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  • Unironically, my subs top-use-words

    Also, my desire to care for individual people in my small vicinity brought about by inspirations related to the first point (while me being a socialist does that on a more macro scale, but I'm actually kind of powerless to effect change there), as well as my desire to get good at math, with the proof being me doing math research.

  • Fromsoft is absolutely cooked. Sony buying majority shareholder
  • Marx didn't fail to consider the gaming industry.

  • Morning Joe BEND THE KNEE.
  • Are those the Skibidi Biden people, or am I confusing them with somebody else?

  • Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said earlier this month that the Russian economy needs nearly 1 million new workers because of an unemployment rate of only 2.4%
  • sounds like a problem that could be fixed with, i dunno, reverting to a previous expression of government

    Monkey paw curls
    Yeltsin rises from the grave

  • My roommate has dubbed himself a "libertarian communist"
  • In theory the answer is strengthen it

    What?

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  • They need Stalin's big spoon.

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  • Мне немного смешно от такого ответа.

    I am going to note that you are either unwilling or unable to explain your confidence in said factions existing, and how the 'nationalist' faction, for an example of a member of which you choose a liberal, is not liberal.

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  • Sex by committee.

  • Will I get bullied for not meeting standards here?
  • You are now to explain to us orbital hybridisation in 45 minutes, or you are not up to our standards. /s

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  • The nationalist faction

    I.e. liberals.

    vs the neoliberal faction

    Also liberals, obviously.

    There are no non-liberals (apart from, maybe, the CPRF, but I don't have much trust in them) in this scenario. Both factions - if they even exist in the manner that you describe - are liberal ones.

    It became apparent when no significant personnel change was announced after Putin won the election

    Why would one expect Putin to make significan personnel changes right after his previous two terms where he had 12 years to configure the relevant positions?

    Also, not sure what evidence you can point to of such factions even existing.

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  • What is supposed to be a non-liberal faction in Russia? This claim that there was a coup against them in Russia is extremely silly.

  • I DON'T FUCKING WANT WINDOWS 11 AAAAA
  • If I recall correctly what R studio is, it's just an IDE for the R language. There are, at the very least, alternatives to it, including VS code.

    On that note, I have been meaning to relearn R. I should set up VS Code to work with it, and/or try R studio.

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  • It seems that potatoes' price is significantly higher in 2024 than in 2023, so that doesn't explain things.

  • Asking for help with assembly.

    I am trying to re-learn assembly. I have been trying to find a tutorial for assembling a program using NASM on Windows, on a CPU with the x86_64 architecture. I have been unable to make any of the provided examples work.

    I am asking to be provided:

    • A piece of code to assemble. The resulting program should output a message into the CLI.
    • CLI commands to make an object file and to do linkage of that into an executable file.

    This should preferably be done using NASM, on Windows, on x86_64 architecture, but I'm at my wit's end at this point, so I guess I will be fine with another assembler.

    I intend to analyze the example and to use this as a starting point in my process of getting back into assembly.

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    [TTRPG] What do Hexbears think of Spire RPG?

    Having a bit of an obsession over it since a few days ago. This thread is a bit of an outlet for that.

    Also, I am curious if anybody would be willing to run it, or if anybody has run it.

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    Mothematician Post №2: non-correlation does not imply non-causation

    ...Or, more rigorously, non-correlation does not imply independence.

    As this little guy and everybody else knows, one of the most famous correlation coefficients out there is Pearson's correlation coefficient: cor(ξ, η) = (E[(ξ-E[ξ])(η-E[η])])/sqrt(D[ξ]D[η]), where E[x] is the mathematical expectation of random variable x, D[x] is the dispersion of random variable x, and sqrt(x) is the (prime) square root of x.

    As we all know, if cor(ξ, η) != 0, then ξ and η are not independent random variables. But recently, this little guy heard that it does not follow from cor(ξ, η) = 0 that ξ and η are independent. Obviously, he craves the light of knowledge and wants to hear some examples of non-independent random variables having a correlation coefficient of 0.

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    Trying to set up PySpark on Windows. Need help.

    Have been trying to set it up for hours now. Nothing works.

    • Latest version does not seem to have winutils support, and using it causes errors when using some important methods. (EDIT: this is likely wrong, and the winutils stuff that I have should probably be fine.)
    • Older versions require to be built with Maven. However, that just gives me a PluginExecutionException.

    I need to do this ASAP, preferably within the next 3 hours.

    I have nowhere else to ask for help, it seems, especially considering that !reddit-logo suspended an account I set up specifically for asking questions after I edited a relevant post.

    Highly doubt that anybody will be able to help me.

    EDIT2: the issue has, thankfully, been resolved. I was using Python 3.12, and switched to 3.11.8. That made the problem go away.

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    Frustrated with arcane programming errors

    Trying to package a Python program that I wrote into a library. I am following every guide that I can find regarding the relevant tools. Nothing works, and it very much feels like there is nowhere to ask for help. I hate this.

    Not sure if I should have put this in c/doomer or c/technology.

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    Got rejected by a potential employer on the grounds of overcompetence.

    I did well at the interview. I produced not one but two different solutions to the test problem that was given to me, with time to spare. Today, I receive an e-mail where they say that they are afraid they can't provide me with 'conditions suitable for my level of knowledge and skills'.

    How in the world am I supposed to get re-employed if I get rejected from entry-level jobs because of my overcompetence, but don't have the job experience in the area where I can work long-term for the non-entry-level jobs? I love crapitalism. /s

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    Mothematician post

    This little guy craves the light of knowledge and wants to know why 0.999... = 1. He wants rigour, but he does accept proofs starting with any sort of premise.

    Enlighten him.

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    Workers & Resources: why do buildings cost money?

    No, seriously, why do they? It's not like the construction workers don't get paid their wages if they aren't given such projects, and, unless you are buying the resources from overseas, the only cost for the construction materials for the state is wages/salaries of the workers who are involved in the relevant processes.

    Am I being swindled?

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    How do I update from KDE Plasma 6.0.5 to 6.1? (Working in Virtualbox.)

    Basically the title.

    Also, in case somebody could answer the question: is it possible to enable the Cube effect in a Virtualbox machine? I already have kdeplasma-addons, qt6-quick3d and qt6-quick3dphysics installed but I have no Cube effect option in window effects.

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    Appeal of GNOME DE?

    Not sure if this is the right comm to ask in, but I have been hearing people praise GNOME lately, which contradicts my prior experience with GNOME in live environments a few years ago.

    I'd like to ask, what is the appeal of this DE compared to KDE?

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    SDDM keyboard layout refuses to switch

    Working inside a VirtualBox virtual machine. Installed Arch Linux using the Archinstall method. Chose KDE as the DE and SDDM as the greeting screen.

    Managed to log in once, but after adding a language and rebooting, I didn't seem to be able to change the keyboard layout, making entering the correct password impossible. I have tried looking up how to switch the keyboard layout, but am coming up with nothing. What is the key combination to change the keyboard layout in SDDM?

    Setting up a different virtual machine now.

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