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• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You can stop humoring this broken robot. Especially when the context is ‘yeah I already said this textbook is wrong, but I am better than you because you need to read this textbook.’

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They seem to believe that and on the 8th day God made the one true objective order of operations that all humans use and agree on.

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    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Except for that time the definition changed 130 years ago. Which is not a rule! It’s notation, or syntax, or possibly sometimes a rule. Whichever one lets them sneer hardest.

      I tried explaining RPN to them a year ago. They still insist there’s parentheses in it. Today they called it an “app.”

      Dogmatic patience vampire is still trying to bait me into further wasted effort.

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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Wowww. Insisting that they’re good at math. I distinctly remember learning that RPN doesn’t need parentheses in college.

        reverse Polish calculators do not need expressions to be parenthesized

        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation

        But, you know, anyone can edit Wikipedia. Someone probably put that there who hasn’t opened a math textbook.

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• SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Go tell Berkeley I did that

  What for? They don’t care if you’re Mathematically illiterate

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