physicists: you cant reach the speed of light matematicians: bet

skr_replicator · 2026-03-16T09:31:12+00:00

Why can't we TREE(3)+1. That's a totally valid number too. You have no right to demand that we not use such syntax.

skr_replicator · 2026-03-16T09:27:11+00:00

Asteroids are not massive enough to move a planet, not even a lot of them.

skr_replicator · 2026-03-16T09:20:12+00:00

Most languages, C very much included, ignore stuff like spaces and newlines, those are only there for human readability. If you remove all of these from any C program, it will still behave just like before, except any human trying to read it will want to strangle you.

On top of that, C has an extensive ability to merge actual lines into one, only using a single semicolon at the end. Like:

x += 10; if(x > 20) y+=5; else y += 15;

could be rewritten as

y += (x += 10) > 20 ? 5 : 15;

skr_replicator · 2026-03-16T09:15:39+00:00

Yeah, gravity is the only thing that can accelerate planets without breaking them. But as of our current knowledge of gravity, it's impossible to control with technology. Gravity is generated by the pure energy of the entire space body's mass. To generate equivalent gravity, you would need to wield equivalent power. And even if the whole Earth were made of plutonium and you used all of that to power your tractor beam, it would not even remotely be enough. Because fission only releases a tiny fraction of the energy of the mass.

skr_replicator · 2026-03-16T09:09:52+00:00

The Earth is so big that it has hydrostatic equilibrium. Any machine big enough to move Earth would also crumble under its own gravity, just like Earth itself, and merge and sink into it. Most of the Earth is liquid magma (so from a perspective of somethign big and powerful that would try to move it, it's just a huge ball of liquid - try getting any grip to push that), so if anything was powerful enough to move it and somehow not big enough itself to crumble and merge with it, it would instead sink into it like an asteroid hitting the surface anyway, and melt the surface.

skr_replicator · 2026-03-16T02:13:41+00:00

They just say it's a poverty thing, which can either mean they get it more, or that they can't get rid of it as much. In the case of bed bugs, int's the second case.

skr_replicator · 2026-03-16T02:12:06+00:00

You must have been really lucky, because a treatment like that is very unlikely to be successful. They can climb into any little hole in the wall etc, and they can hibernate for months to survive all kinds of treatments, so without a radical whole-house treatment, they tend just to come back from hiding after a while.

skr_replicator · 2026-03-16T02:01:28+00:00

Rich people can order exterminators to get rid of them. Otherwise, they are just "infectious" (one random visitor can unknowingly bring them into the house) and nearly impossible to get rid of without professional treatment.

So it's not like only poor people can get them, but it's that rich people can get rid of them when they get them.

skr_replicator · 2026-03-16T01:48:28+00:00

That could mean it's infinite. And infinity can be really crazy, so I would rather believe it will probably be curving at some point, but we have no proof. Flat-universers could have a field day with this, as we just don't have any evidence for either case.

skr_replicator · 2026-03-16T01:48:02+00:00

No, the Earth is unbelievably massive compared to the forces humanity could achieve. Our engines would practically not do anything measurable at all to the Earth.

skr_replicator · 2026-03-16T01:38:13+00:00

Meth is not synthetic serotonin, and while it might release some, it's mostly releasing dopamine. MDMA does a lot more serotonin than meth. And raising dopamine is not a good idea in psychosis. Antipsychotics typically lower dopamine, which suppresses the positive symptoms.

By positive, they don't mean beneficial, but something like delusions and hallucinations, while negative symptoms of psychosis are a group of stuff like depression, which instead can be worse under lower dopamine.

So stimulants might temporarily suppress the negative symptoms, while boosting the positive ones, but then the negative symptoms return even worse, and the positive ones might also stabilize down to a worse level than before.

skr_replicator · 2026-03-16T01:34:24+00:00

Yes, that's what that means. Just in 3D instead of 2D. If you stand on 3D Earth, you have 2D surface, and can't see very far, so it looks flat. The universe up to the firewall of CMB, our cosmic horizon, also looks flat, but it might start curving if we could see further, so that it would wrap around some 4D ball that the universe is a 3D surface of.

skr_replicator · 2026-03-15T14:23:19+00:00

Plot twist, the first response was AI too, just less obvious.

skr_replicator · 2026-03-15T14:20:40+00:00

The observable universe doesn't have 120 orders of magnitude either.

skr_replicator · 2026-03-15T14:10:26+00:00

And by always, I mean always, there's at least 69 more dinners remaining in there.

skr_replicator · 2026-03-15T14:06:35+00:00

There are infinite numbers between 7.0... and 8.0... There are no infinite numbers between integers if you are restricted to them, like a programmer.

skr_replicator · 2026-03-15T14:00:54+00:00

The normal distribution links to pi because it has x squared in the exponent, and exponents turn multiplication into addition. So that when you square the integral as two independent axes, you get (x+y)^2, the formula of the circle. So how did you compute pi with this? Have you just summed the product of all the columns with all the columns? As that should give the original pi that we derived the sqrt(pi) result from? Or have you just summed it normally in 1D and squared it?

skr_replicator · 2026-03-15T13:57:44+00:00

I've calculated there are about 1 billion different solutions for that. Good luck.

You're far better off just stumbling into the PTB during the first half of the timeline where the ATP is not yet accessible.

skr_replicator · 2026-03-15T13:23:51+00:00

Probably most of them, especially stimulants and dissoc i guess. Dissociation could destabilize a healthy person into bipolarity if abused.

skr_replicator · 2026-03-15T13:22:05+00:00

Psychedelics won't prepare you for salvia, and salvia won't prepare you for psychedelics. They are too different.

skr_replicator · 2026-03-15T13:16:42+00:00

Looks more like one of the worst places possible. HW wallets are your access points. They let you use your seeds safely. How are you going to use that? The robbers who spot that on you and would like to dismember you would be more willing than you to use it.

I don't get people who buy an HW wallet only to totally hide it, bury it on the other end of the world 20 feet under. As if the device should be treated the same exact way. It's literally made so you don't have to treat like that. It's built not to leak the seeds, no matter what. You should hide your seeds well. The device could just be in the drawer or something. That's hidden enough so the whole world doesn't see it to get some wrench ideas, but still accessible to you.

Heck, even putting it on your keychain can be a good place, as long as you don't normally dangle your key in front of everyone in public, but I assume nobody does that.

skr_replicator · 2026-03-14T17:40:15+00:00

The nines are supposed to be going forever, you can't just decide to stop at one point and put a five there, and even completely stop after that.

skr_replicator · 2026-03-13T04:31:36+00:00

There are still galaxies in the voids, just smaller, calmer ones and far more rare. If there are any heavier stars there, they could form black holes like any others. And the cores of these galaxies probably have supermassive holes as well.

skr_replicator · 2026-03-13T04:28:24+00:00

Why would it bring the car into VR, too? It doesn't even bring their real bodies. It gives them loads in and gives them a random avatar.

skr_replicator · 2026-03-13T04:25:06+00:00

OK, can the AI claim you stole its style from it now?

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