GnomeKat

GnomeKat , 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago)

im trying very hard to quit smoking weed… i know it’s not the same as nicotine addiction but it’s still a struggle. I smoked weed almost every day for like 6 years or something.

its annoying cus like i will be reminded of it constantly, weed culture is everywhere, memes and shows and movies and books. I get reminded and i want it, I get the urge and its hard not to smoke a little. i will go days or weeks without any but then I will fuck up and smoke again and suddenly i will be smoking every day again for a few weeks.

edit: i wasn’t asking for advice, i have a therapist I am working with please stop trying to give me advice its not what I want or need and I don’t like it, it makes me super incredibly uncomfortable. Its not helping. Thank you

GnomeKat , 21 days ago

i wasn’t asking for advice and its not welcome

GnomeKat , 21 days ago

You are the one who presumed to know what I do or don’t actually want. Thank you for your attempt at kindness but it really didn’t come off like that to me. I think its best to end this interaction here as its not going to be productive for either of us. Sorry.

Edit: oh i thought you were the person who I was responding too but you are not… in that case please leave me alone, thankyou…

GnomeKat , 21 days ago

Thank you

GnomeKat , 21 days ago

Please leave me alone

GnomeKat , 22 days ago

Can you elaborate on what “subpoenable information” means. Like I have a vague idea but im not super clear if thats like a legal term with special considerations or whatever. Elaboration would be helpful.

GnomeKat , 23 days ago

Alcohol, I just dont like the taste

I smoke weed occasionally but even that I have been trying to cut out cus I abused it for years

GnomeKat , 25 days ago

mastodon is fantastic and is honestly better than lemmy community wise.

GnomeKat , 24 days ago

That’s low key the charm of it. I use to only use reddit and it confused me too at first. I never used Twitter but on mastodon you can actually make friends with people. Friends who will discuss the topics you are interested in. I have queer friends on there and gamedev friend and math friends. We are interested in the same things, we boost posts that we all are interested in. Make general often vague looking posts because we know who will see it, like a long drawn out conversation. Its so much cozier than lemmy or reddit, here everyone is trying to correct each other or yell at each other or be the cleverest comment in the thread. On mastodon people are alot more interested in being authentic, thats been my experience of mastodon at least.

GnomeKat , 27 days ago

Smarties :3 tbh not a bad name for such a cutie 🥰

GnomeKat , 26 days ago

Not being able to talk about capitalism in a tech community is like having a fishing community and not being able to talk about how the waters got shit in it.

GnomeKat , 28 days ago

A thing that is really frustrating about a lot of health care providers is they insist on using outdated “best practice” blood levels for trans fem HRT which puts our estradiol levels significantly lower than cis women.

Im lucky that I have a dr in cali who is good and insists on me having proper estradiol levels but in the past they were significantly lower with other doctors. And I can absolutely tell the difference I feel so much better with my current levels and physically the effects are noticable as well.

GnomeKat , 28 days ago

Yeah people don’t understand how bad the MH industry can be. Its why these things shouldn’t be gatekept, it should just be available under informed consent.

GnomeKat , 29 days ago

Bad take… truely advocating for the devil here…

GnomeKat , 28 days ago

Seriously how are space launches a priority right now when we are facing global ecological collapse

GnomeKat , 28 days ago

I could probably say the same about AI and crypto and mega yachts sure

But healthcare, housing, education, childcare, sustainable green energy, sustainable food production… All of them seem way more important than sending more junk into orbit.

GnomeKat , 30 days ago

can you not use ableist slurs so casual?

GnomeKat , 30 days ago

Lemmy is going downhill pretty fast… just today there was a transphobic meme that got hundreds of upvotes before getting removed (at least i cant see it anymore from blahaj). Feels like crap like this is getting more and more common every day.

GnomeKat , 30 days ago

Transphobia on lemmy with 400 upvotes… this website is getting worse every day

GnomeKat , 30 days ago

Nah… they seem based as fuck tbh.

GnomeKat , 1 month ago

Mastodon is pretty great for queer people. Better than lemmy I would say (and obviously better than the mainstream apps) …

GnomeKat , 1 month ago

They are connected but in practice there is definitely a big separation between lemmy and mastodon… you see mastodon posts on mastodon, lemmy posts on lemmy. yes its possible to view lemmy posts on mastodon but its fucking garbage integration, i have never seen a lemmy posts boosted on mastodon it just doesn’t happen… if I see a mastodon post here its in the form of a screen shot… the communities are effectively separate

GnomeKat , 1 month ago

As someone who has been on the receiving end of one of these sorts of calls, please for the love of everything holy, shut the god damn fuck up. Truly you have absolutely no idea what the fuck you are talking about. Calling the cops in a situation like that is so incredibly dangerous and stupid and harmful, you should feel ashamed for defending it. Please rethink your beliefs.

