Try to do your homework in class i.e. slip chores into the week as much as possible, and then free up a rest and relaxation day. That seems to work best for me.

You underestimate the murderous-ness of chickens.

The meme is so nerdy I love it.

Maybe I have trust issues but it’s satisfying knowing that I learned something new today that really happened. It broadens my perspective on what social media actually introduced.

I can’t get it to it because I don’t have a subscription to this site and there’s a paywall when visited with my iPhone, but thank you! Close enough. Wish I could pull the whole page. I’ll look into it later.

You’re better than I am!

Are these real? I cannot validate these quotes and never heard of this before. Image searches reveal only a single Tumblr source of the images. I don’t have access to really any paper databases this old though.

EDIT: Seems legit!

Wow! Getting abused through vendor lock in does not make me want to buy a new PlayStation if this is true.

Unfortunately there is significant overlap between plain-text-password-servers and servers that can’t be bothered to use antivirus. Also, the string may not work if it’s not at the start of the file. AV often doesn’t process the whole file for efficiency purposes.

The best part is there’s already a default error handler! If the program dies, you know there was an error.

I think the idea is to have a small government of one dictator who tells everyone else what to do.

Oh that was a nightmare. And you didn’t even know if the new ones you were getting were actually better.

I’m old enough to remember the hard drive shortages.

They literally don’t care if people buy them or not. Overwhelmingly profit is in the server and enterprise areas now.

Some people will still buy at those high prices and they are more than happy to stick with that small slice.

No wonder Nvidia is the world’s most valuable company.

Can the universe not also approximate? Why must it be an exact result whenever a rule is applied?

I take issue with completeness in a very similar way. For example, imagine for some reason that in the simulation it’s impossible to think about penguins. Let’s say that penguins are so logically incomprehensible that we cannot implement this.

The implementation of the simulation could simply trap any attempt to think about penguins and replace it with something else. We would be none the wiser. The simulation still works even if there are states that we can’t get to or are undefined.

It could be that reality itself isn’t entirely complete and defined everywhere. Who’s to say this isn’t one big dream and that the sky isn’t there if we all stopped looking?

There is no escape from Plato‘s cave.

Dr. Faizal says the same limitation applies to physics. “We have demonstrated that it is impossible to describe all aspects of physical reality using a computational theory of quantum gravity,” he explains.

“Therefore, no physically complete and consistent theory of everything can be derived from computation alone.”

Your argument is bad and you should feel bad.

Impossible to describe does not mean that it’s not possible to simulate, and impossible is an incredibly strong criterion that sounds quite inaccurate to me. We simulate weather systems all the time, even though the systems are fundamentally chaotic and it’s impossible to forecast accurately. We don’t even know that gravity is quantum, so that’s quite a weird starting point but we’ll ignore that for a second. What is this argument?

This seems like a huge leap to conclude that just because some aspects of our understanding seem like we wouldn’t be able to fully describe them somehow means that the universe can’t be simulated.

“Drawing on mathematical theorems related to incompleteness and indefinability, we demonstrate that a fully consistent and complete description of reality cannot be achieved through computation alone,” says Dr. Faizal.

Who’s to say that reality is completely defined? Perhaps there are aspects to what we consider the real universe that are uncertain. Isn’t that foundational to quantum mechanics?

That looks great, Satan! Can you hold the maggots though?

The expression is really good.

Amazing. An app decides if a human being goes to the camps. What a time to be alive.