Unfair Coin Flip

[pocaracas]

You're nitpicking at a linguistic detail, when everyone else understands what was meant.
And you're insisting and pushing and arguing and disagreeing over a useless itty bitty tiny detail, just because of your seemingly inability to broaden the scope of some terms... or insistence that other people's usage conforms to your own.

So what? I don't know why anyone ever needs to make a big deal out of it.

You're the one making a big deal out of it.
The premise was not a trick question. It clearly said something like "come up with a way to simulate a coin toss using only that unfair coin". Tibs even went further, at some point, and said that it involved tossing that one coin with some robot or machine.
If one toss is expected to be unfair, then multiple tosses, aggregated into one result, would fit the bill of such a simulation.

It's a useless battle... a useless waste of your resources... a useless waste of everyone else's resources... Let it go!

I don't understand why I'm told to "let go" when disagreement is a two way thing. I could just as easily say "you let it go" but that would be immature and futile. And I think all this "Let it go!" shit is always immature and futile too to begin with. What's the point in saying that to me? All it means is "don't argue back!" which is just damn silly. As is making a big deal out of mere disagreement in the first place (and developing an attitude problem over a disagreement that isn't even personal).

You're told to let go, because you're disagreeing with something that people understand as within the scope of the original phrasing.
You may wish to narrow that scope to some dictionary reference, but it is commonly understood that informal discourse (such as the one present in an online forum) entails some broadening of scope.

If this was a University exam, you'd be entirely in your right to not let it go.

I always nitpick. I don't think there's anything wrong with nitpicking. It's just being accurate as far as I'm concerned.

That "always" there...
That's what costs you.