marzhall @ marzhall @lemmy.world

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I fell asleep during:

• Guardians of the Galaxy
• Guardians of the Galaxy 2
• Dune
• Dune 2

Though for Dune I was already of the opinion that the book was a dogshit plot set in an interesting universe, so I was already biased.

Oh damn I think this is the only film where I'm like "Damn, you didn't enjoy that?"

But hey, that's why they make vanilla and chocolate, right?

The groan I emitted in-theatre at the "but what about the power of love?" line is brought up whenever this movie is mentioned among the group with whom I watched it

Ayy, recently rewatched that too. Personal headcannon: a better ending would have been a montage of Eva teaching an amnesiac Wall-E all the things he taught her and have him fall in love with those things and her again in the process. Probably more drawn out than "random electric spark magically resets memory" though

I'll bite: I powered on my computer. My bios started which started my init process, which started my daemons, which started my login manager (maybe slim), which started my DE (maybe gnome), which I use to go to my browser in order to watch other people stream video games.

I'm dicey on what the browser is being used for - maybe security software? - but I feel like it's plausible.

Lmao, I love the idea of adjusting the chart for obesity by subtracting men's breast sizes from women's

Pater tuus est?

"Survival of the fittest" is not a moral law. It's the scientific observation that, for populations of organisms that reproduce and make mistakes while reproducing, those mistakes that better fit the environment the organisms are in are more likely to be passed on, resulting in, generations later, those populations eventually adapting to better fit their environment. There's no obligation to consider and follow it as if handed down by a judge in the same way there's no obligation to consider and follow gravity when walking outside.

Yep. It's a play on two meanings of "cut off":

"If you cut off my reproductive choice" == "prevent my choice to get an abortion." "can I cut off yours" == "can I physically cut off your dick."

Graduates, sure, but stundents are still learning

Oh jeeze, that's been around as a plugin in inkscape since at least 2011, I remember vectorizing an episode poster from Adventure Time using it. But I'd believe it wasn't quite as good as whatever photoshop had. I used the "never learn photoshop" trick to be happy with what I've got, but then I only edit images for fun.

...on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

• Douglas Adams

He's exploiting exactly the same weakness that llms exploit to appear so smart: he just sounds confident all the time, and since people use confidence as a shortcut to evaluate accuracy, anyone who isn't paying attention to the actual substance is going to just nod and smile at the confidence and assume everything is perfect.

Lol, you did good, but got tripped up by reading "Scheißposts" as a verb. It's capitalized, so it's a noun. The "make" at the end gets folded into the "kannst" - or "can" - so it's "Then you can make shitposts in two languages."

Oh dank, I had no clue there was a video. Good callout, the new album was great

Because your information is what a number of services use to make money. Even before VPNs come into the equation, you're undercutting the service's ability to sell you by anonymizing yourself.

That said, as noted elsewhere here, VPNs can be used by bad actors which can get you just put on a massive block list; and in addition, VPNs can be used to circumvent regional protections such as provisions on what countries can watch what content on video streaming services, which those services also want to prevent and so can block known VPN addresses to avoid.

Every Time We Touch in my ass

Someone has calculated the first 100 Trillion digits of pi, so if I understand the equation you're suggesting they means it is possible to know if pi contains all permutations of all phone numbers.

Yep, it definitely means we're above the average chance we could find a given 10-digit number in what's been looked at so far, if we're up to 14 digits! But here's the trouble: that calculation gives the "average" chance.

In the same way you could see the number "1" more than once in pi, you could see "11" more than once in pi, and so on for all sizes of patterns, as long as they're part of a larger not-yet-seen pattern (and as long as mathematicians' as-of-yet unproven guesses about pi are accurate). So if you're unlucky, even if pi does turn out to contain all numbers, we still may not have hit exactly your number yet, because larger patterns have been ahead of it that include things that aren't your number. But the odds are in your favor as far as I know.

Does pi contain my phone number?

We can't yet answer this because we don't actually know whether or not Pi contains all permutations of all numbers. It's conjectured that it does, however.

Didn't say anything about compression.

You didn't, but "compression" using pi actually asks the same question you do, iiuc, of " How far do I have to search in order to find a thing of a given length?" And the answer is - if pi truly does contain all permutations of all numbers - probably 10^{length /2 - for phone numbers, 10}10 /2, or half the length of all of the permutations of 10-digit phone numbers next to each other.

Which, coincidentally, and the reason I was aware of this, is why indexing into pi doesn't save you space on average if you're being a nerd and trying to use it for compression.

If you explore compression using pi - i.e., giving an index and a length of pi as your compression method - what you'll end up finding is that the length of the data you want to compress is about the same as the length of the index in pi your data is at.

So if you wanted to "compress" five digits by just linking to its index in pi, you would most likely need a five-digit index into pi to find the spot where pi has that number. So, you save nothing on average.

There's a good blog post that goes into this, but I'm having trouble finding it. The rough explanation I can remember is: if you have every permutation of a given length n in a row with an even distribution, then a random string you choose is likely to be in the middle of that length. Using our numbers 0-9 as our base, that puts you at index 10^n/2. Given our example of 5 digits, that's 100000/2 - 50000, itself a 5 digit number, saving us no space.

In the mean time, you can use pifs to "store" your data using similar ideas.