[-] jdnewmil@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

Pretty vague question.

One assumption that "mathy types" like to make is that the slope be negative-proportional to how far the value (not slope) is from the desired target value... and then you get an exponential decay (buzzword). But there are lots of other assumptions one could make... some of which lead to PID control (buzz; very mathy stuff).

But these days you could use a neural net (buzz; so mathy they don't usually pretend to understand what the NN "learns") or fuzzy logic (buzz; which is ideally intuitive but has many surprisingly mathy assumptions) to make the behavior nonlinear and go to the desired result much faster... so really, there are many many possible answers. Maybe you can watch some ELI5 videos about these buzzwords and refine your question?

[-] jdnewmil@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 week ago

We have a political environment that lacks credible independent commentators (e.g. Walter Cronkite), so anyone presenting themselves as independent who calls bullshit on a politico is immediately labeled as biased.

What mechanism do you think could overcome this and pull the mic plug to reduce the incentive to lie without immediately being vigorously attacked?

[-] jdnewmil@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago

Yes, this was an appropriate response. I hate people who wave guns around like they are toys.

[-] jdnewmil@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 month ago

I stopped buying phones from carriers 15 years ago for this very reason.

[-] jdnewmil@lemmy.ca 49 points 2 months ago

Stumped? This [theorem]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem) is a contender for most different proofs.

[-] jdnewmil@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago

Using sudo when it isn't necessary, and the real cannon: sudo su.. Adding sudo to your command lines indiscriminately causes files you create to be owned by root even though they are in your home directory, and then you end up using sudo to make changes to the files... and then the filesystem permissions cannot prevent you from successfully running an accidental "sudo rm -rf /" command.

Seriously... sudo is not a "habit" to develop in order to avoid dealing with filesystem permissions problems.

[-] jdnewmil@lemmy.ca 25 points 4 months ago

I completely agree with this point. But using the conventions of "business hours" to drag people out of bed earlier allows them to get off work earlier and utilize the daylight they already have more fully. But it is without a doubt a psychological shell game.

[-] jdnewmil@lemmy.ca 63 points 4 months ago

While I can understand you wanting autosave on in your situation, I much prefer autosave off because I often open files to see what is in them and do not want to automatically modify them just because I accidentally hit a key and delete it. Automatically changing stuff is a choice you should have to make, not a feature that I have to race to disable.

[-] jdnewmil@lemmy.ca 18 points 5 months ago

Ouch on the Ubuntu bug!

[-] jdnewmil@lemmy.ca 26 points 5 months ago

Functions don't return... equals goto. Everything must be done by side effects... all variables are global. Global state mutation is inheritance... no grok. Every call is non-blocking and spawns a new thread... atomic bomb for junior software engineers.

??? ... shorting the stock of the company that adopts this.

Profit!

[-] jdnewmil@lemmy.ca 11 points 8 months ago

Please. Not having links to Reddit from Google would hasten the inevitable.

[-] jdnewmil@lemmy.ca 16 points 9 months ago

Jesus. The initial transient used to be about 3%, but now is under 1% for most product being sold. It was never near 20%.

But that doesn't stop idiots from saying "we have optimizers" and installing them in the shade or facing north and acting surprised when they underperform.

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