First comment on the answer:
> This is quite the most extraordinary stack exchange answer that I've ever seen.
And I couldn't agree more. Well worth perusing if you (like me) usually only check the comments on HN.
> This is quite the most extraordinary stack exchange answer that I've ever seen.
And I couldn't agree more. Well worth perusing if you (like me) usually only check the comments on HN.
BTW, I got curious about the highest scored answer and this meta answer explains how to find it: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/266570. The highest scored answer is this one: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-processi... (of course this is related to teh size of the community)
The only comparable answer I'd ever seen was something on Seasoned Advice, the culinary SE. I'll have to go dig that up.
> Moderator's Note
> This post is locked to prevent inappropriate edits to its content. The post looks exactly as it is supposed to look - there are no problems with its content. Please do not flag it for our attention.
From back in the day when Stack Overflow was fun.
… ;)
All this took like 20 seconds, but the hounds had already descended. Someone had posted a note on an answer that was literally 20 seconds old saying that it could be improved.
When I responded with an offended comment they deleted all their comments, and I lost the ability to report them.
That was the first, and also the last time in the past 4 years I thought to post anything there.
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(Apologies for the Medium link)
[0] https://medium.com/geekculture/the-chuck-norris-of-programmi...
A bear falls into a well. The depth of the well is 19.617 meters, and it takes the bear 2.0000 second to reach the bottom of the well. What is the color of the bear?
https://chat.openai.com/share/67998d60-0f81-410e-ba8b-ec5a0f...
I find it interesting that it disregards the rest of the question, and just picks "the most common answer to a trick question involving the color of a bear"!
Regenerate for more languages solutions
People see this as some sort of failing of students but I think it says more about the teachers. You’ve overtrained students on problems that mean nothing to them, then you throw another nothing problem at them that’s simply three times as much nothing as the usual level of irrelevance.
Randall Monroe said it best: we should be teaching high school students how to split the bill for a birthday dinner. That’s more complicated math than most 20 year olds can correctly manage. It’s also what they’re going to do with math about 75% of the time.
Given the viscosity of air vs. water, one might assume there's no water in the well. Also, given some surface area of a bear, and air pressure from a cushion of air formed under the falling bear, the fall speed does seem a little high, at least for a calculation with that number of decimal places, but perhaps the well was located in the crust of the earth where gravity's a tad higher.
Living bears are also buoyant, and will be slowed down considerably on meeting the water, so the bear is unlikely to have reached the bottom of a water-filled well for a long period, if at all.
To answer OP, I'd say the bear is brown, because of the mud from the base of the (somewhat empty) well. However to an outside observer, given the lack of light in the well the shade of brown might not be discernable. A human in the well with the bear will see the colour of the bear as a low relative concern compared to A) being in a well and B) being in a well with a bear.
I think if a bear fell into a well, there would be friction between the bear and the side of the well...
This is why none of the condescending answers suggest a better way. There isn’t one.
(Some variants of regular expressions can implement arbitrary context-free grammars).
Man people on SE are cringe af ngl
"Nobody can add to the absurdity of this book, nobody can imitate it successfully, nobody can hope to produce its fellow; it is perfect."
> The humour largely arises from Carolino's indiscriminate use of literal translation
A tradition I really enjoy and deliberately keep alive. For some reason portuguese is incredibly amenable to this no matter the source language.
There's a Chinese in-joke, though, where they like to say "day day up", translating 天天 "every day" as if it were just 天 "day" twice in sequence.
好好学习，天天向上
"Study well, [and] improve every day."
Making progress is conceived of as "upwards" movement.
Same concept exists in brazilian portuguese, at least in certain circles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porglish
> Upar or uppar
> to up (on a level; slang term used for RPG games by Brazilian players, instead of Port. evoluir)
> to upload (instead of rarely used Port. subir – the opposite of baixar, the literal translation of download)
I also really enjoy assembling portuguese words out of japanese phonemes. The pronunciation of japanese and portuguese is remarkably similar and I often find that even the most innocuous japanese vocabulary sounds like portuguese slang or swear words. Sometimes they sound like complete portuguese sentences. The full names of actual japanese people can sometimes be literally transcribed into extremely unfortunate portuguese sentences. Just imagine the amount of bullying targeted at Brazil's immense japanese immigrant population. At least one japanese word -- shoppai -- sounds to me like an english verb but with portuguese conjugation and my brain can't decide whether the radical is shop as in buy or shop as in photoshop, and it's such an archaic imperative first person plural conjugation I can't help but mentally imagine a catholic priest commanding his flock to digitally edit images during a church sermon. And that's the least offensive example I remember off the top of my head.
There used to be a website that would repeatedly pass a body of text through machine translation back and forth until it stabilized on some hilariously distorted result. I wish I could remember the domain name.
Yet, while everyone might be only 6 handshakes away from everyone else (on average), we do not have sufficient human connectivity to locate this person, even with hundreds of people putting at least a little thought/effort into identifying the artist.
That proves that the original (Chinese) artist actually thought that the image is associable with Y, and they were paired before going on the ball, not someone (other than the original artist) picking the wrong image to go with a letter.
But the artist who drew the pic wouldn't necessarily -- I'd go so far as to guess probably doesn't -- know how it ended up on that ball; who copied it from where and what word (or letter) that person thought it illustrated.
And in classic fashion, of course the moderators locked it as "off topic".
People should indeed read the top answer. I assumed it ended after the first paragraph and only after your comment read the rest of it. Quite a rabbit hole and great investigation!
I would use "U-Boat" but only in the same way I'd use "Boomer", to indicate a specific type of vessel in a particular context, if I meant a submarine, such as in a simple drawing, I'd say "submarine" and so would other English speakers I know.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary_of_U.S._Nav...
A better approach: the ball, likely, can be traced to the company producing it. The toys for very young kids tend to be regulated, hence expensive. Contacting the company would be a direct approach, significantly improving the yield to provide a correct answer.
Yes, much much later (many edits later). Also I meant the original poster.