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the ports to some other platforms (wherein the name Pipe Dream came along) were done by a
smalllittle video game company called LucasFilm Games.
Not one most people think of when they think of that company.
And now you know, the rest of the story
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How many directions do you move in time?
1+cos(pi/4)i
Beyond moving in one real direction, how do you manage to move in sqrt(2)/2 virtual directions?
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
How many directions do you move in time?
1+cos(pi/4)i
Beyond moving in one real direction, how do you manage to move in sqrt(2)/2 virtual directions?
It's virtually a breeze.
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
How many directions do you move in time?
1+cos(pi/4)i
Beyond moving in one real direction, how do you manage to move in sqrt(2)/2 virtual directions?
Simple, you convert everything to Base Pi.
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@Rhywden On that note, when I was switching from Math/Physics to Chemistry/Physics (while also changing universities) I of course had to catch up on some lectures on the Chemistry side.
Due to I couldn't be bothered to get "credits" for my already absolved math lectures and thus elected to take "Math for chemists" instead. Yes. It's stupid. I know.
Then again, I didn't need to spend much time on it. Went to the first lecture, looked at the syllabus, told myself: "Yeah, that you can do in your sleep" and elected to not attend the lectures anymore, instead only taking the exam at the end (there was no requirement to be present at the lectures).
On exam day, I walked into the hall, sat down and look at the task sheet:
Hmmh, simple fractions. This integration is easy. Differentiating this is a cake walk. Yeah, I can convert 3,857,374 from Base 10 to Base 8.
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Uh. Convert 33.2343 to Basee
?Needless to say, that was the only task I did not solve.
I'm also still not sure where you'd ever need that as I've neither seen the need for such a base conversion in Physics nor Chemistry. Nor anywhere else since then, for that matter. Anybody else have a clue what that might be useful for?
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@Rhywden tedious. I hope you had a calculator.
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@Rhywden tedious. I hope you had a calculator.
Yeah, but only the cheap ones.
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@Rhywden isn't that usually called
ln
?
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@Rhywden isn't that usually called
ln
?No, they actually meant Base
e
like the Octal or Hexadecimal number format.
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@Rhywden isn't that usually called
ln
?No, they actually meant Base
e
like the Octal or Hexadecimal number format.Yeah exactly. Natural log. A common general method for real-number base conversions uses it. It's how slide rules work, isn't it?
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@Gribnit No, base-e is not the same as ln, just as base-10 isn't log₁₀.
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@Gribnit No, base-e is not the same as ln, just as base-10 isn't log₁₀.
You can use logarithms to help with converting: https://www.cantorsparadise.com/convert-numbers-between-numeral-systems-using-logarithms-4962295cdd70
Of course, for any real-world computer this is stupid algorithm (almost to the level of BOZO-sort)... but it can be generalized to any logarithm base, thus giving us base-e numbers.
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@Kamil-Podlesak Okay, here's my problem with this: Base-4 still uses integers as digits - [0,1,2,3] with the base denominating the maximum integer
n-1
before the wrap-over.What are the digits for
base-e
? How many of them are there?
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@Kamil-Podlesak Okay, here's my problem with this: Base-4 still uses integers as digits - [0,1,2,3] with the base denominating the maximum integer
n-1
before the wrap-over.What are the digits for
base-e
? How many of them are there?d, obviously.
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@Kamil-Podlesak Okay, here's my problem with this: Base-4 still uses integers as digits - [0,1,2,3] with the base denominating the maximum integer
n-1
before the wrap-over.What are the digits for
base-e
? How many of them are there?100e is smaller than 22e.
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@Kamil-Podlesak Okay, here's my problem with this: Base-4 still uses integers as digits - [0,1,2,3] with the base denominating the maximum integer
n-1
before the wrap-over.What are the digits for
base-e
? How many of them are there?e, 2e, 3e,...
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@Kamil-Podlesak Okay, here's my problem with this: Base-4 still uses integers as digits - [0,1,2,3] with the base denominating the maximum integer
n-1
before the wrap-over.What are the digits for
base-e
? How many of them are there?100e is smaller than 22e.
