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  • "The instructions are perfectly clear!" Meanwhile, end-users:

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  • Of course. It's your life, live it how you see fit. I've definitely been in similar shoes.

    On a friendlier note, may I just say, you have quite a way with words, and your choice of phrase sparks joy in me. I hope you do find a better life after your debts are paid, as much as I hope you have a good rest of the year, with many more to come.

  • "The instructions are perfectly clear!" Meanwhile, end-users:

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  • Sometimes it's okay to be a bit rude. It's rare, but every now and again, necessary in order to not become a doormat. It is totally normal and human to try to change your environment (including the behaviour of others) to suit yourself and your happiness.

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    I dunno

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  • I'm great, thanks for asking. I had just woken up and I haven't been sleeping much lately. It's very possible that what I percieved as a perfectly normal way to state that I was taken aback that you could say that about this math problem, came across to you instead as an assault. Please know that wasn't my intention, and I regret the way I phrased that. Thank you for your concern.

    Just fucking read the content before you comment next time, okay pal? 😂

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    I dunno

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  • no

    it's

    fucking

    not

    This is just basic algebra, this is actually how the problems in algebra I are written. What the fuck?

  • Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't exist

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  • Yeah, if you use an arbitrary standardized measuring stick, the problem goes away, as it is no longer infinite.

    Still a fun thought experiment to demonstrate how unintuitive infinities are!

    Anyway, major kudos to you for engaging with this thread in good faith! That is so rare these days, I barely venture to comment anymore. Respect.

    ... and thank you for the opportunity to share a weird math fact!

  • Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't exist

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  • And it may very well be true, but we can't prove it mathematically.

  • Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't exist

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  • Exactly! It is unintuitive, but there are as many infinite elements of the set of all real numbers between 0 and 1, as there are in the set between 0 and 100.

    I hope this demonstrates what the people here arguing for the paradox are saying, to the people who are arguing that one is obviously longer.

    Just because something is obvious, doesn't make it true :)

  • Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't exist

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  • Its true that not all infinities are equal, but the way we determine which infinities are larger is as follows

    Say you have two infinite sets: A and B A is the set of integers B is the set of positive integers

    Now, based on your argument, Asia has the largest infinite coastline in the same way A contains more numbers than B, right?

    Well that's not how infinity works. |B| = |A| surprisingly.

    The test you can use to see if one infinity is bigger than another is thus:

    Can you take each element of A, and assign a unique member of B to it? If so, they're the same order of infinity.

    As an example where you can't do this, and therefore the infinite sets are truely of different sizes, is the real numbers vs the integers. Go ahead, try to label every real number with an integer, I'll wait.

  • Teaching open source to a child literally means taking them out of the aquarium like environment, and placing them in an ocean.

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  • In the early days of the internet, well, I should say, in the early days of the social internet, generating engagement was not so easy. Most people treated the internet as a passive activity, like a newspaper or bulletin board. Something to read, find information, be entertained by, but not contribute to. Most sites were just beginning to implement visit counters, so they could see they were generating hits, but not very much new content. How to address this? How do we get those passive readers to touch the keys and contribute to this beautiful online collaboration engine? Deep in the SomethingAweful forums, a new online behavior was formulating. Something that would soon become known as trolling. No, not like the trolls of today who oftentimes do it to promote some political ideology or cast another asunder. No not like those others who use the term for simply cyberbullying. What I'm talking about takes brains. It takes effort. It takes craft. You're not trying to bully someone off a platform, you're trying to get them to add to the conversation. You're not just trying to provoke any reaction, you're trying to get them to be human online. Anger? Spite? Annoyance? Yes. Those are all tools in the trolls's toolbox, but so are complements, flattery, playing dumb, and confusion. Trolling is an art. It's more chaotic than evil. If you've trolled correctly, nobody will know you've trolled at all.

  • I must have died and gone to heaven [nushell]

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  • Like it was made for actual humans to use!

    This is othering to the rest of us that just read manuals, understand how the tools work, and like them just fine.

    Its fine to like nushell, no hate here, but you don't have to dis what works (and has worked) for almost everyone else for so long.

    What about: "wow I am really impressed with the QOL features in nushell!" Instead of "everyone who doesnt like this is not human"?

  • How do you handle overeating caused by boredom and innatentiveness?

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  • I drink alcohol instead.

    I am not a good role model.

  • My boss bought me DataGrip today

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  • C'mon. Live a little.

