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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 00:57:54 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   hmm. I may solve a minor calculus problem by instead using multithreaded python very slowly

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 00:57:49 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     My point is that I'm not doing the "lol when will we ever use this" thing.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 00:57:49 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     anyway some people have suggested I could use X or Y or Z to do the calculus for me, but that's missing the point. Actually evaluating the formula isn't the hard part: figuring out how to set up the problem is

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 00:57:50 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     not to imply that calculus is worthless or anything. it's very useful. I just don't have it in my brain anymore, and putting it back in there would hurt right now

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 00:57:51 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     it just took an hour, but it meant I didn't have to hurt my brain by trying to properly remember calculus

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 00:57:52 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     code running. in 30 minutes I'll find out if it worked

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 00:57:52 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     yup! worked fine, and so did the secondary run.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 00:57:53 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I've been out of school for 16 years and I understand multithreading better than I understand calculus, and that's sad

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 00:57:54 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     why figure out what integral you need to evaluate when you could spend 30 minutes evaluating a python script?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 01:00:56 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     it's a slightly complicated set of interacting functions in a program that effectively model the movement of a particle that's accelerating at different speeds

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 01:05:41 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     the tricky part would be successfully and accurately translating the different functions into simple math: that requires a sort of math-skill that I haven't practiced in a while and would be afraid I'd get wrong. There's no answers in the back of the book to confirm if I'm right or wrong here.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 01:09:25 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     also explaining this made me realize I did it wrong. shit.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 01:09:26 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     so instead of figuring out the math the proper way, I wrote a relatively simple python script that just simplified the program I'm trying to do math on. It just contained the parts that do the acceleration/velocity/position, and then I ran it. in real time. and observed the result

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 01:18:17 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • benx

     @benx actually one of the annoying problem with the code I'm reversing is that it DOES use single letters: I have two variables named "h" and "k" and I can't really even guess at what they are because the game was written in Finnish

   • benx (benx@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 01:18:18 JST benx

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     @foone

     I doesn't matter what letter you use for the variables - can be any letter, not just x, y or z.

     /jk

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 01:23:37 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Oblomov

     @oblomov It's a calculation of the max/min anomalies possible in a night of I'm on Observation Duty 1, involving a few interacting functions which trigger at certain intervals

   • Oblomov (oblomov@sociale.network)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 01:23:38 JST Oblomov

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     @foone can you at least share with us what the problem you were trying to solve was?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 01:38:25 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Oblomov

     @oblomov rubber ducking is like 49% of why I post on social media at all. I'm hoping that by explaining my problems, I'll figure out the solution.
     (The other 49% is "so I can look it up later)

   • Oblomov (oblomov@sociale.network)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 01:38:26 JST Oblomov

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     @foone RUBBER DUCKING WINS AGAIN

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 01:50:15 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • benx

     @benx that's the problem, there really ISN'T any context. at least, none I have access to

   • benx (benx@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 01:50:16 JST benx

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     @foone

     To actually be helpful, I can only suggest trying google translate or something to help figure it out from the context, but I am guessing you will have already thought of that.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 01:58:21 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Oblomov
     • Nico Nico Belić

     @a13cui @oblomov that's posting things so that other people can see it

   • Nico Nico Belić (a13cui@emacs.ch)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 01:58:22 JST Nico Nico Belić

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     • Oblomov

     @foone @oblomov and the 2% missing?