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  • The fact that you can’t solve any real life electro-magnetism problem without them kinda put an end to that complex shaming nonsense.

    Yet there are still people to miss the absolute poetry of their story.

    In 1545, an Italian genius called Gerolamo Cardano was pissed he couldn’t solve square root of negative number.

    « Fine! I’ll make it myself » he said, before sending everyone to hell.

    He then invented an imaginary number i whose square would be -1.

    It wasn’t until centuries later that another famous genius named Leonhard Euler found a practical use of those numbers.

    Without those numbers we would still be living like 1800´s peons.








  • Of course there are unreleased 0-days, but you can’t do anything about it.

    And that’s exactly my point.

    Using a different browser until a particular issue is fixed when you are e.g. a journalist still helps with getting hacked.

    Actually no. Because you never know what currently unfixed 0-day is actively exploited in any browser. Using Gecko or Chromium today because Webkit had a security flaw yesterday doesn’t make anything safer. It might comfort you, but that’s it.

    The only important metric is the number of 0-day discovered per year per engine. It’s a matter of probability.

    Changing engine would be like changing dice because you had a bad number, without knowing how many side you’ll get with the new ones.








  • joneskind@beehaw.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhat laptop to buy?
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    You won’t play BG3 comfortably on a MBA, otherwise it’s a good general purpose laptop.

    MBP is more expensive but more powerful and comes with 16Gb of Ram and a much more powerful GPU.

    There isn’t a big difference between M1 and M2 on the CPU side, but M2 GPUs are significantly more powerful.

    Finally, Pro models have better sound system, 120Hz ProMotion display, and more battery life.