To put the questions differently: assume we look at all the planets from the perspective of a single point (say, Earth), why do some spin one way (cw) and some spin the other way (ccw)? Are cc and ccw evenly distributed?
They seem to spin in different directions because you are observing them from a single point - earth.
Consider the following. You and I are standing on opposite sides of a pane of glass. I spin a wheel parallel to the pane of glass and we both observe it. From my side of the glass the wheel is spinning clockwise. From your point of view (because you are seeing the opposite side of the wheel) it is spinning counterclockwise.
Whether a given rotation is clockwise or counterclockwise depends entirely on your reference frame - they really don't have a robust definition that doesn't depend on the pov of the observer.
There is a really excellent and clear description of the problem and solution to this that is employed in classical mechanics here[1] but if you only care about the solution, by convention we employ the right hand rule. If you and I both agree a common direction in the plane of rotation of the wheel say parallel to the floor off to the side (whichever side doesn't matter but for one of us it will be to the left and the other right), point our right hand index finger in that direction (called r hat or the direction of radial motion) and curl our two smallest fingers in the direction of rotation of the wheel, our thumbs will be pointing parallel with one another. This would be called n hat (normal motion), and is the direction of any vectors which are the cross product of two vectors in the plane of rotation of the wheel. As a bonus if you make your right hand middle finger perpendicular to the index finger you have theta hat (tangential motion). Now even though you and I can't agree whether the wheel is spinning clockwise or counterclockwise we have three identical basis vectors and can use these to form a common polar coordinate system to describe this rotating system.
I'm trying to say it doesn't matter where you observe it from. If one thing is spinning one way, and another the opposite way. Whether you see it from your side, or my side, the directions of the two things are opposite. Am I wrong?
For the purposes of saying which spin there are more of (and we have observed a slight preference for one), we'd need to agree on which one is cw and which way is ccw. The slight bias is for ccw, as viewed from out planets North Pole, though it's not known if this is merely an observation bias or pervasive.
They are asking whether the distribution of the direction of rotation of all rotating celestial bodies is equally distributed, for this it is irrelevant which direction of rotation is designated and how.
Honestly I used to be on the strict noscript JavaScript hate train.
But if your site works fast. Loads fast. With _a little_ JS that actually improves the functionality+usability in? I think that's completely fine. Minimal JS for the win.
I want the basic functionality to work without JS.
But we have a working application and users are not hating it and used to it.
We rely on modals heavily. And for that I added (custom) JS. It's way simpler than alternatives and some things we do are not even possible without JS/WASM (via JS apis to manipulate the DOM) today.
I am pragmatic.
But as you mentioned it, personally I also use NoScript a lot and if a site refuses to load without JS it's a hard sell to me if I don't know it already.
Building a new app at work using Web Components and WebSockets for dynamism. I’m using Bulma for CSS, which is still about 300KiB. However, the site loads instantly. I’m not using a Javascript framework or bundler or any of that (not even npm!), just vanilla Javascript. It’s a dream to program and I love not having the complexity of a framework taking up space in my brain.
My rule of thumb is to render HTML where the state actually lives.
In a huge majority of cases I come across that is on the server. Some things really are client-side only though, think temporary state responding to user interactions.
Either way I also try really hard to make sure the UI is at least functional without JS. There are times that isn't possible, but those are pretty rare in my experience.
A better example would be dynamically loading the list of options where it is very long and loading the entire list would make the page size much larger.
Completely anecdotal but my gums flare up and just feel disgusting when I don't floss for too long.
I don't do the dentist recommended 2/week but if I stop flossing for over a month I notice significant decrease in my gum health. It becomes excruciatingly painful to brush and this stage and my mouth is full of blood afterwards.
You might be going at it too hard. Please see a dentist or get a second opinion from another dentist.
According to my dentist, you can damage your gums by brushing them too hard. I don't floss so he didn't address that, but in both methods, force is being applied to delicate tissue.
The point of brushing and flossing is to remove food particles. You don't have to abuse your teeth or gums to do that.
I have been told by him not to brush too hard. And i dont brush hard. But the issue is not related to my brushing. What I meant with the blood was;
First I don't floss for a month.
Then what looks like gingivitis shows up.
