I think this is more accurately vice signalling.

I got that, yes.

It's certainly a bad place, by the looks of it.

Not pain, but if I do anything less than strictly sensible I often feel I have an obligation not to correct it, because I should learn not to do whatever the thing was in the future. Trouble is, I never remember the thing itself. All I teach myself is it's not ok to try to do things better than I did last time. That's unhelpful. I know why I do it but my psychologist terminated service because she didn't feel she could help me anymore so I don't know how I would stop.

Wait, what?! HRT isn't even PRN! Why are people treating it like polyjuice? I have never heard of this.

That's a fallacy. Individuals don't evolve, and neither do whole species; it's populations that evolve, which for humans means tribes. Behaviours that help the tribe's survival mean the whole tribe is favoured, even if the individuals exhibiting those behaviours never reproduce themselves. Why do you think latent genes are a thing? How do you think humans developed things like altruism?

It might seem harmless, but the purpose of a joke is to draw a distinction between those who get it and those who don't, fostering a sense of community. In this "joke", the in-group is people who don't know something; the community ideal fostered there is that knowledge is undesirable, that anything that seems unintuitive to the uninformed mind is inherently ridiculous. The "joke" has no effect if it doesn't do this. Entertaining the idea without challenge is dangerous.

I only read one book, and it's a Good Book, don't you know!

Ok, I think I see the problem. To me, MSb (Most Significant bit) isn't an ordering at all, just a label that one particular bit has. To specify an ordering, you'd also need to say whether that bit comes first or last. This concept doesn't exist in computer memory because, as previously mentioned, bits in a byte aren't ordered in memory. I was thinking of the individual digits in a field (each Y in YYYY) as separate bytes in a word, so endianness order makes sense to think about; separate fields in this analogy were contiguous like struct fields. I think my mental model is sensible, since ISO 8601 is fundamentally a sequence of characters, which are all in an absolute order.

Hah. Church tried to ban it because it was "associated with illegal money trading", I remember that. What is it about maths that makes non-mathematicians think themselves qualified to judge matters they don't understand?

Right, and in data transfer every byte can be placed in an absolute order relative to every other. And the digits within the respective fields are already big-endian (most significant digit first), so making the fields within the whole date little-endian is mixed-endian.

I have iterated this several times, so I worry there's a fundamental miscommunication happening here.

You do have to look at it though: it takes up space on the left margin, pushing your code to the right. Plus, a decent syntax highlighter will make a Lisp's parens about as subtle as whitespace. (You might call that cheating, but remember, what we call "text" is just a sequence of voltages etched on a silicon wafer; what we see on our displays is already a monumental abstraction.)

I might not find a joke funny, or I might not have the necessary context to appreciate it; that's "not getting" a joke. If it's possible to have too much context to appreciate a "joke", it's at the expense of people who know more than the audience.

I think I almost understand what you're getting at. If I do, it's uncodifiable. You can't draft an organisational system with a clause that no one is allowed to use logical fallacies to defend it.

Right, and the most significant bit of the whole date is the first Y in YYYY, which we can't put at the end unless we reverse the year itself. So we can either have pure big-endian, or PDP-endian. I know which one I'm picking.

Your literal statement is also just wrong. The solitary implication of endianness is byte ordering, because individual bits in a byte have no ordering in memory. Every single one has the exact same address; they have significance order, but that's entirely orthogonal to memory. Hex readouts order nybbles on the same axis as memory so as not to require 256 visually distinct digits and because they only have two axes; that's a visual artefact, and reflects nothing about the state of memory itself. ISO 8601 on the other hand is a visual representation, so digit and field ordering are in fact the same axis.

The irony is a real foreigner could probably do maths better than them.

I remember 5280 despite being Australian because I saw that stupid mnemonic tweet. I remember the SI prefixes because of xkcd.

Except no because the digits themselves are still big-endian. That's nUxi.

