@DJMcMayhem @Doorknob Thinking back about this comment I wrote, I fear it may have indirectly contributed to you guys not having some extra hands in the mod team. I'm sorry about that part. I hope the amount of work is manageable for you, and thanks for your great work!
king-of-the-hillpython
2 Player Crescent
Some Background
Recently I've discovered the game of Mornington Crescent, a game where rules are pretty much made up on the fly. These rules can seem pretty odd at first, but it turns out to be quite enjoyable.
Anyhow, I saw this as an opportunity to c...
Can you recover a sequence of letters from a sequence of dots and dashes? In Morse code, x is represented by -..-, but without the help of spaces, -..---.-... could represent xmas, or dole, or teettteteee, etc.
I took the lyrics from "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" to make the following sequen...
It's partially present here: ncase.me/simulating/index_old.html but the interactivity is broken, which is sort of the whole point of it. If anyone wants to look at it how it was intended, you'll need to host the last good version yourself.
(completely unrelated news. it turns out that tq is extremely difficult to implement, and it took me ~4 hours to implement part of the langauge before i ran out of time. (i had to sleep at midnight.))
@a'_' I noticed you had str([a])[1:-1] instead of repr(a) (or something; forget what the variable name was). Any particular obscure behaviour I should know about?
I just found this answer on the "New answers to old questions" list, and looking at the comment I was shocked to see it was coming... from the past!
Is this a bug?
EDIT: Summarizing what's been discussed in the comments below, and looking at the post's revisions it seems the answer was reall...
> Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that, we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.
> Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that, we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.
Did I just call it Conway's CPU? I think reading Doc Future might've permanently damaged my ability not to invent dramatic pseudo-mythological proper noun phrases of the form Name's Thing.
> When a fronted lisp does not have a sibilant quality, due to placing the lack of a grooved articulation, the IPA transcription would be [θ, ð] or variants thereof.
king-of-the-hillpython
2 Player Crescent
Some Background
Recently I've discovered the game of Mornington Crescent, a game where rules are pretty much made up on the fly. These rules can seem pretty odd at first, but it turns out to be quite enjoyable.
Anyhow, I saw this as an opportunity to c...