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10:00 PM
Incidentally, the Medicine prize right below that one has got me itching to try it out sometime.
 
@El'endiaStarman what is it?
 
> MEDICINE PRIZE [GERMANY] — Christoph Helmchen, Carina Palzer, Thomas Münte, Silke Anders, and Andreas Sprenger, for discovering that if you have an itch on the left side of your body, you can relieve it by looking into a mirror and scratching the right side of your body (and vice versa).
 
o_O
 
PHYSICS PRIZE: Katherine K. Whitcome of the University of Cincinnati, USA, Daniel E. Lieberman of Harvard University, USA, and Liza J. Shapiro of the University of Texas, USA, for analytically determining why pregnant women don't tip over.
 
That one literally made me LOL.
 
10:07 PM
I wonder if they went "Assume a spherical woman" and continued from there.
 
Pregnant women don't tip over because the baby spins to act as an inertial dampener. Everyone knows this.
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@Geobits Not really related, but funny: youtube.com/watch?v=EShUeudtaFg
 
Stop making me hate people more than I already do :P
 
LITERATURE: The Internet entrepreneurs of Nigeria, for creating and then using e-mail to distribute a bold series of short stories, thus introducing millions of readers to a cast of rich characters -- General Sani Abacha, Mrs. Mariam Sanni Abacha, Barrister Jon A Mbeki Esq., and others -- each of whom requires just a small amount of expense money so as to obtain access to the great wealth to which they are entitled and which they would like to share with the kind person who assists them.
 
@Geobits Dunno why, but that reminds me of this: youtube.com/watch?v=n_6p-1J551Y
 
10:17 PM
@Downgoat I want to go on a hiking trip with you sometime:

> BIOLOGY PRIZE [UK] — Awarded jointly to: Charles Foster, for living in the wild as, at different times, a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox, and a bird; and to Thomas Thwaites, for creating prosthetic extensions of his limbs that allowed him to move in the manner of, and spend time roaming hills in the company of, goats.
I wish other chat systems had a starboard
 
CHEMISTRY: The Coca-Cola Company of Great Britain, for using advanced technology to convert ordinary tap water into Dasani, a transparent form of water, which for precautionary reasons has been made unavailable to consumers.
 
Please don't post the whole page in here
 
> What should the city do about drivers who think they are above the law? It seems like a tank is the best solution.
 
@mınxomaτ It's like 25 years long and I'm barely half way :P
 
I'd love to quote more pieces into here, but really, people can just go to the site and read for themselves.
 
10:22 PM
I never learned to read though :(
 
@El'endiaStarman it's like reddit, people post the most interesting ones. Keep going!
 
@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC No.
 
@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC Eh....
 
b...bu...t..
 
@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC "Be more like Reddit" is usually bad advice in general.
 
10:24 PM
People post what's most interesting to them, and we do not need to fill up several pages of chat with quotes from one site (or quotes in general).
 
There's no other chat room activity to interfere with.
@El'endiaStarman yes, post just a few of the most interesting ones.
 
Right, a few is fine. A few have already been posted.
 
"No other chat activity" is not an excuse to post noise.
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

OliverRaise an error! Your task is to write a program or function that prints something to STDERR. Requirements: Your program may not print anything to STDOUT. Your program may not take anything from STDIN. Your program must raise an error in less than one second. If I see an answer that does it in...

 
10:40 PM
@Geobits WAIT WHAT WE GOT A DESIGN
 
[ISO3103:1980](http://web.archive.org/web/20091007080007/http://sub.spc.org/san/docs/BS6008.pdf): Tea — Preparation of liquor
for use in sensory tests, [Patent US3216423 A](https://www.google.com/patents/US3216423): Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force and finally http://www.darwinawards.com/
 
:/ beta blue =/= design
 
One second into this video, skipped: youtu.be/mv_GHpQ7Kog?t=4m16s
 
10:55 PM
> "An eye for an eye only makes the world bli..." TACTICAL NUKE INBOUND
 
@TuxCopter ;_; y u writ in javscript
 
Because I don't written JavaScript for some months
 
@Downgoat Says the guy that wrote Cheddar in JS.
 
@Downgoat weren't you a js evangelizer? or are you trichoplax, I can't really tell anymore
 
11:05 PM
@TuxCopter Isn't .jl Julia?
 
idk
I used it for JLisp
 
@El'endiaStarman I think this is true for all JS devs, but we all know JS is shit, it's just the only language we know fluently
 
@ASCII-only there is already PPCG github repo: github.com/ppcg
 
Excuse me?
 
11:15 PM
@quartata "quote" from gandhi
 
You should change your name to Mersenne Twister. Because you are so random, I don't even know what you are on about half of the time.
 
^ Relevant
 
"Our words are backed... WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS"
               - Gandhi
 
@TuxCopter I wonder if anyone ever actually analyzed that sequence for randomness.
 
It's in the discussion of the explainxkcd
Yes it is
 
11:20 PM
@TuxCopter Reminds me of this: m12.imgup.net/big05f6.png
 
Since most of PPCG Perl code look like )(*&%^7*(ayguhi7^&%*(523789, seems legit
'night
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Socratic PhoenixRoot Division Difference Functions [sandbox-note: this is going to be a series of challenges. The introduction will be consistent across all challenges, while the challenges themselves will differ. I will start with the first challenge, and updated this specific answer as I add new challenges] ...

 
math question: can one derive the fourier transform by taking the inverse fourier transform which can be derived basically from common sense, and then solving for F()? I couldn't get anywhere with that approach
 
11:38 PM
Anyone ever used chaos or order? This basically abuses C pre-processors in all ways possible to do compile-time computations and code generation. Extremely confusing to use, but awesome.
 
I just thought it was sad that I have about 7 different communities/personas and not one of them overlap other than usernames
 
@DmitryKudriavtsev I made something like that a while ago, generating things like "The Ferocious Cherry" and "The Invisible Castle"
 
I didn't make that
It's from the understandable sentence question (now closed)
 
Huh, I must not have seen that question
Have you seen videogamena.me ? It does a similar thing
 
> Tom Clancy's Aerobics Shack
 
11:46 PM
Man, F# looks great but its pattern matching syntax is so ugly
 
How so?
 
2
Q: Pairable strings

xnorA string is pairable if it can be split into subtrings, each of which is a string repeated twice consecutively. For example, aabaaababbbaba is pairable as: aaba aaba b b ba ba Given a non-empty string of a's and b's, output a Truthy value if it's pairable and a Falsey value if it isn't. Paira...

 
I wanted to connect to GH on my phone, so I wanted to use LastPass, but I need to connect to my Google account, and the password of my Google account is on LastPass
Rip
 
let recursiveThing a b =
  match (a,b) with
  | (0,0) -> 0
  | (x,y) -> recursiveThing x-1 y-1
vs
recursiveThing(0,0) -> 0;
recursiveThing(x,y) -> recursiveThing(x-1,y-1).
Maybe just an opinion thing.
I could probably get use to it but
 

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