joonazan

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

It's about minimizing the annoyance for the majority of users who will misspell some popular thing.

Also, I believe that showing actually interesting content is bad for the businesses because it might make the user stop to think and pursue something meaningful instead of continuing to use the product.

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

I interpreted your first comment as meaning that you are supposed to hate the book because of its topic as many people seem to think whenever it is brought up.

Rowling has said a lot more questionable things, though. And even written books about her insane opinions. Calling Lolita a love story makes sense, as that is the protagonist's point of view, even though the story is also many other things.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Not OP but I'm also a person with an endless amount of projects to work on.

My issue is that I tend to work on them too hard or not at all. If I also have work, I utterly exhaust myself or find it hard to switch to work. I often start work immediately when I wake up because that way I don't have to switch to it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Crime novels about murders are a very popular type of book. Do you think that people read them because they'd enjoy watching murder in real life?

Also, the writing seriously is that good. I'd have completed the book if it was about watching paint dry.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago

Does it matter? A discussion is not about signalling that you support the correct side even though social media seems to think so.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Pyre is an interesting sports game IMO because it doesn't try to look like any real sport.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

AITA is garbage because it isn't about finding the best course of action but about whether you can pretend that your behaviour is justified, which is not helpful.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

You don't need to cite, you need to provide source code. The point of GPL is to allow the user to inspect and modify the software. You can even sell it as long as you provide the modified source code under the same license.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There is a completed fan translation. https://cadetnine.wordpress.com/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It represents each circle as an equation that is only true when x and y are on the circle. By requiring that all three equations are true, you can find all points that are on all three circles.

You can either convince yourself that three circles can only intersect at one point or you can use the fact that two variables and three independent equations means that there are zero or one solutions that satisfy all equations.

You could actually even make a system that only needs two distances (and the depth)! Two circles can only intersect at two points, so you just need to figure out which one of the two you are. That can be done by looking at which of the landmarks is on the left when looking towards them.

Now the really difficult thing here is to figure out why this works even with inaccurate inputs, as the math presented on the site assumes that everything is perfectly accurate.

You can actually formulate different ways of computing the position that differ in how they react to measurement error. One way to investigate that is to take the derivative wrt. to one of the radii.

This resonated with me because I once did the same thing but in 3d and with magnetic field strength instead of distance. I never found a satisfying solution because magnetic fields are capsule-shaped rather that spherical. The shape is described by a 4th degree equation, so its exact solution is too large to be useful and the whole system of equations cannot be solved symbolically.

I hope that didn't get too intimidating.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately these people can't distinguish actual science from bad science or completely made up things that claim to be based on science.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The main character in I, Robot is Dr. Susan Calvin. It also features Donovan and Powell. Elijah is from the robot trilogy, which happens centuries after I, Robot.

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