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12:00 AM
That's a static web page, so it isn't really that hard.
 
@Dennis Mini-challenge: Find the most visited modern site that still does this
 
Probably an online banking site...
 
That's pretty easy: my faculty's moodle (sp?) platform only works with Firefox.
 
The Space Jam website never changed since 1996 and has almost 100% uptime: www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
 
Space Jam was out in 1996...??
 
12:03 AM
@mınxomaτ but that's not visited that much (I assume)
 
@Calvin'sHobbies I wasn't replying to you, that's just the oldest unchanged site I know. Frames, spinny GIFs, repeated backgrounds, table layouts etc.
 
ah
@Dennis modern equivalent (which might make a neat )
 
That's what that badge means?
That's a terrible choice.
(For the HTML 5 logo, not a graphical output challenge.)
 
omg theres a html5 badge builder site
 
Hard to guess what all the icons mean:
 
12:11 AM
@Calvin'sHobbies There's a handy hovertext that just lists all of the meanings rather than telling you which one you're hovering over
 
Hey all, just something I made from a hackathon: github.com/molarmanful/nonsense-lang
It's very inspired by BF, although it goes on from there.
 
@Calvin'sHobbies yes
 
@VoteToClose ಠ_ಠ but I won't.
 
Great so Rookie of the Year was a tie
What do we do?
Challenge with least upvotes wins? :P
 
Tiebreaker: delete @quartata's account
7
Problem solved
 
12:19 AM
nue nueeee
Also the featured tag should probably be removed
 
What do the winners get?
 
CSS is great, it has the simplest solutions and always does what you want...
 
@AlexA. He can stay if he changes his avatar back to the better one.
 
@Calvin'sHobbies I don't know.
@mınxomaτ jeez people what's wrong with the current one
fine you win
 
@quartata No, don't change!
 
12:23 AM
@quartata It doesn't scale well.
 
@mınxomaτ True
 
@quartata A giant dosa?
 
@Calvin'sHobbies Mm
 
@Calvin'sHobbies Not just any giant dosa
 
12:24 AM
@AlexA. chat refresh?
 
World Big Dosa
 
Compromise.
 
Done
Oh GROSS it's your identicon
 
Haha
 
@quartata What? I just see your identicon?
 
12:25 AM
Ew ew ew take it off
 
I personally kinda like it...
 
You're no longer an individual
 
All right
 
You must separate yourself from the herd
Ya hurd?
 
refresh pls
Happy?
 
12:28 AM
\o/
Yes
Real Ultimate Quartatertots
 
It's just good old me.
 
Yay!
 
Now with 100% less image blending
 
@quartata Aw, I had upgraded it:
user image
7
 
LOL
That is... freaky
 
12:32 AM
has more character than a silly old glider
 
@AlexA. Can you remove the featured tag from the vote post?
 
I'll confer with the mods
 
I guess we should wait until the results post
When will that be by the way
 
@quartata The side bar should update in 6 to 8 weeks.
 
@Dennis Side bar is running in Valve Time
 
12:36 AM
Oh noes, what happened to your avatar?
 
@Dennis *nose
 
@Dennis They bullied me into changing it
;_;
 
only minx did
 
"only"
 
11 mins ago, by Alex A.
Ew ew ew take it off
 
12:37 AM
oh, I guess Alex
 
> axel
 
ಠ_ಠ
I am not in Guns N Roses.
 
Nor are you a Kingdom Hearts character
I swear all these RPGs are the same to me
 
I don't know what that is
Rocket propelled grenade?
 
12:38 AM
Kingdom Hearts (Japanese: キングダムハーツ, Hepburn: Kingudamu Hātsu) is an action role-playing game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) in 2002 for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It's the first game in the Kingdom Hearts series, and is the result of a collaboration between Squaresoft and The Walt Disney Company. The game combines characters and settings from Disney animated features with those from Square's Final Fantasy series. The story follows a young boy, Sora, as he is thrown into an epic battle against the forces of darkness. He is joined by Donald Duck, Goofy, and other classic...
 
@quartata I'll just change it back.
 
@Dennis wait you can do that
 
Yes
 
I feel powerless
Please don't make this a mod abuse war
 
Don't you dare! .
 
12:39 AM
I can. I really, really shouldn't though.
 
@Dennis Keep updating the glider so each of quartatas messages looks like it's advancing a generation
 
lol
 
I wonder how I could modify Jelly so that infinite loops no longer finish instantly...
 
I'm surprised there's only two answers for Glypho so far. It's not as if it's a hard challenge.
Well, it is a weekend...
 
12:44 AM
It had to leave eventually
 
Pothead Grandma, Finland, Espoo, Takapajula
1
 
hahahahaha
hahahahah
 
420 knit it
 
1 1
 
12:45 AM
PSA: Discord Daily Meetup starting in 15 minutes.
 
