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#lua question: If I want to check whether all the characters in a string are upper case, (so that it returns `true`), how do I go about doing this?

My initial thought is

`function uc(inp)
if string.match(inp, "%u") and inp ~= string.match(inp, "%l") then
return true
else
return false
end
end
`

And this returns true for "H" and false for "h", but true for "Hh"...

any ideas?
#programming #question #learning

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you can convert the string to upper case and see if it’s changed

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my friend ari is in a tough spot rn after an involuntary psych hospitalization and losing housing. if you have any extra, i know they'd appreciate:

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Edit: Now live, check it out getloops.social/

Loops + i18n

I just shipped support for internationalization in Loops, with a handy guide on how to contribute new languages.

I'm working on the language picker now.

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any chance in the future to have it on Weblate (e.g. on the Codeberg instance)? Keep up the good work!



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— Daniel V. Thompson: The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting, p. 229



A researcher was studying how to classify gender—and found a startling new answer.

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The thing about being a Door-To-Door used newspaper salesmen is that you learn not many people are interested in paying for yesterdays news, yet they have no problem having their children and grandchildren pay for the things that make the news today, down the road.

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I admit there is one thing I sometimes use llm's for: generating largely meaningless crap for corporate processes and buereaucracy. Maybe the use of LLMs correlates precisely with the amount of meaningless devoid-of-meaning lifeless crap in our lifes?




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Tante sono le operazioni in entrata concluse dalla società giallo azzurra: 10 sono contratti pluriennali per una rosa complessiva di 29 giocatori. L’obiettivo dichiarato è avere una formazione in grado di giocare sia con il 3-5-2 che con il 3-4-2-1

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Astronomers have discovered a super massive black hole (SMBH) at the center of the well-known Cosmic Horseshoe Einstein Ring system.

Using gravitational lensing effects and stellar kinematics (how an SMBH affects the motion of stars around it) and data on asymmetrically placed lensed images of another distant galaxy, the mass of the SMBH is estimated at 36 billion solar masses, close to a new record. The galaxy itself is estimated at 5.2 trillion solar masses.

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The following diagram is my guess for why the two images for the other distant galaxy appear asymmetrically placed around the main Einstein Ring in post #1.

The other distant galaxy must be located slightly off-center from the line of sight through the intervening massive galaxy.

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To see an Einstein Ring like no other, check out this thread for an amazing image by the venerable NASA Webb Space Telescope.
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This vibrant image by the JWST is one of the most amazing images of an Einstein Ring.

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Includes data in visible light from Hubble.

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Raga, non è un segreto. È da più di vent'anni che questa roba compare perfino nella manualistica delle scuole superiori. :blobcatnomcookie:




#funfact Davy Jones (not quite yet of The Monkees) was standing on the side of the stage watching on when The Beatles made their American teevee debut on The Ed Sullivan Show


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The vector graphics in this video, about a Soviet walking robot from 1980, remind me so much of 1980s vector graphic video games. Scramble (on Vectrex), Battlezone (arcade), etc

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Well shit, Schitt's Creek premiered over 10 years ago now...
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@ryanhg That means you guys are getting OLD!!

(I, on the other hand, am ageless and timeless, like a dinosaur buried in the LaBrea tar pits 😬)

@Ry

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Il candidato governatore Alessandro Tomasi in tour elettorale a Lucca, Barga e Castiglione Garfagnana
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Public relations giant Edelman is helping COP30 host-nation Brazil hone its media strategy for this year’s UN climate conference – even though it also works for Shell, one of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies.
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Shell nelle sue pubbliche dichiarazioni scrive che «il mondo ha bisogno di una strategia bilanciata e ordinata per la transizione dalle fonti fossili» ma dimentica di dire che gli effetti sul clima del suo modello di business sono noti alle aziende petrolifere da cinquant’anni.
Come sono ormai accertati i cinici tentativi di disinformazione e negazionismo. Una politica che ha impedito di cominciare a prendere provvedimenti, e quindi al ritardo attuale.
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Good morning from Tokyo. Sunny, clear day after the typhoon passed. Working on website articles as I prepare to formally launch LUXE Magazine next week. Out this evening with a photography students.

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Tesla Diner, ecco prezzi e menu del primo ristorante di Elon Musk. Un piccolo spoiler: le caramelle costano 35 dollari
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