If I'm not meant to think about it until understanding emerges, then that means it should be immediately understandable without thinking. It is not.

I think it is not. Certainly most projects aren't solely personal utilities, but devs working for fun rather than profit will almost inevitably produce something skewed towards their own tastes and skills. See: the presentation of any FOSS graphical app vs a paid equivalent.

That's a pretty weak definition. "Legitimate" especially is a vacuous term, and every form of democracy ever proposed is (theoretically) "accountable".

How is that different from the spaces/tabs you type at the beginning of a line though?

The Hamiltonian using Hamilton's numbers? Now I think about it it is a bit silly that two entirely separate yet highly propinquitous concepts have such similar names. Physics really went downhill once humans started writing it down.

First encounter with a Lisp, I see.

Lisps aren't like Algols, where delimiters are visual cues for structure; what you're meant to do is ignore them, and focus on indentation instead. The advantage of having them at all instead of doing Python's thing is it's obvious how the parse tree will turn out, which gives macros the power to not suck. Additionally, Parinfer.

I know this is a joke, but wrong about what, exactly? I don't get it.

Also, and maybe this has something to do with the joke I'm not getting, the way complex numbers are motivated in school is a lie, and a stupid one. Mathematicians were perfectly comfortable with certain equations having no solutions; the problem was when their equations told them there were no solutions when they could see the solutions: the curve x^3^ - 15x + 4 crosses the x-axis, but Cardano's cubic formula gives up due to negative square roots. Imaginary numbers were originally no more than an ephemeral reasoning tool, and were only reluctantly accepted as entities in their own right because of how damn useful they were.

Quaternions are not the basis for quantum mechanics. Biquaternions have some applications in quantum field theory, but there are many areas of quantum mechanics where there's no need or space for anything above complex.

I'm 26 and if there's no death door in my Afterlife, I'll spend the next hundred thousand years inventing it. When I'm done, I'm done.

Excellent shirtpost. I am physically revulsed. (Are there tags on Lemmy? You should probably tag this. I know the joke is better if you don't, but people clearly don't get it.)

Seriously though, while maximising good in the world is obviously a good thing for humans, the Afterlife runs on balance over virtue: half the beings there are literally evil incarnate, and they need human suffering to survive. We all think it's sad when a seal gets eaten by a polar bear, but if no seals get eaten, the bear dies. It seems cruel, and it is, but it's also utterly irrelevant: everyone goes to the Good Place, and their existence there is thousands of times longer than their existence on Earth; so even if they live the most miserable, gruelling lives imaginable, it counts for nothing in the long run.

Also, trying to get points means you can't get points, so the idea is DoA anyway. (Yes, that was in S1 and they changed the system in S4, but it was never stated that they changed the scoring itself.)

But what medication? I'm on several. I'd need to know what's going on before I know the right meds. I'm seeing my GP in two days, hoping she has any idea what could be happening.

You do have a point. Maybe that's why the Door exists: sometimes, humans simply outdo demons.

Yes, I have noticed. One is a conclusion I've come to, the other is...hardwired, I think. That's how it feels anyway.

I was receiving regular therapy until around two months ago. Practitioner said she couldn't help me anymore, gave me a list of others; interacting with new people at all has been near impossible lately, much less rehashing my entire life and situation.

I have the feeling the problem is deeper than psychology: my brain might be physically malfunctioning in some way. I mean, if I'm as self-aware as I am but still can't shift some obviously wrong beliefs, those beliefs must be "bolted down", so to speak. Does that make sense?

Hm. I'm not certain if I'm introverted or extroverted or somewhere between; hard to know without people around.

I skimmed the article. Some steps might be possible, some definitely aren't, and some I feel a physical aversion to. Certainly, I can't work through it on my own. I was receiving therapy up until around two months ago (psych said it wasn't helping me anymore and I needed to find someone new, have been unable to interact with new people in any way); I think the problem is deeper, but I don't know what or how.