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12:46 AM
@ACuriousMind It starts in 9th grade usually. Don't trust me though, I went to German school
 
 
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2:26 AM
@Blue Ah, I'm afraid to say that my (pseusdo)Expertise in english ends at the previous question
@Blue maybe this can help :P
 
 
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Anonymous
4:45 AM
@PrathyushPoduval No problem. We got it sorted yesterday.
 
Anonymous
@ACuriousMind I've forgotten most of the formal grammar I've learnt from grades 1-12. :P
 
Anonymous
(Probably because I hated learning them in the first place XD)
 
@CooperCape Ah, I didn't realise you'd bought the book. I got the idea you wanted something more mathematical. I hope you enjoy it - I found it absolutely fascinating.
 
5:02 AM
@Blue A presume someone has helped you already, but a test case you don"t exhibit that might clarify the problem i "test\\test" or similar.
 
Anonymous
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Q: Why does the presence of `n` in the input sentence before `\n` give wrong output?

BlueI want to input a sentence (containing any possible characters) and print it. But there is a catch. If there is a \n in the sentence then only the part of the sentence before \n should be printed out (i.e. \n should signify the end of the inputted sentence). I wrote a code for this situation : ...

 
Anonymous
Yes, that was pointed out. @dmckee Thanks :-)
 
@Blue I find scanf somehow always manages to create more problems than it solves, so I always just read a string and parse it myself.
 
Anonymous
@JohnRennie I agree with you. But, our professor told us to do some research as to whether the task can be done by using scanf(). That is why. Otherwise, it would be much wiser to just parse it. (Probably he gave the homework so that we get to understand the limitations of scanf())
 
Sid
5:57 AM
I dunno C and I already hate it.
 
I must have written hundreds of thousands of lines of C and C++ over the three decades that I've been programming. It's fine. Like anything else you just need to put in the effort to understand where the pitfalls are.
 
Sid
I have heard C++ is tougher(as in more complex) than C
And I know basic stuff about C++
 
C++ is effectively a superset of C (this isn't strictly true, but it's mostly true)
 
Sid
Maybe I should study that someday
And off-topic I almost got roasted on an interview last night
 
Yes?
 
Sid
6:03 AM
It's a bad feeling
 
It's not pleasant when someone asks a question and you realise you don't know the answer. It's that cold feeling. Ugh.
 
Sid
They asked me to make up something creative by looking at the walls of the room
 
Huh?
That seems a very odd question.
 
Sid
Well, it was for a club induction.
I did say that this sounded "completely opinion-based" (SE things. :P) but they said just say what you can make out of that
 
Anonymous
@Sid Which club? Debate or literature?
 
Sid
6:09 AM
Literary club
 
Anonymous
@Sid Meh....
 
Anonymous
:P
 
Sid
They asked some other horrible questions too...
 
Anonymous
@Sid Such clubs are full of pseudo experts. Don't worry. Only a fraction of them might be seriously interested in literature.
 
Anonymous
And, because of such reasons I dropped out of the coding club in my college.
 
Anonymous
6:18 AM
I am only in the science club for now.
 
Sid
@Blue Also why I have decided not to join the coding club
Better study by myself
Also, our literary club is more about debates and Group discussions
 
Anonymous
@Sid Same here
 
Anonymous
The debate club is merged with the literary club
 
Anonymous
BTW I'm excited. On Monday I'll be visiting the Physics department to discuss my research project ideas on thermoelectricity. I think I can get started on it by next month . I've collected a few interesting project ideas. :)
 
Anonymous
7:25 AM
@JohnRennie I am facing an unexpected confusion. Why do some books use $\delta$ for $Q$ but $d$ for $U$ (internal energy) while stating the first law of thermodynamics? Like $\delta Q=dU+\delta W$
 
Q isn't a state function so it doesn't have an exact differential.
But U is a state function so it does have an exact differential
 
Anonymous
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A: Why is dU an exact differential and dq an inexact differential?

