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Cake day: July 28th, 2024

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  • Once you’re able to use time as an information, they can send a message with a character limit. For every letter they need to wait:

    Remaining Message Length^Alphabet Size*Index of Letter*time interval

    So, if future people want to sent the message hello and our time unit is 1s, and the max message length is 5, they need to send the bit to exactly 26^4*7+26^3*4+26^2*11+26^1*11+26^0*14 = 3276872 seconds or 54614,5333min or 910,242222h or ~38 days after the start time.

    We can choose smaller time intervals, but with a long enough message, we’ll eventually reach the year 3000 again. Alternatively, we can move the start time into the past, at the expense of quite a few possible messages.

    This is the same problem as trying to map an n-dimensional array to a one dimensional array




  • The ethics of posting someone’s diary entry aside:

    It reads to me like he fell in love with someone once (“not just a rock, but a mountain”), she broke up with him and he felt like the new guy won’t be able to love her as he does (“reduces herself to a rock in someone else’s collection of rocks”).

    And this pain is what makes him both be himself around potential love interests (“When I became indifferent to it, I found myself sharing many beds”) and protect himself from being hurt agaim, by disassociating/erecting mental walls. (“I found myself performing, doing the right things”). The beginning about performance is just justifying the disassociation to himself as normal.

    As to your question on how someone can be so happy alone? People usually aren’t, but if he’s single and never opens ups to anyone, they can prevent being hurt, at the cost of never really finding the same type of love again.

    And how do you get over him? Well, like him (I assume), you were hurt. Unlike him, you didn’t disassociate. Like him, you are stuck in the “What could I have done differently” (“If he makes a mistake […] it’s over.”) part of grieving.
    To get over him, accept the pain your brain is trying to process. Feel the hurt and let yourself grief the relationship, whenever you need to. And, eventually, try looking for the parts you love in your boyfriend. Know, that while he interpreted his subconscious wanting to put some effort into a relationship as a performance, you boyfriend likely doesn’t, but does it of his free will.

    And delete, or at least lock away, the diary. There is no need to relive the pain, by reading the diary. In there isn’t anything that will change the past, nothing that will help you with your boyfriend and you can’t fix him, needs to accept and process his pain himself, too.