Brandon Rohrer
Jason WeatherlyNerd sniped myself this time: after getting sniped yesterday with showing that for primes `p >= 5` that `24 | p^2 - 1`, I decided to look at primes `p, q` where `p, q >= 5` and see if `24 | p^2 - q^2`.
I mean, what are the odds?
Evan ProdromouYay, got nerd sniped with another math problem. I made it a smidge more difficult than it should've been, but I'm happy that I got the correct answer eventually.
The problem: Given `1 / tan(x) = tan(1 / x)`, solve for `x`.
smallsolar
HP van BraamCan you #nerdsnipe yourself? 🤔
Asking for a friend.
Terence EdenWhich Wikipedia page has the most [Citation Needed]s relative to the article size?
sabik@AaronDavid
How much time dilation would you need so that the number of people older than you does increase? Has anyone achieved it, perhaps on the Apollo missions?
DanOKAY you guys nerd sniped the hell out of me.
This is pretty unimpressive as web servers go (it's two separate barebones pages), but I do have a proof of concept here:
https://alttext.fly.dev/index.html
If you use most browsers, it will render totally normally, but if your browser sends a user-agent that starts with the string "lynx" or "elinks", it will filter the page you requested for "img" tags, run those images through an ascii-art image-to-text thingy, and replace the IMG tag with a PRE tag containing the ascii-art output (and then serve you THAT).
Were I to expand this into something like an actual image-hosting site, it'd probably do the asciiartification on upload. But then you'd still only get the effect if you were viewing it on this server; cross-links would just serve the file normally. (You can't actually serve "text/plain" to a browser expecting some sort of image content and have it work, which is why this implementation has to process the text of the HTML file before sending it.)
Anyway, it's possible, in a limited way!
. #NerdSnipe . #AsciiArt
#AsciiArt #NerdSnipe #AsciiArt
Another nerd snipe, but this one was out of spite. Every now and again I come across a YouTube video that shows a simple algebra problem with a tagline that implies it's impossible. Today's was just a simple equation, just had to solve for 'x'.
```
4^x * 4^x * 4^x = 40
```
So, broke out a bit of paper and Ye Olde Fountain Pen, solved for 'x', then couldn't find the video that made it seem like the solution was special or extremely difficult which annoyed me further. Still enjoyed solving it even if putting everything into LaTeX took longer than the initial solve.
