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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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