Cops should never be called for mental health episodes

Ever

End of story

You are wrong

GnomeKat , 1 month ago

Thats a technical issue that likely can be solved. I doubt some feedback loop of training data will be the downfall of AI… The way to stop it is to refuse to use it( lets be real the regulators arnt gana do shit)

GnomeKat , 1 month ago

Some of us have 2 boobs and 2 testicals :)

GnomeKat , 1 month ago

Lemmy going 2 seconds without complaining about tankies challenge impossible…

this website has defo been infiltrated by right-wing groups

GnomeKat , 1 month ago

She choose to write what she wrote, she can be judged for it. You are defending her and should stop

GnomeKat , 1 month ago

Dyscalculia is a disability resulting in difficulty learning or comprehending arithmetic, such as difficulty in understanding numbers, learning how to manipulate numbers, performing mathematical calculations, and learning facts in mathematics. It is sometimes colloquially referred to as “math dyslexia”, though this analogy is misleading as they are distinct syndromes.[5]

What does that have to do with deadnaming people? Don’t try to use a disability as a shield for shitty behavior.

I assume I will still get banned for deadnaming even though I’m innocently adding clarity to a conversation.

Yes because that’s still deadnaming, that information isn’t relevant and isn’t needed in context. It’s not necessary to dead name and misgender someone to talk about things they did before transition. It’s completely unnecessary, and in the context of your example you KNOW they don’t use that anymore so its actually worse.

now I’ve committed a crime of which I had no knowledge.

No you haven’t no one is going to get mad about simply not knowing a change has been made. Its when you KNOW what they prefer and yet you still deadname them.

this blanket condemnation of deadnaming is just dumb. it requires nuance.

No it doesn’t

GnomeKat , 1 month ago

Fuck off transphobe. You aint welcome here

GnomeKat , 1 month ago

Im also diagnosed ASD and now you are trying to use that to defend deadnaming, just stop. Disability doesn’t justify deadnaming people. If you can’t remember their name just google it like you would for anyone else who’s name you can’t remember. If you know they don’t use that name anymore and don’t like when people refer to them with it, even if you can’t remember what they prefer you shouldn’t use the old name. Just don’t use the old name, its dead… let it be dead. Dont use it. Its so simple, dont use that name if you know they don’t want people using that name.

GnomeKat , 1 month ago

Stop trying to justify shitty behavior with disabilities, its wildly offensive and ableist. Disability doesn’t justify deadnaming. Just stop.

This disability that hasn’t been in the DSM for over 10 years doesn’t mention anything about forgetting if someone transitioned. If you know the name is dead, don’t use it. For fucks sake its so simple.

You wanna know what being gaslit feels like?? When the people around you keep making up shitty excuseses for why they can’t use your preferred name and make it out like you are the bad guy for asking them to use the correct one.

GnomeKat , 1 month ago

It should be magnitude plus orientation, not velocity. Velocity itself is a vector quantity

GnomeKat , 1 month ago

Its the algebraic properties that are important, not all vectors are n-tuples, eg the set of polynomials of degree less than n.

You need a basis to coordinate a vector, you can work with vectors without doing that and just deal with the algebraic properties. The coordinate representation is dependent on the basis chosen and isn’t fundamental to the vector. So calling them n-tuples isn’t technically correct.

You can turn them into a set of coordinates if you have a basis, but the fact that you can do that is because of the algebraic properties so it’s those properties which define what a vector is.

GnomeKat , 1 month ago

Don’t you have a box of donuts to eat or something?

GnomeKat , 1 month ago

Just FYI content warning for Pantheon there is a seriously disturbing gore/kill scene that is animated too well in the first season. Anyone who has seen the show knows what scene I am talking about, I found the scene pretty upsetting and I almost didn’t finish the show. I am still a little upset that the scene is burned in my memory.

GnomeKat , 1 month ago

I think the definition of consciousness needs to not be solely about abilities or attributes. It needs to account for the active process of consciousness. Like a hair dryer can burn things… but a fire is things burning. Without the active nature its simply not conscious.

GnomeKat , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I’m domicile and I will not be harassed

GnomeKat , 2 months ago

Thank you, I have been saying the same thing about the books for a while now. They are incredibly misogynistic and the characters are pretty badly written. And yet I still keep seeing them recommended. They remind me of the old scifi novels like Niven and shit where its just a few cool scifi concepts and then a heaping load of sexism.

I listened to them on audiobook, most books I read more than once, don’t plan on going back to them though. A good series I recently listened to was the wayfarers by becky chambers, very good characters.

GnomeKat , 2 months ago

As far as I understand, Anarchism doesn’t mean no rules, it means no rulers. No hierarchy of people.

