yetAnotherUser
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- Comment on brains on autopilot 2 days ago:
Surely that isn’t anatomically accurate, is it?
Also, do ducks even have balls?
- Comment on It's not just a comic, it's a meme 5 days ago:
It’s an emmm dash.
- Comment on Library Apps are GOATed 1 week ago:
Eh, voting is free, library cards are not (over here).
- Comment on freedom after speech 1 week ago:
The police don’t hunt you down unless the victim filed a criminal complaint with them first. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antragsdelikt
Except for politicians, for some reason they’re exempt though there seem to be plans to change this because it’s incredibly unpopular.
- Comment on freedom after speech 1 week ago:
it’s a civil violation
Over here it’s very much a criminal offense, so this only applies to some countries.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Look at the size of that needle and you’ll understand.
- Comment on I also have one 4 weeks ago:
Nope. Assume the chair fits at most C clothes, with C being a constant.
The efficiency is at worst O© = O(C * 1) = C * O(1) = O(1).
Sure, the more clothes are on top, the longer it takes. But Big O notation is only useful if the N gets very big. And considering that the naximum amount of clothes is likely very small, it can be treated as O(1).
- Comment on please bro just one more try bro 1 month ago:
Thank god the East Germans did not have systemic sexual abuse of children. Phew.
- Comment on Theories on Theories 2 months ago:
Worse: If the chosen axioms are contradictory, then the theorem is effectively worthless.
And it is impossible to know whether axioms are consistent. You can only prove that they are not.
- Comment on RAMANUJAN SPECIAL 2 months ago:
Makes sense though.
The complex Riemann-Zeta function (Zeta(x) = sum from 1 to infinity of 1/n^x) only converges for Re(x) > 1, else it is infinite. We can use analytic continuation - which I understand as extending the function such that it remains holomorphic (basically continuous but in the complex numbers and for some reason well-defined) and find the value of Zeta(-1) that way.
The value of Zeta(-1) when viewed this way is -1/12.
It’s not really saying the sum of all natural numbers is equal to -1/12. It’s really just a mathematical trick, just like: lim (x -> 0) x/x = 1 but this doesn’t mean 0/0 = 1.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I consider Wikipedia more reliable than vast portions of primary sources. I have seen the awful quality of many papers - “publish or perish” is a thing in science.
And yes, obviously the label “narcissist” is an insult. Just like calling someone “stupid”. When using it as an insult however, it is clearly meant to say this person displays high amounts of narcissism and behaves like a self-centered asshole.
This is different to insults such as “autistic” because that is not a personality style but rather a clinical diagnosis. It would be akin to using the term “disabled” as an insult.
Narcissism is a negative trait if you have too much. That is why it’s an insult. If I say someone is “smelly” I am also insulting their body odor. Doesn’t mean people who struggle with body hygiene for whatever reason should also feel insulted by that.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
The term narcissist doesn’t just refer to someone with that personality disorder.
If you are a self-centered asshole, you are a narcissist regardless of an NPD diagnosis.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism
Narcissism is a self-centered personality style
Same with calling someone stupid. It doesn’t mean they have a learning disability.
- Comment on Linux kernel maintainers are following through on removing Intel 486 support 2 months ago:
Is it?
Just use Linux 6.12 with LTS until 2029 and Super LTS until 2036.
- Comment on Crying is a free action 2 months ago:
That’s not a fair example, I know what linear algebra is but can’t tell what’s going on.
Change of basis would be my guess, but that’s pretty basic.
You could’ve provided something far worse, like a manual construction of the Jordan normal form of a large matrix.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
So does every number:
6.000000…
- Comment on Ficken Zodiacs 3 months ago:
Ah yes, Bundesdepublik Reutschland
- Comment on Spicy spicy 3 months ago:
Right?? I genuinely don’t understand this meme, I have never wanted to stack my coins and hold them. Do these people not have wallets?
- Comment on If you're going to accept art this horny please pay someone 3 months ago:
If by “treating you right” you mean imprisoning you for speaking out against the referendum that only further strengthens the “President’s” power (like unilaterally dissolving the parliament and then being allowed to create laws at will, only being allowed to be replaced when sentenced of treason [but the President assigns the president of the constitutional court lol] and so on), then yes.
- Comment on Video game PEGI age-ratings are changing in Europe from June. Four new categories added to tackle elements of addictive design, unmonitored online communication and loot boxes 3 months ago:
The rating system isn’t meant to be taken literally though. It’s expected that parents make an informed choice based on the maturity of their child. The ratings are recommendations and as far as I know only actually enforced by stores/sellers and cinemas.
- Comment on PB&J 4 months ago:
Please provide an example that fits in the Red/Blue overlap.
- Comment on When you're smarter than the teacher that wrote the test 4 months ago:
You didn’t specify the unit.
What if the unit was points^-200 ?
- Comment on Every day, boss makes a dollar, I make a dime... 5 months ago:
What a nice company, providing its employees with free product samples!
- Comment on What's it like living in 2? 5 months ago:
To elaborate, it’s really easy to forge “regular” coins and really attractive to forge high value coins.
For example, the 1 British Pound coin was, before the redesign, widely forged:
As of March 2014 there were an estimated 1,553 million of the original nickel-brass coins in circulation,[6] of which the Royal Mint estimated in 2014 that just over 3% were counterfeit.
(Note for any languages that use the comma as a decimal separator: 1,553 million is referring to 1.5 billion)
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 5 months ago:
Yes, that is why I mentioned the IAU’s definition was more specific.
Very large? Enough mass to have a round shape.
Dwarf everything nearby? Clear out its orbit by colliding with/capturing/ejecting shit.
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 5 months ago:
I propose a better definition:
Planets are very large objects orbitting a star that dwarf everything nearby
I’m pretty sure this is the intent of the IAU’s definition. It’s just more specific.
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 5 months ago:
Do you mean the asteroids at the Lagrangian points? Every single planet has asteroids there because math/physics dictates those points to be stable. Jupiter has the most at its points because it’s the largest planet.
Same with Neptune cleaning its orbit: It has collided with every single thing in its orbit EXCEPT those that synced their orbits to Neptune. An object that is gravitationally dominated by a single planet should not be a planet under any definition.
Sources because I had to read into your claims and I’m no astrophysicist:
- Comment on Why is sharpedo blocked in image searches on DuckDuckGo and Bing, but not Google? 5 months ago:
Bing/DDG have a lot of weird censorship.
“Shapedo” and “Sharkpedo” both work btw.
- Comment on Anon is a linguist 6 months ago:
It’s calling a function without a parameter.
You know how in math you had something like:
f(x) = x²
Not all functions need parameters though. The function:
f(x) = 2
does not even use the provided x! So just leave it out:
f() = 2
Similarly, you could give a function two parameters:
f(x, y) = x + y
Programmers use functions to primarily organize their code. Otherwise it would get very unreadable very quickly. Those function are usually a bit more complicated than a single line, like.
Dog.walk() would call the walk() function of “Dog”. Some valid code could be:
Dog.walk() wait(10) Dog.stop()
This code would make the dog walk for 10 seconds assuming every function used is actually defined somewhere.
- Comment on Things used to be more simple back then 6 months ago:
🥺👉👈
- Comment on And my premature ejaculation is the shortcoming!? 7 months ago:
No, it’s a race and the winner takes all.
