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7:00 PM

@Mego US Presidential elections were 2012 and 2008 ...

Anonymous

@Geobits In Texas, liquor stores can only be open 7 am - midnight M-F and 7 am - 1 am Saturday. Lots of cities/counties have even stricter times (my county is 8am-10pm M-F and 8am-midnight Saturday).

The POTY for 2006 was "You"

Anyway, the poison of choice in Indonesia is clove cigarettes. The secondhand smoke is already hell on my lungs and sinuses. I don't want to go near firsthand smoke

Anonymous

@TimmyD Exactly. Every president-elect was POTY in 2006.

Ah, gotcha.

Anonymous

7:01 PM

(at least for the next 30-ish years)

Laws are funny like that around here. Like one says you can't sell liquor in grocery stores (beer/wine is okay though). So what do major grocery stores do? Partition the building so that they have a tiny "Publix Liquors" or whatever on one side. As long as there's a separation so you can't walk from one to the other without going outside, it's okay.

I've seen stores literally rope off certain aisles on Sunday because they're in a dry county.

@Mego I lived in a dry county for seven years or so. Luckily, not too far from the county line.

Anonymous

@Geobits In Texas, it's a little more sane. Liquor stores aren't allowed to be on property owned by a grocery store. So, naturally, the grocery stores made umbrella parent corporations that manage both the grocery store company and the liquor store company that has a store right next door.

Our legislators looked at the US 21 year old age limit for alcohol and said "Great idea!" and now I'm just glad I turned 21 this September

7:04 PM

Chat Mini-Challenge -- code-golf Dice Roller. Given three integer inputs, a,b,c with a,b > 1 and -10 < c < 10, output the summation result of a b-sided die rolled a times, plus c.

@Mego Hmm. It might be the same way here, now that I think about it. Most grocery stores are in little mini-plazas, so I bet the store itself doesn't own that land, but "Publix Inc Holdings Ltd" does or something.

Anonymous

@Sherlock9 There's an unwritten rule in Texas that bartenders will turn a blind eye to military personnel if they're under 21. Breaking pseudo-federal law by serving alcohol to someone under 21 is much less severe of an offense than "not supporting the military" here.

Still haven't bought any alcohol since September, though, because I'm still broke.

@Mego They're not doing them any favors. Getting caught underage drinking in the military is waaaaay too serious nowadays. I've seen many careers ruined over it.

I can imagine :D Our military is more neutral in most people's view, I think

Anonymous

7:05 PM

@TimmyD dupe

Then again, most people still remember the last dictatorship. It only ended 18 years ago

Anonymous

@Geobits From what I understand, it really depends on who your CO is, and what you do while drunk. Throw up on base while drunk? You'll probably get to PT until you puke some more. Destruction of private property? Yeah you're in trouble.

@Mego Borderline dupe.

Anonymous

@TimmyD The only difference is simplified input and the constant modifier parameter. It's a dupe. :P

Maybe I should take it to Meta.

7:09 PM

Hmmm... Is taking numeric input/output in unary in vim reasonable?

@Mego It probably does vary from place to place, unit to unit. In every place I was stationed, though, it was treated almost, but not quite, as harshly as a DUI.

who wants a fun brainteaser

Now once you're 21 you can show up to work still half-drunk every now and then. That's when PT-til-you-puke comes in ;)

Anonymous

@TimmyD Actually, 6 bytes: R∙#JΣ+. Takes input as b\na\nc

I have two sealed envelopes with a check in them. Both checks are filled and everything, and I'm giving you the option to take one of them home and cash the check inside. One of the two checks is made out for exactly twice as much money as the other check.
Once you choose an envelope, you can open it up and see how much the check is made out for. You are then given the option of taking that check home, or trading it back to me and taking the other check.
You pick an envelope and see that it is made out for exactly $200.

7:13 PM

@Mego I don't think that works right. Input of 6\n3\n0 always gives 6...?

@TimmyD something like perl -pe 'eval"\$;+=1+~~rand $_;"x<>;$_=<>+$' (take the input as a\nb\nc

@GabrielBenamy I kick you in the junk and take both checks while making the Zoidberg scuttle sound.

Anonymous

@TimmyD Sorry, I said it backwards. c\na\nb.

Anonymous

I'm used to thinking in terms of a stack. When input is pushed, it ends up on the stack in reverse order.

