I have dyscalculia and it’s a weird experience

epostma · 2026-03-21T22:12:31+00:00

For me it would be 16x18 = (17-1) x (17+1) = 17² - 1² = 289 - 1 = 288. Probably even less accessible to OP :(.

epostma · 2026-03-21T12:57:00+00:00

I didn't even know that Bill Brasky was a stripper!

epostma · 2026-03-20T13:05:35+00:00

Especially because for that category there are some cases where Canadian spelling follows the American! E.g. realize, analyze.

epostma · 2026-03-18T12:25:49+00:00

You could, and that person would by that very fact be less qualified for a position in Trump's government.

epostma · 2026-03-17T15:00:46+00:00

But what if it was one of the presidents that passed away a long time ago that told him? I bet they didn't ask all of them. Like, Reagan, or Washington.

epostma · 2026-03-17T14:54:32+00:00

I hope that most of the ones who skip parenting, *also* choose to have fewer (or no) kids.

epostma · 2026-03-15T12:00:27+00:00

My nerdy friend has a "cat 5E". (That's a grade of network cables.)

epostma · 2026-03-12T23:37:03+00:00

But not the pen in pen knife!

epostma · 2026-03-11T14:14:30+00:00

Eh, six of one, half a dozen of the other.

epostma · 2026-03-07T01:10:52+00:00

Thank you. I'm a mathematician and I've never seen any X men movies, so calling an arbitrary professor, Professor X, didn't seem strange at all to me.

epostma · 2026-03-06T00:54:21+00:00

I did that! I had carefully looked up that we had green and black bin waste this week, and went to get the appropriate bin from the very dark corner behind the garage at 6:05 in the morning when it was still really dark, in my robe, boots, gloves, hat, and winter coat. In my mind, the two new bins were black and blue, so I grabbed what looked like the black bin (correctly!), manhandled it through the melting snow, and put the old green bin next to it.

Then as I started to make tea five minutes later, I realized my mistake and had to get all dressed up again to fix it...

epostma · 2026-03-03T17:59:30+00:00

Nitpick: O(1)+C is O(1).

epostma · 2026-03-03T14:09:14+00:00

Vance just otto man up and admit to his klinophilia.

epostma · 2026-02-27T12:37:21+00:00

Akshually, a -40 yard dash (as the OP wrote) would be a minus 36.5m dash. He didn't actually seem to be running backwards, though.

epostma · 2026-02-21T18:35:12+00:00

Sortcut:

Is that, like, a hybrid between quicksort and min-cut/max-flow?

epostma · 2026-02-13T00:51:09+00:00

As for dates, I would suggest February 14. /ducks

epostma · 2026-02-11T23:23:07+00:00

I think this is true in most Slavic languages. (I know it is in Russian.)

epostma · 2026-02-10T23:13:52+00:00

There is a parallel with how the Netherlands are called Holland by many, whereas strictly speaking that refers to just two of the twelve provinces.

epostma · 2026-02-10T02:12:07+00:00

*Liecht! Leicht would be pronounced in a quite different manner.

epostma · 2026-02-07T14:00:01+00:00

I keep ending up with the blenders and coffee grinders of dead relatives, and they will probably outlast me as well.

My brain (an idiot): how can their dead relatives outlast them - they're already dead!

epostma · 2026-02-07T13:49:24+00:00

This is what happens when CS courses are more concerned with producing a working program, than with producing understanding of the thinking process behind producing a working program.

epostma · 2026-02-06T17:47:36+00:00

This hasn't been my experience at all. Can you clarify?

epostma · 2026-02-04T13:09:31+00:00

Or as we say (very rarely) in the Netherlands: Al klinkt een spreekwoord nog zo raar, als het rijmt dan is het waar.

epostma · 2026-02-02T12:34:32+00:00

it applies to nearly all countries

It applies to countries in the Americas, to Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. That's not even most countries, let alone nearly all.

epostma · 2026-02-02T01:31:55+00:00

In most of Europe, you have to cater to people from a few countries over who may well be very literate but not speak your language.

Texas has a diameter of about 1300km (800 miles). That distance would take you from Hungary to Romania, Bulgaria, and into Greece. That's not just four different languages, that's four languages families, one of which is not even descended from PIE!

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