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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mathematician mfs when I solve the sphere packing problem with infinite efficiency by assuming the spheres are bosonic:

A stock image of a woman, mouth agape in shock

Me after solving the traveling salesman problem (I assume the salesman is omnipresent and therefore all distances are always 0):

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Game devs forgetting to set up collision layers.

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Game devs realising they can use these buggy non-objects to do interesting stuff in their engine

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

How cool, if I make a few of those things move here, they pull others like them and keep moving forever!

-- Physicists and game developers alike