I looked at the webpage and tried reading the instructions but got incredibly lost. Told myself I’ll put it for later but forgot about it, thanks for reminding me.

Following someone else’s suggestions, I made a venv file called venv and installed pygame in it using venv/bin/pip install pygame from the directory where I have the main project in. Interestingly, it installed just fine, but when I try to do pip install pygame while in the virtual environment’s bin folder, I get the externally managed environment error. My venv folder doesn’t have an environment folder, it’s just ~/path-to/venv, where venv is the name of the virtual environment. probably should have picked a different name tbh. Anyways I followed your suggestion making replacements where necessary to run the program. Dunno if I’m doing something wrong but it isn’t working for me.

I followed the instructions on the page but I still get the “module not found” error when running the file I made and the pygame.examples.aliens

Someone else suggested this as well, I’ll check it out. Thanks!

Typically not very great, being on apartment Wifi and all that. According to Ookla like 2 minutes ago it’s fairly decent but I doubt this is the average. Hm. Probably need to run repeated tests or set something up to record speed tests every so often and then log the data to get a good idea of what the average actually is.

Huh, have never heard of Tailscale before. Thanks for this suggestion, I’ll give it a looksee.

Thanks, I’ll check these out and look into proton as a company itself. Cryptpad looks interesting

I’m not entirely sure how to do a virtual environment, got any guide links or documentations to look at to get started?

Also yeah pygame works in Pycharm, but it runs like shit and I’m trying to do this project out of a text editor and terminal as a challenge for myself.

It does not. I get the same module missing error.

/usr/local/bin/python3: Error while finding module specification for 'pygame.examples.aliens' (ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pygame')

Using apt because pip throws an error when I try to install using it. error: externally-managed-environment and a bunch of more text suggesting apt installs with python3-xyz.

I literally did though.

I’ll take a look. Thanks!

Hey thanks for this. It is indeed a 2015 laptop.

specs: Macbook Air, 13 inch, from early 2015. 1.6 GHz Dual Core Intel i5. 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3. Intel HD Graphics 6000 1536 Mb.

That’s a very clever solution, thank you! I’ll take a look at MediaWiki as well.

Nooo Tavros deserves better tbh.

Mine is that John and Vriska should have ended up together. I fucking stan spiderbreath. iykyk

The water stays in the bucket because its geometry tilts its axis, keeping the bottom pointing in the direction of the water’s inertia

I was with you until this line. I spent some time thinking on it and I think I sort of get what you were talking about? Let me see if I can’t explain it back to you. The water and the bucket both want to keep going linearly, which they can’t because of the string. The bucket arcs around, but the inertia of the water keeps going linearly, causing it to press against the bottom of the bucket. If the bucket continues to be driven in circular motion, it’s this momentum that drives the water against the bottom of the bucket? While the side of the bucket drives the water along the circular path?

Your third point clarifies some things for me a lot. I seem to have forgotten that acceleration describes a change in direction and/or a change in magnitude of the velocity vector: I recall now in my physics textbooks that objects in non-constant circular motion have a tangential acceleration, and the total acceleration lies somewhere between those, but if the velocity remains constant, then the only acceleration is the centripetal acceleration describing the change in the velocity’s direction.

However, I still have some questions about points one and two. I understand that things in circular motion want to fly out tangentially away from the center, not radially away. Yet, in so far as I can observe, objects do seem to press outwards radially. In the example with the bucket of water, the water sticks to the bottom of the bucket instead of pressing against the side wall. In another example, that of those carnival rides that spin people around in a saucer (gravitron I think it’s called?), the carmival goers tend to stick to the wall of the ride as though they were being flung out radially, instead of rolling along the edge or something else. I guess it’s this disconnect between what I know is correct (objects fly tangentially to their circular paths) and what I observe (objects stick to the wall radially away from the center).

Let me see if I understand this. So the bucket acts on the water, pushing it in a direction, then the bucket’s motion changes, changing the motion of the water, then this repeats ad naseum in a circle. So the bucket is experiencing a centripetal force (tension from the string), but not the water: it’s motion is changing as a result of the bucket pushing on it. So then if the bucket is moving in a counter clockwise direction, the “left” wall of the bucket would be the thing acting on the water. Wouldn’t that cause the water to stick to the left wall of the bucket, not the bottom?

In regards to your example with the marbles and anti-particles, I understand it in principle, but I’m not quite sure I get how fictitious anti particles relate to fictitious forces. I mean, I think I get it, and I understand what you mean by it not having a universal phenomenon driving the force. I’m just not sure I could explain it back to you.

No offense but please don’t insult me like this. I abhor AI and the whole reason I ask this is because I’ve been reading through my old physics text book and got to the part with circular motion. I’ve watched the crash course video on circular motion and have read through physics forums explaining this and the Wikipedia article for this subject and I still don’t understand it.

I understand where you’re coming from and I know you don’t know me, so it’s a fair assumption considering how much fucking AI there is, and I appreciate you encouraging actual research instead of consulting AI, but damn do I feel insulted.

I’ll look into it, thanks!