The Nineteenth Byte - 2022-01-06 (page 4 of 5)

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6:00 PM

CMP: You find a magic button. If you press the button, all life in the universe will instantly cease to exist. No future life forms will be created. Would you press the button?

@user yes, because zombies :P

(note that this isn't like what Thanos did, because people don't instantly disappear, they can see and feel themselves being turned to dust, which is awful)

@Fmbalbuena No zombies either

Ginger Industries

"^".repeat(↽) returns "<"

You know what, let me rephrase that: if you press the button, the universe will cease to exist

@GingerIndustries Which language is this?

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@user how long does this take?

@user good question

clearly a good one

6:03 PM

As I said above, it happens instantly, so no one knows that the universe ceased to exist, they just...cease to exist

Ginger Industries

@user then how would you know you ever pressed it

You wouldn't?

Ginger Industries

nevermind

@GingerIndustries NO, "-".repeat(1) returns "+" and "+".repeat(1) returns "+"

imma leave now. Hopefully this room blows up so I'll have an interesting conversation to read in the transcript later :P

6:05 PM

@user what?

please no

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Wezl - a cautionary tale

@user if I ever see one of those, I'll sue you

@user No.

Redwolf Programs

@user No, of course not

We're bad in a sense because we're a net harm to our environment. Killing everything alive is the biggest net negative possible.

Wezl - a cautionary tale

why would user even make this into a question...

Redwolf Programs

User, please step away from that button

Wezl - a cautionary tale

6:09 PM

...unless user itself would push the button

Ginger Industries

That is not a good button

@Adám Done.

Thanks!

Ginger Industries

I'm going to work on one of the image stegano challenges

@user No way. Existence is interesting. Non-existence isn't anything.

6:22 PM

@user there might've been a time when i'd've said yes, but no, i wouldn't

Ginger Industries

Looks like all of the challenges are safe

Still murder, even if it doesn't cause pain.

@user If Harry Potter would be real, imagine how many times you would rip your soul

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@mathcat ಠ_ಠ

@mathcat actually, lemme do some math

right

Ginger Industries

6:26 PM

assuming that people are the only things that cause a soul rip

world population: ~8 billion

that's 8 billion horcruxes

woah

Ginger Industries

what are the implications of this?

i didn't read Harry Potter very much

implications?

Ginger Industries

what exactly would this do to you

I mean, Hermione said that Voldemort already pushed his soul to the limit

so, er bye soul

Redwolf Programs

6:28 PM

@GingerIndustries No, there's a lot more involved in making a horcrux

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@RedwolfPrograms valid, but we're simplifying

Redwolf Programs

Plus, Voldemort killed plenty of people, a lot more than 7

Ginger Industries

okay so according to google, there are ~4 billion lego people in the world

the implications of this are obvious

@RedwolfPrograms yeah but he didn't make each a horcrux

Dammit redwolf, you ninja'd me my nine minutes

Ginger Industries

6:30 PM

for the purposes of this thought experiment, we are assuming that 8 billion horcruxes are being made

Redwolf Programs

@emanresuA But 9 minutes ago I was in line to get food

Ginger Industries

what can one do with 8 billion horcruxes?

There's a theory that quirell was a horcrux too

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* Create an army of lego people

and still have half your soul left over!

@GingerIndustries no I guess you couldn't

those are Inferi

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6:32 PM

@mathcat did I stutter

Redwolf Programs

@GingerIndustries Jump in front of people's cars on the autobahn just for fun

2

wut

*hides button*

Horcruxes just protect you from dieing

dieing?

Ginger Industries

@mathcat oh

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code-golf kolmogorov-complexity

6:32 PM

dying

@RedwolfPrograms Why would you kill yourself 8 billion times?

Redwolf Programs

Jump headfirst off a plane into a bed-of-nails factory

@user Not 8 billion, but at least a few hundred just for fun

Horcruxes don't keep you from feeling pain do they?

Redwolf Programs

Sure, but drugs do

"fun"

Ginger Industries

6:33 PM

@mathcat well, considering how some of the Horcruxes appeared to be sentient I think that an army of lego people is not out of the question

that's a strange sentence

@RedwolfPrograms oic, get coked out till you feel nothing and then do crazy shit

@NewPosts I noticed an absence of kolmogorov-complexity challenges using anything other than strings and lists of integers, so I made something continuous in the hope it would be more interesting

Ok, I can get behind this :P

@GingerIndustries hmm yes

@NewPosts Optimised lookup table go brr

@pxeger wtf norway

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6:34 PM

okay, then what can you do with 4 billion lego people?

@emanresuA that's what I'm hoping people will create, but it might be more interesting with floats than typical hash functions over a small domain

@user Yes, they do

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well, you can almost wrap them around the earth

Dumby said making Horcruxes makes you less man and you won't have pain and stuff

Huh, TIL

Ginger Industries

6:36 PM

I assume a lego person is 1 inch tall
That's 4 billion inches, or ~6k miles
Diameter of earth is ~7k miles

aww

Ginger Industries

hm

well, if we put them all to work making a lego tower we could get to the moon easily

how long would that take?

does anyone here currently have access to some legos (for science)

er

no

Redwolf Programs

I gave all mine to my cousin :/

@user do you still have the button?

