Puzzles Etc.

3:00 PM

It's just one of those fun things we deal with

Yeah, I've got 5 linked tables, and everything has to be loaded in a certain order or it violates constraints. Which means a whole lot of pre-processing.

Khale_Kitha

Hehe

PKs and FKs, and constraints, oh my!

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Hey, q_a...

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Q: What has happened to me?

It's late in the evening. I advance along a street with a shoe in my hand. I cannot proceed, I have to stop. Next to me stands a hotel. "Darn, I am seriously screwed" I exclaim. What has happened to me?

@DarrelHoffman This was the obvious answer, to me. I assume the "evening" bit was just flavor (also, how often does this scenario happen not-in-the-evening?) — question_asker Feb 5 at 18:02

I would think this scenario (walk of shame) happens in the mornings, mostly. LoLoL

manshu

@Will How did you use GIMP 2 for that answer? I can't figure it out :(

Will

Color picker tool...

manshu

So they are the codes of colours?

question_asker

3:07 PM

@Khale_Kitha Mostly I was trying to stop the nerdlinger from derailing the obvious answer

Khale_Kitha

haha

question_asker

oh oh

the scenario I was referring to there was the answer specifically (playing monopoly)

Will

Yeah, the hex codes. That is RRGGBB where RR, GG, BB are the RGB values in hex. You could also use their decimal values, but that would have been more typing / less compact.

question_asker

how often do people play monopoly any other time of day?

Will

It could happen at, say, 1am, which some pedantic folk may not consider "late in the evening."

Khale_Kitha

3:10 PM

<--- Pedantic

But ah, okay, q_a lol

question_asker

smh

haha

Khale_Kitha

hehehe

Will

Also, I'll shamelessly admit I've played Monopoly in the afternoon.

Khale_Kitha

Random thought...

You know the start of that on puzzle of mine...

"I was working in a lab, late one night"

I honestly, NEVER saw Monster Mash in it, until @humn brought it up... Now I can't not.

question_asker

hahaha

@Will I mean, in any case, I feel like it's borderline obnoxious to use "late in the evening" being in the puzzle as evidence against your answer

like, what these people seem to want is puzzles that are interesting but also completely unambiguous

which, aside from being literally impossible, is at very least super wicked boring to the max

Khale_Kitha

3:15 PM

Haha, I think Darrel was just pointing out that it didn't match, to him, on that one area, but he thought the answer was right.

manshu

Late in the evening obviously means that the shoe is near those properties which are found in the end

maybe Mayfair

or Park Lane

Khale_Kitha

I am a letter. I come after B, or prior to D. What am I?

hehehehe

Will

Oh, you and your UK Monopoly.

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manshu

I have played both of them

Chris Cudmore

@Khale_Kitha Gamma

Khale_Kitha

3:17 PM

(That was intended to be totally, and completely, ambiguous, q_a)

haha, no =D

manshu

I just remember the UK one

question_asker

@Khale_Kitha uh, too broad much??? if you imagine the alphabet as a circle, all the letters come after b and before d. downvote.

Khale_Kitha

hahaha

Will

You're the A in the word BAD.

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Khale_Kitha

It's worst than you think, q_a

2

The answer is o, p, r, or i =D

And if you consider the or, it can be any number of others

Ambiguous for the win!

You

3:18 PM

@Khale_Kitha Smile included?

manshu

@Will I come after B, or prior to D

haha, nice, Will

Yeah, or, not xor.

or xnor

or snore.

3:19 PM

@Khale_Kitha That's the score!

manshu

I would have flagged your question for too broad

Khale_Kitha

You

And also, hi!

Khale_Kitha

hi, you

I just realized how narcissistic you are...

You probably look in the mirror and state: "Hello, you."

:P

You

@Khale_Kitha No. I don't. I'll do that next time I look, though!

Khale_Kitha

3:21 PM

lol

Will

I feel like that's one of the less narcissistic things you can say in front of a mirror.

You

There's so many things you could tell yourself.

Matt

I just wrote an ode to me ... who's the narcissistic one??

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You

@Matt I am you. Who am I?

Matt

You are you.

manshu

3:23 PM

you are matt

You

Wrong and wrong!

Matt

"you are you" is a tautology. it's never wrong

You

@Matt Too vague.

:P

Will

Unless you're an actor.

Matt

then I daresay your puzzle is too broad haha

manshu

3:24 PM

flag it then

You

@Matt The answer is You! :P

Matt

that's not at all what I said

You

@Matt Todaly! Wips hair

It seems like I want to do anything except finish my app. :( I want to make another programming language, chat here, learn Japanese, post something random on StackExchange. ANYTHING NONPRODUCTIVE! :(

Please help me.

manshu

same here

You are sooo me

question_asker

learning a language is productive

You

3:27 PM

@manshu Hey, why else would i choose my name?

@question_asker Well, I can't finish my app. :(

Khale_Kitha

"You are you" is a tautology only if there's no one named @You in the room.

question_asker

ooh, duolingo is really close to releasing vietnamese

not that I would want to learn vietnamese from duolingo

learning tonal languages without a literal person there to help you seems like a doomed endeavor

Matt

well, then khale, "you is you" is a tautology then

Will

I'm more interested in Duolingo's progress on Hebrew.

Khale_Kitha

haha

And q_a - No kidding - especially with many African languages

question_asker

3:30 PM

yeah

You

I can't wait until Doulingo does Japanese!

