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  • A well organized drawer or cabinet should still be O(1). It takes at least 2 more steps, assuming you don’t leave them open all the time, but the number of operations doesn’t change depending on the number of clothing items you need to retrieve.

    A pile of clothes is faster, but only for a small number of items. As the number of articles pile up, they hide older items and need to be pushed side before the intended article can be found and then retrieved. This is now O(N), and less efficient than just storing things in the proper place…








  • Have you seen the price of gas?

    Also, Iran has been striking at neighbouring countries, including UAE and Saudi Arabia, and not limited to the military. US owned, or related, assets are juicy targets.

    Logistics in the whole region is a hot mess, and holding 2 racing events with the size and viewership of F1 would not only be impossible to organise, but more importantly, do you really want to host such events in the middle of an active war zone and tempt fate?


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    10 days ago

    I think that’s actually a good example for how I see it. If you could push amps, you’d fill the capacitor without having to pull from the other side, but that doesn’t happen, only a tiny amount of current gets in depending on how strong the other side is pulling, which is very little.

    In any case this is just mostly about colloquialisms and convention, because neither is an accurate description of the physics behinds it.



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    11 days ago

    I’m lost. How do you “push amps”? Technically it’s just Ohm’s law, and “pulling” or “pushing” are only colloquial terms, but in regular usage, a device “pulls” or “draws” a specific current.

    The definition of voltage kinda supports this, because voltage isn’t something that exists at a single point, like pressure - you can measure pressure in a single point of a fluid, for example, but not so with voltage: it’s the difference in potential between two different points.

    I’m trying to think of something like a taser gun, where you’re kinda trying to “push amps” through some body, but even then there’s two barbs that need to hit, if one of them fails you don’t get the jolt (as far as I understand it, please correct me if I’m wrong), so if anything you’re “pulling” the current across with voltage.



  • Unpopular point: the fact that he/Kamala/democrats lost reelection shows that he didn’t do enough. Bernie would have slaughtered Trump.

    The “less evil than the alternative” card worked once, yet they failed to realise the urgency of actually doing shit that impacted people’s lives in any significant way, so here we are, preparing for Trump’s third term.