WildcatAs opposed to an exact differential, an inexact differential cannot be expressed as the differential of a function, i.e. while there exist a function $U$ such that $U = \int \mathrm{d} U$, there is no such functions for $\text{đ} q$ and $\text{đ} w$. And the same is, of course, true for any state...

 
Anonymous
@JohnRennie I get it now. Thanks
 
Anonymous
7:58 AM
Hi @ιllιlılMostafaıllııllıl
 
8:17 AM
can anyone remind me what the notation $[\hat x,\hat p]$ means?
never mind I found it: $[\hat a,\hat b]=\hat a \hat b-\hat b \hat a$
 
Anonymous
It is the commutator @user400188
 
Anonymous
Hope you got it
 
if its zero then they commute.
 
Anonymous
Right.
 
thanks @Blue
 
Anonymous
8:20 AM
Can you guess what anti-commutator would look like? @user400188
 
my logical mind would tranlate that to 'not'-commutator . Which would be everything except a commutor haha ...
 
Anonymous
That doesn't mean anything :)
 
but yeah, I cant image what it would look like becuase all the information you need seems to be in the regular commutator.
 
Anonymous
Anyway, $\{\hat{x},\hat{p}\}=\hat{x}\hat{p}+\hat{p}\hat{x}$
 
Anonymous
That would be the anti-commutator
 
8:23 AM
hmm, seems like it tells you if it is zero, then reversing the order creates a negative sign at the front.
 
Anonymous
@user400188 Yeah. Sort of.
 
Anonymous
Hi @SirCumference. How's it going?
 
@Blue why 'sort of'? What did I miss?

Hey @SirCumference , your answers have helped me in the past.
 
Anonymous
@user400188 Don't worry. What you told is correct.
 
8:50 AM
 
Anonymous
@Secret What is thumblr ? :Þ
 
Anonymous
Chinese version of tumblr?
 
Probably a typo of tumblr by the article authors
Original pics here
 
Anonymous
@Secret Oooo
 
@Secret thats an interesting image. I more or less sit in the middle; slightly to the left in conservative, however I think some theories/scientists don't justify metaphysical claims about reality, or have ontological commitments to them.
 
9:00 AM
I think it is quite hard to do experiments on metaphysical questions
 
@Blue what's up?
 
Naively, I think that any correct theory should answer and (if such an experiment can be conducted) predict the results of metaphysical questions.

However I may be forming an opinion to early. I am not informed on what counts as an experiment on metaphysical questions.
 
9:22 AM
is there a quick way to prove $[\hat a,\hat a^+]=1$ ? My own proof using the differential forms of $\hat a$ and $\hat a^+$ took close to 2 pages.
 
Anonymous
@WrichikBasu Having biryani :D
 
@Blue Kind?
 
Anonymous
@Avantgarde Mutton biryani (with egg)
 
Anonymous
:)
 
Anonymous
(homemade)
 
9:31 AM
Nice
 
@Blue I'm jealous! :-)
 
Anonymous
It's raining a lot, na? @WrichikBasu
 
Anonymous
Net connection sucks today.
 
9:46 AM
@Blue yes, it's raining quite a lot.
You're on laptop or desktop? Or mobile?
 
Anonymous
@WrichikBasu laptop
 
@Blue that means wireless Internet. On cloudy days, many a times wireless connection has problems.
 
Anonymous
@WrichikBasu It's not wireless. I'm using broadband connection (BSNL) coupled with a WiFi router
 
Anonymous
But then BSNL connections are almost never stable :P
 
@Blue leave BSNL. they're extraordinary. I had to give up my connection couple of years back, and switched to alliance Broadband on my desktop.
 
Anonymous
9:52 AM
Yeah. I think I need to get rid of this BSNL
 
Anonymous
How's Alliance?
 
Anonymous
What's the cost per month?
 
@Blue for the pack we use, its 590 INR.
@Blue ^^
 
Anonymous
@WrichikBasu How much internet usage does it allow?
 
