2023-09-23 07:26:45 <MrMobius    > xelxebar: maybe they are referencing the BASIC stamp?
2023-09-23 11:10:41 <vms14       > maybe the answer of life and everything is not about the result
2023-09-23 11:10:46 <vms14       > but the process
2023-09-23 11:10:53 <vms14       > 1 2 3 + + 7 *
2023-09-23 11:34:44 <KipIngram   > And many paths can lead to the same destination...
2023-09-23 11:41:20 <KipIngram   > 42 base !  ok
2023-09-23 11:41:21 <KipIngram   > 1 2 3 + + 7 * . 10  ok
2023-09-23 11:41:51 <KipIngram   > So much depends on one's perspective...
2023-09-23 12:13:52 <vms14       > yeah, that's mainly the answer
2023-09-23 12:13:58 <vms14       > it depends on the person
2023-09-23 12:14:38 <vms14       > 42 is the answer but what 42 means to you is how you achieve the answer
2023-09-23 12:15:17 <vms14       > or defines how you achieve the answer
2023-09-23 12:15:37 <vms14       > funny how can we develop such stuff from a stupid joke
2023-09-23 12:18:01 <vms14       > : penis
2023-09-23 12:18:01 <vms14       >     '8 ('= ..) 7 random do.times (D >) pick.random .. ;
2023-09-23 12:18:10 <vms14       > look what a nice word i made
2023-09-23 12:18:35 <vms14       > https://pastebin.com/raw/L4nCU8Kx
2023-09-23 12:19:04 <vms14       > how would you implement it?
2023-09-23 12:26:30 <MrMobius    > vms14: why are some of them pointy on the end?
2023-09-23 12:28:04 <vms14       > because in real wordsome are more pointy than others
2023-09-23 12:30:54 <vms14       > and because of (D >) pick.random
2023-09-23 12:31:34 <vms14       > i should name it pick one instead
2023-09-23 12:31:50 <vms14       > or choose
2023-09-23 12:53:33 <vms14       > oh and i've added a segfault word
2023-09-23 12:53:38 <vms14       > it segfaults
2023-09-23 12:55:02 <vms14       > https://pastebin.com/raw/m7YqGZxb
2023-09-23 12:57:47 <vms14       > it makes perl segfault basically, by using unpack
2023-09-23 12:58:27 <thrig       > why not just call CORE::dump
2023-09-23 12:58:44 <vms14       > cause it's not a real segfault
2023-09-23 12:59:05 <vms14       > and the users of that word might be dissapointed
2023-09-23 12:59:25 <thrig       > segmented memory isn't really a thing either
2023-09-23 13:03:12 <vms14       > thrig: D or >? which one defines you the best
2023-09-23 13:34:49 <KipIngram   > Good grief, someone on Quora has gone on a Star Trek binge.
2023-09-23 13:35:05 <KipIngram   > Starting about a week and a half ago Trek questions started showing up constantly in my inbox.
2023-09-23 13:35:29 <KipIngram   > thrig: I for one am glad that the days of segmented memory are behind us.
2023-09-23 13:35:35 <KipIngram   > That was always a pain.
2023-09-23 14:15:38 <KipIngram   > You know, one thing I'm noticing re: this latest stuff I've been working on is that my instruction set is awfully close to being 100% de-compilable, with no ambiguity.
2023-09-23 14:15:50 <KipIngram   > That would probably be something good to make rigorous.
2023-09-23 14:16:15 <KipIngram   > No funny business like IF ... THEN becoming something hard to reverse.
2023-09-23 15:25:07 <gordonjcp   > KipIngram: is Quora actually useful these days? Every thread I've read on it seems to descend into madness
2023-09-23 15:26:51 <gordonjcp   > KipIngram: one notable one which started off with a fairly reasonable question about radio modem bandwidth ended up with a bunch of bot-like usernames calling everything "wokerati libtard bullshit" because someone didn't like some part of the answer, probably something to do with sticking to locally-applicable laws on TX licensing
2023-09-23 19:25:08 <KipIngram   > gordonjcp: A few years ago they started something called the "Partner Program," where they had a profit mechanism for the questions people ASKED.
2023-09-23 19:25:20 <KipIngram   > I felt that the quality of the questions plummeted when they did that.
2023-09-23 19:25:30 <KipIngram   > You started seeing "question mills."
2023-09-23 19:26:16 <KipIngram   > I have some questions go through my inbox - I just look at them and if I feel like I have anything worthwhile to say about it I answer.
2023-09-23 19:26:45 <KipIngram   > Later on they started compensating people for answers, and I actually get 15-20 bucks a month for my submissions.
2023-09-23 19:28:30 <KipIngram   > There's a little list of topics that will particularly draw an answer from me - I try to educate people out of believing in "free energy machines," "zero point energy" and that kind of thing, and a couple of other things like that.
2023-09-23 19:29:10 <KipIngram   > I usually respond to questions like "Is the moon really not there when no one is looking" and so on - I think the popular science media has done a crap job presenting certain aspects of quantum theory,
2023-09-23 19:29:23 <KipIngram   > I think the media actually LIKES to keep the "quantum woo" churning.
2023-09-23 19:29:36 <KipIngram   > Makes it all seem more sensational than it really should.
2023-09-23 19:30:18 <KipIngram   > I think that "do things not exist when we don't observe them" thing arises from people conflating "quantum state" and "observable property values."
2023-09-23 19:30:23 <KipIngram   > The quantum state always exists.
2023-09-23 19:30:38 <KipIngram   > Has nothing to do with whether it's observed or not - in fact, we can't observe it.
2023-09-23 19:30:49 <KipIngram   > It's *property values* that may or may not exist, depending on the state.
2023-09-23 19:31:09 <KipIngram   > Some states don't have values for particular properties.
2023-09-23 19:31:23 <KipIngram   > If you then go measure that property, you'll kick the system into a state that DOES have such a value.
2023-09-23 19:32:09 <KipIngram   > A state has a value for property X only if it's an eigenvector of the measurement operator corresponding to that property.
2023-09-23 19:32:56 <KipIngram   > And also, trying to apply those ideas to big things like the moon is a mistake too.
2023-09-23 19:33:34 <KipIngram   > Or cats.
2023-09-23 19:34:16 <KipIngram   > It's ironic - when Schrodinger created his "cat thought experiment," he was TRYING to show people how dumb it is to use quantum methods on big objects.
2023-09-23 19:34:25 <KipIngram   > But the world has really taken that thing and run with it.
2023-09-23 21:39:23 <MrMobius    > im working with segmented memory now. yikes...
2023-09-23 21:39:51 <MrMobius    > I think im just going to stick parts of it wherever is convenient and not try to do any acrobatics jumping between banks
2023-09-23 21:40:10 <MrMobius    > so most of a bank might be wasted since it's only used for one self contained thing