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I bet it is a reference to the ABBA song "Gimme Gimme Gimme (a man after midnight)" Edit: I see that is the explanation given on StackOverflow. This is probabl
by marchenko 9y ago
I bet it is a reference to the ABBA song "Gimme Gimme Gimme (a man after midnight)"
Edit: I see that is the explanation given on StackOverflow. This is probably the fewest bits needed to encode a widely-distributed earworm.
- wiredearp 9y agoOne could speculate further and propose that it refers to Narada Michael Walden's "Gimme Gimme Gimme" from 1985: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUzQv71iVeU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUzQv71iVeU.
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- reificator 9y ago> This is probably the fewest bits needed to encode a widely-distributed earworm. someBODY
- Noughmad 9y agoI recently wrote a tool that worked on bodies of text in Rust. Had multiple instances of if let Some(body) = ...
- reificator 9y agoYou know that you could use Some(body)
- reificator 9y agoI'm working on a game engine in Rust in my spare time, I'll probably end up with that same code in the physics side.
- arkades 9y ago...once told me... Damn it, I can hear it in my head!
- holtalanm 9y agooh god, it won't stop playing in my head. I know there's a pause button somewhere. reaches for hammer see you in a few hours. thwack
- majewsky 9y agoCan someone explain this, please?
- Infinitesimus 9y agoIt is a reference to a song by Smash Mouth: https://youtu.be/L_jWHffIx5E https://youtu.be/L_jWHffIx5E (And now it'll be stuck my head for a week)
- reificator 9y agoAt the risk of being a serious weirdo and way overexplaining: gladly! An earworm[1] is a (part of a) song that gets stuck in your head. The GP was wondering if "gimmie gimmie gimmie"[2] was the fewest bytes required to put one in someone's head. I shaved 12 bytes off by using All-Star[3] by Smash Mouth. It was a very popular song in its day, it's newer than ABBA, and lately it's become a meme[4] of its own[5], partly on the back of being featured in Shrek. It's even the basis for a trilogy[6] of mash-up[7] albums[8]. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earworm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earworm [2]: https://youtu.be/3wCK6INQcHs https://youtu.be/3wCK6INQcHs [3]: https://youtu.be/L_jWHffIx5E https://youtu.be/L_jWHffIx5E [4]: https://youtu.be/0Iqr0L4bUms https://youtu.be/0Iqr0L4bUms [5]: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=all+star+but https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=all+star+but [6]: http://www.neilcic.com/mouthsounds/ http://www.neilcic.com/mouthsounds/ [7]: http://www.neilcic.com/mouthsilence/ http://www.neilcic.com/mouthsilence/ [8]: http://www.neilcic.com/mouthmoods/ http://www.neilcic.com/mouthmoods/
- Terretta 9y agoHash collision. Somebody (somebody) ooh somebody (somebody) Can anybody find me .... somebody to love? https://youtu.be/kijpcUv-b8M https://youtu.be/kijpcUv-b8M
- reificator 9y agoThat's why I used casing to differentiate
- Kliment 9y agoEven sticking to ABBA, "Waterloo!" is fewer bits and triggers an earworm just as well, but of course waterloo is not a man after midnight.
- marchenko 9y agoPart of the challenge is finding some plausible reason to have the string come up in the context of operating a Unix system. Maybe Rihanna will come out with a song called "Grep". Heck, maybe the Black-Eyed Peas already did...