The Nineteenth Byte

> Paper is a thin material produced by pressing together moist fibres of cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets. It is a versatile material with many uses, including writing, printing, packaging, cleaning, and a number of industrial and construction processes.

Alex A.

oh i love moist fibres

quartata

@AlexA. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Rainbolt

You should become a paper person

(I hope the Internet agrees one day that everyone is a "he" until told otherwise)

quartata

This is what I was worried about.

Alex A.

@Rainbolt Oh shit have you seen the Disney short Paperman?

Rainbolt

9:11 PM

Yes, a while back

quartata

I really don't want close/reopen wars on this.

Alex A.

@Rainbolt Yeah. Most places on the Internet are sausage festivals anyway. Plus singular "they" makes me cringe.

Rainbolt

@quartata Yea me neither. Let's just reopen it and then wait for a concensus to be reached.

quartata

@Rainbolt No, let's lock it.

Then no one can mess with it.

Rainbolt

Yea, let's lock it open.

quartata

9:12 PM

That's the ideal solution.

ArtOfCode

wields Mjolnir menacingly

quartata

If we reopen it, people might post joke/trash answers

ArtOfCode

>:)

quartata

@Rainbolt I see where you're going with this...

...

@ArtOfCode Mjolnir is for dupes silly

get your mod terminology straight

ArtOfCode

@quartata or mods

quartata

9:14 PM

what did they teach you in those ten billion slips of paper

ArtOfCode

mjolnir can be applied to any unilateral mod action

@quartata that we should suspend people who disagree with us for -1.

Rainbolt

I had a mjolnir the other day. The writing on the handle said "Does this solve your problem?" I clicked "Yes" and boom. Closed.

Alex A.

I had a banana the other day.

quartata

I had a tangerine the other day.

Rainbolt

I'm waiting to be given a mjolnir for MTG questions so that my opinion becomes exactly five times as important as it was before I gold badged.

ETHproductions

9:15 PM

I had a life the other day.

Rainbolt

Holy crap I need 120 more answers to gold badge. That's insane.

quartata

@Rainbolt Well that's easy.

Rainbolt

On a site that gets maybe one MTG question per day, not easy

quartata

Why can't you just answer all the questions with "Jund them out"?

Wow no laughs. sigh

Rainbolt

@quartata I was going to retort and then I looked at the most recent SCG top 8: sales.starcitygames.com/deckdatabase/…

That makes me happy, because Jund is a good matchup for me

quartata

9:19 PM

I can do "Abzan them out" if you prefer. Throw in a little variety.

Rainbolt

I am really tired of feeling bad for playing Siege Rhino

ETHproductions

Woot, about to rep cap for the second time!

orlp

play.elevatorsaga.com

pretty fun

Rainbolt

chat.stackexchange.com/…

I think a challenge was born out of that

But I can't find it. Maybe we talked about it and never did it

quartata

Adam ♦, Texas

1.6k 6 25

holy shit this guy is someone I used to know in a GMod gaming clan

small world syndrome confirmed?

That was... weird.

Anyways.

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Q: What makes a popularity contest objective?

In light of the controversy sparked by this question, I think we need to create a general "rule of thumb" policy on how objective a popularity-contest needs to be in order to be on-topic. The main issue, as I see it, is that people are not in agreement over whether an objective specification sh...

discussion policy popularity-contest

Don't by shy to post on this! We need as many different viewpoints as we can get.

It's a discussion. Don't be scared of it.

TimmyD

9:35 PM

Out of ~2 dozen answers, I'm impressed that PowerShell is tied for 6th on the PowerBall challenge.

quartata

@TimmyD Seems appropriate.

J Atkin

@El'endiaStarman This should be less irritating...

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Find the largest repeating sub-sequence code-golf The challenge Your job is to find the longest sequence that repeats at least twice in some string. Examples TBD Sandbox notes Has this been asked before? It seems like I have seen it but I can't find it. If it's not a dupe, the next questi...

TimmyD

@quartata Usually PowerShell is towards the lower end of the range, as it tends to be verbose. Especially if a .NET call is needed.

El'endia Starman

@JAtkin Huh?

quartata

Right, but PowerShell has the shortest Levenshtein distance from PowerBall of the languages

J Atkin

9:38 PM

1 hour ago, by El'endia Starman

Wow, it is, surprisingly, slightly annoying to read a bunch of questions all strung together. I "hear" the inflection at the end that denotes a question. Anyone else do that?

TimmyD

@quartata :D

El'endia Starman

@JAtkin Yeah, that stopped a while ago, and had nothing to do with your Sandbox post.

PhiNotPi

I'm about to post my CA challenge: meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/8002/2867

Martin Büttner

damn, I don't think I'll manage to write code for it today

PhiNotPi

^ talking to me?

Martin Büttner

9:48 PM

yeah

@flawr I'm quite convinced now that a sieve-like approach will be much more efficient for the fractal smoke sequence

the naive approach iterates over n/2 for every candidate from 1 to s(n)

by using a sieve-like approach you iterate over, but only once, and then the iteration from 1 to s(n) is not nested

I'll try this out in Mathematica in a bit

TanMath

can somebody think of a phase localhost easter egg for my search engine challenge?

maybe even a bonus?

RikerW

Maybe searching localhost shows you his profile image?

TanMath

@RikerW great idea...

I was thinking about printing this:

2 hours ago, by Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@PHASE COME BACK WE ARE YOUR FRIEEEEENDS

PhiNotPi

> The 10000 generation rule is subject to change, depending on the runtimes/accuracy of the rules people find. If it is too low to allow reasonable rates of convergence, then I can raise it. Alternatively, I can lower it to serve as a tie-breaker.

^ just added those sentences

I figured on 10000 by doing (3^7)/(2^7) * 320

TanMath

ok...-20% bonus will be if the search term is "localhost", the program will return "@PHASE COME BACK WE ARE YOUR FRIEEEEENDS"

PhiNotPi

9:55 PM

where 320 was the number of generations that the 2-state rules use

and then adding a couple thousand gens for good measure