Anonymous
And speed?
 
10:01 AM
@Blue unlimited. There are two types. We use the unlimited one.
 
Anonymous
Obviously it is not unlimited 4G :P
 
Anonymous
There must be a data cap
 
Anonymous
After which the speed falls
 
Speed, I've to see. It suffices us. There are other packs with greater speed. I think we use 100Mbps, perhaps. There are higher ones as well. We use the lowest one.
@Blue no. Believe me. No data cap.
Completely unlimited. Whether u use 1mb or 15gb, cost is same. Only speed varies according to pack.
 
Anonymous
waaaauuuu
 
Anonymous
10:04 AM
I need to get that
 
Oh, speed is less. I didn't know. It is anyways good for us.
@Blue we use the starter pack. It's enough for us. But I don't know why we pay 590. Perhaps when we started, rates were different, and for new users, rates are different.
 
Anonymous
@WrichikBasu I see. If it is unlimited 25 Mpbs that's more than awesome
 
@Blue I see.
@Blue Their service is also quite good. In case of disconnection, they'll try to send mechanic by that day, if not then of course next day. If you inform by morning, they'll fix by that afternoon.
 
Anonymous
@WrichikBasu Ah, sounds good
 
[Chemistry] That moment when you realise splitting up a 120 point energy calcualtion into 120 single point energy calculation running in parallel actually is 4x more expensive. What the hell, you PBS program?
So that means, somehow, in order to save yourself the trouble of making 120 manual clicks, you need to pay 4x computational resource for it
O wait... I have used a larger basis... maybe that's why...
 
10:18 AM
@Kaumudi.H Hi :-)
 
user228700
Hi! :-)
 
I've been meanin to ask, but forgot with all the laptop hoohah, have you got your pushbike now?
 
user228700
My internet continues to be a bit dodgy so I apologise for any delays in advance :-/
 
user228700
@JohnRennie Oh, I did, in fact, include information about my cycle two days ago!
 
Aha, so at least something has gone well! :-) How are you finding it cycling to lectures etc. And have you had a chance to cycle round Kochi?
 
user228700
10:25 AM
Agh. Like I said, I've got dodgy internet :-/ I'm sorry.
 
I'm amazed the YWCA doesn't provide a wireless Internet connection.
 
user228700
Actually, I found out that it does!
 
Ah ....
 
user228700
It too, as expected, is dodgy. Even more dodgier than my connection, as it happens.
 
Oh
So you get the choice of an unreliable 4G connection or an unreliable wifi connection! Great :-)
 
user228700
10:27 AM
YES, exactly! :-)
 
user228700
Anyhoo, yes, I did cycle around a bit yesterday, when I went in search of a laptop repair shop, remember?
 
Aha! Actually I'm impressed how quickly you found somewhere to get the laptop repaired.
There is nowhere in Chester that would repair a laptop motherboard.
 
user228700
@JohnRennie Like I said, Kochi is a metropolitan city :-) I had nothing to do with the fact that it was relatively easy for me to find a shop.
 
I'm not sure there is any shop in the whole UK that would attempt to repair a motherboard.
I suspect you'd need to send it back to Dell.
 
user228700
Wtf? Oh, surely you are kidding, yes?
 
10:31 AM
And all Dell would do is send you a replacement mobo and probably throw the old one away.
@Abcd hi
 
@JohnRennie Hi
 
user228700
@JohnRennie You're not kidding, are you?
 
@Kaumudi.H no, I'm serious.
 
user228700
Wow.
 
Labour costs in the UK are so high it's more cost effective to just buy a new mobo and throw the old one away.
 
user228700
10:33 AM
Perhaps I should be cautious, then, when I hand it over to the repair man...
 
Well you have nothing to lose. It's not working now.
 
user228700
@JohnRennie Ah, wow, I see.
 
@JohnRennie Our approach was wrong. I didn't get the right answer using that. I obtained the right answer using this (youtube.com/…) method. Please verify if it's the right approach.
 
