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That's because these programs are all designed to embezzle taxpayer money.

It does have a scientific answer, as has been shown in other comments in this thread.

If I ask "why are north Koreans shorter than south Koreans on average?" and someone responds with a wall of text explaining how it's just how it is and that's just life, they might as well have said nothing. "Why" questions usually have an answer, even if you don't know it, leave it to those that do and continue lurking.

Just say "I don't know" and leave it at that next time OK?

Typo

The sum of all natural numbers smaller than and including x is equal to

(x+1)(x/2)

The sum of all even numbers up to and including x is that minus (n/2)² so

[(x+1)(x/2)]-(x/2)²

That would mean the sum of all odd numbers under x is equal to

(x/2)²

or sum of all odd including x (if x is odd of course) is

[(x+1)/2]²

Since the sum of all even numbers up to x is the sum of all numbers minus the sum of all odd numbers.

[-(x/2)² +2x +1]/2 (another way of writing the sum of all evens under and including a number) looks suspiciously polynomial. I want to go further.

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Interestingly, the sum of all evens under and including x is larger than the sum of all odds under x by half of x. So

[(x+1)(x/2)-(x/2)²]-(x/2) = (x/2)²

So another formula for sum of all evens is

(x/2)²+(x/2)

So,

2[(x/2)²]+(x/2) = (x+1)(x/2)

The left is the sum of all odds plus the sum of all evens under and including x, the right is the original formula we started with, sum of all natural numbers under and including x. Since they both give us the total sum for all natural numbers up to and including x, the left hand side is a different formula giving us the same result!

Good point because that's exactly what I said and you're super smart for understanding my comment.

Just reminding people, don't start cheering for the DEA, remember what they took from you. This isn't them giving it back, this is them salvaging legitimacy. Demand justice, not concessions.

Imagine simping for this.

An unelected bureaucrat in an agency gets to decide how illegal a plant is. And then, they decide it's still dangerous, just not as dangerous as psilocybin, more along the lines of cocaine.

Progress, whatever, you're still under a boot.

Does it let you remove words from the dictionary or from your words that were added for you? I know you can do the latter, but the former I was under the impression was not possible.

No,that's not why. 6 years ago these apps collected less data and worked better.

It's because the developers are self absorbed narcissists who think you're staring at the prediction bar while typing and so if you are still typing after it shows you that word, even one character, that must not be the one you're trying to type. What if you're using a keyboard how it's supposed to be used, as a utility to interact with something else rather than treating the keyboard as the center of the universe, and so looking at what you're typing as you're typing it, like a normal person? Guess they didn't think of that.

Man, I'm using heliboard and it has the same problems openboard had and the same problems gboard has with regard to autocorrect. And it's missing a lot of special characters, but I assume that's a work in progress.

You know what would really help the situation? You know how the spell checker underlines (or at least used to) incorrect words in red? It should underline corrected words in yellow or green or something. That way, when you're going over what you've typed, the autocorrected gibberish won't slip past you and will stand out. That would go a long way, but what would really improve it is if you could remove words from the dictionary that you don't use, and go back to however the system worked 6 years ago because it was pretty light on the frustration.

Yeah, I don't know what happened. This stuff is supposed to reduce typos right? Instead, I type "the" and it replaces it with "Tue" randomly for no reason. Who even writes tuesday like that? It's shorthand from before your keyboard could complete it for you.

You know what's funny? You can't remove words. You can't add words directly, you have to let it learn them the hard way. Why?

At this point, I'm convinced that the steady degradation of technology over the past 6 or 7 years is deliberate, if not, and this stuff can just rot, it's evidence that we shouldn't be relying on it at all.

I did try it, I liked the simplicity of it, right now I'm going with sway-launcher-desktop instead.

Yup, if you just want a friend that hangs around your house that's the way to go. That's what I've done. But working dogs... that isn't really an option. And they're very important.

So first and foremost, I don't like or care about this woman. Don't jump to some conclusion that I'm defending her or some bullshit like that.

Let's talk about dogs. Do you have a dog? I bet you love him or her very much. What do you know about it's siblings from it's litter?

Most puppies don't wind up in a super awesome loving home like you've given your dog. Most either wind up killed or in bad situations, with abusive owners, or owners who can't care for them and abandon them, who drop them off at the pound where they're soon euthanized. And almost all dogs are born in litters of more than 1. So if you buy a dog, you're supporting this. Your cute puppy that you raise to be very happy and healthy comes with some baggage, the fact that many of its siblings suffered and/or died.

So let's talk about working dogs. Dogs are bred to work. They're bred to be good at specific tasks. A pointer needs to reliably point. A bloodhound needs to be able to sniff out a target. A hunting dog needs to be able to hunt. And hunting dogs, they're expensive. Do you know why? Because they're trained and tested, and the ones that don't make the cut are killed.

Almost all dogs that are loved and taken care of and put to good use have their happy healthy portraits with a backdrop of dead and beaten puppies. It is a sad reality, but there's nothing you can do about it, it's just a consequence of the fact that dogs are born in litters. Well, nothing you can do except not have a dog. But who wants to do that? Dogs are amazing. I have two. But don't forget, when you, a kind loving person who takes your dog to the vet every three months create demand for one, you're creating a few other dogs who's lives are going to be short and suck. Just about every single dog owner indirectly creates death and suffering of puppies. Look in the mirror and don't lie to yourself. We are all puppy killers.

And I'm all about that. I think it's ridiculous that the president was even considering banning menthol cigarettes. But what's even more ridiculous is that his campaign manager or whatever put a focus group together and delivered research to his desk saying "Mr president sir, if you ban newports you're gonna lose reelection because black people won't like it" and so he decided not to do it.

Yeah, I don't use .desktop files. I've just never seen a launcher that does all 3: PATH, .desktop files and aliases. Most of them seem to do the first two and that's it.

So if they banned malt liquor on the grounds of saving black lives, that wouldn't be racist? What about fried chicken? Fried food causes cardiovascular disease. Orange soda causes diabetes.

But that's not even the point. The point is, he was going to ban them because they're bad for you, but decided not to for the votes because black people smoke newports or something. he's letting them die so he can get reelected

That's democracy for you.