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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by XopherH to c/technology
 

A nice, concise overview of the reasons to move away from social media, and how to do it, including the Fediverse and POSSE.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Your link is just to a picture, not to an article.

[โ€“] AbidanYre 27 points 6 months ago

It is concise though. You gotta give him that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

yet it's still getting upvotes

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nobody reads the article.๐Ÿ˜‰

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Tbf, when this post was first made, the article was not linked and instead it was just a link to the picture. So... this is one time that not reading it made sense!:-P

[โ€“] SpaceNoodle 4 points 6 months ago

Not any more

[โ€“] MrJameGumb 1 points 6 months ago

It's at -7 right now lol

[โ€“] XopherH 5 points 6 months ago

My bad. Still getting Lemmy down.

[โ€“] TootSweet 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If โ„• is natural numbers and โ„š is rational numbers and โ„ค is integers and โ„ is the rational numbers, what are ๐• and ๐•?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Not aware of any specific usages, but maybe they're used as meta-sets. e.g. "consider a set of numbers ๐• and a set of numbers ๐• ... etc, which can't be done with the defined letters.

Unicode originally only had the double-struck letters for the defined sets โ„‚, โ„, โ„•, โ„™, โ„š, โ„ and โ„ค, but the full alphabets were later added at higher code-points with "reserved" gaps where the defined seven letters would otherwise appear.

(Complex, Hamiltonian quaternions, Natural, Prime, Quotient (rational), Real and Zahlen, a German word for counting numbers, for anyone wondering.

Quick edit: Zahl is cognate with English "tell" and "tale" which are both related to "tally", believe it or not. "Recounting a tale" didn't used to mean telling(!) a story, but instead literally checking a previous count, and developed the wider sense later.

Also, โ„ not getting "โ„š" because โ„š couldn't have "โ„" is kind of funny.).

[โ€“] TheFonz 5 points 6 months ago

Shouldn't it be sans serif though? Low effort.

[โ€“] MrJameGumb 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So... Do you care to explain further or should we just sign up based on this static image you posted?

[โ€“] XopherH 3 points 6 months ago

My bad. Have restored the link.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

A related article that I found so interesting I could barely put it down, and helped convince me to leave Reddit and come here instead: https://medium.com/@max.p.schlienger/the-cargo-cult-of-the-ennui-engine-890c541cebcb.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

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