xkcd #3104: Tukey

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• Deebster@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This reminds me of Charles Babbage’s response to being asked if his computer would give the right answer if the wrong numbers were entered:

  I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

  I’ve been tempted to drop this line in meetings more than once.

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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Image

    hehe

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  • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Right in line with a certain movie quote that ends with, “I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”

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    • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh I keep this one memorized.

      [Mr. Madison,] What you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

      I’ve successfully used this twice in DnD and once in real life.

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  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Is this a coherent thought? (Actually question)

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    • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Are you confused about the weird language in the quote?

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• ogmios@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Huh, that kind of gets the juices going, and I’m wondering how much we’ve been trying to make our problems fit the technologies we’ve built, rather than the other way around.

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  • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    To some with only hammers in reach, every problem seems to be a nail.

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  • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    traffic

    DUIs

    poverty

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    addiction

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• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sometime before now.

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