I don’t know how would you define ‘influence’.

If I fix the reference point to the (mass?) center of the sun, then observe the moon relative position to the sun, then I see that the influence of the moon’s position is way grater than the Earth’s. Would the Moon fly away from the orbit if the Earth stopped existing?

I knew my argument was flawed, that was somewhat the point. I generally I don’t think many ppl know about the Lagrange points. I know they are used to define what orbits what, but I don’t have the knowledge yet to incorporate to my very flawed wordview.

Also thanks for mentioning the Hill sphere, I looking into that as well.

Not really, that was not my point. Just random thoughts shouted in the clouds. If I have to make a point, then I would say, categorizing things pretty hard, and the general populance understang and the scientific consensus about things are pretty far away.

I know there are some points (L1-5) and they use that to define what orbits what, but I lost when I tried to research it without any pre-existing knowledge on the topic. I usually read some scientific communication, but they usually over simplify things. It’s hard to shed the pre-existing view, replace it with a more correct one, then do it again and again.

But how do we define what orbits what? On the scale from the Sun to Earth, the Moon orbits the Sun, just a litle more wobbly than the Earth’s path, by litle I mean well below the error when we imagine the Erath’s path as an elipse.

We can try to define if something goes around as orbiting, but If I pick two planet from our solar system one will goes around of the other, thechnically orbiting it? We can try to restricting the distance… but that is a problem as well, even worst idea that “nothing” comes in between: multiple moons? What about the moons’ moons?

Ahhh, humans and their need to neatly categorize things…

Funny thing is, I would do that if there are no requirements, and the vibecode is unreadable. I would let the token-predictor create the requirements, after proof-reading and correcting it, I would create cooked-down list and run through a manager for approval, then rewrite it from scratch. My limited time and precious brain cells are too valuable to waste on reading and deciphering the half ton of sh!t an LLM produced.

If there are requirements (which are hardly applicable unfortunately) I would just rewrite the thing.

My EOS/Arch had broke down after update 3 times since I use them. 2 times nvidia 1 time grub. Anyone without the knowledge and willingness to thinker, will think linux is bad because broke for no reason. As long as they willing to have a bootable USB next to their PC and don’t mind to chroot sometimes EOS/Arch is a better choice. I think many-many people overestimate the average human’s knowledge and willingness to understand things. Relevant XKCD 2501

It depends on the person, do they want to just use something which can open the browser, office suite, and occasionaly some games/programs without uderstanding anything, or they like to tinker, and customize, break and repair their system. I recommend Mint/Eos/Arch based on the willingness of thinkering. Cinnamon is easy and straight forward, KDE is not.

I solved with geo as well. Brute force to all possible rectangles from the polygon points. Tried to run it but after 30 seckilled it and just imported rayon. It’s under 3 sec. There is no shame using libraries, it’s part of the puzzle to know whics one is useful 😄

Joined as well, thanks for creating it! Unfortunately I only have time 5-6 hours before the next day’s puzzle, so I am here only to collect 🌞s.

I’ll check if someone created a guide for the clever solution, cos I’m interested. But I don’t have nearly enough knowledge about geometry to came up with one myshelf. (nor energy after the 10 hour workdays in the last two weeks…)

It was easy staight forward brtue force:

For each possible_rectange Find Max:
   If polygon.contains(rectangle) Then rectangle.area() Else 0

Can I ask what phone did you buy? Only if you confortable to share it ofc. I am looking for a new one. I loved my Samsung Note9. Everything was great, it had stylus, jack, battery life, oled screen, decent cameras. The only thing missing is andoid OS update support. It still better than most middle range phones…

No

Bing is down, and every engine that uses bing api.

Wow, I did not expect to find a fellow Ted Chiang enjoyer. The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate is one of my favorite.

I don’t think it is counts as D sucking of big corp if someone corrects invalid information. There are plenty of bad things corps do, we don’t have to fabricate false claims, it’s dangerous.

One festiaval I got dressed up as a goth girl for a competition. From that day I truly beleive that skirts are more confortable. Its quite a breez when in the summer heat, the kind wind tickles my jewels ;) Once I left this conservative shithole I call home, I’ll invest in some Kilt.

My approach:

• try and error: Just experiment with things, change one single thing and observ what difference it makes (Eg.: season half batch before, half batch after)
• Research on the internet, I mean there are tons of blogs/forums where ppl sharing their experience, just be mindfull, and take everything with a grain of salt (hah!) (Eg.: One anon in reddit collected brownie recips and methodically tested and documneted each approach and what difference it makes, so technically his/her/they recipe is not a single one, but a collection family of recipts where you can choose your desired results)
• Educational-Cooking channels, there are plenty of cooking channels which are showing the underlining science and connections, just to name a few: MinuteFood@yt, aragusea@yt or if you want hardcore data: Talon_Fitness@yt

Nice collecion you have there! Just got my hand on a large cardbox worth of jars. Almost all of them have caps as well. My plan is to slowly clean and fill them up, just like you did! Also I recently found out (by a foodwaste prevention program) that I have plastic-free shop not too far away from me.