As a non native English speaker, I had to read your comments to understand the "Hot potato" one... Seems that I'm not as fluent in English as I thought (my accent is shit)
I can understand (I hate this video title actually), but yeah, telling that "That guy is an idiot" without listening at what he said is not smart
During the video, he's listening and debating against some French (?) phylosoph I suppose, that basically said shit like English is just French; then this video adds details about why Yes, but also why not, and where yes and no
Cueball: Hey, check it out: eπ−π is 19.999099979. That's weird. Black Hat: Yeah. That's how I got kicked out of the ACM in college. Cueball: ...what?
Black Hat: During a competition, I told the programmers on our team that eπ−π was a standard test of floating-point handlers -- it would come out to 20 unless they had rounding errors.
Cueball: That's awful. Black Hat: Yeah, they dug through half their algorithms looking for the bug before they figured it out.
It's like the traveling salesman problem, but the endpoints are different and you can't ask your friends for help because they're sitting three seats down.
Title text: An apple fell on Isaac Newton's head and gave him the idea that the moon might be a tasty apple, though this turned out not to be true--the Apollo program eventually determined that it was just a desolate and bland Red Delicious.
Title text: In the LotR map, up and down correspond LOOSELY to northwest and southeast respectively.
Transcript too long for lemmy, check Explain xkcd wiki to get one ;)
These charts show movie character interactions. The horizontal axis is time. The vertical grouping of the lines indicate which characters are together at a given time.
Title text: If that doesn't fix it, git.txt contains the phone number of a friend of mine who understands git. Just wait through a few minutes of 'It's really pretty simple, just think of branches as...' and eventually you'll learn the commands that will fix everything.