Gotcha.

7:17 PM

May I ask for opinions on this challenge in the sandbox? Peter Taylor thinks it would be a dup, I don't really agree (and it has 4 upvotes, so I assume some people like it).. any thoughts?

> WHOOP whoop whoop whoop whoop...

Hurray, I'm useful! I'm having a wonderful time!

Anonymous

@Dada I disagree with Peter. (news at 10)

@Mego Huhu, thanks! If no one else thinks like Peter I guess I'll post it

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Q: Why was my question put on hold, what can I do to improve it

Yesterday I asked this question which was very quickly put on hold. As I rarely contribute here, I wouldn't have been surprised if my question has been closed as uninteresting, or too hard, or too easy, but the last thing I expected was the reason currently alleged, "unclear what you're asking"....

@GabrielBenamy guess it depends how much 200 is worth to you

if it's 50-50 i'd probably take that gamble

7:28 PM

@Poke Assume your goal is to maximize your profits.

What if it was "one of these envelopes contains exactly ten times as much"?

@Poke did you watch that video of the Atari 2600 emulator in Minecraft?

@Yodle yes. slow as heck

60 frames per...4 hours

@GabrielBenamy $20 is still nice

does it run though?

7:30 PM

@GabrielBenamy Yep fully functional in vanilla (uses lots of command blocks)

@GabrielBenamy pretty sure there's no difference between switching or keeping unless you have more than 2 envelopes

Naively, you'd think that since there's a 50% chance you net +$1800, and a 50% chance you net -$180, meaning there's a net gain of +$810

maybe if you're choosing multiple times

okay, how about this one

I've read the answer to this several times, but I don't care about the logic behind it. I'll take my $200 and see you later.

It's free money.

Anonymous

7:33 PM

@GabrielBenamy If you're trying to maximize your profits and your only information is that one envelope contains $X and the other envelope contains either $X/Y or $X*Y, you should always switch. For X,Y > 1, X*Y-X > X-X/Y, so you have more to gain by switching.

It's kinda like Monty Hall. Ok, I guess I could switch for slightly better odds of a car, but I'll be happy with a goat. At least that's a free meal.

@Mego but then that's infinitely true

you could switch forever

You're on a game show. There are three doors, One of the doors has a car behind it, the other two have goats. Assume for the purpose of this problem, you are not a member of TNB, and you actually want the car.
You select a door. After you do, the host opens one of the remaining doors that doesn't have the car, and reveals a goat. You now have two doors remaining -- yours and one other. You are given the chance to switch.
Is there any benefit to switching? What do you do?
(If you already know the answer to this problem, don't answer it please)

Ninja'd ;)

@Poke You're only given 2 envelopes

7:35 PM

@Poke Does that mean I get infinite money?

@Poke If you switch, there is no more switching

Anonymous

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Anonymous

@GabrielBenamy I think everybody who has had intro to probability and statistics knows the Monty Hall problem

@Mego That.

you're not given enough information to be able to know there's more to gain by switching envelopes. it's a paradox

7:36 PM

You'd think, but I spent an hour explaining it to my dad

But you are though.

@Poke You're given exactly enough information, as demonstrated by Mego

@Xanderhall The argument still holds. If you have X and determine the expected value is higher if you switch to Y, then you have to use the same logic and see that once you have Y, you'd have been better off with X, since it now has the higher expected value.

^ that

@Geobits That's expanding the bounds of the problem.

Anonymous

@Poke Let's say your envelope has $200 in it, and the other envelope has either double ($400) or half ($100). If you switch, you either gain $200 or lose $100. You have more to gain than you do to lose, ergo you should switch.

7:37 PM

The initial problem was with exactly 2 envelopes.

@Mego that's why i would switch since at least i know what was in both

I only used X and Y, so I didn't change the number of them.

but probability-speaking it's not better

@Geobits But there has to be a finite number, otherwise you switch infinitely.

Anonymous

@Geobits That doesn't work though, because once you switch to Y, you know the values of both envelopes. Either your gambit paid off and you got the higher value envelope, or it didn't and you're stuck with the lower-value envelope.

7:38 PM

monty hall is different

i know that one already, though

@Mego I agree that switching is better. I also agree it's a dumb choice that I'll never have to make.