The thing about using a transcendental base (such as e or π) is that there are an unbounded number of digits possible in each place.
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@dkf Wouldn't the digits always be limited to 0, 1, 2, ... up to the base?
Certainly there are multiple representations though. In certain algebraic bases even multiple finite representations, like 100φ being equal to 11φ. with φ=(1+sqrt(5))/2.
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100e is smaller than 22e.
I was a bit incredulous so I decided to actually test it, and this is indeed true.
100e is 1⋅e2 + 0⋅e1 + 0⋅e0 = 1⋅e2 ≈ 7.39
22e is 0⋅e2 + 2⋅e1 + 2⋅e0 = 2⋅e+2 ≈ 7.44Edit: Now that I think of it, is 2 even a valid digit for base e? It's smaller than e, but greater than e-1... this is probably the reason of the discrepancy.
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@Medinoc Well, 0.11111~_e = \sum_{n=1}^\infty e^{-n} = \frac{1}{1-\frac{1}{e}} = \frac{e}{e - 1} = 1 + \frac{1}{e - 1}. Numerically, that's about 1.58. So you cannot represent all numbers if you do not allow the digit 2.
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Wouldn't the digits always be limited to 0, 1, 2, ... up to the base?
Technically, you might well want the digits to be arbitrary rationals rather than just small integers, and there isn't a sane maximum because you can't normalize anything from one column to any of the others (unlike in integer bases).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Edit: but of course, the setting doesn't actually work.
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I've said it before, I'll say it again: Microsoft Teams is so incredibly fucking retarded!
Last week when I was in a meeting, it asked me something along the lines of
Hey, it looks like your audio driver needs to be updated. Do you want to update now?
Um, first off, I'm pretty sure that if my "audio driver" needed an update, the OS would tell me so, not some random-ass app. (Okay, macOS Ventura just came out and I'm still on Monterey, but that doesn't mean the audio driver isn't fine.) So what you really mean isn't the driver but something in your shitty app.
Second, I can hear everybody and the mic works, too. Just update whatever you need to update after I'm done with this meeting.Had it happen again today, and noted exactly when it happens: When I'm in a meeting and click the button to share the screen. Obviously, that means I absolutely do not want to click the fucking update button at that time. But then it also doesn't update, apparently until the next time it asks me right when I'm in the middle of a meeting and trying to share the screen.
Like, seriously?!
I just had this today - it's the Teams audio driver it uses to share the computer sound that it apparently doesn't bother updating when Teams itself updates.
It prompts every single time you share the screen even in the same meeting - so when I was unsharing one window and sharing another (because I thought it'd be easier than having to work out what needed hiding before sharing the whole screen) I had to dismiss it every single time.
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@Rhywden isn't that usually called
ln
?No, they actually meant Base
e
like the Octal or Hexadecimal number format.Try base 2i.
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@Rhywden isn't that usually called
ln
?No, they actually meant Base
e
like the Octal or Hexadecimal number format.Try base 2i.
I love how that article goes very detailed into the "how" but never even makes an attempt to answer "but why?"
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@Rhywden isn't that usually called
ln
?No, they actually meant Base
e
like the Octal or Hexadecimal number format.Try base 2i.
I love how that article goes very detailed into the "how" but never even makes an attempt to answer "but why?"
Math!
The factorial-base one actually tries, but I am not sure how successful it is.
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Localization done right.
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Wouldn't the digits always be limited to 0, 1, 2, ... up to the base?
Technically, you might well want the digits to be arbitrary rationals rather than just small integers, and there isn't a sane maximum because you can't normalize anything from one column to any of the others (unlike in integer bases).
So basically ℚ[e], or polynomials with rational coefficients evaluated at the number e. Which is pretty distant from the 'basic' writing down of numbers. Though I guess that's unavoidable.
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Localization done right.
Speaking of numeric bases, once upon a time, the calculator in Polish version of Ubuntu offered October and December bases.
