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Re: πFS

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Post by atvrager »

noman-land wrote: post #47
cbm-vic-20 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

jshell> "πfs".toUpperCase() $1 ==> "ΠFS" Welcome to Node.js v26.3.0. Type ".help" for more information. > "πfs".toUpperCase() 'ΠFS' Python 3.14.5 (main, May 10 2026, 10:21:34) [Clang 21.0.0 (clang-2100.0.123.102)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> "πfs".upper() 'ΠFS' echo 'πfs' | awk '{print toupper($0)}' ΠFS

Why does your Python terminal report May 10th? Today is June 10th.

It's the build date of their Python binary

Re: πFS

#62

Post by Yokohiii »

noman-land wrote: post #47
cbm-vic-20 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

jshell> "πfs".toUpperCase() $1 ==> "ΠFS" Welcome to Node.js v26.3.0. Type ".help" for more information. > "πfs".toUpperCase() 'ΠFS' Python 3.14.5 (main, May 10 2026, 10:21:34) [Clang 21.0.0 (clang-2100.0.123.102)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> "πfs".upper() 'ΠFS' echo 'πfs' | awk '{print toupper($0)}' ΠFS

Why does your Python terminal report May 10th? Today is June 10th.

He prepared the comment a month ago.

Re: πFS

#63

Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

Levitating wrote: post #58
programjames wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you click the website's name to the right of the title, it pulls up all the submissions from the same site: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com/philipl

Even then I don't see a direct way to extract a list like this.

I think it's safe to assume that dang has access to tools that we mortals are unable to comprehend, without being driven to madness.

Re: πFS

#64

Post by Levitating »

MisterTea wrote: post #8

Reminds me of: https://www.spronck.net/sloot.html Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloot_Digital_Coding_System

> The SDCS is only possible if keys are allowed to become infinite, or the data store is allowed to become infinite (...) This would, of course, make the idea useless.

But Pi is infinite. And thus this genius contraption will work as long as we have Moore's law on our side :)

Re: πFS

#65

Post by thangalin »

Levitating wrote: post #56
thangalin wrote: post #25

https://cs.stackexchange.com/a/53737/1704 > Matches that occur early enough in π to attain significant compression will not be varied. That is, it isn't possible to use π to compress interesting, real-world data because real-word strings are unlikely to arise early.

> Since the file is 128 bits long, one would expect this place to be around the 2*128th bit. > Calculate the number of bits to encode that value using log2(938933556), which is ~29.8 Can someone explain these two statements to me?

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Re: πFS

#66

Post by spchampion2 »

This is interesting, but I feel like my use cases would better align with a different irrational number. Could I get an option to do this with e instead? /s

Re: πFS

#68

Post by mzelling »

Looked at the repo but it says NOTHING about what value this project offers.

I mean, I get that it's "fun" to store information within the digits of pi. But is this just amusement, or is there a value prop for production use here?

(Speaking as a math major, by the way. I'm sympathetic to the cause.)

Re: πFS

#69

Post by Yokohiii »

nosioptar wrote: post #17
bobim wrote: post #6

This is disturbing to realize that pi then contains all the past and future knowledge, including when I'll pass away.

The worst part is that it contains Star Wars 4-6 from an alternate timeline where Disney did a reboot casting Chris Pratt as Han Solo. (Fun fact: "Chrispratt" is an ancient Californian word that means "Joel McHale didn't want the role.")

Around here it just means chrisp ratt.

Re: πFS

#70

Post by mherkender »

mzelling wrote: post #68

Looked at the repo but it says NOTHING about what value this project offers. I mean, I get that it's "fun" to store information within the digits of pi. But is this just amusement, or is there a value prop for production use here? (Speaking as a math major, by the way. I'm sympathetic to the cause.)

It's a joke.
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