    Just imagine needing to give a company-wide demo of a newly completed platform initiative, so you wanted to make sure your camera and mic were working, but you care about privacy so you want to do it locally.

    You dont have an app for that, as this is a purpose-built, minimal, Arch Linux workstation, so you use pacman to install a local webcam GUI. While you're using pacman, you think, might as well update too.

    Update, reboot, uh oh.

    WHERE'S THE ARCHISO USB?!?!

    You can't find it anywhere! And you even check that weird place you found it last time! Think! ... Your phone has a USB-C port and a terminal right? And right there is a USB-C Flash Drive... Surely you can just flash - Ah shit, not without rooting the phone!

    Thinking quickly, you unscrew the back panel and replace the M.2 SSD with the one from your personal Librem 14 laptop [you care about privacy, remember?] that's currently out for repairs for the (now infamous) power issues. It's Arch too, but it hasn't been updated yet -- thank the good Dennis Ritchie, so you're able to boot with it and check the ArchWiki homepage...

    Those dreaded words... MANUAL INTERVENTION NEEDED... Ugh! Why does this only happen when I need it not to!

    You frantically download and flash the archiso to your available usb stick, swap ssds, boot up, decrypt the drive, mount it manually (remembering fondly the carefully chosen partition layout), chroot in, perform the "intervention", and reboot.

    Perfection. Smooth as freshly polished glass. Smoother even -- probably -- with these sweet new updates! You log in, slide directly into the meeting, you were only 30 seconds late. You give the presentation expertly, they're all impressed by your fancy words like "kubernetes" and "admission controller". "What a genius" you know they're thinking. They have no idea.

    You sign off, and wipe the cold sweat from your brow. These are the moments when you remember why you run Arch at work. Not because it's easy -- because it's hard. Because every time you're faced with a situation like this, you get a little bit better.

    Sure, you could be an Ubuntu Urchin, a Debian Dweeb, a Mint Mistake, but you're not. You're better than them. You're an Arch Assassin, because you know the moment you lose your edge -- is the moment you lose your job.

    You sit back and start your favorite database UI tool, DBeaver. It full screens instantly thanks to your tiling window manager. You love how it's always been reliable on Arch Linux. Why anyone would bother doing anything else is beyond you.

  • PNG is back!

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  • Um, actually it's pronounced png

  • NixOS made me lose my wife

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  • Ummm...

    I use Arch btw 🙃

  • The Wizard and His Shell

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  • To me it reads like an AI generated article written to grab attention, and I spend a lot of time reading AI generated articles. Either the author has absolutely nailed the "sound like an AI" vibe, or very little effort was spent by an actual human to deliver this information.

  • How to minimize pain of Windows in work environment?

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  • I've cracked this code (at least for me)

    Use Hyper-V to create a workspace VM, using your favorite OS.

    Keep all business related things on the host:

    • email
    • instant mesenger
    • meeting software
    • MDM
    • etc

    Put all dev related thing in VM

    • docker
    • ide/text editor
    • dev tools

    Set up "enhanced sessions" with

    • shared drives
    • clipboard integration
    • automatic monitor resizing

    It isn't easy, and a lot of the sotware used for deep integration is archived but it still works. But since Hyper-V is integrated with the windows kernel, you can achieve near-metal performance with minimal tweaking.

    Best part? New laptop? Just export the VM onto it, you lose nothing.

    This even works in Windows 11.

    I have played the cat and mouse game of Docker for windows and WSL and been dissapointed time and time again. No more.

    Free yourself. Escape Windows development pain. Carve out a palace of your own design from within the jail provided you, and make it the best dev environment for you.

  • Sway 1.10 Released With GPU Reset Recovery & Other Wayland Enhancements

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  • You understand Sway is a passion project, distributed with source for free, and Windows is a comercial product licensed to you by a multinational corperation, right?

  • Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face.

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  • And what I'm saying is it doesn't take more time to opt out in my experience. Its just as quick to get manually verified as to be biometrically scanned.

  • Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face.

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  • ¯(ツ)/¯ maybe, but as long as I have the option and it's not tedious to do so (which is the case), I'm gonna opt out and encourage others to do so. Fair enough if your perspective is you want to accept whatever new security theater data collection is implemented in exchange for some perceived convenience. Making your case here with me in this conversation has taken more effort on your part than opting out of facial recognition at the security checkpoint in an airport would have, and I find that fact amusingly ironic.

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