• frunch@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    This is why i always had the best jokes or funny observations or ideas when class was in session…and you need to share those things while they’re hot off the press 😅

  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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    13 hours ago

    Ooh, I wonder if this is just a goofy stock photo, a sincere attempt to measure the length of a coastline, or an illustration of the difficulty of that task.

          • TheBeege@lemmy.world
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            9 hours ago

            I learned a thing. Thank you.

            I argue that this is due to the poor definition of a coastline. I don’t know why. I go into problem solving mode, and I’m like… yeah… poorly defined problem. Root cause found… uhh… now what. Coastline starts at where water reaches only high tide? No. Continental shelf? Certainly not. Point where building foundations are no longer stable? Maybe, but I don’t know enough… yet.

            … is this ADHD? Seriously, my psychiatrist thought I was right on the border. I dunno

            Edit: I’m dumb and misunderstood the problem. Disregard me

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              2 hours ago

              Hey, there. I see you are pedal-to-the-metal-awkward-stream-conciousness, I will need to see a license for that.

          • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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            2 hours ago

            I am. How else would you measure a coastline? The exact line is constantly changing with waves and the tide, so to get any kind of answer requires that you decide where the coastline is and mark it somehow. Driving nails into the waterline at the same water level and adding up the distances between them isn’t really a bad approach.