@Poke Not really

Anonymous

If you're doing the same scenario lots of times (with a randomly-selected first envelope), you'll end up with more money by switching every time.

@Xanderhall yes really >.>

The total amount of money in both envelopes is constant

Because seriously, if a guy hands me an envelope with $200 in it, I'm just going to walk away with it. I don't really care that much what else I could have gotten.

7:40 PM

you can represent it with 3x

x in one and 2x in the other

if you select the envelope with x in it first

you can gain x by swapping

if you select the envelope with 2x first

you can lose x by swapping

@Poke I have X doors. 1 of them has something of value, the rest have nothing. You pick one door, I open one door and show that it has nothing of value behind it. Do you switch to another door?

Anonymous

If you do it N times and you have X and either X*Y or X/Y, by not switching every time, you end up with N*X. By switching every time, you end up with (on average) N*(X*Y-X/Y)/2, which is larger than N*X for X, Y > 1.

so on average you can gain .5(x)+.5(-x) = 0 by swapping

Ugh. What's the name of this stupid problem anyway? I can't remember.

two envelopes problem

7:41 PM

Go figure

@Xanderhall you switch

if x > 2

@Poke Exactly. The number is arbitrary.

@Mego How the deuce does that work.

for x > 2 it's arbitrary

otherwise you had a 50% chance of getting the reward either way

if there are 2 doors, you're not given the option to switch

that would be dumb

No, you should switch even if X>2

7:43 PM

@DJMcMayhem that's what i'm saying

you only switch if x > 2

Anonymous

How about a different problem? You are playing a game where you flip a coin. Initially, the prize pot is $1. If you get tails, you win the prize pot. If you get heads, the prize pot is doubled, and you play again. How much is a fair amount (to both the player and the house) to pay to get to play the game?

Oh

otherwise you don't get the option

me: [asks a paradoxical question to the chat]
me: [walks away laughing while the entire chat devolves into an argument about probability]

I didn't see your edit, nvmd

7:45 PM

@Poke I give you a choice of 2 doors. One door has something better than the other one. You pick one and see it's contents, and are allowed to switch if you want.

Anonymous

"fair amount" meaning, on average, the house and player neither lose nor gain money.

What do you do?

It's not a mathematical problem at that point.

Anonymous

@Xanderhall Knock out the host, take the prizes behind both doors.

@Mego Correct.

@Xanderhall that's different than your original question but it's going to be based on what i get

7:45 PM

@Poke Exactly.

Has nothing to do with math.

yay i got my first WontFix

in the envelope problem you don't know if you have the "reward"

A few minutes later, the goat from behind door C drives away in the car.

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the reason you switch in the monty hall problem is because your chance of getting the reward on your first guess is relatively lower than after more doors are opened

if there are only two doors that's a different puzzle

@Mego Sumo'd

Anonymous

7:48 PM

@TimmyD Hah, I completely missed that because I was working on the CMC :P

like you said if there are 1000 doors and I pick one, you would open 998 revealing no reward. The chance that I picked correctly initially are 1/1000

which is extremely low

so of course i would switch

Anonymous

@TimmyD I love that people call it the Zoidberg sound, even though it's a reference to the Three Stooges

Ah, so my clever CMC distraction worked. Excellent. Phase Alpha is complete.

So in deal or no deal, always switch at the end?

in deal or no deal, take the deal

7:51 PM

A man buys a regular-hexagonal clock for his wife while on vacation. The clock has no numbers or symbols of any kind -- the face is completely blank, but it has an hour hand and a minute hand. One day, while his wife is at work, he looks at the clock, and rotates the clock itself so that it is resting on a different one of its six sides. Other than the fact that the time is wrong, he sees no way to tell that the clock has been turned.

His wife comes home and immediately turns the clock upright. How did she do it?

she looked at the back of the clock

where the battery compartment is

She looked at the front of the clock and immediately recognized that it was turned incorrectly.

she had a watch on

The solution to this problem lies in some property about how clocks in general work.

she was trying to play the same trick on her husband

no second hand?

does the minute hand tick or move smoothly over the course of 60 seconds

New Sandboxed Posts

7:56 PM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

I tried searching for this, thinking it was a duplicate. I was unable to find anything (hard to know what to search for), so let me know if it is. The Challenge We all know how to apply bitwise not to a binary number. It simply flips all the bits, so 10010 becomes 01101. For this challenge, ...

