The Nineteenth Byte

quartata

2:02 AM

holy shit is the stanley parable leaderboard actually real

Alex A.

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I thought that's what he was talking about

quartata

How on earth could they have implemented that without VScripts

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. no I mean like ABC does things when ABCABC

quartata

Oh. It's fake.

OK.

I thought it was actually pulling data from Steam.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I'm not sure that's what he means

Seadrus

2:03 AM

uh i think thats right

Doorknob

@Seadrus source-layout?

Seadrus

that works

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Seadrus I will win

Roujo

@quartata There was a workshop map for Portal 2 that did stuff like that - IIRC, it's basically a big one-way portal

Seadrus

o_o I already got an upvote i guess that waz u

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

2:08 AM

yup!

I've been stalking 'ya :3

Zizouz212

Can someone give me some expert advice on something?

Doorknob

you know who's really good at giving expert advice? @AlexA.

Alex A.

Hahaha

Be careful

Zizouz212

I'm scared.

I'm picking courses for Grade 12.

Alex A.

I am an expert on grade 12, having been through it a long time ago.

Zizouz212

2:09 AM

So here's what I've got so far...

quartata

@Roujo Right, a trigger_teleport.

Doorknob

ahhh help I made a rectangle have invisible outline and fill in Inkscape and now I can't find it and I need it

quartata

I was mostly curious because I'm a Hammer mapper and I've tried to experiment with similar things in the past.

But it's really tricky.

Alex A.

> ahhh help I made a rectangle

El'endia Starman

"Hammer mapper" sounds awesome. :P

New Main Posts

2:11 AM

1

Q: Sequential Multiplication

Your objective is to write a program that takes an input, and, when chained together N times, performs "sequential multiplication". What is sequential multiplication, you may ask? It's a sequence with a seed a defined as thus: f(0) = a f(n+1) = f(n)*(f(n)-1) So, let a = 5. Thus, f(0) = 5, f(1)...

Zizouz212

English, Writer's Craft, French, World Issues, Native Studies (or Indigenous Issues in a Global Context), Law, and Computer Science.

Roujo

@quartata Cool, then. ^^

Zizouz212

I'm debating taking Advanced Functions for summer school, and then Calculus as an 8th course

Roujo

I've never mapped with Hammer, so I didn't know that's how portals work ^^

Zizouz212

Thoughts?

Alex A.

2:12 AM

@Zizouz212 I loved calculus.

Sounds like a pretty hefty course load.

quartata

Portals are actually their own entities, since they have a lot of complicated physics.

Doorknob

also I moved a thing once and it crashed Inkscape and now I'm too scared to move any other things which is a problem because I need to move things to do stuff

quartata

A trigger_teleport is available in all Source engine games

developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Trigger_teleport

El'endia Starman

Just noticed: the o in "Duolingo" is the loading icon. That's quite clever, I think.

Zizouz212

@AlexA. I think I'll be fine. Forgot to mention that World Issues is in French as well.

quartata

2:13 AM

BTW you should totally try Hammer out: it's very difficult to get started with but it's a lot of fun to work with and make little inventions with

Alex A.

@Zizouz212 Are you fluent in French?

Zizouz212

@AlexA. Mais bien sur! Je suis en immersion...

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

7.1k!

Geobits

So I finally got Marky's new brain in. It's a bit behind where the other one was, but I went ahead and swapped it over.

Learning the ropes

7 mins ago, 4 minutes total – 30 messages, 2 users, 0 stars

Bookmarked 2 mins ago by Geobits

Alex A.

translate: Mais bien sur! Je suis en immersion...

(from French) But on! I'm in immersion...

quartata

2:14 AM

Wow Bing is shit

Roujo

Bien sûr → Of course. Close enough.

quartata

He did leave the accent off of the u though

Zizouz212

This semester I've got French SAP, English, Physics, and Grade 12 Data Management

@quartata I don't know how to do accents on this thing.

Alex A.

Are you on a Mac?

Zizouz212

Yep.

Alex A.

