That’s base 22, for all the base 10 users out there.

Real. Curiosity is such a desirable trait in folks.

be okay with a shitty old phone for years etc.

Nothing in the comic indicates the woman in the first two panels isn’t doing this.

Yeah, after reading the answers I see it more clearly. Also, I assume in hindsight that it’s three switches which can be on or off, so we know if all three are off the light is off. Which helps as well.

Like I said, it’s been over a decade, some of the specifics may be lost to me.

YOU’RE DOOMED! You must weigh two against two in the first step.

Impossible even if you know if the light is on or off to start with. Even then, there are 2 possible outcomes which means the solution space halves on each test. 3 divided by 2 is greater than 1 (1.5) so we cannot figure it out in a single test.

That’s my recollection of how to solve these from computer science. The classic one is 8 coins and figuring out which one weighs a different amount (and you don’t know if it is more or less). You have a scale that tells you which side is heavier (or equal) but it doesn’t give readouts (as in it doesn’t say a side is X pounds/grams). With only three uses of the scale, how can you find the fake coin? I’m not going to go into the process in depth but because you have THREE outcomes (left heavier, equal, and right heavier) you reduce the solution space (which of the 8 coins is the bad one) by a THIRD each test. The number 8 sort of lures into thinking powers of 2. You can actually do it with 9 coins in 3 tests.

Some of the details of my explanation may be wrong, it’s been over a decade since I took that class in college lol. It was my worst professor (while different story lol) but I distinctly remember him talking about this. He had a very thick accent, some form of eastern European or Russian, I’m not really sure what exactly. But he gave us that problem as homework or something or maybe just to think about. And he’d ask us to explain how we’d do it. Whenever someone began to describe something doing like test 4, 2, etc instead of the correct way (which involves using coins you already tested) he’d say “YOU’RE DOOMED!” Then someone else would try, and when they got to a way that wouldn’t work “YOU’RE DOOMED!” It was hilarious. Very memorable.

Sounds great, bud! Do it!

We have a (presumably) non Christian here saying because it promotes Christianity and elsewhere we have a (presumably) Christian saying because it promotes paganism.

Unironically though, I think it’s cool that we have a diversity of opinions here!

AI took that too! Oops all joblessness! 🤩

My house had cat 5e cabling but wired for phones when I moved in. Luckily it was a simple fix (relatively, I’d never worked with terminating cables before).

Jerboa has improved a lot since then. It used to be noticably buggy!

Bark!

Jerboa is pretty close in vibe. I was sad to see the pick tildes over Lemmy too.

Because of the API changes made during July of 2023 killing my Reddit app of choice (RIF is fun), their own first party app being garbage, and Reddit’s CEO lying about a conversation with another third party app developer (the developer of Apollo I think).

Woke up because I threw my shoulder out from rolling over wrong in the bed. Couldn’t fall back asleep because I was in pain. Couldn’t look at my phone easily because how how my shoulder hurt. Got up exactly with my alarm instead of sleeping in because I was bored and in pain.

Honestly sending Jesus as salvation is sort of like this. Instead of just choosing not to punish people and require a sacrifice, God sends his son to die. It’s like, buddy, you’re the one who judges humans, just ignore the sin instead.

Like imagine someone owes you money and instead of just erasing the debt you chose to take out a loan and pay it to yourself.

Just let them win different years.

Actually he grows to be Scrappy Doo, sadly. He never accepts his new body.

Except they’re actively hiring more people still. (My company that is doing RTO I mean.)

BLUE PRINCE! WOO!