Blocking the scripts in question works better for that without the need to make an account. But neither solves the problem of others sharing links to image views that won't work without scripts enabled.
I don't think the author explained it well. What % means, is, "out of 100" so like X% is X out of 100. % is a unit, just like meter or candela. You can do dimensional analysis with %. To remove a % you do like, X % * 1 / (100%) and then the two % (remember % is a unit) cancel out so you get X % = X / 100.
This dimensional analysis makes more sense with multiple terms, for example X % * Y = X % * 1 / 100% * Y = X * 1 / 100 * Y = X * Y / 100. (And note "of" means "times")
It's the same thing as saying, 5 * 2cm = 10cm = 5cm * 2 (hopefully the statement 5 * 2cm = 5cm * 2 qualifies as "obvious")
If this entire explanation is as automatic to you as breathing (which yes it is if you did a significant amount of technical courses as a student, although admittedly dimensional analysis tends to come up in chemistry not math) then the statement "X% of Y = Y% of X" is vacuously true and I would feel comfortable saying this is more or less "By definition of %" with no further explanation, if I were talking to someone who I know has an equivalent background to me.
Doing the conversion can often be helpful. For example say I'm thinking to myself, "what is 4% of 50" and I'm like ugh idk but half of 4 is 2 so the answer is 2
I just… can’t. It’s lay-teks to me. I have to deal with non-technical people and having every conversation about a LaTeX feature turn into a “well, actually” discussion of Ancient Greek sounds like hell for all of us.
Well, first of all LaTeX is derived from TeX. And the X isn't an x but the Greek letter X whose pronunciation seems to depend on Greek epoch and also geographic preferences. The final say would have Donald Knuth. I think he said it's like the Ch in (Happy) Chanukka ...
And again, a case where the creator could have done everyone a favor and not given it an obscure name that only an academic (and probably not many of those) would be able to pronounce correctly.
That’s one controversy that shouldn’t be. Quoth Knuth (The TeXbook, chapter 1, “The name of the game”):
> Insiders pronounce the χ of TeX as a Greek chi, not as an ‘x’, so that TeX rhymes with the word blecchhh. It’s the ‘ch’ sound in Scottish words like loch or German words like ach; it’s a Spanish ‘j’ and a Russian ‘kh’. When you say it correctly to your computer, the terminal may become slightly moist.
I would very much dispute your claim that you are actually concentrating "significantly better" while multitasking, but we don't even need to go there. By the nature of an audiobook, you are forced to always go forward in your "reading", so your opportunities to trace back to a hard concept or even pause and think about a sentence for a while are close to 0 (especially if you aren't actively managing the player and instead are "multitasking"). Sure, it can be fine if you're just listening to Critical Role or the 100th true crime podcast of the week, but if you were trying to improve your comprehension of language by reading harder books, or trying to study actual concepts, audiobooks would be useless. I guess that's why most books recommended by audiobook enthusiasts are dumb self help stuff or contemporary genre fiction, no one is reading Goethe while doing the dishes
> you are forced to always go forward in your "reading", so your opportunities to trace back to a hard concept or even pause and think about a sentence for a while are close to 0
my earbuds have a double-tap to play/pause. What makes you think I don't use it??
> but if you were trying to improve your comprehension of language by reading harder books, or trying to study actual concepts, audiobooks would be useless
reading is reading. For nonfiction where my goal is to learn I do audio and pause to take notes. For entertainment I read speculative fiction usually as audio-only, sometimes also with text (Malazan and Terra Ignota being notable for when I wanted text). But that doesn't mean that what I listen to with audio only is somehow lower quality.
And it's kind of funny to me that you say "improve my comprehension of language" because I listen to audiobooks somewhere between 3.5x and 4.3x speed generally (and still working on improving my comprehension at higher speeds). You're probably going to say that this necessarily means I don't understand what I read but...no, actually, listening to audio has drastically improved my language processing ability. And even if mostly I'm listening to fiction for entertainment, this improvement in comprehension carries over to reading nonfiction.
It's a bit shocking to me: I still remember all the concepts quite clearly from when I studied Galois theory ~20 years ago, to the point where I can run through a lot of the proofs conceptually in my head, but the vocabulary is GONE. Like, completely a blank, I don't remember almost any of the abstract algebra terms that all of this is expressed in.
It reminds me of the truth of the advice that my category theory professor gave us, that the definitions are both the least important and the most important things, simultaneously. They're the least important in that they're just words that wrap up very simple concepts, and merely knowing the definitions doesn't actually mean you can work with the concepts. But they're the most important thing in that most of higher level math really boils down to picking out the exact right set of definitions to use, at which point proofs tend to pop out as trivial and obvious statements using those definitions. And at a more practical level, you won't be able to read any math if the definitions are not ingrained, so you might as well get a head start and just rote memorize them if you want to succeed.
But it's interesting that the language is far less sticky in memory than the underlying intuition. My guess is that because the intuition is so much harder to develop, it wires itself in much more deeply than the words themselves, which can be pretty easily learned in a few hours of flashcard work.
I dont know for sure but the doctors were on TV in Houston a few months ago and IIRC they said no pulse.
They did mention that one has been running continuously for two years in vitro, and the idea is for it to be reliable enough to eventually implant permanently in some situations.
As a correction I saw some updated info where they say a pulse is definitely created by this device, so I must not have heard the brief TV mention accurately.
I think what impresses me a lot is a smoother-running machine :)
I did Josh's React class and it was incredibly well done, I'm really looking forward to doing his animations class when it's available, I will definitely be registering as soon as it's in open beta.
We had someone request a wiki on wiki.gg for Ballionaire, and it's at https://ballionaire.wiki.gg/wiki/Ballionaire_Wiki. Assuming you have structured data easily accessible, you can pretty easily use the MediaWiki API to create some automated pages for each of the items and any other entities that should have pages. Example repo: https://github.com/RheingoldRiver/sorcerer-update That repo is assuming that some "infobox" templates already exist, which you can find documentation about here: https://support.wiki.gg/wiki/DRUID_infoboxes or feel free to email me (address in bio) if you'd want to create the pages assuming that the infobox template already exists and have me make said template for you!
Bit of a tangent but nice seeing you here and offering support. I remember your name from my time when I admin'd one of Liquipedia's wikis (IIRC you were going through some hardship with one wiki provider or something at the time), happy to see you're still kicking in that area!
they're on 1.35 right now which is a bit out of date (lifecycle - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle) but an older branch of MMV should work fine on 1.35