You need to be careful about this ... I believe that in France (for example) zero is regarded as both positive and negative. So in France:
Non-negative integers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ...
Positive integers: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ...
Similarly, for some countries "Whole Numbers" is equivalent to all the integers, while in other countries it's the set { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ... } while in still other countries it's { 1, 2, 3, 4, ... }
There is no approach that uses "natural language" and is universal, and being aware of this is both frustrating and useful. Whether it is important is up to the individual.
It's hard to be more explicit that it is considered both.
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In speaking with a French colleague, he says that "inférieur" often means "less-than-or-equal-to" rather than "strictly-less-than", so the passage you quote would still imply that 0 is negative (and most likely also positive).
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> In France, "positive" means "supérieur à 0", and "supérieur à " means "greater than or equal to". Similarly, "négative" means "inférieur à 0", that is "less than or equal to 0".
> (We have the similar reaction towards the anglosaxon world and the introduction of nonnegative…)
The text of the post where I saw this has this take:
> "So, they're going to make AI generated (and hosted) podcasts because they only need 20 people to listen to it in order to turn a profit from the ads. Who would listen to such content? Well I can think of one way to get listens - to spoof existing content and get listeners through the subsequent confusion. Great"
> I found an interesting paper about turning plastics into syngas. (Syngas is a mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen that's useful for lots of things, including making various kinds of fuel, or even feeding to bacteria to make protein for food.)
> Their method works at normal pressure and temperature, in a reaction driven by sunlight. They made these special metal sheets that you can put in water with microplastics. Over a couple days, most of the plastic disappears. They tested PE plastic bags, PP plastic boxes and PET plastic bottles.
> And the way they made the sheets was basically "stir together these three chemicals you can buy online, heat, centrifuge, wash, and dry". It sounds maybe simple enough to try at home. Seems like a fun material to play with if the ingredients aren't too unsafe (I haven't checked safety yet).
> So I looked at how much actually buying those chemicals costs. It came to something like US$3,000 for the amount they made, which was less than a gram. Which no longer sounds quite so straightforward to try at home. I guess it's a catalyst, so it's not consumed by the reaction, but that's still a big investment as DIY projects go.
I deal with a lot of young people who have grown up with tech, and my experience is that in general they haven't got a sodding clue about how anything works, or the implications of any of this.
The title given on the page itself doesn't reflect why I'm submitting this.
Taken from TFA:
> At 404 Media, Matthew Gault was first to spot a press release from the UK’s National Drought Group offering a list of things we can do to save water. The meeting makes sense: people think of the UK as a rainy country, but an increasing number of parts of the UK are experiencing extraordinarily dry weather. This “green and pleasant England” is brown.
> Last on the Group’s list of things we can do to save water at home: “Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems.”
I know you think you're explaining this, but it comes across as word salad. You're telling me a bunch of stuff that you've done, but I need to know what problem this is solving.
Mastodon is a social network without ads, without algorithms driving things, and with user-driven content.
I don't know what you mean by "spaces", and when I click the "Register" button I get a blank page. There's no explanation of what it actually is, how it works, or what you will do with my data.
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