Although I probably won't use it. :P

Khale_Kitha

Me, too, You, now that I've heard of it.

Though I probably will.

Though I want to learn the three written forms, too

Need that more, I'd say, for me

But it's harder.

I've been waiting on this, ever since I helped kickstart it..

kickstarter.com/projects/297265509/…

You

I can read ひらがな, read a bit of カタカナ, and only a tiny amount of かんじ。

question_asker

ooh interesting!

manshu

HELP ME!!! MULTI-LINGUAL AND PROGRAMMERS........EVERYWHERE

question_asker

3:32 PM

I learned katakana at one point, because I figured (correctly) that it would be the easiest

Khale_Kitha

I can recognize the two kana, but can't tell the difference between them, yet

question_asker

I've forgotten a lot now, but if i know some context I can figure out what words they're suppose to be

Khale_Kitha

I can recognize Kanji, but can't read any of it

You

@manshu Hey, your multilingual! C# or something!

manshu

I don't know any programming language

You

3:33 PM

@manshu Oh.

I feel sorry for you.

Khale_Kitha

You could say, as a stretch, that giving directions is a programming language. =D

(I used to have legos that accepted such a programming language, when I was little)

question_asker

@manshu if it makes you feel any better, by these people's standards, I don't know any programming languages either

manshu

I atleast knew that much

You

@Khale_Kitha SyntaxError: left is right. :P

Khale_Kitha

Compile error: left should be Left

:P

manshu

3:35 PM

@question_asker I can't believe you... you talk like polymath

Will

My first programming language was Logo, so...

You

My first programming language was HTML. Forgotten most of it ever since. :P

Will

Yeah, giving directions. (albeit to a turtle)

Khale_Kitha

Yeah, that's the one I'm talking about, Will

though it routed to the legos, later

(Though my first was GWBasic)

You

mindstorms.lego.com/

question_asker

3:36 PM

I have a bunch of languages I'm "taking" on duolingo, but a) I haven't touched them in a long time, and b) I've only spent real time on German and Spanish (and a little Portuguese and Dutch)

You

I forgot my password. :P

Khale_Kitha

Yeah, far less advanced than that, You, hehe

It could basically do pulleys and turn an engine left or right

question_asker

and all the persian I know that I could actually use in "conversation" is from The In-Laws

Khale_Kitha

(Which is to say....one thing)

manshu

Maybe I'll use duolingo too. Once I buy my own mobile phone.

You

3:37 PM

duolingo.com

manshu

No. not from pc.

You

Why not?

manshu

coz i don't feel like it

You

:P

I never use my phone lol

I only use it for testing my apps.

And I use my phone to protect me from bullets. :P

Khale_Kitha

You think that's bad...

I use my phone rarely, and I dial numbers manually...

manshu

3:39 PM

you must be using NOKIA 1100

You

@manshu No, it's an iPhone 5C. :P

@Khale_Kitha Can't you trade it in?

manshu

no no...iphone is shit. NOKIA 1100 is legend.

Khale_Kitha

@You Why?

You

@manshu Linux for the win!

@Khale_Kitha Why not?

Khale_Kitha

It's trash, and buggy right now - but I don't see why you asked about trading it in.

manshu

3:41 PM

Apr 11 at 14:01, by manshu

I am proud to be MS user.

So i don't use linux

You

@manshu ...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

Khale_Kitha

Sigh...you're doing it wrong...

nooooooooooooooo.com

That's better.

keep talking

3:43 PM

and nobody explodes

You

I have a friend named Nobody. :(

Khale_Kitha

And keep the bus over 60

You knows nobody!

You

I also know We, Us, I, Everybody, No-one, Everyone, and I'm going to make a chatbot called Me.

Will

Are you sure their name isn't Odysseus?

Khale_Kitha

No, that's Nobdy

(I LOVE that part of The Odyssey)

Nobdy killed me!

You

3:47 PM

Yes, I have another friend named Odysseus.

manshu

Do you know Him..he is a nice guy too

Khale_Kitha

@Matt wrote an ode to your chatbot, according to the stars, on the right.

Matt

I have a chatbot?

You

@manshu Him, He, She, and Her. :) We are all good friends.

@Matt You wrote an ode to @Me, my developing chatbot. :P

Matt

sooo, you have a chatbot

manshu

3:49 PM

Do you know that He was talking about you (You) last time we met

You

@manshu What did he say?

@Matt I haven't started yet.

manshu

@You He said not to tell you anything.

You

@manshu He was always like that, telling things on me. :(

He isn't at all like God. (He, He :P)

Khale_Kitha

Hahaha, that was subtle...

You

:P

manshu

3:51 PM

HeHe

You

HeHeHeHe.

Are the bots alive in this room or are they sleeping?

Khale_Kitha

It's time to move away from ETC for a while. Find a puzzle to work on =D

You

I can never solve a puzzle. :(

manshu

same here

You

Except jigsaw puzzles and rubies cubes.

Rubiks!

Khale_Kitha

3:54 PM

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Q: Don't take everything at face value

M. Night Shyamalan's claim to fame. A switch of these may prove catastrophic. You can do this at home, at the gym, and now even on a bus. The Notebook, Clueless, and Twilight are some examples of this. I consist of all these things and at my core one more What am I?