Anarchist, autistic, engineer, and Certified Professional Life-Regretter. If you got a brick of text, don’t be alarmed; that’s normal.
Yeah I actually brought that up in my top-level reply. But does the two years count the time spent as Acting President?
I don’t know. It does count, it’s part of my top-level comment but I have the shittiest memory in the universe.
If we’re being pedantic
I’m always pedantic, except when I’m not 😂
Thanks 👍. I corrected my response.
I pasted the entire 22nd Amendment into my reply to this post. The “trigger” isn’t the numerical value of 8 years total, it’s the numerical value great than 2 years served.
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
… no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected…
So having previously served two years exactly is allowed.
I’m not a legal expert so take this with a grain of salt. Assuming the Constitution is followed as it currently written…which is a big assumption…
The two-term limitation comes from the 22nd Amendment. This amendment is, in it’s entirety, quoted below:
Section 1
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
Section 2
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.
Concerning Section 2, it was ratified so it is law. Not important to answer our question.
If Joe Biden resigns or is permanently incapacitated right as I post this, then Kamala Harris would become acting President until his term ends on January 20th, 2025 for 157 days, 158 if you count today, which is a far cry from two years. (I believe that she was designated Acting President for a few hours while Biden was getting a colonoscopy, so add that to the tally maybe probably not.)
So it looks like, if I read the bolded section correctly, she would be eligible to be elected a second time if she took over from Biden should he be incapacitated or resign.
Edited based on feedback.
Honest question: Why does it matter if he’s a transphobe when choosing which Fediverse software to use?
A great example of (2) is the fate of PolyMC. Thankfully, the other developers forked it into Prism, but transphobia put that whole project in jeopardy for a bit.
The software is FOSS and anyone can make their own instance.
IMO that’s why I’m not immediately dropping my account and running for the hills, but it’s still not good. Most people don’t have the technical skills or the interest in learning them to run their own instance.
I really want to understand what I might be missing.
IMO it’s that even though he does not personally control how Lemmy instances are run, and even though we do have a good degree of robustness to transphobia because the software is FOSS, it is still both morally and technically ill-advised to have a transphobe at the helm of an open-source software project.
Haha I don’t have the GPU for that. Also it’s called “mining” crypto, not “youring” crypto.
Only 544 bookmarks to go
Not great. Sad and bored and feeling kinda hopeless. Need something to work towards. Thankfully school is starting up in September.
Solution: simply cover your most phallic groceries with condoms, then dispose the condoms before eating.
B is the magnetic field. Both B and E fields generate measurable forces.
In particular, magnetic forces require the charge to be moving. If v = 0, the term v × B = 0, i.e. it disappears. The equation above is really why magnets are able to do stuff.
Some materials are just naturally “more chill with” having its charges magnetized into motion. These are your permanent magnets. Electromagnets use an external source to generate an electric current, which is charge in motion, which generates the magnetic field.
It’s wildly more complicated than that, like it’s literally several college courses, but IMO that’s the gist of it.
Hello from Lemmy!
7y(12e+11) - 85 = 2y +12e
(7(12e+11)-2)y = 12e + 85
y = (12e + 85)/(7(12e+11)-2)
y = (12e + 85)/(84e+77-2)
y = (12e + 85)/(84e+75)
Assuming e := exp(1) ≈ 2.73, my calculator says that y ≈ 0.3878, or a little over a third.
If e :≠ exp(1), then we need a second equation to even have the possibility of a unique solution. As it stands, e may take on any value except -75/84 = -25/28 ≈ -0.8929 where the denominator goes to zero. To see this, assume that the equality does hold with e := -75/84. Then:
7y(12e+11) - 85 = 2y +12e
7y(12(-75/84)+11) - 85 = 2y +12(-75/84)
2y - 85 = 2y - 75/7
85 = 75/7
595 = 75
We have reached a contradiction. Since the only assumption made was that e := -75/84, it must be impossible.
To understand memes
From Wikipedia:
A fatwa is a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law (sharia) given by a qualified Islamic jurist (faqih) in response to a question posed by a private individual, judge or government.
So unless you live in a country that runs on Sharia law and have your real information connected to your account, you can safely ignore it.
You could report the poster for being mean if it goes against that community’s or instance’s rules. Up to you. But I think someone’s just being a troll.
It can use ChatGPT I believe, or you could use a local GPT or several other LLM architectures.
GPTs are trained by “trying to fill in the next word”, or more simply could be described as a “spicy autocomplete”, whereas BERTs try to “fill in the blanks”. So it might be worth looking into other LLM architectures if you’re not in the market for an autocomplete.
Personally, I’m going to look into this. Also it would furnish a good excuse to learn about Docker and how SearXNG works.
LLMs are not necessarily evil. This project seems to be free and open source, and it allows you to run everything locally. Obviously this doesn’t solve everything (e.g., the environmental impact of training, systemic bias learned from datasets, usually the weights themselves are derived from questionably collected datasets), but it seems like it’s worth keeping an eye on.
Google using ai, everyone hates it
Because Google has a long history of doing the worst shit imaginable with technology immediately. Google (and other corporations) must be viewed with extra suspicion compared to any other group or individual because they are known to be the worst and most likely people to abuse technology.
Literally if Google does literally anything, it sucks by default and it’s going to take a lot more proof to convince me otherwise for a given Google product. Same goes for Meta, Apple, and any other corporations.
If that happens then I swear to fucking God I’m done with YouTube forever.
Edit: i.e. if it breaks FreeTube, Invidious, Sponsorblock, etc. (because I’m already done with the main site forever) then I’m out. If the choice is between content vs no ads, I’ll take no ads even if it means no content.
Emphasis mine. Incompetence on Microsoft’s part is not an adequate explanation for this latest action matching a pattern of other actions designed to antagonize FOSS users.