WolfLink

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Updating my computers from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 was a whole day process. It doesn’t help that the upgrade tool requires you to press enter every so often.

(Yeah yeah I should try other distros. I’ll play with other distros when I’m not spending my time as pictured in the meme.)

(To be clear this is on a couple computer I personally own. The ones the lab owns are on Ubuntu 20.04 if I’m lucky…)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Cellular respiration is sugar + oxygen -> water + CO2

Combustion reactions are often characterized as anything that is something + oxygen -> water + optionally something else.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The game “Plague Inc” spiked in popularity, so the devs rushed out a game about saving humanity instead of destroying it lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (21 children)

Whoever you vote for, you are “minimizing genocide” by this logic.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

That would fall under “nonvisual” (meaning not light-based) perception.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

A vector space is when you can:

  • add two Things
  • multiply a Thing by any real number

And get another Thing that’s the same Kind of Thing.

By Thing I mean Vector and by Kind of Thing I mean element of the same Vector Space.

Examples of vector spaces:

  • real numbers
  • complex numbers
  • sets of N numbers (what most people think of when they hear “vector”)
  • matrices
  • polynomials
  • functions
  • quantum states of a given system
  • quantities of apples sold, classified by type of apple

Examples of Not Vector Spaces:

  • integers
  • negative numbers
  • nonzero numbers
  • unitary matrices
  • apples

Yeah a few of these come with asterisks I’m happy to answer questions but don’t want to argue with pedants.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Not exactly. All known means of propulsion are based off of throwing something backwards to propel yourself forwards. In a medium like air, you can grab the air in front of you and thrust it behind you. In space, you don’t have that option, you have to carry all of the propellant with you from the start and can’t get more unless someone brings it with you.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is more like if you measured altitude by counting from sea level vs the center of the earth vs the top of Mount Everest or something

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

UC Berkeley’s intro CS course material are all publicly accessible:

CS61A.org CS61B.org CS61C.org

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think what he means is when the light from the sun disappearing arrives at earth, that’s effectively when the event of the sun disappearing happened from the earth’s perspective.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

It wouldn’t really be faster than normal nighttime cooling. However, that cooling would continue instead of having the sun to start warming stuff up in the morning.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can also just make bare got repositories on any server you can ssh into.

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