time to boycott charlie xcx

it means 1 times 38B. this is different from the standard hexadecimal notation which only lets you write 0.

i’ve started making my own smoothies too. only way i’ve found to make sure i don’t get any juice. you’ve got me curious about the lemon juice thing though. maybe that’s what i’ve been missing

i’ve been wanting to get into cast iron pans for a while now but it’s been hard to switch from stainless steel. it just feels wrong to have a kitchen with no cast irons and i do love how long cast irons last.

i’m still waiting on a non-plastic air fryer

boneless wings are soggy nuggets

a 10 second warning is not a mercy i would bestow upon him

sprongloxide might be the first rust crate i’ve heard of that’s reached version 0.9. my experience has usually been that the projects die and get forked due to infighting or loss of interest before reaching v0.6.

i’m starting to wonder if maybe it’s better for me financially to not interact with the sales and then just occasionally eat the price of a full price game if i really want to play it. unless of course the sale is for a game that i’ve taken a sacred vow to play within the next year

have you met any drummers?

the description of this post has got me thinking. is there a length limit to lemmy side bars? is it possible to have a link to every post made in this community within the rules section of the sidebar? would it be worth it?

as an expert on the topic of los angeles (i spent 3 days there, many years ago), i can confirm that it is exactly the kind of city where every drive takes 1 hour. if you have to get on the highway to go somewhere, you better cancel your plans for the evening because your new plan is to sit in traffic forever.

the audacity of making an xy-graph for an “educational” video and then not labeling the x nor y axes.

if you work in or near a hospital then this can be a very satisfying way of getting a ride to work

i genuinely feel that if some of the “great” 17th to 19th century thinkers and philosophers wrote their works today they would be considered cringe. i will not be naming examples for my own safety, with one exception: nietzsche would be super cringe.

don’t get me wrong though, lots of cool stuff was written before and after that time period. and not everything from that time period is bad, but a decent chunk of it is.

just imagine if we were sharks. we could do this shit like once a week forever

few people know this but there is actually quite a lot of money to be made from scamming your friends

the smallest fish in the big fish pond is still a big fish

hmmm… i’m still not quite sure what the motive could have been…

in this context, the “universe” means “the collection of all sets”, or more specifically, the Von Neumann universe (which is just a method of iteratively constructing “all” the sets). and so the figure is providing a way to visualize the collection of all sets.

this is done by assigning a so-called “rank” to each set. the notion of “rank” is kind of annoying to define in simple terms, but it’s basically used as a tool for proving things by induction. it does this by assigning an ordinal number to each set. (ordinal numbers are “basically” a “continuation” of the positive whole numbers, in the sense that for any ordinal number ɑ, you can define the successor ordinal ɑ + 1; so, it’s kind of like a way of formalizing the concept of ∞ + 1.)

you can think of “rank” as analogous to “cardinality”, in the following way. the “cardinality” of a set is a cardinal number that basically says “how big” the set is. meanwhile, the “rank” of a set is an ordinal number that roughly says “”“how big”“” that set is. (notice that there are a few extra scare quotes this time.)

lastly, the the set R(ɑ), where ɑ is an ordinal, is the set of all sets that have rank less than ɑ. i.e., the R(ɑ) is the set of all sets that have “”“size”“” smaller than ɑ.

and this kind of explains the visualization using a cone: there are more sets of “size” < 4 than there are of sets “size” < 3, and there are more sets of “size” < 3 than there are sets of “size” < 2. so it kind of lets you see “the universe” as a cone in that way.