The Nineteenth Byte

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Bbrk24

20:15

We are trying to run benchmarks in CI. There’s run-to-run variations of 12x. Not 12%, 1200%. This makes things difficult

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wow

Seggan

@RydwolfPrograms indeed lol

Simd

My niece was just given this question in high school. Can anyone here do it?

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considering that a kite's diagonals are perpendicular, yeah

Simd

@UnrelatedString go on....

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20:26

so spoiler, hover to read, unless i'm assuming something too eagerly

isaacg

Solution: Look at edit history

Seggan

You can't unless ro

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i don't think i'm an ro and i can read it fine

Rydwolf Programs

Edit history's only RO-only for deleted messages

Seggan

Neil

21:01

@mousetail according to MDN it's the only thing that it does escape

Simd

@UnrelatedString is this the new rick rolling?

@isaacg I don’t think I can

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you need to have a well-formed url for link-hover spoiler tagging to work

but it doesn't matter what url :P

Simd

I am on an iPad so I don’t think I can hover

What was the solution?

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ah rip

Neil

@Simd I think B is (3, 6.5)

Simd

21:12

@Neil oh cool. Why?

Adám

@UnrelatedString not true

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oh? wow

that's actually really funny

Neil

@Simd if I've done my sums right, there are two solutions for |AM|² + |MB|² = 6.5 and |AM|.|MB| = 0 and the question identifies which one is B

Simd

@Neil very nice

How hard would you it was?

As in what grade?

I meant, would you say it was?

isaacg

Simd: On the edit thing, can you access this page: chat.stackexchange.com/messages/63751234/history?

I would say it feels like geometry/precalculus, so grade 10-11?

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21:29

yeah i'd say anywhere from like 7 to 10

Neil

21:57

I've no idea, since I passed my O-level when I was 11

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you get to do that? nice

Seggan

Whats O level

Neil

22:41

a real exam, unlike the GCSEs you get these days

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Simd

23:54

Puzzle: Say there are only 7 humans and they want to repopulate the Earth. How many women/men should there be to do this most quickly? The rule is no one can have a child with a descendant, a sibling or someone under 20.

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i assume "sibling" includes half siblings?

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I'm going to guess 2 men and 5 women

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yeah that's my guess too

Rydwolf Programs

You need a minimum of 2 for each sex, otherwise everyone's a half-sibling in generation 2, but you want to maximize women since they're what constrains the birth rate

Simd

@UnrelatedString yes it does

Rydwolf Programs

23:59

(Tho inbreeding depression would be a huge issue no matter what since 7 people is barely any genetic diversity)

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yeah lmao

but with the problem as stated, don't worry about cousins and such

i think 2m5f is straightforwardly optimal