And when I brush (normally -- not hard) after this, the sites that have the gingivitis bleed and are extremely painful.
If I don't floss my dentist notices immediately and tells me to floss more often because there's food and shit in there, hence why I tend to floss.
Yeah that bit doesn't pass the smell test. Petra had been around for about 400 years by the time Jesus supposedly held his last supper.
It seems much more likely that these 12 skeletons date back to the earlier days of the city.
(Nitpick: there was no year 0; 1 BC goes right into AD 1. And Jesus' supposed death was around AD 33, not AD 1. Sometimes people think "AD" means "After his Death", but it's really "Anno Domini", or "the year of the/our Lord", when he was supposedly born.)
Historians don't have a year 0, astronomers do. In fact the historical calendar is a bit messy for other reasons, e.g. the year beginning in April rather than January for a long time.
Better just use 'HOME=$TMPDIR chrome <args... > without the export. With export the Home variable will persist for the current shell, potentially leading to unwanted results.
This is very fair. I have a close male friend who was the victim of intense domestic violence, physical, emotional and financial manipulation by his ex partner.
He talks about how child support staff (like reception for example) are, are not favouring of him. They see DV in his profile and assume he's the perpetrator instantly. He had to explain himself constantly, no doubt reliving trauma when he does.
He has been struggling with the courts to gain sole custody of his child.
And to top it all off all the posters around these places are, like you say, about women reaching out against their abusive male partners. Which IS an issue and IS statistically more likely. But you make a very good point about these systems being able to help both.
> .. women reaching out against their abusive male partners. Which IS an issue and IS statistically more likely.
Be careful about your phrasing there. I hope the implied subject on both sides of the "and" is different. Women being victims is an issue, and women reaching out is significantly more likely.
Women reaching out is (obviously) not an issue, but is statistically more likely. Alternately, women being victims is an issue, but the statistical likelihood of women being victims is unknown, and we have good reason to believe there is significant reporting bias.
When I was in highschool I had a bunch of free time outside of school days. I used a YouTube guide to install Arch. I failed many many times. But in doing so I almost kind of learnt what each command was doing.
I had the same experience when I installed Gentoo.
In both cases at first I was copy/pasting commands, but through failure I ended up understanding a lot of what the commands did.
And what someone else said below is true as well, actually try and force yourself to understand what you're typing. Even briefly just scanning a man page helps a lot.
I wonder if the wiki would have been an easier start, than YouTube. YouTube is nice for learning things with a visual component, but installing Linux is all text, all the time. The ability to easily hop around and re-read sections on the wiki where necessary (I mean, jumping around is possible on YouTube of course, but it is really easy on the wiki) seem like it would be a big help.
Reading and actually understanding non-trivial text is hard if you are part of a generation that was never challenged to actually learn it. For those people, YouTube (and a few similar shops) are the default way to consume any content. That's what they do all the time. Sure, they somehow know those legacy emojis that you call the latin alphabet. It will just not lead to a deep understanding of text.
Another aspect is probably that watching YT clips always has a feeling of being part of something. Some movement, some bubble, some society, whatever. They don't install Arch bcs they want to learn sth, or make some use of the OS. They do it _because_ they found it on YT and they want to be part of it. Maybe they even write comments or make a 'reaction' video. Today it's Arch, tomorrow it's a special pizza recipe from that other guy on Insta. It doesn't really matter.
I dunno. I’m a millennial so all sorts of stuff was just ascribed to my generation. As a result, I tend to just assume these differences are overstated.
I worked with college students fairly recently. They did often reach reflexively for video. But when the written material was good enough, they used it.
Us millenials are old. My 43rd birthday is coming up fast.
College students are the next generation. Most millenials remember dialup or at most a time before mainstream streaming video. College students today have seen their formative years being constantly on with instant access to more material in any format they want than they could ever grasp the concept of.
Yeah, I was just abstracting from the experience of having everything I did attributed to my generation, and then applying that experience to the next generation.
They handle some things a little differently and sometimes reach for different defaults, but in the end, it isn’t like they are coming from some totally alien planet or anything like that.
Very often when I discuss it, someone argues along the lines of "yes, it looks different, and maybe even weird at first glance, but everything is indeed fine, and look how access to all that content even makes them more competent than older generations in many ways".