Only registered on Bitcoin SE
Nothing in Charcoal HQ and he's been registered for 2 days so he probably isn't a spam bot
I guess he.. really likes Discord?
 
Who wouldn't?
Except for reasonable people who think that Discord sucks
 
@Dennis Uhh, just so you know, I am still able to vote on comments on Best Of.
 
If I have to push a button to talk, I'm not going to talk. Way too much effort.
@Doorknob Regular user's can't
We tested this
 
You can change the settings @AlexA.
 
12:47 AM
@AlexA. oh okay
 
@GamrCorps You guys made me use push to talk last time I was on because I type too loud
I pound the shit out of my keyboard.
 
Well, turn it off then. It's not as if we can't hear your keyboard over Skype either, so the fact that it's Discord doesn't make a difference :P
 
I also don't have a headset or anything like that, so the pounding is quite close to the microphone.
 
@AlexA. so do I, but I am against forcing someone to use push to talk (I hate it as well)
 
@AlexA. how about this chord?
 
12:49 AM
@Doorknob Orlp?
 
I can't get push to talk on Debian because there's no desktop application so I bound a key (Super+Z) to toggle my microphone via i3 -.-
 
@Calvin'sHobbies Oh interesting. Are you a musician?
 
@Doorknob Solution: Don't use push to talk
 
wtf I just got a chat ping notification but I dont see any...
 
12:51 AM
@AlexA. well yeah but now I have a "disable my microphone" key when I'm typing a lot but not saying anything
@GamrCorps Look at the top of your scren
 
@AlexA. But we need you.
Alex is best voice.
 
That was the scheduled event notification
 
@Doorknob I dont see that...
 
weird
 
weird
 
12:51 AM
(I have no idea why it decided to trigger at 9 minutes)
 
@GamrCorps ninja'd
 
lol
@Quill yep
 
@Doorknob it probably went to trigger at 10m exactly and delay caused it to be 9m
 
I can't believe there's no tip for multi-line input in the Python tips that is both golfy and doesn't rely on a bug.
 
@Dennis Presumably "golfy" disqualifies sys.stdin?
 
12:53 AM
open(0).read()
 
Does that, uh, rely on a bug?
 
@VoteToClose I think I implemented arguments (I just made it so that everything past the code and input is counted as an argument)
Can you restart le bot
 
@Doorknob I don't think so. (I'd have to search the docs though.) 0 is usually a shorthand for the STDIN fhandle.
 
@Dennis Oh, I thought you meant you didn't know of a way. You should post that there, then
 
> file is either a string or bytes object giving the pathname (absolute or relative to the current working directory) of the file to be opened or an integer file descriptor of the file to be wrapped.
 
12:54 AM
Challenge idea: identify which sorting algorithm is being used from the interim states of the list/array.
 
(Python 3 only)
 
@El'endiaStarman Challenge idea: Identify whether sorting algorithm <A> or <B> is more efficient for a given list? (based on number of array accesses/swaps, maybe)
 
Is a discord meetup actually happening?
 
@PhiNotPi yes!
 
@PhiNotPi no!
 
12:55 AM
Well there are three people there right now and I have to go in about 5 minutes to eat dinner, but yeah
 
So you have to leave right when it's supposed to start?
 
>_<
 
@Doorknob 9 minutes is 540000 ms, which is 2003311200 in base 4, which is Jeff Atwood's phone number
 
> 001-200 Invalid area code range
 
that's a ruse
 
12:57 AM
@Doorknob Everyone's mics are muted anyway. Everyone is just text chatting.
 
Yeah well we don't officially start until 3 minutes from now :D
 
Like anyone is going to unmute in 3 minutes just for the officialness. :P
 
I will.
 
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A: Tips for golfing in Python

DennisReading multi-line input In Python 3, the built-in function open underwent some changes. In particular, its first argument file is either a string or bytes object giving the pathname (absolute or relative to the current working directory) of the file to be opened or an integer file descripto...

 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ :(
 
1:40 AM
@Dennis I remember open(0) being mentioned in chat (by feersum?). I'd probably never use it personally cos I can't test it though :P
 
@Sp3000 High-five on our Best of PPCG victory
 
hifive
 
You guys totally deserve that victory :D
 
What's this?
 
Chat
 
1:45 AM
The internet
 
Thanks. I get that confused sometimes.
 
The screen of an electronic device
 
@VoteToClose Are you asking about what we're celebrating about?
 
@PhiNotPi I'm a little lost, yeah. ;P
 
Sp3000 and I won a best-of-PPCG award for our answers here: codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/48353/…
 
1:56 AM
Oh, nice!
 
