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  • We live for no other reason than that we can. Against all odds, in a universe that wasn’t trying to make us alive, we became more than the sum of our elements that compose us: to be the thinking and thriving things that we are - for as long as we are. Life itself is an act of defiance against the universe, but ultimately playing by it’s rules with the understanding that we can only do so for a finite amount of time.

    Your cat too was one of those defiant and emergent souls that used the universe as it’s playground full of strangers, bullies, and friends alike. Never forget that which it did not know: that its time was short but miraculous in the grand scheme of a universe borne of chaos but twinkling with unexpected life.




  • DrDominate@lemmy.worldto4chan@lemmy.worldA math lesson from 4chan
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    10 months ago

    If you are curious about the math logic side of this like I was, here’s the explanation.

    Multiplying is just like addition.

    3 * 3 = 3 + 3 + 3 = 9

    Simple enough but what if one is negative?

    3 * (-3) = (-3) + (-3) + (-3) = -9

    Also easy, all we changed was the signs of the 3’s being added together. But what do you change if you make both of them negative? The only thing left to change is the operation sign. Thus multiplying two negatives is like subtracting negatives.

    (-3) * (-3) = - (-3) - (-3) - (-3) = 3 + 3 + 3 = 9

    Notice that I placed a negative sign in front of the first (-3). That first one has to be subtracted as well so you can imagine a zero in front of the operation.

    Edited: Some formatting.




  • I’ll second this by saying that most people will just buy a new computer when their current one becomes “slow”. For me, a slow computer is easy to find a solution for. It’s almost always the install drive is a hard drive and too many background applications. For other people the only solution in their eyes is a brand new PC because even the operating system is part of the whole PC.