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@Gustav A particular easy mistake to make since gnu gettext uses the English string as the translation key. So it may not even be possible to translate
oct
(the 8th month) andoct
(octal) differently.
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@Gustav A particularly
easybraindead mistake to make since gnu gettext usesthe English stringvery non-unique string with high conflict ratio as the translation key. So it may not evenbe possiblehave occurred to those idiots to translateoct
(the 8th month) andoct
(octal) differently. And we rely on their "eyeballs" for security of critical pieces of network stack in all computers.FTFY
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@Gustav A particular easy mistake to make since gnu gettext uses the English string as the translation key. So it may not even be possible to translate
oct
(the 8th month) andoct
(octal) differently.Hence, why I often revert to my MFC days and use IDS_STRINGNAME as the keys. Then I can see things I forgot in English too.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
oct (the 8th month)
WVVelcome, time pod traveler!
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NO THEY FUCKING DON'T DESERVE IT. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP GIVING MORE THAN 1 STAR TO PRODUCTS THAT DON'T WORK AT ALL.
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STOP GIVING MORE THAN 1 STAR TO PRODUCTS THAT DON'T WORK AT ALL.
I don't think "I got what I ordered and it worked" deserves 5 stars, either. That's bare minimum acceptable service. 5 stars is for exceptional service.
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@HardwareGeek theoretically, yes. In practice...
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@Gustav As I understand it, eBay is even worse than that. As a seller, if you ever get a single review that's less than a perfect 5, eBay may declare you untrustworthy and shut you down. Or so I've been told. Technically, I'm an eBay seller; I set up a seller account years ago, but I've never actually tried to sell anything through them (and I probably never will, because of how they treat sellers).
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@HardwareGeek this is 100% true. It's the same principle as YT demonetization - they have so many other good sellers that accidentally killing the entire business or two dozen doesn't really affect their bottom line.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Mason_Wheeler it's the power connector for one of the new NVIDIA cards that have a distressing tendency to melt the wires and start fires due to power draw on inadequate connectors.
:nvidya:
La-la-la, can't hear you over all this money you suckers paid f......
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NO THEY FUCKING DON'T DESERVE IT. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP GIVING MORE THAN 1 STAR TO PRODUCTS THAT DON'T WORK AT ALL.
She bought the wrong product, didn’t test it because wrong product but still gave 3 stars, that’s somehow even worse than “it didn’t work but was shipped quickly”.
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NO THEY FUCKING DON'T DESERVE IT. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP GIVING MORE THAN 1 STAR TO PRODUCTS THAT DON'T WORK AT ALL.
She bought the
wrongfalsely advertised productIt says it's compatible with Fold 3 right there in the title, and several times more in the description. That's why I even opened the product page in the first place. The seller deserves suspended jail sentence and 50% of yearly revenue in fines, not 3/5 stars.
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@Gustav Where does it say in that picture that it is compatible with the Fold 3?
All I see is the "I couldn't use this product because it isn't the recommended spen for the Fold 3" line... you didn't link to the actual product so I have no idea if any of that is actually the case.
From the review alone - which is all that was posted - it looks like she bought the wrong product.
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@Gustav Where does it say in that picture that it is compatible with the Fold 3?
It doesn't. I cropped it pretty thoroughly. And now I'm giving additional context.
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@Gustav well, you can't expect me to not if you don't give me all the facts!
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@Arantor also. "The recommended spen" refers to Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 Official Blessed S-Pen . Styluses that aren't Official Blessed S-Pen aren't called s-pens, they're called styluses. The reviewer is saying "because it's not the Official Blessed S-Pen , it obviously didn't work with my Fold 3 regardless of what this page says, should've seen it coming. But shipping was fast so here's 3 stars for trying!"
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@Gustav No, that's not what she's saying. "This phone costs an arm and a leg I couldn't take a chance on it hurting the screen" - sounds to me like she never actually tried it.
"couldn't use" could cover "didn't try" quite easily. People are fucking stupid.