Comment on 1+1=

Hugin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• booly@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sometimes 1+1 is 2, like when you’re counting stuff.

  Sometimes 1+1 is 1, like when you just need a Boolean indicator of whether something is true. Pressing the elevator button multiple times should behave the same way as pressing the elevator button once. Planning out a delivery route requires a stop at every place with at least one item to be delivered, but the route itself doesn’t change when a second or third item is added to that stop.

  Sometimes 1+1 is 0, like when dealing with certain types of rotations, toggle switches, etc. Doing a 180° rotation twice is the same as doing it zero times. Same with doing a reflection transformation twice.

  A good engineer understands the scope of what they’re doing, and its limits.

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  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pressing the button multiple times should make the elevator go faster.

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    • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      With no limit. I wanna turn this skyscraper into a moon-cannon.

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      At a minimum it should make the fricken doors close.

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “A good engineer understands the scope of what they’re doing, and its limits.”

    Tell that to Factorio, Satisfactory, and Dyson Sphere Program players.

    Also, Relevant Username?

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    • djsoren19@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hey, we still follow this principle. It’s just that the scope is “an entire planet” and the only limiter is my prescription of Ritalin.

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      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Adderall here. Ritalin turned me into a zombie.

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    • booly@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Also, Relevant Username?

      Probably. I don’t even know how I came up with this, but I do love me some logic.

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