Spherical geometry - good times…

Yep, it’s a triangle. You can also make one with three right angles on a sphere!

I only wanted to triforce.

Now I need to fix dad’s laptop before he gets home!

To be entirely unbiased here, this covers user friendly distros that pretty much blow windows away for “default experience”.

Windows has adware and scareware - more so it has config-cluster-fuckification (I believe this is the academic term for it?). This is where windows lost me - when it started bundling basic config options together to force you to relinquish your privacy. Now it’s “edit the registry or gtfo”…

Media praising bikes - “Bike brain goes brrring brrring!”

Media criticising bikes - “Car brain go vroom vroom vroom!”

Come now, let’s be fair and open minded ;)

Oh the media often goes both ways - in this case it appears that there are some issues that need resolving. Not everyone appreciates dodging bikes mounting the sidewalk, or doing an emergency stop when cyclists dismount the pavements without clear signaling - this is a problem for everyone but the person on the bike. Cars have their own issues, and those are widely covered.

While I very much agree every media story has “spin” (be it unwarranted cynicism or blind optimism), I am fairly certain it is the same on both sides of this issue.

Your point seems to be “all good things on bikes are backed up by studies, all bad things about bikes are big oil”, and that is quite simply the best validation of my post you could ever give. Thank you.

Media praising bikes - “Look see they work”

Media criticising bikes - “Huh, would you believe the media spin right?”

What is life but a lottery?

A lot of the drive towards AI is people thinking to save a quick buck, but longer term that places them in a very unsteady position themselves.

All products end up being for “shareholder value”, and AI will be no different. Someone will find an enshittification vector and run with it.

Suddenly, that “quick buck” becomes a monthly subscription that costs more than the people fired. Company data is harvested and sold, customers are advertised out, the shittiness of the system becomes a company problem.

So we’re either going to see a stark change away from the current shareholder value model (about as likely as world peace), or we’re going to see a lot of CEO seppuku. Win win really.

Definitely the wrong argument against bikes.

A lot of the best ones just come down to time - 30 mins commuting in traffic vs 70+ cycling. 1-2 grocery trips per week vs 4-6.

Good public transport can balance that out (though less so for shopping).

To be honest, if a company produced cards as solid and stable as the 1080Ti I’d buy one as a spare today.

I live in fear of mine dying of old age; when it does nothing seems to compare on the market at the moment in terms of vram, size, and power usage.

My options are likely to be:

A) Live 5 years unable to remember my work, with added incontinence.

B) Go out trying an experimental age reversal treatment - because why not roll the dice one last time?

C) Not survive to old age due to overwork, burning out my body one semester at a time.

C is most likely, B is the plan, and A is to be avoided at all costs!

Sounds good to me.

Sounds to me like something to consider in the upcoming elections - a good issue to vote on.

Definitely still illegal.

We need an extra advert pushing rule 64 - “You MUST NOT cycle on a pavement”. There are just too many damn cyclists whizzing past me on the pavement when I’m walking to and from work.

I get it, they’re in a hurry to get home, but they need to accept that the safety of pedestrians is paramount.

Quite simple really, every speed camera you put up usually ties in with a lowered speed limit.

30mph - 30 miles in 1 hour 20mph - 20 miles in 1 hour, or 30 miles in 1.5 hours

However, you do have a point about the hell that is stop-start traffic.

Damn right op, going at 30 rather than 20 is a terrible thing to do. Driving at 20 is the moral choice. Yes it means your commute will be 50% longer than if you’d driven at 30, but that’s a sacrifice we should all be willing to make, said no-one with a 2 hour daily commute.

Just remember, the argument relies on not just getting rid of cars, but drastically improving public transport.

World peace is more likely given government attitudes towards public services!

It gives normal distribution questions, but not actual use cases (I was looking for a normal model based on actual data rather than just made up values).

You’re looking for normal distributions in chemistry, biology and real estate.

On the contrary, that is their function, one they used to be good at.

I can give a fun example for both ddg and Google:

Earlier today I was writing an exam paper for my students, and one of the topics is “basic” normal distribution. So, I thought to myself, why not make it I testing, give them a real world normal model.

Try it yourselves - the number of bot reposts is frightening.