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- Comment on Christmas Animals 2 days ago:
Quick question, are you disabled yourself?
- Comment on Meanwhile Ball 4 days ago:
Wich turned it basically into an US exclusive product, and pretty much impossible to get outside of there
- Comment on I dunno 4 days ago:
Maths is so much more malleable and abstract than what you think it is. You really do not understand maths as well as you think you do, and I feel a bit sad for any student of yours that would wish to explore some deeper revelations of maths, just to be told “nope! That’s just how it is!” with no further thinking at all.
A lot of maths is chosen. Choices with good motivation, but choices nonetheless. So long as there not being contradictions or paradoxes, the formulation of a form of math is valid. Which is why you have different forms of maths with different rules.
And you really could use some more humility, it’s obnoxious when you act all so high and mighty and arrogant, with no interest in questioning your assumptions. Devolving into ridiculing the person you’re discussing with and a general vibe of “omfg I’m right you fucking idiot because I’m right how dumb can you get??”
Like, what is it that you want here, a book from the 700s of the one dude that invented arithmetics and told clearly “I chose this.”? You are making your arguments effectively unfalsifiable by just going “Nuh uh” all the time.
Get some humility and learn a bit about the foundations of maths. Like. Down to set theory. See for yourself what actually is the foundation. And, spoiler, it’s not a high school textbook. Hopefully I do not need to tell you how concepts are simplified for younger students, instead of overwhelming them with the complete knowledge of a subject.
- Comment on I dunno 5 days ago:
I mean, it is pretty clear here that you do not really understand the purpose of notation, nor what maths is. Notation is just a constructed language to convey a mathematical idea, it’s malleable
And yeah, it’s easy to just say “this page is wrong!” without any further argument. Nothing you referenced proved the convention as law, and neither is there any mathematical basis for any proof, because it simply is nonsensical to “prove” a notation. Have another source for this being convention www.themathdoctors.org/order-of-operations-why/ or math.stackexchange.com/…/mathematical-proof-for-o…. If you want a book about this, then there’s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronshtein_and_Semendyayev that is cited by wikipedia. I’m sure you could also find stuff about this in a set theory book. Though good luck understanding them without sufficient experience in high-level maths
Really though, maths is so much more than “3+5=8 because that’s the correct answer!” But why is it the correct answer? In what context? What is the definition of addition? How can you prove that 1+1=2 from fundamental axioms? This is harder to answer than you might think.
- Comment on I dunno 5 days ago:
That’s a very simplistic view of maths. It’s convention en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations
Just because a definition of an operator contains another operator, does not require that operator to take precedence. As you pointed out, 2+3*4 could just as well be calculated to 5*4 and thus 20. There’s no mathematical contradiction there. Nothing broke. You just get a different answer. This is all perfectly in line with how maths work.
You can think of operators as functions, in that case, you could rewrite 2+3*4 as add(2, mult(3, 4)), for typical convention. But it could just as well be mult(add(2, 3), 4), where addition takes precedence. Or, similarly, for 2*3+4, as add(mult(2, 3), 4) for typical convention, or mult(2, add(3, 4)), where addition takes precedence. And I hope you see how, in here, everything seems to work just fine, it just depends on how you rearrange things. This sort of functional breakdown of operators is much closer to mathematical reality, and our operators is just convention, to make it easier to read.
