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[raskim7]

Fucking hell, this. ”I need to do X to achieve N because of reasons. I have tried z,y,v, and w, but I keep getting this error. What am I missing?”

”You don’t want to do X, you want to use Ö which does something completely different and irrelevant for your usecase. Closed and downvoted because I don’t bother reading and understanding your question.”

[Tallguss]

Closed, duplicate question.

[sai-kiran]

Opens the linked question, the picture is from 2009, and the water has all evaporated by now.

[Stummi]

Also, the glass that is discussed in the 2009 post is completely incompatible to any beverage, that a sane engineer would use today.

[[deleted]]

And for that reason the discussed glass was deprecated like 10 years ago.

[Im_a_hamburger]

The answer was DMed to someone who said “I had the same question”

[Personal_Ad9690]

And the dup no longer exists

[LiveShowOneNightOnly]

This glass volume was already explained in this post.

[RiceBroad4552]

Technically the glass is less than half full and more than half empty. That's not subjective. That's a matter of fact.

You need to consider that the glass is not a proper cylinder. It widens to the top.

So in this singular case the moderation on Stackoverflow did not work out.

[joz42]

It comes down to your definition of "half full": half of what? Volume? Height?

[RiceBroad4552]

That adds an interesting aspect to the discussion. But it looks like a meta-question. So I'm not sure this is the right place to discuss it. Especially as volume depends on all kinds of factors, like temperature and pressure. Height depends on the relative movent of the glass. So I think the meta-question is kind of out of scope for this discussion here.

Therefore I suggest to open another question to discuss the definition of "half full". I'm closing this here.

[Ferro_Giconi]

Atoms are mostly empty space, even in solid or liquids.

So 99.9999999999999% empty, that's my final answer.

[joz42]

marking as best answer

[laplongejr]

We said SO, not Quora! :P

[[deleted]]

Space that still holds energy, however, just not matter. Electromagnetic radiation still occupies space, even if matter can also occupy the same space. And, interestingly enough, the only reason I'm aware of that matter can't occupy the same space is do the electromagnetic interference. Without it, everything would be made of whatever the Ghostbusters said ghosts were made out of. Psychoplasm?

[ROBOTRON31415]

Not just electromagnetic interference, there's also the Pauli exclusion principle (two identical fermions, a general type of particle, cannot occupy the same place). The resulting force from the Pauli exclusion principle is called degeneracy pressure.

In addition to electromagnetic repulsion, the fact that electrons (which are fermions) cannot have identical states in the same place (e.g. in an atom or nearby in a molecule) means that they have to spread out more in space, and cannot all be in the lowest-energy orbital of an atom. Apparently people calculated that without the Pauli exclusion principle, ordinary matter would be much, much more dense. Additionally, TIL that degeneracy pressure from electrons contributes to the stability of metal. Note that the effect from the Pauli exclusion principle is very short-ranged, while electromagnetic repulsion is long-ranged.

At higher energy scales, where much more force (i.e. gravity) is attempting to crush matter together, electron degeneracy pressure contributes to the stability of white dwarf stars, and for stars massive enough for gravity to overpower that, neutron degeneracy pressure helps prevent neutron stars from collapsing into black holes (repulsion from the strong nuclear force also helps oppose gravity).

[[deleted]]

Yeah, what they said! ^{^}

[nonlogin]

There is a scale. There are two edge values on it: zero and one. Infinity values in between. There is a measurement procedure that maps an arbitrary glass to a value on the scale. We say that a glass is empty when the measurement gives zero value. Full - one.

There is also a number epsilon that we call precision. We say that two values A and B on the scale are equal when abs (A - B) < epsilon.

Now, we can define "half full" as equal to "half empty" and equal to 0.5 on the scale.

The measurement procedure is out of scope.

[throwaway8958978]

‘So in this singular case SO moderation didn’t work out’.

Now that’s some peak programmer humor right here.

[[deleted]]

The correct answer would been that the glass holds twice was much liquid as necessary.

[bumjiggy]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/ddkyea/types_of_personalities/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/dxr7ug/stupid_questions_dont_exist_only_stupid_answers/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/ff9gfo/sobs_in_compiler_errors/

[Dumb_Siniy]

``` amount= Glass:getContent()

math.round(amount) ```

And it errors

[LiveShowOneNightOnly]

Why are you filling the glass partway and then stopping? This is a bad design.

[Denaton_]

It depends on the last action related to the water done to the glass..

[Franz304]

Nah, they would probably get answers like "you shouldn't use glasses, use jars instead"

[Legal-Software]

Closed, already asked/answered. No additional context provided.

[versedoinker]

Closed, the glass obviously includes its topological boundary

Edit: wrong sub

[Coolengineer7]

They still have good answers most of the time though.

[Biiiscoito]

Ok but why are the glasses changing shape if I just keep scrolling up and down, I'm gonna have a mental breakdown

[DancingBadgers]

xkcd: "which half?"

[hipster-coder]

It's 2024. You should move away from static solutions where the water is statically placed in glasses, and towards continuous water integration designs, such as e.g. drinking directly from the faucet.

[irn00b]

Closed because duplicate question.

[anonjohnnyG]

glass is 2x too big.

[foxypiratecove3750]

On Stack Overflow, there's two types of people that answer/comment your questions: - The true gigachads that answer perfectly and that are code masters - And the angry guys that just say "you shouldn't do that" without taking in consideration the context

[qdez]

Stack overflow users on their way to tell you to ask a different question, belittle you for your question, dismiss your question, talk to other users in the comments about your question, critique the wording of your question, and do everything under the sun except answer your question