Apr 8, 2022 02:57
@DavidMulder Sure, a swarm of nanobots crawling in through the nose to 3D print an entirely new brain on a molecular level should do... although, now that I think about it, you might want to deep freeze the body first. The heart can run itself but the lungs can't, so if the printing takes more than 10 minutes the fresh brain won't have a functioning body to operate. Anything less than a molecular print, I wouldn't trust.
 
Apr 2, 2022 23:48
For a voltage reference I'd recommend building a chemical battery. Pure samples of two different metals shouldn't be hard to get. I'm only not sure about chemically pure salt to make an electrolyte with.
 

Charcoal HQ

Where smoke is detected, diamonds are made, and we break thing...
Jan 19, 2022 19:41
oh deer
Jan 18, 2022 21:31
that "near me" bit is adorable
Nov 29, 2021 18:43
(the latter one too, if you sync your clocks with the upstream)
Nov 29, 2021 18:42
I do suspect the former should be possible to measure
Nov 2, 2021 12:25
.. seriously, how does SD listen to my keystrokes so that it can always report just after I copy/paste the URL?
Oct 8, 2021 14:17
... right. Sorry.
Oct 8, 2021 13:16
plus needs a canned reply to the editor
Aug 26, 2021 10:55
Aren't women's kilts just plait skirts?
Aug 24, 2021 14:12
Oh no. Smokey's getting anxious.
 
Jan 19, 2022 14:20
I'm going to propose that the human mouth and stomach are insufficient to power a centaur body
Jan 19, 2022 14:20
But what is it for? What is inside?
Jan 19, 2022 14:20
@PhasmaFelis horse jockeys tend to be smaller than average in general, not just because sex and age, because a horse carrying a heavier jockey will tend to be slower. Centaurs don't get to pick their career.
Jan 19, 2022 14:20
@JustinThymetheSecond I've always assumed those organs would go near the rear end, so they'd pee like a horse does. ~~Perhaps the horse legs originate just below the ribs of an elongated spine, and the horse bits are unprotected against bite attacks but also contain no vital organs?~~ Scratch that. OP has put all vital organs into the horse bits. Which means the human ribcage is there ... just for shows?
 
Nov 7, 2021 17:12
@ChrisH most noise cancelling headphones allow you to turn off the noise cancelling functionality or even to enhance the sounds coming from outside. That sound still does have to compete with the music though.
 

 The Nineteenth Byte

The Nineteenth Byte: General discussion for codegolf.stackexc...
Sep 8, 2021 10:22
the idea behind WET is that when you have two instances of some code, you usually don't know yet how to generalize it so that it can actually be reused.
Sep 8, 2021 10:19
or thrice
Sep 8, 2021 10:19
@pxeger write everything twice
Sep 7, 2021 22:25
some plants are just that picky
Aug 31, 2021 17:09
the former
Aug 27, 2021 15:57
Legend says it that when he was riding the Autobahn, police once tried to stop him.
"Do you know how fast have you been driving, sir"
"I don't, but on the other hand I know exactly where I am"
Aug 27, 2021 15:24
in before it's seeded by the wrong answers by the teacher
Aug 27, 2021 14:59
End 3
Aug 26, 2021 11:50
Thaaat's better :P
Aug 26, 2021 11:48
wouldn't notepad corrupt the line endings?
Aug 26, 2021 11:47
to write ffmpeg scripts?
Aug 25, 2021 08:53
... I'd gladly kill off the latter and keep the former
Aug 25, 2021 08:52
(other than most languages using % to represent remainder and calling it modulus)
Aug 25, 2021 08:51
@Adám wait, does it?
Aug 24, 2021 18:04
Is that like real poison, that kills kills you, or a Shakespearean one that fake-kills you but it's real convincing?
Aug 24, 2021 17:29
eSTDs :O
Aug 24, 2021 17:27
no, I'm saying Zoom is good
Aug 24, 2021 17:27
Zoom
Aug 23, 2021 04:13
And orb webs can work perfectly fine in a corner, too. It even gets you more attachment points so that you don't have to create a single point of failure.
Aug 23, 2021 04:11
Plus it's more resilient to damage. An orb web as you've described is extremely susceptible to damage - break one of the supporting strands and the whole structure collapses. A cobweb has no weak points - only a wide area suppression an sensory effect. Every part can support itself.
Aug 23, 2021 04:06
@BrowncatPrograms excuse me, cobwebs are awesome - especially for confined spaces. A dense sheet in the middle is great for traversal, while vertical strands are pretty much guaranteed to surprise any passing insect. You just have to reel it in... and even if it doesn't get stuck, it's going to bump into more and more strands until you catch up with it.
Aug 23, 2021 04:04
CSS is Turing-complete
Aug 23, 2021 04:03
worse, imagine being a certified HTML programmer
 
Sep 6, 2021 10:36
yup!
Sep 6, 2021 10:34
Aug 28, 2021 04:56
It's not pronounced like that though
Aug 26, 2021 13:50
the definition is def wrong