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Recently, I was shopping for a hard drive at a big box store and tried to filter by capacity ... (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/funny

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I'm not even sure how many chickens I can fit on my current hard drive, but it's probably more than the number of persons I can fit.

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

log 0

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think I understood logarithms to some extent when I was in college ... 25 years ago ... but even if I still remember how they work, my brain's not getting there tonight.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

log 0 goes to -infinity, so the operation is illegal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well, thank you for explaining, but I guess now you have to be placed under arrest.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So it goes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is this a Vonnegut reference?

If so, I can't respond positively enough.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes, Slaughterhouse Five.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You are an individual of quality.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why me?

That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?

Yes.

Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Poo-tee-weet.