

shoelaces can be a tangled mess yet not properly knotted


shoelaces can be a tangled mess yet not properly knotted


Entropy always increases.
There’s one way for a cable to be untangled, and an incalculable amount of ways for it to be tangled. When letting it randomly change state it is very improbable for it to randomly end up in the untangled state.
Same for shoelaces, there is but a few ways for the shoes to be properly knot, and a comparatively essentially infinite ways for them not to be.
I know it’s a joke, but I find this perspective fascinating.


It’s a joke on fat Americans


I’m not a donut, I’m a coffee cup!
I disagree, lots of things are much cheaper and worse.
Clothes are much cheaper and far worse. Power tools are generally a lot cheaper bit also built to break.
Houses are somehow more expensive AND lower quality though.


the idea is that to get to be the one spraying, you have to know first hand how much pain you are inflicting.


One could say he did the wrong thing for the right reasons


does dry running have any meaning on a function that is inherently stochastic?
the face is switched yeah, that’s what I am referring to
You sure? this would be quite simple to whip up in photoshop
you can but then it’s not “British spelling”
it’s spelled ‘forty’ in british english too
“You’re doing it wrong ya doofus”


None of those things describe a good programmer


Welcome to absurdism I guess haha


you can say that about everything, and I mean literally everything. Nothing exists in your world that is not essentially just a signal your brain perceived.


I wouldn’t trust a guy letting their battery go that low either


Yeah, it doesn’t solve social mobility, but it certainly doesn’t hurt!
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Yes, I can imagine. It’s done literally all the time, in every genre.