I got a thinkpad E14 off of eBay for $400. There was a slight haircrack in the hinge, but it came with 40gb of ram 1tb ssd and amd ryzen 7730u I believe. I always recommend looking on eBay first, it’s likely you can find a $1000+ laptop for $400 like I did.

Yea I’m trying out tuta it supposidly is end to end encrypted. My hope is that I’ll take a look at it, and see if I like it. It does have RSA encryption so from my preliminary testing it is believable.

My god, yes. Just yesterday I stopped using duckduckgo since even that has now become increasingly infuriating with AI. I’m using this search engine with no AI it’s based on database queries and to go to a specific website there is a small tab you can use. I love it because now I get to appreciate and use textbooks (whereas i would have chatGPT’d it) because of how limited the queries are and the limited selection. It’s not like google where it dumps the most relevant information at the top, you have to search for it. Anyways, if you were wondering it’s called marginalia search.

I unironically said this in my group chat, “proton mail is becoming more and more sketchy as being a privacy focused mail service” just like how signal is becoming more sketchy as a instant message service. There are things proton mail does such as logging activity that shouldn’t be the case as a paying customer, and yet here we are. When I request privacy I want it to be private, as in don’t give my data to anyone. it seems for that to happen it must be community driven and decentralized.

Yea, I had a server with a nvidia GPU that was orginially on windows. I went with ubuntu, and the installed nvidia driver (when ubuntu asked to install any drivers) gave a horrendous aspect ratio that didn’t fill up the entire screen. I had to uninstall the driver to get it to work.

Came from windows laptop that I got about a year ago, before then I was running unironically chrome os. I liked chrome os for it’s Linux features. So when I did go from my Chromebook to a windows, it wasn’t as fun. I also didn’t like all the spyware on windows, and this was the time when I was removing myself from the internet as if I didn’t exist, So it was inevitable I would switch.

The only reason why I haven’t switched earlier is because I am a university student (currently in electrical engineering) and I was concerned that I would be given an exotic application that my laptop cannot support on Linux. Then I learned the majority of students have macbooks, so if it doesn’t work for me it doesn’t work for them too. That’s when I made the conscious decision to switch from windows to Linux.

Currently trying out fedora workstation, it is like the Mac os of Linux operating systems (and that’s a compliment).

I’ve been using fedora workstation for about a month now, you really can’t go wrong with it. It’s great for laptop, there are also ways to customize it to work with a desktop. I am running it on amd CPU/GPU, so i don’t know how well it works with nvidia and Intel, I know some distributions do a really poor job managing the drivers. I don’t use CAD, but I have done FPGA design and programming (C/C++) and it works great. Haven’t done much gaming, all I have is minecraft installed, I could imagine you can install steam on there as well. Hope this helps.

Madness. When I started using gdb in C it was lifesaver to find any runtime errors in my code. Coming from what is the shit of C compilation and runtime errors it saved what would effectively be hours of inserting printf statements to find the error.

It depends how well a language specifies where the runtime error is occuring. I just get “segmentation fault (core dumped)” as my runtime error which could mean any for loop or iterattive sequence in my program.

This is how it feels trying to merge a repo

It seems we are progressively moving back to an era where people will kill there children because they believe the devil is what’s causing them to have a seizure. Except now we have plenty of evidence that is not the case, and is being silenced.

There’s not sufficient proof?!?! No, there is no proof that Tylenol causes autism. Autism is a genetic disorder, you can’t relate the two as a cause-effect relationship. That statement is more shitty and delusional if you smash someone in the head with a metal bat it causes autism, or on a related note, the devil is what causes people to seize (as in the seizure disorder).

I didn’t fully understood the joke, my only understanding of episilon comes epsilon-delta proofs… I forgot that epsilon in that context measures the certainty of the “Infinitesimal” displacement in x. So when epsilon is really large everyone looses their shit as if the world’s going to collapse into a black hole. 😂

I try to avoid it, but ever since search engines have gone to shit, it has forced me to use it for debugging code. Stack overflow, r/Cprogramming, minimal articles on the specific issue, have ceased to exist ever since AI generation. And why should it? Why would a user post an issue (for example, on stack overflow) wait for a few days to get a few responses, when they could get an instant response with AI. Search engines have gone to shit so much, that My fathers startup company has issued a premium license for chatGPT because of how dead Search engines are.

I hate it, I wish I didn’t have to use it, and yet this is my reality.

Why did I read this as nodes. Am I seriously that married to CS that I read Nudes as nodes (as in nodes from linked lists).

I guess it doesn’t help that the they’ve used the character ‘•’ in place of the ‘u’ to solicite the word “Nudes.”

“I was wondering where the units went” noted: c = 1 dumbass ≈ 3 * 10^8 m/s

I used windows out of concern that my university may use an application unavailable on Linux (I’m an electrical engineering major) I shouldn’t have been since even if there isn’t, I could always use bottles/wine to get the .exe file.

You seriously can’t go wrong with the lenovo thinkpads on eBay. I Got a thinkpad E14 ryzen 7 (7th gen), 48gb ram, 1tb ssd for $400 on ebay with a small hair crack on the hinge.

At the end of the day, a laptop is a laptop, and the cost difference between a $2000 brand new laptop and a $400 used laptop there really is no argument/justification to be made to buy a $2000 laptop in less-intensive tasks. Here’s a better instance of your money: find a $400 laptop with semi-good performance (ryzen 3 or intel equivalent) put $1600 to a gaming computer and setup a virtual environment with a radeon or rtx gpu at your fingertips.

Idea have been summoned.

Any type of decay, either that be uranium (U) strontium (Sr) thalium (Th), it is caused by an imbalance of radionuclide’s (protons and neutrons) in the nucleus. This is not to confuse with an imbalance of protons and electrons which changes the charge. Basically the nucleus wants to be balanced (IE: x amount of protons and neutrons). If there’s an imbalance of radionuclide’s in the nucleus, it will emit them as forms of radiation.

There are three kinds of radiation that can be emitted by a radioactive isotope; alpha, beta, and gamma.

alpha radiation is the heaviest of the three, containing two protons and two neutrons, it is also the weakest in penetrating power because of how much mass it has. You may have also noticed that alpha radiation takes the form of a helium nucleus from its proton-neutron count, that’s because alpha radiation is a helium nucleus!

Beta radiation is comprised of two forms beta plus (B+) and beta minus (B-). B+ is a positron and it’s a very uncommon form of radiation. I think carbon-13 is an emitter of B+. B-, on the contrary, is an electron and is far more common/abundant across many radioactive isotopes. Th-204, is, approximately, a B- only emitter. U-238 is also a B- emitter.

Gamma radiation doesn’t have any mass, and is light making it the most potent of the three.

Now to answer your questions:

“What happened to the respective electrons?” I think your confusing the difference of a helium nucleus and a helium atom, the helium nucleus indicates the number of neutrons and protons, it does not include the orbiting electrons of which the atom does includ. Alpha radiation is a helium nucleus not a helium atom

“Does this mean that each uranium atom, with 92 protons, entirely splits into 46 helium nucleei or does it release some number of helium nucleei leaving another element behind?” I highly recommend looking at the U-238 decay chain wikipedia article, it Illistrates how the decay chain process actually works. To answer your question, U-238 releases a helium nuclei during its decay chain process leaving strontium-xyz (forgot the isotope name).

“How does the concept of half life play into this?” Half-life states that for a given radioactive isotope how long does it take for that isotope to decay half of it’s initial quantity. I think for uranium-238 it’s 4.5 billion years or 9 billion years to fully deplete itself of any radiation.