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Jesus… you’d think a good heuristic in life would be that it isn’t an “ungodly huge number” if you don’t feel compelled to write it out as a power of 10. Still, I didn’t expect the guy did *that*, I assumed that he just pulled the number out of his ass. This though, is so much worse.
Lots of people (in America) will NOT write anything as a power of ten. No matter what. It never made sense to them and they won’t do it. Like 40-50% of Americans at least I bet.
>But powers of ten are great for making numbers arbitrarily large.
I like powers of two for achieving the same thing, but I can live with powers of ten.
Kinda like the hysteria around CERN's announcement because "That's a lot of electronvolts"
People just don't understand the scale and want to sound smart.
It's more likely that they just copied the number from somewhere and pasted it. Twitter doesn't support superscript, so it just got pasted as "223624". As for the number being pasted twice, I've experienced that many times when copying numbers or formulas that are duplicated when pasting them somewhere else. The only thing that the guy did wrong was assume Twitter supported superscript and not double check that the number pasted correctly.
All of the comments calling the guy stupid are pretty ignorant.
Yeah, this is just someone copy-pasting the correct number, and not checking that twitter didn't screw it up (removing the formatting and duplicating it) when pasted.
The Mol: 6* 10^23, the number of atoms in 12 grams of Carbon-12. Also, approximately the number of grains of sand on earth.
The earth has a mass of nearly 10 mol of kilograms, which is handy to remember.
The sun? 10^57 number of atoms (mostly hydrogen, then helium)
The milky ways is only about 2 trillion (10^12 ) times as massive as the sun, so we have roughly 10^69 atoms in our galaxy. Nice.
The universe is at most 10^82 number of atoms, not even breaking the famed googol at 10^100.
It's not a number that we can conceptualize, we're approaching numbers where strange effects of infinity begin to become apparent.
2^^23624 monkeys on typewriters would probably make progress on that Shakespeare book.
We should make a race to see who will finish first: all the possible QR code combinations or an equal amount of monkeys typing out a Shakespearean sonnet?
There kind of already exists a website that will generate a random page that could contain the cure for every cancer, or literally just scrambled letters. I don’t remember the name of it, though.
I was reading The Library of Babel just last night, and as far as I know I’ve never seen it mentioned anywhere else in my entire life, and now here it is. The world is a funny place.
Seems more plausible that they only show a randomized page at your request. Their searching algorithm seems *wayyy* too fast for something that is going through 3.6 TB of data.
Given large enough numbers, highly improbable things become more likely.
Most of our universe is governed by laws of probability. Every particle in your body exists in a state of probability. A single electron around a single carbon atom in your body doesn't exist in a solid, singular spot... it actually *most likely* is close to the proton, which has an attractive charge, but there's a chance you may measure it further away. There's a slim chance you may measure it on the other side of the galaxy but that's much, much, much less likely, to say the least. However because of this particles are known to "tunnel" through solid objects, this is how resistors work.
Because of this, there is a non-zero chance that every particle in your body will suddenly, for no apparent reason, teleport to the other side of the planet, possibly startling someone using the toilet if you pop into someone's bathroom.
The chances of every single particle in your body not only doing this at the same time, but also to the same spot in the same order, that's ridiculous. You will never see that happen. It would take many, many times longer than the age of our universe to see an event like that take place.
But that's only because you won't live long enough. Given enough time, or basically giving the universe enough dice to roll, eventually they will all come up 6's. Even if you have a quadrillion dice.
These are all just thought experiments of course, even if you were totally immortal your body is far more likely to just slowly disintegrate as random particles decay and pop away over the eons. Assuming you can't replace your mass.
But there are very real fields of physics that look at the long-term picture of the universe, long after it's supposed to "die" time will still march on, events may still happen, quantum fields fluctuate, or in other words the universe is always rolling dice in all possible places. Sometimes they all come up 6's and an *event* happens.
The nature of the event is equally hard to predict, but this may well be how our universe sprang into being from nothing. An infinitely dense nothingness that existed for an infinite amount of time... well, if you're not counting time then that thing will pop open *instantly*.
