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[–] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Using uBlock Origin to get rid of the Youtube Shorts section of the sub feed was amazing for me. Are there other things you block too?

[–] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 84 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I've gotta wonder if the charge is being pushed by someone who opposes the law being talked about in the video, who wants its first application to be in a case so ridiculous it'll create mass public opposition to it or something. That's the only scenario I can think of where an otherwise functioning adult may make a decision that poor.

[–] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Florida is already a swing state and has been for ages. 2 of the last 4 elections it went blue.

It wasn't a freak accident either. There's no sane way to look at the last 70 years of presidential elections in Florida and determine it's been a safe long-term bet for either party in that timeframe. It usually votes for the winner, but when it hasn't, that loser has always (in modern times) been a Republican - so the state is at least much more electorally important to them than it is to Democrats. It's very much always been a leans-Republican swing state.

[–] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Could be that for sure - like I game a bit every day, but if I was doing this same project, all of my screenshots from the past three weeks would have been from Crash Bandicoot 4 - and the three weeks before that would all be from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2. I basically just beat a level a day. If other people were chiming in every day maybe I'd mix it up.

It could also be self-selection bias - like, I would never do a project like this because I know it would be super repetitive. Maybe they were willing to do it because they already played a hyper-varied selection?

[–] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (4 children)

You have more variety in the games you play than I have in the foods I eat

How many of these 54 have been unique? What are you doing that you play a different game almost every day?

[–] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago

I agree both that there is a nuance in the difference strong enough to make the tweet in the post misleading/incorrect, and that Jill Stein is still nonetheless actively a bad-faith candidate who wishes for Trump to win

[–] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Would the southern shape here also qualify as a triangle?

What if you went the short way instead of the long way, creating the spherical triangle people usually use - then is the "outside" portion of the triangle itself another triangle?

[–] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 75 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (7 children)

In Jeopardy, if you provide an unintended answer that's still technically correct, and still fits the category, they'll still mark you as correct - or if they fail to, they may rectify the mistake with a change to the scores after the next commercial break.

What was the category? If it was vague enough I'd guess they'd accept either "dilithium" or "antimatter", but if it's something like "Fictional substances" then by traditional Jeopardy rules only dilithium would fit.

Jeopardy clues in general reward people who have shallow knowledge in lots of topics. As a rule of thumb when giving clues on specific topics, those clues will be answerable by an enthusiastic layman - you never really need to be an expert to get them right. If they ask a clue in a subject you do happen to be an expert in, you'll occasionally notice they get the details wrong - rarely even to the point of judging responses incorrectly.

[–] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

filtered out of post counts

Revolutionary. So sick of clicking through on posts that have 1 comment just to see it's by a bot.

[–] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is every other message there something you typed? Or is it arguing with itself? Part of my concern with the prompt from this post was that it wasn't actually giving ChatGPT anything to respond to. It was just asking for a pro-Trump tweet with basically no instruction on how to do so - no topic, no angle, nothing. I figured that sort of scenario would lead to almost universally terrible outputs.

I did just try it out myself though. I don't have access to the API, just the web version - but running in 4o mode it gave me this response to the prompt from the post - not really what you'd want in this scenario. I then immediately gave it this prompt (rest of the response here). Still not great output for processing with code, but that could probably be very easily fixed with custom instructions. Those tweets are actually much better quality than I expected.

[–] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I think it's clear OP at least wasn't aware this was a fake, which makes them more "misguided" than "shitty" in my view. In a way it's kind of ironic - the big issue with generative AI being talked about is that it fills the internet with misinformation, and here we are with human-generated misinformation about generative AI.

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Coin-flipping game (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world to c/dailymaths@lemmy.world
 

We're playing a game. I flip a coin. If it lands on Tails, I flip it again. If it lands on Heads, the game ends.

You win if the game ends on an even turn, and lose otherwise.

Define the following events:

A: You win the game

B: The game goes on for at least 4 turns

C: The game goes on for at least 5 turns

What are P(A), P(B), and P(C)? Are A and B independent? How about A and C?

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Bounding a function (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world to c/dailymaths@lemmy.world
 

Consider the function defined by y = x^(sin(x)^sin(x)). Observe its graph. Find an increasing function which passes through each of its local maximums, and another increasing function which passes through each of its local minimums.

Extra credit: You'll notice the graph isn't drawn for x-values which make sin(x) negative. This is because most of those values make the function undefined - though it is defined for infinitely many points in those intervals, it just also has infinitely many holes. Since it lacks continuity here, it has no true local maxes or local mins, and doesn't impact the original problem. We can nonetheless cheat and fill in the holes by expanding the function to these regions with y = x^|sin(x)|^sin(x) (Using x^-|sin(x)|^sin(x) should also be technically valid, but is being ignored because it's discontinuous with the rest of the graph and not as pretty, but will be mentioned in my solution). Doing so adds more local maxes and local mins. The new local mins should line up with your function that finds the local maxes for the original function - but, find a new function which hits all of the new local maxes.

