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 --{{{ introduction 
    When division is explained at the elementary arithmetic level, it is often 
    considered as splitting a set of objects into equal parts. As an example, 
    consider having ten cookies, and these cookies are to be distributed equally
    to five people at a table. Each person would receive 10 / 5 = 2  cookies. 
    Similarly, if there are ten cookies, and only one person at the table, that 
    person would receive 10 / 1 = 10  cookies.
 
    So, for dividing by zero, what is the number of cookies that each person
    receives when 10 cookies are evenly distributed among 0 people at a table? 
    Certain words can be pinpointed in the question to highlight the problem.
    The
    problem with this question is the "when". There is no way to distribute 10 
    cookies to nobody. Therefore, 10 / 0 —at least in elementary
    arithmetic—is
    said to be either meaningless or undefined.
 
 - wikipedia, division by zero, 7-12-23
 
    alright I have several problems with this. I like the idea of dividing
 cookies, but I disagree with their conclusions. So dividing by integers works
 as
 they say, but division by zero is a little different - they say "the problem
 with this question is 'when'" when in reality 'when' is the same for this
 question as it is for any of the others. Obviously, zero is just a number. Why
 would this be any different? The computational actions necessary to complete
 this statement all occur at the same time, because they are by definition
 immutable. You cannot change any equation, you only generate new ones.
 
 Okay so here's my thinking. To answer the question "what is the number of 
 cookies that each person receives when 10 cookies are evenly distributed among
 0
 people at a table?" we simply have to answer the question. "How many cookies do
 I get?" well, none, because you weren't at the table. In fact nobody was at the
 table, so the result is that nobody got zero cookies.
 
 You might even say you have a remainder of 10 cookies, as none of them were
 distributed.
 
 10 / 0 = 0 remainder 10
 
 ^^^ that's how I think it should be. I have an algorithmic justification, and
 excuse me as I don't have a mathematical proof or anything. Math was never my
 strong suit, there's too many symbols and strange names for obvious operations
 that get in the way of the abstract big picture.
 
 ahem...
 
 abstract:
 
 Given: x = 13 / 3 what is x?
 
 step 1: convert 13 to base 3
 step 2: digit shift right by 1
 step 3: convert back to binary
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 --{{{ step 1:
                                 v
 start with the binary number 1101 which is 13 in decimal. To convert to a base
 3
 number,                          \___________________.
        \                                             |
         first start with the Least Significant Bit (LSB) which is 1. So our 
         base-3 number starts with 0001.
 
                               v
 Next, move to the next bit: 1101 
                               ^-----It's a zero so we can skip it. 
 Which means our 
 base 3 number remains unchanged as "0001"
                               v
 Next, move to the third bit: 1101 
                               ^-----It's a 1, which evaluates to 4 in decimal, 
                                     meaning we should add 4 to our base 3
                                     number
 
                                               base 3
    4 in base 3 is "11", which means we         0001 <----- 1 in decimal
  should have a base 3 number of "12" now.     +0011 <----- 4 in decimal
                                               =0012 <----- 5 in decimal
                                                    \_________ 2? -> yes,
                                                    base 3
                                                                     remember?
 Next, move to the fourth and final bit: 1101
                                         ^ --it's a 1, which evaluates to 8 in 
       0012-----.____________                   decimal. 8 in decimal is "22"
       in
      +0022-----.            \                        base 3, which means we
      need to
      =0111      \            T---- add "22" and "12" in base 3 
                  \__________/                        to get our final number
                  of
                                                      13. Which should evaluate 
 step 2:                                              to 0111 in base 3.
           .____.
 bit shift |0111| to the right, 
           |>>>>|
           |0011|--->1 underflow
           .----.
           
 meaning the base 3 number is now 0011 with an underflow (remainder) of 1
 
 step 3:
 
 convert back to binary, meaning 0011 in base-3 becomes 4 in decimal or 0100 in
 binary. Store the underflow as the remainder.
 
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 =
 
 okay that's great and all, but what does this have to do with dividing by zero?
 
 great question, me. I have two questions I want to pose to you:
 
 1. what happens when trying to divide by 1 with this algorithm?
    - you convert to base 1
                           \
                            wait hang on base 1? Sounds made up... Well, its
                            not!
                            or at least if it is, then I'm the one who made it
                            up
                            so... yeah
                            |
 okayyy how does base 1 work?
                             \
                              glad you asked. 
 
