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8:17 PM

Q: Why do I stop eating corpses? Should I keep eating them anyway?

Occasionally, when I try eating a corpse, I get the message The {monster} corpse tastes terrible! You stop eating the {monster} corpse. Why does this happen sometimes? All corpses "taste terrible," but usually the character doesn't stop eating them. Should I ignore this message and finish t...

nethack

Another classic Arquade question title.

enderland

I like that one of the comments includes a link to the game source code. what more "back it up" could you possible have? ha

user55340

@enderland RTFS is a standard spoiler approach in Nethack.

user55340

Lots of the pages with specific code bits are annotated as such on the nethack wiki: nethackwiki.com/wiki/Hallucinating

user55340

8:33 PM

Also, not everything tastes terrible.

user55340

	    pline("%s%s %s!",
		  !uniq ? "This " : !type_is_pname(&mons[mnum]) ? "The " : "",
		  food_xname(otmp, FALSE),
		  (vegan(&mons[mnum]) ?
		   (!carnivorous(youmonst.data) && herbivorous(youmonst.data)) :
		   (carnivorous(youmonst.data) && !herbivorous(youmonst.data)))
		  ? "is delicious" : "tastes terrible");

Jimmy Hoffa

@RobertHarvey Brings an image of a zombie sitting in a corner with a distended gut, pants button undone, looking out at a pile of bodies pondering to himself "should I or shouldn't I?"

enderland

@JimmyHoffa codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/23641/7924

user55340

+1. I couldn't understand the bug even after I have read your explanation... — Erel Segal Halevi yesterday

enderland

yeah. haha

user55340

8:42 PM

Somewhere, in another question there was a comment "apl should be illegal" because the code golf answers are too short.

user55340

APL should be illegal... — Kiwy yesterday

user55340

It even often beats out golfscript answers which are designed for terseness and power.

Jimmy Hoffa

@enderland Yeah, like making Haskell do nothing is some kind of trick. The whole industry's managed that one for 20 years already.

To be fair, doing nothing is Haskell's steady state, no side effects 'nat.

user55340

The real question is does it get optimized to doing nothing at all.

Jimmy Hoffa

@MichaelT Yes.

It doesn't need to be optimized for that - lazy remember, until something happens, nothing happens - and nothing happens, ergo nothing happens.

enderland

8:49 PM

how do you politely tell someone who coordinates an organization you volunteer with that you don't read any of her emails because she sends way too many and 95%+ are not related to you and they are all really long.

Jimmy Hoffa

@enderland "Sorry, the junk filter seems to have blacklisted you; I'll dig into my junk box and try and find that e-mail now!"

enderland

I'm kinda getting worried I'm going to miss something important

but fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

user55340

@enderland I don't know... let me ask a workplace question for you...

Jimmy Hoffa

@enderland Rarely if ever does anything important come from those people.

enderland

@MichaelT It's not really a workplace question, other than that it is my work email (fortunatley)

@JimmyHoffa I know, that's why I said 95% of it is not related. I just worry about the 5%

Jimmy Hoffa

8:54 PM

@enderland Chances are anybody with half a brain see's what you do and won't fault you for missing that 5%. It's not uncommon for whole groups to just filter those fountains to a folder they ignore.

Likely the other competent people around you are doing the same

enderland

yeah I've been auto categorizing it but might auto filter it, too

user55340

@enderland I'm sure we could try to ask it anyways. Volunteer or paid... its still a workplace.

enderland

true, plus it is a legit workplace problem, "what to do when peripheral work activities spam your email"

Mike

The bank where my wife works blocked our home IP for some reason. After two weeks of her complaining to the IT department they said "You're not blocked but we added you to the exclusion list anyways." and now magically connectivity is restored. When pressed for an explanation they told her that pinging their server caused us to be blocked... sigh

ping -n 100000 now running from a remote server and somehow that address isn't blocked

Ampt

9:14 PM

@Mike when was the last time you did a virus or trojan scan?

Mike

@Ampt Been quite a few years at least.

Ampt

@Mike ever consider that you may be a part of a botnet?

psr

@Ampt Isn't it just easier to connect to your work network and see if you get blocked?

Ampt

@psr good one

Mike

@Ampt I have a good idea what actually caused the block to occur. My issue was with it taking weeks for them to even aknowledge the issue. I suppose my machine could be a zombie but I doubt it.

enderland

9:18 PM

@psr not at my company, probably be easier to wipe the entire computer at home than try to connect a personal laptop to the company network

Robert Harvey

9:42 PM

Q: When did C3PO get his restraining bolt removed?

Related to: Is C3PO a slave? R2D2 tricks Luke Skywalker into taking his restraining bolt off so that R2 can run off and look for Obi-Wan Kenobi. But I don't recall any point in the movie where C3PO has his own restraining bolt removed. Did C3PO ever get it removed? If he did, when did it ...