absentbird
@absentbird@lemm.ee
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 1 week ago:
I think you’re the one who is moving the goalposts. There’s no requirement for the monkeys to submit their output, the test is whether the text of Hamlet is among their key presses. As long as there is a nonzero chance, then there is a 100% chance it would appear in an infinite system. Any non-zero probability times infinity has a 100% chance of occuring eventually.
The monkeys mostly produce gibberish, that’s the vast majority of the potential outputs, but among that massive number is also the full text of Hamlet.
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 1 week ago:
There aren’t an infinite arrangements of keystrokes that are the length of Hamlet and aren’t Hamlet. Hamlet is 191,726 characters long, it’s like guessing a password.
44 keys on a typewriter, 191726 characters, makes 44^191726 or about 4.054 × 10^315094 combinations.
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 1 week ago:
If the monkeys were truly infinite would time even matter? For any set of monkeys that could write Hamlet within a year there’s an infinite number of duplicate sets, so they could do as much writing in one day as the original set would do over the age of the universe.
- Comment on hard to argue with 3 weeks ago:
Noone has to do anything.
The original tweet essentially said that all women have a mission from God to use their bodies to make babies. At the very least it’s a value judgment on how women live their lives.
There seems to be a sustained campaign against having kids.
I have never encountered this. There is absolutely a sustained campaign for bodily autonomy, and for the acceptance of people who choose not to reproduce; but I haven’t encountered anyone talking like the original tweet, saying women have a mission from God to not have kids or something.
This is just fighting against the natural way of life.
Here we go again with imposing judgements on people who don’t reproduce. I feel like that’s the bigger ‘sustained campaign’ in this conversation. The natural way of life changes over time, it used to be natural to die young from a bacterial infection, or to have your village sacked by marauders. We don’t need to have the same pressures to keep reproduction high as in the past. Populations are still increasing, but people are out here blaming women for not doing it faster? Just take a breath, it’s going to be okay.
- Comment on hard to argue with 3 weeks ago:
I think they’re advocating that women can choose for themselves what kind of person to be, and that fact their bodies are capable of gestating children doesn’t obligate them to do so.
It’s sort of ike how the fact a man’s body may be capable of entertaining others by dressing their penis up in a tiny coat and hat doesn’t mean we should bully an entire gender into making that the purpose of their existence, nor does it mean we’re advocating for a world without sharp dressed dicks, it’s just a thing people are free to do or not do.
- Comment on 💸💸💸 1 month ago:
Spending on missile defense is one of the only parts of the military budget I’m alright with. Heck, why not expand it, intercept every missile targeting civilians regardless of who fired it.
- Comment on Lingering damage 1 month ago:
It really depends on what it was used for. I almost always turn bacon grease into gravy or mayo, for oil/butter from cooking meat dishes I make pan sauces, but for frying oil I recycle.
- Comment on Lingering damage 1 month ago:
Why waste the oil? Turn it into gravy, or mayonnaise, or store it to sell to a recycling center that will turn it into biofuel.
- Comment on That explains it. 1 month ago:
It’s gotten to the point where incel just means “a guy who believes men and women should be equal”.
No, that’s not even remotely true, and it’s not what your previous comment was saying either.
Incels are essentially misogynists with a sexual fixation. Like classical misogynists tend to be more occupied with women having jobs or holding positions of power, while incels tend to be more upset about women’s sexual habits, but both are preoccupied with hating on women they deem to be misbehaving.
I think the part of your previous comment that gave the most ‘incel vibes’ was the bit about women begging for attention after ‘hitting the wall’ in their 20s. Maybe you intended it as a comment on women who regretted not taking relationships more seriously in their 30s, but it came off as a sort of fantasy where the women who transgressed your model of how ladies should act get their just desserts.
- Comment on Beenis 1 month ago:
Worker bees are all genetically diverse, but the drones are masculinized clones of the queen. The queen’s flying dicks.
- Comment on Beenis 1 month ago:
They explode on penetration, breaking off from the drone, causing him to die soon after.
- Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? 2 months ago:
Look at me, I am your database now.
- Comment on This post 2 months ago:
Only 10% of bank robberies fail, and 80% of stolen bank money is never recovered.
- Comment on This post 2 months ago:
And if you don’t get caught you can use the money for food and healthcare on the outside.
- Comment on Noise 3 months ago:
Ah, that’s just overkill.
- Comment on Noise 3 months ago:
Pi picos are pretty good for iot projects like that. ESP are more power efficient, but a pi can be more self sufficient. I think it depends on the project.
- Comment on Meta removes Trump account restrictions ahead of 2024 election 4 months ago:
At first glance I was like ‘why is there a deep red state in the Midwest?’ then I remembered Indiana. I passed through Bloomington a while ago and it was sad, old punk graffiti covered up with big trump signs.
- Comment on Multiple nations enact mysterious export controls on quantum computers 4 months ago:
With math you can try, but I bet that in the future they laugh at the half-assed schemes and algorithms amassed to enforce cryptographs in the past.
- Comment on Part of this complete breakfast! 4 months ago:
People will hate on this, but what other breakfast cereal contains dental X-rays in every crunch?
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 4 months ago:
Fair enough, but the backlash from 8 years was already beyond the pale.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 4 months ago:
I am pro term limits, but you’re kinda making a good counter point. Eight more years of Obama instead of Trump and Biden… Doesn’t seem that bad. The conservatives went ballistic anyway, at least we’d have reproductive rights and better healthcare. I’m certain Obama would have been a lot better at managing COVID and the BLM protests. He was pro ceasefire in Gaza way before Biden too. Idk, for all his flaws, Obama seems better than what we got in his place.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 4 months ago:
Before FDR it was just a tradition, started by George Washington. Personally I think FDR deserves a pass, he got us out of the great depression and through WW2, it would have been hard to have a leadership change in the midst of that turmoil.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Very well put. Thanks for sharing. Keep up the great work!
- Comment on Ball's in your court, Mikey. 5 months ago:
That is the usual number.
- Comment on Slightly less than two drinks = positive effect on programming ability. Who's joining? 5 months ago:
Here’s the sketch: youtu.be/VTSCppeFzX4?si=kXnXSTiF1xWo-d9J
- Comment on Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more 5 months ago:
What about all the HD Zelda remakes?
- Comment on Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more 5 months ago:
You could say that about basically anything: it only takes one or two passionate people to [write a great novel, build a house, invent something new, prove a scientific theory, advance the field of mathematics] in a matter of weeks.
Those are rare and impressive exceptions, it’s not so simple in practice. The Mythical Man Month has some good insight on this.
- Comment on Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more 5 months ago:
Yes
- Comment on Ripperonis 5 months ago:
In The Pick of Destiny they’re 50 miles from Los Angeles when the cops try to pull them over. They arrive in LA less than a minute later, making their average speed over 3000 miles per hour. Given the aerodynamic properties of a Cutless Supreme, they are both cooked.
- Comment on Hey Apple, I have this great idea for a next spot where we burn a pile of books. Call me. 6 months ago:
I got a PineTab2 for under $200 that has treated me well. No e-ink or symbolic buttons, but it runs Linux and the included cover has a keyboard.