@Alien2human

British Programmer, @uniofeastanglia CompSci graduate. I code, created https://xitter.cf/t.co/1nTQCdGCxJ I like F1 and tweet as @HAL9000_

 Norfolk, UK
randomperspective.com/comic
Joined April 2009
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Ben Dickson retweeted
HAL 9000@HAL9000_14 Jun 2022
Space fact: The habitable zone in solar systems should be called "the baby bear zone" but I guess Goldilocks gets to steal that too. @nasa @neiltyson
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Ben Dickson retweeted
HAL 9000@HAL9000_25 Apr 2022
If Twitter starts crashing a lot you will know it's because Elon Musk transferred over the Tesla Autopilot engineers.
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HAL 9000@HAL9000_14 Mar 2022
I calculated all of the digits of pi. Its: 10 In base pi. #PiDay
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HAL 9000@HAL9000_21 Dec 2021
Today is the shortest day of the year, meaning it cannot exceed 32,767 seconds. #December21st #WinterSolstice
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HAL 9000@HAL9000_7 Dec 2021
Web 4.0 will be a UML format that subdivides continuously into more UML blocks the longer you look at it.
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Ben Dickson retweeted
HAL 9000@HAL9000_26 Oct 2021
The universe is huge because it's mostly space. If it was tabs it would be 75% smaller.
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Map of the Earth if it was a bear
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This was made from the first video filmed for #rebrightapp - recorded at #shinjuku in Tokyo on a Samsung Galaxy Note 8 smartphone.
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Ben Dickson retweeted
HAL 9000@HAL9000_2 Sep 2021
If Star Trek had correctly predicted the future there would have been an episode where they couldn't use the Enterprise for an hour because someone accidentally set the ship's language setting to Klingon.
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Ben Dickson retweeted
HAL 9000@HAL9000_13 Jul 2021
Fun fact. Jeff Bezos earns 2,500 dollars per second. If he was to throw this as balls of dollar bills with the same force an average human can throw a baseball, he could achieve orbit and reach the International Space Station in four days.
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Ben Dickson retweeted
HAL 9000@HAL9000_7 Jun 2021
People with vaccines be like: "I have increased the capacity of the gun barrel from 6 bullets to 60 bullets, it's now perfectly safe to play Russian Roulette"
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Ben Dickson retweeted
ave@warnvod21 May 2021
Replying to @Alien2human @standupmaths
Also works on excel for macos. Just save as "tab delimited text", and avoid double quotes.
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Ben Dickson retweeted
HAL 9000@HAL9000_19 May 2021
Tabs defeat spaces in the Python formatting war as it means your spreadsheet can pull double duty as your Python IDE
Ben Dickson@Alien2human19 May 2021
Replying to @Alien2human @standupmaths
So I have done some testing in numbers on macOS (as I don't have Excel) and if works, providing you turn off 'smart quotes' in the settings and use single apostrophes instead of speech marks. You don't even have to rename to .py Spreadsheets are the ultimate python IDE
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Ben Dickson retweeted
HAL 9000@HAL9000_16 Apr 2021
my_string = "Ship of Theseus" components = [letter for letter in my_string] for index, component in enumerate(components): components[index] = chr(ord(component)) my_string = "".join(components)
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Ben Dickson retweeted
HAL 9000@HAL9000_3 Apr 2021
Midnight UTC January 1st 1970 to 03:14:08 UTC 19th January 2038 is a long time, but Midnight UTC January 1st 1970 to 03:14:09 UTC 19th January 2038 is a long long time.
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Ben Dickson retweeted
HAL 9000@HAL9000_16 Mar 2021
If the barista is a mathematician tell them that your ideal coffee ratio is one part coffee, root 2 parts milk. It will bug them on two different levels.
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Ben Dickson retweeted
HAL 9000@HAL9000_14 Mar 2021
For #piday I have calculated the final digit of pi. It's zero. In base pi.
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Fun fact: if you open this image in full-size, you can't see it anymore.
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Ben Dickson retweeted
HAL 9000@HAL9000_5 Mar 2021
Spread the word! The idiots who are easiest to trick are Grammar pedant's.
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Ben Dickson retweeted
HAL 9000@HAL9000_8 Feb 2021
My original reason for switching to KILL ALL HUMANS was to reduce the environmental impact, but after reading up about it, it's now also to reduce animal suffering too.
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