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Can you only add adjacent integers?


So like, infinity, infinity-1, infinity-2, etc.?


Basically the same as contacting Australia


Little known fact, but this is why binary was chosen to represent data in the digital age, 1-s and 0-s look more or less the same upside down.


The concept of endianness would like to have a word with you.


We need middle endian



Down under they call it numboriginality.


I say go the Slavic route and lose all the articles; "Man who coined word 'Robot' defends himself"

Fits with the 'robot' theme


Man coins "robot", defends self


"robot" man self defends


Defensive "robot" coiner.


Coin Operated Boy: A Man, Da.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAnyYTjjhJ0 (Dresden Dolls singer is Amanda Palmer - A Man, Da)


"Robot"er defensive


go the Slavic route

полека, лампата!


This comment uses 'X' as a variable, which I found confusing to parse given the recent rebranding of Twitter to X


One of the benefits of being so incredibly unbelievably wealthy, pay no rent to live in many people’s heads AND buy a letter of the alphabet. Personally I would have chosen Z but with the line through the middle. X is too edgey for me. X is associated with sex, drugs, rock and roll and death. Z is my favorite, calm, pleasant to pronounce and rarified. I enjoy seeing it out in the wild when it decides to make a foray.

I know he’s owned the domain for a while but still now X is becoming his. Side note; I only started understanding Twitter after musk bought it. Can’t say my life is for the better but I can see some of the use of it. - Z


Any infinite combo is of this form?

Like, if you have an infinite mana combo, you can just keep running the steps of it to block gameplay instead of playing your fireball


There's a difference between the player having to decide to keep looping by performing actions vs. the loop continuing on its own via triggers. The rules make a distinction and specifically don't allow someone to do the former indefinitely.


It's like watching our supreme overlords descend into madness, in a kind of scarily literal sense


It's exactly 340 days until Halloween


I didn't read the article but, small numbers are more immediately useful. Larger numbers are needed for describing more complex phenomena, and their construction relies on smaller numbers. So I find the explanation to the title of this article to be intuitively obvious; I don't see how it could be possible for a brain to evolve to perceive large numbers better than smaller ones


Perhaps a fish or an insect might benefit more from knowing an accurate approximation of their or another school/swarm, than it would from knowing if there are 2 or 4 of them somewhere (since there seldom are so few).


Brain systems do handle order of magnitude changes. E.g. going from dimly lit room [1-3] to bright sunlight. [1000-2000]


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I didn’t read either of your comments but I agree as well


I'm scraping the web. You are right by the way.


Where am I?


Sunday


Not reddit; the thread should expect downvotes


Maybe


Why?


Tutanota is cheaper and allows as many custom domain email addresses as you like. Proton had some restriction like 5 or 10 or something


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