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go for it

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a consequence of the axiom of choice is that every set can be given a well ordering. and well orderings always have smallest elements, but they may not have largest elements.

so there is someone who is the least gay, but there may not be a single person who is the most gay.

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oops. you’re completely right. i forgot there are only a finite number of people on earth. there is a gayest person

affiliate ,

yeah this is true. i should have clarified a bit better that a well ordering wouldn’t give you a “least gay” person in that sense of the word. it would be more correct to say there is a well ordering ⊰, and so there is a “⊰”-least gay person. but of course a “⊰”-least gay person could be in the middle of that spectrum.

but the number of people on earth is finite, so in fact the usual ordering is a well-ordering in this case. so i guess those two mistakes i made cancel each other out, and the axiom of choice isn’t even needed here.

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you could think about it this way: one sphere and two spheres have the same “number” of points. (in the same way that there are just as many real numbers as there are real numbers in the interval (0,1).)

so, it becomes “”plausible”” that you could use one sphere to construct two spheres (because in some sense, you aren’t “adding any new points”).

but in the real world, “spheres” only have a finite number of atoms. so if we regard atoms as “points”, then it’s no longer true that one sphere and two spheres have the same number of “points”. and in some sense, this is why the sphere duplication trick doesn’t work in the real world.

it’s also worth mentioning that you have to do some pretty fucked up and unusual things in order to actually duplicate the sphere, and if you don’t allow such weird things to be done to the sphere, then it’s no longer possible to duplicate it, even with the axiom of choice.

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it is possible to rigorously say that 1/0 = ∞. this is commonly occurs in complex analysis when you look at things as being defined on the Riemann sphere instead of the complex plane. thinking of things as taking place on a sphere also helps to avoid the "positive"/"negative" problem: as |x| shrinks, 1 / |x| increases, so you eventually reach the top of the sphere, which is the point at infinity.

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i think this is a fairly reasonable gut reaction to first hearing about the "unnatural" numbers, especially considering the ways they're (typically) presented at first. it seems like kids tend to be introduced to the negative numbers by people saying things like "hey we can talk about numbers that are less 0, heres how you do arithmetic on them, be sure to remember all these rules". and when presented like that, it just seems like a bunch of new arbitrary rules that need to be memorized, for seemingly no reason.

i think there would be a lot less resistance if it was explained in a more narrative way that explained why the new numbers are useful and worth learning about. e.g.,

  • negative numbers were invented to make it possible to subtract any two whole numbers (so that it's possible to consistently undo addition).
  • rational numbers were invented to make it possible to divide any two whole numbers (so that it's possible to consistently undo multiplication, with 0 being a weird edge-case).
  • real numbers were invented to facilitate handling geometrical problems (hypotenuse of a triangle, and π for dealing with circles), and to facilitate the study of calculus (i.e. so that you can take supremums, limits, etc)
  • complex numbers were invented to make it possible to consistently solve polynomial equations (fundamental theorem of algebra), and to better handle rotations in 2d space (stuff like Euler's formula)

i think the approach above makes the addition of these new types of numbers seem a lot more reasonable, because it justifies the creation of all the various types of numbers by basically saying "there weren't enough numbers in the last number system we were using, and that made it a lot harder to do certain things"

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it’s mathematically provable that the shortest path between any two points on a sphere will be given by a so-called “great circle”. (a great circle is basically something like the equator: one of the biggest (greatest) circles that you can draw on the surface of a sphere.) i think this is pretty unintuitive, especially because this sort of non-euclidean geometry doesn’t really come up very frequently in day to day life. but one way to think about this that on the sphere, “great circles” are the analogues of straight lines, although you’d need a bit more mathematical machinery to make that more precise.

although in practice, some airlines might choose flight paths that aren’t great circles because of various real world factors, like wind patterns and temperature changes, etc.

