Also, “identical” has a different meaning here.

There’s a special place in hell for the monster who dreamed up this captcha!

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    When I see this captcha and it says “1 of 10”, I close the page. This website doesn’t want me, and I don’t want to be there either.

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      Microsoft uses some of these. I remember having to do something like that to setup a minecraft account and at some point I thought I would just give up and lose my money.

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        OpenAI uses these too. I used to have the pro subscription, yet they asked me to solve 10 of these for every other request. Needless to say, I’m no longer their customer.

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    Top left? I mean, two of the things are literally inverse from each other, but that looks closest…

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        It’s quite easy after you learn engineering-level math. It would still require some paper and patience, but it’s not hard.

        Only something around 5% of the people go there, but it’s a matter of going there, not being a genius.

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          It’s been nearly 35 years since I did uni level calc and I’ve not really used in the the years since - fucked if I could figure it out without a lot of <insert search engine of choice> foo these days

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          That requires neither engineering-level math nor paper nor patience. All you need is the chain rule and some basic knowledge of sine and cosine:

          The derivative of cos is -sin, but because of the 6x you get an extra factor 6. The sine function is periodic on 2pi, so sin(6*2pi + pi/2) = sin(pi/2) = 1. So the result is -36

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            It’s called engineering level math because engineers, physicists, and math majors are required to take Calculus.

            Yes I took calculus in high school but it’s not required. No I don’t remember much of any of it because it was decades ago.

            You also learned all the countries/capitals in Africa when you were in middle school. But I bet you can’t name them now without Google. Same thing.

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              My “advanced” maths course did (from what I could tell) the exact same as the basic one and we started calculus before the classes were split, the only issue would have been the notation and half the class not paying attention.

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            • § d/dx: 6cos(6x + Pi/2)
            • = d/dx: -6sin(6x)
            • = -36 cos(6x)
            • = -36, when x = 2Pi
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            To answer your question without being a dickhead: The given x indicates the point on the curve you need to find the slope at. In other words, find the derivative and then evaluate that function at the given x.

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            It is a partial derivative. Apparently you haven’t taken Calc III. I figured that would be basic math for most people. It is a shock to me that a person studying to be a nurse doesn’t need a degree in math.

            Never mind. I misunderstood your question. Also I was joking about the calc III is basic part

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      You could just write it into an advanced calculator and then copy the answer. Ain’t that bad

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          I’d love to see chatgpt try. Also it’s already most likely rendered as an image, which would further complicate things.

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    What is it you have to use so badly you put up with this bullshit!? Haven’t they already proven that in 2024 bots can solve the CAPTCHAS better than humans can??

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      I signed up to LinkedIn to get in touch with someone. Deleting the account the moment I get a reply. They couldn’t pay me to put up with this nonsense. 😂

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    Are you doing Azure training too? I cursed these out to my boss when I encountered them. I’ve seen a lot of bad captcha but these are hands down the worst.

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    Concidentally, I only saw these captchas from hell on sites that also have their own apps. I suspect they’re trying to force you to use the app instead of the browser (while also training AIs of course).

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    Yeah, captchas have gotten worse recently. I had one asking me to choose “the largest animal” and it had an example picture of what was meant to be a lion. There was a rhino in one of the other pics.

    It wanted me to click on lions, but then gave me something larger than a lion.

    Edit: I just got this… Clicking on the flowers fails. Clicking on Skip fails. It wouldn’t let me try a third time to try clicking the cows, giraffe, or moose. But it clearly believes at least one of the three is smaller than a cat.

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      And the frog is scaled to look bigger so you don’t know what they mean either.

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    Someone with water spray bottle should have been in the dystopian design meeting that came up with this horror.

    “No! Bad! No!”

    spritz

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      Yeah, the person who thought this up should be forced to do it for 24 hours straight, with only 10 seconds for each guess, and for every one he gets wrong, five minutes gets added to his time.

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      The thing is, there will come a day when only bots will be able to get these right. The only way into a site will be to answer incorrectly, to prove you’re human.

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        “Prove that you’re inferior.”

        “I…what?..What even IS this puzzle? There’s a glowstick, and a porcupine, a pez dispenser in the shape of ray romano, and the board game battleship? I don’t get it…I don’t even get whats being asked…”

        “Correct!”

        “…I still don’t get it.”

        “Buddy, we know your human. Stop proving your inferiority.”

        “WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON???”

        “Now you’re just showing off…”

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      Yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s it - it is the same little swirly thing, just coloured differently and mirrored. I’ve seen worse.