HexesofVexes
@HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
Why, a hexvex of course!
- Comment on 5 days 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 week 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 week 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 week 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. 2 weeks 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' 3 weeks ago:
People in glass houses…
- Comment on Team Car! 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
We’re a spirited minority!
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 4 weeks ago:
This is c/shitposting ;)
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 4 weeks ago:
Mathematics is something anyone can enjoy.
Downvotes take me, I’m ready.
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 4 weeks ago:
They want to see if AI can still function while getting randomised bitflips?
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- Comment on Man or Bear 🥩 1 month 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" ☠️ 1 month 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 1 month 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' 1 month ago:
Nice try - you gave the stat; prove it first.
- Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age' 2 months ago:
Still waiting on the source of your 50%.
- Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age' 2 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' 2 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.
- Comment on Walls within walls 2 months ago:
Ooh, this is actually a more controversial take among academics than you can imagine!
Around week 3 of my course I ask the question “what percentage cut do academics get for published articles”. They are always appalled to learn it is 0% (we get nothing, we are literally paid in exposure).
Below are some other issues with the journal industry as a whole:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serials_crisis?wprov=sfla1
en.wikipedia.org/…/Academic_journal_publishing_re…
- Comment on Walls within walls 2 months ago:
My mate Anna has a great archive of papers. Look her up some time!
- Comment on Welcome to New York City 2 months ago:
Not everyone has a choice sadly - work tends to be in the cities, and prices for a family home in a city are beyond most couples.
So, you’re forced to commute by car.
- Comment on Welcome to New York City 2 months ago:
Fuckcars is leaking again I see!
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 2 months ago:
There are a lot of comments here saying “it’s tragic because no-one cared”, but that is misleading as there is now a strong privacy movement l.
I think, without Snowden blowing the whistle, anti-privacy laws would not face such stiff competition.
Yes we’re all fighting a rearguard retreat, but without Snowden’s sacrifice there would be no rearguard and there would be abject surrender rather than retreat.
- Comment on Is there a community for cursed pictures? 2 months ago:
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- Comment on Title 2 months ago:
407kg or so short of that kind of deal.
