@El'endiaStarman The stopping-aging thing seems the most disturbing to me somehow. Half the people in this room could still be alive 200 years hence o_O
Eh. I never understood the appeal of immortality. I only really want to live to 80-90 tops. No sense in watching all the people around you die and everything change
I think that, as the database got bigger, it took more time to retrieve stuff from the database, which ended up making recent days take minutes to parse and record.
@quartata That's my favorite anecdote about the Highlander movie. Queen was the artist behind the soundtrack, and one of their songs was the powerful "Who Wants to Live Forever?" The director/producers of the movie liked the song so much and the song's message so much, they adjusted the storyline of the movie to make it a stronger main theme.
@HelkaHomba The sad thing about immortality is that you'd outlive the whole life on earth for the biggest part of your life you'd be just in a lifeless uninteresting place in space forever. Probably suffering from very uncomfortable environments with only the certainty that you will not die. Probably having forgotten that other life ever existed.
@MartinEnder I don't want to continue the discussion on Adam's post, but I want to say that I realize your meta post says "If there is no interaction between the challenges, then the post is off topic." and the comment posted by DJMcMayhem says "If the challenges are unrelated, then the post is off topic."
@flawr Well, I'm talking stopping or reversing biological aging from the video El linked, not full immortality. Surely after a few thousand years you'd get in a fatal accident
@HelkaHomba I recently saw the movie Jupiter Ascending, where a major theme was of very technologically-advanced humans fighting over ways to get more time to live and do stuff. Despite living to 50,000+.
@HelkaHomba Do you even have memories of all the time you've been alive? And would you want to? I'd think not. Plus, another 50,000 years of our technological progress would probably make that a moot issue.
i am highly doubting that... HDDs only go up to 10-15TB max from what i can find. I don't think an SSD could have 6x capacity of HDD without absurd price
Even better: if history is anything to go by, our grandchildren will have hand-sized devices with many terabytes (maybe even petabytes?) of storage capacity.
@Downgoat Yeah, one would think so. There's certainly an information density limit beyond which packing more information into the same volume makes it into a black hole.
@ConorO'Brien @Rubypeople Does anyone know how backwards-compatible different versions of Ruby are? I'd hate to break existing interpreters by updating Ruby...
@Downgoat People have a funny habit of adjusting their spending depending on their priorities... (In other words, you won't necessarily find it strange that you're spending so much on data in 20 years.)
@HelkaHomba I'm assuming you mean stuff like xfinity wifi, i get that almost everywhere where i live but there tend to be so many people connected, you can barely connect, if you do, it's dog-slow
For this challenge, you will be writing a program or function which outputs (or prints) (in a reasonable format,i.e single string or a string[] of lines) a chess board indicate all the possible moves of a piece given an empty board.
There are 5 chess pieces (for this challenge a pawn may be igno...
I just realized I have 3 nested layers of tabs open on my phone: the apps list, multiple tabs on Firefox, and SE chatrooms, between which I can jump in a single FF tab.
Chess converter
There's quite a lot of work that's been done in the world of chess. For example, there is a standardized file format, .pgn, that describes a chess game, including the list of moves. Additionally, there's another file format .fen, that describes a board position. The challenge ...
The imperial and US customary systems of measurement are two closely inter-related systems of measurement both derived from earlier English system of measurement units which can be traced back to Ancient Roman units of measurement, and Carolingian and Saxon units of measure.
US Customary units, developed and used in the United States after the American Revolution, are based on a subset of the English units used in the Thirteen Colonies, while the Imperial system of units was developed and used after 1824 in the United Kingdom and subsequently used in the rest of the Commonwealth. US Customary units...
Turkish Information and Communication Technologies Authority Chairman: 3 Mbps [not MBps] of connection speed is enough for everything, you can even watch UHD movies.
Greek numerals is a system of representing numbers using the letters of the Greek alphabet. These alphabetic numerals are also known by names Ionic or Ionian numerals, Milesian numerals, and Alexandrian numerals. In modern Greece, they are still used for ordinal numbers and in situations similar to those in which Roman numerals are still used elsewhere in the West. For ordinary cardinal numbers, however, Greece uses Arabic numerals.
== History ==
The Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations' Linear A and Linear B alphabets used a different system, called Aegean numerals, which included speciali...
Is there anyway to make the standard OEIS challenge more interesting? Because you can do Print the first <n> of this sequence, or print this sequence up to <n>, or determine if <n> is in this sequence. Are there any other/more interesting ways?
Write a program or function that takes in a nonempty single-line string. You may assume it only contains printable ASCII excluding space.
Print or return an ASCII art lozenge shape similar to a lemon or lime made from the prefixes of the string.
For example, if the input is Lemon, the output sh...
@βετѧΛєҫαγ Not really. I spent most of the time doing something else since I got called away from my computer. :P Tio! is designed so adding new languages is rather easy. I do think you should do something about the Code and Input thingies though.
@ConorO'Brien I installed Ruby 2.0 and it works locally, but it doesn't work if the source code isn't in the same directory as the interpreter. That's technically impossible, since the Apache/tio user doesn't have write access.
@ConorO'Brien None of this is an issue if I don't have to cd into the directory. Replacing load "funcs.rb" with require_relative 'funcs' should fix that.
A Proth number, named after François Proth, is a number that can be expressed as
N = k * 2^n + 1
Where k is an odd positive integer and n is a positive integer such that 2^n > k. Let's use a more concrete example. Take 3. 3 is a Proth number because it can be written as
(1 * 2^1) + 1
and 2^1 >
@βετѧΛєҫαγ @zyabin101 No problem. BTW, static content (like HTML/JS) is always cached and changes might take quite some time to roll out. If you need changes to apply immediately, ping me so I can kick the server into dev mode for a few hours.
BTW: New features in the YouTube API available now.