Oh wow, that’s pretty decent pay in Knoxville! Tough to add 90 minutes of round trip travel on top of that, though. I wish you the best in that, and hope you’re able to find some steadier work as well. I kind of enjoyed it but being away from my wife and kid in the evening weighed on me after a while.

I am not a math expert; I never even took calculus. From reading the article, originally the question three centuries ago was whether or not a cube could be rotated in such a way that another identically sized cube could pass through it (like if a tunnel was cut in it). The answer turned out to be yes, although it’s very close. Then as mathematicians started investigating other shapes the answer kept being yes. Eventually the question became, “are there any shapes that can’t pass through themselves?” It’s hard to prove because there are so many angles that have to be checked. Recently mathematicians were able to prove that if you can rule out one angle, you can also then rule out a certain (varying) percentage of adjacent angles. Using that makes it easier to rule out more rotations and they’ve now found the first shape where they can definitively say it can’t pass through itself.

I did that a time or two when I hadn’t Dashed in a while. It worked as a way to my numbers up. I also got around $15/hour. That wasn’t great to me because at that time I was typically getting at least $20/hour and trying for more than $25. But it was harder to get those good orders when I hadn’t done it in a few months. It’s been about a year since I’ve Dashed; have they made it worse for drivers in that time?

I’ve read that line from Parks and Rec was unscripted and improvised by Chris Pratt

I didn’t know they’re touring!

Fn E on recent Macs or Ctrl Cmd Spacebar

Wendsday

I wasted enough time at Taco Bell I started turning down those orders unless the tip was really good

Growing up in a house with one TV and an immigrant dad who decided to root for the Canadiens in a predominantly Nordiques part of Quebec, my wife discovered last night that she has a deep seated hatred for the Notdiques. She doesn’t even like the Canadiens and will usually root against whatever team her dad is supporting, but seeing that logo activated something in her like a sleeper agent.

I thought this was an abstract Firefox logo at first

Edit: I read the article and it’s a really interesting concept!

It may be surprising to learn that very basic, low-level support for M3 has existed for quite some time now. m1n1 is capable of initialising the CPU cores, turning on some critical peripheral devices, and booting the Asahi kernel. However, the level of support right now begins and ends with being able to boot to a blinking cursor. Naturally, this level of support is not at all useful for anything but low-level reverse engineering, but we of course plan on rectifying this in due time…

So these really are hikes you’re doing every day, or just about?

I mean I think it was basically a dictionary lookup, nothing like the negatives we see with today’s LLMs

Just as an addendum, the letters predate touch tone phones by a lot. They were originally used for the central office prefix, which in a lot of smaller places was also just the town name. If you were within the town you could just use the 4- (or later 5-) digit phone number of the person you were calling, but if you wanted to call the next town over you would need to dial the 2 numbers corresponding to the letters or tell the operator the name and number, like “Lakewood 2697”. That’s my understanding, anyway, from talking to people who lived in that time or seeing it in movies.

It’s art but also not something I’d want popping up on my phone if I was scrolling through Lemmy in a doctor’s waiting room or some other public setting. Flagging it would mean on my phone the image is blurred and then I can unblur it if I’m in a good place to look.

This gives me a very different impression of Webster if women were basically sending him naked selfies

200 year old

OP said it’s US District court, and I think the federal courts tend to be stricter. It might vary from district to district, not sure about that.

Yes, 8477. And back when SMS text messaging was a new feature on cellphones, the earliest way to enter the letters was to hit the number multiple times until the right letter was on screen. So to write “cat” you would hit 222 2 8. This was time consuming, so when features like T9 Predictive Text came along it really helped improve texting in the pre-smartphone era.

The same plot of land they bought to make building the border wall harder was illegally used by SpaceX; what a wild coincidence!