The rules would be set up in such a way to actively discourage individual accumulation of power as much as possible. But a system like that could still have rules, just enforced collectively instead of power being parceled out to individuals. I think there are a lot of practical ways you can try to reduce power accumulation, like term limits is a very obvious example that is a concept we are familiar with. Or like ways of reducing wealth inequality can also be seen as a way of trying to reduce hierarchy.

I don’t know all the theory, I honestly feel like that kinda shit isn’t always the most useful anyways. But there are obvious things we can do now to reduce hierarchy and they seem like things that would be good. Having an ideological stance that hierarchy is bad, and we should reduce it as much as possible… that’s Anarchism.

GnomeKat , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I think you can make arbitrarily complicated roots if you move over to G^n^ which includes the R and C roots…

For example the grade 4 blade (3e1e2e3e4)^2 = 9 in G^4^

Complex roots are covered because the grade 2 blade (e1e2)^2 = -1 making it identical to i so G^n^ (n>=2) includes C.

G^n^ also includes all the scalars (grade 0 blades) so all the real roots are included.

G^n^ also includes all the vectors (grade 1 blades) so any vector with length 3 will square to 9 because u^2 = u dot u = |u|^2 where u is a vector.

All blades will square to a scalar but blades are not the only thing in G^n^ so things get weird with the multivectors(sums of different grades). Any blade with grade n%4 < 2 will square to a positive scalar and the other grades will square to a negative, with the abs of the scalar equal to the norm^2^ of the blade. Can pretty much just make as many roots as you want if you are willing to move into higher dimensional spaces and use a way cooler product.

GnomeKat , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Oh no, you were right on the money. In G^2^ you have two basis vectors e1 and e2. The geometric product of vectors specifically is equivalent to uv = u dot v + u wedge v… the dot returns a scalar, the wedge returns a bivector. When you have two vectors be orthonormal like the basis vectors, the dot goes to 0 and you are just left with u wedge v. So e1e2 returns a bivector with norm 1, its the only basis bivector for G^2^.

e1e2^2 = (e1e2)*(e1e2) = e1e2e1e2

A nice thing about the geometric product is its associative so you can rewrite as e1*(e2e1)*e2… again that middle product is still just a wedge but the wedge product is anti commutative so e2e1 = -e1e2. Meaning you can rewrite the above as e1*(-e1e2)*e2 = -(e1e1)*(e2e2) = -(e1 dot e1)*(e2 dot e2) = -(1)*(1) = -1… Thus e1e2 squares to -1 and is the same as i. And now you can think of the geometric product of two vectors as uv = u dot v + u wedge v = a + bi which is just a complex number.

In G^3^ you can do the same but now you have 3 basis vectors to work with, e1, e2, e3. Meaning you can construct 3 new basis bivectors e1e2, e2e3, e3e1. You can flip them to be e2e1, e3e2, e1e3 without any issues its just convention and then its the same as quaternions. They all square to -1 and e2e1*e3e2*e1e3 = -e2e1e2e3e1e3 = e2e1e2e1e3e3 = e2e1e2e1 = -1 which is the same as i,j,k of quaternions. So just like in G^2^ the bivectors + scalars form C you get the quaternions in G^3^. Both of them are just bivectors and they work the same way. Octonions and beyond can be made in higher dimensions. Geometric algebra is truly some cool shit.

GnomeKat , 2 months ago

If you can’t handle me at my apple car with worms in my brain, you don’t deserve me at my owl witch riding a broom scooter.

GnomeKat , 2 months ago

Possibly they are trying to use the data generated by the workers to train an AI

GnomeKat , 2 months ago

Flipwitch: Forbidden Sex Hex :D

Very horny and actually pretty decent metroidvania, lots of jiggly titties

GnomeKat , 2 months ago

How do you spend 35 hours on a game you aren’t enjoying??? My dawg value your time more

GnomeKat , 2 months ago

Binged it in one night, I enjoyed it a lot.

GnomeKat , 2 months ago

All the people trying to explain why division and multiplication are the same and dividing by fractions bla bla bla…

But it’s missing the point that a cell dividing is nothing like algebraic division so the analogy just doesn’t make sense.

Saying its “dividing in half” so its actually “x/0.5 = 2x” doesn’t make any sense because the phrase “divide in half” in every other context means “x/2”…

Any ways if you want to model a cell dividing you should use an exponential

GnomeKat , 2 months ago

Well I think that’s a cop out to do nothing and act moral while letting other people get hurt and suffer.

Freedoms should only go so far as to not encroach on other people’s freedoms, hate speech goes too far, advocating people’s right to healthcare to be stripped away is too far, advocating we be classified as sex offenders just by existing is too far.

I don’t care what your abstract notion about free speech is, it’s just a fanciful notion that has never actually been realized and doesn’t work in practice. Meanwhile real people are getting hurt now and you choose to defend the speech of those advocating that violence. It’s wrong.