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  • testfactor@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldMath(s)
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    7 days ago

    Yep. If the sun of the numbers is divisible by 3, the number is divisible by three.

    Works great for 6 too, as if it’s divisible by 3 and even, the number is divisible by 6.

    And 9 is the same thing, but the sum has to be divisible by 9 (e.g. 12384 is divisible by 9 because the sum of the digits is 18, which is divisible by 9)

    There’s also good rules for 4 and 8 as well. If the last 2 digits are divisible by 4, the whole number is (e.g. 127924 is divisible by 4 because 24 is) and if the last 3 numbers are divisible by 8, the whole number is (e.g. 12709832 is divisible by 8 because 832 is.)






  • See, I feel like your whole post could be summarized as, “some people’s mental illness makes them unable to work and earn money, so they’re too poor to afford treatment, and therefore the morally correct thing is to just let those people kill themselves.”

    And while I don’t think that’s exactly what you meant, it’s how it comes across. Almost all of your points are some variation of who’s gonna pay for their treatment and take care of their physical needs.

    And I would strongly argue that the answer is instead to have more robust social safety nets to cover those needs. Allowing people to kill themselves as the solution is hella dystopian.

    But, I’m not saying that this is 100% always right. This is a hard issue with no clear answers, and I am absolutely not minimizing the pain of mental illness. My point is that mental illness is much less understood than physical illness, and I wouldn’t trust any diagnosis that said the condition could never be resolved. In the same way that I would be loathe to euthanize someone with a physical illness that has an acceptable chance of being transient, I’m loath to do the same with most if not all cases of mental illness. Especially if the person is otherwise very young/healthy.


  • I think the question is one of balance for me personally. Where do you draw the line?

    Like, this person seems to have been in a pretty long queue and had a lot of time to evaluate, but is that denying her dignity? Should there be a waiting period, or is that denying someone healthcare?

    I think we would all agree that we shouldn’t allow an 18yo who just broke up with their first SO to decide to have a doctor help them unalive themselves, right?

    Is the three and a half years of waiting and treatments that this woman has undergone too much? Not enough?

    I’ll admit that it feels bad to me to allow a 29yo to go down this particular path. People who are seeking death are rarely in the kind of headspace where I think they are able to meaningfully consent to that?

    And this feels meaningfully different than the case of a 90yo who’s body is slowly failing them. This is an otherwise healthy young person.

    Idk, there are no easy answers here. Bodily autonomy is important, but so is helping people not engage in extremely self destructive behavior. If we didn’t have that imperative, fire departments wouldn’t try and stop people from jumping off bridges, right? Where is that line? I don’t know, and I wouldn’t want to have to make that call.



  • Do you really think the reason people hate Java is because it uses an intermediate bytecode? There’s plenty of reasons to hate Java, but that’s not one of them.

    .NET languages use intermediate bytecode and everyone’s fine with it.

    Any complaints about Java being an intermediate language are due to the fact that the JVM is a poorly implemented dumpster fire. It’s had more major vulnerabilities than effing Adobe Flash, and runs like molasses while chewing up more memory than effing Chrome. It’s not what they did, it’s that they did it badly.

    And WASM will absolutely never replace normal JS in the browser. It’s a completely different use case. It’s awesome and has a great niche, but it’s not really intended for normal web page management use cases.







  • Was intrigued by “no other symbols” than open and close bracket. Was curious how that would work while still being intuitive, so I looked at the examples. I’m now confused what you could have meant by that.

    Just glancing through the example code I saw +,-,>,<,=, and ;. Like, at that point you’ve pretty much covered all the standard symbols. What “no other symbols” are there? Curly braces and pound signs?

    And I’m not sure how beginner friendly this actually is, looking over the examples. Like, I feel like python is currently the “low bar beginner language” that you’re competing in that space with, and I don’t see what this is offering over that in terms of easiness.

    Sure, python has more “functions you need to learn” I suppose, but if the answer to that is, “you don’t have to learn them in kcats because they don’t exist and you have to implement them yourself,” it seems like a detriment rather than a boon…


  • testfactor@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlTruth scroll
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    1 year ago

    I don’t know that I understand the “under capitalism” distinction here.

    Like, I get that the point is that capital is influential, skewing the vote in favor of those who have it.

    I just think that even in non-capitalistic systems there will invariably be some other proxy token for power that will be equally influential.

    I don’t think the problem outlined is one that is fixed under any system.