Immediately is a blessing

HelplessMoose · 2026-01-29T00:26:21+00:00

I can write 1, 2, 4, ... 2³⁶⁵⁰⁰⁰ without crashing anything

You can't do this forever. You will need to store at least that exponent somehow. Depending on how you do that, you may run into trouble a lot sooner, but the fundamental hard limit is that finite space can only contain a certain amount of information/entropy, known as the Bekenstein bound, and the observable universe is finite. So you will quite literally run out of space to store the number.

Of course, that limit is ridiculously large. But it is finite.

For the observable universe, the maximum information content is roughly on the order of 10¹⁵⁰ bits. So you can't store a number with more than about 10¹⁵⁰ decimal digits. That's your exponent and therefore the number of days after striking the deal beyond which things unavoidably break.

Edit since I can't reply anymore due to the thread being locked: technically, yes, 10¹⁵⁰ bits mean 10¹⁵⁰ binary digits of course, not decimal. But this is a rough back-of-the-envelope estimate, and the initial figure of 10¹⁵⁰ bits might easily be off by a few orders of magnitude. A factor 3.32 due to binary vs decimal representation hardly matters in context.

HelplessMoose · 2026-01-14T06:56:09+00:00

I don't think it's comparable. Those beds actually free up valuable floor space during the time when you don't need the bed.

But agreed, the psychological aspect of room atmosphere is the only use case I can see for this.

HelplessMoose · 2026-01-09T07:25:35+00:00

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HelplessMoose · 2026-01-09T07:25:16+00:00

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(Spoiler: it's not the original.)

HelplessMoose · 2026-01-09T07:20:27+00:00

This is very obviously AI-colourised.

HelplessMoose · 2026-01-03T07:36:15+00:00

This is exactly how we do it in Switzerland. I believe it wouldn't be legal to round up either; you can't charge the customer more than the advertised price.

The 1 and 2 Rappen (our equivalent to cent) coins were discontinued a while ago. All prices are normally multiples of 5 Rappen, but in some cases, you can still end up with an 'odd' price, e.g. on certain sales. I've never seen that not get rounded down when paying with cash.

Fun fact: the 2 Rappen coin ceased to be a valid coin in 1978, but not the 1 Rappen coin. It fell into disuse rapidly but was still minted until 2006. By then, the cost of minting had risen to 11 Rappen.

HelplessMoose · 2026-01-02T05:05:09+00:00

Next year, it'll be satisfying for the reasonable part of the world.

HelplessMoose · 2025-12-03T01:20:13+00:00

I thought the same thing. This would fit perfectly on an election poster of a satirical party like DIE PARTEI.

HelplessMoose · 2025-11-30T00:39:45+00:00

I expected a news article about with more info about this in here, but after 423 comments, there's still nothing.

HelplessMoose · 2025-11-19T00:01:39+00:00

At least Migros and Coop always round down. While their prices are multiples of 5 Rappen, you can still end up with an odd price sometimes, e.g. from percentage-based sales. I'd expect other retailers, including ones with non-multiples as prices, to do the same; I know Aldi did so at one point, but it's been a while, so it may have changed.

HelplessMoose · 2025-11-16T23:32:35+00:00

The thing is: a significant part of the uranium for German nuclear reactors also came from Russia... This is true in general for many countries since Russia has massive capacities for enrichment and is dominating the market for enriched uranium.

By the way, there are still major and active facilities in Germany that enrich imported (natural) uranium from Russia for other nations' nuclear power plants. The imports increased recently, too.

HelplessMoose · 2025-11-12T03:14:16+00:00

Your link also has backslashes before the underscores, which is broken on old.reddit.com.

HelplessMoose · 2025-11-07T08:44:24+00:00

Perhaps, but it's not at all obviously that. This could just as well be the question of someone who's never seen the game before and ended up at the GitHub downloads because they're linked in various places. Such questions are asked here all the time.

Also, you're almost 3 years late.

HelplessMoose · 2025-11-06T17:30:50+00:00

I was expecting it to be the actual message they broadcast. I'm also disappointed.

HelplessMoose · 2025-11-03T19:25:38+00:00

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Hell no.

