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@Applied-Mediocrity And the cmd line was not in the place where it normally is in like VScode as directly below the output, rather just middle.
Thanks for marking my comment(s) an insightful and enlightening exchange. Looking forward to sharing my experience.
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@boomzilla huh, curious. I saw this thing on Stack Overflow today.
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@boomzilla found it again, and the timeline is interesting.
The paper is dated October 3. On October 4 someone on SO gives a shitty () bubble sort answer to what's basically "how do I sort using a non-default sort order?", and messes it up. He gets corrected, but it turns out it had worked anyway, so then still October 4, there's a new question asking why the original "wrong" bubble sort worked. Several people analyze it in the answers.
Someone in the comments points out the arxiv paper and the timing coincidence, but the creator of the second question claims that the paper wasn't published until a few hours after being uploaded:@don'ttalkjustcode I'm curious, is this paper on arXiv yours? The link comes from the answer by Theoretician at the bottom of this conversation. – joanis
@joanis No, that's news to me. Gonna fully read it later, but mentioned it at the bottom of my question now because Theoretician's (non-)answer got deleted. Looks like a coincidence to me, though given how close the code is to similar sorting algorithms, I suspect many beginners must've accidentally written the same algorithm before :-). But a coincidence that two people came across it and noticed the oddness and took it seriously almost at the same time. – don't talk just code
@don'ttalkjustcode I'm sorry but I find the coincidence that you posted a question on the exact algorithm described two days earlier at arxiv.org/abs/2110.01111 rather difficult to believe. At the very least you should update your post to include a link to that paper. – Dale Hagglund
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@DaleHagglund Note my previous reply to you, plus: The timeline as far as I can tell (all times EDT): 3 Oct 18:27 : paper submitted (not published) to arXiv, 4 Oct 08:23 : vnk's answer, 4 Oct 10:14 : my question, 4 Oct 12:07 : my answer, 4 Oct 20:00 : paper published. And: Theoretician's now-deleted answer that originally pointed out the paper made it sound like the paper was "posted" a day after my question. I was the one who pointed out that it was submitted earlier. What more am I supposed to do? – don't talk just code
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@Zerosquare said in Asking the TDWTF hive mind [choice of language]:
@Gąska said in Asking the TDWTF hive mind [choice of language]:
If your primary goal is to make a game, then I'm sorry, but it seems Unity is your best bet. Most support and least boilerplate and fighting with the internals trying to make anything, let alone the game, work.
That's not the impression I get from reading @Tsaukpaetra's posts about it...
Yes, but you're ignoring the @Tsaukpaetra Effect. The apparent complexity may not be Unity's fault.
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@Zecc said in Representing a dungeon as a data structure:
@PleegWat said in Representing a dungeon as a data structure:
I mean, it's pretty unlikely for a prison cell to sit right next to the lord's bedroom.
Depends on how sexy the prisoners are.
Trolling in a help thread? Repent at once and see the @error of your ways!
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@Applied-Mediocrity It wasn't trolling! It was a genuine remark.
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Well, as the top-most authority on what I meant, I say I did.
That should solve that particular stalemate.
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A gentleman allows @Zecc to maintain his fictions.
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@Applied-Mediocrity Aw, I was hoping you'd say it's all the way down. Ah well.
But seriously, I was at most 10% trolling. I don't think it's a stretch to imagine a lord's bedroom with a cage inside it, let alone the room next door.
Then again, now that I overthink it, I wouldn't want someone who hates me screaming in my ears when I'm trying to sleep.
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@Zecc said in Semi-quasi-unofficial unhelpful comments:
I was at most 10% trolling
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL:
How do you guys control your TVs?
I open my web browser to www.Hulu.com, select a show, and then drag it over to my side monitor to provide white noise while I play vidja games on the main screen.
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@Watson said in Good reading for self-taught programmers?:
It's still a way from having a system showing its work by logging messages along the lines of "Lemmas 13225 and 336612 with Inference Rule 3 (Modus Tollens) to give Lemma 6318861: ..." You could easily imagine writing a navigator for examining such logs and using it to investigate a whacked-out decision to try and diagnose why it went down the rabbit-hole it did.
I can also easily imagine having my eyes poked out with a red-hot iron rod. It sounds more pleasant than examining Lemma 6318861.
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@Gribnit said in Turning a flat file into a PDF:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Turning a flat file into a PDF:
@Unperverted-Vixen said in Turning a flat file into a PDF:
@Gąska If the PDF was intended for humans to read, you’d be right. In this thread’s case, where it’s being sent directly to a printer, what’s the harm?
PrInCiPlEs!
Wasn't convinced. Try it again, but with feeling.
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@dfdub said in Semi-quasi-unofficial unhelpful comments:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Semi-quasi-unofficial unhelpful comments:
@dfdub said in Laptop recommendations (touch/2-in-1 preferred):
Surface Pro 7
Do you get a lifetime subscription to Bundesvision Song Contest with that?
Nah, but you get a free one-way trip to the jungle if you're
a celebrityan eco-terrorist.TFY
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Sadly, as all my statements are immediately and universally binding, I am unable to comment at this time.
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@Gribnit what about future times? Perhaps, say, being unable to comment at any future time?
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@Arantor and what time would it be then, h'mm? Therefore, as stated.
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@Gribnit I don't think you're seeing quite where I'm going with this. Oh well.
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@Arantor if you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.
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@Gribnit I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who’s being punished for my sins, if that’s the line you’re taking.
