• @[email protected]
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    What’s really gonna bake your noodle is that the jug will be less full of you tilt it to the right slightly.

      • @[email protected]
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        Because the pouring spout is to the right. Tip it, you’ll see. It works better if you are staring closely at the spout from below when you do so.

  • मुक्त
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    Why do High Functioning / Savants get to represent all autistic people all the time ?

    EDIT : 60.69% of the time.

  • Anna
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    Hey we need people like that, remember when an autistic person discovered few hundred millisecond delay in ssh which uncovered Jia Tan backdoor.

  • Zagorath
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    Anyone else bothered by the inconsistent conjugation here? Should be “optimism” and “pessimism” to go with “autism”.

      • Zagorath
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        413 hours ago

        Yeah you definitely could. Personally I wouldn’t be bothered by it in a humorous context like this. But I know that’s a term that does sometimes cause offence, so I chose the alternative.

  • @SpaceNoodle
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    I’d weigh the jug as-is, then weigh it full, and then weigh it empty; the proceeding trivial calculation of the original filled volume would be arguably more accurate.

    • @Dagnet
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      The engineering way to do it. Why go through the trouble of perfectly modeling it if you can just test a few times. Either that or consider the jug a cylinder and add a safety factor of 2.

    • @papalonian
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      You can’t weigh the jug, because it’s in an image.

      Anyone with a couple brain cells to rub together can figure out how full a physical jug of water is in a number of ways. The joke is that only an autistic person would try to produce an exact measurement based off an image.

  • @[email protected]
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    1619 hours ago

    A) The water isn’t pure there will be minerals dissolved in it

    B) There is likely water vapor in the air occupying the jug

  • @[email protected]
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    1118 hours ago

    Literalist: The glass contains about 50% water.

    Nihilist: The glass doesn’t matter.

    Anarchist: The glass is now full of piss.

    Absurdist: the glass is now upside-down without spilling the water.

    Me: I don’t know who’s glass this is so it’s going in the sink.

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    818 hours ago

    This roughly checks out. I’m getting 66%, based on the methodology of cutting out the jug’s shape from the picture and numerically integrating the filled and empty volume (e.g. if a row is d pixels wide, it contributes d^2 to the volume, either filled or empty depending on whether it’s above or below the water level).

  • lime!
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    1220 hours ago

    i’m not too fond of the autistic superintelligence meme. yes there are people like this, but personally i can’t math for shit.

    i could probably go on about an interesting locomotive i found yesterday if you want a few hours wasted though…

    • @[email protected]
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      I didn’t read super intelligence into it, I read overdoing and I found that it struck home. I don’t know math either, but if I did, I would have done the same calculation.

  • @RedditWanderer
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    Engineers: the jug is twice as big as it needs to be

  • Capt. Wolf
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    Pfff… Didn’t even calculate for the rate of evaporation of the water… Amateur…