LostXOR

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think there will be a single year that stands out in terms of Linux adoption, but it's definitely been accelerating over the past few years. I think in the next decade we'll see Linux gain enough of a market share to be considered a mainstream OS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Go get your PhD and write one yourself!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It's a nice distraction from reality, and it's fun to comment and post and have people upvote or reply. Makes me feel a little less lonely. :)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Don't worry, you can never be put in a room with an infinite number, only an arbitrarily large one. That's the idea of the hotel; it has an infinite number of rooms, but every room has a finite number, since you can count forever without reaching infinity.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago

It's so large that the number of digits it has is too large to represent, and the number of digits in that number is too large to represent, and so on for a number of times that is also far too large to represent.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago (6 children)

BB(TREE(3)) :)

[–] [email protected] 29 points 17 hours ago

Step 1: Make a dating app where you're the only man on it

Step 2: Make it so your crush is the only woman that can use it

Step 3: Send to crush

Step 4: profit?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 17 hours ago (8 children)

It's pretty amazing our first try at a fully autonomous helicopter on another planet flew and landed successfully 71 times. Rest in peace, Ingenuity.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago

You have to define your propositions somehow, probably in English, but honestly this seems like a really good way to precisely specify the terms of a complex contract with a lot of conditions. It does lack a bit in human-readability, but propositional logic isn't all that hard to learn.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

He said the words, and genies love to twist around your words to make your wish backfire.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well... Did they suck your balls?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

650 years ago, the place I live was inhabited mostly by the Ojibwe (a Native American people), so I suppose I'd try to find some of them and try to convince them to not kill me and let me stick around long enough to learn their language. Then I could teach them some of my knowledge. Maybe by the time the Europeans come along they'll be a bit more prepared.

If I can't find anyone, I don't like my chances of surviving for any significant amount of time. Maybe I could make it a few weeks foraging for food and fishing or something, but realistically I'll probably end up starving.

 
 

The downside of everything being federated is that it's really easy to listen in. Make sure to keep yourself anonymous online!

 
 
 
 
 

Hi, I thought I'd share this here since it isn't being covered by any news sources. It's mostly my own research and calculations, so it could be completely wrong, but I'm fairly confident it's correct.

Most of you probably heard about the asteroid 2024 YR4, which briefly reached a 3.1% chance of Earth impact before its orbit was further constrained and the chance dropped to zero. What you may not have heard is that the chance of lunar impact has actually been steadily rising. No organization is currently reporting lunar impact statistics, so I've been calculating the probability myself. I've created a Desmos calculator that you can easily plug the approach data from NASA into. As of now it's sitting at 1.94%, with the nominal approach being less than one lunar radius from the surface of the Moon (just 0.058 sigma from the closest approach).

This is the impact corridor for the Moon, as viewed from Earth. An impact on the near side (very likely) would be visible for an entire hemisphere of the Earth, including North and Central America, the eastern half of Asia, and Australia. Map of locations where the Moon will be visible at the time of impact. I'm not sure exactly how bright an impact would be, but a 45 kg asteroid caused a flash clearly visible to telescopes during a lunar eclipse back in 2019, so I expect an asteroid about 5 million times larger would be quite the show.

A 1.94% chance is still very small, but I'll be keeping my eyes on the data and crossing my fingers for a lunar impact!

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