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HTTP 418: I'm a teapot
The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb
HTTP 418: I'm a teapot
The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb
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Sometimes I Just Can't Believe That These Solutions Work
Python
Algorithms
Math
Programming
1 year ago
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Left side: You meticulously calculating digital roots by converting to string, looping through digits, summing them up, and recursing until you get a single digit. Right side: That one-liner wizard who knows that n%9 or n and 9 does the exact same thing because of mathematical properties nobody remembers from school. Your code works. Their code works faster and makes you question your entire career. Just another Tuesday in programming.
The Elegant Art Of Overengineering
Python
Algorithms
Programming
1 year ago
369.6K views
1 shares
Ah, the elegant art of being simultaneously clever and ridiculous. This Python function is the programming equivalent of using a sledgehammer to kill a fly—with style. Instead of the boring old num % 2 == 0 check that peasant programmers use, this galaxy-brain developer created a string "eovdden" and indexes into it using num % 2 as the position, followed by another 2 (which does absolutely nothing). The string is cleverly arranged so position 0 gives "even" and position 1 gives "odd" — making this the most unnecessarily complex even/odd checker in existence. It's like building a Rube Goldberg machine when a light switch would do. And those sunglasses emojis? They know exactly what they've done. Pure chaotic evil masquerading as code.
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