The Nineteenth Byte

Doorknob

11:03 PM

@Mego What's a syzygy? O_o

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Doorknob alignment of 3 planetary bodies I think

Anonymous

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Alignment of 3 or more bodies in orbit around a central body

Anonymous

Syzygy (astronomy)

In astronomy, a syzygy /ˈsɪzɨdʒi/ (from the Ancient Greek suzugos (σύζυγος) meaning, "yoked together") is a straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies in a gravitational system. The word is often used in reference to the Sun, Earth, and either the Moon or a planet, where the latter is in conjunction or opposition. Solar and lunar eclipses occur at times of syzygy, as do transits and occultations. The term is often applied when the Sun and Moon are in conjunction (new moon) or opposition (full moon). The word syzygy is often loosely used to describe interesting configurations of planets...

Doorknob

Interesting word...

Anonymous

Typically used for 3, but can mean more than 3

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

11:06 PM

The only word with three ys in it.

Alex A.

I killed at Scrabble with that word once

Anonymous

@AlexA. murderer

Alex A.

D:

I've been found out

feersum

polydactyly has 3 y's

Calvin's Hobbies

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ hydrodynamically

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

11:07 PM

@Calvin'sHobbies *noun

feersum

polydactyly is a noun

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

...

huh

Anonymous

Yarr, I be an idiot

Doorknob

no it's not

haha

feersum

no, polydactyly is the condition of having extra fingers

Anonymous

11:09 PM

Pianists hate him!

Calvin's Hobbies

psychophysiology is a noun

Anonymous

Good luck fitting either of those on a Scrabble board more than ~7 rounds in though

New Main Posts

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Q: Clock Hand Syzygy

Given a positive integer n and a list of positive integer rotational periods for a number of clock hands (in seconds), output the smallest positive integer x where x seconds after starting the clock with all of the hands aligned, exactly n of the hands are aligned. They do not have to be aligned ...

Anonymous

@NewMainPosts Hey that looks like a neat challenge

Anonymous

Be glad I didn't add a time requirement to it - that would've been really evil

quartata

11:27 PM

Anyone know Haskell?

I'm stupid and my thingy isn't working:

truth :: Integer -> Void;
truth 0 = putInt 0;
truth 1 = putInt 1; truth(1);

truth.hs:3:21: Parse error: naked expression at top level

:(

Doorknob

do

quartata

@Doorknob ?

Doorknob

you can't have expressions just sitting there

that's not how Haskell works

quartata

Right, but it's part of a function.

Doorknob

yes, but truth(1); can't just... be there

you could have something like:

quartata

11:29 PM

Oh, so I need braces or something?

Doorknob

main = do
    ... stuff ...
    truth(1);

Anonymous

nah your teeth are fine

Doorknob

or something

(my Haskell is really rusty)

quartata

@Doorknob gotcha, thanks

Not in scope Void? whaaatt

Anonymous

@Doorknob Is your Rust really Haskelly?

quartata

11:29 PM

Hm

Doorknob

@Mego of course

TanMath

Why isn't my chemical formula answer not working?

Anonymous

Double negative, so it's working?

Doorknob

If it isn't not working, it must be working...

ninja'd

Anonymous

ninjo

Doorknob

11:32 PM

ninjificationitity

Anonymous

ninjyzygy

Calvin's Hobbies

@TanMath You should delete it until it's fixed if it's not working

Alex A.

^

Doorknob

^

TanMath

@Calvin'sHobbies maybe...

But why is it not working?

Alex A.

11:33 PM

An invalid answer that's just hanging out undeleted is worthy of a downvote.

TanMath

i=input()
if i[1]=="H":print"2CH4 + 4O2 > 4H2O + 2CO2"
else:O=3*int(i[1:i.find('H')])+1;C=2*int(i[1:i.find('H')]);print"2"+i+" + "+str(O)+"O2"+" > "+i[3:]+"H2O"+ " + "+str(O)+"CO2"

It was a mobile problem

VoteToClose

@TanMath ...+str(O)+"CO2"... ---> ...+str(C)+"CO2"...

?

Or no?

