[-] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 5 points 1 hour ago

That's because all they had for decades was the anti-consumer practice of console exclusivity. That has been the sole reason for the lack of some games on some of the platforms.

[-] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 1 points 2 hours ago

Ok. In mathematical notation/context, it is more specific, as I outlined.

It is not. You will routinely find it used in cases where your explanation does not apply, such as to denote the contents of a matrix.

Furthermore, we can define real numbers without defining series. In such contexts, your explanation also doesn't work until we do defines series of rational numbers.

Ok. Never said 0.999... is not a real number

In which case it cannot converge to anything on account of it not being a function or any other things that can be said to converge.

because solving the equation it truly represents, a geometric series, results in 1

A series is not an equation.

This solution is obtained using what is called the convergence theorem

What theorem? I have never heard of 'the convergence theorem'.

0.424242... solved via the convergence theorem simply results in itself

What do you mean by 'solving' a real number?

0.999... does not again result in 0.999..., but results to 1

In what way does it not 'result in 0.999...' when 0.999... = 1?

You seem to not understand what decimals are, because while decimals (which are representations of real numbers) '0.999...' and '1' are different, they both refer to the same real number. We can use expressions '0.999...' and '1' interchangeably in the context of base 10. In other bases, we can easily also find similar pairs of digital representations that refer to the same numbers.

I meant what I said: "know patterns of repeating numbers after the decimal point."

What we have after the decimal point are digits. OTOH, sure, we can treat them as numbers, but still, this is not a common terminology. Furthermore, 'repeating number' is not a term in any sort of commonly-used terminology in this context.

The actual term that you were looking for is 'repeating decimal'.

Perhaps I should have also clarified known finite patterns to further emphasize the difference between rational and irrational numbers

No irrational number can be represented by a repeating decimal.

[-] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 9 points 5 hours ago

If Trump get back into office, I think I may permanently leave this country

Why haven't you?

[-] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

The explanation I've seen is that ... is notation for something that can be otherwise represented as sums of infinite series

The ellipsis notation generally refers to repetition of a pattern. Either ad infinitum, or up to some terminus. In this case we have a non-terminating decimal.

In the case of 0.999..., it can be shown to converge toward 1

0.999... is a real number, and not any object that can be said to converge. It is exactly 1.

So there you go, nothing gained from that other than seeing that 0.999... is distinct from other known patterns of repeating numbers after the decimal point

In what way is it distinct?
And what is a 'repeating number'? Did you mean 'repeating decimal'?

[-] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 5 points 10 hours ago

There is only Seksbjørnen.

[-] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 22 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

That reminds me, I have had several liberals and apparent 'anarchists' tell me how bad the PRC is, in comparison to the empire which is guilty of killing millions of people, because the PRC had a lethal space rocket malfunction 30 years ago and because... space rocket boosters keep falling near villages.

'Nooo, they shouldn't be allowed to get ahead of the US in space projects! They are evil savages who are not capable of technological advancement'
-Some supposed 'anarchist'.

Also,
'But states should share scientific advancements! It wouldn't be good to exclude NATO states from scientific projects! That's why I think that no alternative to the 'international' NATO space station where only representatives of NATO states and their puppets are allowed and which states like the PRC are banned from working with should exist!'
-Same person.

[-] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago

I'll officially have a master's degree in August

IDK, I'd prefer a master's degree in math

The decimals '0.999...' and '1' refer to the real numbers that are equivalence classes of Cauchy sequences of rational numbers (0.9, 0.99, 0.999,...) and (1, 1, 1,...) with respect to the relation R: (aRb) <=> (lim(a_n-b_n) as n->inf, where a_n and b_n are the nth elements of sequences a and b, respectively).

For a = (1, 1, 1,...) and b = (0.9, 0.99, 0.999,...) we have lim(a_n-b_n) as n->inf = lim(1-sum(9/10^k) for k from 1 to n) as n->inf = lim(1/10^n) as n->inf = 0. That means that (1, 1, 1,...)R(0.9, 0.99, 0.999,...), i.e. that these sequences belong to the same equivalence class of Cauchy sequences of rational numbers with respect to R. In other words, the decimals '0.999...' and '1' refer to the same real number. QED.

He was already 98% shit on Oct 6....... then he went and did a genocide

brandon astronaut-2 astronaut-1

[-] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

CNN is Russian propaganda.

[-] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 38 points 2 days ago

Get him to spill all the beans

This place needs legume police so that people will stop spilling beans all over the floor.

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No, seriously, why do they? It's not like the construction workers don't get paid their wages if they aren't given such projects, and, unless you are buying the resources from overseas, the only cost for the construction materials for the state is wages/salaries of the workers who are involved in the relevant processes.

Am I being swindled?

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Working in a Virtualbox VM using the standard KDE version of the .iso. I get locked out due to inactivity during a live environment session. Trying to enter the empty password doesn't help me. How do I deal with this graciously?

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Are there any distributions that offer benefits post-installation?

I am aware of Arch (and some other relevant distributions) having access to the AUR, and would like to know if other distributions can offer anything other than a quicker set-up.

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Basically the title.

Also, in case somebody could answer the question: is it possible to enable the Cube effect in a Virtualbox machine? I already have kdeplasma-addons, qt6-quick3d and qt6-quick3dphysics installed but I have no Cube effect option in window effects.

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Appeal of GNOME DE? (hexbear.net)

Not sure if this is the right comm to ask in, but I have been hearing people praise GNOME lately, which contradicts my prior experience with GNOME in live environments a few years ago.

I'd like to ask, what is the appeal of this DE compared to KDE?

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Working inside a VirtualBox virtual machine. Installed Arch Linux using the Archinstall method. Chose KDE as the DE and SDDM as the greeting screen.

Managed to log in once, but after adding a language and rebooting, I didn't seem to be able to change the keyboard layout, making entering the correct password impossible. I have tried looking up how to switch the keyboard layout, but am coming up with nothing. What is the key combination to change the keyboard layout in SDDM?

Setting up a different virtual machine now.

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Feels like potential employers simply ignore my portfolio, and it doesn't matter how skilled and/or knowledgeable I am. None of them even try testing my skills, even when I am obviously more than qualified for a relevant job vacancy, or on the occasion when I do get an in-person interview, which is not helped by my social impediments.

I have always been significantly better than my immediate peers in the field where I am looking for a job currently, but while some of them did manage to get jobs, I am left with no commercial experience, and potential employers are obviously looking primarily for people who already have experience.

I don't seem to be able to hold a job in any other field, currently, at least not in the long term.

I love living under crapitalism and not being neurotypical enough to have a living. /s

(P.S. I do apologise to people whose replies I have not attended yet, regarding idealism and whether or not Marxism is anti-idealist or not. I still intend to.)

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