cosecantphi

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[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

nah, this is just the appetizer to a big bowl of pasta made out of antimatter.

 

Every laptop I've ever owned has been at the 500USD or less price point, and every laptop I've ever owned has had some kind of catastrophic structural failure in the chassis that causes the entire thing to gradually disintegrate after about two years, like clockwork.

Like, that must absolutely be something they do as an explicit design goal that forces you to buy a new disposable laptop just after the standard warranty expires, right? It's not just me being bad at computer or something?

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

no siree no violence here in our violence system made out of violence, racism, and racist violence

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For the love of god someone please edit this speech to footage of True Promises II and III: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56vtZsQgAF0

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Once again, thank you so much comrade, I appreciate it!

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

this is looking like some Escape from Dannemora shit lmao

hope these guys who escaped are safe out there, how likely is it they never get caught?

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You're very welcome! I'm slowly teaching myself what is essentially a mathematics undergrad degree, and I'm familiar with the book you're using, so if you ever have any other questions feel free to ask!

Word of advice: In most math books, especially at lower levels, the majority of the exercises will nearly always be some sort of direct application of the theorems and proofs in the preceding chapter of instruction.

So when you feel stuck, you should go back to those theorems and try to make sure you really understand what the proof is saying. Like try to be skeptical about the statements and examine them until you are fully convinced that the proof is ironclad. Then it'll be much easier to spot which theorems each exercise is meant to provide elaboration/nuance on, especially the earlier exercises in a chapter.

The later exercises in a chapter tend to be much more difficult, but you'll nearly always be able to prove them with the theorems you've already learned, it's just that the harder ones will be essentially foreshadowing theorems in future chapters. So the longer you stick with this, deeply examining every theorem and attempting every exercise, the easier it becomes as you begin to understand the pedagogical intent of the author.

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The "go outside and touch grass with friends and family on new years instead of being on hexbear" struggle session we had a few years ago really sucked

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Take a closer look at the proof and conditions of conjecture 2 in chapter 1. It states that if you have a positive integer n that isn't prime (i.e it is n=ab for positive integers a and b both less than n, then the integer given by (2^n)-1 = (2^ab) - 1 is not prime either.

But the proof itself for that conjecture gives you a means of computing integer factors x and y of any such number where n is not prime. It uses the telescoping property of sums to prove in general under these conditions that:

(2^n) - 1 = ( (2^b) -1 ) * y

That is, one of the two factors you are looking for takes the form x = (2^b) - 1.

So let's use this to solve part (a) as an example. (2^15) -1 = 32767 is not prime according to conjecture 2 because 15=3*5, a product of positive integers less than n=15 . Now plug it into the equation with a = 3 and b = 5:

( ( 2^3*5 ) - 1 ) = ( (2^5) - 1 ) * y

Now you just solve for y:

y = ( ( 2^3*5 ) - 1 ) / ( ( 2^5 )- 1 ) = 1057

And we already had x = (2^5) -1 = 31

We may now easily confirm the result by multiplying: 1057 * 31 = 32767.

To apply this to part b, all that remains is to repeat the process with a = 31 and b = 1057.

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

I had that happen to me a couple times on freebase DXM but never on HBr. Was it a large dose, high plateau trip?

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Tripping on DXM. This drug is the OTC poison of choice for desperate teenagers, and that unfortunately gives it a very bad reputation.

But DXM is actually one of the safer hallucinogens out there so long as you get a DXM only product and don't mix it with certain other drugs. It's definitely the closest thing to Ketamine you can buy at walmart or amazon, that's for sure. Highly recommend that one.

edit: read the title backwards on this one, this gets more hate than it deserves haha

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

Got it! Thanks so much comrade, that's extremely helpful! I genuinely can't wait until I find some work so I can come back here and pay forward all the aid I've received from my beloved online commie friends.

heart-sickle

 

I also appreciate bumps very much!

Sorry for another repost, comrades. No idea what I would do without my online commie friends as I affectionately describe all of you to the people in my life. Still need help with this one from yesterday, though:

Still job hunting, I can't wait to find myself a new small business tyrant to exploit me various unacceptable ways in return for the ability to live a somewhat more dignified life.

