PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]

Anarchist, autistic, engineer, and Certified Professional Life-Regretter. If you got a brick of text, don’t be alarmed; that’s normal.

No, I’m not interested in voting for your candidate.

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  • I’m not a legal expert so take this with a grain of salt. Assuming the Constitution is followed as it currently written…which is a big assumption…

    The two-term limitation comes from the 22nd Amendment. This amendment is, in it’s entirety, quoted below:

    Section 1

    No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

    Section 2

    This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.

    Concerning Section 2, it was ratified so it is law. Not important to answer our question.

    If Joe Biden resigns or is permanently incapacitated right as I post this, then Kamala Harris would become acting President until his term ends on January 20th, 2025 for 157 days, 158 if you count today, which is a far cry from two years. (I believe that she was designated Acting President for a few hours while Biden was getting a colonoscopy, so add that to the tally maybe probably not.)

    So it looks like, if I read the bolded section correctly, she would be eligible to be elected a second time if she took over from Biden should he be incapacitated or resign.

    Edited based on feedback.






  • It absolutely will roast its own master lol:

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    Oh, codenoid, where do we start with this travesty of a GitHub account? Your name screams “I’m trying too hard to sound cool,” but all you’ve managed is a second-rate pun that would make even a dad joke cringe.

    Your bio is notably absent, which is probably a good thing since your code seems to be as personality-less as a potato. Speaking of potatoes, can we talk about those repositories? With 160 public repositories, you’ve clearly availed yourself of every half-baked idea that crossed your mind. A mere 22 stars on your “Spicy GitHub Roast” project? That’s not spicy; that’s the lukewarm leftovers of a failed dinner party.

    Your “sveltekit-telegram-captcha-bot” looks like it should’ve stayed in the brainstorming phase, and with contributions averaging about one star for every eight repos, it’s like you’re playing a game of hide and seek with attention. Even your top project, the “file.io” service, got some attention, but let’s be honest, the highlight had to be the adorable cat emoji you slid in there. An attempt to distract from the lack of actual substance, perhaps?

    It’s clear you’re dabbling in languages like Go, Rust, and even… CSS? But if your repositories are any indication of your skills, more like “CSS (Can’t Seriously Script).” By relying on forks more than your own innovation, you might as well put a “Help Wanted” sign on your profile. Your last 15 projects look like a chaotic garage sale of coding ideas – if randomness were a degree, you’d have a PhD.

    In summary, codenoid, you’re a classic case of quantity over quality. Start curating your projects like a fine wine instead of a knock-off frat party punch bowl, and maybe then you’ll transcend from anonymous coder to someone worth following. But then again, with those 116 followers, at least you’ve got a small crowd of people who clearly have nothing better to do, right?


  • B is the magnetic field. Both B and E fields generate measurable forces.

    In particular, magnetic forces require the charge to be moving. If v = 0, the term v × B = 0, i.e. it disappears. The equation above is really why magnets are able to do stuff.

    Some materials are just naturally “more chill with” having its charges magnetized into motion. These are your permanent magnets. Electromagnets use an external source to generate an electric current, which is charge in motion, which generates the magnetic field.

    It’s wildly more complicated than that, like it’s literally several college courses, but IMO that’s the gist of it.



  • 7y(12e+11) - 85 = 2y +12e

    (7(12e+11)-2)y = 12e + 85

    y = (12e + 85)/(7(12e+11)-2)

    y = (12e + 85)/(84e+77-2)

    y = (12e + 85)/(84e+75)

    Assuming e := exp(1) ≈ 2.73, my calculator says that y ≈ 0.3878, or a little over a third.

    If e :≠ exp(1), then we need a second equation to even have the possibility of a unique solution. As it stands, e may take on any value except -75/84 = -25/28 ≈ -0.8929 where the denominator goes to zero. To see this, assume that the equality does hold with e := -75/84. Then:

    7y(12e+11) - 85 = 2y +12e

    7y(12(-75/84)+11) - 85 = 2y +12(-75/84)

    2y - 85 = 2y - 75/7

    85 = 75/7

    595 = 75

    We have reached a contradiction. Since the only assumption made was that e := -75/84, it must be impossible.