The Nineteenth Byte

Huh, I thought platinum was quite a bit lighter than gold.

uranium?

1:34 PM

That is why they show so much trouble while lifting gold bars in movies

Gold bars are f*ing heavy. I held one at some museum once.

fling ?

uranium - 19.1 g/cm3

given that they fire this at people.. it's worth knowing

@Lembik this list is of common metals :)

@Optimizer Yes, they are fling heavy = hard to fling.

1:35 PM

@Optimizer Is iridium more common than uranium?

f*ing != f?ing :)

@Lembik uranium is nuclear, iridium is inert precious metal like gold.

"[Uranium] is considered to be more plentiful than antimony, beryllium, cadmium, gold, mercury, silver, or tungsten and is about as abundant as tin, arsenic or molybdenum."

and yes, iridium is common

from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_in_the_environment

I sound like the uranium marketing board :)

common != abundant or plentiful

Katenkyo

1:37 PM

@Lembik It's also what gets you your electricity :p

common in a sense of commonly available..

You can buy an ounce of Iridium for.. $1500 :(

@Optimizer well.... you mean easy to buy in a shop?

Katenkyo

It can be really hard to reliably and costlessly extract, even if it's common

@Optimizer if uranium is as abundant as tin then that's fairly abundant

1:38 PM

@Lembik forget easy, just to be able to buy in a shop

@Optimizer I can't buy iridium in my shops! :)

or osmium

your shops s*

amazon.com/Images-SI-Uranium-Ore/dp/B000796XXM ....

is that legal ?

look more closely :)

in particular at the questions and answers

If I opt for air mail does it get delivered by Amazone Prime Air or CIA drones?

A: No sir, just give us your coordinate and we will deliver it via intercontinental missile in less than an hour, guaranteed speed.

Or do they just toss you into Gitmo after adding to your cart?

A: [Deleted by the CIA on May 27, 2010 6:30 PM PST]

etc.

oh and...

1:41 PM

> I purchased this product 4.47 Billion Years ago and when I opened it today, it was half empty.

Will this take me back to the future in my DeLorean?

A: No. Your DeLorean uses a standard GE General Purpose Waste Disposal FUSION Reactor. U238 is not a fusible material, and thus will just clog up the intake, rendering your reactor useless. I recommend ordinary H20 for the reactor, and place the canister of U238 in your pocket, where it will best serve the interests of the human race by improving the gene pool.

@Geobits sue! :)

sorry,,,, have I ruined an entirely serious PPCG debate... :)

Magic stuff. Been taking 1 spoon a day for 3 weeks. I can now type this review using all 12 fingers.

@Lembik why not compliment it with another of yours linear time challenges related to strings

Q: Draw Growing Stacks of Boxes

@Optimizer I would love to thank you! However....

I worry every time I pose one of those.... they always get a small number of wrong answers by people who get slightly annoyed

and an even smaller number of correct answers.. perhaps zero

@Optimizer or were you teasing me about compliment versus complement?

in which case I am crestfallen :)

I am waiting for a cjam/pyth/apl answer to codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/51948/… :)

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1:56 PM

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The Task In this challenge, your task is to draw an ASCII art representation of several stacks of boxes of increasing height. You are given as input the number of stacks, which is a positive integer. The first stack contains one box of size 2x2. The second stack contains 2 boxes of size 3x3. In ...

Mitch Schwartz

@Lembik hi

@Lembik oh I meant complement

and that was sarcasm

@Optimizer I think that is Muphry's law

Muphry's law

Muphry's law is an adage that states: "If you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written." The name is a deliberate misspelling of Murphy's law. Similar laws have also been coined, usually in the context of online communication, under names including Umhoefer's Rule (or Umhöfer's Rule), Skitt's Law, Hartman's Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation (or The Law of Prescriptive Retaliation), The Iron Law of Nitpicking, McKean's Law. and Bell's First Law of USENET. Further variations state that flaws in a printed or published work will...

@Optimizer so.. are you saying you hate my linear time stringy questions?

@MitchSchwartz how things?

@Optimizer if so.. why?

and beware.. an awesome answerer of one is here :)

2:13 PM

"linear time stringy questions" sounds fun :3

@Phase :)

woot, got vertical line drawing done 2 "+"n@ {.1>}{"|"n@1-}while; "+"

@MitchSchwartz did you see feersum thinks one can write an automated solver writer for my prob puzzle?

Anyone trying growing stacks ?

@Dennis ^ ?

Dennis

Hadn't even seen it yet. Just woke up...

2:28 PM

so posting in next 5 minutes ? (now that you've seen)

Dennis

You have at least 2 hours.

Mitch Schwartz

@Lembik things are progressing in an orderly fashion toward oblivion

I'm doing the stacks :3

today must be my lucky day

Mitch Schwartz

@Lembik yep

2:30 PM

@MitchSchwartz I love the idea of code that writes code to solve puzzles

I was about to do stacks, then I remembered why I don't usually do ascii art golfs ;)

lol

@MitchSchwartz good news on the orderly front :)

Yep, I tried for about a minute, not going to bother with it

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doing well ?

:o

how do you get a list of who is currently logged into this chat?

You mean beside the list on the sidebar with the icons?

You could also use this.

hmm... I must be being blind but... i don't see the list in the sidebar

the link you gave works

2:44 PM

oh right I see those pictures

Katenkyo

Yahoo, Finally implementing the capacity for Summoner Wars, it will be real soon !

@Geobits thanks very much

Martin Büttner

3:44 PM

I've been playing Sokobond the last two days, and it's one amazing puzzle game.