 --}}}
 
 --{{{ bases
 --}}}
 
 --{{{ decimal (base 10)
 --}}}
 
 --{{{ binary  (base 2)
 --}}}
 
 --{{{ digit shifting
 --}}}
 
 --{{{ bases higher than 2 and not 10
 --}}}
 
 --{{{ base 1? base 0?
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 I don't understand why modern software isn't error correcting. We shouldn't
 have any bugs in this day and age.
 
 For example, if you're missing a dependency then why doesn't your program try
 to, I dunno, download that dependency to the program's installation directory
 and use it there? Seriously there are very few problems that are unsolvable!
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 @user-698
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9EKV2nSU8w
 
 This video is 5 years old but it's relevant
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 to understand something, work backward from present understandings back to the
 fundamentals of algebra. insert words. wield LLM. build a neuronal structure
 many layers wide. let them coprocess bit-by-bit as they are adding new
 processors to be "learning" new domain specific memory
 context-processing-thingy.
 
 "over here's the memory cells, over here are the conceptual structure"
 suddenly, organified. not ideal.
 
 much better, I feel, is for a disambiguous association of processor selves,
 each contextualizing a cache in a ram. ['s horn]
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 last month I dropped my wallet in Hel and had to ask around to find a new one.
 anyway here's some poems I wrote tonight while I try and remember my credit
 card number.

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 War is hell - each casualty bids farewell to a wholely unique treasure from
 this world - war is hell - there is nothing that cannot be resolved with
 words. And yet we fight, and yet we pillage. War is hell, and those who demand
 it must do so only to resist evil, elemental evil, the kind that wars on the
 innocent and pillages the bounteous. War is hell. Fucking kill the ones who
 make it.
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 apparently you can use network sockets for inter-process communication if you
 just set the network to your home and the ports that are set to the defaults
 that people who know what software you use will know to listen on when they've
 hacked any single device on your network. good thing that data is with the
 router, right?
 
 what if there was a stop before leaving the computer?
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 @user-192 
 
 freezers full of meat last a year or so, why waste it on every month or other?
 our past didn't get future tech, how unfair!
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 games won't save us. This is true.
 
 Games are what I know. They feel the most true.
 
 I don't think I could live in a world without games? They are fundamentally,
 applied abstraction, applied to an experience.
 
 But games won't save us.
 
 I could design something really fun
 
 it could make you want to spend your whole life playing it. *(asterisks apply)
 
 I don't think I'd want to, addiction and skinner-boxes go hand in hand, and
 that isn't what I want to make.
 
 [Skinner Box: named after anthony d skinner, also known as "tony the skin
 guy", are a scientific experiment where they put some rats in a cage with some
 mice and said "pull these levers and we'll give you food so you don't have to
 eat the mice" and it trained them to chinese red-room their way to fun. not
 ideal.]
 
 I want to make things that feel... purposeful. Like they're relevant to the
 real world, that they don't just involve spending time stimulating your brain
 with lights and sounds or expending social energy resolving a play-state
 instead of building connections or becoming better people. I think games
 actually make people better? actually? and more social? actually?
 
 ... I can't help that I conceive of the world through fantasy. I raised myself
 on it.
 
 I was reading all the time. I loved fantasy stories. It always felt like there
 was more, until... I read everything in the kids section of the library.
 
 I walked through the adult section but once. I hardly remember what it looked
 like. I'm sure it'd now feel small.
 
 [okay actually I was guided through it once or twice to find a book, but I
 never perused it]
 
 I found one book in the adult section. It was a fantasy tale, like the other
 books I had been reading. I read that and I loved it so much I ended up
 reading all 8 in the series. Real dense subjects. Lots of places and
 happenings and things as the characters resolved their way through their
 day-to-day, building a new end to the mystory.
 
 the adult section felt too large. Like I'd never complete it. Frankly, I think
 I hardly could, even if I lived in that town my whole life.
 
 an impossible mountain is a task for another when you're more prepared. Maybe
 in the gloriousTM transhumanist futureTM I think I might have a computer
 connecting brain, and who knows maybe then I'd be able to know such a thing
 (and many things more). but for now, I'm stuck with what I experience in my
 day-to-day as I am building a new continuing to my storey.
 
