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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1

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When people say there's been an "๐‘ฅ fold increase in such and such." They mean such and such is ๐‘ฅ times as big.

If you get something that actually folds like a sheet of paper, the amount of layers doubles each time. One fold = twice as many layers. Two folds = four times as many layers...

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[โ€“] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[โ€“] Zagorath@aussie.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It took me way too long to realise you weren't asserting an unorthodox answer to the nondeterministic polynomial time problem.

[โ€“] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

haha sorry!

My wrist is pretty messed up, and sometimes, it basically seizes up, so I went back to 15 yrs ago txt message dialect...

And then after posting it I realized, oh that could be confused with... ah fuck it time to ice my wrist and do more massage.

[โ€“] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I read that as "NP != D" and spent far too long trying to figure out what the variables N, P, and D were in this context.

[โ€“] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

When I saw NP that's where my mind went first... Hence my confusion lol