2:15 AM

Hold the key

quartata

I usually cheat by copy-pasting the word into google translate and letting it fill the accents in for me.

Roujo

@quartata Huh, right. That's actually more accurate this way.

Zizouz212

Hold it?

Alex A.

û

Zizouz212

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee‌eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

El'endia Starman

2:15 AM

û

Zizouz212

That doesn't do much.

Alex A.

Hold it until a menu shows up, then press the corresponding number

El'endia Starman

Whee German layout! :P

Doorknob

û

compose + ^ + u \o/

Zizouz212

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee‌eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee‌eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee‌eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee‌eeeeee

Roujo

2:16 AM

Mais bien sur → But good on. =P

Zizouz212

This is not workingeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee‌eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee‌eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

El'endia Starman

Translate: Mais bien sûr

(from French) But of course

Geobits

Should I even ask about the e spam?

Zizouz212

@Roujo It means But of course! I'm in Immersion!

@Geobits I'm trying to get accents on this computer.

Dennis

@VoteToClose Pulled.

Roujo

2:17 AM

@Zizouz212 I know, I speak French as well ^^

@Geobits He's trying to get a menu to pop-up, to no avail

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Zizouz212 But of course -> mais oui

Geobits

@Zizouz212 I'm pretty sure you don't get them by holding down the e key for seven seconds followed by enter ;)

Zizouz212

@Geobits Nah, chat auto-inserts an enter.

But if I hold it down, I should expect some dialog-ish thing with accents, not repeated characters

El'endia Starman

Apparently, alex-is-wrong. :P

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Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

wait what:

@Doorknob sorry

Zizouz212

2:20 AM

Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! I figured it out!

You have to hold down the Option key.

Nah, it's weird.

Alex A.

@Geobits On a Mac, that's how I get accented letters; I hold down the key and press a number.

Geobits

Wow, macs sound even dumber than I thought ;)

3

Alex A.

ಠ_ಠ

Roujo

I just use a keyboard layout that allows me to type accented letters ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Zizouz212

@Roujo Most of my things are English, and I don't tend to write a lot for French as often. Besides, I find the change in keys to be confusing.

Geobits

2:28 AM

in Beep Boop Maggot, 29 secs ago, by Marky Markov

@Geobits you're a little good, man.

VoteToClose

@Dennis \o/

Roujo

@Zizouz212 Yeah, I don't blame you - I've just been using Français (Canada) for as long as I've typed, so by now it's what works best for me ^^

Zizouz212

There's a different solution: Option+e will produce é for me. ´ <- I need to type "e" there

It highlights it, but that's going to get annoying.

Eh, I guess it's better than trying to copy an accented letter that's really on a gif image that you found on google.

El'endia Starman

You could also learn alt-codes.

Wait, Mac, NEVERMIND.

3

Zizouz212

Well, Option == Alt on Macs :)

Doorknob

2:33 AM

You could also use the compose key which actually makes sense

Alex A.

Option ≈ Alt

Doorknob

Wait, Mac, NEVERMIND.

3

Zizouz212

But yeah, on Windows I know the alt codes

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Why don't you just--

Wait, Mac, NEVERMIND.

2

Zizouz212

alt+0233 would get me é

Doorknob

2:34 AM

see yeah typing "0233" to get é is something I would label as "does not make any sense whatsoever"

Seadrus

this was won pretty quickly:

3

Q: Sequential Multiplication

Your objective is to write a program that takes an input, and, when chained together N times, performs "sequential multiplication". What is sequential multiplication, you may ask? It's a sequence with a seed a defined as thus: f(0) = a f(n+1) = f(n)*(f(n)-1) So, let a = 5. Thus, f(0) = 5, f(1)...

code-golf source-layout

quartata

@Seadrus You did notice the 3 byte Jelly solution right

Doorknob

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I like bananas they taste good

Seadrus

@quartata yeah. "this was won pretty quickly"

quartata

Oh OK.

You linked to the Y answer so I was confused

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

2:35 AM

@Doorknob >_> what?

