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 my favorite protest sign I didn't see last weekend went something like this:
 
 "if you want to resist fascism, pay my rent so I can resist fascism"
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 it is valuable to be close to the people who are relatively more important in
 your life.
 
 consistency helps in alignment, and honesty is necessary to grow.
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 politicians appeal to certain segments of the population. That's just how
 they're designed. They're meant to be reflections of your hopes. We shouldn't
 demand them to be moral, or kind - they should just do what we want them to.
 That is the spirit of democracy, that we the people should decide.
 
 ... a lot of people watch reality TV though, like... all day every day
 
 and a lot of people listen to fox news and such
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 @user-1074 
 
 sounds like anarchy to me. well, the roots at least are shared, perhaps our
 visions blossom slightly differently, but we yearn for the same sun.
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 UX idea: text is rapidly revealed (rate configurable) letter by letter and
 upon reaching the bottom of the page it starts over at the beginning,
 overwriting what was there in a different color to show that they're separate.
 
 For colorblind accessibility it might switch between white background black
 text, and black background white text. Again, user configurable, colors are
 cool too.
 
 If the user pushes the spacebar it pauses until they resume it, and it goes a
 bit slower. If they catch up to it they can double spacebar to make it go
 faster!
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 Golf courses and national park trails should be one and the same. Picture it -
 you're walking through a forest and you find a branch in the path. A small
 sign with a circle on it represents the ball, and you can ignore it if you'd
 like. Choosing to take the path to the game, you curve around a bit, just out
 of sight of the main path, and there is your little green.
 
 It's roughly 10ft by 10ft, so pretty darn small. Just enough for you to set up
 and look around for your next shot. There'd only be one, or maybe more if
 space permits and the trail was especially branchy. But looking through the
 foliage you'd find a small hole passing through that illuminated your target
 green like a spotlight.
 
 Looking up on a hike you'll typically see the branches of the understory, the
 shimmer of light, and the texture of wood. When standing on a small little
 green, you'd see that, but with a perfectly circular hole that showed exactly
 where you needed to hit the ball to score your point. Well, not exactly
 circular because gravity will pull the ball down, meaning you need to see the
 entire arc. Unless you're at a vantage point or something and can see straight
 down to it.
 
 I believe this would be true justice, where everyone gets what they want.
 Golfers can play their game in bright natural spaces, and hikers can exist
 undisturbed. Golf courses can be used as farmland, to ensure the city gets
 fed. Plus there could be fees for golfers, rather than being paid to a private
 resort owned by a billionaire they'd go to the park rangers.
 
 And golf courses as they currently exist could still exist, they'd just be
 more like parks for the people with days reserved for golfing. Or maybe they'd
 golf over fields of wheat and cabbage, rather than plain old empty grass. I
 mean, the infrastructure is already in place for golf, why not use it for more
 practical purposes too? Better than burning it down to sate our bloodlust
 toward the rich. The goal is to make EVERYONE rich, remember? How can you do
 that when the crabs behind you keep pulling you down?
 
 Much better, I think, to design things such that the benefits of the rich are
 shared equally, while the responsibility of power rests heavy as a sword of
 damocles. That blade is what is missing from our advanced future society, but
 I've got a sword and I'm not afraid to swing it.
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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. 
 
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 --{{{ 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 wish I could always see my "steam year in review" chart for the previous
 year. or years. just... 365 days ago, unless you want two, or year 4 starting
 in march and ending in march.
 
 hold the left arrow key to sort the data one-day to the left, increasing in
 speed the longer you held shift, decreasing when you hit ctrl
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 if people want to be loved for more than their money, they should give it
 away, so there is room in their life for love.
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 @user-1005 
 
 Right, but, the next song will take 3 hours, then perhaps just one, and soon
 you'll be sight reading. : )
 
 Right now, the goal is not to play Zelda songs. You can't read music,
 remember? Your goal is to learn to read music! And that'll happen when you're
 done. Then, you can play Zelda. Then, you can play whatever you want! Keep at
 it, if you don't grind mobs in Ashenvale you'll never explore the Molten Core.
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║ You cannot base your argument on the assumption that a person should do as you   │
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║ to do so is a form of circular reasoning.                                        │
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║ "You should do this thing, and yet you aren't, which means you're wrong"         │
║ doesn't work logically if you, the person suggesting the thing for this other    │
║ person to do, is wrong.                                                          │
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║ Its a weakness in your argument, a flaw in your design.                          │
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║ "You should not kill other people" is generally regarded as a true statement,    │
║ but it rests its power upon the conclusion that you shouldnt harm another        │
║ person. "your rights end where another's begin" and all that.                    │
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║ If, however, that baseline axiom should change (that your right to kill          │
║ someone ends as soon as another person's right to life comes into the picture)   │
║ such as in the case when a person LOSES their right to life, for example if      │
║ they're a nazi who is part of a death cult that actively seeks to destroy the    │
║ lives of other people, then PERHAPS and maybe EVEN POSSIBLY it's possible that   │
║ PERHAPS they, the nazi in question, should be slain. By you.                     │
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 a code editor that only highlights the lines that have been specifically
 flagged to have a certain function. Like, rendering, or sound, or GUI, or data
 storage, or logic, or control flow.
 
 then, when the user is browsing, they can say "only show me these types of
 functions" with a very advanced filter mechanism. The editor would highlight
 the ones that were relevant and related, as according to user-defined flags
 that were set when writing it originally. In this way, by using a bit more
 syntax, even if it's literally just blocks of [category] labels (like how """
 or ``` often starts or ends a comment block)
 
 highlighting with colors is great, but what if we de-emphasized the stuff that
 didn't matter? by increasing the opacity more closely aligning the font color
 to the background color, we could make a bit of text seem to "fade" from
 perspective, while still readable the user's eyes would not be drawn to it.
 Then, according to the labels marked as filtered, certain text would be bold,
 highlighted, o
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 if you want to cool down quickly, apply cool water or ice to the inner parts
 of your wrist.
 
 the veins are closer to the surface there, and if you cool the blood pumping
 to your hands and back it'll cool your heart a bit.
 
 also, forehead and back of the neck and good options too.
 
 however, nothing on this earth works better than putting your girlfriend's
 cold toes under your arm-pits. if possible, always warm her toes.
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 Branches cause cache misses which are slow when done on repeat.
 
 Better to structure your code to avoid them, if possible, for example by using
 an array of function pointers instead of switch statements.
 
 unrelated, but once the data is cached from memory, operations like bit
 shifting and arithmetic are essentially free. The slowest part of the process
 is moving data from RAM to cache so that the CPU can use it.
 
 That being said, CPUs and compilers are VERY good at optimizing that type of
 thing these days.
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 a preprocessor directive that tells the compiler to ignore all warnings on the
 next line
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 @user-863 
 
 this meme is a couple years old now but still relevant

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