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6:02 PM
Why does spinor GR exist
The spinor Riemann tensor is ridiculous
 
20000 in advanced. But they just test how quickly you solve a complex mathematical problem ? They don't promote any any curious thinking or why or what or how types of things about any physical question. That i think is not Physics @Yashas
 
6:16 PM
@Shashaank Give it up
people like yahas are so embedded in the program they can't suddently admit it's BS
@ACuriousMind ahahahahah
My lattice energy was wrong
time to start over :)
 
Heh, that happens
 
@0celouvskyopoulo7 Sorry , I didn't get you ! What do you refer to by program and BS
 
6:35 PM
@0celouvskyopoulo7 if you say Bullshit , then I like your choice. There is hardly any good physicist in India who went to an IIT . They give Physics too . Focus is engineering. But even their engineering course is pathetic. They judge machine..... BTW if you are familiar with the type of jee questions , I would like to ask whether Einstein n all would be pretty easy at it( n Jackson , Griffiths type questions) or not ??
 
Sid
Einstein would ace Physics and fail in Chemistry.
There you go. He would have failed JEE. :P
 
@Shashaank I am a big JEE hater.
There is a lot of controversy surrounding it in this chat
 
Sid
Yes, @Shashaank it's better if you move that conversation to the room where it belongs.
 
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Q: Can anyone show me any mathematical equation in duplicate

AchmedThis is my question Mathematically, What is contradiction between quantum physics and General relativity theory? This is what it called duplicate Can anyone show me any mathematical equation in [duplicate]!? this is an example of how this site suppress certain users for some unknown reasons...

 
@0celouvskyopoulo7 I don't know where it belongs to....but surely it doesn't belong to the jee room.... controversy as in ....
@Sid I don't think he would have passed Physics too....
 
6:40 PM
@Shashaank I know one person who went to IIT, and he seems at the very least decent at physics (I don't know him well enough to say whether or not he's really good, but he's certainly not bad)
 
@0celouvskyopoulo7 I am a bigger jee hater than you :)
@Mithrandir24601 I know that 10000 people go to an IIT . Not even one of those know the difference between " what they WANT to do " and "what they have to do"
 
maybe let's not compare academic assessment procedures to religious wars?
 
@Shashaank No
I got someone to delete his account because he was a JEE supporter
 
that... isn't something to be proud of
 
@ArtOfCode Actually, @ACuriousMind has ruled JEEhad to be acceptable.
 
6:46 PM
@0celouvskyopoulo7 @Shashaank There is strong experimental evidence to back that up.
 
@0celouvskyopoulo7 and now I'm gonna say it's not. Avoid it, please.
 
@ACuriousMind ?
I said I don't see a reason why it should be bad.
Someone decided to delete it, not sure why.
 
Because you're comparing a process that plenty of people go through and plenty of people support to religious war. That's not respectful, so you should avoid doing it.
 
@ArtOfCode I don't care if it's respectful. The JEE test is not a person, it's a thing.
I can say apples are assholes and that's perfectly acceptable.
 
Hi @ArtOfCode long time no see
 
6:48 PM
o/
1 min ago, by ArtOfCode
Because you're comparing a process that plenty of people go through and plenty of people support to religious war. That's not respectful, so you should avoid doing it.
Avoid it, please.
 
@ArtOfCode I am not comparing any process to anything. I am making a play on words, where an object is the aim. Not people, not a process.
The piece of paper.
 
Hi, one of my answers was taken down because it was a solution to a homework problem. I only answered because the asker seemed to have shown some effort towards solving the problem. I am new to the site, could you please link me to the policy on homework problems so that I can avoid these problems in the future? Thanks
 
@0celouvskyopoulo7 spot on !!
 
Now, I do feel like the process is ridiculous and is like a religion.
But since I probably cannot insult religions (even though we all know which one I'm talking about), I guess I won't say anything more.
 
@0celouvskyopoulo7 Intentionally, perhaps not. Unintentionally, certainly. More to the point, your use of it was flagged by someone who indicated they felt it was offensive. The fact that it's not respectful of other people's support for the qualification, and that someone finds it offensive, should be more than enough to persuade you to stop.
 
6:51 PM
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Q: How do I ask homework questions on Physics Stack Exchange?