Anonymous

I'm going to once again emphasize the importance of testing your solutions before posting them

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Calvin's Hobbies

^ @TanMath

VoteToClose

^^

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

11:39 PM

I'll emphasize the importance of the OP covering obscure test cases. leasons learned

Anonymous

Leasons? Lesions?

Alex A.

Sounds like the OP might need some kind of topical ointment

VoteToClose

Lesb... never mind.

Alex A.

ಠ_ಠ

VoteToClose

Legitimately saw it as that. XD

Alex A.

11:42 PM

Always nice to find stuff like this in one's code for homework:

/*
 * TODO:
 * Check whether variable logic is correct
 * Determine a satisfactory covariance structure
 * Everything else
 */

Basically, "TODO: Entire assignment"

TanMath

@Mego I did, but I forgot about cases where H was above 9

VoteToClose

HQ9+?

Anonymous

@VoteToClose ಠ_ಠ

Anonymous

@TanMath Sounds like you didn't test thoroughly, then, which is just as bad as not testing.

VoteToClose

I CAN SEE DELETED ANSWERS ERMEHGERD.

My life is complete. sigh

Anonymous

11:47 PM

@VoteToClose Now go to the sandbox and be sad

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VoteToClose

(~-.-)~ Let me have this happiness whilst it lasts.

TheDoctor

Undo, Northwest USA

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^ a fellow dog

phase

hey fellow wiggly wombats

Alex A.

@TheDoctor I voted for him for SO mod. Choice #3 I think.

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Q: Make Seeing Deleted Answers Optional

When Stack Exchange site users reach 10,000 reputation (or 2,000 for beta sites) they can view deleted posts. This can be very useful but deleted answers stay in their default ordering unless sorted by votes, so viewing a question with a lot of deleted answers can be cumbersome if you only want t...

feature-request deleted-answers privileges

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

o-o

Doorknob

11:50 PM

Undo is awesome

TanMath

@VoteToClose yeah, but it shouldn't make any difference.. It would give the wrong result, but there is also an error

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. O_o that's my sandboxed question

Alex A.

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ What?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. Look at the image.

Alex A.

Oh yeah, so it is

TanMath

11:51 PM

So?

Doorknob

@Doorknob He's basically the co-"founder" of Charcoal HQ (which made Smokey, etc.), he's an awesome programmer (he's 14(?) and already mentoring at Google code-in and other awesome things), he came 4th(?) in last year's SO mod election, he's a mod on two sites already, he's active all over SE and chat and metas and everywhere, etc. etc.

Anonymous

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ You sandboxed a question? O_o

VoteToClose

sandbox made me sad why you do dis @Mego (~-.-)~

Anonymous

@VoteToClose Welcome to our misery

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Mego That's pretty cold.

Doorknob

11:52 PM

Alas, I had to choose Madara as my first choice for this election. Undo's second, and I don't think I'm going to choose a third.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I've been sandboxing them for a while ;-;

Alex A.

@Doorknob WOW. That's awesome. :D

VoteToClose

/me makes 48 down votes to not see deleted answers.

Anonymous

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Oh crap I can't read, I thought you were Calvin.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Mego Right.

TanMath

11:53 PM

Really?

Anonymous

Seriously.

Alex A.

@Doorknob Me: 1. Ed Cottrell, 2. josilber, 3. Undo

VoteToClose

@Mego Dammit. You got the joke before I did. D:

Alex A.

josilber is neat. I would run into him a lot when I frequented the R tag on SO.

Anonymous

@VoteToClose Fastest punster in the west

Doorknob

11:54 PM

@AlexA. not Madara? D:

Alex A.

@Doorknob No idea who that person is

Anonymous

I'm not gonna vote in the election because I'm not active enough on SO to be a good judge of who would be a good mod

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VoteToClose

So... who votes for moderators?

Doorknob

someone who needs to be a mod on SO once and for all

TanMath

@Mego just look at the candidate score!

Doorknob

11:55 PM

he... okay, I probably shouldn't say this in a public chatroom. Come over to the sekrit room :P

Anonymous

@TanMath Bandwagoning is a poor way to choose mods

TanMath

@Mego I know, it helps.m but I do read the descriptions...

Should I repost the code?

Anonymous

@TanMath Does it work?

TanMath

Oh I will post it on SO since nobody can help here...

@Mego no... The program cannot even take an input now

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