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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

Chessboard Memes

Posts tagged with Chessboard

Pythagoras Has Left The Chat

Math Science
1 year ago 26.4K views 0 shares
Pythagoras Has Left The Chat
Poor Pythagoras is having a mathematical meltdown! His famous theorem (a² + b² = c²) works perfectly for right triangles, but here's a chessboard with a 5×5×5 right triangle where the math falls apart! The red squares form a diagonal that should be 5√2 ≈ 7.07 squares long according to Pythagoras, but it's clearly just 5 squares! Someone needs to hold Pythagoras back before he throws his abacus at non-Euclidean geometry! The universe is broken and mathematics is crying in the corner!

The Four Color Theorem Destroyer

Math Academia Science
1 year ago 26.2K views 0 shares
The Four Color Theorem Destroyer
The infamous Four Color Theorem strikes again. Mathematicians spent 124 years trying to prove you only need four colors for a map, while this genius just folded a chessboard into a donut and slapped on 69 colors. That moment when you realize elegant mathematical proofs are just elaborate ways of saying "I made this way harder than it needed to be." The combinatorial topology department is still recovering from this revelation.

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Jellyfin 12 on a mini PC: the spy-free TV setup for 2026

LG TVs got caught logging audio and scanning your LAN. How I run Jellyfin 12 on a $280 N150 mini PC as an offline-TV media box, with real upgrade n... Read article →

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