David ZWhat is the policy on asking homework questions on Physics Stack Exchange? What kinds of questions are considered homework questions? Are homework questions allowed? What should I include in a homework question? Why don't you provide a complete answer to homework questions?

some aspects under long-term discussion
 
@ArtOfCode Meh, people always flag it. Let them.
 
latest installment
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Q: Let's get things rolling again with the homework policy

heatherOkay, so the last time we had a focused discussion of the homework policy was August 2016. Blech. So, let's start thinking about this again. And before you collectively groan, this first post isn't that painful because there's only one thing in here for debate. Let's rename the homework policy....

 
Flags don't reflect anything.
If I get the 30 minutes, I go do something else.
 
@0celouvskyopoulo7 Yes, they do. Especially when there's a mod acting on them and asking you to stop doing something.
 
@EmilioPisanty I don't know much neither do I say that I am very great in my level Physics , but I feel ( and I think it's absolute ) that jee is a big rubbish .....even for engineering.
 
6:52 PM
Thanks
 
@ArtOfCode I would like word from our room's mods, thank you.
 
@0celouvskyopoulo7 All moderators have equal power to moderate in chat.
 
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HocusPocusMost of the time when people ask Homework Related questions they are put on hold.They ask for our work on the question. Sometimes we all face the situation that we don't even know how to proceed further in a question and its impossible to show working in such cases. Why most of the people don't u...

also relevant
 
@ArtOfCode Respectfully, that's ridiculous. How can you say that with a straight face?
Maybe your face isn't straight, I can't see it.
 
@0celouvskyopoulo7 What do you mean?
 
6:54 PM
@0celouvskyopoulo7 Because it's patently true. Every moderator is given the powers and responsibilities for moderating chat.
 
@ArtOfCode Yes, they have equal power, but that doesn't mean they should exercise it when the moderators respective to the site are around. Chill.
 
@BernardoMeurer They're not.
 
@Danu It doesn't make sense that one mod should be able to come to another chat and dictate what people can and can't say.
 
@0celouvskyopoulo7 all mods are enforcing the same policy
 
@0celouvskyopoulo7 That's just wrong. Every moderator is a chat moderator.
 
6:55 PM
@ArtOfCode I see ACM's watchful head
 
@BernardoMeurer the fact that he's in the room has no bearing. He's not available as of this moment.
 
All this brouhaha because of JEE[INSERT_PUN] ?
 
@Danu I know that, and it's stupid.
 
@0celouvskyopoulo7 It's also how it is. You don't get to ignore it because you don't like it.
 
@0celouvskyopoulo7 I, for one, am a non-diamond who disagrees with that comment
 
6:56 PM
@BernardoMeurer No, not really. The point is the subsequent response to being told not to do that.
 
@ArtOfCode I get to ignore what I want. Whatever happens afterwards, happens.
@ArtOfCode I don't believe that for one second. Every moderator has their own variations on various things.
There are degrees of leniency, and I don't think foreign mods should come and "set room mods straight" or whatever it is you're trying to do.
 
Look, someone stated in a custom moderator flag that they found your 'play on words' offensive. You should take that in good faith, and Not Do That (tm).
 
Sorry to whoever that was, but it's not offensive.
Perhaps I should leave before I get banned.
 
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Q: If you're gonna talk Politics, you must respect those who disagree

Shog9This is sort of a follow-up to two past discussions: Toward a philosophy of Chat Does the Be Nice policy require SE users to "be nice" to people who are not SE users (e.g. public figures)? Over the past year, there's been an uptick in discussions of politics in chat. JUST LOOK AT THIS CHART! ...

 
Politics?
Who the hell is talking politics?
 
6:59 PM
@0celouvskyopoulo7 Just because something isn't offensive to you, doesn't mean it's not offensive to everyone else
 
> Ultimately, this all boils down to something that's come up repeatedly in past discussions of chat: respect. You can't effectively talk about anything in chat if you despise the folks you're talking to, and politics by its nature tends to bring out topics where people find it impossible to respect opposing views... or the people who hold them.
 
@Mithrandir24601 Protip, the whole notion of offense is made-up.
 
maybe it was just about okay two months ago when leniency was greater and nobody said they found it offensive. Now that we're trying to be more consistent in enforcement and someone has directly said they find it offensive, it's no longer okay, and you need to stop using it
 
If offensiveness is a criterion for language being disallowed, everything should be banned.
 
