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Numbers can be tricky. On the day of my 110th birthday, I’ll be one day younger than John Tukey was on his.
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Title text:
Numbers can be tricky. On the day of my 110th birthday, I’ll be one day younger than John Tukey was on his.
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Source: xkcd.com/3104/
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.
traffic
DUIs
poverty
disease
addiction
To some with only hammers in reach, every problem seems to be a nail.
Sometime before now.
Deebster@infosec.pub 1 month 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’ve been tempted to drop this line in meetings more than once.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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hehe
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month 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.”
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Oh I keep this one memorized.
I’ve successfully used this twice in DnD and once in real life.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Is this a coherent thought? (Actually question)
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Are you confused about the weird language in the quote?