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  • Because there are no units, the equation can only be used to compare one rate of work to another rate of work at a different time (or a different deadline).

    ratio of rate of work at time t1 compared to rate of work at time t2

    = rate_of_work(t1, d) / rate_of_work(t2, d)

    = (1 / (d - t1)) / (1 / (d - t2))

    = (d - t2) / (d - t1)

    This works because the only variables left are in the same units, even if that unit itself is unspecified.











  • Snazz@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.worldKotaku being Kotaku
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    3 months ago

    I’m sure it’s going to be “we got isekai’d into a Minecraft world and now we need to defeat [antagonist] before they ruin everything!”

    It’s such a shame because I feel like theres a lot of potential. There are so many faces of Minecraft and ways to play the game (even within the relatively narrow area of vanilla survival multiplayer). Perhaps a better plot would revolve around the friction between these different playstyles.




  • Prism Launcher was forked from PolyMC due to a sequence of actions by Lenny McLennington on the 17th of October, 2022. Lenny made several politically charged changes to the PolyMC GitHub repository and organization to remove those supporting “left-wing ideologies”. In a commit, Lenny removed the PolyMC Code of Conduct, which outlined and prohibited discrimination against the LGBTQIA+ community and subsequently removed all maintainers. The commit and subsequent mass purge of maintainers were done without prior warning or discussion with the rest of the PolyMC team; the incident can be considered a hostile takeover.


  • I feel like faith provides a disproportionate of comfort compared to guidance. People take the parts of religion they agree with, and discard the rest. I actually think this is good practice, but it becomes an issue when they use the affirmation of the broader religion to justify their actions.

    A moral compass is something you have to find for yourself, and acknowledge that it is not backed up or justified by any other entity than yourself.

    For me, I’ve found a good starting point is the TST tenets. Compared to the 10 commandments, they are much more broad. I can use them as a lens to analyze a variety of different situations and organize my thoughts and feelings.

    But that doesn’t mean that I use TST to justify my actions, the tenets are my tools of introspection. Heck, the 7th tenet even acknowledges that the tenets are only guiding principles and seems to encourage finding your own morals.




  • Throw away your vote to a 3rd party?

    Isn’t this situation exactly when you should look to third parties? There is a large group of people who are dissatisfied with the policies of Biden and who absolutely do not want another term of Trump.

    If you vote for either of them, it sends the message that you condone their presidency. If you abstain from voting then it sends the message that you don’t care about government policy and therefore, policy won’t care for your interests.

    If you are a third party voter, aren’t the big parties incentivized to try and win your vote over for themselves?

    I’m probably going to vote for Biden, but you have to wonder at what point does this diametric system break down.


  • Using two or more adjectives doesn’t imply conflation.

    The sentence “You can have a regular apple or a big green apple” doesn’t imply that green apples are big, or that big apples are green. It also doesn’t imply that big green apples are irregular outside of this local phrasing context.

    It just implies that the set of ‘regular apples’ being referenced does not include the instance of ‘a big green apple’

    I can see where the confusion is coming from, this is tricky to explain clearly.