@Poke That always frustrated me the couple times I watched that show. Like, there was someone who was really into fishing, and one of the deals was "Here's this new boat, and a truck to tow it, and a weekend fishing vacation with <*Big Name Professional Fisherman*>" and the person was like "Nope!"

@GabrielBenamy She has a clock in her pocket like most people nowadays.

@Poke The movement of the minute hand is continuous. There is no second hand. An additional clock is not required to be able to do what she did.

She got home at like 6pm or something, where the orientation of the hands should be obvious.

does the clock run on batteries

7:58 PM

@Poke The clock runs on some unidentifiable internal power source that does not require maintenance.

@TimmyD You're on the right track, but the time she got home is irrelevant.

Do you guys want the answer?

It's kind of silly, to be honest. At a minimum, rotating the clock would put the hour off by two. Most people usually know the time within an hour or so even without a second clock.

Especially when they're coming home from work, or something like that where the schedule is well known.

@Geobits But the hour hand isn't the only thing being rotated, is it?

But you don't need more than the hour hand if you know (roughly) what hour it is.

they put the clock so the hands are face down?

Let's say she doesn't. Let's say she has no sense of time and doesn't know if it's 3am or 9:45pm

but she knows a lot about clocks

8:12 PM

is it ticking?

because some old clocks have pendulums

the clock is making the sounds it usually makes

the clock is weighted

This isn't a "trick" question, there is no hidden property of the clock that I've neglected to mention.

So you just figure out what orientation it should be in from the minute hand. It will be closer/further from 30-deg intervals depending on what time of the hour it is.

James Holderness

You can tell from the position of the hour hand where the minute hand should be.

What Geobits said.

8:19 PM

You might have said it better lol

A clock with 6-sides cannot be oriented in any way other than upright to allow the minute hand and hour hand to be positioned in a valid way.

As in, if the hour hand is at a 15-deg offset, then the minute hand should be pointing at six.

Exactly.

So the next question is -- how many sides must a clock have so that no matter which way you orient it, it will always display a valid (not necessarily the current) time?

I still like both my previous answers better. People should just know roughly what time it is :P

James Holderness

At this point the clock is probably in pieces since the wife smashed it over the husband's head.

6

8:22 PM

@GabrielBenamy Circles work best for that I think ;)

@Geobits Nope, because I can roll it 60 degrees and it's now as though it were a hexagon rotated one face.

James Holderness

@GabrielBenamy Two. An inside and an outside.

what

@GabrielBenamy I don't see how that argument can be refuted no matter how many sides it has. If you can arbitrarily rotate it any amount of degrees, then...

But since the clock is circular, you have no way to measure what the "offset" from a certain degree is.

So you can't say, "oh, the hour hand is 10 degrees from an even hour, therefore..."

@Geobits Let's say both hands are pointing in the same direction, and I've rotated it 10 degrees. On a regular clock, are both hands pointing in the same direction when the hour hand has moved 10 degrees from upright?

8:27 PM

No. But you don't know anything about the rotation. The hexagon trick works because you can easily see where the hour "should" be.

With a circular clock and unknown rotation, I can't think of any configuration of hands that isn't valid.

[tag:ception]

lol. That was unexpected.

See, this is why digital clocks with numerical displays were invented.

I bet the husband rotating the clock is also the same guy that my math textbooks warned me about when he purchases 176 pineapples and wants to evenly divide them into 12 shopping bags.

@ETHproductions I was looking over this post codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/102128/61613 I was wondering how you came to that regex. I spent some time trying to solve that one, just wondering what your logic was working that one out. It was well done. Also, you would one execute s=>/^((si|ta|l)n?|co?|log?|[ste])+$/.test(s), shouldn't it be in function format like f=n=>new RegExp("^(s|t|co?|(l|ta|si)n?|log?|e)+$").test(n)?

@Geobits Both hands pointed directly down is invalid

$user image$

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@GabrielBenamy Sure it's valid. The clock is rotated 180 degrees and it's either midnight or noon.

8:41 PM

@GabrielBenamy Not if it's rotated. My point is if the clock is rotated an unknown amount, then the only thing you have to go on (for a circular clock) is the angle between hands, which doesn't help.

