HexesofVexes
@HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
Why, a hexvex of course!
- Comment on Reform candidate filmed saying asylum seekers should be put in ‘concentration camps’ 3 days ago:
That’s not a headline - it’s a natural corollary for reform members.
- Comment on Pornography showing strangulation and incest to be banned in UK from early November 4 days ago:
In other news, VPN signups are at an all time high.
- Comment on Forcing 'impartiality' in classrooms is a Trojan horse for bans on queer lives 1 week ago:
Meanwhile in my university classes: “Here’s a nice long list of government fuckups blended into Math 101 delivery”.
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 1 week ago:
Let $\mu(x)=0$ if $\exists y<x\mu(y)=0$ or $x$ is the 20 millionth prime. $\mu(x)=\mu(x+1)+1$ otherwise. The elements of the sequence only become defined once the 20 millionth prime is found; till then they’ve yet to be constructed.
Bonus: The sequence $\nu$ is defined as follows.
Let $\nu(x)=0$ if $\exists y\leq x\mu(y)$ is perfect. $\nu(x)=\nu(x+1)+1$ otherwise.
We’re not sure if this is a sequence, even though it is algorithmically definable. Its existence relies on the existence of an odd perfect number.
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 1 week ago:
It’s possible to define an infinite sequence whose nth term must exist before it’s first.
- Comment on Anon plays an RPG 3 weeks ago:
Including the ability to cheese curse to do obscene damage if I remember right.
- Comment on Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in UK 3 weeks ago:
All that’s needed is government support to buy one - a “trade your petrol/diesel in” scheme would go a long way.
- Comment on Costly Disappointment 💸 4 weeks ago:
Students: I want to study science and make the world a better place!
Modern society: Rolls a die. Best we can do is Burger King.
- Comment on Anon can't go home again 4 weeks ago:
I do miss forum culture; large chunks of digital history have been erased as forums vanished.
Culture on the web has changed as well; it has moved from communication with elements of performance, to performance with the illusion of communication.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
“Pay or Ok”
The latest scummy tactic of news sites; this started shortly after the ruling that reposting their content was grounds for a DMCA strike.
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' 1 month ago:
Mostly, we all see the world in unique ways - picture a building of possessed dwarves and you have the average mathematics department.
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' 1 month ago:
I just want to add, this is coming from someone who has completed a mathematics PhD, and so has a very very high bar for psychosis (seriously, math departments are fun, but also FUN).
- Comment on Choose a major you love 1 month ago:
I remember one role where they listed a maths degree as essential; turns out their idea of “degree level mathematics” was calculating standard deviation and variance.
Generally, even if a job suggests it’s in your field, you’re not going to spread your wings much. I do think this is part of why people hate their jobs so much - they trained hard, learned so many things, and then got dumped into microsoft office and “doing things as they’ve always been done” because some arse in HR was unicorn hunting.
- Comment on Well if that isn't just about the most evil thing you could openly admit to doing. 1 month ago:
Isn’t that an older post?
- Comment on EA employees brace for the worst under Saudi ownership: 'Hard to feel good about being bought out by a regime that's very much at odds with progressive society' 1 month ago:
People in glass houses…
- Comment on Team Car! 1 month ago:
Cyclists: every pavement is a shared space if you’re going fast enough.
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 1 month ago:
Project zomboid with 200% zombie spawn…
Guessing a survival time of approx 10 mins?
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 months ago:
A lot of it is pacing - once you get left behind it’s hard to catch up.
Also, no-one shows them anything sexy like triangles on a sphere, horocycles, or matrices encoding multiple transformations.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 months ago:
We’re a spirited minority!
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 months ago:
This is c/shitposting ;)
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 months ago:
Mathematics is something anyone can enjoy.
Downvotes take me, I’m ready.
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 2 months ago:
They want to see if AI can still function while getting randomised bitflips?
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- Comment on Man or Bear 🥩 2 months ago:
Guess I’m saving up for a good fillet steak to try this out with.
Maybe mix the honey with water and glaze at the end of cooking - berry wise definitely a compote with black pepper?
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 2 months ago:
Ye gods, I can smell the armour polish AND the cheeto dust in this thread.
The translation holding up is hilarious, it really does and you can hear the emotional damage that causes out there; I do wonder if it struck a genuine nerve.
The amount of “protect the children” out there is also priceless - this is one of the best outrage manufactories I’ve seen in years; I look forward to that outrage fuelling more surveillance laws.
- Comment on Give Moth a chance 3 months ago:
She doesn’t care about your height, only whether or not you’re bright!
- Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age' 3 months ago:
Nice try - you gave the stat; prove it first.
- Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age' 3 months ago:
Still waiting on the source of your 50%.
- Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age' 3 months ago:
Hang on - so you’re saying that when a billionaire sells something it ceases to exist? Surly not!
You might be suggesting that a billionaire creates jobs that vanish when they leave, however that’s not likely to be the case. Got any data to back that figure up?
- Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age' 3 months ago:
Hang on…
So most assets are shares and structures. Shares you can sell, but someone still holds them, structures can be sold, but someone still owns them.
If a billionaire left, a fortune in capital gains would be made, the wealth would remain to be taxed from other hands, and that precludes the destination not having a higher wealth tax.