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personally, i would go with “prior meeting”

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how could i have been so foolish

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do people actually fall for this stuff? it seems like so many business management types are working overtime to make sure they're always up to date with the latest in corporate jargon. why? do people actually think these people are saying anything?

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that kind of sentence structure always trips me up. we should start using parentheses for situations like this. or invent a new symbol, or something. we give commas too many jobs.

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Board chair Robyn Denholm wrote in a letter included in the regulatory filing: "Elon has not been paid for any of his work for Tesla for the past six years... That strikes us, and the many stockholders from whom we already have heard, as fundamentally unfair."

Musk's compensation for 2023 was $0, the filing showed, as the billionaire does not take a salary from the company and is compensated through stock options.

it's so unfair that elon hasnt gotten a single pay check and has instead had to settle for making billions off of his stock options. think of all the mega yachts and social media companies he could've bought if only he had been paid a salary.

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completely agree. and it's even more insidious when you take into account how he's spent the past 6 years bragging about how he has a salary of $0 because he's "only working for the betterment of humanity" or some nonsense like that.

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yeah it has. it's a photoshopped picture of todd howard

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they're probably assuming it will be like every skyrim update released in the past 10 years, which is a fair assumption.

and this update has also caused the widely anticipated fallout london project being indefinitely postponed. in the article linked, you can see the fallout london project lead saying:

"But with the new update dropping just 48 hours [after Fallout London's original release date], the past four years of our work stand to just simply break."

i don't really see what good it does to say "nobody can know that at this time", when people have every reason to think that it will break their mods. i mean sure, nobody knows the future, but you can say that about literally every single prediction made about anything in the future. it's a tautology. are you trying to imply people shouldn't make predictions about anything?

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Everybody knows what free speech means.

i really dont think so.

free speech is a pretty complicated thing and i feel like many people dont have a solid grasp on it. i think a good number of people think they know what free speech means because they know "it only applies to what the government can do to you", but there's quite a bit more to it than that. like how to deal with hate speech, threats, misinformation, disinformation, etc.

and this is directly related to the problems twitter is facing: elon musk started out by saying hes a "free speech absolutist", but twitter has been slowly rediscovering why "free speech absolutism" doesnt work. and you can see those discoveries in real time with twitter reintroducing moderation policies (among other things)

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i had this problem the first couple times i tried playing it. and i also didnt really like the visual tint the game had going. but eventually i think i just got to be like a frog in boiled water where i didnt really mind the visual effects and gun play stuff anymore. i also think the hbomberguy video was helpful in motivating me to commit more to giving the game a proper chance, but idk it might've just been that i played it at the right time.

but at the end of the day, it's fine if the game isn't for you. i think it's a fun game and all, but it does have some short comings and (visually) it hasn't aged that well. and who knows, maybe the game will resonate more if you try it again at a different stage of your life.

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Will uninstall actually get rid of it?

maybe for a couple months

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how could it be installed on a 2022 server if copilot launched in 2023?

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running copilot on a 95 or 98 server would make even less sense

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this is just like me when i’m in a klein bottle

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to grow a tree you must first plant a seed

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regular tensors are tough enough, i dont even want to begin to know what ⊗^⊗^ means

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no diamond funko pop yet

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that’s why you wear other other shoes under the croc exterior, like kevlar for your feet

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they may shoot me, but i will rest easy knowing they wont be able to shoot all the popcorn

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maybe they should’ve been a little more tolerant if they didn’t want to engulfed by a giant ball of plasma

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not to mention how many things they want to go through their system. getting vim set up “their way” while also trying to install python3 support, vimtex, and plug-vim was almost impossible. not to mention finding a way to store the vim configs separately from the rest of nixos. (i use vim on multiple operating systems so switching everything to the nixos wasn’t a viable option.)

maybe there was a better way to do it that i didn’t know about, but boy did i try to find it.

