c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · groctel@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026 18:43

reason enough to fail the interview

check post at origin

A picture of Edsger Dijkstra with a concerned face and the following text on top: How software engineers look at your code when you solve the problem using two tables — instead of using the Maxwell-Ross-Karmakar algorithm, which is marginally optimal in ordered sets bijectable to the exponential curve

log in to comment.

comments

top new hot controversial

‹ show full thread · in reply to @k0e3@lemmy.ca

@blamster19@programming.dev · 31 Aug 2026

Submerging the sphere gives you the volume. You’re thinking of the legend of Archimedes who measured volume this way and measured mass with an ordinary scale and deduced the density from those two values.

1

link