I remember seeing a joke once about what if Reddit added left votes and right votes with no explanation in addition to up votes and down votes.

That’s a really odd way to parse it.

a +   b
    -----
    c + b

Now that’s a good troll math thing because it gets really deep into the weeds of mathematical notation. There isn’t one true order of operations that is objectively correct, and on top of that, that’s hardly the way most people would write that. As in, if you wrote that by hand, you wouldn’t use the / symbol. You’d either use ÷ or a proper fraction.

It’s a good candidate for nerd sniping.

Personally, I’d call that 36 as written given the context you’re saying it in, instead of calling it 1. But I’d say it’s ambiguous and you should notate in a way to avoid ambiguities. Especially if you’re in the camp of multiplication like a(b) being different from ab and/or a × b.

The more insane, unlikely, and catastrophic the error, the more appropriate an insane, terse, apocalyptic error message is.

git pull
# you see bullshit
git reset --hard HEAD@{1}
git push --force

Solved! Tell your coworker to make their own branch!

Honestly, yeah. I mean, not the best but I definitely am more in favor of comments being a commentary than explaining what’s happening. Explaining why is better than what, but in general, comments where anything absolutely bonkers is happening are useful. Bare minimum, I think some sort of acknowledgement that the person writing the code also recognized their code was weird (necessarily or not) is nice.

They did the joke wrong. To do it right you need to use the ÷ symbol. Because people never use that after they learn fractions, people treat things like a + b ÷ c + d as

a + b
-----
c + d

Or (a + b) ÷ (c + d) when they should be treating it as a + (b ÷ c) + d.

That’s the most common one of these “troll math” tricks. Because notating as

a + b + d
    -
    c

Is much more common and useful. So people get used to grouping everything around the division operator as if they’re in parentheses.

Did either of those do banker’s rounding?

This reminds me of a time at work when we got sued. The company was allegedly using (or had copies) of some tool we couldn’t have anymore. Annoying, but fine. However, to check this, they scanned all of our computers for the name of that company. They told us all to delete our entire local Maven repository. Someone who worked there was on the commiter list for a couple of open source projects. I just manually deleted those files because I knew for a fact that our central Maven repository didn’t have some of the versions of our own code on it and I wasn’t confident we wouldn’t need them again. Turns out I was right and needed to grab one later on to upload. Because I manually deleted the files with the company’s name instead of just deleting everything, the scanner thing they were running didn’t detect offending files. (Not that a file listing someone’s email address as a commiter to an open source project should be offending, but still.)

It was a Java project and every class was in a separate Maven module.

And it will be legal to fork it and remove that, yay GPL!

It’s all very fuzzy. These are not objective terms. These are things marketing agencies make up and then claim to know how to advertise to. I’m not saying different age groups don’t have similarities but to when it gets to very specific things like “Gen Z stopped in 2012” it’s not really a fact.

45° in Kelvin: ☝️🤓 Actually it’s not degrees Kelvin, just Kelvin

Games that refuse to let you change the difficulty once you begin a game. More broadly, single player games that worry too much about preserving some sort of honor associated with doing well and make it annoying to play. Like rougue likes that have no save and quit for fear of people save scumming.

The thing I hate about parrying games is that there’s rarely ever any consistency about what you can and cannot parry and also never any way for you to learn if you’re parrying too early or too soon or what.

How exactly are you getting these in the first place? I just tried to share the url but it didn’t do anything odd.

When they’re saying “barely legal 15 year olds” then that’s not the discussion.

I still get The Vultures Ate My Dead Ass Up stuck in my head.

That’s totally fair that you don’t think it fits, but I don’t think the other user was out of line for suggesting it might.

The way you say “potentially diseased” is pretty rude. That’s not how I view folks with ASD. All of this is because someone who has ASD and thought OP was going through something similar. I have ADHD. If I saw someone speaking about one of the pivotal moments that led to me getting a diagnosis I might say to them “have you may considered you have ADHD and sought a diagnosis?”