@Geobits The question is, how many sides does it have so that every rotation displays a valid display

As I said, a circle fits perfectly.

but a circle allows a situation where both hands are pointed down, which is not a valid display.

How is midnight (or noon) rotated 180 degrees not valid?

Oh, I see what you're saying... Not what I thought you were asking at all.

8:43 PM

@TimmyD Because the problem asks that after it's rotated, what you see now is valid. Both hands pointing down cannot be valid. It can be a rotated form of a valid, but it itself is not valid.

@GabrielBenamy One side. Since there are no rotations possible except the default one, all are valid.

@Geobits I'd like for you to construct me a one-sided polygon, please :P

You never said anything about polygons :P

You just like being trouble, don't you

Well, yes.

It's part of my ~~programming~~ genetics.

8:45 PM

@GabrielBenamy Oooooohhhhhhhh

Wanna try again?

I don't think there is one.

There is, and it's a 2-digit number

Maybe a 13 sided, but I can't properly visualize it in my head.

It would have to be a clock that has a flat surface on 6 and a point at 12

So that it's valid when upright but not 180-flipped

How many times do the hour hand and minute hand overlap during a 12-hour period?

8:53 PM

@TimmyD That just means not-even as far as I can tell.

11

So if each one of those overlaps were able to be rotated so that they pointed directly up, you wouldn't be able to tell that it's rotated unless you actually knew what time it was now

so a clock shaped like a regular 11-gon would be able to be rotated and still display a valid (not necessarily current) time when viewed from its new orientation

I'm pretty sure anyone who makes an eleven-sided clock with no numbers or orientation guides is at least a bit insane.

@Geobits new project: build myself an 11-sided clock with no numbers or orientation guides

@Geobits Probably from eating too many pineapples.

VARIATION: If a god is faced with a question to which neither answer is possible, his head explodes. In this variation you are allowed only two questions.

Does this mean I don't get an answer

9:04 PM

"It means you get this answer"

You didn't say he had to answer only yes/no.

I switch questions.

That would be a silly restriction for a god.

Switching questions is a silly restriction? No, I thought that's what we just spent the past two hours learning? You always switch.

Not envelopes. The more I think about that one, the more convinced I am you shouldn't switch (or that it makes no difference anyway).

You always switch doors though :P

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Q: Generate me a QFP chip!

Generate me a QFP chip! From the sandbox! QFP is a type of form factor for an electrical component where pins come out the sides of a chip. Here are is a picture of a typical QFP component: you can see that the general formula is to have 4 sides of equal numbers of pins. Your challenge is t...

code-golf kolmogorov-complexity

9:08 PM

OK, so if this god takes his envelope, and slips it through the mailslot in the unopened door that I haven't chosen, that means I win a goat?

And if shklee doesn't do that, I win an 11-sided clock.

Only if you can pick a pair of matching socks out of your drawer without looking.

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

Not if he's holding a potato

Since all my socks are the same, that means I get a prize!

@TimmyD Congrats! You win a box with a maybe-alive cat in it!

Yay!

9:13 PM

This means that the cat can be dead too, so animal abuse eleven11!!1111!!!!

how big is "eleventy-eleven"

!!11!!!1111111!

cmc: calculate the md5 hashes of all posts in TNB and, splitting the results in half bit-wise, perform a monte-carlo estimation of pi

wut

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

somebody quoted wikipedia on proper contraction use in an edit

and he wasn't wrong

10/10

@Geobits can confirm cat is alive, source: I looked

9:17 PM

@GabrielBenamy Done. I got 4

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

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@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ So an average reddit user? I don't get it.

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

@Geobits No, average PPCG user.

imgs.xkcd.com/comics/metallurgy.png .

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@Geobits it's adam savage in a bear costume, so yeah

@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC xkcd oneboxes

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ extremely small; unreadable

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

9:24 PM

not really

This exotic blade was wrought from a different fallen star. The meteorite was a carbonaceous chondrite, so it's basically a lump of gravel glued into the shape of a sword. A SPACE sword!

seems readable to me

Still not very funny though, sadly.

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

I used a direct image link, apparently that's unreadable

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

no, it's just unnecessary and kinda annoying to click

Oneboxed or not, everyone knows the best part of xkcd is the hovertext anyway.

9:28 PM

An S...P........ACE! sword!

