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   Project Gutenberg (gutenberg_org@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 02:03:26 JST Project Gutenberg

   How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero

   Zero, which was invented late in history, is special among numbers. New studies are uncovering how the brain creates something out of nothing.

   In some ways, zero is just like any other number on a number line. But a new study suggests that the mind may treat the symbol for absence differently.

   By Yasemin Saplakoglu via @QuantaMagazine

   https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-human-brain-contends-with-the-strangeness-of-zero-20241018/

   #mathematics #neuroscience

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   Sylvhem (sylvhem@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 08:16:14 JST Sylvhem

   I’ve spent a good hour and a half looking for the Sharran temple in Grymforge. I went back and forth between several levels, I combed every nook and cranies, nothing.

   I ended up discovering a dead cultist’s journal in an hidden alcove. In it, they mentionned how Lady Shar’s path was only revealed in darkness. “Of course!”, I said to myself, “I need to extinguish every source of light to make the temple appears! That’s why there is an orb of darvision around.”. So I spent another good ten minutes snuffing off every candles and brasiers that I could find. When it became apparent I couldn’t extinguish the torches on the druegar boat, I took it to another port before coming back to this side of the lake. And finally, finally, Grymforge was shrouded in darkness. And yet, still nothing.

   In an act of desperation, I turned myself to the Internet. “I really did try, I’ve deserved a little help.” I thought to myself. So I looked it up in a search engine.

   That was the first result 💀.

   #BaldursGate3

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   jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 09:38:33 JST jwz

   Studies find that trigger warnings do nothing.

   In other news, water is wet.

   Warnings appear to heighten the anticipatory anxiety a person may feel prior to viewing sensitive material while making them no less likely to consume that content [...]...
   https://jwz.org/b/ykQm

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   smxi (smxi@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 05:00:33 JST smxi

   in reply to

   @aral That's why I specifically excluded those. That constitutes I'd guess a tiny fraction of 1% of real world desktop installs. But IBM's Redhat division probably uses 99% code that they did not write, despite their absurd complaints about people using their code for free.

   The closest you'll come to significant numbers of realworld RHEL users are Fedora users, who pay nothing.

   In #FreeSoftware, real question is what have I done? Not they, or you, or someone else, but I. Confuses consumers.

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   Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Nov-2023 18:52:22 JST Drew DeVault

   @marcan
   TLS provides privacy but not integrity. In case of a server-side exploitation, or simply memory corruption for any other reason ECC failures are not nearly as uncommon as anyone would like to believe!), TLS provides nothing.

   In general this practice to installing software with curl | sh is a huge side-step around all of the security and trust that comes built-in to the system package manager, and tends to litter your system with stuff the package manager doesn't know about -- [cotd]