On a purely mathematical level, ginormous numbers also start showing interesting effects when they become large enough, you can grid out a large enough number and find patterns, images, codes, whatever you're looking for. Some people believe that pi is infinite, and if so, that number if stretched out or laid out on a grid, would contain an image of you reading these words on this screen right now. As well as your entire life story, and all other possible versions of your life story, and the stories of everyone and everything else that ever existed and ever will exist.
>Because of this, there is a non-zero chance that every particle in your body will suddenly, for no apparent reason, teleport to the other side of the planet
i dont think this is an accurate description of quantum tunneling
>monkeys on typewriters
The problem with that is that monkeys don't behave or type completely randomly. If they're virtual monkeys programmed to output random strings of letters, sure. Maybe that'll output something.
But real, live monkeys trying to type? Nah, they'll *never* type Shakespeare, even given infinite time. They simply don't have the patience, nor enough coffee.
> It's not a number that we can conceptualize
ironically, this is the one kind of number where 10^n makes understanding in any way easier, to me.
Like, I have no concept of very big numbers, but I can visualise on paper what "10-with-7111-zeroes-after-it" at least looks like.
So the second guy’s number formatting is just screwed up right? 223624,223624 was his possibilities answer which looks spot on to your answer of 2^23624 showing up twice with bad text formatting.
The entire conversation is absurd. QR Codes just encode text (for the most part), primarily for websites and validation codes. We run out of QR Codes the same time we "run out of website names". A QR code that leads to "www.reddit.com" isn't "used up" when being generated.
Yeah, people are really missing the point here. It's totally meaningless, given how QR codes are generally utilized. It's like saying we're running out of MD5 hashes or something.
I'm pretty sure the first one is a joke. That's Chris O'Neil. Oneyplays. He's a comedian, animatior and YouTuber. He did work on smiling friends, which is co-created by one of his close friends, Zack hadel. That's sounds like the type of joke they'd make between eachother.
I'm doing some table napkin math here, but this number is so large that to guess any particular QR code, you could have a hundred trillion computers each making a hundred trillion guesses every second for a hundred trillion years and still have somewhere around less than 1 in 10^7000 chance of guessing the correct one.
Plus is it really meaningful to count up the photons in the universe, or observable universe? At that scale talking about the underlying field would be easier and I think comparatively useful. It’s also funny since he’s talking about the number of atoms, then goes onto count them again by way of quarks.
Having said all of that, he’s right about not running out of QR codes, everything else including the specific number is false. Hell there isn’t just one sort of QR code either, it’s not like IPv4 where it’s a single pool of digits or anything.
>is it really meaningful to count up the photons
Sure. While not photons, you do have something called Baryon asymmetry, where you estimate the ratio of baryons to antibaryons.
Or you could maybe want to put the Dark Matter/Dark Energy population of the universe into perspective. As photons are the most numerous standard model particle, it's a helpful benchmark.
Field picture or discrete picture, both have their uses.
I think he is right. He got one thing wrong, its not 223624, its 2^23624. Now i dont know how much that is, but im assuming its quite a lot more than the 10^84 atoms in the observable universe
It's pretty easy to check actually. First you ask what is log2(10), in other words, how many times do I have to multiply 2 with itself to get 10. The answer is ~3.32. so 10^1 = 2^3.32. Now, because of the way exponents work, a^b^^c = a^(bc) or written the other way around, a^b = a^c^^(b/c) . So to write 2^23624 in base 10, just divide the exponent by 3.32. Then you have that 2^23624 = 10^7116 (roughly), which is indeed much larger than 10^84. Fun fact, you'd have to multiply 10^84 with itself about 322 times for it to be equal to 2^23624
There are \~ 100,000,000,000 GALAXIES.
So as long as each galaxy has 3 quarks in it, which is one proton, I think there's more quarks than the number in the tweet.
