And I can feel the change in the wind right now
Nothing′s in my way
And they're not gonna hold me down no more
No, they're not gonna hold me down
rufus
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Your voice is fine. And it's not annoying to listen to you. I'd listen to you narrate a youtube video or something like that.
There is a threshold. It won't complain if you're 30mins on the train. Or driving 2h with a friend. But it will make a noise if something is following you for the better part of the day. I made up the numbers, it's been a while since I read how those things are supposed to work. And I think they changed things. AirTags will beep at random intervals like a smoke alarm once they lost sight of their paired iPhone. That's so other people can find them. And Apple can also see if the paired iPhone is traveling along. So they can make a distinction if someone put a tracker in your backpack, or if it's in their backpack and they're sitting with you in the car.
Feel free to extend that problem to fighter jets or ballerinas playing tag 😆
However, I'm pretty sure it's already solved. Doesn't seem difficult to prove and has had applications for centuries already. And I've played the Robots Game when I was 12 or something...
Sure. And I mean the "sufficiently small" distance is exactly the question. I mean it's not really an interesting question to ask if they're still 12 nautical miles apart... The initial distance isn't really of concern. It just has to work for any given initial state. And the next question is, are we talking about entering a ship or using cannons? Then it's either can the distance become 0 or can it get less than something.
I think that's a good take on things.
Ultimately it still holds true. Information does want to be free. You just can't mix that with misinformation, have everything on the same level and a general audience completely oblivious to the fact and uneducated.
Things have changed. Back in those times it was a small elite on the internet. People who could afford computers and an internet connection and make some use out of it. You needed some amount of intelligence because you had to put some effort in to get online, learn about the tools because that wasn't easy or provided to you. So you'd generally be at least somewhat intelligent if you ended up on the internet. And that's beneficial when it comes to receiving unfiltered information. Combined with the fact that there were comparatively more academics and students, because that was the origin of the internet.
And it wasn't that common to push your agenda there or advertise for your skewed political views in the way people do it nowadays. Due to the nature of the internet and the amount of people there, it wasn't worth the effort. You'd be better off focusing somewhere else where you could influence more people. So the dynamics were just different due to history and circumstances.
Things have changed. Nowadays everyone is online all the time. It's the place to influence people and make money. And that's the other part of the problem. The actual people, connecting them and providing information to them (or to each other) isn't what's most of the internet is about, anymore. Motivations are gathering data about people and selling them, making people become addicted to your platform so they spend more time there and you can make more money. Everyone is competing for attention. And bad, emotional stories are what works best. Giving people the "simple truths" they seek instead of an intellectual and nuanced view. Factuality just gets in the way of all of that.
I sometimes like to compare that to the Age of Reason / Enlightenment. Back then it was monarchs, bad dynamics and missing education. Now it's big tech companies, bad dynamics and insufficient education. People need to get emancipated, educated and leave the current "immature state of ignorance" (to quote Kant.)
Information and education are key. And the internet, algorithms and AI are just tools. They can be used for progress, or to enslave us. At least the internet has the potential (and was build) to connect people and provide a level playing field to everyone. But it can be used for a variety of different things. And choosing the right things isn't something that can be solved by technology alone.
Concerning the proof, I'd consider that at any given point where both objects haven't converged yet, there has to be a next point that can be reached by the ship with the higher maneuverability but not by the faster ship. It's probably calculus from that point on and I'm not really good at that. If there's always such a possibility, the slower ship can always outmaneuver the other one. And seems to me like vectors in a polar coordinate system would be made for this.
Set vector1 equal to vector2 plus an arbitrary distance. See if there's a solution for phi2 < phi1.
Free Software, proprietary, open-weight models, source-available, FLOSS, copyleft, permissive license.
I think "open source" should mean what the OSI wants it to say, since they coined that term. But not all people agree and since they use it for different things and marketing, it's lost some of its intended meaning. I don't want to confuse people. And I also don't like to use terms that can be (mis)used by the source-available people or people who add the commons clause, so I always try to include "free" as in freedom or "libre".
I've been using Android for quite some time and I can say the operating system is pretty stable and reliable. It might have been a different story 10 years ago, but as of now it has good security measures, sandboxing etc, handles whatever you throw at it and isn't as locked down as iOS is.
Probably called cockoo clock or pomodoro timer, or interval timer. A quick search shows there are multiple such apps, I haven't tried them so I'm not sure which to recommend.
I think you're right. Having a semi go past you at 50mph is mental.
I think at some point I need a detailed lecture on how cycling feels in the USA or go and see for myself. It's really difficult for me to judge all of this. Only thing I can say is the sidewalk is a very, very dangerous alternative. But it might very well be the case that you don't have a good alternative.
We usually avoid sharing roads where cars drive at 50mph. Most of the time it's 30mph where you'd get in such a situation. You're allowed to use the sidewalk if you're younger than 10 yo. It's plain illegal for people older than that. In the city cars have to keep a minimum distance of 1.5m to bicycles, that's about 5 feet in crazy people's units. Usually that means the car drivers are forced to switch lanes when going past a bicycle. And it's a bit more sideways distance outside of the cities. All of those rules are written in blood. We're not good at sharing the roads, but car drivers slowly learn to abide by the law and actually keep that distance, it's really getting better in recent times. (But far from perfect.) And my city is half-heartedly building some more bicycle lanes and seperate small roads across the city, exclusive to bicycles. All of that is a major effort and we still get accidens on a regular basis.
Take care.
Linux and a browser with an adblocker will get you most of the way on the computer.
For real-life I don't have good advice. You could move somewhere where it's less common. But I think sports for example comes with ad banners everywhere.