The Nineteenth Byte

@Maltysen Because those can't be compressed in BB96

Sherlock9

I missed. By 60 rep

Ah well. Goodnight

It just won't work

I'll probably replace bb96 with shoco though so maybe then

@Sherlock9 night!

@Dennis Can you pull Cinnamon Gum one last time?

A: How should we handle "Identify this list of things" questions?

12:09 AM

I'm in a fight with Gaming.se!

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These kind of questions are ok As long as everything in the "list of things" has the same context or source (asking about completely random things would get messy), and as long as the as the user asking has done some basic research (like a google image search) and not found answers elsewhere. S...

(Is this what it feels like to have a PPCG question closed for a seemingly weird rule?)

@HelkaHomba should we go and raid them? ;P

@quartata <insert joke about eating gum>

the last page of my essay literally has one word

Insignificant

Just take out a word elsewhere

@Doorknob golf it

12:15 AM

Change the margin size.

There are requirements for all the fonts and margins and stuff :P

But I golfed it

write it in cinnamon gum

NinjaBearMonkey

@Doorknob Is that LaTeX?

@Maltysen #randomthought

@NinjaBearMonkey yep

12:16 AM

@NinjaBearMonkey You know it, son

sample_strata <- function(data, stvar, sizes) {
    do.call(rbind, lapply(unique(data[[stvar]]), function(x) {
        data[sample(which(data[[stvar]] == x), sizes[[x]]), ]
    }))
}

Neat little R function for stratified random sampling of a data frame

@Doorknob If somebody actually measures the margins, prepare your trout. Ridiculous requirements are ridiculous.

@Dennis My history teacher: "If your margins don't look like the right size, I'll get out my ruler and measure them." >_>

I once made an essay for a community college course on colonial American history long enough for the page requirement by pulling in the margins and using a big font. .-.

@Doorknob cut off a bit from the edge of his ruler

@AlexA. I have the opposite problem. I'm still ~200 words over the limit...

@Maltysen hahaha

12:18 AM

@Doorknob Tell him that you asked me, and I said it was OK. That should do it.

@Doorknob You're lucky. I never had much to say about colonial American history. :P

I wish I had the problem of too many words in my essay writing days

@Dennis ok, I'm sure my history teacher wouldn't dare argue with Dennis

"I asked a Jelly-writer. He said was OK."

Hey so this adult male stranger on the Internet told me it's okay to change the margins and he told me to threaten you with a trout

Whenever I cannot write enough words, I always repeat myself in subtle ways and make it seem like it is adding to the point although it really isn't. None of my teachers have noticed yet.

12:20 AM

s/have noticed yet/care/

@AlexA. And add a link to that chat message

I just figured out how @Geobits made that Japoreon thing

@GamrCorps Whenever I cannot write enough words, in cases where the words that I write are under the requirement, I always repeat myself in subtle ways. By saying things redundantly and saying the same thing twice with different wording, I make it seem like it is adding to the point. I can create the appearance of contributing to the essay, although it really isn't. None of my teachers have noticed yet. I've done this several times, and when I turn in the essay, it appears to go unnoticed.

ungolfed that for you :P

@HelkaHomba I started that....

12:22 AM

@Doorknob hahahaha

@GamrCorps I love the word "aforementioned"

^

^

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Definitely thought this was a pixelated marijuana leaf at first >_>

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literal LOL thanks

12:23 AM

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@AlexA. And you would have experience with that?

@HelkaHomba rofl

@EasterlyIrk he lives in Washington... :P

</stereotype>

TIL

@Doorknob lives in WA/has been to college

Ok, I'll stop

12:26 AM

@HelkaHomba College in Washington, no less

I'm done now:

rofl

@EasterlyIrk 四百二十燃やせ。

wtf?

has googled makes more sense no

(But no, I'm not a consumer of the ganj.)

12:32 AM

good, i think

I'm dying XD

that looks looks stupider than all the others combined

@EasterlyIrk idk bout that. that pink thing was pretty bad

Yellow is stupider.

@Maltysen I've always meant to ask; what is your profile picture?

12:36 AM

^

^

@quartata Gadzooks

from Last Dragon Chronicles

What did I just walk into ._.

