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If his VP was 2nd or 3rd place in the 2020 primaries, it wouldn't be a big deal compared to Harris because the candidate would be someone that a significant portion of the Dems actually support and want as a president.

The issue isn't how she got the nomination but how bad of a candidate she is. People did not like her before she was VP. She was considered a joke candidate was performed extremely poorly in the 2020 primaries. The main reason a primary would have been better is because Harris would have lost and been replaced with a better candidate.

Trump is namecalling mostly politicians. The Dems are namecalling voters.

>By definition the democratic party should be able to read the population, right?

In the 2016 elections, they literally went to court to argue that they are a private company and their internal processes (eg. the primaries) don't need to be democratic.

I don't remember who said it, but I loved the idea of an extra option on the ballot for a redo. If it gets a big enough percentage, you redo the election with new candidates and the old ones can't be candidates ever again.

>At every step of the way they very eloquently and academically explained why they have the right solutions

Part of the problem is that they didn't explain anything. Even in friendly interviews, the best kamala can answer when asked for specific is a big word salad that can be summarized as "Trump is evil and a danger to democracy, vote for us". Saying you have a plan and shitting on the other party for not having one is not the same as having a real plan and communicating it properly.

It's like asking what are the differences between Visual Studio and Notepad++. Literally >90% of the tools in Excel don't exist in Calc. And there are big ones in the list (eg. pivot table, vba macros, solver), not just small feature..

>But I have yet to find something that gets rid of most of the features that I don't want while keeping the things I do

The interface is customizable. You can remove any icons or group of icons on the ribbon that you don't like and you can reorganize them in any way you want. Just right click on the ribbon and click "customize the ribbon".

The main use of the solver is for something that definitely cannot be done without programming vba macro. You use it to find the optimal value in a cell based on the result in a different cell. You have a cell that excels will solve, a cell with the objective and constraints.

For example, let's say you have a spreadsheet to calculate the capacity of a steel column based on its height and cross-section/material. If you wanted to run the calculation backward and find the height that will give you a very specific capacity, you could do it manually by playing with the height until you find it or you can let Excel do it for automatically with the solver.

> You generally can't write queries against it.

Yes you can, there are a lot of different ways of doing it depending on what type of data you have and how you structured it.

how do you think we lived before the smartphones were mainstream?! None of what you listed was a problem before smartphone. Literally none of it.

source: I'm older than 30, I was there.

> but the most famous is TikTok

Are they proposing to arrest people who have TikTok on their phone and encouraging you snitch to the police of you see people using tiktok? what Indonesia is doing is on a completely different level.

I saw a lot of unbelievably bad code when I was teaching in university. I doubt that my undergrad students who couldn't code had access to LLMs in 2011.

The problem is that AI detection is far closer to 0% than 100%,. It's really bad and the very nature of this tech makes it impossible to be good.

I think it's the part of google that need to be separated the most.

no, the real reason is the super wide range of things you can do in 3 clicks that other solution would require you to download external libraries and plugins and/or spend hours implementing it. People can be productive immediately and they never have to learn how to code or waste time configuring the interface and finding third party add-ons.

Simple stuff that you do everyday like sorting data and removing duplicates is probably not difficult to implement by an experienced programmer (eg. in python), but excel has it ready for you and it's a 2 click operation that a complete beginner can figure out on their own with no training, no coding skills and no documentation.

It's the same with Matlab, engineers don't pay for access to the m language, they pay for the toolboxes and the thousands of small QoL details in the UI like importing your data with a quick Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V.

The gold standard will depend on what rules the school has for the exams.

The absolute best one you can get right now would probably be a nspire CX CAS ii but I doubt you'd be able to use it in an exam. Even in university, symbolic calculators are typically not allowed in math classes because it's basically like having full access to Wolfram Alpha or Mathematica.

>And the side effects are minor compared to, say, being 200 lbs overweight.

I was about the reply the same thing. Obesity is directly or indirectly a risk factor for almost every health problem imaginable.

Even for a situation that looks completely unrelated like getting shot in the knee by a gun, the risk of dying during the surgery will be significantly higher if you are obese.

That's not a EU problem. If the US puts laws in place that prevents their company from expending overseas, that's a problem that Americans need to fix.

The intended effect is that they follow the law, it's really not that complicated. Why do people assume that US-based companies have this inalienable right to break any law they want in every country around the world and that we all have to cheer for them when they do it?

>High precision simulation of classical mechanics does not model time as steps / frames in a movie, but as a continuous 4D geometry.

Strong disagree on that part. High precision numerical analysis is always done with discrete time steps. It has been this way since the Finite Element method was invented. Anything non-linear (eg. collisions, large displacements, non-linear material behavior, non-linear boundary conditions, etc.) requires discrete steps to be calculated accurately.

The CCD research you linked below has very good uses cases (eg. robot control systems) but predicting the collision time and location of two simple solid shapes in a linear domain is absolutely not a "High precision simulation". There could be ways to use it to make a complex simulation more efficient (eg. dynamically adjust the steps to make them shorter right before a collision, densifying the mesh where you predict a collision, etc.) but at the end of the day your simulation is solved using discrete time steps.

unless this startup manages to get OS vendors to bundle it with their OS install and turn it on by default, it's not a good comparison.

it's probably going to get worse. Now that we have normalized using 2GB of ram for a text chat app because it's a bit easier to code, I bet it's only a matter of time before they go one abstraction level higher and start emulating an entire OS.

when they made up that term, they also made up a TOPS requirement that is higher than what the m4 has. It's not by much, but technically the m4 is not even fast enough to qualify as an AI PC.

If you want to adopt this new terminology, remember that Intel and Microsoft have a requirement of 40 TOPS for "AI PCs". How can the m4 be faster than any AI PC if it's too slow to even qualify as one?

>Why would you spend crypto when you could get more for it if you wait a week?

that never stopped capitalist from spending their money even if they make profit from their investment. If your logic was true, no one who has access to investment opportunities (eg. the stock market) would ever spend any money.

To things in perspective, Canada has roughly the same number of immigrant and foreign student as the US but they are 1/10 the population.

And regarding the house prices... last year they built around 200k new homes (all types, including condos) for >1M new Canadians.

The difference is that every computer comes with a app where you can copy-paste that URL and see the full website. With RSS, you first need to find and install a 3rd party software to view it and/or create an account on a website.

It looks like the method you used has a lot in common with a finite elements analysis. At least the simple version of it that structural engineers use in software like sap2000 and RISA. Do you think it would work if the matrix in the equation were a lot bigger?

>it could begin to starve the crypto network of transaction fees and the exchanges and other crypto companies of customers.

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