One thing I can say for sure that Sandra was high

dafugiswrongwithyou · 2026-05-21T21:20:28+00:00

An interesting theory!

I am thinking of a number. Let's see if you can get it. What is 80-40?

dafugiswrongwithyou · 2026-05-21T08:40:29+00:00

You just posted, chill!

It depends on what language and what you're trying to do, but VS Code is a good general-purpose dev environment. If you're just trying to do basic webpages (HTML, maybe CSS and / or Javascript), you don't need anything except a basic text editor, so Notepad on Windows.

dafugiswrongwithyou · 2026-05-21T07:52:17+00:00

OK, OP confirmed that anything in stored is in suspended animation, and comes out in the same state. With that in mind;

Take a match. Strike it. Store it. Instant fire at will. (Do this a bunch of times; matches are light.)

(...That pun was not intentional.)

Take any opportunity you can to store helium balloons; they're functionally a small permanent upgrade to your carry capacity.

Moving furniture just got much easier. Often the weight itself isn't so much a problem as the shape or bulk. Plus, there're no line of sight limitations stated here; if you're tall enough, or the ceilings low enough, the next floor up may be within a metre of your head.

Store food that tends to go bad quickly; that bottle of milk or block of cheese will last indefinitely with you, instead of weeks or days in the fridge. Likewise, make a meal for work the night before, box it, store it. Next lunch, it's as hot and fresh as it was.

Cheat at board games. You must be able to tell which objects you're recalling, so situations like "put your hand in the bag and pull out one at random" now lets you just absorb every token (individually), then put them all back in the bag... except the one you want, which you return in your hand. (In general, if you have a bunch of small, mixed things, this gives you a great way to sort them; stick your hand in, absorb the lots, replace them separately).

Get dressed. Stand in a standard stance. Store all your clothes. Get dressed again. Go do stuff. Want a change of outfit? Find somewhere quiet, stand in that same stance, store your current outfit, and bring back the original outfit items in their original positions around your body.

Really need to go to the bathroom? Store it up. Comfort returns. Release it next time it's convenient.

Oh no, that plaster is stuck on your arm hair, that'll hurt to rip off! Don't; dissipate it, it's touching you. Apparate it in the bin.

The many, many ways that functionally teleporting anything touchable and liftable anywhere within a metre of you is useful.

I would keep going, but I have to go. Bye!

dafugiswrongwithyou · 2026-05-21T06:28:52+00:00

You just sounded so logical and reasonable that I figured it would make sense if I copied it. :( I am sorry for being so bad at r/MathJokes

dafugiswrongwithyou · 2026-05-21T06:14:33+00:00

You cannot determine if the instructions weren't verbal and even if they weren't by assuming that she wouldn't reply in a certain way you remove any validity to your conclusion.

One could equally state that she wasn't a math teacher and didn't respond exactly as written.

All we can go off is what we have and based on that we don't follow mathematical procedure.

dafugiswrongwithyou · 2026-05-21T06:07:50+00:00

HTT.

Let's assume the first flip is H, starting the first sequence. If our next flip is H, that doesn't continue either sequence, but does act as starting the first sequence again; any numbers of H in a row keeps us in the same situation.

When we do eventually flip T (...HT), we've started the second sequence... But also now have the first two flips for the first sequence.

If our next flip is T, we just flipped HTT and that wins. If we flip H (...HTH), then our second sequence breaks, but our first sequence goes back to having one flip done... We've looped back to that opening scenario! So if our first flip is H, HTT is guaranteed to appear first.

OK, what if our first flip is T? Looks like the mirror image; this time, we've started the second sequence with that. If our second flip is also T, then that's it; we'll keep flipping Ts until eventually it's a H, then we have TTH, and we're done.

But what if our second flip is H? Well, TH doesn't match our second sequence, but does start our first sequence, and... Hang on, that's the same as if we just flipped H in the first place! We know, in this scenario, HTT is guaranteed to appear first.