Doorknob

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ what's wrong with bananas?

Seadrus

@quartata yeah sorry that was the thing

orlp

@xnor why is the top half open interval difficult?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Doorknob I just like avocads better

quartata

@Dennis How does your Jelly answer work?

Zizouz212

2:35 AM

What's an avocad?

orlp

@xnor btw, with x < b <= y then [] would never be a valid output

Zizouz212

I know of avocados :)

Doorknob

@Zizouz212 you have much to learn

orlp

@Zizouz212 delicious

Doorknob

@AlexA. ^^

quartata

2:35 AM

@Zizouz212 You're one of today's lucky 10,000

Zizouz212

lol, what?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@quartata Times, decrement, something.

quartata

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A: The Many Memes of PPCG

Meme: how does juice an avocado I have try for thirtee minut and no juic Originator: Alex A. Cultural Height: October 9th, 2015 - ? Background: Usage example: Literally anything about avocados.

orlp

@Zizouz212 think a savory fruit

Zizouz212

And like always I can't get to meta -_-

Alex A.

2:36 AM

Sep 22 '15 at 3:19, by Alex A.

@PhiNotPi hello i have quetions how does juice an avocado i have try for thirtee minut and no juic

quartata

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Q: Challenge about advacado

Inspired by this. No avocados were harmed in the making of this challenge. Hello I have challenge I need help juic an avocado so I need program to tell me how long to juic avocad for Observe this ASCII art avocado: ###### # # # #### # # # p# # ## #### # # # ###...

code-golf ascii-art

etc etc

orlp

quartata

It's a meme here basically

Zizouz212

@quartata How do you get the theme!

Alex A.

@quartata s/basically//

Seadrus

2:37 AM

lol you guys /have ur own memes

quartata

@Zizouz212 Userscript

Doorknob

@AlexA. -1 trailing spaces

El'endia Starman

@Seadrus Oh yes.

quartata

We got bored of waiting for SE to do it

orlp

53

Q: The Many Memes of PPCG

Catchphrases and concepts that spread from person to person are known as memes, which, courtesy the Internet, can now explode across the Earth like a highly contagious virus (hence "going viral"). As with their real-life counterparts, some infectious diseases are global (pandemic), while others a...

discussion

Seadrus

2:37 AM

@El'endiaStarman thats weird

quartata

@Seadrus Meta SE and CR do too

Seadrus

thats weird ^^

you guys are weird

quartata

In fact that's where we got the title

Zizouz212

Can someone get this to work? stackapps.com/questions/2808/stackexchange-theme-switcher

El'endia Starman

@Seadrus s/weird/awesome

quartata

2:37 AM

"The Many Memes of Meta SE" was first

Doorknob

@El'endiaStarman /

quartata

511

Q: The Many Memes of Meta

Catchphrases and concepts that spread from person to person are known as memes, which, courtesy the Internet, can now explode across the Earth like a highly contagious virus (hence "going viral"). As with their real-life counterparts, some infectious diseases are global (pandemic), while others a...

support faq fun memes

New Main Posts

1

Q: ROT-128 oscillating quine

ROT-128 is a variant of ROT-13, where instead of cycling through the 26 characters, you cycle through the 256 ASCII characters. Your task is to create a program that outputs the ROT-128 of its own source. The outputted program must also be a valid program and output the original program. Scori...

code-golf quine

El'endia Starman

@Doorknob thanks :P

Zizouz212

@Zizouz212 @quartata JS is your thing, right?

quartata

2:39 AM

No I hate JS

Don't even talk to me about it

Seadrus

dont talk to me qu

Zizouz212

Ummm... ok

El'endia Starman

@Zizouz212 Maybe you want @CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ.

Anonymous

@Zizouz212 You're looking for @CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ @Cyoce @Downgoat and the rest of the "JS is love JS is life" crew

El'endia Starman

Oh, forgot about the others.

quartata

2:40 AM

@ӍѲꝆΛҐӍΛПҒЦꝆ @ETHproductions too

orlp

quartata

All the mutants

Alex A.

