@wat @Pavel This whole conversation you guys have been having reminded me strongly of this XKCD. So much so that I spent half an hour trying to find it and getting distracted reading other XKCDs. :P
@wat use the binary representation of each character 1bit:1pixel, though you could compress it further and get 3 characters per pixel, now that's a small font.
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@MatthewRoh Ooh--if you start the signal at the upper right end of the check mark, you get an epilepsy-inducing period-3 pattern throughout the whole space!
@Pavel a) because many people only think in terms of theoretical regular expressions or regex with backreferences. PCRE and .NET should be able to do it (with recursion and balancing groups, respectively). b) because it's still a bad idea. c) because some people mix up parsing with lexing/tokenising.
@Pavel re the other discussion, I only know that .NET isn't TC (barring an undiscovered bug that lets you circumvent the optimisation that prevents infinite loops). I'm not sure about PCRE though. I think recursion can be sent into an infinite loop, but I'm not sure it's sufficient for TC-ness, because I think your memory might be limited by the size of regex and input string.
@wizzwizz4 Switch to mobile then. All the names are the same, the important options are missing, and the diamonds are ugly. 10/10, I can chat any time anywhere
@wizzwizz4 Is the story with C libraries that you usually have to get it from a third party? Because that's what it seemed like when I tried to find a hashtable library the other day.
@DLosc If you do #include "libheader.h" from another project (a grouping system used by compilers to keep source files together and trackable), it won't #include. That way, you can have identically-labelled headers in two different programs.
@wizzwizz4 Ok, so that just translates to "get it from a third party and put the .h file in your project folder, you can #include it and it won't mess up any other projects"?
I recall seeing on reddit that fewer people get polio vaccine in Seattle than in Nigeria. The comments were full of people calling out Seattle for being anti-vax, and I was just confused because I'm pretty sure that's not really something anyone gets anymore.
@DLosc And you will have nearly no reasons to go places like there
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@wizzwizz4 Well, it's wrong in a very important aspect: vaccines teach your immune system how to fight off stuff. You don't have to keep getting a vaccine to keep the immunity. The misconception may come from vaccines like the flu vaccine, which is updated annually to mitigate what researchers believe will be the most common strands of influenze that year (because influenza mutates rapidly, causing previous vaccinations to be ineffective), or multiple-stage vaccines
@MatthewRoh We've got people from all over the world on this site. Somebody could live in one of those countries, have relatives they're visiting, have business dealings there, be in the US military... But it is true that most people probably won't go to any of those three countries.
> If enough people in a community are vaccinated, it's harder for a disease to pass between people who have not been vaccinated. This is called herd immunity. Herd immunity is particularly important for protecting people who can't get vaccinated because they're too ill or because they're having treatment that damages their immune system. -- NHS Choices
@wizzwizz4 Nope. Memory T and B cells "remember" antigens on foreign invaders, allowing antibodies to be produced sooner upon reinfection. They're like a cache for your immune system.
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