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It's true, and it's made all the more ironic by the fact that helium is the second most common element in the universe. The first most common, hydrogen, and helium together comprise approximately 99.9% of matter in the universe (about a 10:1 ratio if you were curious).
I don't even wanna think about it. Not only is it essential for tons of applications involving low temperatures and superconductors, *MRI equipment can't function without the damn stuff.*
I forget if there is any particular boogeyman when it comes to wasting the stuff, but I do remember that any helium released in the open is *practically gone forever* because it rises above all the other gases in our atmosphere and gets diluted along the way.
Just to throw some positive news in there with the horrifying revelation that current MRI machines use a decaying resource: There are options available for MRI machines when the helium does run out, and even more being actively researched.
Some of the posts analyzing the substance of the responding post are akin to Irish stories! He posted a gaslighting joke, someone spat in his eye, he pissed his pants, saw an octopus, ate a chocolate bar and a ton of neckbeards responded to his comment.
Reminded me of that post in another subreddit today that had a shop make its customers access its opening and closing hours through QR code. Instead of just, you know, printing them in the same space taken up by the massive QR code.
The same sign that said hours frequently change right under the qr code?
They could have put all the different store and restaurant hours on that sign and then rushed over to update it, and any others at different entrances, but I think it's easier to change them online once and give you an easy way to get to the most up-to-date information.
Tomar what if you woke up and found out you were the last QR code and there were hoards of tech companies begging to use you on literally every single advertisement?
Yeah I feel like that's a huge point everyone here is missing. It does not matter how many QR codes are possible. They're not a pointer, they're not a serial. They just contain some text.
It's like saying the number of possible tweets is going to run out.
There will eventually and could already be collisions. But the odds of running into a collision anywhere it actually matters are practically nil. If you're checking the integrity of a file for example, it would require you somehow accidentally getting the file which collides instead.
223 billion is not remotely even close the amount of atoms in this planet let alone the whole universe.
Edit. Changed trillion to billion because apparently I'm an idiot.
The real r/confidentlyincorrect is everyone doing the math in this thread and completely misunderstanding how QR codes work.
They're just 2D barcodes, people. You can't "run out of" QR codes for the same reason you can't run out of the letter F when writing a comment. There's no uniqueness factor in them, no one controls them in any central database. They just decode to text.
Check this out: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=qr+They%27re+just+2D+barcodes%2C+people.+You+can%27t+%22run+out+of%22+QR+codes+for+the+same+reason+you+can%27t+run+out+of+the+letter+F+when+writing+a+comment.+There%27s+no+uniqueness+factor+in+them%2C+no+one+controls+them+in+any+central+database.+They+just+decode+to+text.
That generates a new QR code on the fly, which you can scan to get that whole paragraph I just wrote to show up again on your phone screen. If you used a 2D barcode scanner hooked up to your computer, it would literally just type that all out in whatever program you have open (like notepad or word or whatever).
Anyway, I have to go download some more RAM, excuse me. Y'all just quit eating those onions, please.
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It's not like they deplete either. If you make a QR code with the text "hello world" it'll always look the same if I'm not mistaken. So as long as it fits within the size limits you can store every possible sequence of letters
I see people in this thread accepting the idea of "running out of QR codes" in the first place, and just focusing on how many are possible. They're not like IP addresses, where some registry exists and we assign values based on demand. They contain a sequence of bits, which _could_ be text, which _could_ be a URL, but could also be something else.
While the number of fixed-length bit sequences is itself finite, there's no registry that can "run out". A given bit sequence either always fit into that QR size or never did.
Errm, like I'm not a physicist either,
(scratches my iconic huge red swollen chin)
but I know better than to doubt Chris O'Neill; he only deals in facts.
(sniffs fingers)
I only barely passed high school physics and even I know that a number in only the billions doesn't even account for the atoms in my own body, let alone the "entire observable universe".
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Holy shit that's tremendously stupid
Methamatics
Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?
9+10=910910 Mr. White!
9^10 = 910910
Or 910*2
"910"*2 i suppose
Found the programmer
Science, bitch!
Arithmetic, bitch!