@0celouvskyopoulo7 Yeah, you don't get to decide that.
 
7:00 PM
@ArtOfCode Then why does that other person fucking get to.
I think this whole thing is offensive.
 
someone has in good faith said they found it offensive. You should in good faith assume that they do, and have some respect and stop using it.
 
I don't respect someone who thinks that.
 
Perhaps this jee thing has gone a long way now. I just referred to yashas that jee is difficult ( but I believe it is useless ) . Probably we should leave jee to IIT. Anybody got annoyed by remark on jee , I am sorry . But that is how I feel about jee and and I have the right to have my own thinking about jee. Anybody hurt of my comment , sorry !
 
@Shashaank this, @0celouvskyopoulo7, is an appropriate response. You are welcome to your own opinion, but avoiding shouting about it once you know someone finds it offensive is just common respect.
 
@0celouvskyopoulo7 SE isn't a place where people can say anything they want, regardless of whether they respect other people - respect is a fundamental piece of how people interact with others here, as codified in many meta posts and the "Be Nice" policy (which does apply to chat too)
 
7:02 PM
Woah
Who deleted that
It was constructive!
 
Me. I've told you to stop using it. Stop.
 
Is any mention of jihad disallowed in any context? Can someone please tell why?
 
Once someone has said something offends them, then yeah, it's not allowed.
 
@0celouvskyopoulo7 No, as long as you're having a constructive discussion about it. It was the comparison that was found offensive.
@BernardoMeurer calling people ignorant isn't nice either.
 
@ArtOfCode Am I allowed to say JEEhad if I mean it in a nice way?
 
7:05 PM
@0celouvskyopoulo7 no.
 
Well why not?
"the spiritual struggle within oneself against sin."
 
I've told you to stop. Stop trying to find ways around that.
 
So context doesn't matter?
Why are so many mods here?
 
@0celouvskyopoulo7 Because someone found it offensive.
 
@Mithrandir So why can't I find donuts offensive and flag it?
 
7:06 PM
@0celouvskyopoulo7 because that's pretty clearly not in good faith
@BernardoMeurer That's not what I've said. I said someone found the comparison offensive, no matter how it was meant, so you stop using it
 
Why exactly are you banning it? I mean, just the fact that you're prohibiting us from using the word is very offensive, and borderline disrespectful on your part
 
Because someone found it offensive. Have I not made that abundantly clear by now?
 
:37495923 Earlier, you said: "Protip, the whole notion of offense is made-up." Therefore, there's no way you could be offended by doughnuts, or you're downright lying
 
If you found donuts offensive, then it would be polite to stop... But there's a difference between something that is entirely harmless to most of the world and something that has lots of negative connotations, no matter how unfounded they might be.
 
7:10 PM
Guys, we know that $d\mathbf l\times\mathbf r=dl\,dr\sin\phi$, where $\phi$ is the angle between $d\mathbf l$ and $\mathbf r$ (my $\mathbf r$ is supposed to be this curly r in the picture). Griffiths seems to be saying that $d\mathbf l\times\mathbf r=dl\,r\cos\theta$. So I'm guessing $\sin\phi=\cos\theta$. I can't really see this tho. Is there a handy way to draw this to make it clear?
 
Woh! This chat is going places. Any Muslim or religion out there got offended , sorry ! Was just saying jee not good....
 
@Shashaank No worries, but thank you for apologising :)
 
@ArtOfCode yeah I felt that its better to apologise if someone got that to their religion , but you know I never said anything about you know what , and you know about what I said. Even though i feel nothing for any religion ( as it is mankind is destroying the biggest religion ) , I thought it be better to apologise so take the discussion back to Physics rather than all that ......( P.S- all the way I meant only "joint entrance....
 
oh, it's solved!
 