What you have here is the "JS is crap JS is garbage" crew.

orlp

I want to see my track record

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Zizouz212 I CAN HELP YOU

quartata

2:40 AM

Oh sorry. I mean nice people

Alex A.

We're not the droids you're looking for.

Zizouz212

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ @Cyoce @Downgoat Do you have any idea on how to make this work? stackapps.com/questions/2808/stackexchange-theme-switcher

orlp

questions that I have answered that dennis also answered

see who was smaller more often

Zizouz212

@AlexA. Who do you think you are, a Jedi?

Dennis

@quartata Added an explanation.

quartata

2:41 AM

OK. I couldn't remember what $ did

something with links

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Zizouz212 What's wrong with it?

Zizouz212

Hmm... I don't know.

Nothing appears at the bottom, and I think it's installed.

quartata

rofl that answer got a downvote

someone's salty

Doorknob

6

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I didn't downvote, though I'm salty af >:|

Anonymous

2:42 AM

@Zizouz212 I'm a penguin! Jedi mind tricks don't work on me, only money!

Geobits

Oh crap. Alex is a Jedi.

And he viciously attacks doorknobs.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Seadrus

maybe i shouldve made it a popcon

Doorknob

if you like downvotes, sure

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

ಠ_ಠ

quartata

2:43 AM

@Seadrus ? Seriously?

Seadrus

why not?

Dennis

@Seadrus It would have been closed before even getting an answer.

Seadrus

thats not nice :(

Dennis

Way too broad for a popcon.

Anonymous

I got multiple codepages working!

quartata

2:44 AM

ooh I just thought of something

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Seadrus It's true, albeit the tone it may have implied.

El'endia Starman

@Mego Nice!

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

^

I gotta go, good night!

quartata

Popping from an empty stack in Befunge results in a 0 right?

Seadrus

bye

El'endia Starman

2:45 AM

@quartata Yes.

Same behavior in Minkolang, intentionally.

quartata

Perfect.

except I don't remember how to get input

Guess I'll use Minkolang because I used that once

El'endia Starman

haha

Alex A.

@Seadrus I thought you didn't want popcons to be on topic anymore

quartata

^

Seadrus

@AlexA. it was a joke

Alex A.

2:46 AM

What, proposing that they be off topic or saying you should make your challenge a popcon?

quartata

? this doesn't work? minkolang.tryitonline.net/#code=bk4&input=Mw

El'endia Starman

@quartata Befunge commands

Seadrus

@AlexA. the latter. they really do suck

Alex A.

Oh, okay

El'endia Starman

@quartata minkolang.tryitonline.net/#code=bk4&input=&args=Mw

AND PUT A PERIOD.

Alex A.

2:47 AM

@El'endiaStarman OKAY.

Seadrus

were not "Programming Puzzles, Code Golf, and Art Contests" are we

Doorknob

@El'endiaStarman hahaha

quartata

oh duh

Geobits

I guess it's a good thing nobody is forced to answer every question.

Personally, I don't like ASCII art. But, ya know, others do.

Alex A.

@Seadrus Not all popularity contests are art contests. Calvin's Hobbies in particular has made some very nice code-centric popcons.

Seadrus

2:48 AM

@AlexA. who?

i thougt that was a comic

Alex A.

Calvin's Hobbies, United States

29.1k 17 160 357

code-golf ascii-art code-challenge kolmogorov-complexity graphical-output string arithmetic

Seadrus

why did that get a star

what is wrong with you people

El'endia Starman

@Seadrus Calvin and Hobbes? Pfft, no way...

Seadrus

@El'endiaStarman Lev(^,^^^) = 1

El'endia Starman

There is not one whit of similarity between their names.

Seadrus

2:50 AM

a... what?

Geobits

I think your Lev function is broken.

Alex A.

@Geobits It must be because I tried it and I'm not levitating.

El'endia Starman

You can levitate in Stanley's Parable!