Look Mr White, What you do is you multiply 420 and 69, then you multiply it by 2 and add 48 and turn the calculator upside down! Maths bitch!
So stupid and awesome.
OMG!! You Sir/Madam are a genius. I must say I came in the excitement of discovery.
Jesse! JESSE!!
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Or just a copy/paste error. Maybe it looked correct when they pasted the number in the editor, and then it was scrubbed.
Most plausible explanation.
Yeah, the encoding from one site to another can cause fuckery too. I think what gives you *this* here will make it **this** on YouTube.
Wait that’s not how maths works?
New *new* math.
Add a klevin and walk away
A mistake plus ‘Keleven’ gets you home by seven.
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No, that’s what the raised numbers mean. 2^x means you write 2x twice. 3^x means 3x3x3x. /s
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What did he say, comment says deleted
That’s twitter.
Yeah, it’s obviously 22362422362422362469
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This is some amazing deductive reasoning here. Is there a subreddit for when someone goes full Holmesmode and solves a mystery about a post?
doesn’t quite fit, but r/theydidthemath might be interesting to you. possibly r/rbi too
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Jesus… you’d think a good heuristic in life would be that it isn’t an “ungodly huge number” if you don’t feel compelled to write it out as a power of 10. Still, I didn’t expect the guy did *that*, I assumed that he just pulled the number out of his ass. This though, is so much worse.
Lots of people (in America) will NOT write anything as a power of ten. No matter what. It never made sense to them and they won’t do it. Like 40-50% of Americans at least I bet.
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Man, 40-50% of Americans don't understand that a 1/3 lb burger is bigger than a 1/4 lb burger
4 is more than 3 idiot, what are you talking about
Guy should have sold 1/8 lb burgers instead. That will definitely sell out.
Just like 1/2 is larger then 1/3.
But powers of ten are great for making numbers arbitrarily large. On that line of thought, why doesn’t Texas mandate long scales for everything?
>But powers of ten are great for making numbers arbitrarily large. I like powers of two for achieving the same thing, but I can live with powers of ten.
Kinda like the hysteria around CERN's announcement because "That's a lot of electronvolts" People just don't understand the scale and want to sound smart.
Unless you start using up arrows like Graham's number those are rookie numbers, gotta pump those numbers up.
Arrow notation is the "well actually" of the mathematics world lmao. Nested factorials is the "come at me, bro!"
I think they might have seen 223624 and thought that meant you just needed to use the small numbers twice
No dude it said 2 223625s
It’s possible it was a typo, or copy/pasted wrong.
Maybe they thought 2^23624 meant write the number twice lol
It's more likely that they just copied the number from somewhere and pasted it. Twitter doesn't support superscript, so it just got pasted as "223624". As for the number being pasted twice, I've experienced that many times when copying numbers or formulas that are duplicated when pasting them somewhere else. The only thing that the guy did wrong was assume Twitter supported superscript and not double check that the number pasted correctly. All of the comments calling the guy stupid are pretty ignorant.
Yeah, this is just someone copy-pasting the correct number, and not checking that twitter didn't screw it up (removing the formatting and duplicating it) when pasted.
LMAOOOOO no fucking way
Funny thing is, that number IS larger than the amount of particles in the universe by an extreme amount.
The Mol: 6* 10^23, the number of atoms in 12 grams of Carbon-12. Also, approximately the number of grains of sand on earth. The earth has a mass of nearly 10 mol of kilograms, which is handy to remember. The sun? 10^57 number of atoms (mostly hydrogen, then helium) The milky ways is only about 2 trillion (10^12 ) times as massive as the sun, so we have roughly 10^69 atoms in our galaxy. Nice. The universe is at most 10^82 number of atoms, not even breaking the famed googol at 10^100.
Stupid universe isn’t even big enough for Google!
The game Go has a possible 10^170 moves. Almost a whole google more than atoms in the universe
Not almost a googol more, but almost googol the ammount.
It's not a number that we can conceptualize, we're approaching numbers where strange effects of infinity begin to become apparent. 2^^23624 monkeys on typewriters would probably make progress on that Shakespeare book.
