Yeah. If it were a serious attempt at communicating, it should be tested by having a small team of scientists who know nothing about the project sit in a room with the raw data being sent
> Even assuming that any extraterrestrial recipients would recognize binary, the encoding of the numbers may not be immediately obvious because of the way they have been written. To read the first seven digits, ignore the bottom row, and read them as three binary digits from top to bottom, with the top digit being the most significant. The readings for 8, 9, and 10 are a little different, as their binary code has been distributed across an additional column next to the first
even though the server runs fine it just doesn't receive any requests; idk if my certificate expired or smth and i don't know how to set that up either
the only reason i can think of to move stuff into extraneous columns would be aesthetics and if there's one thing you don't want to count on alien life understanding it's a human's sense of aesthetics
@UnrelatedString "We were going to go with this universally understandable message, but figured it was too boring, so here's some glitter for you to send to the aliens"
Imagine throwing a rock into a pond. You get to see perfect circles of ripples spreading out over the pond, bouncing off of each other. Of course, nothing can be as serene as that in coding, but, we can try!
Given a point on a 2D array (x, y) and the dimensions of a 2D array/pond (w, h), and a "f...
Presumably you want it vertically centered within the body in which case you need a height: 100vh and probably want to position: absolute it to avoid issues with margins
if it was done under the pretense of an agreement with other countries, the risk would be smaller
if it was done just because you became president and no-one else did it, I don't think too much would change, but some people in the US would probably start worrying that you'd just weakened the military force of their country
The above situation could also (maybe) prompt a power hungry country to take advantage of the situation
Because the best time to strike is when the enemy is down and you're up
So really, it depends on what negotiations and deals you have with the world
What I find funny is how Australia is considered part of the West despite being geographically East of Europe and America
Like sure I guess we're west if you consider that there's directional wrap around, but then the analogy of west and east breaks down
I solved Semantle #65 in 123 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 23.42. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #56. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 38.91 (930/1000). semantle.novalis.org
I solved Semantle #65 in 38 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 0.42. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #4. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 22.93. semantle.novalis.org
I solved Semantle #65 in 179 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 2.26. My first word in the top 1000 was at guess #12. My penultimate guess had a similarity of 43.40 (962/1000). semantle.novalis.org
I solved Semantle #65 in 2 guesses. My first guess had a similarity of 59.16 (997/1000).My penultimate guess had a similarity of 59.16 (997/1000). semantle.novalis.org
im gonna be on an airplane for about 6 hours tomorrow, almost certainly without wifi, and id love to try to learn a bit more piet while im on the plane
i have encountered two different source-only IDEs, one in python, and one in C++, that i could not get to work due to a plethora of missing libraries and nonsense, and now i have downloaded an executable from 2007 that apparently worked in windows XP
Honestly the easiest non-browser way to try Piet is npiet (latest binary) + ascii-piet (also don't forget to grab an offline copy of this page and maybe ascii-piet's readme)
i think im going back to tinkering with the python IDE i found and seeing if it can launch
ASCII piet is probably the easiest way, but i SO wish i could get something a bit more like this online IDE, being able to see what different colors will do in the context of your current color is so helpful
well this one actually needs python2, that might be part of the reason it wasnt working :P
@Bubbler How to run: get a .png file (likely using ascii-piet, or you can find some examples in the repo itself), and run python main.py -f image.png -g in the terminal
@mathcat Lemme guess: It's an anagram for "tha mact", a misspelling of "the matrix", a warning to us that we live in a simulated universe named by people who don't know what a matrix is?
On the one hand, I don't think we're as strict about this sort of stuff anymore. But on the other hand, the question does say no answers >4d later should have "non-competing" in the title
It seems a bit like it's based on OP's misinterpretation of the rule "The cop with the lowest-score uncracked answer after 1 week wins!" which is an imitation of other C'n'Rs
but in other CnRs it means "1 week after the answer was posted"
