The Nineteenth Byte

2:00 PM

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Write a polyglot (a program that works on several languages) that produces the // this is a comment output. Example (JS + Plain PHP + Plain HTML) (74 / 3 = 24.66 points) // this is a comment<?php ob_start();?><!-- alert("// this is a comment"); Another Example (CoffeeScript + CJam + brainfuck...

zyabin101

zyabin101-is-the-correct-spelling

mınxomaτ

At this rate @MartinBüttner will reach 80k rep in about 7.6 days.

And 100k in 4.3 months.

zyabin101

@mınxomaτ How to calculate?

mınxomaτ

He's going at about 157.82 rep/day.

Geobits

Slacker

zyabin101

2:13 PM

How much he has earned in 2015?

mınxomaτ

I just took the last ~20 samples.

Which includes one day of +415 and several below 50.

University of Alabama did release a paper analyzing reputation on SO.

New Main Posts

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Q: Golf a string twister

How strings are twisted The twisting algorithm is very simple. Each column is shifted down by its index (col 0 moves down 0, col 1 moves 1, ...). The column shift wraps to the top. It kinda looks like this: a ba cba ---- cba cb c With everything under the line wrapping to the top. Real ...

zyabin101

3:25 PM

<BUMP>: chat ees ded again

no big surprise

trichoplax

We're all still here just waiting silently

zyabin101

@trichoplax For what?

Rainbolt

I'm waiting for Geobits to make a joke

Katenkyo

@Rainbolt To star it?

zyabin101

New Main Post? New Sandboxed Post? Daily Discord Chat? Alex Being Wrong?... ah someone already answered that.

Rainbolt

3:28 PM

To laugh and to star

Geobits

I don't make jokes, I find them. You guys aren't being funny enough yet.

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Rainbolt

That sounds very Shakespearian

Katenkyo

And here goes the stars !

Geobits

Wow, that was easy.

Rainbolt

To laugh and to star - oh how thy jokes tickle me!

trichoplax

3:30 PM

3 mins ago, by trichoplax

We're all still here just waiting silently

I said this as a joke. Never expected it to turn out to be true...

Rainbolt

I thought you were about to say "I said this as a joke. Got zero stars :("

trichoplax

Lol definitely wasn't expecting stars for it :)

Geobits

Quick question: My dog has found some fleas recently, and they're being a pain in the ass. Does anyone know if diatomaceous earth actually works? It sounds kinda like one of those "super non-toxic home remedies" that isn't going to work at first glance.

trichoplax

I'd go with a toxic remedy

Rainbolt

Dad always dipped our dog when it got fleas. But we had likes ten ranch dogs so it made the process of filling up a tub full of whatever worth it.

And it always worked

Tub full of water -> mix in pyrethrin dip (you can buy it at wal mart) -> submerge all but the dog's head and hold him there for a while

And do NOT do it inside

Geobits

3:35 PM

Hmm. My main issue isn't really the fleas on the dog. I can kill those. It's the ones in the house/yard that I'm having trouble eradicating.

Their life cycle is irritatingly resilient.

trichoplax

If you keep the dog out of the house and yard all the fleas will die out within 6 months

Geobits

>_>

Katenkyo

@trichoplax do you really think it's a possible solution?

trichoplax

Yeah, I have no idea how a parasite evolved to be so persistent - you'd think they'd need a host...

Geobits

Ok, pup. Time to go live on the roof for a few months! :D

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trichoplax

3:36 PM

@Katenkyo It's a guaranteed solution, it's just horribly impractical

Katenkyo

@trichoplax that's what i meant when I (implicitly) said it wasn't possible. At this point, you could just say you're leaving your dog

Geobits

@trichoplax I hear bedbugs are worse, and can sometimes go a bit over a year without feeding.

Rainbolt

Cast Path to Exile, targeting Geobits's dog. In six months, cast Pull from Eternity, targeting Geobits's dog.

