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Debian isn't the only alternative to Arch. There are rolling-release distros where being a guinea pig is opt-in, not forced. Like Gentoo, where brave users test packages before they reach the wider audience

on Team Car! · c/lemmyshitpost · 9 pts · 10d

Also often called "taking the primary position". It's often done to prevent close passes by forcing drivers who want to overtake to wait for a gap in the next lane

on me_irl · c/me_irl · 2 pts · 20d

Why did you copy 62.5% of my username?

I'm a computer engineering student and you remembered correctly, it reaches the final voltage times (1 - 1/e) at the time given by the time constant. Though technically e is the base of an exponential in this case

Mathematically, the thing about e that causes this is the fact that d/dx (e^x^) = e^x^. In simpler terms, if a car is driving in a straight line and its speed increases e (2.71) times per second, then its distance travelled always equals its speed (plus some amount that doesn't change) (ignoring units)

The other cool property about e that I know of relates to complex numbers, but I don't think I can explain that in a way that's easy to understand

Pi can be seen in real life (obviously not with full precision, but close enough). Simply make a 1 cm rod on a lathe and measure its circumference, and you'll see it's ~3.141 cm

The same goes for root 2. Simply measure the diagonal of a 1 cm square

Not sure where you'd see e in real life, though (excluding as the base of an exponential, because any exponential can be trivially rewritten with any base)