I might be inclined to take out the hard disk before you take the laptop to the shop.
After all, the hard disk has all your files on it, and the chap in the shop doesn't need the hard disk to repair the motherboard.
 
user228700
Ah, you've gotta tell me how to do that, then. Oh, right, no, I will Google it :-P
 
10:35 AM
@Kaumudi.H undo two screws and the disk slides out.
Have you got a small cross head screwdriver?
 
user228700
Ah.
 
user228700
Nope, haven't got one.
 
user228700
I will ask the repair man to remove it for me when I hand it over to him, what say?
 
user228700
@Balarka: Hey! :-) How's it going, undergound man?
 
Hey. Well, I'm good, how's college?
 
10:39 AM
@Kaumudi.H can you borrow a screwdrive from someone? There must be some in MEC who has a screwdriver :-)
 
Took the statistics exam today. One more to go.
Then I can go back to digging piles upon piles of existential mud.
 
user228700
@JohnRennie Hehe, I'll ask around :-)
 
user228700
@BalarkaSen Ah, nice! How was it?
 
Fantastic.
 
@Kaumudi.H But yes, you can ask the repair chap to remove and give you the disk. As an excuse tell him you're going to read the data off it while he's repairing your laptop.
 
user228700
10:41 AM
Yup, I will do that if all else fails.
 
user228700
@BalarkaSen Cool :-) College is, as always, incredibly exhausting. I had classes today as well!
 
On the weekend? cruds
@Blue I mentioned this a couple days back.
 
user228700
Yup. And we had an hour long session on ant-ragging.
 
@Kaumudi.H just undo those two screws, then the disk will slide out.
 
user228700
10:45 AM
Yep, yep, I figured that those would be the two, THANKS! :-)
 
user228700
@Balarka:
 
user228700
 
Anonymous
If anyone is feeling like doing some Combinatorics, try this:
 
Anonymous
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Q: Proving that maximum possible "height" of a Weighted Quick Union tree is of the order $\lg(N)$

BlueHow to mathematically prove that the height of the Weighted QuickUnion Tree can have a maximum height of $\log_2{N}$ where $N$ is the number of elements in the array? A description of Weighted Quick Union is given here (page 30-37).

 
India is really big on ragging. Maybe that is telling on the average maturity of average neo-adults in India.
@Kaumudi.H Cute gif. What's that a reaction to?
 
user228700
10:49 AM
x'D Jesus Christ, man, I couldn't agree more!
 
user228700
@BalarkaSen The fact that I had classes/labs and even an hour long anti-ragging session all day today.
 
Aha.
 
user228700
@JohnR: Are you about to leave for the SF meeting?
 
@Kaumudi.H In 40 minutes. So I'm around until then.
 
Anonymous
What's up with ragging n all? Not a single senior seems interested in ragging, here. Everyone is busy with protests
 
Anonymous
10:51 AM
:'D
 
@Blue hahaha
typical J
 
user228700
Lol.
 
user228700
@JohnRennie Cool :-)
 
Anonymous
Protesting together apparently forms a lifelong bond between the seniors and juniors. lol
 
user228700
@BalarkaSen Which one?
 
user228700
10:52 AM
@Blue Oh, did u go at last?
 
math
 
Anonymous
@Kaumudi.H Heh. I'm just not of that type
 
@Blue sad
 
Anonymous
@BalarkaSen Ya :P
 
total neobourgeois
 
user228700
10:54 AM
@BalarkaSen Ah, you can afford to spend a couple hours digging up those sweet, sweet trashy memes, then :-P
 
Yeah. It's about time I do something productive.
Ugh, really I have so many things to do. I have a reading list, a couple movies I should watch, a whole bunch of albums bookmarked on my browser
But I spend all my day looking up trash
 
user228700
@BalarkaSen Man, we really should get that coffee; I'm not into trashy memes yet but it would be an absolute pleasure to be exposed to that fine form of art from an existentialist like yourself x'D
 
user228700
@BalarkaSen Did you see my to-do list from the other day?
 