Ginger Industries

6:37 PM

I need to measure how long it takes to connect 2 lego bricks

Redwolf Programs

Approx. 1/s is easily possible I think

@mathcat It was malfunctioning so I had to throw it away, why?

Ginger Industries

seems abt right

@NewPosts [flag for migration to Politics.SE]

@user for science

Ginger Industries

6:38 PM

lego people are about 1/60th the height of a person

@GingerIndustries Depends on how many people you've got working on it

Wezl - a cautionary tale

can you animate this weasel plees

weasley!

Ginger Industries

we will assume that 3 billion of the 4 billion we have are building and the rest are moving bricks

CMQ: should ragged-list be renamed? I don't think "ragged" is the common term for what the tag describes; "ragged" seems to just be an alternative for "jagged", which means constant depth but non-uniform size, not non-uniform depth

Wezl - a cautionary tale

6:40 PM

I want an army of 3d-printed plastic weasels

4

Ginger Industries

if each lego person can build 1 brick every 10 seconds

@user Hmmm

@pxeger (and can it be named using "array", not "list", for consistency with array?)

exponential growth

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and they are all 2x2 bricks

6:40 PM

@pxeger Heterogeneous? That would imply strings+integers+other types, though

hmm

@pxeger heterogeneous-list?

@pxeger non-fixed-depth-list wouldn't be awful but is a bit verbose

Ginger Industries

collectively we can build (0.6 * 3,000,000,000) / 10 = 180000000 inches per second

Wezl - a cautionary tale

not very discoverable either

Ginger Industries

6:42 PM

that's ~3k miles per second

Redwolf Programs

@pxeger How about squishy-list :p

@DLosc I was happy about finding a new comic before seeing that they're all furries :P

that's fast

Ginger Industries

we could get to the moon in 238900 / 3000 = 79 seconds

@pxeger diverse-element-type-list

6:43 PM

@RedwolfPrograms I was thinking something like gooey-list would do, because I kind of mentally imagine such lists like this:

Ginger Industries

what

^

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conclusion: An army of Horcrux-powered sentient lego people is an excellent way to travel through space

 [1,                     ,2,  ,3]
   [1,                 ]   []
      [8,2,     ,5,4,9]
           [1,2]

@pxeger ^

@GingerIndustries wow

6:45 PM

@user Some of them are dogs tho :/

Wezl - a cautionary tale

@GingerIndustries ...um, how do you transport the lego opeople

we can er improvise

Ginger Industries

@Wezl-acautionarytale We have a billion spare ones, I assume they are doing it

I ran the numbers for 3 billion people

@pxeger actually, I'm gonna go draft a challenge about this now

Redwolf Programs

They can provide help by, themselves, crawling

Ginger Industries

6:46 PM

let's try with 4

63 seconds

Redwolf Programs

Space race 2.0

Lego horcrux edition

@GingerIndustries If one person can run 6 miles per hour, then 8 billion people can run 48 billion miles per hour.

Redwolf Programs

Indeed

Ginger Industries

Here's the formula I used (D for distance, N for number of people, assuming they can do 0.1 bricks per second):

`D / (((0.6 * N) / 10) / 63360)`

Redwolf Programs

@DLosc They just need to push the person in front of them as the run

Wezl - a cautionary tale

6:48 PM

...then they can no longer run 6 miles per hour

Redwolf Programs

No, because the person behind them is also pushing on them

That's why Voldemort never killed Harry

Redwolf Programs

So it balances out and you can add up their speeds

Ginger Industries

@DLosc problem: That is significantly faster than the speed of light (~600 million mph)

Wezl - a cautionary tale

but if we're assuming that there are horcruxes, we can assume other things too

Redwolf Programs

6:49 PM

@GingerIndustries We need to account for relativity then

So more like 90-something-percent the speed of light

Ginger Industries

conclusion: Horcrux-powered sentient lego people are fast, but every human on earth pushing each other through space is faster

what

So yeah just Imperio 8 Billion times

Redwolf Programs

This is space though, so there's no friction or gravity, so we actually accelerate at a constant rate, and thus our speed increases constantly

So we'd reach incredible speeds really quickly

Eventually time would slow down and then freeze, and if we push at an angle so that our speed becomes complex, we could go backward in time

Ginger Industries

@RedwolfPrograms Ah yes, lego-powered time machine

Redwolf Programs

Tachyonic horcrux lego minifigures

3

Ginger Industries

6:57 PM

@RedwolfPrograms There's a Star Wars spinoff

wait okay

so it turns out there are about 10 billion billion ants in the world

maybe we should be using ant horcruxes instead

yeah

The thing is

Redwolf Programs

Good idea. How quickly does an ant crawl?

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