In the world of numbers, numbers 1 to 9 want to cross a river,
They have a boat which can take 1 to 3 numbers,
But sum of the numbers must be a square number.
Plan minimum number of trips in such a way that all the numbers can cross the river.
I use Microsoft Clip art organizer to search the ...
Some people write February 5th as 2.5 and some people write it as 2/5.
Note that $2.5 \times 2/5 = 1$. Is there other date satisfying $a.b \times a/b = 1$?
What can we say if we do not confine $a$ and $b$?
By now most i know understand that "drive safely" means "I love you." It's endearing to let someone new know, because they know how difficult it is to directly say "I love you."
This puzzle is based off the What is a Word™ and What is a Phrase™ series started by JLee and their spin-off What is a Number™ series.
If a number conforms to a certain rule, I call it a Well-toned Number™. Use the following examples to find the rule:
Here is a CSV version:
Well-toned Num...
"We are the basic building blocks
of something you use everyday.
We constitute them almost all,
being part of them in some way.
We're like a ray in some respect,
in that we begin and not end.
But a ray's continuous and we're not,
of the gaps we're constituent.
In a ga...
Timmy has a few "friends".
The first friend is a large body of water, but can be fit into two envelopes with one envelope left over. You can argue it's a verb, but it doesn't actually matter.
The second is an animal. It can be represented in the shortest way possible. Its name is pronounced wit...
Josh was new this college game, being an american, he sought out for education in other countries.
He decided to apply as an international applicant. He only needed to give in his ACT scores which he took only once.
He scored a thirty two, wow, nice score eh?
His course of choice was geography...
I’m barren, cold, the outward sign of misery
Pointless, lightless, sad - there’s nothing here to see
A note is dropped, you see it leaves a hole.
Christmas answer, it’s a protocol.
Ok, I may not be direct.
Hundred like me, I expect.
Please find the word I seek.
this room should be called General discussion for puzzling.stackexchange.com and apparently where humn dumps his whatever because nowhere else could he...
I'll note that there have been weeks - not recently, fortunately - when I've not been able to be on the site much and, in coming back and trying to catch up on what I've missed, I had to scroll through dozens of pages and several hundred messages of video postings and humnologues. In moderation, it's fine; when it outweighs all other traffic in the room, it might be nicer to scale back.
I think many of us enjoy your idiosyncratic musings, but newcomers to the chat room shouldn't be at a loss as to what the room is for because the recent history in it is ... um ... off-topic. :)
I haven't observed the humnologues ever "outweighing the traffic" here (imagine what would have happened over The Nineteenth Byte if somebody did the same lol)
also, a "general discussion" room doesn't really have a specific topic (well, it does have the topic of its host, but long discussions of a puzzling-related topic should be moved to separate rooms anyway and short discussions aren't likely to be interrupted...)
of course, there are the exceptions (like The Nineteenth Byte, be careful when you go there folks!) where "chatiquettes" and such are very heavily enforced, which is a disdain for some people and mostly for rooms with a lot of traffic (TNB has an average of ~30 people in at a specific moment, although mostly ~10 active)
But as for outweighing traffic, you can definitely find fairly large swathes of time where humn is the predominant talker, and has almost 3x as many messages here as anyone else
(mods excluded)
Anyway. I do enjoy humn's philosophical monologues. Sometimes I even understand them. :)
Just personally I find catching up and trying to find site-relevant messages amongst the long periods of what otherwise would have been silence, but are instead filled with you filling the empty spaces, is time-consuming.
We need a checkbox: "[X] Show humnlogues?" ;)
Toggle them on and off hehe
Actually - I wonder if I can just ignore you, scroll back, read, and then unignore. I wouldn't like to have to, but that might actually work.
I could probably dredge up a list of all the usernames that have been deleted for spam on Puzzling in the last year or so, that might be useful to either train a bit with, or hand-build regexes around. If that would be of interest.
hm, looks like they have been members for a month and they haven't been deleted yet...that makes me wonder how subtly do such users register, maybe they register with innocent names and after 10 or so days change to spam
Actually, since some of them never seem to do anything at all, we're moderately convinced someone is paying the spammer to get their website advertised on SE - and the spammers have decided user profiles on Puzzling.SE is the place to do that, so they can point their client(s) at the profile page and say Voila, there it is!
@Mithrandir The general consensus thus far seems to be - if they're not actively posting spam, where's the harm.
But I'm fine with nuking them, which we may do at our discretion, though it's not something we must do. Mainly because I don't want them to think they can get an easy foothold on turf I feel responsibility to keep clean. :)
and generally spam is like "cracktools is good resource for crack software cracktools.com check it out cracktools is very good resource for crack ms office and windows"
Almost any computer works, for some definition of “works”. For example I have two very old Sun UE2 servers that would be perfectly functional if I plugged them in, but are currently doing duty holding up an unused table leaf to create a makeshift table for a TV in the basement. They “work” quite nicely for that. :)
Great machines in their day. Nowadays I think my NAS has more compute oomph at a literal fraction of the power draw. A shame, but ... progress happens!
Curious, one of my riddles just got deleted for plagiarism. Yet I'm pretty sure I stated in the question that it was a ride that I heard in the past, ie not mine. How is that plagiarism?
In the world of numbers, numbers 1 to 9 want to cross a river,
They have a boat which can take 1 to 3 numbers,
But sum of the numbers must be a square number.
Plan minimum number of trips in such a way that all the numbers can cross the river.
I use Microsoft Clip art organizer to search the ...
Some people write February 5th as 2.5 and some people write it as 2/5.
Note that $2.5 \times 2/5 = 1$. Is there other date satisfying $a.b \times a/b = 1$?
What can we say if we do not confine $a$ and $b$?
This puzzle is based off the What is a Word™ and What is a Phrase™ series started by JLee and their spin-off What is a Number™ series.
If a number conforms to a certain rule, I call it a Well-toned Number™. Use the following examples to find the rule:
Here is a CSV version:
Well-toned Num...
"We are the basic building blocks
of something you use everyday.
We constitute them almost all,
being part of them in some way.
We're like a ray in some respect,
in that we begin and not end.
But a ray's continuous and we're not,
of the gaps we're constituent.
In a ga...
I’m barren, cold, the outward sign of misery
Pointless, lightless, sad - there’s nothing here to see
A note is dropped, you see it leaves a hole.
Christmas answer, it’s a protocol.
Ok, I may not be direct.
Hundred like me, I expect.
Please find the word I seek.
