The Nineteenth Byte

Another CMC: Given 2 inputs, a string and an integer, output the former latter number of times in 1 line. For example, given the input (-,10), the output should be ----------.

TheBitByte

@R.Kap So like (k,6) ----> kkkkkk?

R. Kap

@TheBitByte Yes.

DJMcMayhem

1:19 AM

3 bytes: Àä$

ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΨΠʹ

> Comment: my light-signal router sends a bit every 10 seconds :(

TheBitByte

@ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΨΠʹ LiFi is actually a thing. Internet using photons.

Adnan

05AB1E: ×

DJMcMayhem

v.tryitonline.net/#code=w4DDpCQ&input=aA&args=Nw

ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΨΠʹ

@R.Kap Mathematica, 12 bytes: StringRepeat

Syxer

1:22 AM

@R.Kap Can't try it online, but Vitsy: iViin\[VO]

DerpfacePython

Ummm...

Oh yeah and a torch is T

So a not gate in MineCode would be I-BT-O

Conor O'Brien

The 95% confidence interval suggests Rexthor's dog could also be a cat, or possibly a teapot.

R. Kap

Bash, 26 bytes: printf "$1%.0s" `seq 1 $2`

El'endia Starman

I think I've seen that comic thrice in chat today... :P

DerpfacePython

I have no idea how to code minecode...

It's too hard

R. Kap

1:27 AM

@DerpfacePython That's what everyone says until it's easy.

DerpfacePython

Like, actually create Minecode

I don't know where to start

Conor O'Brien

it's hard? idk

@El'endiaStarman feel free to eleven it :P

with a different comic

trichoplax

OK, last call, has anyone here not posted xkcd 1725 yet today?

chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=1725&room=240

:P

DLosc

@trichoplax Me! Me! I haven't! :D

trichoplax

:)

I see @El'endiaStarman ninjad me...

El'endia Starman

1:33 AM

I wonder how hard it would be to find the least-used words or numbers in TNB...

trichoplax

If you're not in a hurry, I guess quite easy. If you don't want to wait a lifetime, perhaps a little more challenging...

DerpfacePython

Argh :(

DLosc

@El'endiaStarman I'd imagine there are some words that have never been used here.

El'endia Starman

CMC: Find a single word that is used exactly once in all of TNB's transcript. Case insensitive for an extra challenge.

@DLosc That should be relatively easy. The hard part is finding words that have been used, but not often.

trichoplax

@El'endiaStarman I guess if you start with an empty list of character combinations to check, and only add ones you find while going through the transcript, then it wouldn't take too long

El'endia Starman

1:36 AM

@DLosc For instance, quadrupole. Which is a real thing.

DLosc

@El'endiaStarman But the second problem is easily reduceable to the first. Find a word that's never been used and post it in chat. Voila--it's been used only once.

Syxer

@El'endiaStarman petco, case insensitive

trichoplax

@El'endiaStarman Does it have to be a real word? If not it's quite easy

Turtleplax

El'endia Starman

@DLosc Well, that would indeed trivialize it, so it can't include messages after my CMC.

@trichoplax Ha, point. How about a word that would be accepted at Scrabble?

DLosc

@El'endiaStarman Yeah, I guess that's analogous to the "no languages created after the challenge" rule.

trichoplax

1:39 AM

Of course by mentioning the word I've found, I've rendered it no longer unique (already shows up twice in my link)

Syxer

@El'endiaStarman yun, case insensitive

DLosc

Aug 16 at 18:49, by Mego

@flawr I was salivating, but that's because I had just prepared my lunch when the interviewer called.

Well, "salivating."

El'endia Starman

@Syxer Is that a word, though, or is it a name?

Syxer

@El'endiaStarman Fair enough. I didn't see the Scrabble rule

El'endia Starman

@DLosc Looks legit. Congrats! :P

CMC part two: find the shortest such word. Tiebreaker: alphabetical order.

Syxer

1:43 AM

Dec 10 '15 at 20:30, by TimmyD

@Rainbolt If it doesn't list hula-hoop aficionado, I am disappointed

aficionado ^

Aug 22 at 12:45, by Releasing Helium Nuclei

syke!

Syke^

Though more informal to be fair

DerpfacePython

antidisestablishmentarianism?

Syxer

@DerpfacePython Used a few times, as well as pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

DerpfacePython

i18n?

El'endia Starman

@DerpfacePython Not a word.

Syxer

Mar 18 '14 at 18:23, by Jonathan Van Matre

oh, pish

Pish

DerpfacePython

1:46 AM

Fine, internationalis(z)ation

Syxer

(in the dictionary)

DerpfacePython

Both spellings.

El'endia Starman

@Syxer Ooh, nice. How are you searching for these?

Syxer

chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=pish&user=&room=240

Using dated and esoteric terms.

DLosc

Not a winner at this point, but the quote is fun: apotheosis

Dec 19 '14 at 20:33, by Eric Tressler

it is the apotheosis of all cats

Destructible Watermelon

1:50 AM

I think I made a pretty nice dream pic

Conor O'Brien

not bad actually

Destructible Watermelon

I made it by grabbing some identicons, pasting them together and using it as the guide

Conor O'Brien

noice

Destructible Watermelon

hey, what if I used deep dream on this chatroom?

DerpfacePython

@DestructibleWatermelon Who's identicons did you grab?

Destructible Watermelon

1:54 AM

yours, Rohans, cold golf, some other guy

DerpfacePython

I think one is ColdGolf's

Wait mine?

