That’s awesome! Welcome to the club and don’t be afraid to explore your system and ask questions!

This needs to be crossposted to !foodcrimes@midwest.social .

Nope.

Every cult has as one of its core tenets that only evil, terrible people wouldn’t want to be part of it.

The U.S. is currently being run by a cult.

Not everyone in the U.S. is part of that cult. But a damned lot of the population of the U.S. is.

Source: Am american.

You’re not wrong, but…

The arabic numererals we use in our primary base-10 system are very arbitrary. There’s no connection between the around-a-tree-around-a-tree numeral “3” we use to represent the number after the candy-cane-with-a-shoe numeral “2” and the concept of the number 3.

But it doesn’t have to be that way. What if the numerals in our base-60 system themselves followed a pattern.

One of the simpler and more straightforward ways of doing that (that might not work well in practice, at least not for hand-written numerals) would be just to make each numeral in our base-60 system be a vertical line of 6 marks, each either a dot or a dash. We could use that then to encode a single digit in our base-60 system using base-2 digits.

For instance:

 . .
 . .
 . _
 . .
 _ _
 . .

Would be (1*2^1)*60^1+(1*2^3+1*2^1)*60^0 = 2*60^1+10*60^0 = 120+10 = 130.

Viola! Base-60 with (handwave, mutter, qualify) only 2 numerals!

There are downsides to this as well. For instance, you’d have to not consider certain patterns valid. Six base-2 digits can encode numbers up to 63, so you’d just have to throw away the last four and say you’re not allowed to put a 60, 61, 62, or 63 in a single digit. (Also, we’d need language to differentiate between the base-2 digits and the base-60 digits in the same exact number system.)

Not the only way it could be approached, but it’s an option.

Akshully, though…

The thing with base 60 is that 60 is evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Also, notably, 12. And 10.

It’s pretty trivial to divide anything in base 10 by either 2 or by 5, right? That’s specifically because 10 is divisible by 2 and 5.

But try to divide some nice round number like 10 by 3 and you can’t even represent that in decimal without stating that “oh, and by the way, these threes go on forever.”

Ever wonder why so many things come in dozens? It’s largely because 12 is evenly divisible by 2, 3, and 4.

10, though? When was the last time you needed to divide things evenly by five? It’s so much more common to want to divide by 3.

So in short, base 60 honestly has some significant benefits over base 10.

But, really, haha “sex”, am I right?

What would the “bot that finds bots larping as people” do exactly? Ban them? Block or mute them? File reports? DM an admin about them?

If it’s just for pointing out suspected LLM-generated material, I think humans would be better at that than bots would be, and could block, mute, or file reports as necessary.

Also, are you saying you intend to make a bot that posts LLM-generated drivel or a bot that detects LLM-generated drivel?

It’s like appeasement again only worse, because at least the motivation for appeasement was ostensibly to avoid conflict.

Pewdiepie is a Nazi.

Nazis still deserve punches.

Yeah, more like “cringe deez nuts.”

It’s not too late. He can still turn from his sin and accept Satan into his heart. Or more importantly, his lungs.

I suspect the error it’s making is that it knows that pi is approximately “3.14159265359…” and it knows (maybe) how to just look at the last digit of a number represented as a string, so it just grabbed that “9” at the end before the ellipses.

Though, that kinda makes it funnier/wronger given that that “9” is actually rounded up from an 8. 3.1415926535897932…

Now ask it what the last digit of pi that starts with the letter “B” is.

(There’s a guy named “Magnus Carlsen” who is arguably the best chess player of all time.)

They were marketing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (though not by name, because it didn’t have a name yet) before the WiiU was released. And they strung everybody along until after the Switch was released.

Fuckers! I was an early adopter of the WiiU because “well, I’ll for sure want one when the WiiU exclusive Zelda title comes out.”

Not always. Just usually.

Watch out for scams

…such as Bitcoin.

doesn’t stop the worry.

As someone who makes a lot more money than I did previously, I’d say it largely does, at least for me.

I don’t spend anywhere near as much time:

• Budgeting
• Looking at my bank account balance
• Deciding what needful thing I’ll neglect this month

In short, I spend less time thinking about money, which means I spend less time worrying about money.

It’s not like I don’t worry at all about money, but I do worry a lot less of the time, and less intensely.

At this point, honestly, I think having more income might make me more stressed than I am now. Though I would like to be able to quit my day job for a business I own myself, maybe. As long as the income was reliable.

I once tasked the AI DeepSeek

The building of a distro to achieve

With while true ; do beep ; done

As PID 1

AI dubbed the poor distro “Kill Me”

I’m looking forward to “That Time I Got Reincarnated In The Backrooms.”