• jadero
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    5 months ago

    There was a recent post asking what the self-taught among us feel we are missing from our knowledge base. For me, it’s being able to calculate stuff like that for making decisions. I feel like I can spot an equivalence to the travelling salesman problem or to the halting problem a mile away, but anything more subtle is beyond me.

    Of course, in this situation, I’d probably just see if I could find a sufficiently large precalculation and just pretend :)

    • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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      5 months ago

      Just put up a little spinning it’s-loading icon with an increasing delay. Then, when you run out of precalculated data, make it spin forever.

      “It’s infinte scrolling man, you just didn’t wait long enough. It’s not my fault you can’t be more patient.”