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For those of you not in the know, we have an entire board dedicated to these disputes, so if you want to go into in-depth discussions about ⋅ Toilet paper orientation ⋅ Metric vs US Customary ⋅ Banana peeling do feel free to spew your nonsense voice your opinion ther...

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What's the point of those circles in the first place? You're not supposed to see them, right? Also (assuming you want to stay with a free webhost) you may want to move your site over to GitHub Pages . It's a slight upgrade in terms of advertising and analytics (namely github doesn't inject anything ...

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speising wrote:this is my IE11 at work:

What the- how- oh dammit! Please remove any and all IE11 in a 500 kilometre radius.

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Derp, that came out badly. I meant to say that having a script source at the very start of the document (or a link[rel=subresource] as I've just learned) will make the browser aware earlier that it should load that script. And that together with defer it won't block the html parser any further. (and...

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First thing I'd suggest, though, is to take your in-line CSS section and chuck it in a .css file of its own. Assuming you're not making every page on your site completely different in style, that one file can serve every one of them. I subscribe to this too. And next to CSS, I also advise you to mo...

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I'd like to know of one of those so I can get the user-base up to eleven. I know of Subtext, Viskell and Luna as the most general-purpose languages, with Luna actually being worked on right now. Then there are more specific languages like XOD, Simulink, LabView, GNU Radio which are (if I recall cor...

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Or one of the billion JS web frameworks, but I gather you want to mess around for fun, not seek out reasons to slit your wrists. With the chief advantage of JS of course being you can mash stuff together in a graphical environment (the browser) from the get-go. I feel more like "having fun&quo...

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NumberFourtyThree wrote:http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

Great, thanks, now my Sunday is gone (and all I got is this lousy wire drone collection).

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Well well well, the 4 days of natural ice have been fun. :D (and maybe, just maybe, there's enough ice left tomorrow to make it 5 days) I believe I have to go to a more northern country if I am to skate for longer (on long stretches of ice, not indoors of course). Internet Stockholm claims to have l...

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The point of 1==x rather than x==1 is to avoid bugs of the "oops, I typed = rather than ==" variety. x=1 will compile (it's an assignment). 1=x will not. (You can't assign to an immutable). So, it catches a particular kind of common bug. Jose Ah. I'd not encountered that reason before. Ye...

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After the first few episodes I didn't think that much of it, thinking it's much like Rick & Morty in (dialogue, animation, philosophy) style except bleaker because the episodes don't usually end on a high note. And where both offer lots of "ironic satire" or whatever you call it, R&...

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They may all be he's or she's. There's a whole world of plant sexes , so, even assuming they're cis-gendered, chances are your plants are neither/both he's nor she's. :) Next week is going to be so cold in the Netherlands that we'll have natural ice on which we can go skating. It's a pity global cl...

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Tau is dumb. no u conveniently-factorable Hmm, how is τ conveniently factored? I'd rather suggest working with the "turn", i.e. τ rad or 360°. It's easily factored, since dividing the circle into n pieces gives you angles of 1/n turn. And it's less arbitrary than degrees or decitauths bec...

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Forget emojis; why in Dickens's deuce is this a thing?! You know what the "uni" in unicode stands for, right? Egyptian hieroglyphs have (allegedly) been used as a script by a whole civilization. It makes much more sense for those to be included in unicode than, say, emoji ...let alone thi...

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Mouseover caption: In-universe, Bart Simpson and Harry Potter were the same age in 1990. Bart is perpetually 10 years old because of a spell put on his town by someone trying to keep him from getting his Hogwarts letter. This makes so much sense. Now I understand why we don't know which state the t...

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On the wikipedia page most of the prototypes they show are listed as "products". Some of those are more easily considered products, like PETMAN , whereas things like Spot are probably only considered "products" in the sense that some military division paid for research and got th...

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I'm fine with celebrating e every month. It's less controversial than ½τ day and celebrating math monthly rather than yearly sounds good.

Although I don't know how one would celebrate e. Put snakes on a tree trunk?

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I watched the video and thought they were cute. Yes I said it. Cute . What is wrong with me? Nothing. Well, maybe a false impression that the robots were cooperating and had a preference for going through that door. At least, I'm pretty certain that the actions at that level were programmed. Howeve...

