jbrains

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[–] jbrains 5 points 21 hours ago

"summation" is also related to summary. All these words are related to reducing a collection of things to a single thing. A sum reduces a collection of numbers to its total. A summary reduces a collection of thoughts to its essence. A summation is effectively a synonym for a summary.

The word multiplication describes the operation applied to each pair of numbers. The word production would refer to the act of multiplying an arbitrary collection of numbers. Just as it would be for addition and summation.

It would fit the pattern.

[–] jbrains 12 points 6 days ago

Having insufficiently pale skin.

[–] jbrains 4 points 6 days ago

It looks like Russian uppercase and lowercase to me.

[–] jbrains 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Scrabble is not a language game, but instead a spatial and arithmetic game using arbitrary strings of letters. Don't look to it as a reflexion of the state of English as she is spoke.

[–] jbrains 2 points 1 week ago

Something something German lecturer after two hours twelve verbs at the end finally understood the whole lecture.

[–] jbrains 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thomas Dolby, I Love You Goodbye.

[–] jbrains 1 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for that. Indeed, that makes me less confident in their suitability to teach those subjects, but I worry about a sensational conclusion about their general literacy.

[–] jbrains 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I would want to repeat that study with novels written in the past 25 years before concluding too much. Yes, the participants had access to a dictionary, but I imagine that needing to decipher certain parts, such as foreign cultural references and familiar words with unexpected meanings, interferes with the brain's usual functions for turning words into images in the mind's eye. And this even ignores the folks with aphantasia like me.

[–] jbrains 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yes, although I'm struck by some of the words, particularly this sense of "wonderful".

And now I'm even more glad that it's sunny out here right now and I can hear birds.

[–] jbrains 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What do you know about Mersenne numbers?

[–] jbrains 2 points 3 weeks ago

Maritime Madness, Candied Habanero or Lime Cilantro.

[–] jbrains 3 points 3 weeks ago

Consider my previous comment a press release. Someone please find an AI voice to read it for me.

 

I'd love to say this was intentional, but no.

 

I run a lemp10. I saw a notification of a firmware update, but when I applied the update---apparently successfully---the firmware version did not change. Now I see no pending firmware update.

What happened? Is this normal? Task failed successfully?!

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submitted 2 years ago by jbrains to c/unket
 

... men jag minns inte varifrån jag känner igen den.

 

I tried to upgrade my recovery partition today and it failed with "No such device"/OS error 19.

I found this discussion on Reddit in which @mmstick suggested restarting, but with no explanation as to why that was needed or would work. It worked for me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/xun8vu/error_updating_recovery_partition_no_such_device/

I'd like to know why it worked and why it was needed, mostly for two reasons: to generally understand the situation better and to imagine what I might have been able to do that didn't require restarting.

Thanks.

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