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i think i would’ve probably had to package the specific kind of vim that i needed, because i wanted neovim and a gui too or something. this was also like 3-4 years ago so its possible the documentation for this kind of stuff has considerably improved since i tried, or that there are now packages that make this sort of thing easier. and it’s definitely possible everything existed at the time and i just couldn’t figure it out.

but i ended up with a similar feeling to the one you described: stuff is easy when you do it their way, using their tools; but things are very hard to do if you deviate from the path.

i know this is just sort of an inevitable part of the design paradigm they use, and that everything probably works very nicely if you learn their language and the various ins and outs of the operating system, but i just wasn’t willing to commit that much to it.

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i would like to give it another try at some point because it seems like it will probably feel really nice to use once i get the hang of it. but the lack of documentation is pretty rough.

i also think that for nixos, a lack of documentation is a much more difficult thing to overcome. other distros can piggyback off the arch documentation for most things, but that doesn’t work as well for nixos.

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might be a good place to mention petting aggression: basically the term for when you’re having some nice petting and affection time with your cat and then they attack you out of nowhere.

the article i linked describes some of the causes, and offers some advice on how to see the signs and avoid the attacks from happening

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yeah that's a pretty big oversight tbh. they should make the website play "hold" music and add some "timeout" popups you have to keep clicking

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“you can jerk off.”

“source?”

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no, 196 nice

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    this reminds me of the old school viruses when people would be play around and get silly with it. i miss those days of malware

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    cute kitten picture

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    real professionals keep an opened egg in their holster with the hot sauce already inside

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    you seem to be assuming that children have the same logical reasoning faculties that adults do. this is not the case.

    i agree that parents should not have a monopoly over the information that their children get, but i think that well-educated school teachers are a better solution to this than the internet. (although this would require the US to put some kind of emphasis on improving its education system, so it’s probably unlikely)

    US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones (www.theverge.com)

    The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.

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    did you read the article?

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    they could get an extra 50 billion if they say “security for children, against terrorists”

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    this is going to be devastating for all the prank youtube channels

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    can you make one with extra misinformation next

    Now i'm definitely cheering for Rulestein (lemmy.ml)

    alt text: A "xit" from user @ChrpngBrd in which he responds to another "xit" from @BlueBoxDave that says "If Israel falls then America falls. It's that simple." @ChrpngBrd's response is a thumbs up emoji, and two stills from The Simpsons S02E19 "Lisa's Substitute." In which, the first image is Martin Prince putting up a poster...

    affiliate ,

    whenever someone says “it’s that simple”, it’s not.

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    what do you mean by free? if total privacy means i can’t have a phone or talk to most people then does that really make me more free?

    i agree that privacy is important, but i think this is fundamentally a legislative problem. there’s only so much that can be done at the individual level without making massive sacrifices and dedicating a serious amount of time to it. i have a vpn, i use content blockers, etc. but i think its too simplistic to say more privacy = more free.

    one of the other commenters mentioned the thing about having someone looking in while you’re watching tv. but if the only solution is to go live in the woods, is it really worth it?

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    it seems like you’re blaming all of societies problems on technology. surely there must be more to it than that, right? the lack of fitness for example may be due to increasing grocery costs, the rise of fast food, the cost of living crises, and/or many other economical/sociological factors.

    i just really don’t understand your argument here. you’re conflating the concept of “privacy” (the original topic of the conversation) with “all of our gadgets” and the effects of those gadgets. i don’t see anything in your comment that’s related to privacy.

    and do you honestly think you’ll find more meaning by living in the woods? if so, why haven’t you done it?

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    this is just like in watch dogs

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    the platform’s most popular post types, the megathread, which is a sort of one-stop-shop for discussions about popular topics. Similar to megathreads, free-form ads are meant to help readers get the information they need quickly. The company says the new ad format would be a good way to do things like launch a product or introduce a brand to a new audience.

    imagine seeing a new mega thread each time a brand releases a new flavor of deodorant or something

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