I'm hesitating, either I go with bits for connect4, will be a bit hard, and I don't appreciate too much those bit hacks, either with a matrix whole rows are vertical columns in the game
@crl Now I understand where you were coming from. Not sure why that question was tagged C++, apart from bool. The rest is real C.
@crl The reason for the 0 prefix is so that it can be distinquished from symbolic identifiers (variables and functions and such). Otherwise you would have things like xFEEDBEEF and b1001, which are now legal identifiers. This would be seriously bad.
> (in Sweden) To avoid confusion and further mistakes, the Julian calendar was restored in 1712 by adding an extra leap day, thus giving that year the only 30th of February in history. That date corresponded to February 29 in the Julian calendar and to March 11 in the Gregorian calendar.
@Mitch - good question on French! I didn't know you spoke it. I was surprised by the answer as well. I dislike "est-ce que" because it sounds so formal. Huh. I hardly ever heard it at home growing up.
@tchrist - I saw something on the transcript. I hope you know that you can ping me if you ever want a medical opinion. I'm a generalist, but a pretty damn good one (or so I am told; it's hard to be proud when you know how much you don't know.) BTW, if it isn't obvious, this is medica.
I don't think we've had much more than a foot, at least in the grass. My deck has more, but I don't know if that's from drifting or because it stuck there first or what. I do know there is a glaze of ice beneath everything.
It was blowing a lot last night, and I think I have something of a snow trap. It blew up against the back door higher than normal for that amount of snow.
People are out walking their (big) dogs.
I guess they must have plowed the sidewalk in the open space behind me.
My toy Siberian tiger is hiding underneath some deck furniture hoping birds will come underneath looking for seed. He had to make his own way there though, because I haven't shovelled yet. I wouldn't exactly say he leaves footprints. More like an alligator trail, since he his shorter than the snow.
It’s 8 degrees.
It's snowing lightly but consistently. Supposedly 5–8" more today yet.
I'm not sure this will go away this time before the next wave hit Wednesday. That's unusual here.
We will have a sunny warm day on Tuesday, or so they say, but only 45, not 60 like last week when the hot 80mph winds melted the foot we'd gotten the previous weekend like somebody took a blow-dryer to it.
I forget the exact set of criteria governing residential plowing. I think it has to be double-digit inches of snow (or maybe more than 20") with temperatures that don’t get above freezing for a week. Something like that.
@anongoodnurse 1) I speak as much as anybody who took it in high school. 2) Nobody in English actually says /aj dount nou/ even in articulated speech, so I wouldn't expect it of French either, but maybe they have different standards, or this is a proxy for Hollande's mumbling 3) I forgot you were a native/bilingual speaker. Quebecois?
This is much more snow than we normally get in February. Long-term average is only a foot for the month.
Oh now it is snowing seriouslier.
I have a friend who lives way up in the foothills SW of Denver (in the town of Evergreen), not at their NW edge like I do here in Boulder. The storm was supposed to be worse for the SW than the NW this time. I should ask him how he's doing today.
I’ve been protecting questions with lots of view or lots of answers, especially if they have lots of deleted stuff. In some cases I've found questions with 3, 5, even seven things deleted that still aren't protected.
You can find candidates starting with this SEDE query, tweaking the parameters.
In Arabic (Specifically, north-western Levantine), there's a saying that goes like
He drilled my head about/with that lunch meeting (بخشلي راسي باجتماع الغدا)
Which means something along the lines of
He kept insisting on/talking about/remind me of/bringing up that lunch meeting
It can...
Oh der that way. I was thinking dort, da and going "But where would der fit into those?" D'oh.
@Robusto Jugar is a unique verb morphologically.
It is the only verb in the entire language that acts like an o > ue stem-changer but starts from u. Plus is it 1st conjugation, which has far fewer oddities of that sort than the others.
@Cerberus Yes, I think it was something else. I don't remember it, and I don't have the data dump of the chat messages to run proper regex searches on just your messages. Like show me the longest words you've said.
@Robusto Tocar has quite a few idiomatic meanings, not necessarily obvious. "No me toques" is of course don't touch me, but "Me toca a mí" means that it's my turn. And "Tengo una tía que toca la guitarra" literally means that I've got an aunt who plays the guitar but figuratively is a refrain equivalent to asking about the price of tea in China.
Occasionally I will search for something on SO and find, to my surprise, that I answered that question and it is the accepted answer. I've not only forgotten I answered the question, but I couldn't remember, off the top of my head, the solution I found. Google has ruined my memory for tech stuff. It's too easy to Google as a first line of defense.
@Mitch In Spain, they often use "mouth sounds" for things like that. Then again, some people use them so often it drives you crazy, injecting these funny little front-of-the-mouth "tsks" or "phts" or "pssts" every few words. It may be more of a chick thing.
It’s like people honking their horns in Italy. You just get used to it as "normal", when in fact, it isn't.
Haha, my Duolingo app just informed me that I haven't done something since January 31, 1969. I wonder what non-programmers would make of such a pronouncement.
Sometimes things have explanations, sometimes not. Sometimes you have a pain in your arm because you slammed it in a door. Sometimes, the pain just appears.
Could be arthritis. Could be repetitive stress injury. Could be osteomyelitis. Could be some other cause that no one has any idea about yet. Probably not voodoo
You can see a doctor and maybe they can help, or maybe not. You can avoid the doctor and hope that it heals itself; sometimes it does, sometimes not.
@ABeautifulMind You can... oh... you left. I had winning lottery numbers to give out. OK then, forget it.
Nowadays doctors know a lot more. But psychiatry is difficult.
I heard that neuroscience recently discovered that the brain is orders of magnitude more complex than the models they have been using in the last 10 years.
> In As You Like It, Shakespeare has Rosalind liken herself to a coney when she’s speaking to Orlando “like a saucy lackey, and under that habit play the knave with him”:
Orlando. Where dwell you, pretty youth?
Rosalind. With this shepherdess, my sister; here in the skirts of the forest, like fringe upon a petticoat.
Orlando. Are you native of this place?
Rosalind. As the coney that you see dwell where she is kindled.
Orlando. Your accent is something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling.
Paying funny money for honeyed coney used to be punny but now it’s only phony.
Well, that or coneyed honey, take your pick.
As you like it. :)
The new text above added to the coney-fuggling question:
Of Leporids and Country Matters
Rabbit or hare, and familiarly bunny, are now the common words for the critters once commonly called coney. The OED reports that coney is now in “more or less familiar use with game-keepers, poachers, game-dealers and cooks”. J.R.R. Tolkien alluded to this in Th...
In Arabic (Specifically, north-western Levantine), there's a saying that goes like
He drilled my head about/with that lunch meeting (بخشلي راسي باجتماع الغدا)
Which means something along the lines of
He kept insisting on/talking about/remind me of/bringing up that lunch meeting
It can...
Is there a rule to decide which is better: relevant to or relevant for? One is accusative and one dative but that doesn't really help me.
Modern day liberal would suffice.
Of Leporids and Country Matters
Rabbit or hare, and familiarly bunny, are now the common words for the critters once commonly called coney. The OED reports that coney is now in “more or less familiar use with game-keepers, poachers, game-dealers and cooks”. J.R.R. Tolkien alluded to this in Th...
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…