LostXOR

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Couldn't solar farms just strategically disconnect some of their panels from the grid to avoid that? Solar panels are always collecting energy, but if you disconnect them that energy just goes into making them a bit warmer rather than overloading the grid.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Just install a bunch of spotlights that point back at the Sun so when power prices go negative you can return all that excess energy! Come on MIT, I thought you were supposed to be smart.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't think there will be a single year that stands out in terms of Linux adoption, but it's definitely been accelerating over the past few years. I think in the next decade we'll see Linux gain enough of a market share to be considered a mainstream OS.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Go get your PhD and write one yourself!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's a nice distraction from reality, and it's fun to comment and post and have people upvote or reply. Makes me feel a little less lonely. :)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't worry, you can never be put in a room with an infinite number, only an arbitrarily large one. That's the idea of the hotel; it has an infinite number of rooms, but every room has a finite number, since you can count forever without reaching infinity.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

It's so large that the number of digits it has is too large to represent, and the number of digits in that number is too large to represent, and so on for a number of times that is also far too large to represent.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (6 children)

BB(TREE(3)) :)

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago

Step 1: Make a dating app where you're the only man on it

Step 2: Make it so your crush is the only woman that can use it

Step 3: Send to crush

Step 4: profit?

[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 months ago (8 children)

It's pretty amazing our first try at a fully autonomous helicopter on another planet flew and landed successfully 71 times. Rest in peace, Ingenuity.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

You have to define your propositions somehow, probably in English, but honestly this seems like a really good way to precisely specify the terms of a complex contract with a lot of conditions. It does lack a bit in human-readability, but propositional logic isn't all that hard to learn.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

He said the words, and genies love to twist around your words to make your wish backfire.

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