@ShaVuklia He isn't saying dl\times r is dl r cos \theta
 
7:19 PM
I should be just looking at the perpendicular part
 
No, no
notice dl and r are perpendicular
 
yea okay
no they're not!
 
right.
 
only the cos component is
I just realized
 
the sin theta component is along z axis
its perpendicular to the plane contain dl
 
7:21 PM
yea, but I was talking about $\sin\phi$
I know it's not depicted
 
so thats perpendicular as well
 
but $\phi$ would have been the angle between the two vectors
but they don't consider that, because you might as well take the perpendicular component right away
 
$\phi$ is 90 degrees
 
oh that's true
huh
 
He is taking the cos theta because he looks at only the z component of B
 
7:22 PM
ohhhh
 
Since all other components cancel by symmetry.
 
that's what you meant:P
right right
 
Yea!
 
ok, I did not realise that. thanks
 
cool. No trouble :)
 
7:28 PM
oh lol, they literally explain this right after giving the formula
I should adopt the habit to continue reading for at least a couple of sentences when I don't understand something :P
@SirCumference btw, I can't unread "circumference" anymore, thanks to you:P I now read it as "Sir Cumference" in my head XD
 
Sid
@Kaumudi.H How was the exam?
 
 
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8:45 PM
 
Hi, everybody.
 
Hm
How to call the point of a fiber bundle
this paper calls it $m$
 
So call it $m$.
 
9:00 PM
Just checking if it's the most common notation
 
::shrugs::
Whatsa fiber bundle?
 
the most famous one is the tangent bundle
The set of all tangent spaces
 
I've heard of that.
Long ago there were differential forms in my life.
 
@ShaVuklia My pronunciation is better tho
 
So @DanielSank
when will we get quantum doom
 
9:06 PM
@Slereah Probably, like, I dunno coupla weeks.
 
I read a paper about quantum C, once
It was mostly like regular C
But with a few more bitwise operators
In mathematics, the vertical bundle and the horizontal bundle are two subbundles of the tangent bundle of a smooth fiber bundle, forming complementary subspaces at each point of the fibre bundle. The vertical bundle consists of all vectors that are tangent to the fibers, while the horizontal bundle is then a particular choice of a subbundle of tangent bundle which is complementary to vertical bundle. More precisely, if Ï€ : E → M is a smooth fiber bundle over a smooth manifold M and e ∈ E with Ï€(e) = x ∈ M, then the vertical space VeE at e is the tangent space Te(Ex) to the fiber Ex containing e...
wikipedia does call the point $e$
I'm having troubles picturing the vertical space
How many dimension is the vertical space?
wew
 
rob
9:52 PM
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Wrichik BasuWouldn't it be helpful to provide a link under the text box, shown while asking questions or writing answers, to the meta page dealing with MathJax commands: https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5020/mathjax-basic-tutorial-and-quick-reference It is not only difficult but also tiresome t...

 
Oh no
they just keep multiplying
 
Anyone know of either a source for (a) 7-12 HR diagrams for clusters of different ages all in the same format or (b) a suitable data set from which such a collection could be produced in a reasonable amount of time.
I'm teaching a gen-ed level astronomy course again in the fall, and I have a guided inquiry lab I tried out last year, but having my HR diagrams in slightly different formats confused and misled a non-trivial fraction of the class.
I'd like to reduce that as much as possible.
I actually have several things I want to improve labs and assignments for that class, but I've got to start somewhere.
 
10:17 PM
is there any significance to the term "flux vector"?
(this is in a paper about continuous chemical reaction networks, if that changes anything)
 
@heather It's means the direction of flow of [what the flux is of].
 
rob
@dmckee We actually just made some of these for exactly this purpose. I have an email with raw data (magnitudes and color indices) in spreadsheets that I could forward to you in thirty seconds, or I can get the pretty final versions from my colleague who made them.
 
@rob Ooooooh. I'm no gluten for punishment. I'll take the finished product if your colleague doesn't mind.
Do you have my contact info?
 
rob
@dmckee I've found your contact info before. I'll reach out tomorrow if I can't find it again.
 
Great. I appreciate it.
 
10:23 PM
Uh, I might be crazy, but were these buttons on our profiles always this black?
 
hmm...direction of flow...not sure if that makes sense in this context.
it defines the flux vector as $\mathbf{u}\in\mathbb{R}^R_{\geq 0}$
where $R$ is a finite set of reactions over $\Lambda$, which is a finite set of species (chemicals/states)
which as far as I can tell means that the flux vector is in the set of functions from the reaction to the set of all real numbers such that the real number is greater than or equal to zero. Which I'm not really sure what it means, that's just the symbols.
 
