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- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 2 days ago:
I’ve never done it, but I wonder if turning on the rear fog lights would work. You’re not braking, but they might think you are. I don’t know what the legality of that would be
- Comment on A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months 1 week ago:
100% with you. “Left to right” as far as I can tell only exists to make otherwise “unsolvable” problems a kind of official solution. I personally feel like it is a bodge, and I would rather the correct solution for such a problem to be undefined.
- Comment on A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months 1 week ago:
I fully agree that if it comes down to “left to right” the problem really needs to be rewritten to be more clear. But I’ve just shown why that “rule” is a common part of these meme problems because it is so weird and quite esoteric.
- Comment on A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months 1 week ago:
Except it does matter. I left some examples for another post with multiplication and division, I’ll give you some addition and subtraction to see order matter with those operations as well.
Let’s take:
1 + 2 - 3 + 4Addition first:
(1 + 2) - (3 + 4)
3 - 7 = -4Subtraction first:
1 + (2 - 3) + 4
1 + (-1) + 4 = 4Right to left:
1 + (2 - (3 + 4))
1 + (2 - 7)
1 + (-5) = -4Left to right:
((1 + 2) - 3) + 4 (3 - 3) + 4 = 4 - Comment on A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months 1 week ago:
So let’s try out some different prioritization systems.
Left to right:
(((6 * 4) / 2) * 3) / 9
((24 / 2) * 3) / 9
(12 * 3) / 9
36 / 9 = 4Right to left:
6 * (4 / (2 * (3 / 9)))
6 * (4 / (2 * 0.333…))
6 * (4 / 0.666…)
6 * 6 = 36Multiplication first:
(6 * 4) / (2 * 3) / 9
24 / 6 / 9
Here the path divides again, we can do the left division or right division first.
Left first:
(24 / 6) / 9
4 / 9 = 0.444… Right side first:
24 / (6 / 9)
24 / 0.666… = 36And finally division first:
6 * (4 / 2) * (3 / 9)
6 * 2 * 0.333…
12 * 0.333… = 4It’s ambiguous which one of these is correct. Hence the best method we have for “correct” is left to right.
- Comment on A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months 1 week ago:
The issue normally with these “trick” questions is the ambiguous nature of that division sign (not so much a problem here) or people not knowing to just go left to right when all operators are of the same priority. A common mistake is to think division is prioritised above multiplication, when it actually has the same priority. Someone should have included some parenthesis in PEDMAS aka. PE(DM)(AS) 😄
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 1 week ago:
Denuvo will revoke your licence to play a game if it thinks you’ve installed the game on computers with different hardware. Issue is it gets confused by changing the proton version that runs the game, thinking it’s a new install on a new computer, and so quickly bans you from playing the game.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 1 week ago:
Or Linux 😄 I really liked Game Pass though. Played some great games in there I would either have completely missed or have had to wait years for them to be discounted.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 1 week ago:
I will just regurgitate what I’ve heard. I think they are used in case power goes out and you have a generator. You need to disconnect from the power grid first, but it should then allow you to power tour house with the generator. It sounds more like a US thing.
- Comment on I like the man on his left reading the shirt 1 week ago:
In addition to what others have said, you can search for “thinn blue line” for more info on it. Basically meant to be on support of the kind of cops that killed George Floyed.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You don’t have to be so very exasperated about it :( /s
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025 5 weeks ago:
Monopolies are bad enough by themselves. But with google they own such a large part of the day to day web browsing experience it’s amazing it’s not worse than it already is.
- YouTube has documented cases of effectively throttling non-chrome browsers.
- There is a lot of juicy user behaviour data that can be gathered directly from chrome to support Google’s AD network.
- Google bank roll a lot of the web technologies that run websites, giving chrome an edge to implement new tech earlier and better than the competition.
- They also own Android, and unlike windows, they don’t even give you a pop up in what browser you want to use.
- They also don’t only control Chrome, but they are giving out the chromium (the web engine under the hood). So now they effectively control Brave, Edge, Opera, and any other browser that runs on chromium. And wouldn’t you know it, they heavily nerfed ad blockers capabilities in chromium to increase Googles ad revenue.
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, but as a swede myself I definitely know it’s a no no word especially as by that time other YouTube’s already had their own n-word controversies.
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 5 weeks ago:
He’s had some controversial things. In 2017 he said the n-word while live streaming a game. The other big one I know of is he made a video where he showed he has paid one of those fiverr groups of Indian children to hold up a sign that said “death to all Jews”. Pewdiepie didn’t think they would actually do it.