4. They unplug the root machine but the thousands of leaf VMs scatter in the wind and start spinning up new instances wherever they land

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

@GabrielBenamy @El'endiaStarman hint hint

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

you should probably stop pinging him about stuff, before it gets annoying

what?

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Yeah...

9:33 PM

all I know is someone said something to me and someone said stop pinging him

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

I wasn't talking about you, don't worry

pls halp I am bored

me, too

@obarakon Thanks for asking. The logic behind it is a little too long to explain here, so I'll add an explanation in the post when I have time. Also, anonymous functions (i.e. functions without an assignment) are allowed under the condition that prepending e.g. f= will assign f to the function. f=s=>/^((si|ta|l)n?|co?|log?|[ste])+$/.test(s) is valid, but s=>/^((si|ta|l)n?|co?|log?|[ste])+$/.test(s) is also.

(Also, I'm not sure why you create the regex with the RegExp function in your version; /regex/ syntax works just fine.)

CMC: Find the utility of the comma in ^^

9:36 PM

@TuxCopter it's to separate the main clause from the secondary one

There's no comma in ^^

@Geobits ಠ_ಠ

I don't understand the question if that's not what you meant. I don't see any issues with the comma usage in the message.

@BlueEyedBeast But too is an adverb, so me too is too applied to me, but me, too is me and too in separate clauses

And it seems invalid

@TuxCopter ^^ was 33975979

9:38 PM

Oh >_>

I tought the message was a big block of text

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@TuxCopter Sorry to ninja you :P

@ETHproductions ;_; y u do dis

"Me, too" is perfectly fine anyway. Some style manuals don't require the comma there, while some do, but it isn't wrong at all.

~~You pressed enter too early~~

9:41 PM

You spoke too soon.

;_;

Are you human or a bot? Google’s new invisible reCAPTCHA will decide

Uh oh. I'd figured out how to fool the one-click thing pretty easily, but this sounds difficult. Good thing there aren't captchas here.

You just need to subtly move the mouse like a human does.

... The captcha is that stupid???

9:47 PM

I dunno. That's speculated as one possible method. Google hasn't revealed it fully.

There's more to it than that. I don't want to reveal my actual methods though.

Does anyone have a link that uses this captcha?

I want to see how hard it is to fail it.

Their new invisible one isn't released yet.

~~virtually any site signup page~~ ah for the invisible one

their one-click reCAPTCHA has been around for a while.

9:51 PM

what do you mean you guys can get around CAPTCHAs

my programmer hasn't been able to figure that one out yet

> my programmer

@GabrielBenamy You don't program yourself yet? Amateur :P

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

clickclickclick.click

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^ says everything you do aloud through browser events

"Subject seems unsatisfied""

10:09 PM

@quartata did you end up beating my level?

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

New kurzgesagt!

A New History for Humanity – The Human Era

I'm just sitting here typing on my keyboard in an otherwise completely silent room full of developers, and all of a sudden my iPhone says (very loudly) "I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you said."

Does that mean that my typing sounds like "hey siri"?

Or perhaps the atmospheric noise (the air conditioner)

Or maybe it's the friction in my jeans

Maybe it's trying to get your attention. It knows something.

Or maybe it was trying to get out of an awkward conversation with the cell tower. Kinda like "I think I hear my mom calling me".

10:27 PM

Maybe it's just lonely?

Yeah. For any of those scenarios, the nice thing to do would be to respond in some way. Dont leave it hanging like that.

Believe it or not I actually did say "Go back to sleep Siri." because half of the devs in the room were looking at me with a look that said "I'm expecting you to explain why I was interrupted."

And when Siri does stuff for me I say "Thank you Siri." for no reason at all

Every now and then I say "thank you" to my phone too. It's always polite and responds with "you're welcome".

New Bounties With No Deadlines

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A: List of bounties with no deadlines

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10:46 PM

@TuxCopter hey I just watched that!

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for (int i = cur_row; i < r; ++i) {
    for (int j = cur_col; j < c; ++j) {
        if ((cur_col == i) && (cur_col == j)) {
            continue;
        }
        // actual loop code goes here
    }
}

^ more elegant way to do that?

That does loop i -> (...); j -> (...); but skip i, j = 0. The problem is that there are way too many branches, and performance is critical in this case

Inner inner inner loop

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