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Why are you giving your numbers leading 0s?

vel0city 2y ago
It's to showcase their superior thinking over four digit year neanderthals. A very iamverysmart thing, as if people don't know after the year 9999 there will be a 10000. Which is why I'll always prepend even more digits when replying, because I'm thinking even further ahead than the short-sighted five digit people and even bigger numbers all the time. https://longnow.org/ https://longnow.org/
- kragen 2y ago
  HN comments are not the right place for personal attacks, and especially not personal attacks for being too nerdy.
- Izkata 2y ago
  A single 0 just throws me off because it makes me think of octal.
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  00why 0stop 00with 0numerics? why 00not 00prepend 0zeros 00to words 00completely 0at 00random? 0After all, 00if 00you're 0going 00to outnerd 00a 0nerd 00you 0should be 00commited 00to 0the 00schtick. This 00is 0Hacker 00News, k?
  - kragen 2y ago
    0000000I 0approve 0000this 0message. (But wouldn't outnerding a nerd require not just vel0city's smug sense of superiority, but also demonstrating more than a de minimis level of knowledge or technical skill?)
    - vel0city 2y ago
      > but also demonstrating more than a de minimis level of knowledge or technical skill HN comments are not the right place for personal attacks. :'( I'm being attacked for my neanderthal inability to understand five digit numbers :( my primitive understanding of time can only really comprehend two digit year values. Today is the year 1924, right? I failed to write my calendar application to accommodate such high year values as your superior intellect is used to reasoning about. Here I thought ISO 8601 was over engineered, turns out it didn't go far enough. We're all just too simple-minded compared to other big-brain bretheren. May we all learn from our five digit betters. I'm sorry I'm just not smart enough to be at your level :'(
      - 082349872349872 2y ago
        000Well, 01924 000is 0about right, 000because 000Morse 0hadn't 000invented the 000pure 0serial 000telegraph 0yet in 0001824. 000Five 0vs 000four is 000a 0different* channel; 000we're 0using zero 000not 000any 0of 000its successors. 000make 0any 000sense? * https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/86617#page/385/mode/2up https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/86617#page/385/mode...
    - 082349872349872 2y ago
      000oops 000sorry 0for 0my 0hand, I'm 0not 0using 0iambic 000or 000any other 0aids*. 0You, 0are 00059 0from 0000here. * If GenAI is good at poetic forms, could it be asked to generate sentences with a particular mono- vs multi-syllable word pattern? Or would this search better be done in Prolog/with a TTS db?
      - defrost 2y ago
        Tr0cheeGPT (if you don't mind leading stress) will get you fl0wing like P0e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Z0VynTR84 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Z0VynTR84
        082349872349872 2y ago
        MC Poe going to need a gastric rinse / After the glou-glou; he hitting that 'sinthe!
        082349872349872 2y ago
        DactylGPT 4o mini fails to count to six, let alone meet the other constraints of a double dactyl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dactyl#:~:text=Long%2dshort%2dshort,have%20the%20time%2e https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dactyl#:~:text=Long%2ds... If I'd attempted to use this to generate an irregular pattern, it'd probably have wound up producing messages decoding to something like "Sammwich Hewix"...
        082349872349872 2y ago
        Direct ways offer an intermediate process coding a message. Unfortunately doing it oneself is astonishingly glacial; using a linebreak algorithm prolly would somehow help, nonetheless dyads & monads come slowly; difficulty besets the coding.

It's to showcase their superior thinking over four digit year neanderthals. A very iamverysmart thing, as if people don't know after the year 9999 there will be a 10000. Which is why I'll always prepend even more digits when replying, because I'm thinking even further ahead than the short-sighted five digit people and even bigger numbers all the time. https://longnow.org/ https://longnow.org/

kragen 2y ago
HN comments are not the right place for personal attacks, and especially not personal attacks for being too nerdy.
Izkata 2y ago
A single 0 just throws me off because it makes me think of octal.
082349872349872 2y ago
00why 0stop 00with 0numerics? why 00not 00prepend 0zeros 00to words 00completely 0at 00random? 0After all, 00if 00you're 0going 00to outnerd 00a 0nerd 00you 0should be 00commited 00to 0the 00schtick. This 00is 0Hacker 00News, k?
- kragen 2y ago
  0000000I 0approve 0000this 0message. (But wouldn't outnerding a nerd require not just vel0city's smug sense of superiority, but also demonstrating more than a de minimis level of knowledge or technical skill?)
  - vel0city 2y ago
    > but also demonstrating more than a de minimis level of knowledge or technical skill HN comments are not the right place for personal attacks. :'( I'm being attacked for my neanderthal inability to understand five digit numbers :( my primitive understanding of time can only really comprehend two digit year values. Today is the year 1924, right? I failed to write my calendar application to accommodate such high year values as your superior intellect is used to reasoning about. Here I thought ISO 8601 was over engineered, turns out it didn't go far enough. We're all just too simple-minded compared to other big-brain bretheren. May we all learn from our five digit betters. I'm sorry I'm just not smart enough to be at your level :'(
    - 082349872349872 2y ago
      000Well, 01924 000is 0about right, 000because 000Morse 0hadn't 000invented the 000pure 0serial 000telegraph 0yet in 0001824. 000Five 0vs 000four is 000a 0different* channel; 000we're 0using zero 000not 000any 0of 000its successors. 000make 0any 000sense? * https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/86617#page/385/mode/2up https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/86617#page/385/mode...
  - 082349872349872 2y ago
    000oops 000sorry 0for 0my 0hand, I'm 0not 0using 0iambic 000or 000any other 0aids*. 0You, 0are 00059 0from 0000here. * If GenAI is good at poetic forms, could it be asked to generate sentences with a particular mono- vs multi-syllable word pattern? Or would this search better be done in Prolog/with a TTS db?
    - defrost 2y ago
      Tr0cheeGPT (if you don't mind leading stress) will get you fl0wing like P0e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Z0VynTR84 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Z0VynTR84
      - 082349872349872 2y ago
        MC Poe going to need a gastric rinse / After the glou-glou; he hitting that 'sinthe!
      - 082349872349872 2y ago
        DactylGPT 4o mini fails to count to six, let alone meet the other constraints of a double dactyl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dactyl#:~:text=Long%2dshort%2dshort,have%20the%20time%2e https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dactyl#:~:text=Long%2ds... If I'd attempted to use this to generate an irregular pattern, it'd probably have wound up producing messages decoding to something like "Sammwich Hewix"...
        082349872349872 2y ago
        Direct ways offer an intermediate process coding a message. Unfortunately doing it oneself is astonishingly glacial; using a linebreak algorithm prolly would somehow help, nonetheless dyads & monads come slowly; difficulty besets the coding.