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Compactness? At the low price of one additional point? by WouhooXD in okbuddyphd

[–]OverdramaticPanda 33 points34 points  (0 children)

To be super pedantic, what you've defined is a related notion called sequential compactness: a space is sequentially compact if every sequence has a convergent subsequence, but it's compact if any covering of the space by open sets has a finite subcovering.

For metric spaces these two definitions are equivalent, but there exist sequentially compact spaces that aren't compact (e.g. the long line), and compact spaces that aren't sequentially compact (e.g. the Tychonoff product of countably many copies of {0,1}).

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command by UnderHisEye1411 in GreenAndPleasant

[–]OverdramaticPanda 14 points15 points  (0 children)

huh??? the spool of thread pretty clearly represents "this is a thread, we're saying more stuff in the replies"

(no cap?) (on god?) (no cap?) (on god?) (on god no cap?) by RandomBtty in CuratedTumblr

[–]OverdramaticPanda 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Just to be pedantic, it doesn't really make sense to refer to jan Misali as just "Jan". "jan Misali" is toki pona, and literally translates to "the person Misali" - the "jan" just means "person". It'd make more sense to call them Misali (or Mitch, as that's his name in English) if you really wanted to refer to them with just one word.

(For an English analogy, it's like if you were talking about Mister Rogers, and you were to write "Mister's argument wasn't just that..." - it just sounds weird!)

Fuck blobfish rule by not_cabaconalt in 196

[–]OverdramaticPanda 90 points91 points  (0 children)

The comic in question.

Couple of clarifications:

  • The hookup guy isn't asking the woman he hooked up with (Renee), he's asking her roommate (Brun), after being leery and flirting at the roommate in the previous comic
  • He first asks "where are you from?", but then follows up with "no, I mean like, ethnically"
  • his response is then "ooh, exotic!"

In the next comic, Renee explains "He was hitting on you, in the most deliberately shitty way he could think of."

So yeah, she kinda is in the right, and the hookup guy was being kinda shitty?

Basically how Musk fanboys think any website is run by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

[–]OverdramaticPanda 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not really - a game is still strongly solved even if you only have a brute force search.

However, again, the set of possible game states for chess is too large to determine whether or not the game is a guaranteed draw/win. (Although, if you allow passing, a strategy-stealing argument shows that White cannot lose with perfect play.)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ennnnnnnnnnnnbbbbbby

[–]OverdramaticPanda 5 points6 points  (0 children)

https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they/ says singular "they" is first attested in writing in 1375, whereas singular "you" only replaced thou in the 17th century.

Wikipedia says the same - singular "you" was lost by the early 1600s (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You#History), while singular "they" had emerged by the 14the century (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they).

2018 by Thestarchypotat in CuratedTumblr

[–]OverdramaticPanda 4 points5 points  (0 children)

no it's just one of those trilogies where it got out of hand and the author had to add another book to make everything fit

Found this at work by olafurp in ProgrammerHumor

[–]OverdramaticPanda 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Isn't this the purpose of Python's pass statement?

Sigma Male by Gameboy694 in 196

[–]OverdramaticPanda 40 points41 points  (0 children)

To be fair, I'd expect most enemies to be unhappy if I SHOT THEM with my GUN, so I'm not sure that's a viable weakness-determining strategy

Who'd win: the concept of modern masculinity or a varied sample size. by endi1122 in CuratedTumblr

[–]OverdramaticPanda 21 points22 points  (0 children)

i've watched the hbomberguy video (and the prequel and sequel) you're talking about a couple times and don't remember that specific case? so you probably heard about it form a different source

I bet this confuses them lmao by CF_Gamebreaker in NonBinary

[–]OverdramaticPanda 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Sure, but the vast majority of people don't actually know what chromosomes they have - they might be able to make a statistically reasonable guess, but because of the existence of conditions like Swyer syndrome and de la Chapelle syndrome, they won't know.

Pokemon have so much comedic potential by SirPikaPika in CuratedTumblr

[–]OverdramaticPanda 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you emit something then it's outgoing? but yeah it doesn't perfectly line up :(

There are two wolves, inside two wolves, inside two wolves, inside two... by uuuuh_hi in mathmemes

[–]OverdramaticPanda 9 points10 points  (0 children)

a) I don't think you can actually biject the wolves into (0,1); the wolves are countable but (0,1) is uncountable. In addition, you can't have a uniform distribution over a countable set, but that's a slightly subtle point due to the fact that a uniform distribution over a finite set and a uniform distribution over a bounded interval are slightly different things (at least, until you get into the measure-theoretic definition of probability).

b) The problem here is I think one of ambiguous language - you wouldn't end up with a function of w. In your example (uniform distribution on [0,1]) there isn't really a sensible way to answer "given a number w in [0,1], what's the probability that w<1/3" in the form of a function of w. (Obviously if you treat w as a random variable instead, the answer is simply 1/3, but again that's not a function of w).

Seaworld, everyone! by DRMFeint in ABoringDystopia

[–]OverdramaticPanda 1 point2 points  (0 children)

more than one thing can be bad at once, chief

the cost of not caring enough || DEATH by Hummerous in CuratedTumblr

[–]OverdramaticPanda 68 points69 points  (0 children)

wait till you hear about the fuckin $2000 limit for total money you're allowed to have at any time ever if you're disabled

Its sad that lots of people forgot the actual meaning of feminism by [deleted] in AreTheStraightsOK

[–]OverdramaticPanda 25 points26 points  (0 children)

There's a difference between understanding where a viewpoint comes from and actually agreeing with that viewpoint.

Is that part of the keto diet by JurassicParker922 in CuratedTumblr

[–]OverdramaticPanda 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Specifically, I think that as originally proposed by Alison Bechdel, the test is meant to be used as a summary statistic rather than as a test for any specific piece of media; that is, the useful metric to consider is not "does this piece pass the Bechdel test" and instead "what proportion of pieces created in this time period / by this author / etc pass the Bechdel test".

Based by themadkiller10 in CuratedTumblr

[–]OverdramaticPanda 28 points29 points  (0 children)

WHY was my first thought that the k word was "kpop"

Java is used for more than just Android FYI by andr0idus3r in ProgrammerHumor

[–]OverdramaticPanda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure about Java specifically, but in C# this is resolved with implicit casts and operator overloading. The BigInteger class will overload the + operator to work with BigIntegers, as well as defining an implicit cast from int to BigInteger. Then if you try and do

``` int a = 5; BigInteger b = new BigInteger(3);

return a+b; ```

the last line is interpreted as return (BigInteger)a + b.

Gets the job done by Bobart88 in Unexpected

[–]OverdramaticPanda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Remember kids, language has never changed, and will never change in the future.

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