Thought today’s smbc comic was too funny not to share. Source

  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Yeah, some responses think you don’t understand scientific notation. At least it’s kinda funny, they misunderstood what you were saying so much they thought you misunderstood what the comic was saying when you were actually pointing out that the comic appears to be underestimating the size of the problem space it’s pretending to pretend to enumerate (aka it can be very difficult to write for a character that is intended to be smarter than the author, even when the author is really smart like this one is).

    • lad@programming.dev
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      13 hours ago

      aka it can be very difficult to write for a character that is intended to be smarter than the author

      I wonder if you got this from HPMoR, because I think I’ve seen it there 3000 years ago

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        13 hours ago

        It was an observation I’ve made from reading/seeing other examples. Not surprising that others have noticed it.

        Is that a parody fan fic that points out Rowling doing that with any character with more intellect than a rock or dehydrated slug?