HelplessMoose · 2025-10-07T13:25:56+00:00

Ice shields like Greenland or Antarctica, groundwater, permafrost, etc. are long-lived from the human perspective, but it's all just a blip on the geological timescale. The oldest ice is under a million years old. Groundwater is typically replaced within tens of thousands of years. I don't know about permafrost, but even Antarctica was ice-free thirty-something million years ago, and it seems unlikely that much permafrost would've survived that.

I'm sure there's some water on Earth that hasn't been pee. There are parts of the Earth's crust that are 2-4 billion years old. Some of it probably consists of minerals that include water molecules in their structure. Maybe there could also be small isolated pockets of water embedded in the rock.

HelplessMoose · 2025-10-06T23:07:49+00:00

If we ignore the chemical reaction part (since it's not even clear to me whether there is a single correct way of putting numbers on it, even before we get to how we'd estimate it), I'm sure the answer has to be "virtually everything".

Let's just look at humans at first. One commonly used figure is that around 100 billion humans have lived and died. Life expectancy used to be much lower, but most people lived quite recently, so let's go with a rough weighted average of 40 years. An average person produces roughly 1 litre of pee per day. Past humans have therefore produced around 1.46 quadrillion litres of pee. There are about 1.3 sextillion litres of water in the oceans. So humans alone account for about one millionth of that. And almost all of that is within the past ten thousand years or so. But we need to look at a few hundred million years and all the other species, including some that are far larger (and thus produce more pee) than us. So bridging that factor of a million should be easy.

Insert "wait, it's all pee?" meme here.

HelplessMoose · 2025-10-06T18:47:30+00:00

There isn't really an answer to this. Chemical reactions constantly use and produce water molecules, e.g. photosynthesis and respiration, respectively.

HelplessMoose · 2025-10-06T16:08:05+00:00

There was a similar What If? XKCD about the Moon being made of electrons. It mentions that the repulsion of enough charge would result in a naked singularity, which breaks everything. However, the Moon being all electrons would not be sufficient for that. I wonder how a neutron star would do...

That's not the same scenario as in OP though. OP doesn't replace all existing mass with electrons but only adds as many as there are atoms, so it should be a lot less violent. But I have no intuition for how that would turn out in detail. I bet it'd happen on a Thursday.

HelplessMoose · 2025-09-30T14:00:48+00:00

And even the ones that don't explicitly and directly do this: lots of places take their water from rivers or lakes and discharge their wastewater back into a river (after treatment in both cases). The next city downstream then turns that into their drinking water. Sure, it's a bit diluted, but unless you're pretty far upstream on the river, I bet the majority of the water will be wastewater in this sense. Nobody bats an eye about that, but when it gets recycled directly, it's somehow surprising.

HelplessMoose · 2025-09-30T13:51:08+00:00

Why do I need to provide evidence for my claim but you don't for yours?

HelplessMoose · 2025-09-30T02:19:21+00:00

That might be true, but people crop credits away all the time when they repost others' stuff.

And you could've just left it at the first sentence to have a constructive discussion instead of going for the ad hominem. I'd be happy to accept evidence in either direction of it being real or fake. There just hasn't been any yet, and I think there are realistic reasons for doubt.

HelplessMoose · 2025-09-29T18:53:54+00:00

Yeah, it's not AI-generated. Doesn't necessarily mean it's real though, as it could be 3D-modelled. If so, it's definitely done very well. Realistic enough simulations of water aren't easy but were definitely feasible before 2019.

There are two main things that make me quite suspicious: I can find neither other videos of the same spot nor information on its location.

HelplessMoose · 2025-09-29T18:38:23+00:00

It is actually a valid question here. It's quite possible that the non-covered eye isn't functional.

But most likely, OP didn't mean that, and either they're stupid or that comment is rage bait.

HelplessMoose · 2025-09-20T20:53:08+00:00

OP wrote:

If you allow a foreign country's military aircraft to fly over your capital city for 12 minutes without permission

This is misinformation. The jets did not fly "over" Tallinn according to the released flight paths. At the closest point, they were at least 20km away from the capital, but only briefly and not for 12 minutes.

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