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1+1= (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 week ago by can to c/[email protected]
 
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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] transientpunk 40 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

no thats 1+1+1

00 0

01 1

10 1+1

11 1+1+1

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (4 children)

umm, no sweaty...

1+1=11
1+1+1=111
1+1+1+1=1111

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Doin' that JavaScript math

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Unary base is the basest base

[–] captain_aggravated 11 points 1 week ago

No, "1" + "1" = "11"

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[–] anomnom 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Very few software engineers deserve to be called engineers. It devalues the term for the rest of them.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

I can assure you there a no safety margins in my code!

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago (4 children)

1+1 is usually 2, sometimes 3, sometimes 1. Rarely, 337.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Heck, you'd be surprised how often it's 0.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Makes sense. 1 day job + 1 night job = 0 money

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's a tolerance for error, it's within spec.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago

If it's an elevator 1+1 may even be 4.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The secret to good engineering is to know when 1+1 should be 3 and when it should be 1.

[–] booly 37 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Sometimes 1+1 is 2, like when you're counting stuff.

Sometimes 1+1 is 1, like when you just need a Boolean indicator of whether something is true. Pressing the elevator button multiple times should behave the same way as pressing the elevator button once. Planning out a delivery route requires a stop at every place with at least one item to be delivered, but the route itself doesn't change when a second or third item is added to that stop.

Sometimes 1+1 is 0, like when dealing with certain types of rotations, toggle switches, etc. Doing a 180° rotation twice is the same as doing it zero times. Same with doing a reflection transformation twice.

A good engineer understands the scope of what they're doing, and its limits.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Pressing the button multiple times should make the elevator go faster.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

With no limit. I wanna turn this skyscraper into a moon-cannon.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

At a minimum it should make the fricken doors close.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let’s say 1+1=3.

Sir, I don’t think that’s right.

Let’s just say it is for safety.

But sir I don’t think you understand.

Just do it.

Alright boys you heard him, the bridge can hold 30,000 Lbs.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Stresses up, tolerances down, not the reverse, damnit!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's what we did. We stressed it more and dropped its tolerances. We saved a lot of money but the mayor looks really mad.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

Engineers gotta respect reality. Scientists don't.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Scientists being theorists and not based in reality after all.

Engineers knowing it is necessary to ensure safety because "+" could mean something else in just this situation noone (especially scietists) thought about.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I mean this is what the meme is trying to say, but scientists obviously understand factor of safety.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Demon Core is interested in your location.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

1+1=3=e=π=√g=√10=c*10^-8

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I feel like the engineers set π = 3 meme is from like 50 years ago where you couldn't just punch π into your calculator

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