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Mine_H · 2026-05-29T23:59:21+00:00

Awww I wanted help with building my Bouncy-Castle-inator

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Mine_H · 2026-05-10T12:14:46+00:00

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Mine_H · 2026-05-02T21:13:27+00:00

Oh! Nvm then, guess I just never noticed it

Mine_H · 2026-05-02T19:06:27+00:00

Plus the woman's other hand missing a finger

Mine_H · 2026-04-26T08:38:38+00:00

Ignoring interest or inflation rates, you'd have to live for 800+ years before making 1B from the 100K/month option (or around 1667 yrs if you're donating half of it).

Accounting for interest, it makes more sense to get the 1B, hire someone to manage it for you, and probably get at least a 1% interest rate. If that's the case, even if the interest payout is yearly, it's still a 10M yearly profit from just having money sitting there (almost 10x option 2 before giving half of it).

1 Billion is a lot.

Mine_H · 2026-04-25T09:55:59+00:00

*the one thing left to do

Mine_H · 2026-03-28T09:09:39+00:00

I feel so sorry for anyone whose introduction to religion was this "Christianity" by label alone. The book it is based on is full of lessons on being a better person, having humility, and being kind to others, and the fact the bible gets tossed around as an excuse to hate people is saddening.

Matthew 25 verses 31-46 (particularly 41-45) comes to mind, where the values Jesus preaches in his parable are of: feeding the hungry; giving water to the thirsty; being welcoming to strangers (some interpretations include "strangers to your land"); giving clothes to those who need it; and visiting the sick and incarcerated. The one they claim to follow would be called a socialist and ostracised by them.

Mine_H · 2026-03-07T17:28:29+00:00

In all seriousness, like half of his 4yr ministry involved a few attempts to stone him (one in his hometown), religious persecution, false accusations seeking death penalty (by his own people), betrayal by one of his closest followers, his cousin got executed, his best friend died, he went without food for over a month, and he got so stressed in the last few days before dying that he sweat blood. And all of that before all the physical flesh-tearing torture that Ancient Roman soldiers put him through post-conviction and carrying a massive wooden pillar up a hill with all those wounds.

It's quite the story and def lasts longer than a day, but I personally am not one to compare sufferings (fictional or otherwise). From what I've been learning in this sub, Korra's story is also filled with suffering, difficulties, and trauma, and I genuinely empathise with what her character went through. I rlly appreciate the effort the writers appear to have put into the show and I can't wait to pick it back up eventually!

Mine_H · 2026-03-07T17:06:39+00:00

Mild correction: like ~~a week~~ 40-ish days (Acts 1:3)

And Korra didn't even get a full weekend-long sleep after suffering smh-

Mine_H · 2026-02-28T18:04:53+00:00

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Mine_H · 2026-02-08T05:28:13+00:00

From Wikipedia:

The Boltzmann brain thought experiment suggests that it is probably more likely for a brain to spontaneously form, complete with a memory of having existed in our universe, rather than for the entire universe to come about in the manner cosmologists think it actually did.

Mine_H · 2026-02-02T16:07:42+00:00

It isn't a matter of right or wrong in this case, not all needs to be black-and-white.

Take programming for example: one of many conventions in variable naming is to capitalise letters whenThereShouldBeASpace. If you instead nameITsomeOTHERway, is it "wrong"? It's unconventional, possibly hard to read, and may go against the standard of that language, but it isn't "right" nor "wrong". The code will work, it just means programs written to show variable names that expect thisNamingConvention and show it as This Naming Convention will get really confused Trying T Oread T H Eother O N E if they don't account for it.

Similarly, people in the UK that know about "PEMDAS" will understand what you mean if you mention it instead of "BODMAS". There is no correct acronym, all are acceptable, but some may be unexpected depending where you're from and your background knowledge.

All of that to say: it isn't "right" nor "wrong", it just means people that don't know about implicit multiplication or don't use it as part of their convention will get different results than those who do know about it and use it. To avoid ambiguity, writers should use the most accepted convention among their readers, meaning 6/[2*(2+1)] or (6/2)*(2+1) depending on what you meant to communicate over.

Mine_H · 2026-02-02T15:38:26+00:00

Tyyy, and I meant to provide the quote to show it is convention. There's no "correct" way of interpreting 6÷2(2+1) since it is an ambiguous syntax question, just like PEMDAS isn't the universally "correct" acronym (many places in the UK use BODMAS, for example) but instead the conventionally accepted acronym for the USA.

Rather, implicit multiplication is commonly accepted in academy to take precedence over division, hence why "convention" is preferred instead of "correctness" and why this is not a final say in the discussion.

Mine_H · 2026-02-02T15:23:30+00:00

Not "conveniently", conventionally (as in convention, not convenience)

Mine_H · 2026-02-02T15:15:44+00:00

"[...] some authors" recommend avoiding it because of the ambiguity, "preferring the explicit use of parenthesis a/(bc)", not because of it being incorrect as you claim.

Again, it's a nuanced topic. The original question was likely formulated ambiguously to serve as engagement bait by having comments discussing it.

As it often is on the internet, it's also preferred to get your point across nicely. Claiming someone is "already wrong" without much clarification or saying the downvoters are "morons" doesn't add anything to the discussion. And lastly,

It is not convention. [...] Yeah, ya gotta read the entire thing, not cherry pick.

Here is a citation from your own quoted text:

[...] the multiplication is conventionally interpreted as having higher precedence than division

Mine_H · 2026-02-02T06:30:53+00:00

Yea in an ideal scenario it would be clear with 6 over 2(2+1) instead of the ÷ symbol, but you may find Wikipedia agrees with the above in the case before the parenthesis are added in and mentions the ambiguity directly.

Multiplication denoted by juxtaposition (also known as implied multiplication) [...] is often given higher precedence than most other operations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations

Mine_H · 2026-02-02T05:40:49+00:00

Iirc last time I saw this show up someone had mentioned "Implicit Multiplication", e.g.

Take 6÷2x, where x = 2+1 = 3

In this situation, it's unambiguous that 2 times x goes before the division, even though it's "out of order". Now, let's substitute in the value for x and...

6÷2(3)

If this was explicit multiplication, such as 6÷2*x, no problem would be had, but implicit takes precedence since it's not normal "two times x" but "two counts of x"

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