Last one fired me literally within the first month in November after a schedule misunderstanding wherein I missed two shifts because somehow my piece of shit boss had literally just put me on the schedule for the next two weeks, but still expected me to be literally on-call to do my part time job of working the register at a convenience store on days not on the fucking schedule.

I can't drive, and I'm autistic, so this finding a new job thing has been taking a lot longer than I had wished or hoped.

If anyone wants to help me out on this, my cashapp and venmo accounts are both under the handle cosecantphi. DM me for paypal or zelle information. Any little bit is very much appreciated! Bumps too!

 

Can we do anything about that?

Genuinely this fucking sucks, and something needs to be done considering we are federated with them.

EDIT: Looks like the ban got reversed. Same with others in that thread.

https://hexbear.net/post/4435760

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Literally did it on impulse without even thinking about it so I wouldn't chicken out, so I blurted it out.

I said "I'm bisexual. I like both men and women. No more anti-gay stuff from you, ok?".

He said, "oh go away, you don't know what you like". I think he'll understand eventually, he needs time to think.

EDIT: Showed him this thread.

I said: "Look, this is what I said to you, these are my online friends who are happy for me that I came out as bisexual."

He said: "Oh you don't know what you're talking about, you've never had sex with a man or a woman before, until then you'll never know."

And yeah, I am still holding on to my v-card at 26. I was insecure about that years ago in high school, but I'm honestly glad I've waited to mature first.

 

Like what is the ultimate fate of the voyager probes and others on escape trajectories? My understanding is that space is far too sparse for these things to ever hit anything by coincidence, so their eventual fate is probably to be ejected out of the galaxy at some point.

They are then unlikely to be moving fast enough to actually cross intergalactic distances quickly enough for the expansion of space to not outpace the distance covered, leaving them in this void forever.

How long would they be recognizable as technological objects before the eons worth of stray hydrogen atoms erode everything away?

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From where I'm sitting, it looks like death should not be the end in that case.

You can't perceive the passage of time when you are dead, so you're just going to experience dying and then immediate rebirth after the countless eons pass for that rare moment where entropy spontaneously reverses to form your mind again.

 

I'm not at all exaggerating when I say this. The bar is so incredibly, incomprehensibly low everywhere else that I'm about ready to call literally anyone who can join this community, be genuine, and still not get banned an actual saint.

And that's no diss at the admins for being ban happy or whatever, that's literally just how you create an online community full of good people and somehow Hexbear has been the first to realize it

 

Assume you never get tired of the pleasure in heaven, and you never get used to the torture in hell.

Lmao this is such a stupid scenario, but I love putting incomprehensibly large numbers in absurd contexts like this. Like yeah, no brainer that infinity is vastly incomprehsibly largererer than Graham's number, of course nothing is worth going to hell that long for.

But uh, Graham's numbers is a lot of years. For all intents and purposes it's just never coming compared to the characteristic time scale of human thought.

 

Is it really possible they'll find an entire dozen people who've never been fucked over by health insurance to preside as jurors over this case?

It's my understanding that the defense and prosecutor both must agree on the selection of jurors. In such a high profile case where the defendant is clearly in the right, is it really possible they'll find the requisite 12 people who've not only been living under a rock these past couple weeks, but also have what's essentially a "neutral stupid" character alignment?

Luigi himself seems to be on this same train of thought given he turned himself in. He had several days to destroy the evidence, but instead he went to McDonalds while cosplaying as the Adjuster, carrying the gun on his person. Surely this implies he won't take a plea deal, right?

 

Like, I'm AMAB but don't really identify with whatever "being a man" is supposed to mean in this society, but have no idea where to go from there.

I do get mildly dysphoric the more masculine I feel I'm being perceived as, but still want to use he/him pronouns because while those aren't that great of a match, none of the other options feel any better and it's what I'm used to.

I was already presenting how I wanted to present, and that's mildly androgynous, so it feels like coming out to myself hasn't really changed much of anything, and that's giving me imposter syndrome type intrusive thoughts when I think about telling other people I'm non-binary.

Also, I'm autistic, and at times it's incredibly hard to separate that from my gender. Anyone else have this problem? Often I'm not sure to what degree my not identifying with "being a man" is informed by a non-binary gender or if it's me just not being compatible with common neurotypical attitudes on gender. Maybe it's a little of both

Anyway sorry for the rambling post, just wanted to gather my thoughts

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