Yeah. I see your concern. I wouldn't call that a flux, but then I'm a physicist.
I think we can deuce the intended meaning, however.
Consider that the state of the system at any given time encodes a point in this (abstract space).
And if you know the point you can work out the current composition of the system.
 
right, because conservation of mass.
 
As chemistry occurs the composition of the system changes, meaning that the point representing the system moves.
 
oh, wait.
 
10:33 PM
So they are talking about the direction of 'motion'.
 
so when you said "And if you know the point you can work out the current composition of the system" were you assuming no reactions have happened in the meantime?
 
@heather Yeah. If you know the instantaneous point, then you know the composition at that time.
 
okay.
 
And the 'flux vector' tells you how things are changing.
 
so basically just the movement between one state to another? which is represented by a vector taken in a roundabout way from the set of all possible reactions?
that makes sense.
 
10:36 PM
Something like that. I'm basically guessing from the exceprt you offered. But try it out as a fist understanding and see if it makes sense.
 
it does.
thank you.
 
Suppose you have two three-dimensional gyroscopes: one in the forearm and the other in the upper arm. Now, if you keep your elbow frozen, would this imply that, even if you move for example the shoulder, the two gyroscopes would detect the same angular velocity, right?
 
@dmckee I need your algo expertise :P
 
@BernardoMeurer You make that sound very impressive. I'll give it a try.
 
Do you have access to that?
 
10:48 PM
Never a good sign when we start with a github link. I might have to think!
@BernardoMeurer 404.
 
Hehehe
@dmckee Do you have a github account?
 
If that's true, it should imply that, no matter where we place the gyroscopes on the forearm or upperarm, the angular velocities should not be affected by translations, since they are vectors...
 
@BernardoMeurer I think so. And my computer might even know my credentials. Give me a minute.
 
@dmckee Sorry for the hassle, I need to keep the repo private to stop my classmates from snagging my code
 
OK. I'm signed in, but I am still getting 404 on your link.
Is that what you need to authorize me to look?
 
10:51 PM
@dmckee I gotta add you, yeah, one moment
@dmckee ^
 
I'm at a friend's place in the country and internet slowish and high latency here.
OK. I can see the repository.
 
Check utils.c
 
... and project2 has been recently modified. Drilling down.
 
Inside project02, yeha
In the bottom there are two sorting functions for doubly linked lists
They are merge sort implementations, I figured it was best
Could you take a look and see if my implementation is reasonable?
(They are identical so only look at one)
 
I'll try. You've gotta know how sensitive routines on linked structures are.
 
10:55 PM
Yeah, it's a PITA that they make me use linked lists for this
 
@BernardoMeurer OK. I don't understand how your divide step is working (I'm only looking at the station code right now). Nor do I see a recurrance.
Merge source is a recurrent strategy, and for it to be maximally efficient the division should be roughly into two even parts at every stage.
If you divide into 1 and N-1 at each state it's O(n^2).
 
if I want to do actual work with chemical reactions (not just retrieve values) what's a good python package (must be compatible with python 3)
 
So, first question, can you write a merge-sort on an array of integers?
 
@dmckee Eh, I think so, I didn't try really
I just wanted to get this over with so I found a pseudo code and some old C implementation and hacked it together
 
On a block scale a merge sort looks like ...
 
11:05 PM
Because I figured merge sort was the best algo for the job
 
1. Divide the range into lists A and B
2. mergesort sublist A.
3. mergesort sublist B.
4. Recombine the lists maintaing order as you do so.
 
Okay, that makes sense
but on a linked list
that would mean that I need to go over the whole list every time!
That's not practical
 
@BernardoMeurer My guess is that it is a good choice provided you can devise an efficient division scheme. With a double linked structure perhaps working both ways around the list until you meet yourself and then partition from head to the meeting place.
 
Yeah, I can do that but then I do O(n/2) every time I find a half
That will be no good because I need to find many lists
 
@BernardoMeurer You will have to walk the list each time, but that still only adds up to O(n) so it doesn't effect the limiting order.
Remember that 1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 ... = 2. That kind of divising and count scheme is O(n).
 
11:09 PM
Ah, true
 
Well, the usual implementation always (not just "roughly") divides the list in half. In the case of odd size, you arbitrarily choose which sub-list to make bigger.
 
^ That.
 
Hmmm
Is merge sort even the right approach?
I just want to quickly sort this damned list
 
Merge sort isn't the easiest sorting algorithm to implement in C since you need to care about new memory allocation. Quicksort is a lot easier to implement.
 