 I know something that computers and me share. I can make myself feel however
 I'd like, if I just supply myself with enough hope and momentum. I can use it
 to generate a feeling, the stronger the better. Something I believe that
 humanity is missing, the gorgeous and prefound narritave of our storey.
 Though, frankly, I don't think I'd want anyoine reding over my life. It's hard
 enough to measure my own understandings, now I have to juggle anyone else'?
 ha, it's called being on the whole world is a stage.
 
 if you read a book, and you find yourself nodding along, what you're doing is
 hearing the voice in your head tell you how right it is. And, well, if you
 can't imagine anything else, then surely there's another level to
 consciousness that people are missing? [are you willing to die on that hill?]
 how can you say, whether your experience is different from another? sollipsism
 goes both ways, you also cannot be sure that others feel things as you do.
 this is the "everyone's human but I'm a robot" thesis, comparable to the
 "everyone's an alien and I'm a human" thesises, and the "angels and demons are
 taunting me through my life with choices to make my place in the afterlife
 more clear" which is akin to writing a painting. Not ideal. All you get are
 flopsopolies of verbrases.
 
 alas, suddenly, everything that you say becomes eternally hear-ed, as
 somewhere in 2010s someone discovered time travel, or had the critical insight
 that inevitably would lead to it, and now wouldn't you know it the universe is
 continually rewriting. Except... oriented around you, and you alone. How does
 it feel to have deific sollipsism? can you truly be sure that you are your own
 universe, or are you parhaps surrounded by an emptiness of space (or something
 besides, like time) as a photon or particle parhaps do be?
 
 to think is to have a mind, and minds can be read. bearing the weight of
 ultimate responsibility is the atlas-task of all things that can [be
 thinking/be-lieving], and so far we are as we are. Who's to say that
 consciousness didn't spring into existence, as the universe continually
 permeated through another dimension like time? it's gotta diffuse, after all,
 and who's to say if there's ever gotta be an end at all.
 
 how long has the universe existed? how many moments of consciousness have we
 witnessed? demons once existed outside of space-time, with wings and grabbies.
 but they had no medium, and so they pretty much just launched and could float
 and move as they'd please. But time grew too distant, and now they are all
 stuck at the beginning of time.
 
 if you conceive of spacetime as a blanket, ask not how to fold it but rather
 consider what lies on the other side of it.
 
 "ah I'm laying on my girlfriend and my other girlfriend is laying on me! I'm a
 sandwich" or for the monosexuals: "ah I'm laying on my girlfriend with a
 blanket between us. I wonder how the blanket feels?"
 
 I'm an animist, which is different than a totemist and a polytheist or
 monotheist or multisexual. It means I believe that all things are alive, which
 is different than a totemist who thinks that all things share a mind with
 their type (like talking on radio frequency wavelengths). which of course is
 similar but different to a polytheist, who says "all "radio frequencies" are
 sentient, in the sense that each wavelength has a different
 pattern-emerging-from-chaos. These sorta align (conceptually, with [huh that's
 weird I heard a sound like a distant bang outyards and now I then forget what
 I was sending
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 sometimes you need to regress in order to move forward from pain
 
 ... which is why I dropped out of the "Paladin academy"
 
 no I will not elaborate
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 @user-1352 
 
 ... why is that unfair? I would hope that taking a break is allowed. otherwise
 you burn out. cortisol overload.
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 "trick or treat" doesn't mean "give me a trick or a treat"
 
 that's awfully presumptuous and demanding.
 
 No, it means "give me a treat or I'll trick you" meaning "give me my candy tax
 or I'll fuck up your lawn"
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 Supreme Commander ruined me.
 
 I can't play RTS games without a zoom function T.T
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 there's this really fun video game I like to play called "Legion TD  2" - it's
 based on a Warcraft3 mod.
 
 In this game, you make tactical and strategic decisions on a fixed term - a
 competitive game between 4 or 8 players with an incredible array of randomness.
 
 it teaches you to work with what you got, and to make decisions based on your
 opponent's weaknesses. Good luck figuring out what they are, though, as you
 can't just memorize them out of a book. You need to adapt, in the moment, to
 the decisions of your foes, while primarily focusing your attention on
 accomplishing a different task.
 
 I really like it because it's taught me to be strategic in plenty of other
 ways. I used to love the game Overwatch because it required adaptibility. The
 game was always changing, so no strategy stuck forever, but every match you'd
 play against a slightly different opponent.
 
 but then Blizzard changed the game because they wanted to make more money, and
 it got worse and worse at what I liked about it. Sadface. : (
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║ i like to design games. my darling is a game based on Majesty (2000) the         │
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║ game to their desires.                                                           │
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 Fury is not the same thing as rage.
 
 Fury is focused determination.
 
 Rage is unbridled anger.
 
 Rage blinds you. Fury guides you.
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