Puzzles Etc.

Lorem ipsum

In publishing and graphic design, lorem ipsum (derived from Latin dolorem ipsum, translated as "pain itself") is a filler text commonly used to demonstrate the graphic elements of a document or visual presentation. Replacing meaningful content with placeholder text allows viewers to focus on graphic aspects such as font, typography, and page layout without being distracted by the content. It also reduces the need for the designer to come up with meaningful text, as they can instead use quickly-generated lorem ipsum. The lorem ipsum text is typically a scrambled section of De finibus bonorum et...

Jonathan Allan

1:20 AM

@f'' yeah I know, my father had, until he retired just a month ago, a graphic design business :)

Is that the only "fake" Latin there though?

have not studied Latin since I was 11 (25 years ago!)

Oh wait is it all the Lorem ipsum?

...no

(whew)

guess it could just be a Lorem ipsum though.. hmm

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Q: Name the sword aloud to save the castle from the monster

2:43 AM

Given the nature of this off topic post I thought I'd share that the new site design is disgusting! D: Feelings? D.w. all comments will soon disappear into the void they call "Too Broad". — Daedric 6 hours ago

This guy is just incapable of saying anything useful, isn't he?

(I say this due to the number of his comments getting deleted due to being "rude or offensive")

question_asker

dude is mad unpleasant

just totally insulting to everyone

Gordon Allocman

3:03 AM

Well that is one off-topic question, but what was the point in trashing the awesome looking site design there?

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question_asker

12:20 PM

I... don't have high hopes for this one, but it's intriguing puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/32585/…

(I say intriguing because of the calculator thing and the fact that it doesn't look like there's anything to calculate)

I do genuinely like this one though: puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/32582/…

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Gordon K

1:43 PM

One morning the castle awoke to a shout: "A monster's attacking, come quick!" "Call for the wizard", said somebody else, "He'll save us - his favourite trick". They called him 'Ard Merlin for that was his name, Because he was tough as old nails. Life had been hard since old Ar...

riddle knowledge steganography anagram

2:21 PM

I was learning c language on my own. Does any of you know why do we use \n at so many places?

mostly inside the printf command.

afk now.

question_asker

\n is a newline, which printf does not print on its own

ahh...

same thing which puts command does.

3:07 PM

I think this question on meta needs an update. It was last updated 1.5 years ago.

3:48 PM

puts is intended for single-line display, while printf, and its derivatives, are intended for formatting text. Both provide different return values, as well.

Additionally, \n, in-and-of-itself is a line ending, only in Windows, iirc.

by formatting text you mean bold and italics?

No, formatting as in placing variable values in-line with other text, and supporting multiple datatypes when doing so.

@Khale_Kitha We can't put variables by using puts command?

fprintf, for example, can be used for easily making CSV files, or other fixed-length file setups, and printf can be used for similar, on the screen.

Yes, you can put variables with puts, but you would use printf for putting multiple together. Such as:

printf("%s(%d): - %s", userName, reputation, message);

Which would display: Manshu(1234): Message

ohhh, that's how this thing work.

thanks.

3:55 PM

cplusplus.com/reference/cstdio/puts

I have just begun.

This is a c++ reference, but it should help with that part

I honestly never learned C - I went from BASIC, to Pascal, to C++. So a few things that were before C++, I'm not as familiar with - but have run into from time to time.

whoa...I don't know what you would have done if you had really learned it. :D

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5:26 PM

Someone's going to need to make a language puzzle, soon, or this requested fortnight is going to be a dramatic failure.

I know where to find some good ones, but I'm not sure if they would allow reposting them

(if anyone is interested, they're here)

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Deusovi

6:55 PM

go ahead and post them, f''

as long as you attribute they're fine

I meant if the naclo people would allow it

fondor

Added another hint

Q: Guard gets fired after saving CEO's life

7:31 PM

this question is closed as off-topic:

A classic: A CEO of a multi-million dollar business has to go on a business trip to Belgium (from somewhere in America). Before going to the airport in the morning with his limousine, he's going to the office first to get some files that he forgot the previous night. When arriving at the offic...

lateral-thinking

I don't think it's off topic.

It is too-broad though.

Deusovi

not off topic, just too broad

yeah

It needs to be re-opened so that we can close it properly. :p