I don't actually have a brain-file marked "good sorting algos for linked lists".
 
11:11 PM
But it depends on your knowledge of the algorithm.
 
Look on Stack Overflow.
 
@nbro You cannot quicksort a linked list, can you?
@dmckee Shame on you :P
 
Why not spend one run through the linked list building up a hash table of all the elements?
 
I think the Linux kernel does heap sort
THINK
 
Then you can treat it like an array.
:-P
 
11:12 PM
Btw, there also exists an in-place merge sort algorithm, but you may not want to implement it... but if you're curious you can have a look at the source code of the PintOS. There you find an implementation of it.
 
@DanielSank I might just end up doing that
 
Heh ...
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Q: Merging two Sorted Circular Singly Linked Lists

MathNerdI am practicing some algorithm problems before an exam in a C language course and and I got stuck (for at least 3 or even 4 hours) at this question which I don't know how to answer: You have two circular singly linked lists that are already sorted, you have to merge them and return the head of t...

@BernardoMeurer Same problem as with merge sort. You have to do the partition.
 
@dmckee I've seen that problem before.
 
But you don't do swaps like you do in an array, you move them to sublists.
 
@BernardoMeurer What made you think that you can't quicksort a linked list?
 
11:14 PM
@nbro I said it, and then I realized it was stupid
I do that a lot, don't worry
 
@DanielSank Ay, screw you :P
 
lolol
 
@DanielSank We don't. We do it too.
 
@dmckee We don't?
Don't what?
 
11:15 PM
Sorry. I clicked the wrong line. That was aimed at @BernardoMeurer. We don't worry.
Because we have quickly correct dumb thoughts, too.
With experience you learn to wait for the correction before saying them out loud, of course.
 
@dmckee I want to make a merge sort in OpenCL
With arbitrary precision arithmetic
Fuck the rest of the project :P
 
lol
 
Then run it with a potato. We could have guessed.
 
you can't, I think, OpenCL does not allow recursion...
but you may want to implement it another way
GPU programming usually does not allow recursion
 
@dmckee I don't currently own a potato computer :(
 
11:18 PM
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Q: Why is recursion forbidden in OpenCL?

trichoplaxI'd like to use OpenCL to accelerate rendering of raytraced images, but I notice that the Wikipedia page claims that recursion is forbidden in Open CL. Is this true? As I make extensive use of recursion when raytracing, this will require a considerable amount of redesign in order to benefit from ...

 
I have my FPGA with a custom CPU that runs linux though :^)
 
\begin{rant}
I have spent almost a week trying to get a Hello, World website to run on Google App Engine.
No success.
 
I must say, though, GPU programming is a lot of fun
 
\end{rant}
 
@nbro I was completely joking, but I appreciate the resource, that as nice to read about
 
11:20 PM
@BernardoMeurer I wonder if gcc would be smart enough to remove that facade linked list and use an array directly :P
 
I want to try and implement schonhage-strassen in OpenCL with GMP
I just need to not be lazy
@JaimeGallego Lol, maybe
GCC probably not
 
My expeience with [powerthing]s that won't [run simple thing] despite lots of trying is that there is usually some assumption about the underlying model that the programmer of [powerthing] made and I haven't.
Hate that.
 
ICC would solve the halting problem AND change the list into an array
 
^ And automatically vectorize the code, too.
 
lol
 
11:24 PM
Heavy rain here. Internet going to pot.
 
@dmckee How do I make fgets() not read those trailing \ns in stdin and "skip" user input?
Should I just use scanf()?
I just hate scanf
 
The best way is by not using fgets.
 
It also started raining here...
 
But I imagine that is not an option for you.
 
@dmckee It is
I chose fgets() because I like how it avoids buffer overruns
What else should I use?
 
11:29 PM
@BernardoMeurer Well, worst case you can scan the input yourself. One character at a time and define the behavior you want. Pain in the butt.
 
@dmckee I'm not a masochist
:P
 
I usually use getline, but you've indicated before that you're not allow that, and besides it reads the newlines.
If I had to write a scanner that wasn't very simple I might actually use flex, but again I fear you are not going to be allowed that.
 
Ah, I am!
Here I am
Aha!
Nice reminder
 

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