#mathishard — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mathishard, aggregated by home.social.
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🔢 So apparently, math is hard, and the #OpenBSD folks have just discovered that working with different processor architectures isn't like playing with Legos. Who knew that kernel development wasn't just a cozy walk in the park with unicorns and rainbows? 🙄 Keep those exceptions coming, OpenBSD! 🐢💻
http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/vaxfp.html #mathishard #kerneldevelopment #processorarchitectures #technews #softwaredevelopment #HackerNews #ngated -
Am I crazy or is this not how rounding should work? #Mcdonalds #MathIsHard -
🎵🤖 Wow, groundbreaking #discovery, Daft Punk's #BPM is... 123! Turns out, math is hard and robots have jokes we can't comprehend. Meanwhile, the internet collectively scratches its head over decimals. 😂🎶
https://www.madebywindmill.com/tempi/blog/hbfs-bpm/ #DaftPunk #RobotsHaveJokes #MathIsHard #InternetHumor #MusicMath #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 Breaking News: Math is hard! 🚨 Apparently, realizing that a million times a million is a trillion and not a billion requires a lifetime of contemplation and a very old dictionary. 📚🔍 It turns out that borrowing measuring systems from other centuries might not be the best idea for basic arithmetic. 🙄
https://susam.net/million-times-million.html #MathIsHard #ArithmeticChallenges #BreakingNews #EducationFails #OldDictionary #HackerNews #ngated -
Breaking News: Math is HARD! 🤯 xAI center gets a thumbs-up for 15 #turbines, but surprise—there are 24 spinning like a toddler on sugar! 🎡 Who knew counting could be such a plot twist? 🙃
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/xai-gets-an-air-permit-to-power-its-supercomputer-but-pollution-fears-remain/ #MathIsHard #xAIcenter #PlotTwist #CountingFails #BreakingNews #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨BREAKING: WSJ discovers math is hard and numbers are confusing! 🤯 Dive into the riveting quest to find proof that numbers can actually lead to truth—spoiler alert, they still can't find the page they're looking for. 📉🔍
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/proof-review-finding-truth-in-numbers-b9779228 #mathishard #numbersareconfusing #truthquest #WSJnews #dataanalysis #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated -
Just so we’re clear...
Liberal winner in Carleton: ~44,000 votes
Pierre Poilievre: ~40,000 votes
All 91 independents combined: 860 votesYep. Definitely the fault of those dang protest indies, and not the fact that Canadians might just be done with smug performative populism... 🙃
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Never mind. There are 20 frosting blobs so we are saying screw it to the “380 calories per serving” and going with quarters…
#mathIsHard #everythingIsCake #carrotCake #fourteenths -
Serving size “1/14 of whole”
Really? Who the heck can score me a 1/14th slice? How does one even bisect the circle in that increment?
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"The Ranger Blog Show!"
Yes, yes indeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcLDKNb0bc8
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My local utility sent me a rate comparison and their graphic designer is mathematically challenged. #design #mathishard
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If, like me, you were a Red Hat employee until the Great Purge of April 2023, and you participated in the 401(k) plan for US employees, and you 'rolled over' the funds from that account to another retirement account after your employment was terminated... you should log in to Fidelity to check your account balance now.
Due to the complicated way that Red Hat computes the 'employer match' for employee contributions to the 401(k) plan, they make 'catch-up' match payments in June of the following year (yeah, it's really weird). Mine appeared a few weeks ago, with no notice of any kind. If I didn't have another account at Fidelity I wouldn't have even checked or known about it.
If you had planned to close that account to put it into your rear-view mirror and forget about it, you may be able to now, after rolling out the newly-deposited funds.
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More things #brightspace can't do: negative numbers.
The formula editor in the gradebook is already a horrorshow of bad 1990s web design. And now this.
There's probably a workaround.
OK, I just realized that I said "there's probably a workaround" for the problem of a software system used by education systems all over the world that can't handle negative numbers.
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@woj @eastvanhalen @listeningclub
Reminder/heads up that Daylight Saving Time hits most North American (among some other) audiences this weekend (March 10) but not our pals “across the pond”. So, for those who “spring forward” this weekend, the show begins an hour later than than your usual time. For we in the Pacific time zone this means a 1:00 pm start.This juxtaposition will be in effect until we re-sync in time for the March 31 #ListeningClub #Vortex
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Words not continuing across the page = end of paragraph.
Paragraphs not continuing down the page = end of chapter.
Items not continuing across the page = you have displayed all the items (and are nerfing anything else you have for sale).
It's just so untidy to have jaggies at the bottom of the page when there are more items that could be displayed if TPTB had picked a sensible number to go with the # of columns.
I always wonder what else they've broken.
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I wish the folks who design page layouts on web sites realized this, because it drives me nuts at least 3 times a week:
* Make sure the # of items per page you display is EVENLY DIVISIBLE by the number of columns you display.
* If you want the most flexible options, pick a multiple of 12 (2, 3, 4). Or 30 (2, 3, 5).
The important thing: if you have N columns and a number of items LESS THAN N on the last row, that's a signal THERE IS NO NEXT PAGE.
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@ElleGray
They run a horoscope column in my local paper. Each sign's prediction leads with a numerical grade for the day, 1-10, and I have never seen any day land below 6. #MathIsHard -
I keep seeing headlines panicking about how some economist revealed that 20% (!!!) of Canadian Mortgages are up for renewal in the next year.
Ummm, ya? Canada's mortgage market competes on 5-year terms. Sure, you can get other terms but they generally aren't as competitive and therefore are only a slim bit of the market.
1/5 = 20% is not new. It certainly isn't news!
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #324: Third-of-a-Pounder.
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#math #mcdonalds #arbys #quarterpounder #fastfood #burger #educationfail #fail #wtf #meanwhileinamerica #murica #business #knowyourcustomer #marketing #fractions #mathishard #webcomic #comics #comic #funfacts #facts #strangebuttrue #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn -
(Trick or treaters come in weird clusters.
Just often enough to make doing anything sustained impossible.)Wow.
Looking at nitter, who knew Simple Mitch would get closer to the truth than ANY of them.Literally lots of other media there.
Must be something specific to what #CarymaNGO (*big hint right there*) and her sexpest #CreepySpouseInDaHouse are doing.Maybe you guys should chat with the hat from Rebel "News".
Clue #2:
Only time I ever get featured on fashcasts it's because of her. I wonder why other marginalized people don't want her around?She provides NOTHING OF VALUE to activists.
Go ahead, Rita, tell me what good she does. And no: providing struggletainment for shitlibs and fash doesn't cut it.
#MathIsHard #ThisIsNot #SparkAlmostMadeIt #Synapses
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Hmmmmm 🤔
Why would this guy not be wanted in leftist spaces? It is a mystery.Though, this name is hilariously familiar.
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Alberta pension panel hears renewed call for hard numbers before CPP exit referendum
Danielle Smith’s pension machinations have handed the Trudeau Government – seemingly on the ropes – an excellent way to let the air out of federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s tires.
https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/doesn-t-add-up-southern-albertans-weigh-in-on-alberta-pension-plan-proposal-1.6616093
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@sehe @climatebrad
Well, as Brad kindly pointed out, they were both taken over twenty years ago! 🙃As I remind my students when report cards come out, "Check your grades to make sure. I'm not a math teacher!" Haha
