TeddE

@TeddE@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which one and why?⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  GOBLIN ASS-SHOVEL

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s step two or three, for sure. But the point being made is fascist isn’t a word that can be applied to anyone and everyone (setting aside the 2¢ insult version) - it is a specific political ideology that one earns by their words and actions.

  Unfortunately it is also complex to diagnose, particularly in early stages, especially as intelligent budding fascists will deliberately evade the formal definitions while still finding ways to accomplish similar effects.

  But yes - there’s also cases where fascists clearly and obviously are doing fascist things, and need to be stopped immediately, please feel free to give them a proper knuckle sandwich (or an appropriate grade of violence as the situation warrants)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In this essay...⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

  I’ve had this asserted before, but I’m not sure it lives up to the mathematical rigor of our conversation to this point. I recommend substantially more investigation. 😉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In this essay...⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I apologize. I went back and reread from the top and I see my error.

  My mobile Lemmy client indicates replies with cycling colors, and I had the misunderstanding that your objection was to the axioms presented in Principia Mathematica. But your reply was fair in the context of the axioms you were actually replying to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Math is the philosophy department in that math is an extension of logic, which is in turn an extension of philosophy. You’d have a better chance of divorcing math from applied math (engineering/physics) than separating math from philosophy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In this essay...⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah! I see. Thanks for clarifying.

  As to m=s(n) and n=s(m), I think that is the motivation behind modular arithmetic and it gets used a lot with rotation, because 12 does loop back around to 1 in clocks, and a half turn to face backwards is the same position whether clockwise or counter. This is why we don’t use natural numbers for angles and use degrees and radians.

  I’m terms of parallels, I personally see that as a strength - instead of having successors (a term that intuitively embeds a concept of time/progression), I typically take the successor function as closer to the layman concept of ‘another’. Thus five bananas is s(s(s(s(🍌)))) and it does have a parallel to five cars s(s(s(s(🚗)))). The fiveness doesn’t answer questions about the nature of the thing being counted (such as, "Are these cars: 🚓🚙🏎️🛵? "). Mathematicians like to use the size of the empty set as an abstract stand-in for when they don’t know what they’re talking about (in a literal sense, not broadly).

  As far as predecessors to 0 - undefined isn’t a problem for natural numbers, just for the people using them. And it makes a certain sense, too. You can’t actually have negative apples (regardless of how useful it may be to discuss a debt of apples).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll agree to that.

  And I also think that there’s no way I trust Alphabet (holding company of Google) to be the sole arbiters of who gets to run code - neither in a philosophical sense nor as a gatekeeper to one top five compute platforms used by a substantial chunk of the world population.

  It absolutely does not justify creating a policy that would wholesale obliterate F-Droid, arguably one of their larger competitors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In this essay...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure what you mean by ‘loops’ - except perhaps modular arithmetic, but there are no natural numbers that are negative - you may be thinking of integers, which is constructed from the natural numbers. Similarly, rational numbers, real numbers, and complex numbers are also constructed from the naturals. Complex numbers are often expressed as though they’re two dimensional, since the imaginary part cannot be properly reduced, e.g. 3+2i.

  I recommend this playlist by mathematician another roof: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsdeQ7TnWVm_EQG1rm…

  They build the whole modern number system ‘from scratch’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole value in searching is to get me to primary sources in a reasonably efficient way. Everything about AI is inserting extra middle men. I just don’t understand how anyone tolerates it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty much indisputably better for security.

  I dispute this. While adding extra layers of security looks good on paper, flawed security can be worse than no security at all.

  Android packages already have to be signed to be valid and those keys already are very effective in practice. In effect these new measures are reinventing the wheel as to what a layperson would think this new system does.

  Adding this extra layer in fact has no actual security benefit beyond posturing/“deterrence”. Catching a perpetrator is not the same thing as preventing a crime. Worse - catching a thief in meatspace has the potential to recover stolen goods, but not so in digital spaces - either the crime is damage or destruction of data for which no punishment undoes the damage or the crime is sharing private data which in practice would almost certainly have been immediately fenced to multiple data brokers.

  And were only getting started with this security theater:

  • Nothing prevents an organization from hiring a developer for long enough to register before being flushed (or the same effect with a burner account on fiver)
  • Nothing in this program does anything to get code libraries vetted - many of these developers may accidentally be publishing code from poisoned wells that they have no practical knowledge of.
  • None of these measures make scams less profitable.
  • None of this addresses greyware - software that could technically qualify as legal (because the user agreed to terms of service for a service of dubious value)
  • All of this costs time and resources that will likely inevitably be shouldered on low paid engineers that could have put that effort to better uses.
  • Metrics and statistics may likely be P-hacked to reflect that the new system as a success (because there’s internal pressure to make it look good) this turning-security-into-press-releases would have collateral of making accountability overall worse.

  But you know what would be even better for security?

  While we’re at it we could add the tropes of removing network connectivity, or switch to using clay tablets kept in a wooden box guarded by a vengeful god. Both of those would be more secure, too.