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Katenkyo

@Geobits I thought only things like alligator or so didn't have to be fed for an extended amount of time Oo

Geobits

@Rainbolt And I even get a basic land as a bonus. Nice!

zyabin101

3:39 PM

@Rainbolt You must start the game first.

Geobits

The game is neverending.

Katenkyo

@Geobits But shuffling your library could be a pain in the ass if you have a lot of books

Rainbolt

Lol

Geobits

I lost most of my books to a fire hose a couple years back. Mostly Kindle now.

zyabin101

@Geobits It should end someday.

Rainbolt

3:40 PM

Some planeswalkers live forever

Sorin Markov is a couple thousand years old, and still quite young

Geobits

Lord DeRosso is a couple thousand years old, too.

Rainbolt

I've never heard of this game, "Bravely Default"

Katenkyo

@Rainbolt It's one of the sweetest RPG that came out in the past few years

The second opus (Bravely Second) is about to come out in Europe

@Geobits Oh... I feel pretty sad for you there. I have (and will) always preferred paper over numerical books

Geobits

@Katenkyo I do, too, for the most part. It would be quite expensive to replace them all at this point, though.

Kindle is quite nice for traveling, though.

Katenkyo

@Geobits Haha, I agree, if mine was about to burn, It would cost me a few thousands to replace it...

(I think I would lie down on the floor while crying)

Geobits

3:47 PM

Yea, the only ones left were the ones scattered around the house. The area I actually had shelves full got drenched :(

My kid's room was spared, though, so all his books were fine.

Katenkyo

@Geobits being lazy about putting them back on the shelves actually saved some ^^

zyabin101

@Geobits I, inversely, have a lot of books.

I'm going about a series of Yu-Gi-Oh cards based on actual PPCG users. Who would follow it?

New Sandboxed Posts

4:04 PM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

What language is this word written in? Your should write a program or function that determines the language of a given word. You should recognize the 5000 most common words in 4 languages: English German Italian Hungarian Details The lists only contain words with lowercase letters a-z so ...

Rainbolt

@zyabin101 I made a card of Martin but it has since been removed mtgcardsmith.com/view/cards_ip/1447777823119838.png

I do love their custom 404 screen though

You get a new if you refresh

zyabin101

@Rainbolt It's a Magic card, and I'm making a Yu-Gi-Oh series.

Rainbolt

Oh, sorry. Thought the two were related. Forgive me.

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Roujo

Yeah, I'd say they're pretty similar projects =/

zyabin101

@NewSandboxedPosts @randomra should use a test battery system: get the most words correctly aligned with the natural languages to win.

Rainbolt

4:11 PM

Good morning west coast friends!

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Hey all

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Q: Write a program to output the nth fibonacci number in quinary

Quinary is like binary, except that 1 is represented by the text of the program, and 0 is represented as the backwards text of the program. The Fibonacci Sequence is the well known sequence F(0) = 0, F(1) = 1, F(n) = F(n - 1) + F(n - 2) Write a program that takes some input n and outputs the n...

code-golf quine fibonacci

zyabin101

@Rainbolt I'm in the east coast, because in Russia it's night. :(

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There are only 4 answers???

zyabin101

@ՊՓԼՃՐՊՃՈԲՍԼ hi

SirDarius

hey, just found out something pretty interesting: https://github.com/martinkirsche/wired-logic
that could be a pretty interesting basis for challenges :)

randomra

4:13 PM

@zyabin101 you can do that almost perfectly with long programs

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Woohoo, 10 stars! github.com/molarmanful/ESMin

zyabin101

@randomra Then limit the script size to, say, 1024 bytes. Or for a challenge, 50 or 100 bytes.

@ՊՓԼՃՐՊՃՈԲՍԼ 11 stars!

12 stars!

Zgarb

@SirDarius It reminds me of this game.

zyabin101

@Zgarb On my PC, it's very slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo‌oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow. Time to switch into Powder Toy.

