Rompect's comments

On: Heathrow tells airlines to stop selling additional flights until September

[Rompect]

> Wie viel verdient man als Flughafen in Deutschland?

This literally means "how much do you earn as an airport in Germany". The answer is 2194€. Made me laugh.

On: Learn Rust by writing a small OS

[Rompect]

Literally my entire kindle library is from there and surprise surprise, I haven't been visited by the police (yet).

On: Learn Rust by writing a small OS

[Rompect]

Why would I pay for something that I can get for free?

On: A record 4.5M workers quit their jobs in November

[Rompect]

> Just because productivity has doubled in 40 years doesn't mean that people have been twice as productive.

???

[groundhogday3 → Rompect]

Depends what they mean by Productivity. Other things can be productive other than Labour. Also it still doesn't mean you should be paid twice as much.

If I can hire 3 unskilled workers for less than the price of a skilled worker that is twice as productive as a single unskilled worker. I would just hire 3 unskilled people.

On: Z Library

[Rompect]

I don't know whether they have a different dataset of books, but the search engine is definitely vastly superior. Not only in looks, but most importantly in terms of results.

On: Euler’s number pops up in situations that involve optimality

[Rompect]

Also an amazing way are Taylor polynomials, this article explains the process of thought really well:

https://betterexplained.com/articles/taylor-series/

[f00zz → Rompect]

Yeah, in the link I posted the formula is derived via Taylor (or Maclaurin) series, but the explanation in your link is great. Thanks for sharing!

On: Euler’s number pops up in situations that involve optimality

[Rompect]

I genuinely don't know whether the trick of that question is swapping the `e^x` with `e^y`, so just renaming a variable – or is `y` a function?

[eigenket → Rompect]

You're differentiating the function f(y) = e^y with respect to y

On: How long does it take ordinary people to get good at chess?

[Rompect]

I played one single game once and the opponent used one of these bait openings so obviously I fell for it and lost immediately.

On: Hacking YouTube with a MP4

[Rompect]

I even saw videos that play something entirely different the second time you play it!

On: Death of the Calorie (2019)

[Rompect]

I don't know but I know that I LOVE that person deeply