quarandean

mechanical engineering student @purduefw | leftist liberal cuck | car nerd | he/him

[quarandean @unhh]

@lastbestyou Where are you spending your time that you’re observing so much crime firsthand?

[quarandean @unhh]

@AyanaSnedd35743 @AstroD_ @GoldwagNathan @lt_doolittle @nikicaga More like absorbed by oceans of VC money, but yeah. A bunch of tech startups have done this to gain market share by basically using their entire platform as a loss leader.

[quarandean @unhh]

@AstroD_ @GoldwagNathan @lt_doolittle @nikicaga The resources are still being spent in that case, the cost just isn’t getting passed on to the consumer.

[quarandean @unhh]

@guga_himself @be_Zanazar @CriticalCupcake @RichardDawkins Do you…. not understand what an analogy is?

Every analogy breaks down at some point. You can’t just cherry pick a non-analogous detail that’s irrelevant to the argument being made and pretend it’s a valid counterpoint.

Well, you can but it’s dumb as hell.

[quarandean @unhh]

@THE__WAC @4LinesInTime @robjceo @MalarkeyCali Because it’s a PR stunt and our elected officials shouldn’t be using the process of governance for PR stunts.

Because it’s deliberately building up the myth that illegal immigrants are voting en masse, and people will believe it.

Because it’s a waste of taxpayer resources.

[thebes @voooooogel]

new docusign competitor just dropped

[quarandean @unhh]

Im sorry I have taken one (1) coding class and even I know exception handling is important. I wouldn’t know where to start making a game gracefully handle controller disconnection but I sure know you should do it if you’re planning to sell your game to people.

[Citadel Stormer 2 @pixeltroid1]

So Steam hasn't approved my game because apparently the game crashes if controller is disconnected mid-game. Game works fine under normal circumstances. Why am I responsible if it crashes when players do unusual things like unplugging controller mid-game? #gamedev #IndieGameDev

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@Tetrades1 @Rothmus Also if it’s on 6 it could be on 5 and 5 is a better number for it to be on

[Sachi @route345art]

???

[Joe Perticone @JoePerticone]

Hannity lobbing a softball "you wouldn't ever commit crimes, would you?" and Trump responding with a "Hell yes I would. I love crime." is the funniest recurring bit in politics

[quarandean @unhh]

@joeblow87423561 @HistoryBoomer @IsabeauVidal @kareem_carr in either case, we need more information to arrive at a definite number. But one is a puzzle that can’t be definitively solved (the entire point of puzzles), and the other is just a bad way of counting boxes (that can still be counted another way.)

[quarandean @unhh]

@joeblow87423561 @HistoryBoomer @IsabeauVidal @kareem_carr The hypothetical boxes are real and have a real count that can presumably be verified, just not using the security cameras.

The cubes in the puzzle are not real and have no real count, and even if the maker intended the answer to be 51, the puzzle lacks that information.

[quarandean @unhh]

@joeblow87423561 @HistoryBoomer @IsabeauVidal @kareem_carr Of course there’s a real number of boxes, but you can’t divine that count from the images alone and should gather more information before adjusting inventory.

The puzzle has no real boxes, only a diagram; and the diagram does not represent any certain number of boxes.

[quarandean @unhh]

@joeblow87423561 @HistoryBoomer @IsabeauVidal @kareem_carr The answer to the warehouse problem is “we can’t work it out definitively”, not “it’s 100 because the supplier says there are invisible boxes”.

There are no real cubes, only a diagram. So there’s no real number of cubes. It’s possible “no definite answer” is the intended answer.

[quarandean @unhh]

@joeblow87423561 @HistoryBoomer @IsabeauVidal @kareem_carr Of course I can’t work out your arbitrary number is 3.7; that’s why it’s called guessing. But the number of boxes is no longer arbitrary once the diagram exists. If the puzzle maker says the answer is definitely 51, they’ve made a bad puzzle that can’t be definitively solved.

[quarandean @unhh]

@joeblow87423561 @HistoryBoomer @IsabeauVidal @kareem_carr I lacked characters to say the arbitrary number can be a non-integer, but yes it can be a non-integer. X cannot; it’s not arbitrary.

The number of cubes is non-arbitrary. 51 isn’t correct because someone said so, it’s the maximum value because that’s how the puzzle is set up.

[quarandean @unhh]

@joeblow87423561 @HistoryBoomer @IsabeauVidal @kareem_carr sin(πx)=0 and “guess a number from 1 to 10” can both be any integer between 1 and 10, but x is all of them for radians and none of them for degrees; the guessed number can be any but only one of them. And only the guessed number is dependent on the thoughts of the person asking.

[quarandean @unhh]

@joeblow87423561 @HistoryBoomer @IsabeauVidal @kareem_carr Right, but possible answers aren’t limited to “definitely 51” or “definitely not 51”. If the cubes are uniform and not floating, there are between 31 and 51, inclusive. If the answer must be a number, it is somewhere in that range; but the most correct answer is the range itself.

[quarandean @unhh]

Same crowd that spent the last week insisting that Starship Troopers isn’t satire, probably.

[quarandean @unhh]

The conversation about this puzzle is absolutely wild. Grown ass adults SEETHING at the idea that “it’s impossible to know without further information” or a range of values could be valid answers. The most face-value low-information takes only for these chuds.

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

This question reminds me of the type of math questions we used to get in school where you have to make a bunch of assumptions to the get the answer the teacher wanted, but the real answer is there isn't enough information.