Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

@ianrosewrites Agreed, but I'm also bummed that once it starts raining it won't stop for six months.

@hellomiakoda I'm enjoying Mark Kistler's "You Can Draw in 30 Days". It's a very gentle approach.

@a13cui@emacs.ch @xerz Yes, but (again, strictly theoretically) the infinite part is the only difference between a finite state machine and a Turing machine.

... which, yes, means that all actual, physical computers are technically finite state machines. They could solve any particular (decidable) problem if you added enough memory. By the same logic (and your dystopian setup), society could solve any decidable problem if there were enough people for that particular problem.

@a13cui@emacs.ch @xerz "You won't hit the end" isn't the same thing as "you have an infinite number of memory cells to play with". If you "wrap around", you're overwriting previous cells, so whatever was stored on them is gone.

7 billion cells is enough for many practical problems, but from a strict theoretical standpoint, it's a finite state machine.

@a13cui@emacs.ch @xerz Connecting the ends doesn't change that the tape has a finite number of cells.

@uhandrew I'm working through this book:

https://www.markkistler.com/product-page/you-can-draw-in-30-days

@Mrfunkedude Huh. I got one recently and don't find it very loud. (Is yours older?) Ironically, the ceiling fan noise keeps me awake.

@educoder That is a Grenade Squash. Once you pull it, you only have five seconds to eat it.