programming golf inspired me to come up with this

function sqrt(n)
{
    d = 0.00001;
    h = n/2;
    add = h/2;
    while(Math.abs((h*h) - n) > d)
    {
        if(h*h < n)
        {
            h += add;
        }
        else
        {
            h -= add
        }
        add = add / 2;
    }
    return h;
}

sqrt accurate to 5 decimal places, except for perfect square powers of 2

Kit will help me get past these

stupid edit timeouts

Hi.

I SAID HI!

Sorry, I crashed my browser running sqrt(0.01)

Thanks for the edit!

I had to get up in the middle of the night last night and install a calculator on my phone so I could check the square root of 2.

I was dreaming about it.

!!

thank goodness for technology

I fell asleep figuring the distance of the hypotenuse of an isosceles triangle with 20' sides.

So I could know where to plant the apple trees on the diagonal distance.

And my sleeping brain said "it's just square root of 2, of course, times 20."

did you work it out? have you planted the trees?

But then it tried to tell me that the square root of 2 was about 2.7, which it is not.

ah :D

And so I argued with myself that it couldn't be that, because that was bigger than 2.

But I wouldn't listen to me.

silly brain

So I agreed with myself that a computer would tell me and then I could shut up and go to sleep.

Since I couldn't listen to myself.

Anyway, no, the trees are to be planted this weekend.

from seed, or from little trees?

Little trees. Five to six footers.

do they already fruit?

I don't think so. If I remember correctly, it will take at least five years for them to start bearing apples.

They need to root.

I see

Most apples trees are harvestable every two years too, I think.

I can't really remember. It's been a whole year since we've had apple trees, but also twelve or so since I last had anything to do with planting them.

@KitFox I don't recall

It's been decades since I lived with an orchard

How are you? Did you find a good excuse to wander about upstairs?

no. no excuses

grumbles

How am I ever to live vicariously through you?

well, I have tried Tinder, although I haven't had any hits yet

Is that a dating site?

yeah, well a dating app

Does it put a big arrow over you head so other people with the app will know you are available?

I guess.

I assume everyone on Tinder is available

otherwise you wouldn't join tinder

Modern technology.

here's an exaggerated take on it

Oh, booty call app.

yeah, although people seem to be using as a regular dating app too

or so their profiles say

I wish I could send some your way.

heh

I don't know that many cool people though. Most of the ones I do know are partnered up.

Also, it's based on location

so I wouldn't see then unless they were near by

Sure. That's why I'd have to send them over there.

oh! :D

I thought you just meant digitally

How are things at work? Are they treating you as a BA rather than your reproductive organs?

Yeah, pretty much.

good, good

How's it going with cataloguing all the sites?

Oh, that's so last week. ;-)

oh good :D

But thanks for reminding me that I need to grep it.

Shit, I need to grep the repo as well.

I have too many to do.

How is your stuff?

work's fine. so many bugs

squash them all.

having problems at home because someone switched my energy supplier not in my name and I want it undone

Oh, hey. This isn't the main chat.

yeah

I should probably see what people are up to.

There were bunches of flags and alerts everywhere this morning.

on the main site?

They've been sitting there for days.

oh

It's pretty much the three of us, and none of us has had much time to handle flags recently.

I've been thinking that I might request some more mods.

Or maybe just one.

The flag queue never seems to finish.

you, Reg and waiwai?

Yes.

@KitFox well, people keep posting crap. if you could stop that... ;)

I wish. I gave up on being militant. I hardly look at the questions anymore unless they are flagged.

There are bunches of duplicates, bunches of things that shouldn't be there, and piles and piles of single word requests.

We should rename the site to "Gimme teh werd".

Boardgames.se has a similar problem with Magic the Gathering

except that MtG Qs are interesting

morning

hello!

Morning.

so @MattЭллен, what do you think of Tindr?

Must be Mr.Shiny's app.

it's not.

Be careful what you say, @Matt!

They're the competition.

Oh.

That's less fun.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 It's fine for taking my mind off things and judging women on how they look. I'm not sure if it's a constructive use of my time :D

@MattЭллен That's my impression of it too. Yet it seems popular.

especially since I've not had any matches

Did you ever see the okcupid blog post about what kinds of photos attract more attention?

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 no

my photo is of me in a morning suit

well, my main photo

blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-4-big-myths-of-profile-pictures

Now, the oktrends post is about okcupid's site, so, ymmv, but I thought it had some good insight into what does and doesn't work.

