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Cake day: July 19th, 2023

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  • 21:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4352 802.11ac Dual Band Wireless Network Adapter (rev 03)

    It’s probably related to this recent issue

    In my experience Broadcom on Linux is a bad omen, second only to Nvidia. If you can, I’d recommend switching your Wi-Fi card for one that has better Linux support (e.g. “TP-Link Archer TX3000E” or anything that uses an Intel chip inside really since support for them is handled directly by Intel and integrated into Linux’s source code). Good luck! :)







  • Yup! In that case, this is not an answer that can be solved “mathematically” as you asked: convincing a large group of total strangers to do something for you is within the realm of crowd psychology.

    If r/place showed us anything, it’s that you can get people to work hard together if you make them feel part of a community. Maybe creating a Lemmy community whose goal is to keep all posts within that community at 69% would work?

    Not sure if that’s the answer you wanted but that’s how I’ve understood your question so don’t hesitate to correct me :)


  • Is your question “what is the probability for one of my post to have 69% upvotes”? This should be answered by a binomial distribution!

    According to this website, for p=0.5; n=100; and x=69 the probability should be ~0.005%.

    This means that if 100 people vote your post perfectly randomly, the chance of getting 69% upvotes is ~0.005%. This number will also become smaller if more people start voting since given an infinite amount of votes, the ratio of upvotes should converge towards the chance that a person gives your post an upvote (aka. 50%) so we’d get even further from our 69% target.

    Basically, if people vote perfectly randomly it’s unlikely to get to exactly 69%. Such is the fate of us mortals :(