As an arch user myself, I almost tripped over myself running to leave this comment. I do use arch btw.

I always eat ice cream with a spoon. I can’t stand any other form of it.

It can’t be shown to be equivalent to -1/12. The sum definitely just simply goes to infinity. However, if you use some specific nonstandard definitions, you can squeeze out -1/12.

What I think is interesting is how many choices of nonstandard definitions you can use to “prove” this result. I can recall 3 just right off the top of my head. However, as these are nonstandard definitions, one can’t really say that the sum is -1/12 without specifying which logical system you are operating in, because the default system makes it simply untrue.

It’s like saying that 2+2=0. Sure, you can define the + sign to be some nonstandard function, but unless I describe that function to you, I can’t just simply tell you 2+2=0, because you’d just assume the standard definition of +, in which 2+2 definitely isn’t 0.

I can’t claim it’s as high quality as the channels you’ve mentioned, but I actually have a channel! I only have one video at the moment, because they take a long time to make, but I’m planning on having the next one out perhaps within the next month.

https://m.youtube.com/@axiomath3434

That’s a really great question. The answer is that mathematicians keep their statements general when trying to prove things. Another commenter gave a bunch of examples as to different techniques a mathematician might use, but I think giving an example of a very simple general proof might make things more clear.

Say we wanted to prove that an even number plus 1 is an odd number. This is a fact that we all intuitively know is true, but how do we know it’s true? We haven’t tested every single even number in existence to see that itself plus 1 is odd, so how do we know it is true for all even numbers in existence?

The answer lies in the definitions for what is an even number and what is an odd number. We say that a number is even if it can be written in the form 2n, where n is some integer, and we say that a number is odd if it can be written as 2n+1. For any number in existence, we can tell if it’s even or odd by coming back to these formulas.

So let’s say we have some even number. Because we know it’s even, we know we can write it as 2n, where n is an integer. Adding 1 to it gives 2n+1. This is, by definition, an odd number. Because we didn’t restrict at the beginning which even number we started with, we proved the fact for all even numbers, in one fell swoop.

Yeah I had a similar situation. My dad was a toxic person who thought it was wrong when I cried (which I did a lot; I was a very emotional kiddo) and my mom did everything she could to protect me from that. They eventually separated the year I went into high school, and guess which one I still talk to now in my adult life.

So I’m not an app developer, so I might be completely off base, but I don’t really understand a lot of the arguments against this.

Firstly, there’s an ad free one time cost that in my opinion seems very fair. Secondly, as I’m looking through the feature for Ultra, most of the features seem to be things that require an external server. I’m not sure how push notifications work so I can’t comment on it, but syncing settings across devices for example doesn’t happen at the instance level. That kind of thing could only be done through a server owned by the dev. However, it is very likely that the dev doesn’t own a server, and is instead renting on a VPS, which is a subscription for them. So in order to provide these particular services, the dev has to pay a subscription. So would it not make sense that those that enjoy the benefits of this subscription the dev pays, also have to pay a subscription? In my mind that simply seems fair, in order to support a dev that has clearly put a lot of time and effort into making a great app.

The user base for Lemmy is significantly smaller than Reddit. The dev needs a smaller number of people to be able to support the operating costs of the app (as well as the wellbeing of the dev) which means that necessarily a different (and steeper) pricing model would be necessary.

I do not think it’s fair to claim that Lemmy API access is free and therefore there are no operating costs, because there’s more to the app than API calls. It is indeed correct that API access is free, which seems to me to be the precise reason why there exists a free version of the app that you don’t have to pay for in the first place. All API calls within the app are free. There are no paywalled Lemmy API calls, at least from what I can tell. But again if I’m wrong I’ll admit it if someone can inform me.

Oh my gosh you’re hilarious

Yo China had a resonance cascade? First I’ve heard of it.

Aww adorable! Also Smudge was the name of my dog. He’s no longer with us, but he was the best.

When your entire ideology is pissing off the other guys

Just reading the replies, and the idea that minimum wage laws are bad because they increase unemployment and layoffs is such an obnoxiously ass take.

I refuse to believe that someone can have a take that insane without knowing exactly what they’re doing. I can’t fathom it. What, pray tell, is the usefulness of the unemployment metric if the quality of life for those employed is deplorable? What information does the unemployment metric convey? Their assertion that unemployment and layoffs will go down is implicitly admitting that wages will drop significantly without the limits. There’s a 0℅ chance this person doesn’t understand that, and yet they sit there pretending like low unemployement is some holy grail, inherently good number to keep low.

Oo that Nyxt browser looks right up my alley. I’ll have to give that a shot.

Oo that Nyxt browser looks right up my alley. I’ll have to give that a shot.

I revived an old laptop with arch and the i3 window manager which worked quite nice with my use case. I used vim for coding and qutebrowser for web browsing. I’m sure there’s a lightweight reading app that you can use from the keyboard, to complete the “never take your hands off the keyboard” vibe, if you’re anything like me and that sounds appealing.

I think when first talking to someone new about these ideas it’s good to use somewhat sanitized language, just so that they’re willing to engage and think about things for themselves, without having to worry about the anti-communist propaganda they’ve been subjected to.

However, past this very beginning stage, I see no reason to conceal. In fact, I think it’s actively harmful. A socialist movement filled with followers with no access to writers of previous socialist thinkers, no analysis of real class antagonisms, and no understanding of the necessary solution (revolution), doesn’t sound like a very effective movement.

Forgive me, I’m new here. To what fanclub are you referring?

I love how the one guy keeps qualifying the “American” casualties. Like are we gonna ignore the fact that dropping atomic bombs on cities is gonna take a few lives? Those casualties somehow don’t influence the equation at all?

My ex would always make all kinds of offhanded remarks about capitalists being evil, almost as a joke. Like a “CEO gonna CEO” kinda thing. But the mere second I gained class consciousness and started considering what could be done about it instead of complaining about it, all of a sudden I was some crazy radical.

Ah I see what you mean; you’re right. Though an argument being valid and an implication being true are different things, so I think we misunderstood each other’s meaning.