Huh, this always seemed like such an institution it never occurred to me that people have to produce Farmers' Almanac. Which of course they do. Didn't have this on my bingo card today, makes me a little sad.
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pjbeam commented on The number line freaks me out (2016) mathwithbaddrawings.com/2... · Posted by u/mananaysiempre
The underlying problem is that infinity doesn't exist. It's a convenient illusion to make special cases go away. It's possible to have entirely constructive mathematics. In a true constructive model, everything can be constructed in a finite number of steps. There are only integers, no reals.
I like to think of continuity as always having more "resolution" available if a sharper "picture" is required. It is _weird_ though.
Any two real numbers x and y are either equal or have an infinite number of reals between them don’t they? If your real numbers are x and y, then (x+y)/2 for example. The density of the rationals in the reals means that one of the numbers between them is provably a rational number.
For sure, I meant something more like a slot with a name.
Because there is no bijection between the rationals and the reals, wouldn't that imply that there are some irrational reals with no rational between them, allowing this function to be continuous, at least in places we can't actually compute?
The issue there I think is the idea of two reals having a "between."
pjbeam commented on Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online t4t.social/... · Posted by u/t4t
(I work in social media content moderation.)
Echoing some other comments here, I highly recommend (in strongest possible terms) that you sit down with a lawyer well versed in Internet law wherever you are based out of and lay all of this out on the table for them.
All it takes is a bored official finding this thread or your site directly and your sincere effort here will transform into some kind of nightmare. Particularly given some of the major political swings recently, you have a target on your back and no megacorp legal team to protect you.
It is crazy easy to end up hosting an image known to NCMEC as seriously bad news and have no idea. Or NCII and not have an adequate reporting/actioning mechanism. Or someone tosses your user DB and people get harassed, swatted, or worse.
Not to mention you yourself are a target. By working on your passion project you've definitely already crossed lines that put you at physical risk if your info gets out. And over time the chance that it will climbs toward certainty.
I don't mean to dissuade you or wrap subtext in plausible corpolegal BS. I do mean, one human being to another, that you aren't merely building a fun community for people, you've also entered a field where very real, very heavy consequences--legal or not--now need to be a core part of your daily risk calculus.
pjbeam commented on Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon twitter.com/Free_Ross/sta... · Posted by u/Ozarkian
DPR is free!! I'm very happy for him and hope he makes good on this second lease on life.
pjbeam commented on Jack Elam and the Fly in 'Once Upon a Time in the West' pov.imv.au.dk/Issue_24/se... · Posted by u/chimpanzee
My read of the end of this is that the author of TFA replaces the "elevated" interpretations in the cited academic works with "the fly scene's purpose is the be awesome (Leonesque)"--is that right?
Love this movie and the scene but definitely don't relate much to more involved interpretations. That said, I'm the first to admit I'm no sophisticate and am interested in other takes.
pjbeam commented on Jack Elam and the Fly in 'Once Upon a Time in the West' pov.imv.au.dk/Issue_24/se... · Posted by u/chimpanzee
For anyone familiar with guns (as most Americans in the audience would be, anyway), it also illustrated how unhinged, dangerous, and reckless the gunman was.
You’re really going to point a loaded gun at yourself, including looking down the barrel (and potentially shoot your self in the face), to appreciate the fly you just caught? The fly you still haven’t killed? Which can now escape while you appreciate it?
And which, it turns out, ends up escaping when the gunman gets distracted. And which you could have killed at any point along the way in about 10 easier ways if you didn’t want to try to be fancy?
Well, it turns out that does indeed fit their character haha. And is good foreshadowing for most of the ‘bad guys’ in the movie, and to some extent the ending.
A really amazing classic, if you’re not stuck in ‘TikTok attention span’ mode anyway.
Also, a really funny parody of the spaghetti western (which includes some of the same folks - ‘Support your local sheriff’).
One _possible_ out for Snakey here is that in old percussion cap revolvers (like Colt Dragoon), the safe thing to do was keep an empty chamber in front of the hammer when not engaged in active shooting. It's been a while though, and my fuzzy memory leans more toward the guns supposed to be Single Action Army-esque and not cap/ball era so maybe no excuse for Snakey after all.
I did my part.
Five years ago, while I was driving one of the blighters landed on my windscreen. I pushed the wiper lever to rinse, expecting it to swipe him away.
Instead it beat him down to my air intake vent, and he was sucked into the AC system.
I made sure to warn the mechanic of what lurked down there when I brought the car for her annual service.
Did your mechanic visit happen soon thereafter? Was it alive?