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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

I don't think this would work if the middle diety says 'truth'.

If the other two answer 'wisdom', you would know that the middle is Truth but you wouldn't know the other two.

If you add the rule that the deities are guaranteed to give different answers.

Then if the other two answer 'lie' and 'wisdom', then the middle one could either be Lie or Truth.

I would like someone to prove me wrong, I'm not great at these types of riddles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I can't think of a mathematical way to constrain x to be positive integers and constrain y to be any integer 0 to 99 divided by 100. Using a graph was a good idea

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I wasn't too far off, I dropped a minus sign somewhere. expanded form from Wolfram alpha: 199x/100 -98y +0.05 =0

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

If x is the dollar amount written on the check and y is the cents amount.

The original check amount was: x+y The amount that teller handed the lady was: 100y+x/100 The amount the lady found in her bag was: 100y + x/100 - 0.05

We know the lady found twice the amount of the original check: 2(x+y) = 100y + x/100 - 0.05

They want you to solve for the original check amount x+y.

I messed up my algebra somewhere because I got: x=(5+9800y)/199 which if you set y = 0.63 you get x = 31.05 so I'm off somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I'll be the first to admit that the Whitehouse's text is written persuasively, but from what I found the ICC hasn't claimed jurisdiction over Israel or the US despite the Whitehouse's claims.

The Panel agrees with the Prosecutor’s assessment that the ICC has jurisdiction in relation to crimes committed on the territory of Palestine, including Gaza, since 13 June 2014, under article 12(2)(a) of the ICC Statute.3 It also agrees that the Court has jurisdiction over crimes committed by Palestinian nationals inside or outside Palestinian territory under article 12(2)(b) of the Statute. The ICC therefore has jurisdiction over Israeli, Palestinian or other nationals who committed crimes in Gaza or the West Bank. It also has jurisdiction over Palestinian nationals who committed crimes on the territory of Israel, even though Israel is not an ICC State Party.

https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/2024-05/240520-panel-report-eng.pdf

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I had no idea California was getting high speed rail. Here is a map: https://hsr.ca.gov/high-speed-rail-in-california/overview/#system-map

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Very interesting video

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Was noon on a Wednesday really a good idea? I guess you may not get a lot of people to travel anyway so you might as well try for the people that work locally?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Great writing!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

generalstrikeus.com

 

Is Duo a brony? If they keep escalating their antics these will be NSFW soon.

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I received the Dishoom cookbook for Christmas, I'm trying the Daal first :/. They don't say if I should cover the Daal while cooking. It seems like it would be far too watery with a lid on. They even talk of adding water if it gets low.

Follow-up edit: mistakes were made but ok for a first try. I left it off and simmering for 1.5hrs but it was still pretty watery. I should have started with less water. Then I forgot the cream until after the first bowl... Oops. Thanks for all the tips!

 

It's a Lemmy front end, very clean. On your local device it runs some algorithm that tries curate a better feed for you based on your interactions with Lemmy. Not unlike many larger social media sites.

You can also sort by the normal filters like 'active', 'new', etc.

I read about it burried in some comments.

It's great to see so many front ends and experimentation within the Fediverse.

Another interesting frontend is tesseract.dubvee.org which has some clever features, and good mod tools.

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Daily life + scifi (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

The artist: http://www.simonstalenhag.se/es.html

I always really liked these pieces. Mixing the mundane with scifi.

My friend does something similar and paints scifi elements on top of old boring prints from second hand stores. I'll have to get a picture and share.

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A Shower Thought is a concept that is hard to define but you know a good one when you see it. If you see some that are especially good, please link them in the comments.

I want to add a few examples to the sidebar to help shape the community, so it makes sense that they should come from the community.

Please upvote the ones you like.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I don't know any Lemmy users IRL. I have nudged my friends towards it. My partner has asked me to post things a few times. Just curious.

Edit: running total including the commenter: 32.5 people

 

I did like the book but I also thought they solved huge problems in a single short chapter with minimal detail.

In one chapter it's mentioned that one of the characters is working on some open source social media. A few chapters later it becomes the dominant social media in the world... oh and also payment method... Oh and blockchain...

Being a big fan of Lemmy, I think the book is a bit optimistic.

 

If I have photos backed up to Proton Drive, is there any good pipeline to search for a photo based on it's GPS meta data?

I hear rsync works with Proton Drive so, assuming it works for the photo backups, that may be a good starting point to get the photos locally so I can use other software.

 

I use Proton Drive on Android, installed from the play store. I have >250gb of data with, I think, 10s of thousands of documents. For a few months navigating the file structure was crazy slow, almost 30 seconds for each folder I entered.

I deleted the app and reinstalled and now it's nearly instant for folders I use often.

If I dive deep into a folder tree that I haven't used in months, with a lot of files, it takes ~2 seconds per folder.

It's finally practical to make quick edits to docs using my phone!

 
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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

In the sidebar you will see that rule 3 is "Avoid politics", as of US election day.

Political posts represent the vast majority of the moderation burden. They tend not to be the fun/quirky/whimsical/goofy/nonsense kind of posts that people enjoy from c/showerthoughts.

Maybe we should make a c/drivewaythoughts or a c/doomscrollingthoughts to fill the void.

The rule will begin 0200 UTC Nov 6, 2024 to be exact, you have 2 minutes, go ham.

As always I'm open to feedback.

EDIT: While I'm editing the sidebar. I will remove the "Be good to others" rule because it's redundant to the opening paragraph of Lemmy's Code of Conduct.

EDIT 2: If you want to give anonymous feedback you can report this post and give your feedback in the report. It's anonymous to me at least.

EDIT 3: Here are some good counter points to the new rule:

  1. This arguably offers new perspective on an ordinary topic but it's pretty political: https://lemmy.world/post/21997198
  2. This post was very popular and remained civil: https://lemmy.world/post/21925102
 

The world has a lot of different standards for a lot of things, but I have never heard of a place with the default screw thread direction being opposite.

So does each language have a fun mnemonic?

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