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I think I would be fine. I already have limited wealth and I'm directing a significant portion of it to the betterment of the world around me. If my wealth/income increased tenfold (as an example) I don't think I'd be able to find a use for more than, idk, 15-20% of the additional money? So I'd just heavily ramp up the funds going to charities and local causes.

Extending this out to the infinite wealth scenario, I'd be able to help more causes so I'd need to find out which charities are actually putting money to use for what they say they are, extend my mindset beyond local causes and to the whole globe. Almost certainly drop some fat stacks into buying out basically every fossil fuel corp and start the process of getting that shit phased out. Sure I make some terrible people rich(er) in the short term with the buyouts but fuck it, the environment needs to be prioritized.

How I'd convince this hypothetical entity? Idk, probably just explain all of the above and I guess show some hard data on my track record for this. If the entity is determined to put the money in the hands of someone who is going to do good, either I'll be good enough or I won't.

If its not infinite and "just" billions then I'm probably going to funnel about half of it into local (national) causes and the other half into affecting what positive change I can worldwide. Process for convincing the entity remains the same.

Yeah, last year, 2024. Stupid way of intentionally phrasing it.

Just want you to know I had a genuine cry-laugh at your image macro

I wouldn't, and I don't think most people would, consider being in hibernation mode or sleep mode as "on". Sure, it will add to your uptime, but like its a demonstrably different power state.

Mm, fair if you are running some task while you're not "actively" using the PC. Although given the general sentiment of people in the replies, the leading reason is "I'm lazy" or "its convenient".

Eh, like that's fair its personal preference but the energy waste of just having your PC idle is just weird to me. (Folding@home is totally reasonable)

Y'all it takes like 15 seconds to boot from an SSD why are you leaving your computers on?

Last I checked school teachers didn't make medical diagnoses. Elon is a fucking tool, but we don't need to perpetuate ableism when we talk about him.

Come on man no need to throw slurs around even if you're quoting someone else

Hell yeah although you might want to construct an identifier from like, name and surname and datetime of birth?

You're 100% right that is the most logical extension from the basis of 1 bit m-f - I completely overlooked that!

I'm glad to stumble upon someone on the internet who has the same crossover of programming, math, and gender (so unlikely! I know!) as well as silly humour in this regard :D

I was more approaching it from a programming perspective than a mathematical one - we could theoretically "label" all the gender experiences (perhaps just with the name of the individual that experiences it)

Of course this would be like labeling different variations of the sine function, and other functions, to use the analogy you made

The thing thats represented by the label may be discrete or continuous or anything

To be clear, I'm not attempting to represent gender as a continuous spectrum between Man and Woman - I'm throwing the gender binary out entirely and imagining each gender as some arbitrarily defined thing, ie for some people its a sine function (again to use your analogy) with different coefficients

If one wanted to represent the "gender space" as some 1d number line or 2d space with cartesian axes, then absolutely you'd need to fulfil the infinite and continuous criteria and I agree with you.

Though, to ramble a bit, I don't know what you'd use to label the axis/axes because we sure as hell can't use Man to Woman when agender folk exist, and we can't even use Man to Woman and Agender to Allogender because some folk would fall outside of those axes still.

Sure but thats their experience of gender right? Their experience of gender will never be "not their experience of gender" even if it changes from instant to instant

I guess in theory as there will only ever be a finite number of individuals, there will also necessarily only ever be a finite number of different gender expressions, so finite discrete probably works. (Not to say that peoples experiences of gender are fixed and equidistant, but more so that you could have a "gender enum" with an entry for each individual)

Of course, trying to say how many bits this would require is almost impossible because theres always going to be more people and more genders, but it is technically finite.

In any case, bagsies on (leading zeros)100101001

I hear someone made the list and checked it twice.

Thats what ended up being used yes, but the meme pretty obviously is referring to someone being scared they're going to be Power Word: Killed

Yep, I'm aware, and I'm sternly against it. My statement wasn't meant to imply that the EU should be trusted implicitly

Perhaps not the government, but for example the EU and GDPR is kinda great. Seeing this style of regulation put in place for social media is of utmost priority IMHO. Peoples brains are fucking fried, mine included, and I've been off basically all social media platforms for years now.

Probably, yes. Or at least regulated. Modern socmed is a fucking plague.

As a Linux user, this post is exhausting.

SteamOS is exciting. Many people had their first proper experience of using Linux with the steamdeck and many of those thoroughly enjoy the experience. I imagine its a great comfort to know that your OS is being supported by the same people who gave you such a great experience in the past.

I'm sure theres a tiny fraction of people who absolutely are just moving the goalpost over and over, but most people just want something that works for them with minimal friction. SteamOS will do that, and it'll be familiar.