lol you want to grab a coffee just to get introduced to dank internet memes?
nope i have not
 
user228700
@BalarkaSen Totally, man :-P
 
10:58 AM
@Blue So what's a Weighted QuickUnion tree?
 
user228700
Aug 15 at 7:45, by Kaumudi. H
I present to you my amazing to-do list of amazing:
 
Anonymous
@BalarkaSen I gave a link to the description in the question. Check it
 
Anonymous
It will get too lengthy if I start describing it here
 
Ah ok I missed that link
@Kaumud.H Ah my lists are usually much less constructive than that
 
user228700
@JohnR: Dyou know how much my lunch cost me today?
 
11:01 AM
No?
 
user228700
@JohnRennie Rs. 35!
 
Anonymous
In computer science, Union Find is an algorithm for doing certain operations on sets. This page is about proof of O(log*n) amortized time of Union Find Statement: If m operations, either Union or Find, are applied to n elements, the total run time is O(m log*n), where log* is the iterated logarithm. == Proof == Lemma 1: As the find function follows the path along to the root, the rank of node it encounters is increasing. Proof: claim that as Find and Union operations are applied to the data set, this fact remains true over time. Initially when each node is the root of its own tree, it's trivially...
 
user228700
I had 4 rotis and a curry made of peas.
 
user228700
@BalarkaSen :-P Ah, hmm.
 
Anonymous
Found a wiki page. Let's see
 
11:02 AM
@Kaumudi.H I don't know what meals cost in Kochi, but that would be amazingly cheap for the UK
 
user228700
It only cost me that much because I went to the canteen again!
 
Well, if the canteen are serving nice meals like that why not?
 
user228700
Yes! Actually, I might just have started figuring out what to do about the starving situation I had going on before.
 
Yes?
 
user228700
Breakfast is usually OK around here and even if not, I can always buy a banana from the shop next door. (It cost me Rs. 12 this morning)
 
user228700
11:04 AM
I can have lunch for cheap prices at the canteen (the ragging situation there is...non-existent, so YES!) and for dinner, well, that part I haven't figured out yet.
 
user228700
If I do properly figure it out by next month, we can stop paying the mess bill at my hostel!
 
Ah, the canteen isn't the YWCA?
 
user228700
No, no, I'm talking about the MEC canteen.
 
Does the MEC canteen provide an evening meal?
 
user228700
Yes, yes, they do; they also provide tea and snacks in the evening, a few hours before dinner!
 
user228700
11:07 AM
Dinner and lunch usually suck though.
 
user228700
Hence the aforementioned starving situation :-P
 
The food sucks at both the MEC and YWCA canteens?
 
@Blue It's not entirely obvious to me how the tree is constructed.
 
user228700
@JohnRennie No, no, only here, at the YMCA :-)
 
Ah, so you're thinking you could eat all your meals at MEC?
Though wouldn't it be dark when you cycle over for the evening meal?
 
user228700
11:10 AM
@JohnRennie Not all of them, no, just my lunch.
 
Maybe just eat a really big lunch :-)
 
user228700
Maybe, maybe! :-)
 
Or find some good cafes or street food stalls
 
user228700
Yep. Right now, I am going out to buy myself a bar of dark chocolate for dinner! :-P
 
user228700
It's a little way away from here...
 
11:13 AM
dark chocolate - full of essential nutrients :-)
 
user228700
YES! :-P
 
user228700
Have fun at your meeting, then! :-) I'll speak with you later!
 
Bye
 
Anonymous
@BalarkaSen Say, you have $N$ elements $\{x_1,x_2,x_3,....,x_N\}$. You need to join them all such that you can form a tree of maximum possible height. But the catch is that when joining one tree to another tree, you need to join the root of the smaller tree to the root of the larger tree. (Size of tree refers to the number of elements in it).
 
