namark @namark@qoto.org

@freemo not convinced that needing 999 million to make 1 a year is any sort of skill. Makes one wonder where did the 999 million come from in the first place (there has got to be some maths to that, I admit I haven't done). And as discussed before if you need it for any actual projects that involve other people the "input" doesn't have to be yours (or remain yours) for the money to do its work.

@gioypi

@gioypi I'm not really knowledgeable in details of economics, I'm mostly philosophising on the level of an individual as you might have noticed, but that could be related in concept.

@freemo

@freemo much of their money meaning most of their money? That makes sense I guess, still a bit strange that they can spend 90% but not the remaining 9. I would give it away just to avoid embarrassment, though that's just me, I guess most people think wealth is to be proud of.

@gioypi

@freemo Well as usual I guess we are dancing around the same argument, that might not even be an argument.
The wealth might a be a pie or might not be a pie, dependent on the situation. You might be doing some good, no harm, or some harm. Regardless of all of that, once you have accumulated more than you need (that is can reasonably plan to spend in foreseeable future), it is immoral to not share/spend, if there are people in need.

@gioypi

@freemo I mistakenly assumed that by burry you meant destroy, and not save to dig up later, which makes it worse in my optinion. It's not "not nice" it's bad, really bad.
Also in the analogy you are fed for life (or foreseeable future). Obviously if you have to worry about not having enough food for yourself or your family tomorrow(during a harsh winter) that changes things, but would also be out of context.
@gioypi

@freemo Even assuming best case scenario that it helped some, It is still bad if there are more people out there that need help. It's like coming across some food and destroying it, when you know your neigbour is starving. Their money being spent after their death doesn't mean they weren't greedy assholes their entire life. Also it might not be spent for a few generations if they teach their heirs(yeah that's still a thing) to be just as greedy and useless as they were.
@gioypi

@freemo that input doesn't have to be a part of your personal net worth.

And yes, that's essentially what I'm saying, spending is good, accumulating (in whatever form) is bad (only justifiable if you are planning a bigger spending later down the line).
@gioypi

@freemo it is a festering pile unless it is necessary for whatever your wealth generation scheme is, which is unlikely as you have generated it without the pile in the first place. If it wasn't necessary before but is somehow necessary now, it's not exactly your skill it is just a gold mine you happened to stumble upon.
@gioypi

@freemo whether it is a pie or not, stolen or not, it is equally disgusting to hoard and sit on a festering pile of it. Even worse if there are people next door living in poverty. It's not about how much you have and how, it is about what you do with what you have.
@gioypi

@Liberonscien
It's common in image compression to down-sample or dither color, as it doesn't affect our perception much. This seems like an exaggeration of that. The things our eyes would to to keep us sane are just insane.
@freemo

@ramob
it's free for the initiated (on f-droid), if you want to review yourself.
@Sphinx @freemo @Lwasserman

I'm going to go with 4 as a shorthand of the successor function in cases where it makes sense (naturals, integers) and as a generalization in cases where it doesn't (rationals).

The only problem is that it doesn't optimize well for IEEE floats. It emits an add instruction because of a special case -
0.0 + (-0.0) = 0.0,
which makes negative zero the actual addition identity, as opposed to positive zero that floats are initialized with by default. However this seems to be a well known problem (I guess comes up often with accumulate/reduce type algorithms), so I would expect the user to be aware of this if it's a bottleneck for them, and either use -ffast-math or a custom type that initializes to negative zero.

#cpp #float

husk is back but all the blackmail on @boob is gone... knew I should have saved it...

A very difficult question indeed, I must confess, without a doubt in my mind, all things considered.

thundersnow

@georgia no spark and boom?

@wolfie

I'm criticizing GPL's goals, cause I think that proprietary software is necessary, but I don't think proprietary software is necessary, and I like the ideas within GPL??? wow, make up your mind.

@georgia

@wolfie Being agains current or past corporations that held or hold monopolies in software "markets" does not mean being anti-corporate in general.
@georgia @toast @trickster