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True, but moving isn't much more of an exercise for the disk than renaming (moving a file does not mean all of its content is shifted to some other area of the disk), and it achieves the immediate aim of tidying. If nothing breaks immediately, moved folders can stay where they are for a while. If only renaming, the root folder stays "messy" until the decision to delete.
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I think these are "temporary" folders where updates are loaded to, before being applied. So while I'd expect them to not be needed once those updates have been applied, my inclination (especially in the lack of context) is to just leave them alone. If anything, (and if sufficient rights are held) moving them to some subfolder, so they can be moved back if stuff stops working, or deleted a year later, would be what I did. (There is no money back guarantee for this comment.)
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Proof that the universe is a mathematical construct.
pzkpfw replied to lucien216's topic in Speculations
Why should base 10 be special? I did this in binary, and the last digit repeats as 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1 What does that prove? -
Proof that the universe is a mathematical construct.
pzkpfw replied to lucien216's topic in Speculations
The clock stuff is what really marks this as numerology for me. Numbers like 360 degrees for a circle, are essentially an accident of history. (I don't mean they were randomly selected.) To later retrofit other math to those numbers, imagining they are special, is upside down. Then there's stuff like multiplying by ten "for base 10". What? The number was already in base 10; this is just fiddling. And what's special about base 10 anyway? -
Please read my post again. It answers your question. (Your question does not make sense. Purposeful evolution is not a thing, and you will not get an answer that assumes it is.)
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You have evolution back to front, by missing the natural selection part. It's not at all about an organism knowing what would be useful, then developing it. It's (in a nutshell) about random mutation sometimes making something that turns out to be useful, which is kept by providing an advantage. And note that eyes and ears don't spring into the current form in one go. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_eye
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From Mordred: "When one particle changes state it does not cause the other to change state. You can merely make predictions of state of the other particle by measuring the state of one of the pairs." Say you have two marbles and you know one is Blue and one is Red. You randomly get one and without looking at it - chuck it in that black hole, or send it far away in a rocket. Later you look at the marble you still have. If it's Red you instantly know the one in the black hole, or far away, is Blue. You didn't instantly make the other marble Blue.
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How to increase your IQ level ? How to improve your IQ ?
pzkpfw replied to cpu68's topic in Speculations
I'm astounded cpu68 still thinks there's anything to this. https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=86231.0 -
F=ma The force is felt while accelerating the item. If they move at a constant speed they can be touching but feel no reaction force. (Imagine two cars moving in line at 100 kph. They could be 10 metres apart. They feel no reaction force. The second car could be "touching" the first, and they'd still feel no reaction force. But if the second car is being used to speed up the first car, or the first is being used to slow down the second, then they feel reaction force. * ignoring lots of friction and drag and stuff.)
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What's the deal with "let it be known"? It sounds like some kind of (magic) incantation like the free men of the land use in "legal" contexts.
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What are some cases (if any) of people coming back from the dead?
pzkpfw replied to murshid's topic in Medical Science
Anyone worried should just get a safety coffin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_coffin -
See the link from StringJunky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_distance_ladder#Standard_candles
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Wow, all one paragraph.
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Your keyboard has one caps lock key.
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I'm certainly lost as to what the issue is. Removing the sets from it all (as I think the basic issue is perhaps more fundamental and they just add noise): If we start writing "all" the natural numbers we start with 1, next is 2, then 3. All nice finite numbers. But there's no "last" natural number. We'll never write it down, even with infinite time, so we have notations, like maybe: 1, 2, 3, ... So "1" and "2" and "3" are easy finite numbers. But "..." represents "infinity", it's not a specific value, here it's "all the values". Yes, we go "finite, finite, finite, infinity" (using the terms from a post about a day ago), but how is this any kind of issue?
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Just a few posts ago you wrote (my bold) "I forgot to put more ellipsis under the n for indefinite rows in the OP." This is what I tried to show with: 1 { 1 } 2 { 1, 2 } ... { 1, 2, ... } There is no single finite n in N that gives a set with no end. The list ( { 1, 2, ... } ) is infinite, and the row number is also infinite. Try thinking of the list ( { 1, 2, ... } ) as X on a graph and the list of lists as the Y. It's unbounded on both axis.
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By "the naturals" I took him to mean "the set of natural numbers", not "any given number in that set". (Edit: I've seen people in forums claim that "natural" numbers must have some limit, as they over-think what "natural" means and make claims like there can't be higher number than the count of atoms in the Universe (seriously, have seen stuff like that). So I did want to double-check that the OP did not have some kind of "N is finite" thinking.)
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If n is infinite, then it doesn't end. That's not a "problem". Why would it be? nth row (where n is infinite) -> {1, 2, 3, ... } -> N Correct. (Edit: for your list of distinct Naturals) Not quite sure what you mean here. What?? Why do the naturals have to be finite? If that's not a typo, it may be the cause of your confusion.