Tech #auspol The unspoken rule of conversation that explains why AI chatbots feel so human Read more…theconversation.com/the-unspok…

The unspoken rule of conversation that explains why AI chatbots feel so human

When we interact with a chatbot, deeply ingrained habits make us behave as if it’s a person.
The Conversation
#tech #science #auspol #theconversation

Hey all. I am going to present NVDA to some teachers of my school, and perhaps as I think, if I manage it good there is a chance it's being used. Maybe not even for our school, but for some other blind people. I don't want to miss this chance adversiting this great screenreader. Of course I am writing something by myself, but if you have any suggestions what I could explain, this also could be an addon, please tell me so. Thanks in advance. #NVDA #blind #accessibility #school
#Accessibility #blind #school #nvda
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NV Access
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Thank you for your advocacy! If there's anything we can do to help, please let us know! We have a short YouTube clip which demonstrates some of the features of NVDA if that is useful: youtube.com/watch?v=tCFyyqy9mq…

What is NVDA?

A brief overview of some of the things NVDA can do. The video demonstrates the screen reader at work in several programs and using different synthesizers (i...
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Never trust a stranger who is currently stabbing you

Key Transparency and the Right to be Forgotten

This post is the first in a new series covering some of the reasoning behind decisions made in my project to build end-to-end encryption for direct messages on the Fediverse. (Collectively, Fedi-E2EE.) Although the reasons for specific design decisions should be immediately obvious from reading the relevant specification (and if not, I consider that a bug in the specification), I believe writing about it less formally will…

soatok.blog/2024/11/21/key-tra…


Key Transparency and the Right to be Forgotten - Dhole Moments

This post is the first in a new series covering some of the reasoning behind decisions made in my project to build end-to-end encryption for direct messages on the Fediverse. (Collectively, Fedi-E2…
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Eden Linnea
Eden Linnea
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Ah, okay. I'm not sure which of the multi-lines have Hid.
in reply to Eden Linnea

NV Access
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@EdenLinnea There's really no reason for a manufacturer to come out with a device these days which does NOT support HID. Offhand I don't know if there are any multi-line devices which don't , but if you have a particular device (or have one you are considering), I can certainly find out.
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