Posts by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
 (DIR) Post #AufIjdHDTA4tE2BG40 by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
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       @cstross Want me to show you the map of the middle east as horked up by British bureaucrats 75 years ago? We're still living with that stuff. I don't think humans have any right to complain about AI generated maps until they've demonstrated they can do any better...
       
 (DIR) Post #Auje1HDn5HTBhjflmy by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
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       @existentialcomics Sartre: anything's possible in my pants...
       
 (DIR) Post #AuoAExK7poufDD2f44 by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
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       @foone Of course you should fall back incrementally - if 5.0 isn't supported, try 4.1, then 4.0, etc...
       
 (DIR) Post #AvSkK6wAt4KH9IzfSy by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
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       @designthinkingcomic Rarely has a comic described my life as accurately as this...
       
 (DIR) Post #Aw8CfidIh7tQL3c9AG by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
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       @existentialcomics Slight correction to the attribution line at the bottom:Philosophers in this comic: Rudolf Carnap, Gollum
       
 (DIR) Post #Aw8L19cqKaUnll8GuW by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
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       @cstross Everything posted by Mr Trump conveys more information if you read it with a Russian accent. Try it.
       
 (DIR) Post #AwfC2KLvRhnFxQNiIi by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
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       @cstross @foone Oracle still has the documentation online right now. (And it renders fine in NCSA Mosaic 3.0)
       
 (DIR) Post #AwfhOWMmYZEmARqRma by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
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       @foone Only allow even-numbered x-coordinates?
       
 (DIR) Post #AwjQriJsGz3H35euqO by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
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       @cstross Once the nutritional aspect of food becomes obsolete (since the nanoengineered ATP pumps redundantly implanted in four different locations of my body take care of energy supply), eating becomes a purely aesthetic experience; not unlike sex after the reproductive connection has been severed through both contraception and IVF. An experience that will immediately inherit a certain level of vulgarity, not least through its connection to defecation. For a while there will still be toilets in public bathrooms in the same sense in which there's still smoking cabins in certain eastern European trains, but overall eating (like sex) will become something that is enjoyed, if at all, in private - and its public display will inherit the mantle of the uncouth, unclean, even scandalous.
       
 (DIR) Post #AwuVwDIhfGg2nqdS4m by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
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       @foone Hummm - this piques my curiosity whether anybody has made a keyboard that actually connects to the ethernet port. The kbd would need to run a full tcp stack and the computer would need a driver to support that setup, but if there was a proper "keyboard over ip" setup, your keyboard could be anywhere in the world and still work with your computer...
       
 (DIR) Post #Ax4Fm2nODBxpdliV6W by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
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       @foone Ohhh ... I had successfully repressed the memory of the "one byte and a couple bits" dance on floppy FATs. I remember it as an enjoyable brain teaser, but that's probably because I haven't had to look at it since ... the eighties? Good times, good times...
       
 (DIR) Post #AxCiG2hVTs6a0yjlzc by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
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       @foone 3.141592654 =  2¹ × 1.570796327As an 8-byte ('double precision') float his means the mantissa is 0.570796327 = 0.921FB54524550h which is the last 52 bits of your magic number.Your exponent, however, is 0x3f7 which, when I subtract 0x3ff gives me -8; which would suggest that this is the binary representation of pi/256. Which I could imagine being useful somewhere in rendering stuff on the screen?
       
 (DIR) Post #Ay6eEgZ4mFcA6heBm4 by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
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       @arstechnica The Dude is aging nicely ...
       
 (DIR) Post #AyYCZB3nkQuUBksb4a by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
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       @foone You are the only person I know who doesn't just rickroll people but - tells them up front that this is what's going to happen- explains all the detailed steps along the way- gives regular updates on the progressand manages to make people look forward to the experience with anticipation...
       
 (DIR) Post #AysXDVj4DWfO6rtDUm by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
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       https://xkcd.com/2343/
       
 (DIR) Post #AzuYI3xXPmlnVnpOwy by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
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       @NanoRaptor @foone Finally a power supply that delivers its maximum voltage.
       
 (DIR) Post #B0NkbLoC6psBPHG7yi by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
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       @cstross That's why y'all should learn category theory; then an infinite string of "cococococo..." wouldn't matter to you at all...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0Ek86IH-3Y
       
 (DIR) Post #B15cH6saWNBJl3zFL6 by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
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       @arstechnica "scientists" from the MIT media lab. There's pretty good reasons to leave this in the sci fi bin: https://idlewords.com/2023/1/why_not_mars.htm
       
 (DIR) Post #B27OvH2olbSvj9xPDU by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
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       @arstechnica "openness and transparency" are not good traits in a heat shield. #justsaying
       
 (DIR) Post #B28AQb84pzL4qGr62K by SvenGeier@mathstodon.xyz
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       @arstechnica You mean flooding the internet with petro propaganda lies for a solid decade hurt your EV business? Who'da thought, eh?