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Recently, I was shopping for a hard drive at a big box store and tried to filter by capacity ... (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by toynbee to c/[email protected]

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I'm not even sure how many chickens I can fit on my current hard drive, but it's probably more than the number of persons I can fit.

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[–] toynbee 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

∞

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

log 0

[–] toynbee 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think I understood logarithms to some extent when I was in college ... 25 years ago ... but even if I still remember how they work, my brain's not getting there tonight.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

log 0 goes to -infinity, so the operation is illegal.

[–] toynbee 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well, thank you for explaining, but I guess now you have to be placed under arrest.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So it goes.

[–] toynbee 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is this a Vonnegut reference?

If so, I can't respond positively enough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes, Slaughterhouse Five.

[–] toynbee 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You are an individual of quality.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why me?

That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?

Yes.

Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.

[–] toynbee 2 points 2 days ago

Poo-tee-weet.