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Today I learned that the word "loot" was nicked from India in colonial times

As I migrate more posts on 'verse computing, I observe:

Those people with buttsticks about "byte" and "nybble" being too silly are going to have to continue to suffer post-contact through "playte", "dynner", "feyst", and "banquyt".

(Industry-standard word lengths in the seventh millennium are banquyts. Conveniently, this means that IIP addresses are still quadwords.)

#eldraeverse #scienceFiction #writing

e.g. The only three practical applications of a gravity gradiometer are like: (1) Answer fundamental physics questions about the Earth and the universe. (2) Obtain navigational data for inertial guidance system to nuke someone else with nuclear ballistic missiles. (3) Find oil.

Cheat code to Bergsonianism:

Time is the most scarce resource in my field. And yours too, probably.

@lisyarus Turing completeness is the empirically unique reasonable notion of computability for functions Nat -> Nat, but for (Nat -> Nat) -> Nat (aka type-2 computability) there are multiple reasonable notions of computation that are not equivalent, so there is no such thing as “Turing completeness” there

#30daymapchallenge Day 2 (Lines): Sequential postcodes of Germany, making use of the unpopular 🌈 rainbow color map. This map was inspired by Kate, aka @pokateo_maps on the bird site.

https://x.com/pokateo_maps/status/1587868578874785794

a huge rat just scurried up and looked at me