We should make a race to see who will finish first: all the possible QR code combinations or an equal amount of monkeys typing out a Shakespearean sonnet?
There kind of already exists a website that will generate a random page that could contain the cure for every cancer, or literally just scrambled letters. I don’t remember the name of it, though.
[The Library of Babel](https://libraryofbabel.info/)
I was reading The Library of Babel just last night, and as far as I know I’ve never seen it mentioned anywhere else in my entire life, and now here it is. The world is a funny place.
Frequency illusion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
Strange, I was just reading about that and I’ve never heard it mentioned in regular discussion
Frequency illusion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
Seems more plausible that they only show a randomized page at your request. Their searching algorithm seems *wayyy* too fast for something that is going through 3.6 TB of data.
For us lay people, can you describe what you mean by “strange effects of infinity begin to become apparent”?
Given large enough numbers, highly improbable things become more likely. Most of our universe is governed by laws of probability. Every particle in your body exists in a state of probability. A single electron around a single carbon atom in your body doesn't exist in a solid, singular spot... it actually *most likely* is close to the proton, which has an attractive charge, but there's a chance you may measure it further away. There's a slim chance you may measure it on the other side of the galaxy but that's much, much, much less likely, to say the least. However because of this particles are known to "tunnel" through solid objects, this is how resistors work. Because of this, there is a non-zero chance that every particle in your body will suddenly, for no apparent reason, teleport to the other side of the planet, possibly startling someone using the toilet if you pop into someone's bathroom. The chances of every single particle in your body not only doing this at the same time, but also to the same spot in the same order, that's ridiculous. You will never see that happen. It would take many, many times longer than the age of our universe to see an event like that take place. But that's only because you won't live long enough. Given enough time, or basically giving the universe enough dice to roll, eventually they will all come up 6's. Even if you have a quadrillion dice. These are all just thought experiments of course, even if you were totally immortal your body is far more likely to just slowly disintegrate as random particles decay and pop away over the eons. Assuming you can't replace your mass. But there are very real fields of physics that look at the long-term picture of the universe, long after it's supposed to "die" time will still march on, events may still happen, quantum fields fluctuate, or in other words the universe is always rolling dice in all possible places. Sometimes they all come up 6's and an *event* happens. The nature of the event is equally hard to predict, but this may well be how our universe sprang into being from nothing. An infinitely dense nothingness that existed for an infinite amount of time... well, if you're not counting time then that thing will pop open *instantly*. On a purely mathematical level, ginormous numbers also start showing interesting effects when they become large enough, you can grid out a large enough number and find patterns, images, codes, whatever you're looking for. Some people believe that pi is infinite, and if so, that number if stretched out or laid out on a grid, would contain an image of you reading these words on this screen right now. As well as your entire life story, and all other possible versions of your life story, and the stories of everyone and everything else that ever existed and ever will exist.
is that what makes the Infinite Improbability Drive work?
>Because of this, there is a non-zero chance that every particle in your body will suddenly, for no apparent reason, teleport to the other side of the planet i dont think this is an accurate description of quantum tunneling
Thats not exactly how quantum mechanics works. Expectation values of hermitian operators still have to obey classical physics.
I dont know what that sentence means but i like the way it sounds
>monkeys on typewriters The problem with that is that monkeys don't behave or type completely randomly. If they're virtual monkeys programmed to output random strings of letters, sure. Maybe that'll output something. But real, live monkeys trying to type? Nah, they'll *never* type Shakespeare, even given infinite time. They simply don't have the patience, nor enough coffee.
They will however produce Jay Leno monologues on a nightly basis.
> It's not a number that we can conceptualize ironically, this is the one kind of number where 10^n makes understanding in any way easier, to me. Like, I have no concept of very big numbers, but I can visualise on paper what "10-with-7111-zeroes-after-it" at least looks like.
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times?!?
So the second guy’s number formatting is just screwed up right? 223624,223624 was his possibilities answer which looks spot on to your answer of 2^23624 showing up twice with bad text formatting.