Alright, I just went through the "Welcome to PPCG!" post again. Here is a link: stackedit.io/… I'm planning on posting it after the election is over.

12:39 AM

Please notify me if you guys have any improvement before it is posted

^^ apparently is maltysen

^

Ok then...

@GamrCorps I'll have a look a little later. Thanks for doing this!

^

12:41 AM

You are very welcome. Oh @AlexA., I will need a mod to CW-ify it after it is posted as well, just for a heads-up

Mods can still CW questions?

wassup with the formatting on: "Make sure your answer does not violate one of our"

where?

@Maltysen its just StackEdit, it likes to justify text

@GamrCorps

> We also have a meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/2140/… for you to use

12:45 AM

did you mention not to do specific languages?

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Q: Double-duty quine

Write a program that will output its own source code when run, and nothing else. Seems easy, right? The catch is that when the source code is reversed, your program must output "Hello, World!" exactly, without the quotes. This is code-golf, so lowest byte count wins.

try "We also have a Sandbox for you to use "

@GamrCorps A quick difficulty check places that at a 9th grade reading level. Coupled with the fact that it's... well... long... I think there are ways that are a lot more effective at getting the point across. I mean, it's over a thousand words. Who's going to take the time to read all of that? Especially if English is your second language and you're expected to be able to read at a 9th grade level.

Sorry but pokemon.alexonsager.net/149/131 looks cool

The more words you put on a page, the less of them people will read.

12:46 AM

@EasterlyIrk Oh shoot, forgot to publish again. Refresh and it should be good.

@HelkaHomba pokemon.alexonsager.net/146/131

Same link?

@Maltysen Elaborate, I don't know what you mean.

@HelkaHomba oops

fixed

Also cool: images.alexonsager.net/pokemon/fused/15/15.114.png

@Doorknob That is true, but the FAQ is worse to sift through and does not contain all of the basic info.

12:49 AM

@AlexA. Pokemon Found

pokemon.alexonsager.net/22/21

@Doorknob we'll see what happens, if it doesn't help in the long run, oh well at least we tried.

I really think a lot of that should be slashed entirely

> Here is some information to help you get started and to make your work with this site a pleasant experience for you and all other users.

like this, cut that out of the page

@GamrCorps I'll take a close look at this in a bit.

overall it looks good though.

PhiNotPi

@EasterlyIrk pokemon.alexonsager.net/108/26

12:59 AM

There, taxes filed! I should be getting about $71 sooner or later... :P

@EasterlyIrk Of course

@GamrCorps Can do

@PhiNotPi "Lickichu" :P

In a jsfiddle wheres the link to the fullscreen version?

The "Share" button where it used to be no longer exists

Well, it's https://jsfiddle.net/USERNAME/FIDDLEID/embedded/result/ in case anyone else wondered

Here are all 22801 Pokemporphs! Warning: may crash browser.

@HelkaHomba Yeah, I ain't clickin' that. :P

@HelkaHomba Did you do a for/while loop?

1:15 AM

yes

nested

ugh

I can fix that

151 at a time might be more manageable :P

@HelkaHomba 4/10 warning not bold enough. Clicked and crashed my browser

@GamrCorps Hmm. Started reading and already I'm seeing a lot of stuff that can be culled. Like Doorknob said, the more words you have, the less people read (and the less likely they are to read). I'll start editing it on my computer.

1:26 AM

This one should work

@El'endiaStarman I agree that a lot of it could be cut, if you would like to edit it, that would be awesome. Here is the gist: gist.github.com/GamrCorps/d3b8b180257b1c9ef12292c122b0e732

@GamrCorps I will, of course, preserve the spirit of your contribution. :)

Go ahead and make any improvements, I am open to suggestions, but thanks anyway for, as you say, "preserving the spirit" :P

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ that does not render correctly on my browser, si taht suppoesd to happen?

@Downgoat What browser? Also, screenshot?

Errors?

1:31 AM

No, that's correct.

It's missingno crossed with certain pokemon

POLL: What other things should Cinnamon Gum (my fork of Bubblegum) have? Right now it has lookup table (which is the most useful), printf style format string, and I'm going to add treating the compressed string as a regex.

missingno?

