The original doesn’t have an extra check for 9 and it works for Roman->Indioarabic because it’s:

IX
->IVV
->IIIIV
->IIIIIIIII

But the other way around, you need an extra step for 9. That’s where our misunderstanding comes from.

Does 9 really work? Wouldn’t it be:

IIIIIIIII
-> VIIII
-> VIV

Makes sense but it will fail at 9 (VIV) it would only work for 9 if the replace went from right to left or the V and IV statements were exchanged but in both cases, 6 would fail

Thanks. I knew something was off

True. Lost opportunity to blow things up with useless recursivity

Because there are better random generators

I don’t know what happens when the substring overlaps. Like for the number 6, will it replace the first 5 I’s with V and end up correctly with VI or the last ones and come to IV? I would guess the former and maybe you know but I never thought about it before

German has a word for it: Substantivgroßschreibung

How many story points?

Funny, I liked the later seasons of Discovery much more when it grew its beard grew its dreadlocks.

Picard has it’s moments but a ton of fan service that wouldn’t work for non-Trekkie’s I would assume but maybe that’s why you didn’t care about it and wasn’t bothered. It’s “let’s take the heroes of these series and let them fight against these villains from these series and the storyline from there”. Maybe it works even better if you’re new to all of them.

I wouldn’t even say it’s bad but all the other series are better, so have fun discovering the other series 😉

Also you can appreciate DS9 better as a contrast to TNG

Picard is easily the worst serious ever. And I don’t mean it in the sense of “place to start” but in the sense of “worst serious period”. Discovery is great tho.

As a native speaker of one of the above, I’m sometimes confused when people online use “he” for a generic duck or cat or other animals that are female in my native language

Isn’t the “idea” a very eurocentric understanding of progress and how colonialism is actually good because it civilized the colonized? But I’m sure there is more to the book than that

There’s this meme of ‘why is ChatGPT expert on everything but the area I have knowledge of’.

I didn’t know about the meme but for a while, YouTube recommended me reviews of the book Sapiens which tries to encompass all of human history, starting from evolution and everyone was like “I learned alot but in the field of my experience, it’s garbage” and I felt like c’mon, don’t you see the pattern

Neither am I but much less am I used to the day starting at 0

How do you see that and this is your reaction?

It’s too unregular and too good to be a coincidence. Unless they threw an algorithm on it that was intended for whatever

You know about neo-pronouns, get ready for neo-months

I assume the post is the maximum. I wonder if there is an algorithm for that