SirDarius

yet it's quite different, wired-logic is about writing "programs" as an image, and the output is an animated gif :)

PhiNotPi

4:25 PM

Wired-logic more similar to wireworld.

primo

4:50 PM

@Doorknob thanks :D

mınxomaτ

How come we don't have a CHIP-8 emulator challenge yet. to the sandbox!

zyabin101

@primo You are welcome! Happy 20k rep primo! ~~Doorknob

thanks :D ~~primo

So, for most users this message has risen above the screen.

57 mins ago, by zyabin101

I'm going about a series of Yu-Gi-Oh cards based on actual PPCG users. Who would follow it?

undergroundmonorail

i think the response you're likely to get here is "MTG or go home"

i don't have a horse in this race, i haven't played magic in ages

zyabin101

@undergroundmonorail Why are people loving Magic instead of Yu-Gi-Oh?

undergroundmonorail

my guess is because it's a better game ;) i'm jk i actually don't even know how to play ygo

Roujo

5:01 PM

@zyabin101 Different tastes, I guess. It's usually marketed to an older audience than Yu-Gi-Oh's, so maybe that's why as well

Anonymous

MtG's rules make sense. YGO's rules are a clusterfuck.

Roujo

I personally enjoy Magic more than I enjoyed YGO back when I was playing it - more depth, from what I've found

Although that was a long time ago

Rainbolt

MTG has over 2000 rules though, and five levels of judges

undergroundmonorail

i'd argue "MtG's rules are consistent" is more accurate than "makes sense"

Anonymous

Sure, but they're consistent and logical

undergroundmonorail

5:03 PM

to a certain extent they make sense but very few people actually understand them completely

i've done judge qualification practice testing (for fun, not with any desire to become a judge) and that shit's fuckin' hard

Roujo

The good thing is, they mostly don't have to. Playing with my friends, the house-made ruling that made sense to us usually wasn't very far from the way the rules actually worked

Anonymous

YGO requires constant official arbitration every time new cards are released because the rules are incapable of describing a unique, consistent outcome for every card interaction.

Roujo

Except in really complicated situations, mind you

Rainbolt

@Roujo If you play with modern cards, that's almost always the case

They know how to word cards such that the logical conclusion is mostly the right one

Roujo

@Rainbolt Yup, and that's the point ^^

Anonymous

5:05 PM

The rules are either like "i dunno man" or "one of these 3 things happens"

zyabin101

I'm going about a series of Magic: the Gathering cards based on actual PPCG users. ʘ_͝ʘ Who would follow it?

Roujo

@zyabin101 I would ^^

Rainbolt

Define "follow". Look at when I get to work in the morning: sure, count me in.

Roujo

I'd be interested in a YGO series as well, although less so since I don't play anymore

Also, what Rainbolt said

Anonymous

tbh I think Munchkin would be more appropriate for us

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Roujo

5:06 PM

Heh =P

Rainbolt

gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=74306

Anonymous

What with the rules-lawyering and such

zyabin101

@Rainbolt this

Rainbolt

My friend has an entire pile of cheatyfaces and he uses them as tokens

undergroundmonorail

Behold: my favourite example to show people who say "magic rules can't be that hard"

what happens

I used to actually know the answer, too :P

mınxomaτ

5:09 PM

ugh, github import is sloooow....

Anonymous

Depends on the order played

Roujo

@undergroundmonorail Fun happens! =D

Anonymous

Actually I don't think the order matters

Rainbolt

Type changing effect from Opalescence applies in layer 4.
Ability losing effect from Humility happens in layer 6.
Power and toughness setting effect from Humility applies in layer 7b.
Result: Every enchantment is a 1/1 with no abilities.

