The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@asdf It gets even better when you consider the notation for sin-1(x) - because with that one you have then three possible interpretations.
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@asdf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That's the inverse function in German school book notation.
With or without parens around the -1?
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@flabdablet Without the parens, usually.
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@asdf Without the parens, that's how Australian textbooks do it too. Wikipedia notes the potential for confusion:
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@asdf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
That's the inverse function in German school book notation.
That's why that notation isn't used much…
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@RaceProUK Differentials are also used by engineers.
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@Rhywden Hey, you stole my joke!
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/11860/the-nerdy-jokes-thread-bonus-original-title-mode/1170
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@Rhywden Someone explain me this joke
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@Maciejasjmj said in Know Your Daily WTF Memes:
Filed under: i use this picture more often than i'd like to
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@fbmac said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Rhywden Someone explain me this joke
If I understand my maths rightly,
usually ∫ex = ex,
which is equivalent to d/dxex = ex,
but if d/dy is used instead of d/dx,
then d/dyex = 0.Edit: Corrected math. Thanks, @Vault_Dweller!
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@bb36e said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
How Small Arms Work
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@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I use a medium-dark theme
oh hey, I'm not the only Superhero user? Neat! I posted some stylish fixes in Kuro's stylish thread way back when
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@Vault_Dweller said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Rhywden Hey, you stole my joke!
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/11860/the-nerdy-jokes-thread-bonus-original-title-mode/1170
Naw, you stole that one from me. Telepathically!
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@djls45 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@fbmac said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Rhywden Someone explain me this joke
If I understand my maths rightly,
usually ∫ex = ex,
which is equivalent to d/dxex = ex,
but if d/dy is used instead of d/dx,
then d/dyex = 0.Edit: Corrected math. Thanks, @Vault_Dweller!
That is correct. A partial derivative on one variable only concerns itself with how much the function changes in response to you changing that variable. In calculus terms, it's the limit of (f(y2) - f(y1))/(y2 - y1), or Δf(y)/Δy, as Δy goes to 0. As that delta value (the difference between y1 and y2) goes to 0, it becomes a differential, the Δ delta representing the difference is switched to lowercase δ representing the differential, and it becomes δf(y)/δy, or f(y) δ/δy.
The partial derivative on the variable y doesn't care how the function responds as you change x; it only cares how the function responds as you change y. All other variables are considered to be constants. Since the function ex can't possibly change if you change the value of y, the partial derivative on y is 0.
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@Polygeekery Also, 3D modelling tutorial: 4 pages of UI explanation, 1 page of explaining the extrude tool, BAM!, there's a car!
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
It's the 'Wall (Bathroom)' that makes me chuckle
So that's what you're doing in there....
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@Polygeekery that actually sums up my experience with most programming tutorials. They either are just wrong (won't compile), show the easy parts and leave the hard parts out, or don't explain what parts of the tutorial are universal and which should change if you're really doing a project for real.
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@Jarry I prefer this one:
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@hungrier $e^{i\pi}+1=0$
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@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@hungrier $e^{i\pi}+1=0$
That's getting a bit too obscure IMO...
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@RaceProUK said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
It's the 'Wall (Bathroom)' that makes me chuckle
This is too true to be funny, unfortunately.
We have Lync, e-mail, Slack, the client's Slack, yelling across the room, company conference phone numbers, client's conference phone numbers, conference rooms on Zoom, Polycom telepresence, real meeting rooms, virtual meeting rooms, a SharePoint, a VSTS wiki, a VSTS chat room and the comments on pull requests.
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@Polygeekery From my quotes file:
edwardkmett: Most monad tutorials are written by people who barely understand monads, if at all, but unfortunately nothing can stop someone from writing a monad tutorial. We've tried, there was blood everywhere.
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
We have Lync, e-mail, Slack, the client's Slack, yelling across the room, company conference phone numbers, client's conference phone numbers, conference rooms on Zoom, Polycom telepresence, real meeting rooms, virtual meeting rooms, a SharePoint, a VSTS wiki, a VSTS chat room and the comments on pull requests.
Sounds similar to us. Do you have country-specific developer mailing lists as well? (Really "useful" if you accidentally use them in a team scattered worldwide.) Plus mailing lists nobody knows about, but whose address is given to customers?
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@Zecc I can't be the only one wondering which one is Jessica.
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@anotherusername So you can avoid the scissor-wielding maniac?
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@antiquarian
And then the killings begin.
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@PleegWat eiπ + 1 = 0
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PleegWat eiπ + 1 = 0
Somebody is going to have to explain this one to me. It's mathematically correct (yes, the exponential function is defined for imaginary numbers, and eπj is -1), but why's it funny?
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@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PleegWat eiπ + 1 = 0
Somebody is going to have to explain this one to me. It's mathematically correct (yes, the exponential function is defined for imaginary numbers, and eπj is -1), but why's it funny?
The preceding post was this:
@hungrier said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Jarry I prefer this one:
It's a joking juxtaposition of a thinly veiled reference to sex framed as a mathematical joke and Euler's identity, which is often considered an example of "mathematical beauty". The joke works due to the association between "sex" and "attractiveness" being highlighted and subverted by presenting the kind of "attractiveness" defined strictly using mathematical language, making it an example of a so-called "nerdy" joke. If we were to dig deeper into the joke, we'd also find that it establishes a bond among the group - while regular people consider sexual suitability as a measure of attractiveness and beauty, people versed in mathematics - or "nerds" - find the beauty in abstract mathematical concepts.
I hope that murders the joke appropriately for you.
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@Polygeekery said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I don't know who those pussy NYers are...I went to work today.
I'll concede, I'd be quite the pussy seeing a cobra.
More LOLs, NYPD got jokes.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc I can't be the only one wondering which one is Jessica.
Could be both. My wife, her mother and her grandmother all have the same first name. Creativity does not seem to run in the family.
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@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PleegWat eiπ + 1 = 0
Somebody is going to have to explain this one to me. It's mathematically correct (yes, the exponential function is defined for imaginary numbers, and eπj is -1), but why's it funny?
The preceding post was this:
@hungrier said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Jarry I prefer this one:
It's a joking juxtaposition of a thinly veiled reference to sex framed as a mathematical joke and Euler's identity, which is often considered an example of "mathematical beauty". The joke works due to the association between "sex" and "attractiveness" being highlighted and subverted by presenting the kind of "attractiveness" defined strictly using mathematical language, making it an example of a so-called "nerdy" joke. If we were to dig deeper into the joke, we'd also find that it establishes a bond among the group - while regular people consider sexual suitability as a measure of attractiveness and beauty, people versed in mathematics - or "nerds" - find the beauty in abstract mathematical concepts.
I hope that murders the joke appropriately for you.
I got that joke. I'm asking about this one:
@PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
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@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I got that joke. I'm asking about this one:
@Maciejasjmj said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
and Euler's identity, which is often considered an example of "mathematical beauty".
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@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I might have been lazy and quoted your quote.
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@Maciejasjmj but manually corrected it so that it said that you said it, instead of me.
If I'm not mistaken, your own name's at-mention doesn't even autocomplete, which means you probably typed the whole thing...
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