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society is so complex and everything is so interconnected. (yeah, i know, i’m a deep thinker.) for example. good EV charging infrastructure in the USA can’t exist without social services, healthcare, drug treatment programs, living wages, and other steps to disincentivize selling scrap copper 🥲
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Technical issue - the development branch of #Friendica seems to be posting items ten times in a row. WHAT
in a universe where everything is instantly scraped and consumed and tracked it is a quiet kind of freedom to be able to rent a domain and be able to put one-off pages on it that would only be findable by brute force enumeration of the domain. every web content system is built around not creating "orphan pages" like this, but if you are a human being online who just wants to show something to a few people, they're the best way i know how to. i feel like this would be made impossible if the web protocols were written today.
A new microseason in the "Manageable heat" (処暑 Shosho) division has begun:
Cotton flowers bloom (綿柎開 Wata no hana shibe hiraku)
This microseason will last until August 27.
@hipsterelectron This is one of my all-time favorite theorems, because of its elegance. The properties of the Mobius transform are a close second. The totient function, which at first feels very weird and arbitrary, has a strange deep power that derives from how the counting of divisors is precisely akin to the counting of dimensions. This deep link is indeed in an esoteric sense woven up with the notion of multiplication as the addition of dimensions in a finitary sense, and this also has a deep link with geometric indexing.
One way to think of a properly n-dimensional infinite space is as a space where the index of the space has a pitch of the first infinite ordinal omega, and reaching continuum from this point to get Rn can be carried out by performing dedekind cuts first on rows and then on k-dimensional slices up to n.
This deep relationship between primacy in counting and orthogonality in geometry is why the chinese remainder theorem allows one to operate on many parts of one thing orthogonally, independently, or in computational terms, in parallel. Understanding that primes are analogous to dimensions, and mutual primacy is multiplicative orthogonality, is to understand the true implications of the fundamental theorem of arithmetic.
It's somewhat similar to the situation that the Hahn series is equivalent to the normal form of Surreal numbers, so that renormalization in physics can be seen to really just be necessary because one must take account of the ratios of infinitesimal and transfinite parts, i.e., that real numbers are inadequate to express extents in physical fields.
@somebody i still don't quite feel i understand it but when i read the description i suddenly felt i understood why a^{xy} = (a^x)^y (mod n) which was always so magical to me it felt like a DH handshake punched a hole in the universe
after posting this and thinking carefully about the order for a solid 5 minutes while writing a script, I still got it wrong.
@gsuberland I had to write up a wiki page with some examples.
I think I still got it wrong the first time, but I'm pretty sure this version is correct. (Pardon the dilapidated state of the site; my life is overcomplicated, pls send help.)
Rheinmetall made my dream product come true: Invisible EV charging.
No giant charging stations in a million colors polluting the visual experience of every city. Just a discrete socket in the curb.
Please, could we agree that this future is SO much better?
@randahl
I think this is one of those "we did it because we can" things, and having it vertically on a lamppost would be more practical (water ingress, maintenance, etc).
But it looks cool and maybe that's the point.
RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@tomas/117053131934946713
Looks good to me :neocat_woozy:
@catsalad Factorio working as intended.
@hipsterelectron This is one of my all-time favorite theorems, because of its elegance. The properties of the Mobius transform are a close second. The totient function, which at first feels very weird and arbitrary, has a strange deep power that derives from how the counting of divisors is precisely akin to the counting of dimensions. This deep link is indeed in an esoteric sense woven up with the notion of multiplication as the addition of dimensions in a finitary sense, and this also has a deep link with geometric indexing.
One way to think of a properly n-dimensional infinite space is as a space where the index of the space has a pitch of the first infinite ordinal omega, and reaching continuum from this point to get Rn can be carried out by performing dedekind cuts first on rows and then on k-dimensional slices up to n.
This deep relationship between primacy in counting and orthogonality in geometry is why the chinese remainder theorem allows one to operate on many parts of one thing orthogonally, independently, or in computational terms, in parallel. Understanding that primes are analogous to dimensions, and mutual primacy is multiplicative orthogonality, is to understand the true implications of the fundamental theorem of arithmetic.
It's somewhat similar to the situation that the Hahn series is equivalent to the normal form of Surreal numbers, so that renormalization in physics can be seen to really just be necessary because one must take account of the ratios of infinitesimal and transfinite parts, i.e., that real numbers are inadequate to express extents in physical fields.
@heptapodEnthusiast i am using modular exponentiation as a commutative hash function for directory entries since those are unordered and idk if that's a thing i'm even allowed to do.
@heptapodEnthusiast however i am currently stumped by how to effectively hash the directory entry name. i'm thinking that i want to start with the top-level checksum from the file/directory as the initial state, then mix in the bytes of the entry name somehow. which is kinda like doing H(file || entry name). maybe i can just do another modular exponentation here
my suspicion has been for quite a while that DH is the easiest method to implement safely and efficiently and i have learned nothing about elliptic curves which indicate they are safer from index calculus other than daniel jackoff bernstein and miller the IBM guy saying so without really explaining.
having a clear mapping to bit strings and no invalid points is a pretty huge benefit and since RSA relies upon the same trick for encryption i feel this is sufficient for me to feel confident about my insane belief that elliptic curves are confusing on purpose
@timnitGebru To be fair, according to the article the people hiring them have no idea at all that they are hiring Kenyans and believe to hire people from the US or the UK.
Quote:
The writers create fake IDs, using white profiles and names, because they say it helps convince clients they are up to the task. “If you go online now and try to find help with an essay, invariably they sell you the service as if it’s coming from somebody that’s in the UK or the US,” said Kingori.
@julijane "to be fair"???? WHAT????
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Lol, I mean I tapped out pretty hard for the 3 bills but I was just gonna give that money to corporations I hate anyway. Might as well give it to a sweet boi like Atticus instead.
@heptapodEnthusiast one thing i did realize that retaining the entire hash computation tree is something we could do https://circumstances.run/@hipsterelectron/117141753102754283 and you wouldn't want that at all with a message signature
@heptapodEnthusiast i am using modular exponentiation as a commutative hash function for directory entries since those are unordered and idk if that's a thing i'm even allowed to do.
@cordova5029 No? I didn't think he implied that either. He did also say he was going to archive these things so other people can find them in future without needing to do that once Tamas removes them from eurpod. @alexchapman @Tamasg
@x0 Exactly, I'm gonna find a way to archive all this stuff once Tamas removes it from his site. I will also make a version of the addon where it will have all the data in it and when installed, move everything into the correct place, then people can just go and get the addon, install it and boom, its all ready, no extracting things or pasting files into folders, it just works. @cordova5029 @Tamasg
Some years ago, you said this:
"Never ask for permission to create something. Never. If you ask, you'll be met with disinterest or denial every time. Even if those voices are the minority, they will always seem loudest."
I really needed to hear it back in 2021, and I got your permission to add it to my #ClownWidsom fortune file. Today it came back up again, and I once again really needed to hear it.
So, thank you twice. <3
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