Whoops

Anonymous

^ what I was typing :P

Rainbolt

5:10 PM

Humility loses it's ability before we get to 7b

Now I don't know

zyabin101

@Roujo Okay, you're in. 2 followers left, and 3 avid users (200 rep minimum) needed to follow.

undergroundmonorail

why do you care dawg

Nathan Merrill

survey: when playing mafia, do you lynch the player with the majority (51% or more), or with the most votes?

undergroundmonorail

would it be fun to make cards with ppcg users? iff so, do it

Anonymous

@NathanMerrill Most votes

undergroundmonorail

5:12 PM

Most votes BUT it's very important that "no lynch" is a valid vote target

Anonymous

Well, actually, it depends

undergroundmonorail

I'm assuming most vanilla possible rules

Anonymous

I've played IRL games where there's a distinct voting period, and at the end of it, player with most votes gets lynched

Nathan Merrill

I do most votes, but apparently mafiascum (top mafia site) does majority

but it sounds like most votes is preferred

how do you guys handle ties?

neither?

undergroundmonorail

DEpends

Anonymous

5:13 PM

And I've also played IRC games where voting can happen anytime, and it's the first player to majority (or no lynch if enough people vote NL that a single player cannot have a majority)

Nathan Merrill

@Mego I don't want an infinite voting round

Anonymous

For ties, either run-off voting or flip a coin/die roll

Nathan Merrill

bots don't get impatient

what do you mean by "run-off"?

Rainbolt

Top two vote off I think

Anonymous

Everybody votes among the tied players

Rainbolt

5:14 PM

Couldn't that still result in a tie?

Anonymous

Possibly

Rainbolt

Votes are 5 4 3, so we vote off against the 5 and the 4 (and the guy who got 3 is safe). They tie again at 6 6

Anonymous

If it doesn't reduce the number of options, go random

Anonymous

5 4 3 isn't a tie

Rainbolt

Oh, I know!

Introduce a Seer, who can predict the death of tied votes

You have to add another "head's down" moment though

Nathan Merrill

5:16 PM

I think I'm going to do no-lynch

Anonymous

Run-off voting is used for games where you lynch the person with the most votes

Rainbolt

I guess that doesn't work if your Seer dies

undergroundmonorail

The ways I play:
- The day doesn't end until everyone's voted. If there's a tie, you wait.
- The day is a fixed length of time (usually it's actually 24 hours). If there's a tie, all tied for the top spot die. This is almost always bad for the village so it's an incentive to get their shit together, but also makes for interesting counterplay where mafia can try to keep the votes near a tie and tie it up just before the clock strikes. I've been the mafioso for that and it was Good Times

Nathan Merrill

thanks guys

Anonymous

So if you had 5 5 2, you'd do a runoff between the 5's. If they were still tied, a random one dies.

Nathan Merrill

5:17 PM

wait, multiple votes is bad for the village?

Rainbolt

Multiple deaths is bad

Nathan Merrill

wouldn't no votes be bad for the village?

Anonymous

If you had 3 3 3 1, and after the first runoff you had 4 4 2, you'd do another runoff between the 4s

Anonymous

(or roll at that point)

undergroundmonorail

It's really unlikely that you hit two mafia, so a tied vote is almost always a second (untargeted) mafia kill.

zyabin101

5:18 PM

So, I'm still taking definitions for my Magic series based on PPCG users. Who is following it? (Not Rainbolt, he definitely doesn't know anything about Area 51. Roujo is the only follower currently.)

undergroundmonorail

> Rainbolt doesn't know about Area 51

Sure thing, 39 network rep :P

Nathan Merrill

@undergroundmonorail right, but the majority of games the villagers don't ever know who the mafia is

so shooting around in the dark is better than a guaranteed night villager kill

zyabin101

13 mins ago, by Rainbolt

Define "follow". Look at when I get to work in the morning: sure, count me in.

undergroundmonorail

It's been a while since I had an excuse to think about Mafia theory, this is exciting :)

Anonymous

@NathanMerrill If that's a concern, give the villagers a little more power, in the form of cops

Anonymous

5:20 PM

Or other PRs

Nathan Merrill

there will be one cop

and one doctor

I want to do a more complicated game

(and more balanced)

but figured that I should stick to the standard right now

Anonymous

1c1d2m5t?

undergroundmonorail

I've played some fucking cool Mafia games

Nathan Merrill

3 villagers

undergroundmonorail

I've played Mafia games with skill trees. God it was so dope

Nathan Merrill

5:21 PM

7 player games

zyabin101

I can't play Mafia right now, because I'm too young.