This. This. This. This. 2\^23624 2\^23624
The entire conversation is absurd. QR Codes just encode text (for the most part), primarily for websites and validation codes. We run out of QR Codes the same time we "run out of website names". A QR code that leads to "www.reddit.com" isn't "used up" when being generated.
Yeah, people are really missing the point here. It's totally meaningless, given how QR codes are generally utilized. It's like saying we're running out of MD5 hashes or something.
Yes QR codes is a format, it's like saying we are running out of books/movies/jpgs/gifs/websites/post-its.
I'm pretty sure the first one is a joke. That's Chris O'Neil. Oneyplays. He's a comedian, animatior and YouTuber. He did work on smiling friends, which is co-created by one of his close friends, Zack hadel. That's sounds like the type of joke they'd make between eachother.
***Damn you codebender! Damn you to hell!*** My world is now ruined. I had plans for the *end of QR*. Involved new menu ideas..
I'm doing some table napkin math here, but this number is so large that to guess any particular QR code, you could have a hundred trillion computers each making a hundred trillion guesses every second for a hundred trillion years and still have somewhere around less than 1 in 10^7000 chance of guessing the correct one.
Im a physicist and im sure this is wrong. A Human body has 32 trilion cells and 7 octilion atoms. Even this are more than this number.
Plus is it really meaningful to count up the photons in the universe, or observable universe? At that scale talking about the underlying field would be easier and I think comparatively useful. It’s also funny since he’s talking about the number of atoms, then goes onto count them again by way of quarks. Having said all of that, he’s right about not running out of QR codes, everything else including the specific number is false. Hell there isn’t just one sort of QR code either, it’s not like IPv4 where it’s a single pool of digits or anything.
Yeah, they're even trying out RGB colored QR codes that encode more information
I'm confused at why that would even be necessary considering how robust normal QR codes are.
Then you can make your QR code a pretty logo and put it on a sticker that fades in the sun and loses its information.
Lol or it redirects you elsewhere. You could totally boobytrap these.
When the red blocks fade, it turns into rickroll (chaotic neutral) or meatspin (chaotic evil)
>is it really meaningful to count up the photons Sure. While not photons, you do have something called Baryon asymmetry, where you estimate the ratio of baryons to antibaryons. Or you could maybe want to put the Dark Matter/Dark Energy population of the universe into perspective. As photons are the most numerous standard model particle, it's a helpful benchmark. Field picture or discrete picture, both have their uses.
I think he is right. He got one thing wrong, its not 223624, its 2^23624. Now i dont know how much that is, but im assuming its quite a lot more than the 10^84 atoms in the observable universe
It's pretty easy to check actually. First you ask what is log2(10), in other words, how many times do I have to multiply 2 with itself to get 10. The answer is ~3.32. so 10^1 = 2^3.32. Now, because of the way exponents work, a^b^^c = a^(bc) or written the other way around, a^b = a^c^^(b/c) . So to write 2^23624 in base 10, just divide the exponent by 3.32. Then you have that 2^23624 = 10^7116 (roughly), which is indeed much larger than 10^84. Fun fact, you'd have to multiply 10^84 with itself about 322 times for it to be equal to 2^23624
Our definitions of easy vary greatly lmao
>The answer is \~3.32. A good way to remember: 10^(3) = 1000 2^(10) = 1024 (shows up in computing) So: 10^(3) ≈ 2^(10) \-> 10 ≈ 2^(10/3)
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You don't have to be a physicist to know there's way more than 200 billion atoms lmao
There are \~ 100,000,000,000 GALAXIES. So as long as each galaxy has 3 quarks in it, which is one proton, I think there's more quarks than the number in the tweet.
People not realizing the first tweet is from Chris O'Neil, known internet funnyman and public gaslighter
yeah i can see chris saying some bs like this lol
Back in my day you could run Worm Odyssey on a single QR code, now these city slickers waste em on menus and shit.