Anonymous
Also, if you are told to join an element of one tree with an element of another tree, you need to join the root of that tree to the root of the other tree rather than joining the elements directly.
 
11:17 AM
@Abcd ah, I assumed the accelerations were equal but they aren't. That was the error.
 
Anonymous
11:29 AM
@BalarkaSen Okay. Phew. I've done the proof myself. It is quite trivial :P I'm stupid
 
11:48 AM
@ACuriousMind how to tell if vomit is from hangover or bad food
 
0
Q: On the Configuration Space of a Scalar Field in 1D

Optimus PrimeConsider a real scalar field $\Phi(x)$ in one spatial dimension which asymptotically goes to its vacuum values $\Phi_{+}$ or $\Phi_{-}$. Given the requirement of finiteness of energy, we deduce that no continuous transformation can change a field configuration to one with different asymptotic val...

Hmm....
 
@0celóñe7 I don't know, I'm not sure I've ever thrown up because of bad food.
 
@ACuriousMind I randomly woke up at 4 to empty myself
That seems too late after the fact for alcohol
 
Did you at least aim at the dog for revenge? :P
 
And I feel pretty ok now
@ACuriousMind I've been at school for a while
 
11:56 AM
I don't see how one can end up with 4 homotopy classes(?), it's just one function with asymptotes fixed at both ends and then continously transformed
From OP's description, a path in configuration space of all real scalar fields with fixed asymptotes will be some transformation that map one such scalar field to another. Theoretically, onoe can get closed paths here, and hence having more than one homotopy class...?
> Note that the functions that are not asymptotically zero but have finite energy usually simply don't have an asymptotic value at all
Yeah, if $\Phi_{+}\neq 0$ or $\Phi_{-} \neq 0$ the (expectation value? of the) function will blow up
> Given the requirement of finiteness of energy, we deduce that no continuous transformation can change a field configuration to one with different asymptotic values.
That would mean the function has to be asymptotically zero at infinity....?
@ACuriousMind: Do sections 2.3 and 2.4 of Rajaraman elsevier.com/books/solitons-and-instantons/rajaraman/… not answer both your questions? Or perhaps I've misunderstood you. — Optimus Prime 7 mins ago
(wriitng comment in response)
o nvm, acuriousmind had done it
 
12:37 PM
@Danu How is Tellegen pronounced?
Is it Te+Li+gen? or Te+Le+gen? (or something else?)
 
hello
 
Hello, Heather. As-salaamu `alaykum, Mostafa.
How are you both today?
 
Anonymous
Is that Arabic?
 
Some of it.
 
Anonymous
12:43 PM
Or Persian?
 
Not Persian.
 
Anonymous
Ah. I see
 
And hello Blue.
 
Anonymous
I thought Mostafa speaks Persian and not Arabic
 
Anonymous
@DawoodibnKareem Helloa :)
 
12:43 PM
Yes, that's true; I'm fairly sure he speaks Persian. But people of our faith traditionally greet each other in Arabic.
Anyway, the only thing I know how to say in Persian is "I love you", and I'm not going to say that to Mostafa.
 
Anonymous
@DawoodibnKareem Oo, I didn't know this. Cool!
 
Anonymous
@DawoodibnKareem lol
 
Anonymous
No harm saying it
 
Anonymous
The world needs more love =P
 
@Blue Isn't it punishable by death in islam?
So, it may be quite harmful
 
Anonymous
12:46 PM
@PrathyushPoduval What?
 
@Blue Sure, but the Internet is not necessarily the best place to find it or express it.
 
@DawoodibnKareem pretty good, thank you. And you?
 
@Blue I assume that both of them are males ofcourse, so i could be wrong. I don't know the specifics of all the rules and all
 
@ιllιlılMostafaıllııllıl clyp.it/wemegzkj
 
@heather Yes, I'm well thanks. Is it summer vacation time where you are?
 
