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Ookami38

@ Ookami38 @sh.itjust.works

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  • Sisyphus

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  • Right, it's the old English Thorn, which we used for the "th" sound. It got phased out around the invention of the printing press, first being replaced with "y" (the -> ye) and then we just decided to change the spelling entirely. There's a whole history to it, I can't do it justice ATM.

  • Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds

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  • Oh neat. This is all taxonomy that is well beyond me. My defense of calling humans monkeys is that everyone does it, and that's how language works. Glad to know I'm correct too, technically lol

  • Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds

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  • Ol Bill Shakespeare. He wrote Hamlet, one correct letter at a time.

  • Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds

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  • To be entirely fair, apes aren't monkeys. I don't think that particular distinction is really all that relevant to the discussion, but technically...

  • Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds

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  • Technically true, I think it still fits for the layman.

  • Sisyphus

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  • Talk how you want. The only issue I see is that others won't understand you, but you're not hurting anyone doing so. Just don't get upset when others can't understand you.

  • Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds

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  • Gyrategun. Shiversword. Vibratevibrator. Fidgetfalchion.

  • Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds

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  • Weird how neither of those numbers are infinities. Almost like the numbers used are unfathomably small in comparison.

  • Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds

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  • I would place money on some enthusiast somewhere having typed up Hamlet on a typewriter just for kicks. Surely in the hundreds of years of overlap between humanity, Hamlet, and typewriters, it's happened once. I'd be more concerned with typos.

  • Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds

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  • I think the point is less about any kind of route to Hamlet, and more about the absurdity of infinite tries in a finite space(time). There are a finite (but extremely large) number of configurations of English characters in a work the length of Hamlet. If you have truly an infinite number of attempts (monkeys, time, or both are actually infinite) and the trials are all truly random (every character is guaranteed to have the same chance as every other) then you will necessarily arrive at that configuration eventually.

    As far as your process, of procedurally generating each letter one by one until you have the completed works, we actually have a monkey who more or less did that already. His name is William.

  • Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds

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  • Why must the concept of time before the big bang (or after our heat death) exist in our physical reality for us to speculate about theoretical infinities past those? The thought experiment is about infinite time, not all the time in our limited universe. A lot of things happen at infinity that break down as soon as you add a limit, but we're not talking limits when we're talking infinity.

  • Sisyphus

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  • So why only the thorns? Why none of the other typological changes in English? Like the great vowel shift and such? Written language is an imperfect tool to represent spoken language, which is an imperfect tool to represent free human thought. Where in this bastardization of a bastardization we call language do you draw your arbitrary line?

  • Sisyphus

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  • That's the whole point of Sisyphus. He could stop at literally any time, he could slack off. No one forces him, except by virtue of the fact that there's nothing else for him to do. That friction between "I don't want to do this anymore, it's pointless" and "but doing nothing is more miserable" is one of the biggest absurdities in the myth.

  • Tim Walz and AOC are going to play Madden together on Twitch

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  • Loser suit Larry seems more musky.

  • Support local bands

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  • Could you not write fuck so much please?

    But seriously, support local in general.

  • Why do anarchists stay on reddit or other corporate-run platforms?

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  • Why does anyone go to a community they don't necessarily agree with? Either to start shit or to convert. If your goal is to get other people to see the world your way, or even just to have an argument with someone who doesn't agree with you, first you have to be where people don't agree with you. I think this is probably a far sight better than people living in echo chambers, personally.

    Alternatively, most people pick the least friction option, it's only us weird, passionate people who go through the added inconvenience to be on a platform that more aligns with our ideals.

  • Blessica Blimpson

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  • Man, I wish I had a beefbot...

  • YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers

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  • My sarcastic asshole would have snapped the wheels off the bag if that's the distinction they want to have.

  • Baldur's Gate 3 publishing chief calls out Ubisoft's 'broken strategy': If gamers need to get used to not owning games, 'developers must get used to not having jobs'

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  • Practically, outside of second-hand sales, there's no difference between e.g. GOGs offline installer and a physical copy of the game. No, you don't technically own it, but for all intents and purposes you do.