bcapps VS wtfjs

Just for fun, I created maxdierolls.csv in https://github.com/barrycarter/bcapps/tree/master/ONEOFF/ that shows the results for 1 <= k <= n <= 100

To be fair, I actually do this in https://github.com/barrycarter/bcapps/tree/master/bc-gcdist.pl because it's useful in determining Internet ping times. Roughly speaking, Internet packets rarely travel faster than 0.5c (though I have seen as high as 0.6c)

I never really got anywhere on this, but my work is at https://github.com/barrycarter/bcapps/tree/master/bc-calc-risk-odds.m

The exact chance is 34382839/81839428 or about 42.013%. I used Mathematica and recursion to solve this: https://github.com/barrycarter/bcapps/blob/master/REDDIT/repeat-cards.m

Feel free to take a look at https://github.com/barrycarter/bcapps/tree/master/README-projects.txt but here's a more sinister and useful suggestion that doesn't really answer your question.

Try graph1.csv in https://github.com/barrycarter/bcapps/blob/master/ONEOFF/

My https://github.com/barrycarter/bcapps/tree/master/FINANCES/bc-parse-bank-email.pl probably won't help, but is an example of how you can parse different types of documents (emails from various banks) using a single script

https://github.com/barrycarter/bcapps/tree/master/bc-getmail.pl checks all my email accounts in a neverending loop, handling cases where getmail gets stuck

At one point, I cataloged some PBS strips at https://github.com/barrycarter/bcapps/tree/master/METAWIKI/pbs.txt -- you might find something useful there though it's nowhere near complete

Me in the interview: "Generally, no, a variable can only be assigned one numeric value at a time. However, Javascript is famous for unpredictable behaviors in variable comparison statements, for instance [] == ![]. There's actually a whole library built around documenting this type of behavior this for comedic value, and other more serious libraries geared towards solving the problem. So it's possible that some obscure variable assignment scenario would result in that line evaluating as true, but it's not something you'd expect to encounter in the real world. This has gotten a lot better with typescript and es2022, but still something you need to watch for a bit."

I do see that point of view, didn't think of that, there are some aspects of go which are a bit weird if you never touched lower abstraction languages, yet once you learn what they are, you are all set and you can code in anything. go has the least amount of gotchas I have seen in any programming language. compare it with loads of the weird stuff javascript does https://github.com/denysdovhan/wtfjs and go is like heavenly lol

Its a very poorly designed language. Its syntax and semantics are often confusing and unpredictable. There is no well defined mental model of how constructs work in this language.

WTF JS

😎 A great guide to Javascript that is both simple and wonderful, but also difficult and fun that seems like bullshit. -> wtfjs