I’m not a hater per se, but I see it degrade the quality of some of my cohort and it makes me sad to watch

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I think that given that the whole point of the fediverse is human-centric, the default position has to be ‘fuck the shitty mimicks of humanity’

He genuinely thought he was impressing you and it’s kinda tragic

‘is when the community comes together to feed your kids for free’ it’s not about feeding, I think there’s a better phrasing. Sorry if that confused you, I rarely express myself well

Also I downvoted you out of spite because I didn’t think I deserved a downvote and I am a bitter, bitter man

I mean, I’d not want my kids living off a diet of hyper-sugary foods. Feeding seems like the wrong verb. Entertaining? Something more niche that means just that thing where you give sweets to kids. Is there a verb for that?

Yeah that’s widely considered to be the article about it tbh

Yeah good things get popular sometimes ;) I used arch before it was cool btw

I was just pissing about and downvoted you with the understanding that you were sufficiently decent to survive a downvote without getting upset. I don’t see a reason, however, to performatively downvote that second comment and think whoever did that was unfair, so I’m giving you an upvote.

I have never sat for an autism diagnosis, I have no idea why that would be relevant

No. You are in the minority and you will be adjusted

Funnily enough my eldest is getting a laptop this Christmas. Arch Linux with a heavily locked-down environment (I’ve disabled WiFi on the non-root account, even). She’s just about to turn 7 – how old are yours?

Well time will tell won’t it, but we’re both just guessing at the end

I did consider this answer before I hit send but as a metaphor I prefer caterpillar tread bond analogy to constantly creating and destroying useful things because of limited resources analogy

No that’s way too paranoid. Honestly 20 years not 6 months. And by then ladybird will be viable so nbd

Then what are they gonna do when they hit the next hole?

Maybe they just didn’t believe his version of the story and thought it a post hoc rationalisation?

I just remembered I hadn’t tried to write anything in J for like a year so I had a go at seeing how far the approximation was from the real values and got:

(-.@^&1825@-. % *&1825)@(0.1&^)"0 i. 10
0.000547945 0.00547945 0.0547945 0.459687 0.914098 0.990935 0.999089 0.999909 0.999991 0.999999

So it looks like the ratio probably converges as you increase n (these results are for 1, 1/10, 1/100 etc) but that x 1825 is always higher and starts off wildly off. But these numbers are probably mad squiffy because floating point yadda yadda.

Edit again: oh yeah. Binomial expansion. Once the negation of your probability gets very close to 1 the initial coefficient will absolutely dominate. Proof left for reader.

It’s not P(E) x 1825 that makes no sense because the probabilities are independent. It’s 1 - (1 - P(E))^1825 – your maths would imply that a 1/1000 chance had a 100% probability of happening after 1000 attempts, which is not how independent probabilities work.

Anyway I’d probably go for it if it were, like, 1/100,000, giving a probability of the bad thing happening once over 5 years at just under 2%

I wanted money and I heard there was good money in making computer go boop

Edit: but first I spent 4 years learning about the subjects I enjoyed most at school, at university – because 18 is way too young to make life choices. Those subjects were not computer ones. No regrets about studying philosophy to this day :)

And this is why we should be teaching the basics of epistemology in schools