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Cows are also spherical. The theoretical perfect solution is rarely the correct IRL solution.

• hinkley 4y ago
  Yeah 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.