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Assuming that cells are either alive or dead, I'd go with sets. Sets are simple things that hold a bunch of items. For example, a set in which each item is the coordinate of a live cell. So the question "is the cell at (x,y,z) alive or dead?" becomes "does the coordinate (x,y,z) exist...

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Good thing I don't have to decide on a backpack for the next ~20 years. That is, it's showing no significant wear over the past decade and I'm using it less and less, so it should work for at least another decade. And if it doesn't, I'll simply go and find the same backpack since it holds up for at ...

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Ok: get the thing itself working. Then add cool stuff. Note that, as long as you don't have more than a couple of tens of thousands of live cells, you could use the dictionary/set approach suggested earlier: put the coordinates of live cells in a tuple (x,y,z) and add it to the set and remove it if...

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There's a vaccine for it now? It was news to me too, and it turns out that it isn't given in the UK, for rather cool reasons . Essentially, chickenpox is unpleasant but isn't very serious when contracted in childhood, whereas it can be harmful in adulthood and particularly in later life or during p...

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How often does it stop at floor 9¾?

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Transitivity holds when you use a true equality operator instead of == . :roll: Anyway, I got 42 (that can't be a coincidence; then again I didn't remove trivial 'duplicates') scenarios for which a = b, b = c, a ≠ c happens: 1 "0" false "" 2 "0" false [] 3 "0"...

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If I generate a 250x250x250 list-of-lists in the python shell, it starts consuming around 500MB. (which would imply some 32 bytes per element) So don't expect a playing area that's 1000 times as small to have a problematic impact on memory.

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Shave 20 minutes off of your daily routine with this new tooth shaver! Includes diamond-reinforced blades for durability and a polishing tool on the back so you never accidentally bite your tongue again!

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Oh haha, I didn't expect you to ask about ~~array~~ list literals. Indeed, you can write those wherever you want however you want and with whatever you want inside (including more lists).

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What kind of change are you thinking of? If you want to build a different "3D list" out of blueprint (i.e. functional style: you don't change data, you make a copy with differences), you can map over all three dimensions and change elements where needed: myPrint = [ [ [ value+1 for value i...

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Since your first and second dimension stay the same, you keep the pattern

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blueprint = [ [somethingSomething for _ in range(5)] for _ in range(3)]

But instead of [0]*3 (a list of 3 zeroes) you want a list of [1,0,0].

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Also, on an unrelated note: When was Testimony!Bill supposed to be from? She wasn't actually technically dead the last we saw of her, and this Bill remembers the events that prevented her death, and those events had the potential for her to live indefinitely after that. Is Testimony!Bill built ...

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Can you clarify what you mean by "combinations" and "distance"? If, rather than in Eebster's case, only (1,1,0,0) , (1,0,1,0) , (1,0,0,1) , (0,1,1,0) , (0,1,0,1) and (0,0,1,1) are allowed (for orderings of 2+2 indistinguishable items) and "distance" is indeed the hammin...

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I believe you're referring to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fOfFlMe6ek (since I've also seen that video because of the forum) Just in case, this video may also have been linked on the forum in that same context. But that's about the history of (biological) taxonomy, so probably not what you're as...

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Yes, yes; when I say "really hard", I just mean that it feels way harder than it ought to be, and that's the point I interpreted the comic as making. Yes, yes, we're on the same page regarding that. I mean that it won't feel hard anymore when you internalize "tens are odd, check if u...

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Let's add En man som heter Ove (A man called Ove) to the list. Sweet tears.

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orthogon wrote:ETA: but, yeah, this stuff is really hard in odd decades.

If it's odd, subtract 2 years and then do the same test as for the even decades. I wouldn't call that really hard –it just takes time to internalize.

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Do not take Autometalogolex when taking Autometalogolex.

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I've been getting the error, it might be because my bookmark happened to be xckd.com rather than xkcd.com. I'll know tomorrow if that was the issue. Ah, that makes sense. xckd.com, xkcd.org and xkcd.net do have a certificate that was valid until Monday , which makes my browser scream it's dangerous...

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Did you know Comic #1930 will only happen one time ever? And come Friday it will never be the newest comic again? I hope to see a Wednesday comic –one that will be the newest from Wednesday until Friday– too. Also, Randall accidentally left the pair of lines merging the international date and Mason...

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I don't see a warning when I open https://xkcd.com/ (it uses a certificate valid until March 2018).
Moreover, I don't see any certificates that expire today on certificate logs.

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Is Big Fish Boss in there too? He definitely has a base.

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