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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuckin' PSYOP⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  i thought the indians already put a dot in place to denote zero?

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  From the wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeral_system

  Indian mathematicians, such as Brahmagupta in the 7th century, played a crucial role in formalizing arithmetic rules and the concept of zero, which was later refined by scholars like Al-Khwarizmi in the Islamic world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuckin' PSYOP⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah they changed the appearance of the number symbols a little bit, but i would say the real genius in the system is that it’s a place-value system and that each digit is valued 10 times more than the one after it. that’s the core of the system, the rest is just a make-up appearance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuckin' PSYOP⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it?

  for them, yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuckin' PSYOP⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  internet bots were sent by the millions to destroy america, lol

  i used to think that too. but is it really the case?

  there’s definitely a lot of wild statements on the internet today, such as Nick Fuentes neo-nazi views.

  though i do wonder, are they really bots, or do people really think like that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw it, I’m installing Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  exFAT is great for compatibility but it doesn’t have journaling, so if there’s a power outage while writing to a file, you can expect the file to get corrupted and unusable (which sucks). apart from that, yeah, it’s great.

  what i can recommend if you’re working in a big organization or group or sth is to use a network drive, i.e. a drive that’s accessed over the network. you typically don’t have problems there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw it, I’m installing Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah i can report i’ve dealt with TB-sized external NTFS-formatted disks for years and never had issues with linux with them :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How has there not yet been a leak of the Epstein files? Surely there is someone with access to them that could have been subject to worldwide pressure to let something out.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  the thing with the moon landing (or spaceflight in general) is that it’s very easy to verify for other countries since many of the satellites send a radio signal all the time and you can actually receive that radio signal from other sides of the world. this way, you know where satellites are (if they want to be discovered). so, we know Yuri Gagarin made it to space because of the radio signal, and the same would likely be true for the moon landings (although i actually hadn’t checked so far).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  i think that’s also how it worked for medieval nobility

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  you should also notice that’s the conservative worldview in general. people only have a right to exist as long as they’re useful to society in one way or another. the same also appears in the work context, where they’re sternly against “handouts” because they don’t want to give “lazy” people a way to exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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  four people disagreeing because they think if people’s self-worth is not tied to their productivity, then all the lazy foreigners are gonna come in and take our spot. only our heroic (self-sacrificing) eternal push to increase our bosses’ pockets are enough of an excuse to consume oxygen and continue to eat (massive /s)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine even sold their nice old house to have a new smaller one

  that’s exactly what my mother would do.

  she has this mindset that we need constantly changing products. she says it’s like with clothing, if you always wear the same cloth, people will get tired of it and you need to buy new clothes all the time. she also says that spending a lot of money stimulates the economy. (she’s actually right about this, only that it’s her - no, our money that she’s spending and the rich peoples economy where it’s going to).

  i hate these kind of people. in my experience, these are people who are unable to not buy unnecessary stuff and just be content with how things are today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a better way might be that browsers can auto-decline all cookies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bank Workers, Rejoice!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  These people have abandoned humanity.

  I wish they would abandon Earth too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  more like: every goddamn day the newspapers only report about the bad things that happen, because good things make no money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  well yeah in my personal environment, the people i talk to IRL, lots of people complain about the supposedly overly-strict GDPR rules and about the fact that it makes management quite a bit more challenging, because they have to be careful about what information to put/share where. Like, even if you make a public google sheets document as a calendar for a small company/school where a group of people can enter their email addresses, that’s already a GDPR violation, because personal data becomes accessible by other people. As a result, you theoretically would need very elaborate custom-forms, where only you can enter information but nobody else can see it. It’s a hell of a lot of work, IMHO. So yeah, people have semi-meaningfully complained about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  oh yeah i’ve heard about it.

  basically, people got pissed with cookie banners so much that they complained to the EU government about it.

  the EU government said “well, if people don’t like the choice to allow or deny cookies, i guess we’ll un-do these regulations”.

  I think this is a very good example how people are always complaining, no matter what the government does.

  If the government makes a law, a group of people complain. If the government later removes that same law that people kept whining about, another group of people complains. What to do?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  thanks, i figured it out. i had multiple older versions of youtube-dlp and yt-dlp installed on my machine. once i removed them, it worked.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit this sounds fantastic!

  Only issue i have is mpv seems to use its built-in yt-dlp which is an old version that youtube is blocking now. I have a newer version of yt-dlp installed on my computer, but mpv does not seem to use that. What can i do?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as the market grows, it’s gonna take people to do the work implied by the growth.

  When growth stops, jobs vanish. It’s like the market is the wind and jobs are the kinetic energy. When the wind stops blowing, the kinetic energy disappears.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  An octopus can squeeze through a hole about the size of its eyeball and transform its body shape almost without limits.

  crazy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So much...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just define “star” to include Earth, then you’re already very close to one!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨monumentale⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the function never gets called, but the running code reads the source code of this function to extract important constants, and if you delete the function, everything breaks :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even our language has been perverted. When we like something, we call it good - a word that is derived from god: we put it in god’s vicinity. Therefore, it is instilled in us that everything we like must be close to god.

  Satan isn’t close to god but i still like them. How do i convey that in a single word?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i can confirm 4K and up add nothing for me compared to 1080p and even 720p. As long as i can recognize the images, who cares. Higher resolution just means you see more sweat, pimples, and the like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  by the way i’m not a science denialist, i just cannot follow that one particular argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i don’t like trusting “experts” in fact. trusting “experts” is how we got into this mess. people let themselves be manipulated by the media. people need to think for themselves. yes, that includes not believing certain scientific results, but IMO it’s better to discard a scientific result that i cannot follow myself instead of becoming an authoritarian (i.e. one who believes in authors, i.e. other people’s writing) dependent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  welllll i say that’s a reaaaly sketchy and irrational way to look at things.

  like, even if you smallest ruler is 1 mm, that does not mean that smaller things don’t exist. they can still play a role, i.e. through chaotic behavior smaller perturbations could be up-amplified until they are measurable.