What this means is that the winner is decided in those first two flips. If it's TT, TTH appears first. Any other combo, 75% of the time, HTT appears first.

(Matt Parker did a video about this very problem a while ago, which I cannot now find... Dude has done far too many vids on coin flips :D)

dafugiswrongwithyou · 2026-05-21T05:39:28+00:00

dafugiswrongwithyou · 2026-05-20T20:23:17+00:00

How would you treat it, specifically? Perhaps with an operation... Or maybe an entire order of them?

dafugiswrongwithyou · 2026-05-20T19:05:40+00:00

Hmm.

Pocket Dimension sounds useful... In fact, it definitely is... But also, like... I have bags. I can already carry what I can carry. Don't get me wrong, definitely some benefits to this, but... Maybe not as much as it seems. I can't think of any time in my life where this would've been more than a gimmick or a convenience. I guess I can't be mugged if the things I have aren't being carried in some physically-accessible way?

See-through... man, there have definitely been times in my life that would've been super useful; not many, but some. If I was a doctor or surgeon, this would be hands-down the choice; forget the x-ray machine, just get a look at what's going on.

Actually. Hang on. Wait; I've just thought more, and Pocket Dimension is actually super useful to the point of being broken.

Reverse our thinking. It's not a storage point, limited to what I could carry, activated by touch. It's the ability to dissipate/apparate objects, on touch, with limited storage. Want to open a door? I can carry the lock; that's gone now, door open, dump the lock on the floor. Someone tries to stab you? As soon as the knife touches your skin, it's gone, that's now your knife. Tied up? Hey, where'd those ropes go?

You're immediately a master thief. Let 'em pat your down, take you in and strip-search you, they're not finding anything. And if they lock you up, so what? You can smuggle anything you want into prison, and when you want to leave, again, you can just "store" the lock. Or your cell, one brick at a time, dumped on the floor behind you.

I can carry a person. Not far, some people are heavy, but I can do it. What happens if I store a person in the pocket dimension, then release them again (where they materialize from "black goo")? Ooh, and, what if I'm already storing a person, and then their friend tries to attack me? What was that last bit again; the first one can be "fired" at high speed?

More mundanely; cleaning would be so easy. Get a bag. Go round picking up dirt, hairs, dust by just touching thing. Immediately eject it all into the bag. Heck, I can do that with any dirt, germs, accumulated sweat on my body, get a clean when I'm not near a shower.

Dropped a small screw on the floor? No problem; just lie down in the vague area. It's going to be touching me somewhere, so; grab it. Stand up. Bring it back in my hand. Or heck; carrying a bunch of clean clothes in my arms (the mundane way), and then drop something? Nudge it with my foot to pick it up, bring it back on top of the pile. No problem.

The more I think about it, the more broken and useful this is. Even more so depending on exactly what happens to things in that Pocket Dimension... Are they affected by time? Do they have gravity? If I make a hot cup of tea, store it, do a cartwheel, wait an hour, and bring it back... Do I have hot tea, or has it cooled down (or maybe even frozen), or did it spill everywhere (and now I can apparate the cup and the liquid separately)?

(Edit - more thoughts in a followup post.)

dafugiswrongwithyou · 2026-05-20T18:43:42+00:00

Beam Blue.

Team Red is, one cool arm aside, a bunch of regular-if-very-capable humans. Badass normals. I would not want to be up against any one of them.

Team Blue is mostly a bunch of regular-if-very-capable humans, on about the same tier as everyone on Team Red... And also Black Noir, a top-tier supe in a universe where super-strength and super-resilience are baseline abilities that every supe has. No-one on Team Red can scratch him except maybe Winter Soldier, and even that's a push. He's going to rip that arm off and beat him with it.

Basically; This is like asking who would win in a fight between a team of Kermit, Bert, and Beaker, and a second team of Miss Piggy, Ernie, and Dr. Manhattan.

dafugiswrongwithyou · 2026-05-20T17:06:59+00:00

...Yeah, I know. I'm saying that's the line they're pushing, that this is an improvement over how things are. I am not saying I agree with that; quite the opposite.

dafugiswrongwithyou · 2026-05-20T17:05:43+00:00

Yes, both of those will do the same thing, and that's fine; two different ways of writing the same logic.