  Users should be allowed to do insecure things with their devices

  100% agree with you here - it’s fundamentally the principle of “Your liberty to swing your fist ends just where my nose begins”. Users should be given the tools and freedom to do as they want with their property - up until it affects another person or their property in an unwanted way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That was fundamentally F-Droid’s retort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK When you hover over a piece of the phonetic notation on (English) Wikipedia, it shows you an example for its pronunciation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ll bend over in a jiffy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair point. I think my eyes glossed over the part where they said they where taking a second look at docker (but caught the rest about rebuilding the OS in general). My sincere apologies 😓😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FFS Plex, the server is on my local network⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not gonna argue that Jellyfin is technically superior, but I switched to Plex to stop others from giving/selling my viewing habits. Stopped using Plex when it leaked they were doing the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FFS Plex, the server is on my local network⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I used Plex for privacy reasons. I stopped using Plex for privacy reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨save the planet 🌎⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Did they?

  I can’t recall anyone ever being anything but nonplussed and skeptical about paper straws. From what I can tell, it was a product of a think tank that pushed into the news, which then caused businesses to treat that as though it were public demand and pushed it out to everyone, and most people shrugged, used the obviously inferior product (because it was free and the alternatives require attention), and then people got on with their day.

  On the wider scale this was pitched as ‘the only thing you can personally do to combat climate change’ - but I suspect it is the literal strawman of a figurative progressive position, purposely pushing a manufactured defective solution as a means to distract and suppress more substantive change and organization thereof.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They can but - if their current setup meets their needs - why? There ain’t nothing wrong with having a few simple spare laptops, each an isolated environment for a few simple home server tasks each.

  Don’t get me wrong - I too advocate for docker, particularly on new builds, or as a relatively turnkey solution to get started for novice friends, but the best setup is the one that works, and they sound like they got theirs where they want it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sticker⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be clear: I did/do not mean to imply you are/were/[ever would be] a nazi simp.

  My point above was to say - publicly pissed pants are petit potatoes compared to a slew of modern issues; public urination is a “first world problem”. Buuuuuuuuuuut, it’s also worth noting my argument can be wholesale dismissed as “whataboutism” if you so desire (if we’re approaching this as a strictly logical syllogism).

  Also, may push back on your original statement a bit? Why do you think OP’s story occurred in a public space? Do you care more or less if say we learned OP was in the artist booth space at a private, adults-only furry convention? We could push further and imagine this occuring at a private watersports convention - but that’s flirting with the ridiculous as in that space OP would have been silly to but have expected this.

  I suppose my question for you is this: If the furry did a controlled leak to freshly wet their pants, with no spillover dripping onto the floor, then went to show their friends what they did for a laugh (the juxtaposition of following the stickers instructions vs the social expectation not to), then proceeded to change into fresh clothes - what’s your objection? Who is being hurt? What’s really ‘not based’ about this obviously juvenile comedic act?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sticker⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d rather deal with a hundred furries pissing themselves in public than one Nazi trying to commit a genocide.

  Obviously this isn’t a strict either/or situation. The joke of someone pissing themselves probably wears thin if I have to clean up after them … point taken.

  But given all the problems in the world today, one that can be fixed with a few paper towels ranks super low on my list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All embedded in the modern slang ‘boy’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the era, “spare the rod, spoil the child” was considered good advice. If that’s how even loved ones were treated … slaves treated well? Press X to doubt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3144: Phase Changes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My hypothesis is that the freezer motor has to be right at the freezing point and the tray has to have few nucleation points such that when a small spek of water freezes the phase change disperses enough heat to prevent them from immediately following suit, the small flake of ice then rises to the surface. As it continues to cool, further freezing is more likely to occur in the existing crystal. Through a combination of ice’s buoyancy and the surface tension of liquid water, the crystal gets pushed upward compared to liquid water.

  I wonder if the fridge motor’s vibration plays any role on where the fingers form (due to resonance patterns).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doot doot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We have the free trial of replaceable teeth. The first replacement is free, after that it gets expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doot doot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jellyfish hate consent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kinky⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me get you a hood and I know a group you’ll fit right in with. Bonus points if you like belly scritches and wagging your tail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only reason I’ve never canceled is because I’ve never subscribed.

  But I wish I had something to cancel in protest of the egregious 1st amendment violations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh Jesus he is cooked⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d argue it means dopamine, suggesting it’s only permissable with the desire (and consent) of both parties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because we live in a world where it’s easy to block offensive words, so much so that the powers that be like to pretend that blocking talk about the 'cest is somehow an effective tool in combating it. (When instead it just coins an endless stream of new words that act as synonyms for ‘the bad words’. 'Cause funk you. Funk you to heck!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're still talking about this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Missed opportunities:

  • that German guy who wanted to be an artist
  • Trump as a weeb
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I got hooked on browsing openalternative.co is "Most Popular" list⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ^this

  I don’t need the tool giving me its opinion. I usually use alternativeto.net to find more open alternatives, but if someone has tried open source and is looking for proprietary solutions, doesn’t hurt me to see all options presented reasonably fairly.

  Openalternative.co is “Made by Piotr Kulpinski. Website may contain affiliate links.”