TheKingBee

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[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

People are stupid, any system that fails to take that into account and mitigate it is doomed to frustration and failure...

writing it this way does not somehow enable it to make “more” sense than the first way

it does because people read (and therefore do math) left to right. it makes more sense because it accounts for the fact that most people know how to read, but don't know the operational order of math equations.

We're just going in circles, so let's just agree to disagree.

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Those sentence are also perfectly understandable, once you've understood the order of the words, but they're written in such away that you have to think about it.

If there are multiple ways to do things and one is more accessible to most people with less effort that isn't the objectively right way but it is better.

It's obviously not just myself as posting out of order math problems are a constant source of online engagement.

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)

Do you remember how this reply thread started? I literally fixed the equation so that it would be less confusing to people, I couldn't do that if I didn't know what order it was meant to go in...

I'm just not assuming that people are stupid because they got tripped up by something designed to trip them up.

It's writing like this with math, you can find the sentence structure, but it makes it a puzzle people will mess up unnecessarily It's writing like this with math.

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Because this it's trivial to write it in a way that won't cause this confusion and yet every 3 months or so someone posts another one of these gotcha no context given equations and we as the internet have this same discussion again and again. It's bait...

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

it's mean in that they intentionally wrote it to trip people up so we'd have this very conversion...

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago (16 children)

This was literally written for twitter content...

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (19 children)

The operational order is fucked, the way I rewrote is more readable, even if you remember the order. The only reason you'd write the equation like that is to be mean, there's no reason to write it like that unless you're trying to trip people up.

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It is different, but it's still incredibly cheap to make, $4 a vial, so it costing in the hundreds is just antihuman...

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

IDK if you surround yourself with nazis, use your wealth and influence to further their power, and then do a fucking nazi salute I'm not sure what to call you but a nazi.

Maybe not an "ideological" nazi, but he's definitely in the party...

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think takes like this are funny because it's like you don't even realize that it will never happen, not even because of corporations trying to drain any property of every iota of value (which they definitely are), but because we as a species love retelling the same stories.

I guarantee you there is someone sitting at their keyboard right now remaking Gilgamesh.

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Tron and Legacy both made double their budget, tron made 50 million on a 17 million budget and Legacy made 400 on a 170 million budget.

I would only consider a movie a bomb if it fails to make it's money back...

Something like Speed Racer (2008), which is an awesome movie, but only made 93 million on a 120 million budget.

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