fallingcats

People need to go back to rooting phones. /storage/emulated/0 is basically /home/user

Sometimes I send .tar.zst's on purpose to keep people on their feet. They need to stay up to date on their compression algorithms

But then opening an image inside a zip hasn't ever not for a very long time now.

Even then they could've used Google lens or some other OCR thing. Hell, today I might even ask chatgpt to do that

Entering symbols one by one into a calculator is a fundamentally different process from writing them in a sentence.

Citation needed.

No but seriously, why do you think it necessarily needs to be different? There are calculators that use actual fraction notation and all that

No, the aswer clearly is 2x+4.

Thanks for putting my thoughts into words, that's exactly why I hate math. It was supposed to be the logical one, but since it only needs to be parsed by humans it failed at even that. It's just conventions upon conventions to the point where it's notably different from one teacher/professor to the next.

I guess you can tell why I went into comp-sci (and also why I'm struggling there too)

I'd say engineers like to be exact, but they like being lazy even more

I don't know a single language that lets you use a name starting with a number for anything off the top of my head

Please read the article, that's exactly what it's about. There is no right answer.

Yeah, but implicit multiplication without a sign is often treated with higher priority.

Ever tried to buy a game on a console?