Geobits

@AlexA. Did you call Wingardium first?

Doorknob

I think I've said this in here before, but

in Spanish class, we were learning about how to translate "to lift weights"

it's "levantar pesos"

quartata

2:51 AM

Hm, I don't think I can get this working in Minkolang.

Doorknob

my friend thought it meant "levitate peasants"

Alex A.

hahaha

El'endia Starman

hahahaha

Anonymous

hahahahaha

Alex A.

hahahahahaha

Geobits

2:52 AM

hahahahahahaha

Anonymous

hahahahahahahaha

El'endia Starman

@quartata What's the task? The one Seadrus posted recently?

Doorknob

@Mego reverse geobits'd

Nathan Merrill

hey, designing my koth framework: would it be a good idea to enforce a consistent input/output format?

quartata

@El'endiaStarman Yes.

Alex A.

2:53 AM

@Geobits bird'd

Anonymous

@Doorknob xXx360geobits_noscopexXx

Geobits

@NathanMerrill Across all challenges? Depends, but I'd lean toward no.

quartata

I thought it would be easy because you could just have + and if there wasn't enough args it would add 0 no sweat

VoteToClose

We are not alone.

155

A: The Many Memes of Meta

Meme: Fastest Gun in the West (FGITW) Originator: Omer van Kloeten First Heard: September 11th, 2008 Definition: A problem identified as a side-effect of sorting votes by descending score where first-posted answers are quickly up-voted, trumping vote opportunities for people who sit down and ...

quartata

But the output means it'll output multiple times and I can't think of a way to avoid that

Nathan Merrill

2:53 AM

@Geobits yes. If I do, then I can do magic stuff on each language's specific controller

fgitw != ninja'd

^

@Mego xD0SAL0VRx69x

basically, I can auto-parse the format, and call functions

Anonymous

@AlexA. x420avocad420x

Doorknob

2:54 AM

@NathanMerrill why not "input on STDIN, output on STDOUT"?

Nathan Merrill

also, it would lead to consistency between challenges

@Doorknob it is

Geobits

@NathanMerrill I'm not sure what type of format you mean that would work with everything, though, unless you just mean something very simple like specifying a separator or similar.

VoteToClose

Also, @Downgoat: Related?

Doorknob

or maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying

Anonymous

Use JSON

Alex A.

2:55 AM

@Mego xXxGE0b1Tz420xXx

Doorknob

@Mego s/son/query/i

El'endia Starman

@quartata Hmm, yeah. I thought about using redirection arrows, but concatenation of that will not be straightforward.

Geobits

I like JSON and all, but I'd really rather not have to import it on every KotH answer :/

Alex A.

@Doorknob Jquery

quartata

Now has 7 answers.

Anonymous

2:55 AM

Woohoo 6k on PPCG

Geobits

Sprinting for graduation?

Doorknob

DigitalTrauma is seriously way too good at earning rep

quartata

I can't even format an answer with Markdown in 5 minutes how do you people all answer in 5 minutes

Zizouz212

I'm too good at earning rep

Doorknob

@Doorknob I've been trailing him for the past few months, passing him very occasionally but always getting immediately resurpassed :P

Zizouz212

2:57 AM

That got a star?

Wow people.

VoteToClose

ಠ_ಠ Fine then.

Geobits

@Zizouz212 Too good at it where? Is the 3.7k your highest?

Zizouz212

lol

Nathan Merrill

My idea is that people only have to write functions to submit an answer to the KoTH, my controller will do everything else

(that said, I don't want to prevent those that want to do things through STDIN/STDOUT)

Zizouz212

@Geobits Umm... It was a joke. But the highest for a site is 3.7k. And Jon Skeet has more Great Answer (Answer with +100) badges on SO then I have any badges network-wide.

Nathan Merrill

2:59 AM

so, for example, I would enforce that the name of the current "step" is always passed

Geobits

@Zizouz212 Ah, gotcha. I thought there was something I wasn't seeing. I didn't mean it as an insult or anything ;)

Learning the ropes

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