Open post laz @laz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6mo ago Replying to @jeffep@lemmy.world Israel Peace Prize 🤣🤣🤣 That's the most hilarious concept I've seen in a while! Oxy moron or morons on oxy I can't even tell anymore
Open post laz @laz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5mo ago Replying to @Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de As someone whose employer blocks the installation of browser extensions, I am more than excited to hear that! Using the web sucks since that policy has been implemented a year or so ago. Integrated adblock engine would rectify that again.
Open post laz @laz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5mo ago Replying to @Creat@discuss.tchncs.de No company that doesn't allow you to install browser add-ons will allow you to run a pi-hole instance. Not on your machine, and much less as an actual pi plugged into their network. If you did plug an actual pi into the network it would probably reason to be just straight up fired.
Open post laz @laz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5mo ago Replying to @Creat@discuss.tchncs.de If he can't even install an addon for a browser, what do you think he can do with DNS?
Open post laz @laz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5mo ago Replying to @Carnelian@lemmy.world Sadly the sum of all natural numbers is not actually -1/12. It’s a divergent sum. You could call it infinity. There’s a little parlor trick that maths teachers like to perform where they do algebraic manipulation on a simple formula, eventually cancelling out the variables and arriving at some absurd statement like 1=2. The game is for the students to figure out what went wrong. The trick is always that at some point, snuck into the progression, you ended up dividing something by “(X-X)” before moving on, seemingly without violating any algebraic rules. Very astute students (or ones who were warned by students from earlier classes haha) will notice that right at that point in time, you are in fact attempting to divide by zero, which is not possible. So the reason you ended up with 1=2 is because you applied rules to something which they definitionally cannot apply to. At that point, the equation became *undefined*. …the funny thing though, is you *were* able to just…continue. And get *something* to come out. Now, in this case, that thing was utter nonsense. An amusement for children to help teach them of various pitfalls they might fall into when playing with numbers. But what if you were one of the most brilliant mathematicians who ever lived, and you were concerning yourself with questions such as, “What would happen if I took [1 + 2 + 3 + 4+ 5….], and subtracted [1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + 1/5…]” Now, those are both divergent sums. So we could just call them both infinity. But the second infinity just kind of…*feels* smaller, doesn’t it? It feels like you *should* be able to just…perform some type of operation and get…*something* to come out. It wouldn’t be “correct” to do so, but this is basically what Ramanujan did. Illegal math. With a nonsense output of negative -1/12. The funny thing though is that this “nonsense output” is actually now a cornerstone of quantum mechanics. It turns out we subtract diverging infinites from each other literally all the time, even just by walking around, and that pesky little -1/12 trick has proven to be consistently useful. Astonishing. He died a preventable death at 32. Imagine what the world might have looked like today if only he could have dreamed a little longer, asked more impossible questions, and broken more rules. Specifically he died after a bout of dysentery, in case anyone is confused why they’re reading all this in the shit posting community
Open post laz @laz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5mo ago Replying to @yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de Makes sense though. The complex Riemann-Zeta function (Zeta(x) = sum from 1 to infinity of 1/n^x) only converges for Re(x) > 1, else it is infinite. We can use analytic continuation - which I understand as extending the function such that it remains holomorphic (basically continuous but in the complex numbers and for some reason well-defined) and find the value of Zeta(-1) that way. The value of Zeta(-1) when viewed this way is -1/12. It's not really saying the sum of all natural numbers is equal to -1/12. It's really just a mathematical trick, just like: lim (x -> 0) x/x = 1 but this doesn't mean 0/0 = 1.
Open post laz @laz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1w ago Replying to @laz@lemmy.dbzer0.com Hey mod you'd find this one very funny Open it is the most unhinged repo I have seen this week Good folks of Lemmy pls tell me this is not a virus
Open post laz @laz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4d ago Replying to @SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml Windows 11 is failing as an operating system Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:46 Sponsor: TuxCare Radar 02:23 Windows 11 is failing right now 05:20 What’s the job of an OS? 06:51 Updates break systems. Often. 10:53 You have to adapt to it 15:14 It’s highly intrusive 17:44 Debloating tools don’t make it good 20:19 Windows fails at being an OS 21:33 Alternatives are better, but not perfect 27:23 Windows is a sales platform, not an OS Yep don’t believe me see what kids on windows are doing(fixing what should have been already fixed years back) github.com/pagar-ani/native-topmost GitHub GitHub - pagar-ani/native-topmost: Ultra-lightweight native Win32 topmost enforcer. 7.5 KB binary, 2.5 MB RAM, zero dependencies. Fixes PowerToys Win+Ctrl+T failure over fullscreen apps. Ultra-lightweight native Win32 topmost enforcer. 7.5 KB binary, 2.5 MB RAM, zero dependencies. Fixes PowerToys Win+Ctrl+T failure over fullscreen apps. - pagar-ani/native-topmost