Seems some people think accuracy is limited. That’s not the case. From the article:

Immediate access to satellite measurements and navigation results is disabled when the receiver’s velocity is computed to be greater than 1000 knots, or its altitude is computed to be above 18,000 meters. The receiver continuously resets until the COCOM situation is cleared.

The limitations are enforced by the GPS receiver itself. You can buy “unlocked” GPS modules without these limitations, but they’re harder to get ahold of.

Half of my feed is moth memes…

And I’m totally here for it, thank you for your contributions to the fediverse. May many great lights be in your future.

They raise the barrier of entry for creating spam accounts from “make a bunch of API calls” to “set up some kind of AI captcha solver/pay someone in India to do it for you.” It doesn’t stop spammers, but it makes it harder for them.

People who are actually smart, regardless of their IQ score, know that IQ is a terrible measure of intelligence and would never brag about it.

I’ve had a great experience here on fedia.io. It’s a smaller instance, and it is running Mbin instead of Lemmy, but everything federates over so you get the same content. Might feel a bit weird switching from Lemmy, but if you feel like it I’d recommend giving it a try. :)

We’re also defederated from Hexbear, lemmy.ml, and Lemmygrad if that’s a factor.

Nothing at all. That’s why we have captchas.

For the first problem, just use a throwaway email service (I like temp-mail.org) to make your account.

Yeah that is waaay too small for a Skittle.

You’re right! Let’s say we have two dice:

D₁ is fair and has a 1/6 probability of rolling each number from 1-6.
D₂ is weighted, with probabilities P₁, P₂, P₃, P₄, P₅, P₆ to roll each number.

We roll D₁, and get a number with the following probability distribution:
1: 1/6
2: 1/6
3: 1/6
4: 1/6
5: 1/6
6: 1/6

We roll D₂, and get a number with the following probability distribution:
1: P₁
2: P₂
3: P₃
4: P₄
5: P₅
6: P₆

We find the probabilities of every combination of rolls that yields a 7:
1+6: 1/6 P₁
2+5: 1/6 P₂
3+4: 1/6 P₃
4+3: 1/6 P₄
5+2: 1/6 P₅
6+1: 1/6 P₆

Adding these together to get the total probability of rolling a 7, we get 1/6 (P₁ + P₂ + P₃ + P₄ + P₅ + P₆). Since the probabilities of rolling each number must sum to 1, we get a probability of 1/6 to roll a 7, and your gut is right. :)

7 is the only number where this property holds. Other numbers will have a probability dependent on the weighting of the die, which could be calculated with a similar method.

Fewer creeps here than on Reddit.

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I promise, I’ll end up setting up a public instance that does not obey any deletions because of these madlads. Seriously, where is pushshift for lemmy?

Yeah this is a really good idea; I’ve been wanting to do it but haven’t had the time to configure everything. You’d need to hide which instance it actually is though, or other instances would just defederate from it. Maybe set up a website where you can plop in a post/comment URL and see the deleted contents.

I’ll get around to it one of these days…

Don’t use sketchy VPN apps, at all. The fact that they’re Chinese owned is irrelevant.

The switch on the back of the PC is there for a reason!

Not entirely convinced this article wasn’t made using AI.

Committing crimes? Chemical burns to the fingers makes it harder to catch you!

It’s not a sock puppet, [email protected] just happens to agree wholeheartedly with SchmidtGenetics and downvote/upvote the same comments a couple minutes after they do. /s

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Sock puppet: [email protected]

You can see their voting history on Lemvotes.

Common household objects, like reactor grade uranium, of course.