At least we put them on pretty 3D animated carbonated beverage advertisements for Christmastime for a while, that must’ve felt really nice until you consider that humans are exploiting your cute and cuddly experience to increase shareholder revenue due to sales of an unnecessarily sugared beverage made with tropical fruit seeds

Humanity: having an obesity epidemic

Polar Bears: “increased fat stores?? D E L I C I O U S”

I threw this at ChatGPT, it was entertaining.

Q: If you had a chessboard with dimensions comparable to the standard world chess tournament boards, and placed a grain of rice on a square, and then moved to the next square and doubled the amount of rice on that square that you used in the previous one, and kept doing this pattern of picking a square and placing twice as many grains as you did on the last one, approximately how many squares could you fill before the rice starts to overflow into other spaces?

A: Let’s analyze the problem step-by-step to determine how many squares can be filled before the rice starts to overflow.

1. Understanding the problem: You start with 1 grain of rice on the first square of a chessboard. On each subsequent square, you double the number of grains of rice from the previous square. This means the number of grains on the ( n )-th square is ( 2^{n-1} ).

2. Capacity and overflow: We need to find the point at which the total amount of rice becomes excessively large, potentially exceeding the board’s capacity. This problem is fundamentally a geometric progression and exponential growth problem.

3. Chessboard specifics: A standard chessboard has 64 squares.

4. Exponential growth: Let’s calculate the number of grains of rice on a few key squares to understand the rapid growth:

   • 1st square: ( 2^0 = 1 ) grain
   • 2nd square: ( 2^1 = 2 ) grains
   • 3rd square: ( 2^2 = 4 ) grains
   • 4th square: ( 2^3 = 8 ) grains
   • 5th square: ( 2^4 = 16 ) grains
   • …
   • 10th square: ( 2^9 = 512 ) grains
   • 20th square: ( 2^{19} = 524,288 ) grains
   • 30th square: ( 2^{29} = 536,870,912 ) grains
   • 40th square: ( 2^{39} = 549,755,813,888 ) grains
   • 50th square: ( 2^{49} = 562,949,953,421,312 ) grains
   • 60th square: ( 2^{59} = 576,460,752,303,423,488 ) grains

5. Total grains on the board: The total number of grains of rice after filling all 64 squares is the sum of the geometric series: [ S = 2^0 + 2^1 + 2^2 + \ldots + 2^{63} ] The sum of this series can be calculated as: [ S = 2^{64} - 1 ] This is a massive number: [ 2^{64} - 1 \approx 18.45 \times 10^{18} \text{ grains} ]

6. Practical limitations: In reality, the amount of rice that can fit on a square or even within the confines of a board or room will quickly become unrealistic after a relatively small number of squares. For example:

   • The number of grains of rice fitting on a square inch might be around 1,000 grains.
   • If each grain is about 0.01 cubic inch, a cubic foot would hold approximately 12,000 grains.

Given the calculations above, the exact square where the rice starts to overflow would depend heavily on the physical capacity of the square, which we’ve assumed to be quite large in this hypothetical.

7. Conclusion: Practically speaking, the rice would start to overflow the physical space far earlier than the 64th square. Assuming a generous physical capacity of a few thousand grains per square:
   • By around the 20th to 30th square, the exponential growth would likely have already led to a number of grains that exceed typical containment capabilities.

Therefore, if we were to realistically consider overflow within a standard physical context, you might see overflow happening anywhere from the 20th to 30th squares, given the doubling nature of the sequence.

Left brain urging me to write “that’s a lie those are scissor switches”, right brain just going awwwwwwwwwwww

I grew up with that one, really good and plays best with a 6-button

Also enjoy the weird “ending except not really because you played low difficulty” :D Still mildly weirds me out seeing that screen, even if you did play the whole game, saw that a lot until I improved.

Congrats iOS users, happy for you :D That opens a lot more devices up to being able to do stuff.

📢 JET GRIND RADIOOOOOOOOO 🎶🎹🔊

Also both Sonic Adventures, Virtual On Oratorio Tangram, Crazy Taxi and I think I remember Sega GT being pretty good too?

But do you pass ant

The king just decided he really isn’t ready for another commitment

Fix 'em? I hardly know 'er!

Open console, troubleshoot components, replace components as necessary. You might be overthinking this one or your question might not be specific enough. Modding is the act of replacing factory components with ones that are non-standard, repairs are not necessarily mods.

Please note that my original whatever was meant to be a reference 😄 Should have included a tone tag haha

Agreed, would be neat, but idk if they would be willing to go the distance for VIII. Maybe IX.

Whatever

Only way that is happening is with Link fully armed and Cloud with no materia. Cloud is superhuman at his base self, his Lvl. 3 and 4 limit breaks are brutal, and he just gets worse with Haste, Reflect, etc., never mind offensive spells like Ultima, Comet, summons…

Link is resourceful, he may outwit Cloud and I think he is genuinely smarter, but he will absolutely not beat him in a straight fight. Just not happening.

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Come back in two months

“OpenSesame!123”

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I could see something like this being a common use icon, it’s very well done. I prefer this look to having the big bodied Tux on a small icon, this solves the problem well. Good job!

Meanwhile here I am just tooting with folks in my small part of the community blissfully unaware of

MASTODON

☣️ ToXiCiTy ☢️

Why is Mastodon being treated as a monolithic entity?

Maybe I’ve been living under a rock but women can use technology as much as everyone else, I’m not understanding why this is news worthy

Favorite mech from MechWarrior 2! I should just get into BattleTech, how’s the franchise these days?