What in the heck just happened?
I want you to write a program that will bleep out the H-word, regardless of where it occurs, whether it is inside of another word or a stand-alone word, whether capitalized or not.
Input and Output
The inputs and outputs of your program may be any of the followi...
On a recent episode of QI, the first 5 multiples of 142857 were described as anagrams of the original number. Of course, anyone with more than a passing knowledge of that number will know that those numbers are actually cyclic, not just anagrams. But that got me thinking.
Please write a program ...
Goal:
Given two natural numbers (integers from 0 to infinity), output a number that is not the sum of those numbers, but is the sum of a different combination of natural numbers.
Examples (TI-Basic):
A+B+1
not(A+B)
Non Examples:
A+B-1 (for inputs 0,0, it returns ~1, which cannot be a sum ...
This is for a lab report. For an example of why I'm running into issues, consider the two sentences "The sampling rate was set to 20 Hz" vs. "We set the sampling rate to 20 Hz." The first is passive (I think) while the second uses a pronoun.
Mignon Fogarty also points out that "passive sentences aren't incorrect",[26] and "If you don't know who is responsible for an action, passive voice can be the best choice."[6][d]
This list comprises widespread modern beliefs about English language usage that are documented by a reliable source to be myths or misconceptions.
With no authoritative language academy, guidance on English language usage can come from many sources. This can create problems, as described by Reginald Close:
Teachers and textbook writers often invent rules which their students and readers repeat and perpetuate. These rules are usually statements about English usage which the authors imagine to be, as a rule, true. But statements of this kind are extremely difficult to formulate both simply a...
It's one thing to have actual criticisms against Node to use in making jokes. It's another thing entirely to blindly mimic what others say in an attempt to be funny.
Create a Simple Dog Program
Your challenge is to write a Dog program.
A dog program is a program that waits until a cat program is run and interrupts it with a bark causing it to fail.
Cat Program
A cat program, for the uninitiated, should take input and output it.
You may write your own cat...
@Mego I'm confident when I say that English's rules are only for Literature, and in common use, the rules fly out the window.
Anonymous
@ATaco They're not even for literature. Plenty of authors make common "errors" in their writing that almost nobody realizes are "errors". I use "errors" in quotes because the only true error in language is failing to communicate what you intend to communicate.
I've discovered an error in my answer to the aesthetically pleasing divisor tree challenge that is going to take so long to fix, that it is tempting just to modify the specification, since I'm the only answer using ASCII art so far
The trouble this would be modifying the specification four months later
It still feels like cheating because the part of the spec I need to change is "Any two nodes on the same level of the tree should have a minimum of two spaces between them. At the same time, any two nodes on the same level of the tree should have as few spaces between them as possible."
The "as few spaces between nodes" part is going to murder me
I could say any two branches should have as few spaces between them
@Sherlock9 It would be cheating IMO if you merely changed the rules to accompany your answer. However, since your rule change also has the benefit of making nicer-looking output, and probably will make it easier for other answers as well, I think it's fine.
don't worry I'm doing it on a different hard drive
Anonymous
Apple is all about the aesthetics (to the point where their stuff is nearly form over function), so they want to lock down the hardware as much as possible so they don't have as many variables and thus can make aesthetically-pleasing software easier
Basically you use a bootloader called Clover that injects the correct information, basically fakes out the OS to make it seeApple hardware
Right now I have it set to a MacBookPro6,2 which has almost the same hardware as my laptop
Anonymous
I don't know why I typed hard drive instead of mobo. I guess I was connecting that thought to my recent hard drive issues (which turned out to be a faulty pin on the power connector)
I need to patch the dsdt.aml file that it loads to get it to recognize the USB controller that my flash drive is connected to so that it can load the installer
The guide explains most of this but people are still having issues. I've crawled over SO MANY forum posts
@Pavel their**
Anonymous
At some point you have to ask yourself if it's worth the effort :P
@Mego See I was worried about part one. That was very close to my original intent. Everything after was rationalization, and I'm lucky that it does make for nicer output and easier answering in the future
My original intent being "This is going to be a royal pain in the ass. What's the smallest edit I can make so I don't have to do this?"