They are really not great situations, and the second one I mentioned he should have realised was a bad idea and not done at all. Back in that 2017 era he positioned himself as an edgier meme YouTube, but he has since apologized and vastly changed his content, and i personally believe he’s a very changed person from a decade ago. But the stigma has stuck around.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 1 month ago:
I agree. And luckily for Lemmy and all other FOSS projects the worst that can happen is a fork of the project is created with a potentially fractured community.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 1 month ago:
But that’s exactly what I said in the beginning. The worst that can happen is the original creators take the project in an undesired direction so a fork is created.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 1 month ago:
I guess the closest I know of is Maps.me and Organic Maps? Maps.me was open source, but got purchased and enshittified, so Organic Maps was forked from it. And now there is some drama with the Organic Maps shareholders/co-founders, so unless that is (or has it already been?) sorted out we’re likely to see another fork of it.
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t the main dev(s) members of lemmy.ml? So I can certainly see how differing political views could skew the development of the main branch of Lemmy.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 1 month ago:
The protocol itself could surely start its journey if enshittification? In which case different, possibly incompatible, branches would spawn fragmenting the Lemmy space. Still miles better than the whole thing burning to the ground. But with no shareholders looming around (yet) we can hope it won’t come to that.
- Comment on Do it 1 month ago:
Banana, Melon, Kiwi & Lemon in my ass 😐 Image
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 2 months ago:
Looks like Warzone is one of the unfortunate ones, the kernel level anti cheat currently stops it from working on Linux.
Reka (added to my wishlist 😄) seems to run well. If it will run straight out the box or not seems to be a little hit and miss. You can check any troubleshooting steps on protondb. This shows Linux isn’t quite at the “it just works” stage. But for this title if you do run into an issue it seems like an easy fix.
Cyberpunk runs really well. I haven’t had to tweak anything for my install.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 2 months ago:
I have a very extensive steam, gog, and battle.net library with all kinda of games from wolfenstein 3D to Baulders Gate 3. The only game I haven’t been able to run is Ground Control 2, but that doesn’t work on windows 10 (possible a USB device issue). Unless you play a game with an anti cheat that explicitly deny Linux (the only one I know off the top of my head that does that is Fortnite) you are most likely good to go. I’m quite a performance/fps snobb, and I haven’t found any game that runs worse on Linux either.
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 2 months ago:
Well. They can stop updating the open source code, create manifest v4 and now all chromium browsers are shit out of luck.
- Comment on A new study found adaptive traffic signals powered by big data reduced peak-hour travel times by 11% in China’s 100 most congested cities – saving 31.73 million tonnes of CO₂ annually. 3 months ago:
One issue with that is China is still a heavily bike and moped driven country. The issue is when more of their population is able to afford cars. So they could still “catch up”.
- Comment on If it's not a text, the phone/video call is all about you and what you want. So I may as well join in. 3 months ago:
I guess I do it for a couple of reasons. My mind wanders a lot, looking at myself keeps me a bit focused and ensures I don’t do anything silly. I also try to put myself as close to the camera as I can, I know you often come off better looking into the camera when speaking.
- Comment on Day 220 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 3 months ago:
Can’t believe you didn’t build a little outpost on that mountain!
- Comment on braaiinnss 3 months ago:
If they didn’t want to have a face they shouldn’t have evolved two small rings above a large ring!
- Comment on The one drawback to walking at night 4 months ago:
Agreed. Like I get “hurr durr statistics”. But you’re not very likely to be in a car crash on any given day, but you still put your seat belt on. That people can’t take the backseat for just a second and have some empathy for the struggles of other people without butting in with whataboutism. You’re even allowed to share in their struggle. I don’t fear I’ll be SAd, but of course I fear physical violence, so use your commonality to support each other rather than trying to one up.
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 6 months ago:
Don’t be fooled to think computer neural networks is how the brain is structured. Through out history we’ve always compared the brain to the most advanced technology at the time. From clocks, to computers with short and long term memory, and now to neural networks.
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #35 - Cry of Fear 7 months ago:
One of my favorite Let’s Play games. I tried to play it myself for 5 minutes before hard noping out. I’ve become a bit braver since my teens, so maybe I should give it a shot myself some day.
But it’s amazing to see just how far you can push HL’s engine.
