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- Comment on Save as PDF 1 day ago:
I thought Knuth is the developer of TeX, not LaTeX… That being said, I am not overly fond of the things coming out of Stanford in that generation, like lisp, TeX, and LaTeX.
(because of anonymity, I am gonna say some bold things) These tools feels very much to me a product of west-coast PL, they feel hacky, way too flexible and end up doing nothing well, and definitely born out of the whole “hacker culture”.
Maybe Scheme and Racket is better, but I never spend the time to look into them.
- Comment on Save as PDF 1 day ago:
Dude, LaTeX sucks.
- Comment on It was as if it was taunting me 1 week ago:
Is it you, Louis XVI?
- Comment on Can socialism or communism have incentives (even without markets)? 2 weeks ago:
Sounds pretty ideal. I am not political scientist, nor do I think political scientist can have solid prediction about success of a macro political system at this level of a abstraction – it is simply too complex of a system.
I feel from the past experiment regarding socialism, there seems to be a conflict between large state and large state serving the will of the people. Power corrupt: for a social democracy to be functional, I believe needs to have (at least the following) two characteristic:
- Most people should not have to feel the worry for the lack of resources. Thus, wealth display will naturally be unnesscary, if not frowned upon. Eliminating the culture of admiring people with excessive assets.
- A strong democratic system that discourages the consolidation of power under a couple oligarchs.
- Comment on Can socialism or communism have incentives (even without markets)? 2 weeks ago:
Socialism only states the public ownership of means of production (sometimes called capital), but there is no requirement in the removal of market.
One of the way socialism can develop is when the cost of capital is way below cost of labour, making worker owning their own capital trivial.
However, there is really no requirement on the side of removal of market, universal healthcare, or universal educations etc; these are often consequence of a strong public sector and (at least attempts at) efficient allocation of resource. In most places people usually equate socialism with big government, that really is Marx-Leninism.
Marxism–Leninism holds that a two-stage communist revolution is needed to replace capitalism. A vanguard party, organized through democratic centralism, would seize power on behalf of the proletariat and establish a one-party communist state. The state would control the means of production, suppress opposition, counter-revolution, and the bourgeoisie, and promote Soviet collectivism, to pave the way for an eventual communist society that would be classless and stateless.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism–Leninism
Either with market or not, in a socialist society, worker are still compensated for their labor and expertise, often more than a capitalist society, since labor is the more valuable resource given the low value of capital.
- Comment on Can socialism or communism have incentives (even without markets)? 2 weeks ago:
China never even advertize themselves as a communist country, the official speak is “Socialism with Chinese Characteristic”
- Comment on Yummy yummy, in my tummy 3 weeks ago:
Okay maybe human shouldn’t make candys look like this.
- Comment on Is Winnie the Pooh considered "racist" now or are .ml folks using it as an excuse to defend Xi Jin Ping? 4 weeks ago:
IIRC blocking doesn’t stop them from seeing, voting on, and commenting on your post. It is better to pick a server that have de-federated from .ml
- Comment on Is Winnie the Pooh considered "racist" now or are .ml folks using it as an excuse to defend Xi Jin Ping? 4 weeks ago:
I stopped realizing it, but MACA is quite literally the slogan of Xi: 中华民族的伟大复兴 often translated to “Great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation”, in official English version. However, I feel a more accurate translation might be “the great resummit as the Chinese race.”
Basically the xenophobia of MAGA with a sprinkle of racial pride on top.
- Comment on Anon buys a can of beans 1 month ago:
You can also put tomato and salad in a pan, but there is no tomato and salad, and that is sad.
- Comment on well now I don't know what to think 1 month ago:
It is a scam, the address clearly say Wellington
- Comment on multiplication alignment chart 1 month ago:
I feel yields different result than 5 ∪ 7 in the classical set theoretical encoding… I believe 5 ∪ 7 = 7 in the standard encoding of set theory. Because ∪ is the join operation in the natural number lattice (every total order give a lattice structure), yet the lattice structure in ideals of natural number ring is different: the join is LCM and the meet is GCD.
I guess my objection is that the ∪ and ∩ in the set theoretical encoding is rather trivial: the lattice structure in a total order is not terribly informative. Yet the standard encoding of natrual number in category theory (the category generated by one arrow on one object) is slightly more interesting, as composition encodes addition, which is arguably the most interesting opration on natrual numbers.
That being said arguing about encoding of natrual number is not the most informative discussion. but I feel set theory in general is very low level, yet people usually think in more algebraic and high level way, which aligns more closely with category theory.
- Comment on Fun Otter Fact 1 month ago:
I mean, you know why you need all these security to go into a Fab? To hide the fact that all of our chips are secretly built by otters, who are all in a cult managed by the deep state and Joe Biden.
- Comment on multiplication alignment chart 1 month ago:
Counter point, no lawful theory shell let 5 ∪ 7 type check.
- Comment on multiplication alignment chart 2 months ago:
If function composition is chaotic, then set intersection is certainly not lawful.
- Comment on Amazing 2 months ago:
It is the first time in human history for christmas to fall on Dec 25, AD 2025. It will never happen again.
- Comment on Valves first title with a 3 in it 2 months ago:
Left 3 Dead
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I googled her name. She seems to believe that the medicine proscribed killed her husband, and they should be using horse dewormer instead.
- Comment on Creative and Inspiring building design 5 months ago:
(no Twist), Lick, and Dunk.
- Comment on Finally found where they store all the excess 5 months ago:
#NoNutNovemberGoneWild
- Comment on Bruh 5 months ago:
Years of training, finally becoming useful.
- Comment on Hi Larry! 5 months ago:
This as excited as a cat can get.
- Comment on Hi Larry! 5 months ago:
It feels very strange to me that any serious citation counter would index ResearchGate, which AFAIK don’t have any check before publishing a preprint. It is basically a more reputable xivra.
But then again citation count, or “impact factor”, are in general quite bad to determine the quality of one’s research, and often can be easily manipulated, simply by producing more mediocre papers.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Gay Oedipus
- Comment on Every time 6 months ago:
I mean every natural disaster is also the fault of the rest of America.
- Comment on See where your tax dollars go 7 months ago:
Feeding fat cats at Kyiv is better than feeding fat pigs at DC.
- Comment on Seeking for funding 7 months ago:
Only when addition have a inverse operation.
- Comment on Basically 7 months ago:
Being submitted by a couple of dead white male is true alpha male behavior.
- Comment on How to check whether a particular url is safe or not ? 8 months ago:
In general only click on a link if you trust the domain. A URL usually looks like this: first.second.third…
And be very careful, only the second and the thrid word between dots count.
For example: suspicious.google.com is in general fine, since the second and third word is google.com . However, lemmy.legit-lemmy.world is unsafe, because the second and thrid word are legit-lemmy.world, but not lemmy.world.
There are ways to smuggle unsafe asset under legit URL, usually by uploading them on google drive, github etc. The good rule of thumb is to never run anything on your computer unless you are absolutely sure it comes from trusted source, like official website.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 9 months ago:
One of my colleague like to have roasted potato with vegan mayo. So he is having potatoes cooked in oil together with potatos emulsified with oil.