[-] juliebean@lemm.ee 4 points 19 hours ago

i just figured using pi was an easy way to acquire a known irrational number, not trying to make any special point about it.

[-] juliebean@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago

hell yeah. soon as its not way more expensive than normal meat, i'm down. your proposed technology also sounds like it should mean lab grown replacement organs with zero chance of rejection, which would be amazing.

[-] juliebean@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

no. it merely being infinitely non-repeating is insufficient to say that it contains any particular finite string.

for instance, write out pi in base 2, and reinterpret as base 10.

11.0010010000111111011010101000100010000101...

it is infinitely non-repeating, but nowhere will you find a 2.

i've often heard it said that pi, in particular, does contain any finite sequence of digits, but i haven't seen a proof of that myself, and if it did exist, it would have to depend on more than its irrationality.

[-] juliebean@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago

my understanding is that the nominal voltage you get out of a cell is always dependent on the chemistry it's using. alkaline battery cells are always 1.5V until they run down. even a 9V battery is actually six little 1.5 V cells in series in its little rectangular box. NiMH cells are 1.2V. Lithium batteries are actually a variety of different chemistries, but i think all of them have upwards of 3V nominal voltage, so they wouldn't make a good drop in replacement either without some kind of voltage regulation circuitry.

[-] juliebean@lemm.ee 279 points 3 weeks ago

why would he do that?

he stands to make “several million dollars” due to Trump’s continued use of the song.

oh, right.

[-] juliebean@lemm.ee 146 points 1 month ago

it's not sketchy, it's basically a captcha to keep down automated bot sign ups, and they link to that document in particular, i assume, because the devs are marxists and figure folks who are vehemently anti-communist would refuse and thus keep down their moderation load.

[-] juliebean@lemm.ee 66 points 1 month ago

your kid goes for a walk? believe it or not, straight to jail.

[-] juliebean@lemm.ee 65 points 8 months ago

the term i always heard was maltheism. reading the other comments though, i'm surprised how many other terms there are for this.

fun fact: renowned mathematician Paul Erdős referred to God as the SF, or Supreme Fascist, who kept all the best mathematical proofs to himself.

[-] juliebean@lemm.ee 69 points 8 months ago

they had, but advanced mario people being how they are, they weren't gonna quit trying to beat it just because no human ever had.

[-] juliebean@lemm.ee 105 points 9 months ago

you're focusing on obama i assume, but the weird part of this to me is the apparent omission of adam savage

[-] juliebean@lemm.ee 124 points 1 year ago

to save everyone from the clickbaity title, it's linux. they're talking about linux.

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