If you let a buncha feral third worlders into your country, you’re gonna have a bad time.
Real Wrong
This is not really (heh) correct. At the least, it’s lazy thinking. But truly, it’s just wrong enough to seem pat and true to Mastodon types but is even more misleading than the supposedly-confusing ideas it’s attempting to illuminate.
The problem is that complex numbers are not secretly just real numbers. Though they are a larger algebraic system that can be faithfully represented using real pairs or special real matrices, the posts above confuse the fact that you can represent complex numbers using real-number machinery with the incorrect idea that complex numbers are truly nothing but ordinary real numbers. A metaphor that perhaps this doof could understand: GPS coordinates are not the city. You can encode every place in a city with two numbers, but the city is not secretly just a system of coordinates. The coordinates are a way of keeping track of something else. And the same is the case here. A real pair or matrix model is a way of (only) encoding complex numbers, not a proof that complex numbers were ordinary reals all along. I mean, duh. If you’re not a dipshit.
So that part of the posts is 100% wrong. A representation is not the same thing as an identification. Encoding complex numbers as pairs or matrices does not somehow convert them back into the real numbers. All it shows is that the complex numbers can be realized as a structured extension built from real components.
And I know this at least partially because standard quantum mechanics requires complex numbers. There are indeed physics-equivalent reformulations using only real quantities, but these work only if you add extra structure that is basically smuggling in complex numbers by the back door (that don’t correspond to the world as it apparently is), so just reals is not enough.
I hate this typical Mastodon intellectual clownishness. So fucking worthless.
Chili’s
Anyone read this 49 day SSL expiration thing and think they would rather just retire?
Yes. It’s such a fucking clownish, useless idea that is going to make my life worse and many other people’s too for absolutely zero real-world security benefit.
The shit-for-brains set of doofuses who thought of this should be run out of the industry and be require to work at a Chili’s in Duluth until they expire from despair.
What a huge waste of time and resources that is going to lead to more security issues, not fewer.
Can Ask
Framing what happened as an American defeat — as the press seems to be doing — is fucking insane.
All major objectives were achieved. Iran’s military capabilities were obliterated. Its nuclear program was set back by around a decade. By the by, the US does not give a crap about the Strait of Hormuz. That’s 1970s thinking. Oil just isn’t as important as it used to be, for a variety of reasons.
What happened in Iran was not great, but the actual objectives were met. That’s all you can ask for.
Scam Shaft
It’s what I’ve been calling the “scam economy” for years. It’s about all that’s left anymore.
Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?
Installing every Firefox extension.
Italo Calvino: A Traveller in a World of Uncertainty.
The Bra-and-Girdle Maker That Fashioned the Impossible for NASA.
Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989. I remember this. It was hopelessly expensive to me at the time.
Made Worse
Indeed. The idiot leftist trick of torturing words until they scream does not alter reality in the least. That Pakistani rape gang is still after your daughter even if you call me an “Islamophobe.” The world is not changed by your attempt at obfuscation of the truth — but it is made worse.
Never Accept
That’s the same as clowns screaming, “Climate change is fake!” as they die in a climate-change-caused natural disaster.
The Screech
It is amazing to witness the BlueSky screechers caterwaul — meanwhile, we have AIs finding solutions to previously-unsolved math problems, discovering so many zero-days the results couldn’t even be released, and just generally doing all manner of useful shit.
There’s being a bit behind the times and there’s being a complete clown idiot. For some reason, the left has chosen the latter and then doubled down every day since.
Handless Handles
The idea of getting a tattoo to me is as foreign as the idea that you’d want a hand cut off.
Just horrid.
Cropshare
Mostly agreed. I’ve of course personally never owned slaves, and my family has mostly been poor since forever. It’s doubtful anyone in my lineage going back hundreds of years had anything to do with slavery — my grandfather on my mom’s side in fact grew up a sharecropper in rural Georgia, which is just a step or two above being enslaved.
Western societies get a bad rap for colonialism because those who can attempt to extract resources from where those resources exist. While there were some genuine evils perpetrated, most often, though, the civilizations already present were even worse.
Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service.
CDC study shows COVID shot benefits; Trump official blocks release.
RFK Jr. rewrites CDC panelโs charter, opening door to anti-vaccine quacks.
Clinical trial shows gene editing works for ฮฒ-Thalassaemia, too.
710,000 Fewer babies were born last year in U.S. compared with two decades ago.
Surging HOA Fees Are Pushing Homeowners to the Brink.
Cash-strapped US Postal Service suspends contributions to pension plan.
Jetting
Much that happens in California is quite clownish.
Poli
Yes, indeed. That is what it feels like when I go out with my extremely extroverted friend. She talks to everyone and befriends people in five seconds. It’s astounding.
Certifiably Done
Well, I passed the cert exam for CISM.
I’m not certified yet, though. It’s one of those “who you know” (and experience-based) certs, so once I get the official results back I have to submit an application and a colleague has to attest that I am awesome (I am). Then, I’ll hold these three certs at the same time: CISM, CISSP and CCNP. There’s likely only a few hundred people in the world (at most!) who have all three of those at once.
Now give me the cash moneys!