Can I see it?

I can't get at it at work

I should add you on FB then you could just pick a good photo of me :D

Mwahahaha. rubs hands together

I thought we were FB friends.

Oh. Maybe not.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I am looking away from the camera, but I think I am smiling. I'm not doing some kind of flirty face

@KitFox no. I've found a profile of yours on FB, but wasn't sure if adding you would be cool, at the time.

It would be if I actually FB'd.

I'll friend you.

brb

OK, but search on my hotmail address

you won't find me by name

because I'm hidden from people I'm not friends with

apparently I need to cultivate abs

That's not your muddy boot?

Oops.

No, that's definitely you.

oh

yes, that's me

interesting. I didn't used to come up

You're surprisingly public. You might want to re-check your settings.

They do like to change them.

Fb must have changed things recently

I like this one of you on the lake.

one on the lake?

I can't see FB right now. I'll have a klook later :D

last time I checked what was public, it was pretty much nothing

must only be available to members. non-members can't see it at all

Well, maybe not a lake. There's water behind you. It was taken by a guy whose initials are BL.

Oh!

ok, cool. that's the Thames

Who is that cute blonde woman?

Rose?

Oh :D

Wow. I have totally degenerated into stalker.

someone I used to work with

Sorry.

it's OK :D

I'm surprised someone I've not friended can see so much.

I can see photos you are tagged in, it seems.

my public profie was locked down last time I looked

OK, maybe they're not photos I've uploaded then...

I really like this one in Random London night.

With the Brain.

It looks like all your friends' photos of you.

heh

Reg and Rob might be showering together this evening?

Otherwise, I can see that you are male, and your muddy boot.

@MattЭллен Pardon?

Too busy snooping you to notice.

I get nosy like that too :D

I can see your groups too.

yeah. I think that makes sense. there were a few things I couldn't hide

You look very young in some of these.

some of them I'm very young in

well, 19+

I think you look like David Tennant in that one London one. Mugging for the camera.

someone uploaded a bunch of scanned in photos from when we started uni

That 3d exoskeleton cast is cool.

Also, I can read backwards easily and that is a pointless skill. I wonder how much of this is actually your content?

I don't know

I don't recall the 3D exoskeleton

OK. I'm stopping.

Really.

closes tab

I found one of your fb profiles, once, @Kit

:D

I only have the one. wink

it was easy to verify as you because I also know what your husband looks like

since you linked to a newspaper article about him once

I don't FB much, and I've been trying to decide who to friend.

If you want, I could send you a request, and then you'd see the funny stories I post about my kids.

You guys know who I am, but that information tends to bleed.

I'm not terrifically circumspect, but I don't like to advertise.

So now I have two complete identities.

Well, you did post a few things with your real name, either here or in the cone of silence.

Yes, I did. I know you, you know me, no worries there.

Well then. "friend" request sent. Now we can be officially friends.

But then, the Google Plus stuff, where I have a host of secret identities who are all friends of mine that can bee seen by anyone.

grumbles

heh

on G+ I maintain a more public persona, and so only post opinionated mini-blogs, or else share cool things.

There. Now Matty McMattmatt can be friends with both of me.

Because that won't just absolutely blow my cover.

:D

On second thought, @Matt, just be friends with the real me, OK?

OK

I'd prefer that.

Hahaha. I really never use FB so I just saw my husband's post "Two each of Macs, Cortlands, Wolf Rivers, and Oh My God My Memory Sucks."

Now I need to log out before it automatically helpfully associates something I say or do with me.

I also realize I haven't updated photos in about three years.

I am a terrible person/parent.

Except now of course I have to go stalk Mr.Shiny for a while.

sighs

My life is so difficult.

such hardship

@KitFox It's not stalking if I invite you in.

Oh sure. Take the fun out of it.

collects the fun in a bucket for use later

Fun bucket.

laughs

I have to work.

moans

fun bucket.

funbucketfunbucketfunbucket.

:D

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 one criticism I have is that unless you're using the app at the time something happens (a match or a message) it won't tell you about anything. So, I had a message waiting for me since Saturday, but no idea about it.

there was no indicator in the app (which I had used between getting the message and seeing the message accidentally) that there was anything awaiting my attention

so if your app can manage to top that, it's a winner