irotsoma

joined 1 year ago
[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

Take some basic logic classes first. It's really helpful for a lot of people before learning math and science. I didn't realize how many people aren't just logical thinkers by default sine I am. But being able to consciously think that way will help a ton with math.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 28 points 5 hours ago

~~Trump~~ Putin Will Soon Get Classified Briefings Again

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Force them to take a class where they read the Bible?

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Sounds like they prefer this outcome for some reason. Maybe they made some mistake they're covering for, or maybe the situation is just so complex with poorly written laws that he might end up being allowed to stay for a long time while it's all worked out. This gets him out of the building and makes him someone else's problem.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

Basically, people are dumb and think that the current economic situation reflects only current policy, whereas in reality it takes several years for a policy to affect the economy significantly. I mean i don't have any love for Biden, but the fact that the inflation started at the end of Trump's presidency and continued into Biden's was due primarily to Trump policy. The fact that it slowed finally is due to Biden policy, but now that Trump is taking over, he'll take responsibility and immediately go back to policy that breaks the economy again, but only at the end of his term. This is one reason he's unlikely succeed for long if he to tries to seize power illegally and would have been way worse off if he had won his second term. His policy effects would be under his watch. Also why single term presidents are often less reviled than two term ones historically.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

I mean that's standard practice. If a feature, product, or company develops a bad reputation, just rename it. If your market is large enough there will be enough people not paying attention to not realize it's the same product.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Where do you live? What are the laws around recording another person without their consent. Note that usually audio recording in public is more restrictive than video in public, so assuming he didn't mute the audio of the clip, you probably have a case there.

As for the suggestion about DMCA takedowns, that depends on of the information you shared could be considered copyrightable since the recording copyright belongs to the person doing the recording. That's not common, so you could file a DMCA takedown, but I have a feeling it might not be legitimate. There might be other YouTube terms and conditions that they violated, though. Check the "Report" button for the options. I don't have an account anymore to look.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The split view seems really useful. I was actually just fiddling with that on my laptop with two browser windows.

How does this compare to LibreWolf or other Firefox derived projects?

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago

That's not really how it works. The components of the scale require a certain amount of current especially if it's digital in nature. As a battery approaches being drained, it produces less current. Less current can often power an analog device to a lesser degree, like lighting up an indicator light or LCD or even the IR LED light on a remote, just very dimly. But the tolerance of the weighing components is probably much less than the tolerance of the LCD panel or LED bulb. So many devices use an LCD or indicator LED bulb to show that the device isn't necessarily broken, it just needs new batteries.

If it's sitting in a drawer and getting drained, then it's probably not turned off properly or it may be the type that turns on automatically when it gets pressed down and inside the drawer it's getting activated. Instead try taking the batteries out of any device that sits around for a long time without use. It will prevent accidental draining and also reduction the likelihood that the batteries will leak after a time. I usually pop the batteries part way out or put them in a small bag that I attach to the device with tape or a twist tie. Just make sure they aren't touching anything metal and that the poles aren't touching each other. Batteries will lose charge over time, but with alkaline batteries, that's usually years, not months. Rechargeables generally take much less time, though.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

I'm not one to defend Trump...ever...but this one is ridiculous. He was talking about war and whether she would push for war if she had to go into combat. If anything, this investigation plays into Trump's hands.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He's just trying to sell the upgrade so people will throw away their old cars and buy new ones. But that already happened with the last version and it still can't do it. This won't be any different with him in charge. Put an engineer in charge, invest in the tech, and you might get there. But Tesla is not going to ever get there while it needs to sell every incremental advance in tech rather than spending time and money on lots of iterations of prototypes that don't need to be mass produced.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Lifetime of the universe is infinitely less than infinite time. So they solved for the wrong problem. Of course it may take longer than the life of the universe, or it may happen in a year. That's the whole point of the concepts of infinity and true randomness. Once you put a limit on time or a restriction on randomness, then the thought experiment is broken. You've totally changed the equation.

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