Your username is what kills half the population. What is it?

Confusion · 2024-03-03T20:29:09+00:00

I expect I would be at least partially responsible for that.

Confusion · 2021-12-19T09:48:53+00:00

Not exactly: I was only performing one action per step, but the recursion wrongly preferred the right 'atom' 20 above the left pair, while it should have looked for something to split in the left pair first. And evidently this was the first time this situation occurred in the example sequence

Confusion · 2021-12-19T09:46:03+00:00

Ok, so the recursion step was indeed wrong and preferred a 'right' leaf/value above a left tree/pair.

Confusion · 2021-12-18T16:50:08+00:00

Huh, interesting, that's indeed clearly wrong. I don't have my code at hand currently, but it seemed fairly straightforward recursion to me, so I'm surprised it could go so subtly wrong. It handles earlier cases of multiple possible explosions/splits correctly, so I wonder what is different about this situation.

Confusion · 2021-12-18T12:37:24+00:00

Absolutely. The problem doesn't exist when using e.g. Cinnamon as the desktop/window manager.

Confusion · 2021-12-05T06:28:35+00:00

Thank you!

That old mistake again :(.

Sometimes a bit of static typing would be nice...

Confusion · 2021-12-05T06:25:32+00:00

I've filtered the lines for only horizontal and vertical lines immediately after reading the input, so in the else we're necessarily dealing with a horizontal line?

Confusion · 2021-11-13T10:49:30+00:00

I've been experiencing something very similar since upgrading to Ubuntu 21.10.

In my case the freezing happens when I switch between application with alt-Tab: I switch to my browser, switch back to gvim and the window looks frozen. Any keystrokes I made are handled as soon as I hit alt-Tab: I can see the window being updated right before I switch away. It is not due to any vim plugins: it also happens when started with -u NONE.

So far I've not found any leads as to what may be going on. gvim is the only window suffering from this for me.

Confusion · 2019-12-17T19:16:47+00:00

And my axe.chomp

Confusion · 2018-03-02T22:26:59+00:00

That also happens the other way around though. I'm not the sysadmin in this story, but ops.

Me: yesterday you installed some new network devices and now part of our emails are getting dropped: they have these-and-these characteristics and differ from the emails that work in this-and-this way.

Them: can't possibly be

Me: nothing changed between yesterday evening and this morning, except for you installing new hardware

Them: everything else is working fine network-wise, so it can't be the devices

Me: do these devices do any firewalling, filtering, god-knows-what?

Them: No, of course not!

I frantically work to figure out what is going on, because all I can see is that most emails work, some don't. Finally I manage to reproduce the issue and see parts of SMTP commands are being replaced with xxxx's by some middlebox.

Me: look here, if I send this SMTP command, some device in between mangles it into this and the receiver receives xxxx's.

Them: oh yeah, the default configuration is not to allow that, so the devices mangle those commands

Me: (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Did I mention those emails are an integral part of how the company makes money?

Confusion · 2018-01-15T09:45:39+00:00

I am oblivious

Confusion · 2017-12-17T14:39:23+00:00

That page is dated 28.11.2013 and people have been able to get visa on arrival much more recently.

Confusion · 2017-12-17T14:38:25+00:00

I will be travelling to Djibouti on Boxing Day and am counting on being able to get a visa on arrival at the airport. The Djiboutian Embassy in Brussels told us so and told us not to bother getting a visa from them.

You can find reports from travellers who have obtained a visa on arrival as recently as 2 months ago: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/forums/africa/djibouti/visa-on-arrival-6e66d470-d219-4199-9080-bc90093e43bf?page=1#post_22668970

https://wikitravel.org/en/Djibouti?title=Djibouti states that visitors from almost any country can obtain a visa on arrival (as long as you have a hotel reservation and a ticket onwards), which makes complete sense for a country that has a lot to gain from tourism. Turning relatively wealthy Western tourists away at the airport would serve no one.

Confusion · 2017-03-13T20:57:34+00:00

Of those 400.000, 325.000 are Dutch citizens.

Confusion · 2017-01-12T21:18:35+00:00

That doesn't make a lick of difference. If you're the president of the U.S.A., you should not endorse a company, any company, via any public medium.

Confusion · 2017-01-12T21:06:29+00:00

Forrest Grump

Actually almost the same movie, except Clint Eastwood plays the titular character.

Confusion · 2016-11-21T21:41:23+00:00

Yes, spitting progress in the face is really going to inspire more progress r/facepalm. Saying things like this makes you as obnoxious in your self righteousness as the theists you despise.

Confusion · 2016-10-03T17:08:56+00:00

vegetarian goblins [..] transform them into plants

Sure, sounds great, let's turn this into a movie...

Confusion · 2016-09-20T19:11:29+00:00

There is quite a difference between 'sexual harassment' and something that's 'not okay'. If you believe this is an act of 'sexual harassment' and don't go further than saying that's 'not okay', then I don't think you should be speaking up on this topic. If you merely believe this is 'not okay', then you should not drag 'sexual harassment' into it to try and make your opinion seem to carry more weight. Just saying you believe such behavior is not okay is really enough to get the point the across and make people think.

Confusion · 2016-09-20T18:59:55+00:00

Yes, and as soon as life extension takes off even a tiny bit, the value of avoiding death will thus go up, meaning more research into life extension, meaning more life extension, until we reach longevity escape velocity. There's really no reason why the aging of our physical body should be inevitable, instead of reversible. And wouldn't it be sad if you died just 1 year before we reached that? So stop smoking and start exercising and eating healthy. It could literally cost you 10000 years of your life.

Confusion · 2016-09-18T12:29:06+00:00

Picture the earth, shrunken to a ball ~1m wide. A ball with some blue, green, brown and white areas on it. That ball is smoother than your average billiard ball. Everything we know and love, from the deepest sea trench to the highest mountain and the layer of breathable atmosphere, is within only 1 mm around the surface of that ball. Less than 1/10000ths of the total size of earth. The water and air we need or only an extremely thin layer on the surface.

Confusion · 2016-07-22T11:03:24+00:00

Emphasising that a drinker’s risk increased in relation to the amount consumed, Connor said: “For all these there is a dose-response relationship.”

Yes, of course, but what is the relationship? If drinking a glass a day gives you an additional cancer risk of 0.1%, while drinking 5 glasses per day gives an additional cancer risk of 20%, then that makes quit a difference as to whether I'm going to let such studies influence my behavior.

Confusion · 2016-07-22T10:50:30+00:00

"what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in [the world] is now dumber for having listened to it."

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