The Nineteenth Byte

irb(main):001:0> def f(x)
irb(main):002:1> x + 2
irb(main):003:1> end
=> :f
irb(main):004:0> f 3 + 4
=> 9
irb(main):005:0> 3 * f 4 - 2
SyntaxError: (irb):5: syntax error, unexpected tINTEGER, expecting keyword_do or '{' or '('
3 * f 4 - 2
       ^
        from C:/Ruby23-x64/bin/irb.cmd:19:in `<main>'

MD XF

Q: You can get bounties from CW answers, right?

ATaco

12:22 AM

Yay! Lua!

DJMcMayhem

@MDXF I believe so, yes

MD XF

Okay thanks

Since I no longer care about StackOverflow I've been setting a few bounties to exemplary answers

And I just realized, one was on a CW question

Conor O'Brien

Why, Lua?

ATaco

(It's calling "Print" and using it's return value to set the call function of strings)

Lua actually sees, getmetatable("string").__call = print("asdf")

Helka Homba

To Europeans here, are pickup trucks common in Europe?

ATaco

12:29 AM

Australians have the Ute, which is almost a pickup truck.

Helka Homba

oh dear

Conor O'Brien

In Souge's approximation for Gamma(z), does anyone know what does ε_a(z) represents?

ais523

@HelkaHomba not unheard of but not common either; they're normally used by builders/construction workers, (it's plausible that farmers use them too but I don't live somewhere where I see a lot of farmers)

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Q: Quote my quote!

A quotation is "the repetition of one expression as part of another one". In American English, a quotation is surrounded by double-quotation marks ("), as in the previous sentence. However, this rule differs when a quote appears inside another quote. In this case, the inner quote is surrounded by...

ais523

I think the name "flatbed truck" is probably more common in British English, at least

Mendeleev

12:36 AM

TIL GNU Octave has "richard Stallman Facts"

>> fact

On the first day Richard Stallman said M-x create-light.

>> fact

Rather than being birthed like a normal child, Richard Stallman instead
instantiated himself polymorphically. Shortly thereafter he grew a beard.

>> fact

Richard Stallman wrote a program so powerful it knows the question to 42.

>> fact

Richard Stallman can telnet into Mordor.

>> fact

Richard Stallman didn't write the GPL. He is the GPL.

>> fact

Richard Stallman called his operating system GNU because he created it before

Helka Homba

@ais523 How do people move house? Or move large pieces of furniture around?

Mendeleev

@HelkaHomba u haul style trucks?

MD XF

gold

ais523

@HelkaHomba you hire a removal company; they normally use lorries to do so (I think the US term for that is a "semi truck")

it's a rare enough operation that having the equipment to do it yourself wouldn't be cost-effective

ATaco

Nah I think a Semi-truck is bigger than a Lorry

ais523

12:39 AM

(the construction industry is a bit of an exception, it often does move things that bulky around frequently, so having their own equipment to do so makes sense)

ATaco

Then again, we call most forms of truck just, "Truck" in Australia, barring road trains.

Helka Homba

"semi" is variable in the US but usually means 18 wheeler

ais523

ah, OK

I'm thinking of things shaped like that but a bit smaller, maybe 6-8 wheels, with a separate cab and a large cuboid-shaped space for storage

Helka Homba

moving trucks could come in the size of a semi but will usually be smaller

ATaco

Keep in mind we move different size houses.

ais523

12:42 AM

at least in the UK, houses tend to be very small by US standards

as there isn't a lot of space here

(very high population density)

Helka Homba

elledecor.com/life-culture/fun-at-home/news/a7654/… says Australia has biggest homes

> In fact, exactly 22.6 Hong Kong homes could fit into the average Australian residence.

ATaco

The issue with that is it assumes we own homes.

Helka Homba

yes

I guess you live in a taco shell box

ATaco

Then again, the 2013 census says that as much as 74% of Australians live in private homes, which I guess really depends on where you live.

Source

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Q: Draw A Reuleaux Triangle!

The Reuleaux triangle is the shape formed by the intersection of three circles, with each circle passing through the others' centers. Regardless of rotation, a Reuleaux triangle's width will always equal the radius of the circles: Image: Wolfram MathWorld Write a program that takes a width r ...

code-golf graphical-output geometry

MD XF

12:52 AM

Q: How can I rotate a two-dimensional array like this, but counter-clockwise?

musicman523

@MDXF I think (haven't tried it) that you would swap the indices for each line (so [0][2] becomes [2][0], etc)

Mendeleev

JS thinks that 123412353421651465555 + 1 == 123412353421651460000

MD XF

Yeah I thought about that, I'll test it

@Mendeleev Integer overflow probably

Mendeleev

> JS

Jan Dvorak

And you know what? Javascript is right.

2

Mendeleev

12:59 AM

> "Integer"

pls

ASCII-only

@Mendeleev Floats

Mendeleev

I know

are they even double precision?

ASCII-only

@Mendeleev Yes?

Mendeleev

ah

Has anyone seen this?

musicman523

@MDXF It seems to work. Try it online!

MD XF

1:01 AM

@musicman523 Cool! Thanks :-)

ASCII-only

> your username or any part thereof

musicman523

@MDXF Obviously some of the switching was unnecessary, because it was changing like ([1][0], [0][1]) to ([0][1], [1][0]), but conceptually it made more sense to change them all

ASCII-only

:| it can't include a single letter of your username

MD XF

@musicman523 Yeah. Oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

musicman523

I think the worst part is "An acccount owner must change his or her password when prompted by the system."

If someone gets a keylogger into the system and then forces everyone to update their password.....

Conor O'Brien

1:04 AM

@Mendeleev so do many languages...

musicman523

Waaaaaaaaaaaaait
"A password must not include your social security number or any subset of your social security number that is more than a single number."
If they check for this programmatically, that probably means there is a folder somewhere in their database _containing all their employees' SS numbers in plaintext...._

Mendeleev

@ASCII-only Or the combination "42" for me because it's in my SSN

Or the letters a, I, as, whatever

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