Even vs odd numbers are not as important as we think they are. We could do the same to any other prime number. 2 is the only even prime (meaning it is divisible by 2) 3 is the only number divisible by 3. 5 is the only prime divisible by 5. When you think about the definition of prime numbers, this is a trivial conclusion.
With 2, the natural numbers divide into equal halves. One of which we call odd and the other even. And we use this property a lot in math.
If you do it with 3, then one group is going to be a third and the other two thirds (ignore that both sets are infinite, you may assume a continuous finite subset of the natural numbers for this argument).
And this imbalance only gets worse with bigger primes.
So yes, 2 is special. It is the first and smallest prime and it is the number that primarily underlies concepts such as balance, symmetry, duplication and equality.
But why would you divide the numbers to two sets? It is reasonable for when considering 2, but if you really want to generalize, for 3 you’d need to divide the numbers to three sets. One that divide by 3, one that has remainder of 1 and one that has remainder of 2. This way you have 3 symmetric sets of numbers and you can give them special names and find their special properties and assign importance to them. This can also be done for 5 with 5 symmetric sets, 7, 11, and any other prime number.
Not sure about how relevant this in reality, but when it comes to alternating series, this might be relevant. For example the Fourier series expansion of cosine and other trig function?
True, but normally, you’d introduce trig functions before complex numbers. Anyhow: I appreciate the meme and the complete over the top discussion about it :D
How petty do you have to be to hold a grudge towards a specific Lemmy instance? It’s like they’re children who got banned from their favorite Minecraft server.
If people prevent something being used by tons of other people for no good reason, then this would be a very good one to “hold a grudge” against them for.
Do i really have to explain such a simple thing to someone. Holy shit it’s like im on Reddit again.
EDIT: Holy shit i am talking about those morons DDOSing lemmy.world
Lol “no good reason” does not apply to the decisions the Lemmy.world admins have made for which instances to defederate from or what content to allow. They have been very straight forward with those decisions and explaining why.
Not liking their decision doesn’t mean there is “no good reason”.
No, I don’t. They chose to preemptively defederate from an instance because some people might maybe not actually break their rules but just talk about their ideologies that the precious admin didn’t agree with.
Why not just handle rule breakers if and when they break rules? Why ban an entire instance because you disagree with some of their ideologies?
Can you explain why you agree with their stance, if you do?
If people prevent something being used by tons of other people for no good reason, then this would be a very good one to “hold a grudge” against them for.
Are you talking about the DDoSers or the admins of lemmy.world? Because, yes, everyone who is trying to use lemmy.world that can’t should hold a grudge against the skids who bought a DDoS service subscription.
If you’re talking about the admins, you should be more specific. Are you saying that them defederating from another instance is a good reason for that other instance’s users to hold a grudge and DDoS? Because I would bed to differ if that’s the case.
It’s worded confusingly. Let me see if I’m correct here:
If people prevent something being used by tons of other people for no good reason
This is not in reference to the lemmy.world users being prevented from using the instance, but instead is about the possible motivation of said attack
then this would be a very good one to “hold a grudge” against them for.
Continuing on to say that you could understand how a person could hold a grudge over a perceived slight
The way you worded it make it sound like you mean lemmy.world users should hold a grudge against the attackers for preventing them from using lemmy.world, which is why people are confused. It might have been better to say like “The attackers are probably retaliating for being banned or something”
Idk if I’d go so far as saying they’re terrorists, they aren’t using violence. But the vibe and dedication makes me think it’s the same person that got mad that they couldn’t run every community on the instance or some shit and then proceeded to spam create hundreds of communities
That scene was probably one of the best moments in the whole show. You keep expecting them to undercut the moment with a joke, but they don’t, and it’s beautiful
The man dancing is Mac. He’s a closeted gay man, who is finally coming out to those around him, but has struggled with how he is going to come out to his father. His father is the inmate, who gets up and walks out halfway through Mac’s attempt to express who he is as a gay man, through dance.
The man who is emotionally affected and “gets it” is Frank. Frank is a dysfunctional father-figure of sorts to the younger members of the gang, which includes Mac. Up until this point he’s been following Mac around, trying to support him while he comes to terms with his gayness, but the whole time he just keeps saying he “doesn’t get it”.
Mac’s performance may not have gotten through to his biological father, but his spiritual father Frank finally understands what Mac was trying to tell him about who he is and how he feels, but up until then couldn’t articulate through words.
Is there any way to link to posts contextually so that it’s viewed in the context of the readers instance instead of just hyperlinked to the source instance?
Yep. There’s support for this in ActivityPub, but only Sync and one bot actually implements it… the official webui and none of the other apps support link translation yet
Fun fact: Some places in Europe “bilingual” is used as an euphemism for students with middle eastern backgrounds. When used like this it carries lots of negative connotations and authorities try to limit the concentration of “bilingual” students at schools as they’re seen as the source of all kinds of trouble.
You can drive through twelve villages neighbouring villages and discover twelve kinds of xenophobia. They’ll still gang up on you if you try to join in, though.
I actually need to standardize my code. I’ve got “learning F2” as something I want to do soon. The goal: use the exif data of my pictures to create [date in ISO 8601] - [original filename].[original file type termination]
So a picture taken the third of march 2022 titled “asdf.jpg” would become “2022-3-3 - asdf.jpg”
If you’re on Linux exiftool can get the creation date for you: exiftool -p ‘$CreateDate’ -d ‘%Y-%m-%d’ FILENAME, and you could run tgat in a loop over your files, something like:
<span style="color:#323232;">mkdir -p out
</span><span style="color:#323232;">for f in *.jpg
</span><span style="color:#323232;">do
</span><span style="color:#323232;">createdate=$(exiftool -p '$CreateDate' -d '%Y-%m-%d' "${f}")
</span><span style="color:#323232;">cp -p "${f}" "out/${createdate} - ${f}"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">done
</span>
Obviously don’t justbgo running code some stranger just posted on the internet, especially as I haven’t tested it, but that should copy images from the current directory to a subdirectory called ‘out’ with the correct filenames.
I don’t see any HTML when I look at that comment from Lemmy, but kbin seems to make a real mess of rendering code blocks. Basically that bit had a few lines of code they could yse to do what they wanted.
I’m using NixOS. Ext4 filesystem. As to language, I’m not entirely sure what you mean. If you refer to the character set in the filenames, I think there are no characters that deviate from the English alphabet, numbers, dashes, and underscores.
Oh ok so you’re more so working with folder structure etc, so bash for when you plug-in a card?
I’m thinking in more programmatic terms, there’s definitely some bash scripting you can execute. Or just go balls out and write a service that executes on systemctl
Was communism ever tried? In the Soviet Union, PRC, etc, the workers didn’t own the means of production; the state did. Calling that communism is like calling present-day Russia a democracy.
And yeah, like the other commenter said, a lot of attempts at communism were thwarted by CIA-backed coups. Not exactly a fair measure of viability.
Understandable, but the keystrokes are helpful for human readable. I always have the “Suspicions Fry eyes” when I want to read 20230809 in a lot of files.
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