Feb. 19th, 2004

sniffnoy: (Chu-Chu Zig)
I let tons drive me home from GameMaster.

Yes, tons, Er*c Adl*r, Tupperware Boy.

Don't ask why.

Let me say that that was certainly the single scariest car ride I have ever been on. When somebody starts *racing* down Broadway - just because it happens to *become* a highway doesn't mean it *is* one right there! And I literally mean *racing*, with some other guy. Way over the speed limit.

Getting into the car was bad enough - there was so much junk in the back seat, Nick took the middle and I took the left, and we were squashed together - Matt sat in the front - once he got home, Nick moved to the front and I actually had some room.

When we first got in and were clearing the stuff over to the left, Toreun accidentally activated some machine started vibrating in an audible and disturbing way... tons said it was an air compressor... :-/

I don't even want to know what the strange vibration against my butt was - I'll accept tons's explanation that it was his brakes...

And his sudden start-stops as we finally approached my house...

*shudders*

At the beginning, the whole racing part, it was bad enough to make me curse quite rapidly - as Nick put it, normally I curse about once every 4 years? This was about 6 times in one minute.

There were other bad things, but I'm glad I don't remember them.

At least the infamous bump on Howard Ave wasn't nearly as bad as they made it out to be.

Nick: "When it says 'Bump ahead', that's a command: Bump a head!"

Nick says that tons is actually a good driver, which is why he *can* do things like this. Ha ha ha.

Please hit me repeatedly for ever doing this.

*shudders*

-Sniffnoy

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ask all the townspeople nearby. They will either all strongly urge you
to do something, in which case you must immediately go out and do that
thing, or else they will all strongly warn you against doing
something, in which case you must immediately go out and do that
thing."
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sniffnoy: (Chu-Chu Zig)
Some randomness to keep you entertained:

(20:23:54) Toreun: how was working?
(20:24:16) Sniffnoy: annoying :P
(20:24:28) Toreun: heh you're lucky
(20:24:37) Sniffnoy: how's that?
(20:25:25) Sniffnoy: I'm lucky that I forgot the first draft was supposed to be in on friday and thus will have to hand it in when vacation ends?
(20:25:47) Toreun: because I was in a car accident
(20:25:51) Toreun: that had you been with us
(20:25:53) Toreun: you would have been too
(20:25:58) Sniffnoy: ...OK
(20:26:00) Sniffnoy: I'm lucky :P

Quoted to me by Toreun:
(22:27:21) OsamaBinAry/TEG: that client i went to today
(22:27:26) OsamaBinAry/TEG: when he called told me:
(22:27:31) OsamaBinAry/TEG: windows xp doesn't load
(22:27:36) OsamaBinAry/TEG: but corel 10 works fine!

(12:40:28) Toreun: gotta love those reverse polish!
(12:40:40) Sniffnoy: hehe, yes, the Reverse Polish
(12:40:51) Sniffnoy: the Hsilop
(12:41:00) Toreun: hehe
(12:41:03) Sniffnoy: from Dnalop

(21:55:43) Choketsu: how long have you been working on money?
(21:55:58) Sniffnoy: I started it today
(21:56:01) Sniffnoy: I can't get case 8 to run under 5 seconds, while still having the program actually work :P
(21:56:16) Sniffnoy: I tried some things to make it faster, but they all just broke it instead :P
(21:56:28) Choketsu: ah theres a really nice trick that makes it run under 200 ms
(21:56:40) Sniffnoy: wow
(21:56:46) Sniffnoy: it involves dynamic programming, doesn't it?
(21:56:56) Choketsu: yeah, but its really easier than it sounds
(22:00:52) Choketsu: in fact, the whole algorithm is 3 lines long
(22:01:27) Sniffnoy: of course it is :P

Well, now I've managed to get case 8 to run under 5 seconds... at the cost that it fails on case 9! And produces a different result on my machine than on theirs! *And* it's wrong on *both* our machines! I really need to figure out how dynamic programming applies to this... I'm also really having trouble understanding their TEXT on it generally...

EDIT: Haha. Nevermind. I just solved it. Though not quite as nice a way as they wanted, admittedly.

-Sniffnoy

--
"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it
in your home."
-Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, _Good Omens_

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