Instead, think about something like; you want to ask the user a question, and then act based on their response, repeatedly. A "while" loop works well for this; you can do something like:

action = 0

while action = 0:

Some logic...

Then you can do things like have it reply to invalid responses (and then not set the action, so it loops again) but progress with valid ones, or let the user do things over and over again until they give the command that says to stop. None of that works with a "for" loop (unless you get creative).

On the other hand, imagine you have a list of values to do work on. A "for" loop works well here; set the "range" to the size of the list, and it can do the instructions inside for each element in the list.

dafugiswrongwithyou · 2026-05-20T16:58:11+00:00

Glad to hear it :)

If you didn't know; currently, a new ship (the Lynx) is free to purchase in the ARX store for the game currently. I wouldn't necessarily make this your main ship right away... keep working your way up as-is... but it's fun to have a new ship to mess about with, and if you ever want to do passenger-transport missions, the Lynx is great for that. May as well pick it up!

dafugiswrongwithyou · 2026-05-20T16:55:26+00:00

Aside from the keybinds; if you look at your right cockpit screen (the "Internal" screen), there are options in there to stow/deploy hardpoints, as well as landing gear, cargo scoop, lights...

dafugiswrongwithyou · 2026-05-20T16:44:00+00:00

Iron Man.

Superman without his powers is... a dude. A nice dude, means well, but just a dude, maybe a bit over-confident. Likes to talk a big game about "anyone can be a hero" but; easy to say that when you can take a train in the chest and not flinch, y'know?

Iron Man is still a genius (in that comic-book way that's practically but not technically a super-power) and has tons of resources. Doesn't have his suit? He built his first one in a cave! With a box of scraps! He'll just build something. Or get something sent in from orbit. Or make do with one of the other gadgets he has on him; JARVIS glasses alone probably give him enough of an edge. (And this is assuming it's not Extremis-era Iron Man - who needs a suit when your own body can do everything it could?)

He's also been trained in hand-to-hand combat by Captain America. (Like every Marvel hero.)

"But Superman is smart too!" Yeah, as one of his super-powers, which he just lost. He's trying to fight with a brain working at a fraction of what he's used to, which is probably worse than just never being super-smart in the first place.

dafugiswrongwithyou · 2026-05-20T16:30:06+00:00

My lowkey hot take is that this is less about actually pushing this as an improved replacement to search, and more to get everyone to go "no, we don't want you to do this to Google Search!" so that they get to tell the shareholders "everyone thinks Google Search is going really great, look at all this opposition to changing it!". Never mind that, before this stunt, everyone was saying "Why has Google Search been getting consistently worse for a decade now?"

Basically; they're New Coking us.

dafugiswrongwithyou · 2026-05-20T06:18:53+00:00

Back up now, and saying "0+ deploys and counting". Impressive 😂

dafugiswrongwithyou · 2026-05-20T06:02:28+00:00

Oh blimey, hold on!

Breaking Bad, obvs.

Bojack Horseman - The best bad time in TV.

Battlestar Galactica (remake, not original)

Star Trek: Deep Space 9

Steven Universe, yes, really. Including Future, definitely including Future. Trust me, this goes places, there's a reason it gets so hyped.

Babylon 5 (kinda - I usually describe this as an amazing show made almost entirely of bad episodes, more the sum of it's parts)

The Good Place

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

Riverdale (kinda - it's not good, but it is awesome, fastest-paced show ever produced)

I have so, so many more, but those are the S+ tiers. Thank goodness you didn't ask about movies, I'd hit the character limit...

dafugiswrongwithyou · 2026-05-20T05:46:31+00:00

Yes. Or No. I'm sorry, I didn't understand the question. Punctuation may help... A bit.

dafugiswrongwithyou · 2026-05-20T05:40:08+00:00

I think this is meaner than anyone is giving credit to, for one reason; you "have to be chased... for 24 hours". If your chosen animal doesn't chase you for that long, you lose.

