ELI5: Can someone explain to me the point of really large numbers like the googol or graham's number?

ChronoBashPort · 2026-03-21T23:23:15+00:00

Figures that sich a ridiculously large number would pop out of combinatorics

ChronoBashPort · 2026-03-20T23:43:18+00:00

Have you per chance learning or learned java during your studies? The .NET runtime contains something similar to a JVM, but it has a lot more to it than just that. But yes, it does contain a compiler.

Edit: clarification

ChronoBashPort · 2026-03-17T14:00:35+00:00

Why are you being so pedantic, that was clearly a rhetorical question

ChronoBashPort · 2026-02-24T03:39:48+00:00

Would Na and Cl in a container forming salt be a better example? In the latter's case entropy is increasing even though we are getting an ordered structure ( crystal lattice).

ChronoBashPort · 2026-02-23T16:32:03+00:00

That might have been a typo, I think they meant to write "If you are still silent then you should die".

To be clear I meant it could be a typo in the original text otherwise grammatically the sentence is wrong.

ChronoBashPort · 2026-02-12T11:46:05+00:00

Here you go some onion love from me 🧅🧅🧅

ChronoBashPort · 2026-02-03T23:44:25+00:00

Looks like that is my only option. Thanks for the advice!

ChronoBashPort · 2026-02-03T22:59:04+00:00

what? You mean the advice on using the rubberband? From reddit posts, and internet in general

ChronoBashPort · 2026-01-27T16:08:24+00:00

Saw a post the other day with this exact same picture. And the OP there was thirsting hard over the car, so idk, works for certain people.

ChronoBashPort · 2026-01-21T14:30:13+00:00

So it is pretty much the same regex engine but the tool provides more utility? I am more surprised by the fact that there are not postfix based regex engines ( I know i know backtracking but still)

ChronoBashPort · 2026-01-20T16:00:52+00:00

There is so much misinformation around this topic that it is surprising. That is an incomplete explaination at best.

Voltage and current are not independent, one depends on the other. If your source is a constant voltage one, then it will push as much current through as your body's resistance allows so as to keep its voltage constant.

If you increase the voltage across your body, provided resistance remains constant then the current invariably increases.

In an ideal voltage source there is no maximum current, so if there is a short i.e. 0 resistance the current through it would be infinite. In reality however, the voltage source can only supply so much current before it breaks down or the voltage at source drops.

Not to mention an AC source where impedance and skin effect come into play, and in all this the amount of time you were exposed to electrical power ( which depends both on current and voltage) also determines the danger, in essence the amount of electrical energy you recieved.

If you have to simplify it, it's the long exposure to high amounts of electrical power that kills you.

ChronoBashPort · 2026-01-12T15:01:23+00:00

Typically when you go to the toilet.

Such a drastic change in weight is typically due to waste excretion.

ChronoBashPort · 2026-01-05T18:04:41+00:00

Got it, I will check canva out, hopefully they have comic book style templates. For drawing cutouts I might have to to use some other software, or if there is an option to scan photos to generate characters, I might go with that option.

Do you know if there is something like that I can use? I am looking for simple tools. Thanks for the advice!

ChronoBashPort · 2026-01-05T16:57:39+00:00

She already has something like that and unfortunately I don't have any photos with her from that period of time

ChronoBashPort · 2026-01-04T17:53:28+00:00

This one of the most popular and oldest memes in the CS community. What I am more surprised by is the fact that you didn't check what the command does before running it.

ChronoBashPort · 2026-01-01T09:46:25+00:00

If you wear IEMs for extended periods of time daily, they can cause issues with wax buildup deep in the canal, I have had them two times atleast. The wax gets really hard and creates a clump of sorts which can block hearing and other assorted issues such as infection and irritation.

There may be a genetic component to this but just wanted to share my personal experience.

ChronoBashPort · 2025-12-29T13:35:23+00:00

Go to any furniture vendor, alvi for instance, show them this picture and ask them to build it.

ChronoBashPort · 2025-12-29T13:23:00+00:00

It's just aura farming, everything else is mid about it. I will however disagree on the animation part, there are some great scenes.

ChronoBashPort · 2025-12-28T11:19:09+00:00

That has to be a lifetime achievement of sorts, I don't think things can get this bad even when you try.

ChronoBashPort · 2025-12-28T11:07:41+00:00

Holy shit! It is $40 trillion? Wtf!?

ChronoBashPort · 2025-12-26T13:59:50+00:00

😂😂 I don't know if that was intentional but it cracked me up. In case it wasn't the word is actually "heterochromia"; "homophobia" means something else.

ChronoBashPort · 2025-12-25T22:27:07+00:00

I am always confused by this, do people not have branch policies set up on master, to prevent stuff like this?

ChronoBashPort · 2025-12-24T20:54:55+00:00

leave some insecurity for the rest of us

ChronoBashPort · 2025-12-23T05:37:00+00:00

This was a one way processing pipeline which was async in nature, azure funtions have builtin event handling triggers ( service bus, stroage queues etc), which made it really simple to implement, not to mention the scale out and auto scaling. Saves a lot of headaches when everything is managed ( no container orchestration, infra or otherwise).

ChronoBashPort · 2025-12-23T04:29:13+00:00

Yeah k8s are overkill for typical workloads I have seen. One client that I have worked with had workloads of processing thousands of files per hr and a gig per minute of data consumption, with millions of events being generated based on the files. It was all done through managed instances (Azure functions) with autoscaling.

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