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Yeah, I wanna see shell scripts, puppet and vimrc files, C++ tricks, coding techniques, circuit teardowns, MCU hacks, and docker discussion...! (Seriously) Not WikiLeaks and censorship and vote suppression!

I've been spending more time on stackexchange, it is probably better suited to what I'm looking for.

> Repeat after me: all technical problems of sufficient scope or impact are actually political problems first.

How does a "fat pointer in C" or "devops for ML" become political? I'm joking, but I think too many deliberately charged issues make it to the top. I popped over to slashdot for the first time in years and it has become a right-wing megaphone. It is very sad. I would prefer to not see HN go this way. (Mea culpa: I'm partially to blame for this because politics makes my blood boil... but it would be nice to just say 'no' at some point...)

I guess if you go through life with your eyes closed, or only listening to one side, then I can see how you'd think that. There's no place to start with someone as ignorant as you. Literally, I could list all of the ways the US left has helped improved the quality of living, and all the ways the US right has actively hurt people and you'd shrug and still spout the same ignorant comments. So all I have left for you and your type is contempt. Utter contempt.

Facts are different than opinions. When you lie you lie. If you're so distorted by Trump's daily lies, then I pity you.

> I always want to emulate my seemingly-more-efficient colleagues

Heh, well put. Me too. I come to HN looking for... well... "hacks".

The number of people in this thread defending the right to spread billionaire-funded lies, propaganda, and misinformation under the guise of free-speech is drop-dead astonishing. Like, I can see why civilization could fail on a massive scale if a critical mass of the population starts to believe the opposite of the truth, and declares war on those trying to explain.

> you don't think there's any need for a way to determine whether two real numbers are equal.

You are putting words in my mouth.

And you clearly do not understand the answer.

I guess I'm not very good at ELI5 because I very clearly answered your question with your own proposal.

Maybe when you get to college a professor can do a better job explaining it to you (if you actually make it to college, because you're going to struggle very hard if that's how you think when an answer is spoon-fed to you).

You asked for a "law" of equality (whatever that is) and provided an answer that proves it converges to 1. What more could you possibly want?

Hmmm... I would find this extremely error-prone. Probably due to my own issues, but flipping through multiple remote sessions in tmux in the same window would get confusing after N=2 terminals.

But who manages THAT many remote sessions? Seems like an upstream problem to me, no?

Yep. Agree 100%. It is like the blue dress.

I think the problem is the repeating function. Infinite things are non-intuitive and should be presented differently.

Even here on HN you still see people confused about "convergence" and "identity". 0.999... doesn't CONVERGE, it literally is 1.

I suspect this persists even with students that have had second year college calculus that discusses convergent series and sums.