Could you give me a minute to think it over? Oh, wait, shit…
Have you ever had a dream that you, um, you had, your, you- you could, you’ll do, you- you wants, you, you could do so, you- you’ll do, you could- you, you want, you want him to do you so much you could do anything?
Did it get better?
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What comes after death?
Monkey’s paw: You get the answer but you are also granted immortality.
Win-win
Why does the universe exist?
As I pondered at what I could possibly ask, I blurted out “Do I get time to think about this or do I have to ask it like… right now?”
OH SHIT FUCK I DIDN’T MEAN TO ASK…
“It doesn’t matter anymore, now you don’t.”
And with that, I realized… I FUCKED UP…
:+
Does P=NP?
What is the two element set where the first element is the best possible question I could ask and the second element is the answer to that question?
The omnipotent being in question may not enjoy this programmer’s ploy to wish for more wishes.
It’s technically quite clever, but depending on who you’re asking, it could be dangerous route to take.
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While funny, this answer to the question is useless, thus making the question not actually be good, so the answer would have to be different. The only issue is it could lead to a paradox, where if the answer were to be useful the question would actually be good, possibly the best, which would mean it should’ve been the answer, etc.
I think you would break the machine or deity or whatever with that question xd
“What will be the official winning numbers, stated as five white-ball numbers in ascending order, followed by the Mega Ball and the Megaplier, for the Mega Millions drawing held on Tuesday, April 21, 2026 at 11:00 p.m. Eastern Time?”
You get the answer - the day after, on Wednesday. I don’t see any time-guarantee in the statement.
I can ask the longest and most complete question ever posed but if the genie is a trickster it’s always going to pan out that way.
Monkey’s paw: You get the numbers but miraculously 10,000 other people also get the winning numbers.
Ha ha this is really a good one, well done!
What are next weeks lottery numbers?
Might get stuck with a small payout.
“What are the winning numbers for the next lottery drawing with a payout of over $500 million?”
Not specific enough, what if the next $500 million dollar equivalent payout is in another country and you miss it? Maybe specify the next US Powerball over $500 million?
Why stop there? 1 billion please. It reaches this like 1 to 2 times a year now.
Edit: just for clarification that becomes 477 million lump sum after taxes.
Well in that case, it’s hardly worth it for such a pittance. Chump change at that point.
Does knowing the numbers actually help? Don’t you have to then go find the correct ticket?
Might be different up here in Canada. But up here you can either ask for a random ticket, or you can fill in a card with the numbers that you want (lucky numbers, etc…)
No you can either select the numbers manually or have them chosen randomly.
Where is the nearest intelligent life outside the solar system?
I’d rephrase and ask "where is the most similarly advanced - relative to humans- intelligent life outside the solar system.
I wanna weed out all the low hanging fruit and find folks we might have a chance of talking to at some point.
At that point, why go for ‘similarly advanced’? Wouldn’t it be more beneficial to target intelligent life that has far outdone our own technologies?
We would probably have a better chance at real communication with them too
Nah, then they could murder us… It’s safer to find one just advanced enough but not too advanced…
The Avatar movie depicts what could happen in a scenario where we find intelligent life, but we’re the more advanced civilization.
Why not “what specifically should scientists focus on to develop functional near or faster than light space travel?” Then people can just go check where the aliens are or are not!
do all non-trivial roots of the Riemann zeta function have the form 0.5+xi, and why or why not
The ‘why or why not’ makes it 2 questions.
why or why not do all non-trivial roots of the Riemann zeta function have the form 0.5+xi?
fuck yes, mine too
Who’s a good boy?
All dogs
Not all. There are some bad boys out there.
There are no bad dogs. Only bad trainers. Its a human problem.
I think @CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world meant dogs with sunglasses riding motorcycles. Because I think we all agree here that all dogs are indeed very, VERY good dogs.
I sympathise, but the cliché is not strictly true. Nature is all about diversity. Just like humans have a certain ratio of “bad apples” born where someone is hard wired wrong, so do dogs, and likely all animals.
Psychopathology is real. It would be a mistake to deny Nature it’s agency. There are people who belong in an institution. Dogs perhaps moreso.
To your point, yes most problems are attributable to bad trainers, but even here there is something missing. Bad breeders - natural reproduction would select for fitness, and truly bad dogs would be limited to a small fraction of background instances. We have lots of people actively breeding killers with outsized agression and fear and ferocity, with hair triggers, on purpose. I’m not talking about guard dogs where fierce protective instincts are balanced with loyalty and bonding and intelligence. I mean literal psychokillers.
I’m circling around Pit-Bulls and the like, but I need to be clear. The breed is fine. Some of my best friends are pit bulls. Diversity naturally makes most of them good dogs, just more context dependant and trainer demanding. I’m not talking about those. I’m only referring to a small subset that were overbred and the natural background level of freakshow.
If you’ve only known pets from reputable breeders, accidental litters or the shelter rescues, understand that these select for the good dogs. If that’s all you know, you would have reason to doubt that bad dogs are possible.
Given a normal gaming computer running the most currently up to date version of Linux Mint and the rust programming language, what is the code required to make a program that can send files back in time without the need of anything more than a gigabyte of RAM to be able to send it if a single character is called out in the English language every 5 seconds until the code is completed?