Wot

Destructible Watermelon

top left

I just grabbed the first 4 I saw

DerpfacePython

Ah

DLosc

DerpfacePython

That's weird... mine in my screen looks like this: imgur.com/a/TvV8M

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

1:56 AM

Wow the deam dream stuff is still being posted

DLosc

It took this long to finish generating the images we started way back when. :P

Destructible Watermelon

~15 minutes and we'll have another cool one

anyone here like square root of minus garfield?

/ sqrt(-garfield)

El'endia Starman

@DestructibleWatermelon Does this mean you read Irregular Webcomic! ?

Destructible Watermelon

sometimes

El'endia Starman

How about Darths And Droids?

Destructible Watermelon

1:59 AM

yes

DerpfacePython

Hello

Wait what... my icon is still the identicon thing

Destructible Watermelon

have you seen the sqrt(-garfield) I made?

DerpfacePython

Where is it

Destructible Watermelon

it takes a bit

If you want us to see a lot, post a link to your main profile

El'endia Starman

I probably haven't, since I don't read \sqrt{-garfield}. :P

@DerpfacePython Yeah, both here and on your chat profile.

Destructible Watermelon

2:00 AM

here is mine!

why is the link not working

._.

ok, there we go

El'endia Starman

Needed the http:// in front.

trichoplax

@DerpfacePython Better?

Destructible Watermelon

my dream is still on 2% ಠ_ಠ

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DerpfacePython

@trichoplax ?

trichoplax

2:04 AM

I refreshed your profile. Now I see a robot duck as your avatar

DerpfacePython

A robot duck?

It's meant to be a Minecraft chicken.

trichoplax

A granite duck?

DerpfacePython

But whatevs.

trichoplax

Does it show here for you now?

DerpfacePython

Yeah.

It works now.

trichoplax

2:05 AM

Great :)

DerpfacePython

WOOT!

Destructible Watermelon

I will deep dream your avatar as soon as the current one is done

trichoplax

@DerpfacePython Sorry about the confusion - now that I zoom in I can see from the wattle that it's a chicken

Destructible Watermelon

41% dreamed

also this is one of my favourite √-garfield

why so small...

also this one

some people deep dreams have finished now, if you want to check if yours is and post

El'endia Starman

@DestructibleWatermelon Can you put them into an Imgur album?

Destructible Watermelon

2:14 AM

my deep dreams?

also, I was referring to the fact that there was only my dream in the queue

DLosc

@El'endiaStarman This probably doesn't count because it's an artifact of Markdown, but: eft

Jul 11 at 6:34, by Downgoat

whose brilliant idea was it to make l go right and not left

Destructible Watermelon

chat with the identicon guide

original

DLosc

@DestructibleWatermelon This makes me think of Andy Warhol paintings

Destructible Watermelon

Ok, I need a new guide image

El'endia Starman

Reparsing the transcript again to catch those 1-starred messages and also record the ones that are deleted. Hopefully, the main optimization I made (retrieve message IDs ahead of time to avoid searching the database to see if a new message is in there) will make it go by much faster.

Helka Homba

2:20 AM

Destructible Watermelon

k thanks

El'endia Starman

@quartata: Also, I've moved it to a private Postgres instance, so I'll be able to install fuzzystrmatch.

Destructible Watermelon

making the dream

quartata

2:36 AM

@El'endiaStarman Thanks. That should help me diagnose my bugs and play with this stuff a little easier

I hope it wasn't too big of an inconvenience

El'endia Starman

Not really, no, just something I had to do sooner or later.

DLosc

There are lots of words that are in the chat transcript twice. X^(

Destructible Watermelon

guess who?

El'endia Starman

It's da chicken!

DLosc

Those Hobbeses, tho... 0_0

@El'endiaStarman Do the words in the chat transcript have to be used as words in the posts they come from?

El'endia Starman

2:45 AM

@DLosc Uh...yes? What do you have?

DLosc

Lox:

Feb 18 at 22:54, by El'endia Starman

1~12$:;56*[i53*$:1-0c*99*[di39*$:2-+048*[d$~2`9&d*2c+]02@ik" "+Oxx]lOx].

Or should I say lOx.

El'endia Starman

LOL.

Fun fact: that's a Minkolang program for drawing the Mandelbrot set in ASCII. :D

DLosc

Ooh! Running it now...

It looks like it takes a command-line argument--what does that input control?

El'endia Starman

Lemme check. It's old code, after all.

Nope, works as intended.

Nathan Merrill

Language design problem: lets say I have a function with two optional parameters parameters: def func(a=someVal, b=a.property)

El'endia Starman

2:51 AM

@NathanMerrill This will be possible in Pytek.

Nathan Merrill

referencing other params?

El'endia Starman

Yup.

Nathan Merrill

can you reference later params?

def func(a=b.prop, b=someVal)?

El'endia Starman

Depends on the order they're parsed, at the moment. I think that should work once I implement that feature where variables don't have to be fully defined until they're needed.

DLosc

@HelkaHomba A photo of a path through woods, DeepStyled a la Calvin and Hobbes.

Nathan Merrill

2:55 AM

@El'endiaStarman hmm...that requires cycle detection

given, it's not a tree, its just a linked list

actually, that's not true either

its a tree, but not a graph

El'endia Starman

I won't need cycle detection. My plan is to keep a list of variables that haven't been fully defined yet along with what variables they need defined, and reevaluate them when any of those have been defined.

Nathan Merrill

and if they never get defined?

El'endia Starman

I guess I'll have an error message for them.

Nathan Merrill

that's a really tough error message to make readable

El'endia Starman

Stuff like printing will require that variables be defined, so they have to be fully defined by then.

Nathan Merrill

2:58 AM

"Additional parameter required"?

El'endia Starman

@NathanMerrill NotFullyDefinedVariable: variable x was not fully defined; missing values for a, y, k

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