Rainbolt

My partner was narrating a game once and he said something like "An old lady was ripped to shreds by a Werewolf." and he was talking about my grandmother. To this day she let's him have it for calling her an old lady.

Anonymous

How are your townies losing with a cop and doc in 7p2m? Are they licking the windows instead of hunting mafia?

Anonymous

With that kind of town power, the mafia should never win

Nathan Merrill

it only slightly favors the townies

the turn 1 cop declare can be countered with another cop declare

Anonymous

5:24 PM

You don't declare cop unless you have a maf read

Nathan Merrill

which is easy if you are a mafia

Anonymous

Then you lynch the maf read, and if they flip town you lynch the "cop"

Nathan Merrill

right, you have two mafia

first one declares cop turn 2 or so

lynches the other mafia

everybody trusts you

Anonymous

Then the real cop would counter-claim

Nathan Merrill

kill away :)

undergroundmonorail

5:25 PM

My first game on the site I used to play on was based on Skies of Arcadia.

I was on one of the two mafia teams. Everyone had a certain amount of gold with which to upgrade their ship and buy items. The normal rules were all there: Village votes to lynch, mafia gets a kill, etc. But also *every player* had their own ship that could attack others. In the same way a vig often gets a following that works together to hide the vig's identity, we had squads that would work on their builds together and then choose someone to all attack that night and almost certainly kill, and losing any one of th…

Anonymous

So you'd end up lynching one of the cop claims, 50/50 maf

Nathan Merrill

but the cop investigates in the night

Rainbolt

If you actually think through the entire game with logic then it becomes about as pointless as playing War with cards

Anonymous

I mean one of the two people claiming to be cops

undergroundmonorail

And these weren't like 7p2m or whatever, these were like 40-50 player games

Anonymous

5:27 PM

The only way mafia can get away with claiming cop is if they kill the real cop the first night, and they have no way of knowing if they did or if the cop is just staying undercover

Nathan Merrill

@Mego in larger games, that's true, but 7 people isn't that many

also, the Doctor prevents lynching

undergroundmonorail

@NathanMerrill I have played a lot of this gametype, Mego has the strat down

Anonymous

The doctor prevents nightkills, not lynches

undergroundmonorail

it's not even really that fun of a gametype any more because the strategy is so set in stone that you rarely get a chance to deviate

imo of course

Anonymous

That's why I like to mix it up with fun roles

Nathan Merrill

5:30 PM

@Mego then that is why you are getting townie wins

Anonymous

Godfather: mafia that cops get a town result on

undergroundmonorail

A really fun PR that only works online (real time games, not forum) is someone who, each night, may choose someone to arm. That person gets a gun that must be fired or the day won't end. At any point in the day, they choose a target, and bang. They are dead, immediately. No second chances, no last words. The day does not end. The shooter's identity is not revealed. Enjoy the paranoia :)

Anonymous

Serial Killer: unaligned third party that wins if they are the last person with a kill alive

undergroundmonorail

did you know: no serial killer has ever won

if you pull SK you are basically done. have fun.