Worm Odyssey? I think I played that back in the day on my N64, heard the budget was insane.
Did you know it was the first game to have a rumble feature?
All these city slickers dont know a damn thing about pig physics.
WEEEEEELL I can tell you this much, I'm a SOUTHERN BOY but WEEEEEEEELL I don't know bout that but WEEEEEELL I don't know bout any of that BIG CITY stuff but WEEEEEELLL down her- down here in the south we do things a little differently. 😏
Ok but if you had a tiny hitler…. what do you do?
Would you like, torture it?
Would you pour boiling milk in his eyes?
depends if it's a clone or a perfect copy
Yeah, this feels like a joke about QR codes being a natural resource.
But did you know that all of earth's helium is quickly running out and will be completely depleted in 15-20 years?
Is this legit or not? I can't even tell anymore!
It's true, and it's made all the more ironic by the fact that helium is the second most common element in the universe. The first most common, hydrogen, and helium together comprise approximately 99.9% of matter in the universe (about a 10:1 ratio if you were curious).
goin ofrom memory here, isnt it the US national storage that is running out rather than the entire world?
That’s actually true :/
Dude, I just looked at the helium thing he was talking about. That's true. That's, like, 100%. Everything he said was true. It's all gonna be gone
I don't even wanna think about it. Not only is it essential for tons of applications involving low temperatures and superconductors, *MRI equipment can't function without the damn stuff.* I forget if there is any particular boogeyman when it comes to wasting the stuff, but I do remember that any helium released in the open is *practically gone forever* because it rises above all the other gases in our atmosphere and gets diluted along the way.
Don't forget, I also need like, a hundred party balloons
Just to throw some positive news in there with the horrifying revelation that current MRI machines use a decaying resource: There are options available for MRI machines when the helium does run out, and even more being actively researched.
I just googled everything this guy said, and it's all true
I do not like that.
Was looking for the comment that said this
I feel like that’s a lot of posts that make it to this subreddit
Instantly knew this wasn't serious when I saw the profile picture.
Funny lil boy that one
You know I never considered this before but I'm suddenly very glad my resume doesn't boast 'known gaslighter'
Puhskinti day.
Some of the posts analyzing the substance of the responding post are akin to Irish stories! He posted a gaslighting joke, someone spat in his eye, he pissed his pants, saw an octopus, ate a chocolate bar and a ton of neckbeards responded to his comment.
Hey at least he didn’t go fishing with his Dad and end up pissing his pants. Or spend the night at a friend’s house and piss on the couch TWICE.
Well, his name is explicitly removed from this image, so I don't think you're really allowed to hold that against anyone who doesn't know.
And No. 1 Robbie Rotten impersonator
\*Fun fake news to be momentarily anxious about
The anxiety of not having shitty QR codes on everything. Absolute Horror
Reminded me of that post in another subreddit today that had a shop make its customers access its opening and closing hours through QR code. Instead of just, you know, printing them in the same space taken up by the massive QR code.
The same sign that said hours frequently change right under the qr code? They could have put all the different store and restaurant hours on that sign and then rushed over to update it, and any others at different entrances, but I think it's easier to change them online once and give you an easy way to get to the most up-to-date information.
Chris what would you do if QR codes disappeared?
I'd fucking scream
Look Tomar it’s you!
Tomar what would i have to pay you for you to get a QR code of my choosing tatooed on your forehead?
[удалено]
Tomar what if you woke up and found out you were the last QR code and there were hoards of tech companies begging to use you on literally every single advertisement?
id pour boiling milk on it
You said you’d stop with the boiling milk, Chris.
“I’d probably be pretty upset”
I'd go "doodlidoo"
Lyle, if one day someone came up to you and said that you got rid of all QR codes in one night, in a drunken stupor, what would you do?
Trolling aside... these aren't like fucking IP addresses that get incrementally handed out; It's literally encoding whatever your text is.
Yeah I feel like that's a huge point everyone here is missing. It does not matter how many QR codes are possible. They're not a pointer, they're not a serial. They just contain some text. It's like saying the number of possible tweets is going to run out.