 

(x/5)^log_b(5) - (x/6)^log_b(6) = 0

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world to c/dailymaths@lemmy.world
 
Index of my unnamed series of posted problems
Date Post
2024-05-07 Find a+b
2024-05-09 What is the area of the shaded region?
2024-05-15 Solve for x
2024-05-17 Bounding a function
2024-05-22 Coin-flipping game
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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world to c/dailymaths@lemmy.world
 

An 8x5 rectangle. If the bottom left corner is considered (0, 0), then two lines are drawn within the rectangle, from (0, 4) to (8, 1) and from (1, 5) to (7, 0). The smaller two regions of the four these lines cut the rectangle into are shaded. What is their combined area?

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Find a+b (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world to c/dailymaths@lemmy.world
 

The image is of a large unit square with five smaller disjoint shaded squares contained entirely within it. The five smaller squares are congruent. Four of them are at each corner of the large square. The fifth is in the center, rotated diagonally, so the center of each of its sides is touched by the vertex from one of the other four squares. You are given that the common length for the five smaller congruent squares is (a-sqrt(2)) / b, where a and b are positive integers. What is the value of a + b?

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U.S. Presidents (ankiweb.net)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world to c/anki@lemmy.world
 

Sharing an Anki deck I made for learning the US presidents. I've always been mediocre at best when it came to remembering them, but in about a week with this deck I can now list them all, in order, including their years in office.

Card fronts will display either their order, name, or their years in office. Card backs will display all of that, in addition to their official white house portrait, political party, vice president(s), and the president who preceded and succeeded them. Also includes a note for presidents who died in office, detailing how they died. When using the deck I study it by attempting to remember both of the missing pieces of information from the front of the card. I put a fair amount of effort into trying to get the cards to look nice as well, and in particular trying to get elements of the card to stay in place when swapping between front and back - I don't like when things jump around.

I might share other decks in the future. I have decks I made for US/Canadian/Australian state/province/territory locations and capitals, but for all three of those I used maps from decks other people made, so I'm not sure on the etiquette of sharing something like that. I did make a chemical element deck from scratch that I'm pretty proud of and will probably share at some point, though - I'm just not sure if I'm done tinkering with it yet.

I'm pretty new to Anki but have enjoyed learning how to create nice decks. If you download this and find any sort of issues or bugs, please let me know.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world to c/whatsthisbug@lemmy.ml
 

Imgur album: https://imgur.com/a/ikTA97e

Those photos were taken under extreme magnification and bright light - the actual size is about the size of an uncooked grain of rice. Maybe smaller. This one was killed by freezing to preserve its form.

In the last few days I've started to see a lot of these - I can find one crawling across my desk every 5 or 10 minutes if I remember to look (Though I can't find where they're coming from at all). They don't move all that fast - they're frankly pretty easy to capture or squash.

In person I don't think they look very much like ants but in the closeup I think they kind of do. Also hoping they aren't termites.

Thanks for any help.

Edit: Here's a video of one scurrying across my desk too: https://imgur.com/a/ZC15gNZ

 

I just reached 112 myself.

I'm very much awaiting a time when users can block specific instances. I still don't want to check the option to hide NSFW content, because I do want to see NSFW content that may show up on non-porn communities. Just not really interested in seeing so much porn in All.

You can check on your settings page, btw, in the Blocks tab - count quickly with Ctrl+F.

 

I've had this cactus for a few years, and for a while it's had a problem where it grows so tall that it can't stand up. You can see in the photo that I have it tied to some stakes to keep it upright - if not for those it would literally uproot itself in under a day.

Why might this be? I don't know all that much about houseplants. I water this cactus (and my other cactuses, which are not the same species) once every two weeks, about 1 to 1.5 cups of water. I use some cactus fertilizer like twice a year, pretty inconsistently. It lives perpetually indoors with those three light rods visible in the picture as its sole light source (On for 12 hours a day).

Given how little I know about proper plant care, I'm sure none of that is ideal - but is any of it the obvious culprit for why this happens? What should I be doing better?

Thanks for any help.

P.S. Those two nodules just above the lower string are brand new, and it's never branched out like that before - what should I expect them to become? Round bulbs? Branches? Flowers? Nothing at all? The tip top of the cactus being white is also very recent.

 

I know it's long, but this is a pretty well thought out critique of Tears of the Kingdom - giving a lot of thought into what the game got right, what it got wrong, how/why the wrong parts were wrong, as well as how they could have been better.

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