The article says that steam showing a notice on snap installs that it isn't an official package and to report errors to snap would be extreme. But that seems pretty reasonable to me, especially since the small package doesn't include that in its own description. Is there any reason why that would be considered extreme, in the face of higher than normal error rates with the package, and lack of appropriate package description?
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Thanks for the article, it was a fun read. I'll have to go back and re-read the majority opinion because I do remember some interesting analysis on it even if I disagree with the outcome.
My Costco photo is 20 years old and looks nothing like me anymore, but when I asked for a new photo they said no. So obviously they aren't looking closely at pictures.
While not related from a legal standpoint, the use of iPhones and intermediate devices reminds me of a supreme Court case that I wrote a brief about. The crux of it was a steaming service that operated large arrays of micro antenna to pick up over the air content and offer it as streaming services to customers. They uniquely associated individual customers with streams from individual antenna so they could argue that they were not copying the material but merely transmitting it.
I forget the details, but ultimately I believe they lost. It was an interesting case.
The one thing I'll say as someone with years of management and leadership experience, is that these posts always ignore what the people want. I've coached many employees, and I always start with asking what they want to achieve. Some people are really career focused and want to climb the ladder. Others are happy putting in their 40 hours and making modest progression from entry to junior, and maybe senior eventually.
If someone wants to climb the ladder, or became an industry expert, or make the very top of the range, then yes, that's going to involve some grind. But some people just want to have a comfortable life while doing their fair share during their 40 hours a week. And there is nothing wrong with either approach.
Telling all young people to grind 80 hours a week, ignoring what they want to achieve, or if they are even likely to succeed in their goal, is management malpractice. But I digress.
Ants are the OG cooperative agent algorithms. Simulating ants use of pheromones to implement stigmergy path finding is a classic computer science algorithm.
That makes sense, I honestly wasn't thinking in terms of the comment on the meme. Thanks for the clarification and have a great day!
I'll give you some general advice and am happy to answer any follow up questions you might have.
Upfront, I recommend getting a laptop from a well known vendor running Windows. If you aren't looking to go on a technology learning expedition, just need something that will work, and will have a warranty and a support line if things go wrong, you can't beat a vendor. Dell is probably where I would look, but Microsoft surface, and Thinkpad's are also good.
Going with Windows from a vendor supplied laptop will maximize the amount of support you have and the number of things that just work.
If you are looking for more of a technology project, I'd need to know more about what your tolerance is for fiddling with technology or your computer not working.
As for CAD, as others said, check the recommended software specs and match your computer to them. Make sure you give yourself plenty of fast storage like m.2.
For browsers, I use Firefox. I'd recommend Firefox as being a good balance between privacy and just working with plugin support. But chrome and other chromium based browsers like edge also just work.
Consider getting a Microsoft 365 personal or family account. For $100/year you get cloud storage, computer backups, and the local and online office suite, and it all integrates well into Windows.
If any of the above assumptions are wrong, I'm happy to update recommendations.
Finally, how do you learn to fish? It takes time to come up to speed on things, so slowly learning, finding neutral review sites like maybe Tom's hardware, and doing your own testing.
Lots of people will give you opinionated advice, so don't be afraid to be skeptical. Think about what's important to you, whether that be just working, or privacy, or availability of support materials.
I don't know that I follow your illustration, but let me try an alternate explanation for my point.
One way pi appears is by taking the perimeter of the great pyramid and dividing by its height to get 2Pi. We can write this as
4L/h ~= 2Pi
2L/Pi ~= h
The great pyramid has a height of 280 cubits, and a base of 440. From this, using right triangles and Pythagorean identities we can find the long side and all angles.
Specifically, we look at the slope of the outer face, which we can express as rise over run. In our case, 280/220 = 1.27 or as 51.843 degrees.
As long as that ratio of rise over run holds you will preserve the above ratio with pi. You can fix that slope and vary either the base or the height, and the other value is predetermined. So how did the rise and run ratio come up? Not every pyramid had this relationship, and there is an infinite number of unit length combinations that wouldn't give rise to this ratio.
So let's look at the old units, in particular, the palm.
1 palm = 4 digits.
4 palms = 16 digits.
5 palms = 20 digits.
If for every 5 palms up, the block is 4 palms deep, you get the ratio of 1.25.
That gets us within the 4% agreement with our starting ratio.
Again, you could choose a unit length, and have the rise be 3 up for every 2 palms deep, and you now wouldn't have this ratio. There are an infinite number of ways to construct a pyramid with a unit measure that doesn't.
I hope that makes sense. Have a good day.
You are right, maybe, in that people are simplifying it too much.
Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its radius. Measure out lengths using a unit circle and your lengths will be a multiple of the circumference of the wheel used.
But what does it mean that pi pops up in pyramid construction? I think they mean it is the perimeter divided by the height of the great pyramid, which is 2pi. But how would measuring the perimeter in wheels cause that to just fall out? It wouldn't. That would depend on the slope of the sides.
So where did pi come from? From the ratio of their standard units of measure, cubits, palms, and fingers most likely. They would have measured "rise over run" using standard units of measure. Most pyramids slopes end up being a ratio of these units, but not all of them approximate pi.
Source: my recollection from my math history courses for my undergrad math degree.
The TPM requirement, I agree seemed a bit much without enough warning to the hardware industry. It's all the more puzzling because it is trivial to install with the TPM requirement disabled.
That being said, I've done tech support forever ago, and I still help my in-laws with technology, and I get it. Microsoft is pushing improvements for people who otherwise wouldn't do anything for their security or even continuity of operations. Windows hello, for all my gripes with it, gives people a password reset and recovery option for their OS.
But to your point again, I think the TPM requirement should have been phased in more slowly.
Have a great night!
I'm sure it varies by area.
Where I live they install speed cameras in residential areas, school zones, and bus routes. They also only trigger when you are going 12 or more over the limit, and the highest speed limit I've seen with one these was 45mph, 35mph during school times. They also have an officer review and sign the citation, it is a flat fee, and no points. If needed, the officer who reviews will testify in court.
If someone is going 12+ over on school zones, school bus routes, and residential neighborhoods, then they deserve their fine.