Reminds me of the Simpson's 3D episode. Professor Frink's

>"Well, it should be obvious to even the most dimwitted individual, who holds an advanced degree in hyperbolic topology..."

Professor Frink, Professor Frink. He'll make you laugh, he'll make you think. He likes to run and then the thing with the.. person...

That monkey is going to pay...

Such an underrated character. Thank god for Futurama.

"Gleevin gliven"

That reminds me of this legendary comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Ha, I knew what that comment was before I clicked. (“Is it that rsync/ftp comment? Yup.”) ((EDIT: but it was curlftpfs, not rsync))

You'd love this follow-up Drew Houston and BrandonM thread shortly after Dropbox's IPO: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16660140

Thanks for that. I hadn't seen it when it was new.

Now show me the thread where Steve Jobs gave a shoutout to CmdrTaco :)

(https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257)

The HN equivalent of "I put on my robe and wizard hat".

god, YES! i needed this reference in my life today :)

I never realized how low that comment's ID was until now. We've all said a lot since then :)

Me too. The canonical HN comment, forever.

> is one of the most HN comments I've come across recently :)

That gave me a laugh. I don't have any experience with Mathematica, but everytime I see it mentioned (usually on HN) I'm amazed at the sheer breadth the system is capable of. The amount of use cases and possibilities blows my mind.

The top solution on this Code Golf question is possibly the most comical example of Mathematica's scope that I've ever seen: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/71631/upgoat-or...

That answer is absurd yet awe inspiring what Mathematica can do.

Yeah, TIL Mathematica knows what a goat is, and can recognize one on sight.

That statement really intrigued me. Since I like goats, I had to know how to do this.

Use ImageInstanceQ[image, object], where image is the image and object is "caprine animal". [0] [1]

[0] https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ImageInstanceQ.ht...

[1] https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/71631/upgoat-or...

That's a very unique nerd-snipe you just experienced. https://xkcd.com/356/

TIL Mathematica is the GOAT.

The other answers are also very clever and interesting. There are quite a few ways to determine whether the goat is up or down, and some are very simple.

The one that used reverse image search on Bing is so deliciously relatable.

On the one hand, it's perfectly built to spec and satisfied all requirements given by the customer.

On the other hand, you know it's incredibly fragile, and that the customer actually wants something different.

Whatever knocks this exchange off the top spot will be really special: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079

If it is in the installable version now, it will be in Wolfram Alpha in 5 years if you can guess the right command, and in 10 year Wolfram Alpha will just automatically select the blurred part and make a fake unblurred versions of the jpg.