Something in between would be requiring parentheses around every operator, to enforce order. Such as (2+(3*4)) or ((2+3)*4)
- Comment on I dunno 5 days ago:
The rules are socially agreed upon. They are not a mathematical truth. There is nothing about the order of multiple different operators in the definition of the operators themselves. An operator is simply just a function or mapping, and you can order those however you like. All that matters is just what calculation it is that you’re after
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 1 week ago:
I mean, dogs and cats can have mental illnesses or disorders, it’s just that they tend to be less impactful due to them being, well, pets. They have no responsibilities
From what I know, they can have traits reminiscent of human autism
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 1 week ago:
I mean, it wasn’t though…
It’s clear you haven’t actually watched any of arc gameplay though, because it’s so far from what you’ve said it’s kinda laughable
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It is life, but it’s not a multicellular life. Aka, it’s no more advanced than a single bacteria
- Comment on A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it. 2 weeks ago:
We have discovered over 6000 exoplanets in total, and over 100 in this year. I’d be surprised if you knew of all of them
- Comment on It's nothing 2 weeks ago:
Sums up a surprising amount of our biology
Yeah, our bodies sometimes have weird random issues, who would have guessed a flesh robot built by trial and error is fucky wucky
- Comment on I dunno 3 weeks ago:
I mean, arithmetic order is just convention, not a mathematical truth. But that convention works in the way we know, yes, because that’s what’s… well… convention
- Comment on Assuming humanity last another few hundred years; How many human languages do you think are gonna be left in 100 years? In 200 years? 3 weeks ago:
Humans have a natural tendency to develop slang. Even in the internet age new slang and in-group languages/dialects are constantly formed
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 4 weeks ago:
Mind elaborating? Are they actually atrocious, or is it just a genre you dont yourself enjoy?
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 4 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, I know that’s probably not what you intend, but this really just reads as nothing but ragebait
- Comment on Trump's Big Beautiful Bill 5 weeks ago:
Good to know even powerful disgusting people abuse ticketing priority systems
Ah, who am I kidding, they’re probably the ones most likely to do so
- Comment on you're untapped value 5 weeks ago:
Due to the cooking XP potential in the uncooked chicken
- Comment on turing completeness 5 weeks ago:
And this has always been the obvious logical conclusion for a for profit dating app
And also similarly applies to other for profit software. It’s the whole idea behind enshittification
Which is why FOSS is king and should be supported as much as possible in as many areas as possible
- Comment on green salad fingers 5 weeks ago:
I suppose when you make a ring out of natural rust it will break in not too long
- Comment on Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost 1 month ago:
That’s the price you pay to ensure archival in the face of adversity
- Comment on Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost 1 month ago:
That’s why you need more people and spread the word. If enough people and devices are dedicated to the archival probably cess, the safer it is
- Comment on Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost 1 month ago:
There are some around. I know of annas-archive.org at least
- Comment on Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍 1 month ago:
You joke but I’m being dead serious when I say that I’d enjoy it if someone sent something like that to me
…I’d probably feel slightly lesser due to me struggling with coming up with something as creative as that
- Comment on It's not? 1 month ago:
I love this
- Comment on one bright second 2 months ago:
I do also want to point out that stuff like “The conservation of energy” law, in other words, that energy cannot be created or destroyed, does not hold for our universe with our current models. An expanding universe violates the time-translation symmetry
This is our current models. This is what our current physics says. And we know it’s incomplete.
When it comes to scientific predictions, you always, always, need the caveat, “under our current model of”.
- Comment on Smöl 2 months ago:
Perfect protein to write a paper about
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 2 months ago:
Seconding “In Stars and Time”
- Comment on Any fuckin windows? 2 months ago:
Dark souls posting
- Comment on Pinup 2 months ago:
Lite Brite was the original pixel art
- Comment on I fixed Borderlands 4's stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn't have to do in a well-optimised game 2 months ago:
I partly agree with you in that everyone using the same UE5 engine is bad
But I really don’t agree that deferred rendering techniques are inherently bad. Maybe they cause negative incentives for developers that lead to worse games in the long run, but you might as well blame capitalism at that point
I like techniques such as TAA because they do work better as anti-aliasing in my experience. I’ve multiple times had the choice between TAA and traditional AA and I think TAA simply does what it sets out to do better. Upscaling and frame generation are also nice to haves as optional features people can enable. Sometimes I use them, sometimes not. But it is bad that companies use these techniques as a crutch, indeed, but I don’t want to see them gone