@AlexA. y u abandon Discord D:
 
can i be added to discord
 
@Doorknob its telling me that the invite is invalid/expired
 
@Doorknob ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
2:10 AM
ummmm
 
im probably doing something wrong cuz ive never used discord before
but I copy pasted it into the join a server textbox
 
does just clicking the link work?
 
no
it goes to my dashboard
 
@Dennis Really? I did not know that.
So, what's going to happen with the Best of PPCG post now?
 
@Doorknob your link seems to not be an invite link
 
2:18 AM
ok yeah let me try to figure this out
 
@Maltysen oh I think @Sherlock9 has to do something because he's the server owner
we're still debating on whether to abandon Discord in favor of Skype again though
 
Woot, I've finally tied squeamish ossifrage in rep!
 
quick everyone downvote Alex
 
same problem
 
2:24 AM
I'm just a few rep away from overtaking Jakube as well!
 
skype is hot shit
 
@Doorknob D:
 
I'm still a little over 100 behind DigitalTrauma
 
I'm a couple hundred behind J B (?) and mniip (?) and... Zgarb, finally a name I recognize!
 
@Doorknob Start posting challenges everyday rather than every other day
 
2:26 AM
@ETHproductions I recognize both of those names...
 
I recognize mniip but not J B.
 
@AlexA. as if that's gonna happen :P
 
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
Neither have been active whatsoever in the time I've been on, so...
But hey, I should overtake both of them on Tuesday, so that's nice
 
Why Tuesday?
 
2:31 AM
I'm roughly 170 rep behind them currently, and I don't think I'll get that much in the next 20 hours
A bit further up the list are names I see daily: Maltysen, manatwork, Timwi, even flawr and PhiNotPi (fat chance I'll catch up to those two soon)
 
What's your current rep?
 
Nice!
 
Thanks :) I set a goal to reach 10k by Feb 15 or something, but I think Feb 29 is more reasonable.
1620 rep / 29 days = 56 rep a day... I can do that for sure
 
I saw this game earlier today, mind blown.
 
2:34 AM
@GamrCorps My girlfriend goes to DigiPen!
 
cool
 
A lot of really cool games and game ideas have come from there.
The entire concept behind Portal and the paint part of Portal 2, for example.
 
huh, I didnt know that.
thats neat
 
@GamrCorps omg, that may be the coolest thing I've seen all week
 
2:37 AM
> Vitsy will triumph above all other langs
 
@ETHproductions yeah Im hooked on it right now
 
[citation-needed]
@GamrCorps This is also a good DigiPen game that spawned a game called Distance (that's on Steam and I highly recommend).
 
Oh, Ill have to look that up then
 
@Alex By the way, I'm currently #6 in rep gained this year, behind only Martin, Dennis, Thomas Kwa, Digital Trauma, and Doorknob :-)
 
Whoooooa nice work!
 
2:40 AM
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Q: What should we do about questions that get asked that are already Sandboxed?

VoteToCloseSo, sometimes, I see questions that are posted in the sandbox, but have been posted in main by another user. For example, this question yielded 251 rep to a user who did not originally post it in the sandbox (though it is worth mentioning that it was unintended). In situations where this happens...

 
@AlexA. Oh hey, I've got that on my computer! :D
 
Distance or Nitronic Rush?
 
@Doorknob any luck on the invite link or no?
 
@Maltysen I sent you one
 
Nitronic Rush.
 
2:46 AM
did it work?
23 mins ago, by Doorknob
oh @Maltysen try https://discordapp.com/channels/133419285409169408/133419285409169408
 
no that one didn't work either
 
@El'endiaStarman If you like that, you should definitely play Distance.
 
its telling me that it should be in the format of discord.gg/blahblahblah
 
@Maltysen if you just click the link?
 
@Doorknob nothing
 
2:48 AM
hooray
 
yay
 
@AlexA. I recently spent 30 dollars on three books and I'm concerned that's gonna hurt me in a month or so. I think I'll wait until I have an actual source of income. :P
 
Wow... last year, the top user on SO earned an average of 374 rep per day.
 
@Sp3000 How come? Is it platform-specific?
 
@El'endiaStarman Fair enough. :) Let me know if/when you play it.
@ETHproductions ._.
 
2:49 AM
I could put it on my wish list though. Hmm.
 
Whereas Martin earned 126.5 rep/day last year on PPCG.
Just a third of the rep.
 
Hey @GamrCorps, didn't you submit an OEIS sequence? Should add it to this list.
 
Yeah, he submitted Dennis numbers
 
yes I did, I didnt know about that thread
Oh, and btw the dennis numbers took me 4 months to get approved
 
I just stumbled across it.
Well, I had upvoted it in the past, well before my submission got approved.
 
2:56 AM
A263172, I believe, for Dennis numbers?
 
Okay, editing mine in.
 
@ETHproductions yes thats it
 
The pin plot looks really cool IMHO.
 

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