• manicdave@feddit.uk
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    11 hours ago

    What’s really gonna bake your noodle is that the jug will be less full of you tilt it to the right slightly.

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    Why do High Functioning / Savants get to represent all autistic people all the time ?

    EDIT : 60.69% of the time.

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    21 hours ago

    Hey we need people like that, remember when an autistic person discovered few hundred millisecond delay in ssh which uncovered Jia Tan backdoor.

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    Anyone else bothered by the inconsistent conjugation here? Should be “optimism” and “pessimism” to go with “autism”.

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        17 hours ago

        Yeah you definitely could. Personally I wouldn’t be bothered by it in a humorous context like this. But I know that’s a term that does sometimes cause offence, so I chose the alternative.

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    I’d weigh the jug as-is, then weigh it full, and then weigh it empty; the proceeding trivial calculation of the original filled volume would be arguably more accurate.

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      The engineering way to do it. Why go through the trouble of perfectly modeling it if you can just test a few times. Either that or consider the jug a cylinder and add a safety factor of 2.

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      You can’t weigh the jug, because it’s in an image.

      Anyone with a couple brain cells to rub together can figure out how full a physical jug of water is in a number of ways. The joke is that only an autistic person would try to produce an exact measurement based off an image.

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    22 hours ago

    Literalist: The glass contains about 50% water.

    Nihilist: The glass doesn’t matter.

    Anarchist: The glass is now full of piss.

    Absurdist: the glass is now upside-down without spilling the water.

    Me: I don’t know who’s glass this is so it’s going in the sink.

  • lukewarm_ozone@lemmy.today
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    22 hours ago

    This roughly checks out. I’m getting 66%, based on the methodology of cutting out the jug’s shape from the picture and numerically integrating the filled and empty volume (e.g. if a row is d pixels wide, it contributes d^2 to the volume, either filled or empty depending on whether it’s above or below the water level).

  • lime!@feddit.nu
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    1 day ago

    i’m not too fond of the autistic superintelligence meme. yes there are people like this, but personally i can’t math for shit.

    i could probably go on about an interesting locomotive i found yesterday if you want a few hours wasted though…

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      I didn’t read super intelligence into it, I read overdoing and I found that it struck home. I don’t know math either, but if I did, I would have done the same calculation.