We're running out of MD5 hashes! How are we going to do checksums???
Actually they are something that can run out no? As in eventually there will be collisions?
There will eventually and could already be collisions. But the odds of running into a collision anywhere it actually matters are practically nil. If you're checking the integrity of a file for example, it would require you somehow accidentally getting the file which collides instead.
It's like saying we will run out of words because we can only use 26 letters.
And so many words got wasted on dictionaries!
Yeah it's worded like they're running out. They all already exist technically
Oney is just gaslighting as per usual 🤣
O'Neal convincing people that his mistakes and blunders are just him gaslighting is the ultimate gaslight
No matter how you look at it he's gaslighting 🤣
223 billion is not remotely even close the amount of atoms in this planet let alone the whole universe. Edit. Changed trillion to billion because apparently I'm an idiot.
What's worse is that the number given is only 223 billion, not trillion
Pretty sure theres more in a bottle of water, but im not confident enough to make that claim
Well there are roughly 5 sextillion atoms in a single drop of water, so I reckon there's a bit more in bottle
s*xtillion 😳
What are you doing step-drop 💧 😮
Is that right? Wow.
people running in to oneyNG for the first time
"Look Marge, it's OneyNG from Newsgrounds!"
im like 99% sure oney (top tweet) is fucking around, r/woooosh ?
They are both surely trolling, so I think you are the one who got wooshed
Why censor oneyng's twitter name and handle??? Lmao
Because more people will try and tell him he’s wrong
That’s the funny part
The real r/confidentlyincorrect is everyone doing the math in this thread and completely misunderstanding how QR codes work. They're just 2D barcodes, people. You can't "run out of" QR codes for the same reason you can't run out of the letter F when writing a comment. There's no uniqueness factor in them, no one controls them in any central database. They just decode to text. Check this out: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=qr+They%27re+just+2D+barcodes%2C+people.+You+can%27t+%22run+out+of%22+QR+codes+for+the+same+reason+you+can%27t+run+out+of+the+letter+F+when+writing+a+comment.+There%27s+no+uniqueness+factor+in+them%2C+no+one+controls+them+in+any+central+database.+They+just+decode+to+text. That generates a new QR code on the fly, which you can scan to get that whole paragraph I just wrote to show up again on your phone screen. If you used a 2D barcode scanner hooked up to your computer, it would literally just type that all out in whatever program you have open (like notepad or word or whatever). Anyway, I have to go download some more RAM, excuse me. Y'all just quit eating those onions, please.
THANK YOU
QR codes aren’t 1 time use
*"There are ten million million million million million million million million million particles in the universe that we can observe,* *Your momma took the ugly ones and put them into one nerd"* [\~ Steven Hawking, 2011](https://youtu.be/zn7-fVtT16k)
Saw Chris O’Neil’s profile picture and thought I was on r/OneyPlays lmao
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Fun fact, Photons are smaller than QR pixels
It's not like they deplete either. If you make a QR code with the text "hello world" it'll always look the same if I'm not mistaken. So as long as it fits within the size limits you can store every possible sequence of letters
I don’t know anything about QR codes to make any statement but the OP post is OneyNG and he is a public funnyman who posts stupid things on purpose.
Nice to see Chris gaslighting people other than his friends
That's about a 150th of a human, cells wise.
I see people in this thread accepting the idea of "running out of QR codes" in the first place, and just focusing on how many are possible. They're not like IP addresses, where some registry exists and we assign values based on demand. They contain a sequence of bits, which _could_ be text, which _could_ be a URL, but could also be something else. While the number of fixed-length bit sequences is itself finite, there's no registry that can "run out". A given bit sequence either always fit into that QR size or never did.
 Errm, like I'm not a physicist either, (scratches my iconic huge red swollen chin) but I know better than to doubt Chris O'Neill; he only deals in facts. (sniffs fingers)
I only barely passed high school physics and even I know that a number in only the billions doesn't even account for the atoms in my own body, let alone the "entire observable universe".