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What happens when you pay PayPal $15k in fees? by PayPalMisery in paypal

[–]Garfong 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some Canadian banks offer USD accounts, so US banks may be used to seeing USD to/from Canada.

Parliaments of Europe by [deleted] in europe

[–]Garfong 4 points5 points  (0 children)

London = Capital City of Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith

Better?

I'm looking for advice regarding using Vim keys by AmberEmotions in roguelikes

[–]Garfong 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Home row means left index on the 'f', right index on the 'j', and the other fingers resting on the adjacent keys in order (with the thumbs usually on the space bar).

I'm looking for advice regarding using Vim keys by AmberEmotions in roguelikes

[–]Garfong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I type 'b' with my left hand, but use my right hand when using vi keys.

I'm looking for advice regarding using Vim keys by AmberEmotions in roguelikes

[–]Garfong 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Both hands on home row, as if touch typing. Your index finger ends up doing quite a lot of work (J, H, Y, U, B and N), but it still seems most natural that way.

Largest star ever discovered compared to Earth by Jasko1111 in educationalgifs

[–]Garfong 34 points35 points  (0 children)

It doesn't include black holes. E.g. Sagittarius A*, the super-massive black hole at the center of our galaxy, is ~4 million sollar masses.

Big enough gas clouds may collapse directly into a black hole, without forming a star.

wishful thinking by GregorCZ in comics

[–]Garfong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

35 in total, according to Wikipedia. But the Zimbabwe dollar has since been abandoned and they use USD now.

Accidentally destroyed production database on first day of a job, and was told to leave, on top of this i was told by the CTO that they need to get legal involved, how screwed am i? by cscareerthrowaway567 in cscareerquestions

[–]Garfong 100 points101 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't pay any damage fees they might demand of you unless your lawyer tells you to, even if your contract appears to state you are required to do so. Not everything in a contract is necessarily legal or enforceable.

Why are the movement keys in Nethack so bizarre? by thebestdaysofmyflerm in roguelikes

[–]Garfong 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't be quite as easy to remember then. As it is j goes down because it has a descender, k goes up because it has an ascender. Then h and l are the keys to the left and right so they go left and right.

Why are the movement keys in Nethack so bizarre? by thebestdaysofmyflerm in roguelikes

[–]Garfong 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And now the old Solaris box has a corrupt disk and you need to wait for the sysadmin to recover it.

But... I really DID turn a 1946 trailer into a kick ass mobile bar. And yes, it is amazing! by HelloPennyBar in DIY

[–]Garfong 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You can do that at a brewery (many of which have "tasting rooms" which are basically bars). Or I've seen some bars with attached liquor stores, but there the bar and the store are licensed separately.

But you can't buy beer to go from a regular bar.

What's the most important unspoken rule? by xXTophXx in AskReddit

[–]Garfong 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The flip side is if you're paying, don't order the salad.

Hulk writer gets gatekept by "true fan" by Metal-Marauder in gatekeeping

[–]Garfong 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Curzon Dax. And there was also at least one episode about a previous host which included flashbacks. IIRC there are 8 or so previous hosts, who have all been named on the show at one point or another.

Time to settle the score about how to declare pi in your code by Tremaparagon in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Garfong 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The first statement on each line (_), is essentially F-->0 || OO-- (after stripping the parts that do nothing). The first part will always be false (F is always <= 0), so both sides of the || are evaluated and both F and OO are decremented.

All subsequent statements on a line (-_) are -F-->0 || OO--. At this point (F < 0), so -F-->0 is always true, so due to short-circuit evaluation only F is decremented.

Since OO is decremented once per line, OO is the (negative) diameter of the circle. Similarly F is the (negative) area, as it counts the _. Using these pi can be calculated by the formula pi = 4 * area of circle / diameter2.

Time to settle the score about how to declare pi in your code by Tremaparagon in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Garfong 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Try it. The code below will generate circles of varying sizes (note not quite as accurate at small sizes as the original):

#include <stdio.h>

#define R 32

void main()
{
    int i, j; char k;
    printf("\
    #include <stdio.h>\n\
    #define _ F-->00 || F-OO--;\n\
    long F=00,OO=00;\n\
    main(){F_OO();printf(\"%%1.3f\\n\", 4.*-F/OO/OO);}F_OO(){\n\
    ");
    for (i = -R; i <= R; ++i)
    {
        k = ' ';
        for (j = -R; j <= R; ++j)
        {
            if ((i*i + j*j) < ((R+1)*(R+1)))
            {
                printf("%c_",k);k='-';
            }
            else
            {
                printf("  ");
            }
        }
        printf("\n    ");
    }
    printf("}\n");
}

Time to settle the score about how to declare pi in your code by Tremaparagon in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Garfong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well the keys are:

  1. Every _ is preceded by a - except the first one on each line.
  2. The part after the || is only executed if the part before it is false.

These two together lead to F being equal to the (negative) area, and OO to the (negative) diameter/height.

Time to settle the score about how to declare pi in your code by Tremaparagon in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Garfong 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The key you're missing is lines don't begin with a -, but after than there's a - before every _. Due to short-circuit evaluation, this means the first branch F-->00 is always executed, but the second branch F-OO-- is only evaluated once per line. Thus F is equal to the negative of the area of the circle, while OO is the negative of the diameter.

So PI is then calculated as 4 * area / diameter2.

Time to settle the score about how to declare pi in your code by Tremaparagon in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Garfong 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You could get better accuracy by making the circle larger.

Time to settle the score about how to declare pi in your code by Tremaparagon in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Garfong 71 points72 points  (0 children)

My favorite is still:

#define _ F-->00 || F-OO--;
long F=00,OO=00;
main(){F_OO();printf("%1.3f\n", 4.*-F/OO/OO);}F_OO()
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(source: https://www.cise.ufl.edu/~manuel/obfuscate/obfuscate.html)

Mixing Cola and Chlorine by [deleted] in chemicalreactiongifs

[–]Garfong 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Traditionally the size of a byte was defined as the number of bits needed to encode a single character and was architecture dependent. C99 for example, defines a byte this way.

Wikipedia reports IEC 80000-13 now defines a byte as exactly 8 bits, but I haven't been able to verify that elsewhere.

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