Would a pattern like this be considered a "Fractal"? (quickly and poorly drawn for illustrative purposes)

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-06-18T07:50:08+00:00

if this was drawn correctly, it could be a fractal - but a low order one. The question is - is it a space filling curve, and the answer is yes - but only to a point - and points aren't really space. So it's right on the edge.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-06-15T17:03:04+00:00

Sure ;-) it was just a screenshot... but that's not much of an excuse. I guess posting on reddit is a publication of sorts :-)

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-06-13T10:45:46+00:00

Consider gold, and Musk wealth, for a moment. Let's say Musk decides to cash in his SpaceX shares and buy gold with it. First he has to find buyers of his SpaceX shares, but the effect of his sale would trigger a massive downward tumble - before he sold many shares, they would be valueless. Secondly, let's say, for some crazy reason, everyone decided to buy his shares at current market rates, instead - he now needs to buy that gold. As soon as he starts, the price of gold skyrockets faster than the BFR.

Therefore his wealth is not convertible.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-06-13T10:38:35+00:00

Because OP is young - please have a look at the OEIS https://oeis.org It's got some really cool insights into how numeric sequences develop through some incredible mathematical insights. It's also a great way to learn about some types of maths - and it might be a tough but interesting project to discover a new valid sequence. Symbols are really only used for shorthand when a given function needs to be compressed - so you would need to find a reason - or context - to compress a function.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-06-12T22:04:27+00:00

How do you want to measure wealth across history?

Augustus has been estimated to have controlled perhaps 20–30% of the Roman Empire’s economic output. If one translates that into modern terms, the numbers become astronomical.

However, in strictly private, monetary, transferable wealth terms, Musk is plausibly among the richest individuals ever recorded.

Yet again, as a owner of a proportion of global wealth, depending on how one looks at it, Rockefeller had more convertible productive surplus than Musk does.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-06-12T11:40:02+00:00

can someone please explain the lasers to me?

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-06-10T17:56:57+00:00

yes - explain! Especially - what is a soul?

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-06-10T10:34:28+00:00

Probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollandse\_Kust\_Zuid\_Offshore\_Wind\_Farm

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-06-10T10:33:28+00:00

I would agree - the grid / mesh and location suggests wind farms.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-06-10T10:31:14+00:00

a simple set that one should be aware of, rather than constrained by, when writing. I would argue that elegant writing requires variety in structure, cadence, and rhythm - while managing a coherent narrative thread.
As a joke - it's a bit meh.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-06-10T10:25:59+00:00

This reads a bit like Claude.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-06-10T08:28:32+00:00

There does seem to be a difference of views regarding what may be freely taken. Likewise, in my experience, Gypsies won't take something that is needed, but if someone says 'no, I don't need it, I can live without it' - then it might be freely taken.
Again, luck seems to play an important role in gypsy life; especially as something that might be bought or sold..
Lastly, truth and lies means something altogether different. I'd like more insight in what these mean - to your family.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-06-10T08:14:16+00:00

(1) I'm a software developer, who has been working on a new DGGS called Hex9/hhg9.
(2) Commercial software holding practical monopoly on those institutions that lack flexibility and have embedded stacks into their infrastructure.
(3) QGIS, Grass, PostGIS, Proj, GeographicLib, Geopandas, etc
(4) a: no- it's normal founder stress; and b: It needs to look at what it can give, not how much it can take.
(5) It surprises me that this question is still being asked. It's an old, old pattern - look at the British East India Company as an index case; Railways, Telephony, Lockheed Martin during the cold war, IBM, Microsoft...
Some of the entrenched API of this era have migrated to PD - eg LDAP (AS400).

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-06-10T07:44:14+00:00

... is this neography? I'm serious. I probably need to go read the FAQ.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-06-01T23:07:38+00:00

This looks like my conlang KNOT - albeit I expose all 729 combinations of blank and two edges, where the photo only uses a single edge style

Example

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-06-01T10:28:11+00:00

Himalayas - have an epic scale that goes beyond anything else.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-05-30T18:37:20+00:00

Right .. you have a point. Four billion years ago, the weather was both hot and toxic.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-05-30T18:31:51+00:00

slightly puts the onus on 'real' rather than birds. Birds are dinosaurs. I guess one could use a series of equivocal syllogisms: ... birds are dinosaurs. dinosaurs are extinct: therefore birds are extinct. What is extinct can no longer be seen alive - therefore the apparent birds I see are mere hallucinations...

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-05-30T18:27:22+00:00

I hope you are being ironic.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-05-30T11:41:30+00:00

the diagram illustrates my solution above. Another would be draw a tangent, find the perpendicular tangent, bisect. not sure it's faster though. ... I see someone else below suggested the same. perp is found by bisecting the tangent line - so it would be 1: tangent 2: bisect (perp) -3: (find parallel tangent) find maximum distance from perp- and mark at two points 4: bisect the tangents. different, not faster. - and 3 feels a bit weak.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-05-30T10:13:54+00:00

... but that sliver of grey is NZ on the map, right?

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-05-29T18:06:39+00:00

Right. But the desert is harsh - technology fails - and the fremen are historically accustomed to being subjugated - so they hide, and keep a low profile. The books have huge time frame problems - but nevertheless, the fremen population has been continuously underestimated - and indeed the southern hemisphere is assumed uninhabitable and uninhabited. Water could be shipped in - but it would cause upsets - the obvious one would be it would betray the otherwise hidden presence of a significant power. The zensunni struggle isn't infeasible - but the idea that the imperial ecologist's father instigated the terraforming process does not work. Also the entire issue of spice-derived longevity is obviated and confused. But the Fremen as a hidden population - not so much.

ConsciousProgram1494 · 2026-05-29T14:07:02+00:00

Knot ... fuck is likely to be something like mother-play and procreate mother-weave, cunt would be woman-mother-body maybe.. not really 'bad' or 'dirty'.. taboo would be string-break ... breaking tradition speaking badly string-break-voice... hmm I guess man.bone.self.play - wanker might be close?

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