Comment on I dunno
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 days agoYou 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.’
Comment on I dunno
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 days agoYou 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.’
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.
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.
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.
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.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Oh of course. The sky isn’t blue unless that’s written in a maths textbook.
And if you look up and see stars, it’s still blue, because it’s written in a maths textbook! Are you saying a teacher could be wrong?!, smug emoji, crying emoji, roll-eyes emoji?