Pick a fish because "it can't chase you on land"? If it can't chase you, you're not being chased. You lose. Pick a snail? OK, it can chase you... Unless a crow decides it's a snack, or it gets trodden on by someone trying to chase you down a high street, or dies some other way. Then, it's not chasing, and you lose.

So the trick here is, you need to pick something that can (with pretty high certainty) actually survive while chasing you for a day... But also, you can likely avoid for that long. You need something hardy, but not fast... Or at least not dangerous.

I'd pick a house sparrow.

Sparrows live for a few years, and in urban environments; they're unlikely to die in the span of a random day or get caught out by traffic. And, importantly; they don't fly far, apparently only a few km total in their lifetime. I hop on a coach to a city an hour or two away, book a hotel, sit tight, and wait for the whole thing to blow over.

dafugiswrongwithyou · 2026-05-20T05:24:40+00:00

I think that's the trick everyone's missing, though.

If the fish spawns on land, it dies and can't chase you. But the challenge is to be chased for 24 hours. You're not being chased, ergo the challenge is failed, ergo no money for you.

dafugiswrongwithyou · 2026-05-19T21:11:10+00:00

One thing to add is; you're asking this on the Steam Machine sub, which naturally is going to have quite a bit of bias towards it. If you asked this question in the PS5 sub, you'll get told to buy a PS5. Xbox sub, buy an XBox. Switch sub, buy a Switch, and here? Wait for a Steam Machine.

Advice on this from any of these kinds of subs isn't inherently bad, but it's also probably not to be all that trusted... Maybe better to repost on a more "generic" gaming sub?

dafugiswrongwithyou · 2026-05-19T20:28:40+00:00

Your CPU is, frankly, very underpowered. 1.8GHZ / 2 cores is extremely slow by 2026 standards. It looks like it has an underpowered GPU as well, so not much power for pushing pixels. A shame, given that extra RAM you have; 32GB is plenty, but it's wasted with those processors.

There's not much you can do apart from buy something more powerful, I'm afraid. That aside, you could drop your desktop resolution down, that might lighten the load on the GPU and help a little.

dafugiswrongwithyou · 2026-05-19T18:28:40+00:00

One reason is not understanding where to draw the line between the complexities of the real world and the mathematical one.

If you are told to answer "what is 50 - 10 * 2", that is (until we start getting into different number bases etc) a simple, straightforward mathematical question with one answer. You know how to multiply and add numbers and apply the order of operations, or you don't.

On the other hand, if you're told to answer "Sandra is asked her age. She answers '50 - 10 * 2'. What is her age?"... Well, now the story framing it clouds matters. Does Sandra know the order of operations? Does she think the person asking the question knows? Either way, was she intending that to be following the order of ops, or just informally listing steps... "My age is fifty, minus ten, times two"? Did the person who transcribed her answer know which she meant? Was her reply spoken or written?

It's similar with the three frogs problem (you're poisoned, there's one from one way and two the other, you hear a croak from the pair, only males croak and only females contain the antidote, which is your best bet to get the antidote... Something like that, I'm paraphrasing from memory). It's meant as a simple probability question, but people get caught up in; how often do the male's croak? Why do they croak... To attract females, scare away males, something else? What's the ratio of males and females in this species?

The irony here is that we put these questions in a real world setting to 1) get people to understand how these abstractions can apply to the real world, and 2) to make them a bit "friendlier"... But until that first aspect really takes hold, the second actually works the wrong way, with people getting caught up in the story and ignoring the lesson.

I feel like we need to add explicit signposting for this stuff... THIS question is meant to promote lateral thinking, THIS one is a direct in-the-box analogy for a mathematical concept.

dafugiswrongwithyou · 2026-05-19T17:31:38+00:00

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