Re:My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math
by christophilus on Sunday February 01, 2026 @09:16PM
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That’s sun minus moon. Moon plus sun is a wildly more massive, nuclear furnace of a moon that also engulfs the earth.
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Wait so moon plus sun != sun plus moon? :Thinking:
celestial objects don't need to obey algebraic commutativity!
Re:My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math
by direwolf20 on Monday February 02, 2026 @05:37AM
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I wonder if SCP-1313 does
Re:My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math
by dcrazy on Sunday February 01, 2026 @10:04PM
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This thread reminds me of Scribblenauts, the game where you conjure objects to solve puzzles by describing them. I suspect it was an inspiration for Baba Is You.
Re:My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math
by Der_Einzige on Sunday February 01, 2026 @10:16PM
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Scribblenauts was also an early precursor to modern GenAI/word embeddings. I constantly bring it up in discussions of the history of AI for this reason.
Could you explain? :3
Re:My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math
by AuryGlenz on Sunday February 01, 2026 @11:13PM
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Or potentially a sun that lasts slightly longer?
Re:My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math
by lkjdsklf on Monday February 02, 2026 @12:38AM
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Here i was, like an idiot, thinking it was moon light
Re:My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math
by fsckboy on Monday February 02, 2026 @12:51AM
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>Moon plus sun is a wildly more massive, nuclear furnace of a moon that also engulfs the earth.
i just looked up mass of sun vs mass of moon (they differ by 10^30 vs 10^20), and the elemental composition of the sun: the moon would entirely disappear into the insignificant digits of trace elements which are in the range of .01 % of the sun. I could be off by orders of magnitude all over the place and it would still disappear.
Re:My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math
by SauntSolaire on Monday February 02, 2026 @01:01AM
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Reminds me of this AI word combination game recently shared on HN, with almost exactly these mechanics:
https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/
For the record, Sun+Moon is indeed eclipse.
Re:My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math
by tessierashpool9 on Monday February 02, 2026 @07:26AM
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but then eclipse + moon = sun, which doesn't make much sense either :/
Re:My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math
by spacedcowboy on Monday February 02, 2026 @10:12AM
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Not sure about that. You can't have an eclipse without both the moon and the sun. Ergo, the eclipse is the totality (sorry!) of the sun and moon, or sun+moon (+very specific boundary conditions).
Still think it was a good response :)