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  • Not really. The left side comes from trying to evaluate the Reimann zeta function at a point outside its domain, and the right side comes from evaluating the analytic continuation of the zeta function at the same point. The deepest truth it reveals is that applying the definition of a function outside its domain can give you nonsense results.

    It's one of those ideas like Scrödinger's cat or pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, where something that was intended to illustrate an absurdity is instead taken as representing some amazing and unintuitive truth.

  • The fact that we're having this discussion at all kind of proves that either English is losing the distinction, or it was never as clear a distinction as people sometimes make it out to be. Either way I'm fine with it because it doesn't seem like a very useful distinction to make in everyday language, and you can sidestep it entirely by using a word like toxic instead.

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    Everything in the video is considered acceptable in open source code today. If it wasn't, it wouldn't have been right there in the code for the person making the video to find it.

  • I'm old enough to remember when 4 of those 5 languages were the hot new thing. You'd have had me ignore them all and keep using C for everything. If I had done that I wouldn't have even landed my first job.

  • Oh my God, this is horrible! Remember, anything but full, unwavering support for everything Israel does is so antisemitic it may as well be a second Holocaust!

    /s because apparently many people actually think that way.