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Just the other day a "only 6% of people solve this" went by in my tweeter timeline: 3 people, two apples, one knife, one cut, share the apples equally. Elon bel
by eternalban 4y ago
Just the other day a "only 6% of people solve this" went by in my tweeter timeline: 3 people, two apples, one knife, one cut, share the apples equally. Elon belongs to that 6%.
- hinkley 4y agoUse the knife to stab one of the people, you and the survivor eat your own personal apples while standing over the corpse?
- rpmisms 4y agoThat's the correct apple.
- hinkley 4y agoWow I didn’t realize 6% of people are psychopaths. BRB I need to check my doors and window locks.
- rpmisms 4y agoCows are also spherical. The theoretical perfect solution is rarely the correct IRL solution.
- hinkley 4y agoYeah on a more serious note, I would question the engineering chops of anyone who told me with a straight face that they could cut a 'fair' 1/3 off of an apple, twice in a single stroke. And by 'question' I mean 'not going to hire your arrogant ass'. 'Fair' would include not penalizing the people who got the core, which varies by the apple and also apples are a weird spheroid/conical section. You're not going to cut a third of the flesh off of a single apple without days of practice, and a first-name relationship with the farmer. Let alone two. Such a huge part of my day job is about hedging against human error that I have a klaxon that goes off in my head whenever someone claims anything is 'easy'. Lots of things are easy to do once or twice. Do it 300 times in a row, spaced at one or sometimes two week intervals, with people dropping random questions on you while you're in the middle of doing it, without fucking it up once. Go on. I'll wait. With popcorn.
- darthrupert 4y agoA pretty good interview question.
- paulryanrogers 4y agoAre you saying Elon is a genius? Guessing the answer is stack the apples and cut 1/3 off both in one strike?
- panzi 4y agoThey say Elon would cut the throat of one of the people. Then it's two apples for two people.
- plorkyeran 4y agoYou know those are engagement bait where they take an easy problem and claim it's hard, right?
- eternalban 4y agoYou know I don't have total control over what twitter poops in my timeline, right?
- roguecoder 4y agoCan you imagine if back in the 90s Slashdot had been full of people being like, "Bill Gates can solve a Sodoku in fifteen seconds!" without even a citation or video? What has happened to this profession that it's suddenly full of gullible folks falling for a billionaire's personal PR?