12:48 PM
There is a great writer, by the way, with the name Toon Tellegen
 
@DawoodibnKareem for only a few more days =/ i go back to school on wednesday.
 
Antonius Otto Hermannus (Toon) Tellegen (born 18 November 1941) is a Dutch writer, poet, and physician, known for children's books, especially those featuring anthropomorphised ants and squirrels. His writings are also enjoyed by adults, due to the amusing, bizarre situations that Tellegen creates, as well as their dealings with philosophical subjects. For his lasting contribution as a children's writer, Tellegen was a finalist for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2006. == Biography == Tellegen was born in Brielle. He studied medicine at the University of Utrecht, and...
Seems like he's still alive!
 
Anonymous
@PrathyushPoduval That word doesn't always have sexual connotations. But, yes. Homosexuality is punishable in some countries in the Middle East.
 
at the end of summer i always feel like calvin (from calvin and hobbes)
 
@DawoodibnKareem I'm fine, thanks
 
12:49 PM
@PrathyushPoduval Are you asking whether homosexuality is punishable by death? The answer to that is definitely NO for Islam. However there may be Islamic countries which have a death penalty for homosexuality, but that would not be for Islamic reasons.
@heather Wednesday seems frightfully soon.
 
@DawoodibnKareem yes, i know...especially when i have so much of my physics book to get through.
 
@DawoodibnKareem Yeah that is exactly what I was asking. Thanks, I did not know that
 
@DawoodibnKareem What is the duration of your sumerr vacations?
 
@PrathyushPoduval There are definitely religions that prescribe a death penalty for homosexual activity. Islam is NOT one of them.
@PrathyushPoduval I haven't been a student for such a long time, I can't remember how long the summer vacations used to be.
 
Anonymous
12:52 PM
@PrathyushPoduval He is not a school boy
 
Anonymous
:P
 
@DawoodibnKareem Sorry, i added the wrong person
:P
I meant to tag heather
 
hmm, let's see
started early june
ending mid august
2 3/4 months ish
 
Anonymous
That's a LOT
 
Thanks!
It seems it's like "Te+le+ga(n)".
 
12:53 PM
yay america @Blue =)
 
That's awesome. I used to get only 2 months before
@heather Not so fast, I got 5 months of holidays last year :P
 
Anonymous
We used to get only 3 or 4 weeks iirc.
 
@ιllιlılMostafaıllııllıl The g is very different from the English one ;)
 
@heather Aha, the land of the free-for-nearly-three-months!
 
Anonymous
Places like Alaska have nearly 6 months of night. Do they hold school/university classes at night too? I wonder :D
 
1:00 PM
DST xD
 
Anonymous
 
@Blue Not quite correct, Barrow, the northernmost city, "only" gets a polar night of 65 days.
 
Anonymous
@ACuriousMind Yeah. I had a bit of misconception about that. Thanks. Also the Quora answer I linked explains the situation well.
 
Anonymous
"
Breaking it down the sun sets in November and does not rise above the horizon until January in the meanwhile they have days of twilight. It's not a true day, to be fair, but in the north this is true to them. This could be argued that they don't have a day, this could also be argued that they do have a day. It's really a matter of debate and semantics so I count it as day."
 
If it's going to be dark for most or all of the day, I'd think that going to school or university would be quite a good way to spend the time.
 
Anonymous
1:05 PM
Yeah :P I'd actually love having classes at night instead of the day. I'm nocturnal anyway. :)
 
@ACuriousMind From the article you linked:
"vampires [...] take advantage of month-long annual polar night in the town to openly kill and feed at will, massacring most of the townspeople."(☉_☉)
 
@ACuriousMind Don't visit Barrow when it's night.
 
@DawoodibnKareem I think it is.
 
@ιllιlılMostafaıllııllıl Where else am I supposed to feed?
 
1:10 PM
@ACuriousMind lol
 
@Abcd my brother, you are mistaken. There is a hadeeth where our Prophet (SAWS) said that it was forbidden to impose a death penalty on Muslims for any sin, except for three specific sins, which he listed. Homosexual activity is not one of those three.
 
