@cartman82 said in He who laughs last...:
the guy saw the code, saw the deadline and noped the fuck out.
A perfectly reasonable response, at a guess.
@cartman82 said in He who laughs last...:
the guy saw the code, saw the deadline and noped the fuck out.
A perfectly reasonable response, at a guess.
@gordonjcp Auto-formatting in Excel is really annoying. Try putting a single quote at the start of each value to tell Excel to leave it the fuck alone (that single quote won't be displayed).
@Cursorkeys said in Witchcraft not sufficient to understand octal numbers:
The real is
ParseInt
, on a modern language, accepting a string as a octal representation without a format/base specifier. I've only used octal on embedded, never on anything else. Without a base specifier then a base-10 radix should be assumed, it's what ≈100% of people will want.
The real is using a leading "0" to specify octal instead of, say, "0o", to be similar to "0x" for hexadecimal and "0b" for binary.
@Cabbage That's one nasty river, for sure.
@steve_the_cynic The function is called absmax, so I guess returning the maximum absolute value is deliberate (making 2 the correct return value in your example). Seems like a really edge case, but why not. The implementation is a huge , though, on that we can agree.
I assume the reason she hasn't sued yet is lack of funds for a lawyer. If she has kept records of everything as she says, a competent lawyer could have a field day with this case.
@cartman82 I've never smelled anything out of an e-cig. And I hate the smell of tobacco smoke with a passion, so I'd speak up if I did. Maybe it depends on the e-cig model or what they put in it. A former colleague smoked that inside, but he always asked first, and it didn't smell. If your colleague's e-cig smells disgusting, then he should go outside to smoke it. It'd be the same thing with strong-smelling food.
@mrl said in The Linux command line sucks:
@gurth said in The Linux command line sucks:
Far better to just be told what the general idea is and how to start the game, then learn the rules as you go, if and when they become relevant.
Which means losing horribly to someone already knowing the rules, plus making a ton of errors in next games, because some rules never 'became relevant' in the first play. Not to mention that the first game will drag forever, being interrupted constantly by explaining some random things that come into play atm.
This is just catering to sloppy players with goldfish attention spans.
You're probably going to lose horribly to someone who is a lot more experienced in the game than you anyway. And any experienced player teaching a game to a newbie will explain the mistakes, unless they're a complete asshole (and if they don't, they're not really teaching the game).
@polygeekery I really need to catch up on sleep.
@Gurth Probably. Destruction of Computer property covers the damage and Reckless Endangerment of Fellow Citizen(s) the decision to use the grenade. But what can you do when the whole Alpha Complex is destroyed and everyone and their clones dead?
@Gurth Nice form. Unfortunately, there was no one to fill it out, no one to give it to and no one to evaluate it.
@Mason_Wheeler I don't know about that, but experimental stuff comes in 2 flavors in Paranoia: stuff that won't work at all and stuff that works only too well (usually in unintended ways, too). The grenade belonged to the 2nd category.
@remi I played that one, too. I actually used the experimental thermonuclear grenade my dumb-as-a-rock character was given...
PC death can be a lot of fun, even for the player.
Playing Pendragon, our characters were trying to chat up potential wives. I try my luck with a woman whose suitors have all died after being sent to war and (in keeping with RL) botch it (the GM spins it in a funny way). Later, we get sent to war... And in the first combat, my character takes a fatal blow (cue laughter around the table).
Anyone who doesn't know about the one-handed fisherman?
@Gąska It's already excluded : "such as by pushing a button or clicking an icon, but not by simply continuing to scroll".
To be honest, I don't expect planes to be operated continuously for a very long time. Certainly no longer than a few days.
@Cursorkeys said in Witchcraft not sufficient to understand octal numbers:
The real is
ParseInt
, on a modern language, accepting a string as a octal representation without a format/base specifier. I've only used octal on embedded, never on anything else. Without a base specifier then a base-10 radix should be assumed, it's what ≈100% of people will want.
The real is using a leading "0" to specify octal instead of, say, "0o", to be similar to "0x" for hexadecimal and "0b" for binary.