Background
A fractal sequence (Wikipedia; MathWorld) is an infinite sequence of positive integers meeting the following conditions:
Each positive integer appears infinitely many times in the sequence.
Before the first occurrence of a number \$i > 1\$, every number smaller than \$i\$ appears at ...
I think the "all the [x]" rooms might be getting a little out of hand. I was planning to have Aotl shut down after a few days since it's pointless server load for SE, and it was mostly just meant as a test. Having ten of them doesn't seem particularly useful or interesting :p
In theory the delay was lowered to under three minutes, at least for some amount of time in 2013
But now it's back to being a really long time and, if Aotl is correct, somewhat random
It makes me wonder if there's some sort of global maximum on the number of feeds that are ticked each interval, so every 3m or so a random group of rooms' feeds are updated
Or maybe they just changed it back to a higher number, but that still wouldn't explain it being somewhat random
Or perhaps it takes a really long time to update all the feeds for some reason, but I doubt that
1. Make planes use aluminum batteries 2. Make planes use AI 3. Make the rest of the world use AI, making humans redundant 4. Remove passenger space on planes 5. Fill with more batteries 6. Use human blood as electrolyte 7. ??? 8. Profit
Can all the pearls be collected? code-golfdecision-problemgamegrid
Quell is a single-player grid-based puzzle game. Pearls are scattered across a 2D map and the aim is to collect them all by rolling a drop of water over them. For this challenge we will only consider basic maps containing the drop...
Crossing a river with weird animals code-golf puzzle-solver grid decision-problem path-finding
Background
One kind of river-crossing problems involves two kinds of animals. One such problem reads like this: (all wordings, including animal species, are arbitrary)
A farmer has to cross a river wit...
I think it's Aaron, because their only answer's in Vim, and that's obviously trying to make people think it's Aaron. I think it's a double-bluff, and it actually is Aaron.
@pxeger huh, I've not had a problem with blockquotes myself, in fact they are the reason I don't use other email clients since I haven't found one with anywhere near as good blockquote support
also it uses Firefox's designmode/contenteditable rich text editor so I'm not sure why you would be running into bugs there, not that I do a lot of rich text editing in Firefox
Part of the lean Language of the Month
A pong* is a set \$P\$ with an operation \$+\$, that satisfies the following properties:
\$
\forall a, b \in P : (b + b) + a = a\\
\forall a, b \in P : a + (b + b) = a\\
\forall a, b, c \in P: a + (b + c) = (a + b) + c \\
\$
This makes a pong*, just a group ...
@thejonymyster I'm guessing the OP put that there because the StackOverflow question they linked to already had an implementation in C++ so they thought it would be cheating for someone to answer in C++
ha, no i dont know c++ or anything, i was just lost because i thought "There" was referring to "C++", which i was fairly certain was a language and not a linkable location
i think i didnt make the connection since the link is dead from being 5+ years old
CMQ imagine constructing an english word by adding one letter at a time. A new letter can be added anywhere in the word.What is the longest english word you can end up with if you insist that all the words you make are valid
e.g. I -> IN -> SIN -> SING -> STING -> STRING -> STARING -> STARTING -> STARTLING
alternatively, what is the longest English word that can progressively have one letter removed from it to get another English word each time until only 1 letter remains
sadly you cant combine the two for a "make a word where no matter what letter is removed, the resulting word 1. is a word and 2. fulfils these same requirements" challenge, since the words would have to be made entirely out of i and a
If the things are music notes and colors or something like that, it's synesthesia. If it's cats and cuteness, it's being a normal human. if it's yogurt and the inevitable march toward death, it's a problem.