Of course it still matters, you just take the best case for n as n→∞, instead of the worst or average case.

Really annoys me that this is actually O(n log n) because for large enough n the merge sort will take longer than n*1e6 second. Randall should know better!

Dang, I definitely remember this scene and it’s been ages since I’ve seen this show.

Fascinating!

Nah, my .de means nothing, it was just an arbitrary choice of instance for me.

Was changing your name not possible back then, or were you just not aware that it’s possible?

… a calculator, an electronic translator, an alarm clock, a video games console, an infinite DVD player, a spirit level, a personal weather forecaster, …

oh and I also think it can make telephone calls

I’m out of the loop, is that a thing? Best I know is that it’s highly manageable with treatment, not cured.

Wait, how old is consumer satnav? I am pretty sure it was available (albeit not too commonplace) when I was a kid in the late 90’s or early 2000’s. I really do take it for granted… As long as my government doesn’t deliberately scramble it for security reasons, which happened a lot in the past year.

Considering how many asterisks you need to add there, I wouldn’t say teleportation is “inevitable”.

The word you’re thinking of is ‘user’.

Reminds me of this sketch: https://youtu.be/bewKPi9gdT4

Same to you!

“[Announcement of replacement of Franky]. Kazuki Yao, who is currently playing the role of Franky in the TV anime ONE PIECE, will be graduating from the Straw Hat Pirates. This decision was reached after lengthy discussions. We will announce a successor during the Super Stage RED at Jump Festa 2025 on Sunday, December 22nd, and hold a graduation ceremony for Yao-san.”

I totally agree, which is why to make the game more interesting I propose to add a new rule: the king can’t move behind his starting row.

I give it a week before someone makes a playable version

It’s impossible to know how long such a change will take to diverge. I guess my weeks/months estimate is baseless, I’ll grant you that. But some changes will have faster effects than others.

For example, if you remove a very famous person or someone from royalty, it will change the news cycle, which millions of people read all over the place. Each person who reads or would have read the news about it would have their life slightly altered, so this one change causes millions of differences over a large area. With so many changes, it’s likely that one of them will turn out more significant.

According to my interpretation of chaos theory, virtually any change can cause you to not be born. Even if just considering the butterfly effect for weather: a few weeks or months after the change, the weather in the new timeline will completely diverge from the old timeline worldwide, and this will affect your parents’/ancestors’ behavior enough to change which genes get passed on, if they even still make a baby. And that’s only the weather, there’s a lot more chaos in the world.

The only exception is if the change happens just a short amount of time before you’re conceived, and far enough away. Then I can believe that it could work. But it would still affect your entire life, which might be subtly or totally different from your life in the original timeline.

All that out of the way, there are quite a few politicians and billionaires I’d like to nominate. Too many to list.

If I’m honest, I’ve never heard of elf on a shelf, other than in posts like this.

I understand, it’s the same in Hebrew

You ‘solved’ the random connect-the-dots that came up first when I searched for one to make my point, well done

I’m over here trying to figure out what math you’re talking about. These are just counts.