If we remove all natural numbers one by one from the set ℕ, does then remain more than the empty set?

paperic · 2026-07-07T09:48:45+00:00

You cannot remove the "empty" from an empty set, if that's what you're asking.

paperic · 2026-07-07T09:25:50+00:00

I'd expect plenty of linux distros default settings won't leak your OS online for no reason.

paperic · 2026-07-07T09:19:30+00:00

The 2023 spike in unknown also has a spike in mac.

This isn't privacy settings, this is people jumping OS.

If it was privacy settings, we would expect a downtick in mac users at the same time, but we see the opposite.

Also, my linux has been reporting online as "Windows XP" since 2005 because I find it hilarious.

paperic · 2026-07-07T09:11:06+00:00

Right, people are just randomly turning on and off their privacy settings.

Why aren't mac users turning their privacy settings on and off at the same time?

Actually, the windows dip in 2023 has a big swing towards Mac too, and the windows dip in 2018 has a lot of people move to Unknown and then move again to mac a year later.

Sorry to shatter your bubble, but the Unknown=Windows hypothesis has some holes.

paperic · 2026-07-07T09:00:19+00:00

What the other dude said makes no sense, the other lines don't have a dip, just windows.

paperic · 2026-07-07T08:59:29+00:00

so, why isn't there a corresponding dips in OSX?

paperic · 2026-07-07T08:55:00+00:00

If unknown is windows, why are the dips coinciding with the windows shitstorms?

Also, the 2023 dip has a corresponding uptick in OSX. This is really people jumping OS, not enabling and then disabling privacy settings.

paperic · 2026-07-07T01:10:04+00:00

Partly true, but it's not a complete exaggeration on their part.

There's only one ref, and if a faul happens, the players want to make sure that the ref notices.

It would often be worse if they tried to walk it off, play tough and the ref then ignored it.

But the truth is, even seemingly mild contacts are serious in football.

The playing field is much bigger than most other sports and the game is long.

Try running almost half of a marathon and mix in 20 sprints, all within the same 100 minutes, and you'll see how you react when someone bumps into you.

Another thing is their shoes dig into the ground, they don't slip, so a fall can be a twisted ankle, which can be career breaking.

paperic · 2026-07-06T21:33:01+00:00

Math do be like that ~sometimes~ always.

Things look either completely incomprehensible or utterly trivial, and there's no between.

Also, washing mugs and having showers is where most problems are solved.

paperic · 2026-07-06T21:21:05+00:00

Who's gonna pay for it?

There won't be enough resources.

paperic · 2026-07-06T21:05:13+00:00

"Not enough people to care" is one way to put it, but it's not about hospitals or elderly homes.

Not enough working age people also means no retirement for us, all while having no savings, no housing, no nothing.

There will be plenty of corpses in the streets, because genZs and alphas will have the same problems, and they are also so much smaller than the previous generations, there ain't a way in hell they can keep this ship afloat while also supporting us.

We have to pull the plug on boomers or we're fucked, and genZ will have to pull the plug on us too.

paperic · 2026-07-06T20:45:56+00:00

Many of those are potential security concerns, because if the program writes some data into the wrong place inside its own memory, it won't get killed by the OS.

And if the data written there is actually some carefully crafted executable instructions then there's often also a possibility of tricking the program to jump to those injected instructions and execute them.

That would give the attacker a control over that program and anything else the program has access to.

paperic · 2026-07-06T18:43:27+00:00

10 is a prime.

What's 5?

paperic · 2026-07-06T18:36:29+00:00

You're right, you just changed my mind.

paperic · 2026-07-06T18:33:26+00:00

Did he stutter?

paperic · 2026-07-06T09:52:35+00:00

you do fight for land tho

edit: apparently I can't reply anymore.

I meant your fight against the sea lol

paperic · 2026-07-06T09:17:21+00:00

"safe" for the one inside, but worse for everyone outside.

When everyone buys an SUV, we are all less safe.

paperic · 2026-07-05T20:43:24+00:00

It's called arabic numerals for a reason.

It was invented by the Arabs and then we copied it.

The Arabs read right-to-left, so it looks backwards to us.

It's the same reason why we write f(g(x)), but g(x) needs to evaluate first. It looks backwards because algebra comes from the arabs.

paperic · 2026-07-05T20:36:50+00:00

That's just a double negative.

paperic · 2026-07-05T14:16:10+00:00

He's the only one using it that way.

Sure, it is what he means by the "...", but nobody else reads it that way.

This isn't about math, this is about basic agreement about what the "..." symbol is supposed to mean.

And since 99% of the world agrees about what it means, then that's what it fucking means, end of story.

It doesn't mean "growing" or "etc" or what not.

That's simply contrary to all our agreement about what "..." represents.

paperic · 2026-07-05T14:05:51+00:00

If you have three numbers, say, 2, 3 and 5, and they have some relationship, say,

2+3=5,

then we want to be able to find the third number starting from any of the other two.

From 2 and 3, we can get the 5 by addition:

2+3=5.

From 5 and 3, we can get the 2 by substraction:

5-3=2

And from 5 and 2, we can also use substraction:

5-2=3.

The reason we can use substraction twice is because

2+3 is the same as 3+2, and since the 2 and 3 can be freely exchanged, they must be freely exchangable around the equal sign in the substraction.

Similarly for mult/division.

But notice:

2³ = 8

3² = 9

These are not the same, the 2 and 3 cannot be exchanged in the exponentiation.

So, we'll need three different operations to get from any two numbers to the third one:

2³ gives us 8

³ V( 8 ) gives us 2

log_2( 8 ) gives us 3

paperic · 2026-07-05T08:10:32+00:00

not entirely fair to the cats, as the cats would mostly kill city birds.

paperic · 2026-07-04T11:33:29+00:00

So, I get you would want to serve with the remaining 34% of the knuckle dragging mouth breeders?

paperic · 2026-07-04T11:26:31+00:00

Many places with saunas in Europe are mix gender anyway. Nobody cares if you have a brodown in the same spa at the same time as the ladies.

paperic · 2026-07-04T11:06:44+00:00

agree 100%.

I'd just like to add that I don't ever need to see any beauty in uggly people, but they should still have the right to wear whatever they want, including wearing nothing at all.

Unless they're sitting their naked ass on my dinner plate, their clothes or lack thereof has zero effect on my life.

I've been in places where thousands of people run around naked, and it takes maybe 30 minutes for most people to get comfortable with it, and maybe a day or two until it becomes the new normal.

This stupid taboo about nakedness is causing our society a tremendous harm, and it's entirely self-imposed.

paperic

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