@user FreeBSD is a pain for desktop use because it's similar enough to Linux that you think things will work, but different enough that nothing actually does
I like Arch because it's all latest versions so there are very few distro-specific patches for backwards compatibility and everything works exactly as it's documented
@user there are more bugs in an absolute sense, because it's newer software, but everything is a lot more guaranteed to interact correctly because there's no monkey-patching
For example, I had way too many issues with sound just breaking with every kernel update until a reboot on Ubuntu, and there was no solution
20.04 being a bit late is exactly what made me switch to Arch. I needed to reinstall right around April 2020, and 2004 wasn't quite out yet, so I thought I'd distro-hop, only to find that Arch was more or less perfect
@cairdcoinheringaahing hyperreal numbers lose more properties the further you get, so if you allow extensions to the ring of integers, it might get more interesting
Literally every test I've ever taken has been: here are n questions. Each question is worth however many marks. If you get all the marks, you get 100%. Otherwise, you get less than 100%
@cairdcoinheringaahing let's say the exam contains 10 questions, and 1 of them was on a topic that hadn't been covered so they expect you to get that wrong. So most people get between 1-9 marks, and then the teacher adjusts all the grades by 10/9≈1.11. But let's say I actually knew how to do the 10th question, and got it right, so my score becomes 100% -> 111%
Curving grades has always seemed to be a bad way of dealing with your poor teaching to me. Like, maybe instead of changing the grades, you should make your course more doable?
I've taken tests where there were "bonus questions," but they're mainly stuff like "Prove the superiority of people who walk fast" and you don't actually get a million bonus points for writing an answer.
@cairdcoinheringaahing Because they design the tests long in advance and then the material is covered more slowly than anticipated? Or they use a whole past-paper of which 38/39 questions are fine and they don't bother removing question 14? Or the teachers are just overworked and underpaid?
@user My physics teacher used to ask us to write poems about the subjects if we finished the exam, and he held a separate competition for best poetry (I never won)
My Algebra I teacher would always add a bonus question at the end of the test on the next unit's topic, so people who already knew about it could get some extra points
Unintuitive thing I just thought of: If you have the ability to take out infinitely large loans, and make infinitely large bets with a nonzero probability of doubling your bet, you can reliably earn infinite money by doubling your bet each time you lose until you win
Even with a finite amount of money you can pretty reliably earn an additional 10% or even 50% by doing that, but the higher the amount you want to earn (relative to the amount you have) the more likely it is you lose all your money
well technically, if you(you) wanted to refer to a mod in general you(you) could say "one", but "one" makes it unambiguously general and "you" makes it ambiguous because most people don't use "one" :P
