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Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)

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Re: Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)

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Post by Aeolun »

lolinder wrote: post #70
Jun8 wrote: post #46

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No, although this answer is awesome and very well researched, it cannot match the famous answer to the question about parsing HTML using regular expressions :-) : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open... . 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://stack…

The best part about that RegEx answer is the moderator's note at the bottom. > 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.

Hmm, I recently thought it would be a great idea to answer a question on SO again, and did that by first posting a link. Then I realized how useless that would be if the link disappeared, so I clicked edit and pasted the actual info.

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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Re: Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)

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Post by Communitivity »

I came up with 'Yaks', plural of a type of beast of burden/farm animal. Probably not the solution, but I didn't see the solution on the post, just a Swedish word suggested. What was the solution decided on?

Ok, I conflated 'looks like' with 'sounds like'. Still curious about the solution though.

Re: Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)

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Post by slim »

geor9e wrote: post #189
dang wrote: post #167

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Thanks! it's https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14673626 and I've unkilled it now. (It was killed because of the lmgtfy link btw)

I still don't get it. That comment just says they searched google images for axe pics. In Chinese, for some reason. They don't even address the letter Y mystery.

in china because there's 80% chance that ball was made there

Re: Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)

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Post by fbn79 »

ziptron wrote: post #147
behnamoh wrote: post #135

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My favorite is this one: 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://qr.ae/pKqzpC

Maybe I am bad at promoting, but I could not get ChatGPT3.5 anywhere near a logical process to answer this question. https://chat.openai.com/share/67998d60-0f81-410e-ba8b-ec5a0f...

Chat GPT 3.5: https://chat.openai.com/share/9187924c-64ab-4246-a2b0-0c9cea...

Regenerate for more languages solutions

Re: Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)

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Post by bregma »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #183
lifthrasiir wrote: post #164

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I don't really like that because it's obviously a troll question. Its wording and a large number of significant digits clearly demands the acceleration of gravity to be reverse-engineered, so it can't be a real question even by a chance. One thing to consider if it's indeed real: how much water is in that well?

> Its wording and a large number of significant digits clearly demands the acceleration of gravity to be reverse-engineered I think if a bear fell into a well, there would be friction between the bear and the side of the well...

Well, if we start by assuming the bear is perfectly spherical and there is no friction...

Re: Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)

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Post by School-Cotton »

Jun8 wrote: post #46
WJW wrote: post #12

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.

No, although this answer is awesome and very well researched, it cannot match the famous answer to the question about parsing HTML using regular expressions :-) : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open... . 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://stack…

The HTML parsing question is an annoying meme that people laugh along with to feel part of nerd culture. This one is an extremely thorough attempt at answering the question. Not comparable at all.

Re: Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)

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Post by School-Cotton »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #184
Zircom wrote: post #182

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I like saying "Soy espalda" to my Spanish speaking friend, bugs the hell out of him. It means "I'm back" but uses the Spanish word for the body part instead of someone's presence.

That isn't a literal translation. That's a translation of an unrelated word. 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.

I don't get it. What does "every day up" even mean?
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