WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]

Cloudflare outage. A few hours ago.

even a child can understand acceleration and its relationship to changes in velocity

I remember trying to figure out if a specific infinite sequence converges or diverges because I was playing Sonic. I didn’t have any algebra nor calculators that could handle precise calculations nor the terminology I refer to it as now, so I was just trying to guess by doing calculations by hand to see if it looked like it was plateauing to something or if it looks like it was gonna keep growing.

Not sure if its actually useful, but it was something I cared about regardless. Children should play with math more.

Like 90% of concepts from those classes wouldn’t really help people in the world around them, not just “they won’t use integrals daily” but rather they won’t be taught in a way where they’ll connect differentials to what they see in the world or news.

That’s one of the things I find most disappointing about the education system. Like, people technically pass classes that are supposed to ensure they’ve “mastered” certain concepts, but few seem to even notice how they could be applied outside a narrow scope of specifically worded problems. Its so strange hearing people say things like “unless I’m like a math teacher, this is all useless for me outside of class” when calculus specifically was something that I could immediately connect to problems I had outside school immediately.

Even when taking classes that seem to be designed around trying to build real-world problem-solving skills, the classes generally seem to devolve into teachers teaching an algorithm for solving a hyper-specific question, assigning homework doing those hyper-specific question types over and over, and then testing on those hyper-specific questions with different numbers. Those students seem to be virtually no better at identifying how to apply math to real-world problems after such courses…

I feel like calculus should probably start to be introduced in like maybe late-elementary-age? Certainly before high-school-age. I don’t think everyone needs a dedicated 1-year course on it, but some of the concepts are certainly useful and understandable at that age. Regardless of whether its from compulsory education or some alternative education process.

How do you even walk if you don’t know calculus?

Taxes, cheap digital keyboard, sff pc for livingroom media center, then rest to mortgage. Laser hair removal would be on the list, but figuring out where to go an such and confirming an appointment wouldn’t happen in a day, but not needing to pay mortgage for a while would make affording such easy.

I’d say some of my happiest moments aren’t thinks worth remembering the details of typically. Like, one time after we had moved recently, I accidentally was about to turn at the turn before our apartment. Blinker on and everything and my roomate told me it was the wrong turn and I responded “its too late” and turned anyways - not to troll or anything, just how my brain decided to deal with the last minute information. Anyways, after turning around and making it back home, I was just literally rolling on the floor laughing in pain from the incident for reasons beyond my understanding. Only remember that one because we continued to making “its too late” jokes since then - otherwise it would soon have been forgotten. So I’d say my happiest moments just tend to be otherwise insignificant interactions with those that I love and that’s never really changed.

Other times, it’s more direct coded language and symbols. It’s probably less unknown these days, but some common examples of codes are the sonnenrad ‘Black Sun’ symbol, Nazi-era pseudo-runes (not to be confused with legitimate historical Germanic runes!), the numbers 14 and 88, and more.

I know someone who used 88 in a username on accident, not knowing how cryptonazis use it. He found out because he got called out for it and asked to explain. After finding out what 88 can mean, he changed his username because he didn’t want to be mistaken as a nazi. TBF, his initial reaction was “wtf, why would someone suggest I’m a nazi and want to ban me because I have some numbers at the end of my name?” I think some people take it for granted that others are aware of these things.

For somethings, it makes it harder to install so being immutable sometimes adds an extra hurdle. But for the type of people who wouldn’t install the OS themselves, they aren’t going to try those methods anyways and if they did, they wouldn’t know enough to not break things. So this is what I was thinking.

OTOH, it makes it harder to get find answers since its less popular than the parent OS’s and fedora instructions often don’t apply, so if they ever do get interested in learning more it could be a hurdle. But they’re just gonna ask me to deal with it, and I’m currently using bazzite (+ windows dual-boot for work stuff).

One time I asked a question because of someone who was being creepy IRL and didn’t want to risk said person coming across it by chance and thinking I asked that question bc of them, no matter how unlikely that was. Asked on a niche subreddit. The question itself was asked in a way that in no way indicated why I was asking, so to an outsider it just looked like a normal question that I deleted just because I got my answer.

I wouldn’t delete otherwise.

Depends on your threat model. But given more people using these things normalize it for those who can justify the need for such software (like whistleblowers, those organizing illegal direct action), it makes it easier for them to use it without it gaining too much suspicion and makes it easier for them to use it more consistently even outside talking about things that more obviously need that extra security.

Those are super easy to change, so no one would know that it’s you across different addresses unless you specifically tell them.

Or they recognize your writing (granted, unless you admit to it or do things like tell the same story on both accounts, it is basically just a hunch rather than solid evidence). I’ve accidentally done that with someone across websites once based on primarily based on how they wrote (granted it was a very niche community, making that cross-website different-username identification based on solely writing style much more feasible). If you write generically and avoid things like unusual emoticons (or intentionally write differently with different handles), its a lot harder to do that.

Part of me wonders if it’s a recession, or if the ultra rich have finally squeezed everyone to the point it feels like one

What’s the difference?

Accounts whose profile page have urls starting with reddit.com/u are also sus.

Probably none that aren’t like someone’s personal self-hosted server intended for only them. I doubt I’d want to join such either. And any that don’t probably get blocked by other comms anyways, so it wouldn’t really matter.

I think that one originally was started for conservatives, but then it got abandoned and someone asked the admins if they could have it to make it a satire sub. Also, your instance does block a fair bit of comms, including ones that are for right-wing (like communities with taglines or website names about being racist and misgendering people) or tankies.

Even 10 years ago, disc drives seemed to be out of fashion. But if you laptop was 5 years old, it likely have one anyways.

Of course! The celebrity lemmies have them at least. I hope I don’t have one, because then maybe people would recognize me.

Making comments on here.

Seems like a pretty clear answer though. Just like asking if you asked if free will exists, the only response I could give is “WTF is a free will?” Even if my answer ended with a question mark, I know you know what I mean.