@ACuriousMind what?
 
@DawoodibnKareem Reference? Is it saheeh?
 
@Abcd I'll find it for you in a little while, God willing.
 
Mar 21 at 2:06, by 0celo7
he's a vampire, don't be silly
 
1:13 PM
Okay :)
 
Uhh, no clue what that's about
 
@0celóñe7 I would have thought that you of all people would appreciate me implying I'm a vampire :/
 
Anonymous
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A: What does the Quran say about homosexuality?

muslim1Homosexual acts are strictly forbidden in Islam. Although it has mainly been focused around men, women homosexuals are not that strongly discussed. This could be that in adultery, the focus is mainly on penetration. In the holy Quran, the people of Prophet Lut have been discussed often. These we...

 
Anonymous
Read the "punishment" part.
 
Sid
@Blue Homosexuality is punishable in India too. It's illegal, if I am not wrong
 
1:16 PM
@ACuriousMind Hm, I could drive to Utsjoki for a similar experience. For me, however, it will be dark enough where I live.
 
@Sid Makes me want to be gay
 
Anonymous
@Sid Yes. But people are trying to change the law.
 
Anonymous
Homosexuality is mostly a taboo subject in Indian civil society and for the government. Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code makes sex with persons of the same gender punishable by law. On 2 July 2009, in Naz Foundation v. Govt. of NCT of Delhi, the Delhi High Court held that provision to be unconstitutional with respect to sex between consenting adults, but the Supreme Court of India overturned that ruling on 11 December 2013, stating that the court was instead deferring to Indian legislators to provide the sought-after clarity. On 2 February 2016, however, the Supreme Court agreed to reconsider...
 
@Loong Yeah, I'm not sure a two-month night is actually a desirable experience
 
Sid
@Blue That's utterly wrong. Apart from Shashi Tharoor, not even one single known parliamentarian ever talks about rights of homosexuals
 
1:19 PM
@ACuriousMind it's a dead meme.
 
Anonymous
@Sid TL;DR vote-bank politics
 
@DawoodibnKareem islamqa.info/en/38622 . There are some hadiths given here too.
 
@0celóñe7 :|
 
Sid
@Blue That's one side why parliamentarians never debate that
 
Anonymous
@Sid Obviously. They care more about the cows.
 
1:31 PM
Indian politics is messed up at this point
we're gonna get cows for a couple more years
hang on tight
 
@Abcd Sahih Bukhari 9:83:17 and Sahih Muslim 16:4152 - read these carefully. They imply that executing a Muslim for homosexuality is forbidden.
@Blue I believe the person who posted that is mistaken.
 
I always thought Christianity had more beef with homosexuality than Islam, huh.
 
@BalarkaSen You are correct. The Bible prescribes death for those practising homosexuality (Leviticus 20:13).
 
Right.
 
Anonymous
@DawoodibnKareem I wonder how many people in the Middle East are mistaken like that. Probably, many.
 
Sid
1:37 PM
@Blue We are going to have a cow ambulance and ID cards for Cows. Awesome, isn't it? /s
 
Fortunately, most Christians don't follow the Bible particularly literally.
 
Of course.
 
Sid
@DawoodibnKareem I believe everyone should follow the overall teachings of any religion rather than following them literally.
 
There has been a massive sexual revolution in the last couple centuries, of course.
 
Sid
@BalarkaSen I say till 2024. Then, anti-incumbency will set in
 
1:39 PM
Yeah but Leviticus is old Testament and that's full of holes...
I don't know anyone that follows old Testament
 
2 mins ago, by Dawood ibn Kareem
Fortunately, most Christians don't follow the Bible particularly literally.
 
@Sid Heh.
 
@CooperCape Actually, the New Testament says that homosexuals are worthy of death (Romans 1:27-32) and can't go to heaven (I Corinthians 6:9-10).
 
1:58 PM
Oh damn.
 
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