And I'm always asking myself what is wrong with me that all that completely does not reflect my practical experiences at all.
I dunno, hard to say, if our experiences don’t match maybe we’re just in different environments. No particular reason to assume mine is the ground truth of course.
One possible skew could be: often it is professors who complain about this stuff, but the type of person who goes on to be a professor tends to be pretty clever and surround themselves with clever friends. So if you are a professor or a highly skilled programmer or something, keep in mind that you probably have a rosy picture of the average competence of the past.
I'm not clever, no. A few of my friends are, but I never was. I would call myself a skilled software developer, yes. And other, more skilled ones, would maybe disagree. :) But all that says nothing about real life cleverness.
I can clearly see that there are unfortunate patterns, even back then when I was young, and it just got worse and worse. Which is no surprise imho. Of course it propagates. If the parents are already 'social media' addicts, and their friends, and the teachers as well, what shall happen with their children. The issues just 'normalize' - that's what we see, but it doesn't _solve_ them.
The thing is, our societies love to chatter about all kinds of issues and troubles, as long as they are somewhere else or at least the bad guys are far enough away. Something not binding. But as soon as an inconvenient discussion about themselves start, about what they do wrong and what issues we get by them, it turns into silence. So we also do not discuss much about more and more incompetent social media addicts. Since the majority is addicted, and the ground for public discussions is social media only nowadays, who should even start this discussion - and where...
We are probably more or less the same age. And yes, they said it about us as well. And they were right. It's a slow downward trend. And it's still continuing. Do you also see these young mothers on the streets which would just ram you with their baby buggy, because they are deeeeply involved into some toktok swiping ceremony? Addicts. What do we expect from that?
> But when the written material was good enough, they used it.
To some extent, yes, as we all do, they will try to make a good show for you when they feel that there is an audience for that show and it might somehow pay off.
To be fair, though, people have been complaining about the younger generations for hundreds and thousands of years.
I've read accounts of newspapers and common books rotting people's minds (including the "they aren't talking to each other!" concern,) and ancient Greeks complaining about the next generation.
I can't negate any specific point this way, but I do try to think about history repeating itself whenever I see someone notably younger annoying me.
(Also, the complaints that younger generations have about the older generations are just as ancient.)
Yes, another thing that often happens in those discussions: Someone cites Socrates with very similar complaints. To me this is not a contradiction. E.g. maybe the Socrates era has seen it going downhill as we do today, and between there were times with upward movement (maybe forced by some bigger event or development - things are complex). I don't know.
What I know is, when I talk to e.g. colleagues, the younger there are, the more they feel like materialized YT clips. And that's not a good thing. Of course I try to compensate for their younger age when I do the comparison. And of course I could be wrong, e.g. biased in some way. But I would sat that I really try to be fair, and I must be veeeery off if you say there are no such issues.
> Reading and actually understanding non-trivial text is hard if you are part of a generation that was never challenged to actually learn it.
I don't think this is fair to say.
Could be said for the generation after me. Maybe not. I think this kind of sweeping generalisation is not fair on any generation though. There are motivated and lazy people in all generations, as there are people with good/bad attention spans.
And what you've said about YouTube might be true, but it wasn't for me. I did not go to YouTube for the community aspect, but only because like I said before I didn't even know that the Arch wiki was an install guide as well.
You tried (and failed) to install Arch many many times, based on YT, and you have not even considered that there might be some kinds of helpful resources directly from Arch outside of YT.
Sorry to say that, and even more sorry that you'll probably not even understand what I mean, but this actually doesn't need any further comments.
I was 13 and had never touched any OSS software in my entire life give me a break.
> you have not even considered that there might be some kinds of helpful resources directly from Arch outside of YT.
You're speaking about this as if it happened yesterday. This experience happened over a decade ago. I am not a teenager, and I am now accustomed to reading and actually learning on the internet. Don't fault me or my entire attention span for some minor, naïve behaviour/mistake I made as a teenager.
Arch wiki would've almost definitely been a way better start!
But I had _just_ ventured into this space. And at the time the wiki format wasn't something I'd ever seen outside of Wikipedia so i never put 2-2 together to figure out the wiki could be used as an install guide. Plus the walls of text were kind of intimidating?