@Downgoat the first one

oh ok

1:32 AM

@quartata a command that beats jelly programs

Anyone here good with SEDE

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I think he meant things that aren't impossible

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ yeah, kinda

New Sandboxed Posts

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Find the area of a polygon Given side lengths s1, s2, s3... s_n of an n-gon inscribed in a circle, find its area. You may assume that such a polygon will always exist and be unique.* Test cases: 5 7 8 --> 17.320508075688775 5 7 8 9 --> 192.18277433214456 (more coming soon) *I think that give...

@Downgoat ]oh

@Downgoat Where can I learn it?

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ :/

@quartata How about box-drawing tools?

1:33 AM

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ it's just SQL

@Downgoat where can I learn that?

gee thanks

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Perhaps. I'm really mostly looking for ways of doing useful things to the decompressed string

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Try this: home.jtan.com/~cellio/sede/tutorial.html

1:34 AM

w3schools.com/sql

that will give you a basic intro

ಠ_ಠ

@El'endiaStarman thanks!

@quartata How about compressing a string?

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ was that to my message?

@Downgoat Yes. w3 is terrible

do you mean w3schools or did you just dis the world wide web?

The former >_>

1:36 AM

ಠ_ಠ

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Uh..? Seems like it kinda defeats the purpose

@quartata ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@El'endiaStarman oh, hey, I'm in the results there :P

@quartata s/purpose/porpiose/

baui

1:37 AM

baui?

Do we have a "this is what on-topic means" Meta post? (We should.) If so, link?

@El'endiaStarman Help Center?

@El'endiaStarman codegolf.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic

codegolf.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic

ninja'd

@Doorknob Eh, good enough.

A: Code Golf: Create a string of 100 of the same character

1:47 AM

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Lua: 109 I'm surprised this answer took this long to appear :D. print("aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa")

why is this the most upvoted answer

ah 2014

It just got another upvote. Hilarious

...and another

though it's not a serious solution and should be deleted according to the rules

...but it's a terrible answer

Don't complain in chat. Flag as not a serious contender.

33 secs ago, by Downgoat

though it's not a serious solution and should be deleted according to the rules

@Dennis I did

I did, but I just thought it was amusing and wanted to share it. I didn't expect it to backfire like that...

@QPaysTaxes All answers must be golfed and be considered competitive

1:51 AM

@QPaysTaxes codegolf.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic

All solutions to challenges should:

Correctly implement the required specification.
Be a serious contender for the winning criteria in use. For example, an entry to a code golf contest needs to be golfed, and an entry to a speed contest should make some attempt to be fast.

@QPaysTaxes Custom

Aaaaaaand it's gone.

@AlexA. \o/

@QPaysTaxes Dennis is a cartoon character, not a gun

metonymy

Noun: metonymy ‎(countable and uncountable, plural metonymies)

The use of a single characteristic or name of an object to identify an entire object or related object.
(countable) A metonym.

Huh. TIL a new word.

@QPaysTaxes it was yolk

@AlexA. It's a nice word.

1:56 AM

Yeah

XD

should I accept answers on Meta (where community consensus rules)?

@QPaysTaxes That'll get you through college without a problem. :P

(If you haven't gone through already.)

I'm thinking no, but I'm unsure

@NathanMerrill Sure. It just shows that is what you the poster agree with.

@NathanMerrill If one of the answers represents a clear consensus, yes. That way, it rises to the top, no matter what sorting the reader uses.

1:57 AM

@quartata that's a bit unfair, as people are more likely to vote for the accepted answer

@quartata Not necessarily. You can post a question and get an answer you don't like

@NathanMerrill Well, they shouldn't do that

but it dominates in terms of public opinion

@AlexA. I was under the impression that on meta the checkmark merely indicated the question asker's opinion and nothing else

@quartata but they do, so I'd be trying to enforce my opinion (to a limited degree of effectiveness)

1:58 AM

@NathanMerrill If the question has been around for a while and isn't attracting a lot of new attention, it's probably fine to assume that the vote breakdowns will remain approximately the same.

we often like posting answers on older questions (whose users are no longer around)

@quartata When you're after community consensus, the accepted answer should be whatever the community's popular opinion is.

IMO anyway

@AlexA. ok