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@Arantor said in Semi-quasi-unofficial unhelpful comments:
@Gribnit I don't think you're seeing quite where I'm going with this. Oh well.
Like @blakeyrat, he didn't want help. And he's sure not going to give any.
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@boomzilla I realise this, but giving or receiving help wasn’t my agenda.
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@Arantor said in Semi-quasi-unofficial unhelpful comments:
@boomzilla I realise this, but giving or receiving help wasn’t my agenda.
Agreed. When the 7th moon rises, the hawk must cross the desert.
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@Gribnit I posit that on the rising of any moon, the squawking of the risen bird is a sign that something is need of a highly physical dislocation of the vertebral compartment, most specifically to disable the larynx and equivalents.
The same goes for other interlocutors whose verbiage yields nothing of relational substance to the situation at hand and whose exertion is mere bloviation to the effect of produced heated carbon dioxide or its digital effluent equivalent.
Appropriate use of obtuse metaphor can be permitted under specific situations to distract from the implied menace in the aforementioned metaphor to the effect of communicating intent; viz. disengaging one for the mutual improvement of other modalities, “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.”
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@Gribnit said in Semi-quasi-unofficial unhelpful comments:
When the 7th moon rises, the hawk must cross the desert.
Call sign recognized, Comrade.
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@Arantor agreed, but not an inch of neck.
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@Gribnit no, I should think not, we’re all metric here.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Handling when invalid data sneaks past into the db:
Oh, and suicide is messy for others to clean up, so....
"Assume you have some kind of programmers working on programming tasks like handling when invalid data sneaks past into db. But someone messed up the database in that one particular case involving
Foo.count
and is now in a messy state resulting from throwing self off nearest tall building.There's validation when the medics try to reconstruct them from the messy bits, which fails on some bad values. Which is good, it's doing what it says it should, preserving the business rules. But bad because errors.
So what's better?"
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Help Bites:
Ah, right, something happened. :(
Something happened.
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@aitap said in Semi-quasi-unofficial unhelpful comments:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Help Bites:
Ah, right, something happened. :(
Something happened.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Semi-quasi-unofficial unhelpful comments:
@aitap said in Semi-quasi-unofficial unhelpful comments:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Help Bites:
Ah, right, something happened. :(
Something happened.Better:
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@Watson said in Resources to learn about database schema design and optimization?:
Without looking too closely at the fine grain of the task, being able to break it out into stages like Queries 1,2,3 suggests a CTE-based approach.
Looking too closely at databases (especially Oracle) can be traumatic enough to give you CTE.
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@nerd4sale said in Resources to learn about database schema design and optimization?:
There is a lot of bad advise for Oracle out there on SExchange.
Any advice for Oracle other than targeting a ballistic missile at 37.5293504° N, 122.2658253° W is bad advice.
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@HardwareGeek said in Semi-quasi-unofficial unhelpful comments:
at 37.5293504° N, 122.2658253° W
You should add a good explosive head on the missile, then you do not need to hit the target at such an extreme detail (that's at 0.1 meters exact).
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@BernieTheBernie I just copied the numbers from Google Maps; they're the ones being excessively precise. The map was showing a view of perhaps 100 m radius, and even that is overly precise, as it showed only a single building of their campus. Need to take out all of them.
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@HardwareGeek said in Semi-quasi-unofficial unhelpful comments:
overly precise
You can get pretty close with What3Words, and as a bonus you get to use phrases like "bronze potato form"
e: Afterwards, it would turn into a https://what3words.com/flat.piles.bunch
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@dangeRuss said in Process Markdown files:
Not too crazy, but I haven't seen all the files yet.
So far it's things like
[Some Weird Folder/Image 01.jpeg
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@HardwareGeek said in Semi-quasi-unofficial unhelpful comments:
@dangeRuss said in Process Markdown files:
Not too crazy, but I haven't seen all the files yet.
So far it's things like
[Some Weird Folder/Image 01.jpeg
Hey I told you not to look in my tax documents folder.
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@dangeRuss said in Process Markdown files:
I can't seem to find a library that would let you read a markdown file
Whatever you do, don’t do what does.
:dont.png:
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Double NAT, but I have no need to access the inner NAT:
Touching things again, and it's still not working
Pikachu is not at all surprised.
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@boomzilla said in Vertical text alignment:
I want "Stuff:" and "Filter:" to have the same vertical alignment but can't figure this out.
<div>
Have you tried
<table>
?
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@Arantor said in relative absolute paths:
Because you have the misfortune to work with… some very interestingly opinionated individuals.
Yeah, but they also have the misfortune to work with an interestingly opinionated individual...
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@HardwareGeek said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@boomzilla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
you don't necessarily get the same shirts of stories
That's probably good; stories make rather insubstantial shirts.
Depends.
…7 Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him the glory. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready. 8 She was given clothing of fine linen, bright and pure.” For the fine linen she wears is the righteous acts of the saints. 9 Then the angel told me to write, “Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”…
-Revelation 19:8 (Berean Study Bible)This seems pretty substantial. News though, nowadays, not so much. That's true.
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@HardwareGeek said in Semi-quasi-unofficial unhelpful comments:
@acrow said in Semi-quasi-unofficial unhelpful comments:
Depends.
Those are not shirts.
Again - Depends.
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@prueg said in Lambdas everywhere!:
I have a colleague who keeps using creating lambda functions
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Fun fact: "lambada" means, besides the dance (and in PT-PT in particular), slapping someone. Dictionary says in PT-BR it means hitting with a flexible object, like a whip.
Puts @1:36 in a new perspective, doesn't it?