Why Barcelona Bought the Building That Symbolizes Its Housing Crisis

Re:Why Barcelona Bought the Building That Symbolizes Its Hou... by bruckie on Saturday February 22, 2025 @01:08PM (#43141452)

For those who don't read Chinese (like me):

广州市 = Guangzhou

广州周大福中心 = Guangzhou Chow Tai Fook Center

Edit: and BTW I find it bizarre to use Chinese characters like this on an English language forum without providing an English translation. To most readers here, they're a meaningless string of unfamiliar characters.

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Re:Why Barcelona Bought the Building That Symbolizes Its Hou... by kragen on Saturday February 22, 2025 @04:38PM (#43143520)

You're a hacker; you eat meaningless strings of unfamiliar characters for breakfast.

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Re:Why Barcelona Bought the Building That Symbolizes Its Hou... by Etheryte on Saturday February 22, 2025 @05:24PM (#43143894)

Wouldn't be surprised if both of those are valid Perl or whatever with the right flags.

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Re:Why Barcelona Bought the Building That Symbolizes Its Hou... by kragen on Saturday February 22, 2025 @06:36PM (#43144461)

They're certainly valid JS; no flags needed! For example, this JS expression

  ((广州市, 广州周大福中心) => 广州市 < 2 ? 1 : 广州市 * 广州周大福中心(广州市 - 1, 广州周大福中心))(10, (广州市, 广州周大福中心) => 广州市 < 2 ? 1 : 广州市 * 广州周大福中心(广州市 - 1, 广州周大福中心))

evaluates to 3628800. Similarly, they're valid Python 3, valid Golang, valid Lua, valid GForth, etc. The Python and Lua translations of the above JS are left as an exercise to the reader, but I have tested them and verified that they work.

For better or worse, perl is by default unwilling to parse them as Perl.

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