High demand groups must always have an enemy. This enemy must constitute an existential threat to the group (real or imagined). It's what enables the group to make the demands it does of its members. The ends need to seem to justify the means, though actually achieving those ends are unnecessary. In fact it's not even desirable, because once they do, they need to manufacture a new enemy.
This understanding gives interesting context to the Mormon obsession with the quote "there needs be opposition in all things." There literally does.
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Accidentally left my #sourdough starter unattended for just shy of 48 hours. I had intended to refrigerate it.
It got a bit runny and had a bit of a vinegar-ey smell to it but no mould, so I think it's salvagable. Just fed it and we'll see how it fares.
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It’ll be fine, I leave mine weeks without feeding sometimes.
Treat it mean, keep it keen.
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@Maddie, Wizard of Installs 🪄 Yeah. I know I've fallen into the whole benefit-of-the-doubt trap myself. Censorship makes me uneasy, but I also have to recognize that as a straight cis white dude, I can't afford the luxury of relying on my own personal experience alone.
I've heard too many people complain about bigotry here to simply write it off as an isolated incident.
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Pi is an irrational number. This means that its digits continue indefinitely without ever repeating. Every possible finite combination of digits is therefore contained therein. This would technically include a digital representation of every possible copyrighted work.
Does this constitute prior art?
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I'll bite, but not about the IP part.
Just because an irrational number's digits continue indefinitely without ever repeating, does that necessarily mean that it contains every arbitrary finite sequence of digits?
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Is there at least one finite sequence of digits that isn't represented in pi? If so, there are probably an infinite set of finite sequences of arbitrary numbers not represented in pi.
*something something* Cantor's infinite set of infinite sets...
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OTOH, if every finite sequence of arbitrary digits is represented in pi, then we should be able to find in pi a representation of, say, Euler's number to any given precision...
3/3 Enough for now. I don't have the math-fu to know if I'm being rational.
@bobjonkman No. Consider 1.0100100010000100001..... This is irrational but it doesn't contain any sequence of digits containing digits other than one or zero.
As for the irrational number pi, I think maybe it is unknown whether it contains all sequences of digits, but I don't know where to quickly check that.
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@soaproot ...though could it not then be argued that this number contains a binary encoding of all possible sequences?
Edit: actually, not necessarily.
Edit 2: Okay, I see the pattern now. Definitely not.
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So, I've learned that the couple who own the building I live in are moving in to the unit directly beneath us.
While I definitely have mixed feelings about this, at least I guess they're less likely to sell to a REIT.
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data Foo = Bar { val :: Int } | Baz { val :: Int }
is valid #Haskell. I wouldn't have thought you could define
val
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Mastodon is the ONLY space where I receive racist comments to my posts
Mastodon, for me, is often indistinguishable from today’s Twitter
And now that Bluesky is fully operational, you can’t use “oh, that’s just the Fedverse” because I posted there at the same time and it’s NOT the same experience at all
Fix this shit or this “thought experiment” will not survive the shifts that’s happening
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@cmdr_nova I saw this explained in another thread. They're not coming from "racist instances". People just keep signing up for new accounts on big instances to evade suspension, so its a game of whackamole/death of a thousand cuts.
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@Eniko Fox When people fail to use content filters, I just set all their posts to auto-collapse (essentially CW-ing everything they post).
I don't know if Mastodon supports this and it's still somewhat of a game of whack-a-mole, but it's the best solution I've found thus far.
i would like the people who are like "who needs content warnings just opt out using filters" to know that i block anyone who says this on sight, and I am very influential
I have a messenger bag that I typically carry around with me. Sometimes things go in there and I forget about them.
Katy was looking for something and discovered that for some reason I had put our marriage certificate in there. The last time I needed the physical certificate was years ago, so it must've been sitting in there and I've just been carrying it around with me unknowingly for quite some time.
I imagine I should probably find a better place for it.
I should probably also go through it to see what else I've put in there and forgotten about.
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Me: I like math because its answers are unambiguous and not up for debate. Two plus two is always four.
Finite fields: Oh really?
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I'm an idiot.
I was trying to install #Haskell on a machine and thought the installer was taking a really long time. In my defense, the last line of text was:
Installation may take a while.
It sat at this stage for over an hour while I did other stuff, because I hadn't bothered to read the previous line:
Press ENTER to proceed or ctrl-c to abort.
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hlint
is a great tool for pointing out where your code can be improved, but sometimes its suggestions are... interesting. Case in point, it just recommended changingmap (\(a, b) -> {- ...stuff... -}) $ zip as bs
to
zipWith (curry (\(a, b) -> {- ...stuff... -})) as bs
instead of
zipWith (\a b -> {- ...stuff... -}) as bs
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No one is getting fired over this, right?
Correct. HR systems are down too.
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Just gonna annoy everyone everywhere #Mastodon
$390/$600
Raised for the Hotel
**$210 PAST DUE**
-$409 July Deficit
$516/$5135 Raised Monthly Goal
I'm fucking #hungry
and can't even make anything because I'm exhausted!!!
#Urgent #MutualAidRequest #MutualAid saves lives #PovertyKills #Poverty ia winning
Don't let this #facist system kill me and my mom and my #bunny
Buy a damn shirt they on sale
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Make sure to uncheck this in Firefox 128+, because Firefox now collects user data by default (for advertising)
Source:
heise.de/en/news/For-advertisi…
#opensource #firefox #web #webdev #privacy
For advertising: Firefox now collects user data by default
Firefox presents itself as the first choice for data protection. But the new version collects data for advertisers by default. Normal or a breach of trust?Moritz Förster (heise online)
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Got an oscilloscope as a late birthday present. One of the features listed on the box is "firmware updates".
Why on earth would an oscilloscope need firmware updates? It's an oscilloscope.
Next up: learn how to use an oscilloscope. 🙃
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We have to order @Benny's food from the vet because he's on a prescription diet. Tried using their on-line ordering option. We ordered his food a week ago. It just arrived this morning.
We just got tracking now.
Thanks. That's helpful.
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Microsoft destroyed my online life after I called home to Gaza
Palestinians calling home to Gaza on Skype are being blocked and banned from using Microsoft products.Mohamed Shalaby and Joe Tidy (BBC News)
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