Anonymous

Crazed Fiend: serial killer that can only kill once

Anonymous

5:32 PM

You can win as SK if the rest of the players don't realize there's an SK, and just think it's tvm

TimmyD

I played a variation back in college that was built into a custom Warcraft III map -- one of the villagers would turn into a werewolf during the night cycle. The werewolf had ridiculous stats and was tasked with destroying buildings, killing sheep, etc. If the werewolf was able to find and kill a villager, that villager would turn into another werewolf two nights later. Every daybreak was a vote to find the werewolf.

undergroundmonorail

I forget the flavour but I once played as someone who could visit another player in the night. I could talk to them but they didn't know my identity, and anything else they were supposed to be able to do (talk to teammates, take actions) couldn't be done. Pretty fun.

Nathan Merrill

ok, perhaps I do Matrix6?

wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php?title=Matrix6

undergroundmonorail

I've heard of games like this, that are fun to hear about but sound like they would just be frustrating to play: No mafia, host rolls a die to choose who croaks. Town wins if they figure out that they're being fucked with before the game is over.

TimmyD

Hah.

That's evil.

Anonymous

5:37 PM

@NathanMerrill I would stay away from RB setups with new players. RB adds a ton of power and confusion.

VoteToClose

@isaacg How do we use the Server-Safe mode on Pyth?

Anonymous

Column A in Matrix6 is ridiculously overpowered for a newbie game

zyabin101

So, I think we need required bots for king-of-the-hill.

I suggest that a dumb bot (which always chooses a hardcoded, average value in every aspect available) and a random bot (chooses something random in every aspect available) are required.

Also,

27 mins ago, by zyabin101

So, I'm still taking definitions for my Magic series based on PPCG users. Who is following it? (Not Rainbolt, he definitely doesn't know anything about Area 51. Roujo is the only follower currently.)

Roujo

@zyabin101 What does your MTG series about PPCG users have to do with Area 51?

Rainbolt

and why do you keep spamming that message

zyabin101

5:51 PM

@Roujo It doesn't do anything about Area 51, I only collect the audience needed for that game.

Roujo

@zyabin101 I'm confused as to how I'm more qualified than he is. =P

Geobits

Who is this guy?

zyabin101

49 mins ago, by Rainbolt

Define "follow". Look at when I get to work in the morning: sure, count me in.

Rainbolt

You know, repeating old messages doesn't make what you are saying any more clear.

Honestly I thought I was the only one who couldn't understand you the first time you said it, so I kept quiet.

trichoplax

I also have no idea what is going on here

@zyabin101 Are you referring to Area 51?

Rainbolt

5:56 PM

I'm not cool enough for his MTG series.

Geobits

No, I meant "who is this guy that has 30x more chat messages than rep?"

zyabin101

@trichoplax yes

Roujo

@zyabin101 I actually agreed with Rainbolt on that one - I'm up to following a series you'd be making in the same way that I'm up to check up on my webcomics every morning. If you're looking for participation more involved than that, then sorry =/

trichoplax

@zyabin101 Have you made a proposed site that relates to this discussion, or are you using Area 51 rep as a measure of competence in your game?

Rainbolt

6 mins ago, by zyabin101

@Roujo It doesn't do anything about Area 51, I only collect the audience needed for that game.

trichoplax

5:59 PM

@Rainbolt I wish that helped...

mınxomaτ

Hah! I've recovered the source code for my AutoIt golf lang and shall continue development. New name: Carrಠt++

zyabin101

@mınxomaτ Carrಠt++ is not a valid name for a lang: carrಠt__ has an invalid character.

Geobits

Ha. "Valid name".

mınxomaτ

Not for me, it doesn't.

zyabin101

@mınxomaτ In source, you won't call a lang carrಠt__: ಠ is not a letter, a number or _.

Dennis

6:08 PM

ಠ is a letter.

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zyabin101

@Dennis Which alphabet?

Roujo

Kanada, right? =P

Kannada*

mınxomaτ

@zyabin101 You have no point. The interpreter is called using the console, where the above is just called like any other CLI program. The name won't appear in the source code. Why should it?

