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A million seconds from now is just shy of eleven days and fourteen hours. Not so bad. I could wait that long. It’s within two weeks. A billion seconds is over thirty-one years. A trillion seconds from now is after the year 33700CE
Thankfully, if there’s one thing a pope can do, it’s convince a lot of people to change their behaviour for seemingly arbitrary reasons.
assuming we don’t manage another upgrade in the meantime – on 4 December in the year 292277026596CE all the computers will go down. On a Sunday.
To this day, there is a sign on the Albert Bridge in London warning troops not to march in time across it.
An email address like null@nullmedia.com (belonging to real human Christopher Null) is often auto-blocked to cut back on spam.
Even when the data has made it into a database, it is not safe … which brings us, finally, to Microsoft Excel.
Who’s up for a game of geometrically plausible foot-doughnut?
Had they done the maths correctly, those twenty-six toppings in fact allowed for 67,108,864 options. A rare case of marketing understatement.
some people would argue that the ‘null meal’ is their favourite thing to order from McDonald’s).
wish I could say there is some amazing mathematics going on behind the scenes which makes Grime Dice work, but there isn’t.
There are only two golden rules for plain-style random data: All outcomes are equally likely. Each event has no effect on what comes next. Potato.
I think, due to survivor bias, programmers tend to be a sadistic bunch who enjoy frustration.
‘Mathematicians aren’t people who find maths easy; they’re people who enjoy how hard it is.’
