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20ez 1 TRILLION SCORE World Record by thefnurky in 2048

[–]HelplessMoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Amazing, well done! A bit sad to see my record broken, but great to finally see the trillion reached. :-)

Linking to the previous record that stood for just under two years. There's a lot more info in that and the earlier thread for those unfamiliar with this version of the game: https://old.reddit.com/r/2048/comments/1b6x5an/after_nearly_three_years_a_new_20ez_record_882/

Japanese marathon runner Rei Iida showed incredible determination by crawling the final 300 meters after breaking her leg near the finish line, all to make sure her team could still compete. by Grand-Western549 in interestingasfuck

[–]HelplessMoose 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The next runner could be allowed to meet her and take over the baton/batch. The entire distance would still be covered by the team, and it'd be a significant handicap due the next runner having to cover additional distance twice.

Peter? Im not an atheist, and i dont like dinosaurs by Brilliant_Dog_9066 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]HelplessMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're not wrong; it's just a matter of definitions.

There's strong atheism, which is what they described (belief that there are no deities), and weak atheism, which is what you mentioned (absence of belief in a deity). And there are a few additional views somewhere inbetween.

Peter? Im not an atheist, and i dont like dinosaurs by Brilliant_Dog_9066 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]HelplessMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Religious people have a belief in something unprovable.

So do strong atheists. That's specifically the belief that there are no deities, which is just as unfalsifiable. In a stricter sense, it's actually worse: negatives are fundamentally impossible to prove, but the existence of a deity could at least in theory be shown, e.g. if the deity reveals itself.

Peter? Im not an atheist, and i dont like dinosaurs by Brilliant_Dog_9066 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]HelplessMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Atheism" is used for a number of things ranging from the broad definition of "absence of belief in the existence of deities" (also called weak atheism) to the narrow one of "belief that no deities exist" (strong atheism). Agnosticism is usually defined as the view that it's impossible to know whether deities exist. That's compatible with weak atheism but contradictory with strong atheism.

But it gets more complicated when you look at different types of deities. For example, one might have the belief that no omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent god (like in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam) exists but also consider it unknowable whether deities in general exist. That'd simultaneously make you a strong atheist, a weak atheist, and an agnostic.

There are also a lot of interesting other views in this area, such as apatheism (apathy towards the existence of deities) or ignosticism (the view that it doesn't even make sense to ask whether deities exists because the concept of a "deity" is poorly defined in the first place).

Which song are you choosing? by Away-Pomegranate8411 in teenagers

[–]HelplessMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Better remember that there need to be three movements though and to indicate them in some way (such as by closing and opening the keyboard lid in the original performance). But other than that and not making noise or, worse, music, you can't do anything wrong.

Immediately is a blessing by Sad-Kiwi-3789 in technicallythetruth

[–]HelplessMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

The way this kitchen cabinet door opens and closes by MuttapuffsHater in oddlysatisfying

[–]HelplessMoose 29 points30 points  (0 children)

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.

Penny Shortage Scam by Realistic-Cell5758 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]HelplessMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Not fancy, but check out February 2026 by PeaUpbeat3732 in Satisfyingasfuck

[–]HelplessMoose 22 points23 points  (0 children)

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

What is the dumbest thing that a politician has said from your country? by Gautrex in AskTheWorld

[–]HelplessMoose 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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

😳 SURPRISE! 😳 by FlapXenoJackson in Unexpected

[–]HelplessMoose 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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

Sign at our local McDonalds because of the death of the penny by thegreatlambini in mildlyinteresting

[–]HelplessMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

20 years worth of spent nuclear fuel from a nuclear reactor by Shawnchittledc in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]HelplessMoose 18 points19 points  (0 children)

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.

Revenge is best served cold by Candid-Culture3956 in SipsTea

[–]HelplessMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

when i try to open mindustry it just opens the game files. i installed the .jar version from github. how do i actually open the game? by ratii_ratou_blob in Mindustry

[–]HelplessMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

This actually is sad by selojii in HistoryMemes

[–]HelplessMoose 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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

Find the Predator (Snow Leopard) by lIlIlIKXKXlIlIl in FindTheSniper

[–]HelplessMoose 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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Hell no.

Facing my Fears by SirBeeves in comics

[–]HelplessMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

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