if you appear to be a man, and are in fact, born male, then I will address you as such.
does this mean you acknowledge the existence of transgender women but not transgender men?
if you appear to be a man, and are in fact, born male, then I will address you as such.
does this mean you acknowledge the existence of transgender women but not transgender men?
i hope i don’t end up with the -4000 mAh battery if i buy the phone
the children yearn for the mines
if you learn how to solve zeno’s problem in the first book, it may be possible to solve 100% of your problems in the second book
the rest of the chocolate chips are sleeper raisins. one click of a button and it’s an oatmeal raisin world.
behold, a man
you can do anything while gaming
to be fair, computer is an even worse beans coolant
it also bothers me when people say “my algorithm” to refer to the thing that recommends posts to them. people shouldn’t ever say “my algorithm” unless they personally own a copy of the kick-ass prog-metal band
why even use the right hand rule when you can just take a random guess and be right half of the time
yep, this is a lemmy.ml post alright
a couple always means two.
every time anyone says “a couple”, i ask them if they mean two. it’s not pleasant exchange for either of us, but it must be done
i also hate how hotels will now call people “guests” instead of customers. some restaurants do this too. it just makes things feel more gross and corporate. like it’s trying to force the whole “we’re all a family here” mentality on the customers
i think it depends on what you mean by “accurately”.
from the perspective of someone living on the sphere, a geodesic looks like a straight line, in the sense that if you walk along a geodesic you’ll always be facing the “same direction”. (e.g., if you walk across the equator you’ll end up where you started, facing the exact same direction.)
but you’re right that from the perspective of euclidean geometry, (i.e. if you’re looking at the earth from a satellite), then it’s not a straight line.
one other thing to note is that you can make the “perspective of someone living on the sphere” thing into a rigorous argument. it’s possible to use some advanced tricks to cook up a definition of something that’s basically like “what someone living on the sphere thinks the derivative is”. and from the perspective of someone on the sphere, the “derivative” of a geodesic is 0. so in this sense, the geodesics do have “constant slope”. but there is a ton of hand waving here since the details are super complicated and messy.
this definition of the “derivative” that i mentioned is something that turns out to be very important in things like the theory of general relativity, so it’s not entirely just an arbitrary construction. the relevant concepts are “affine connection” and “parallel transport”, and they’re discussed a little bit on the wikipedia page for geodesics.
it’s a bit of a “spirit of the law vs letter of the law” kind of thing.
technically speaking, you can’t have a straight line on a sphere. but, a very important property of straight lines is that they serve as the shortest paths between two points. (i.e., the shortest path between A
and B
is given by the line from A
to B
.) while it doesn’t make sense to talk about “straight lines” on a sphere, it does make sense to talk about “shortest paths” on a sphere, and that’s the “spirit of the law” approach.
the “shortest paths” are called geodesics, and on the sphere, these correspond to the largest circles that can be drawn on the surface of the sphere. (e.g., the equator is a geodesic.)
i’m not really sure if the line in question is a geodesic, though
i swear that in every picture his hairstyle and face look slightly different. are we sure there’s only one elon musk?
i forgot they had pools and thought this was an anti OOP joke at first
go for it
after using gentoo for a couple months, i think i know a thing or two about spending Real Time getting the linux kernel