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[–] [email protected] 206 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 239 points 2 months ago

Embedded for convenience:

[–] [email protected] 191 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wow TIL about the use of underscore in an interactive session.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

whaaaaaaaa this is so tight. I use an interactive session as a calculator on my pc and always wish there was a way to refer to the last result.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

$_ in bash is the most recent parameter Always look for the built in variables. They save time.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The unicode people really knew what they were doing

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago (1 children)

no the best part is they didn't and this all happened by chznce

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That’s what they tell you.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

Big unicode doesn't want you to know this one simple trick

[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

𐐘ඞ🔫ඞ🌌

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Can anyone explain this one?

[–] [email protected] 109 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Sure. You have to solve it from inside out:

  • not()....See comment below for this one, I was tricked ~~is a base function that negates what's inside (turning True to False and vice versa) giving it no parameter returns "True" (because no parameter counts as False)~~
  • str(x) turns x into a string, in this case it turns the boolean True into the text string 'True'
  • min(x) returns the minimal element of an iterable. In this case the character 'T' because capital letters come before non-capital letters, otherwise it would return 'e' (I'm not entirely sure if it uses unicode, ascii or something else to compare characters, but usually capitals have a lower value than non-capitals and otherwise in alphabetical order ascending)
  • ord(x) returns the unicode number of x, in this case turning 'T' into the integer 84
  • range(x) creates an iterable from 0 to x (non-inclusive), in this case you can think of it as the list [0, 1, 2, ....82, 83] (it's technically an object of type range but details...)
  • sum(x) sums up all elements of a list, summing all numbers between 0 and 84 (non-inclusive) is 3486
  • chr(x) is the inverse of ord(x) and returns the character at position x, which, you guessed it, is 'ඞ' at position 3486.

The huge coincidental part is that ඞ lies at a position that can be reached by a cumulative sum of integers between 0 and a given integer. From there on it's only a question of finding a way to feed that integer into chr(sum(range(x)))

[–] [email protected] 102 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

not() is a base function that negates what’s inside (turning True to False and vice versa) giving it no parameter returns “True” (because no parameter counts as False)

Actually, not is an operator. It makes more sense if you write not() as not () - the () is an empty tuple. An empty tuple is falsy in Python, so not () evaluates to True.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I'm not entirely sure if it uses Unicode, ASCII or something else...

I think I remember Automate the Boring Stuff with Python explaining that python uses ASCIIbetical order, but it's been a minute since I read that book

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When you parse that code, it presents this ඞ symbol, which looks close enough to the famous characters from Among Us, the viral video game.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What is the simbol supposed to be originally?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

That code point is U+0D9E SINHALA LETTER KANTAJA NAASIKYAYA. It's a letter in a writing system used in Sri Lanka.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Chr prints the unicode symbol associated with the inputted value (in python). The team name uses several operators to have the inputted value be the amogus character

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

𐐘 🔫ඞ