Nathan Merrill

@Mego Submissions will only support a single role

Roujo

Kannada

Kannada /ˈkɑːnədə, ˈkæ-/ (ಕನ್ನಡ kannaḍa, IPA: [ˈkʌnːəɖɑː]) or Canarese/Kanarese /kænəˈriːz/, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Kannada people in the South Indian state of Karnataka, and by linguistic minorities in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Kerala, and Goa. The language has roughly 40 million native speakers who are called Kannadigas (Kannaḍigaru). It is one of the scheduled languages of India and the official and administrative language of the state of Karnataka. The Kannada language is written using the Kannada script, which evolved from the...

Nathan Merrill

6:09 PM

meaning that new players can submit a villager if they wish

and know nothing about RBing

zyabin101

@Roujo Either way, it's not latin.

Geobits

It's also not 1990. Computers can handle non-latin.

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Roujo

Unicode to the rescue!

ಠ – U+0CA0: KANNADA LETTER TTHA

Geobits

VoteToClose

@Roujo I thought that Kannada was north of America.

Roujo

6:11 PM

@VoteToClose shhhh you'll blow our cover

mınxomaτ

Geobits

Ouch. Only ~15GB free?

mınxomaτ

SSD

Geobits

Ah

VoteToClose

@Geobits You should see the remaining space on my borrowed laptop.

mınxomaτ

6:12 PM

Everything else lives on github.

Geobits

@VoteToClose I tried, but I can't quite see it from here.

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VoteToClose

It used to be 110 MB free, but the people that I borrowed it from asked me to remove the virtual machines.

Geobits

I have 397GB free on my main drive >_>

I think my laptop might be in the low triple digits, not sure.

VoteToClose

@Geobits That's almost 7 times larger than the current size of my entire hard disk.

My flash drive is bigger than this hard drive.

zyabin101

Also, I used up my last vote today.

Roujo

6:15 PM

I ended up with 12 bytes free on my main drive once, while downloading something. Windows didn't really like it, although surprisingly little went horribly wrong.

zyabin101

Why chat doesn't warn about a few votes left?

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Q: Guidelines for integrating unrelated code written by others?

Are there any guidelines on using code written by others for other challenges as a part of an answer to a completely different challenge? It's a bit of a special case, but I'll explain. I'm currently writing an answer that will end up being quite long, and I realized that it may benefit by compr...

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Geobits

@Roujo Wow. I can't even imagine the fit it threw inside :)

@zyabin101 Because chat stars don't matter.

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Cyoce

Geobits

Most people feel the main site is higher priority than chat.

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Roujo

6:18 PM

@Geobits Surprisingly, it just raised a notification "You're running out of space". Various user-space programs started to complain as well (notably Dropbox and Steam), but aside from that it went well.

Might be because I had 24 GB of RAM at the time, which means I rarely needed my swap file.

Geobits

Oh, yea that probably helps :D

VoteToClose

@Geobits But they're wrong.

trichoplax

Chat, like Meta, exists only to serve Main

Geobits

How am I supposed to make my point about stars not mattering when the starboard looks like a Geobits Digest? Ugh.

trichoplax

We can only blame you for this. If you will keep saying things in chat this will happen.

Geobits

6:33 PM

Things

Challenge accepted.

trichoplax

I don't need to star that. I can just staple my fingers to the desk instead.

Geobits

Now that I think about it, maybe it makes "stars don't matter" more evident...

trichoplax

People don't like to star things said by people who care about stars

Geobits

Yea, trying too hard is a surefire star-killer.

Optimizer

who would want to try to get stars?

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Geobits

6:36 PM

Nicely played.

trichoplax

I should point out that I only starred 2 of the Geobits posts on the starboard, and I also starred 2 of the non-Geobits posts. So I'm not biased.

Cyoce

The best way to get stars is by talking about not wanting stars.
I hate stars

Geobits

I've starred 0 of the Geobits posts, so I'm clearly biased.

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Optimizer

me too

Zgarb

@MartinBüttner @Dennis Will there be some announcement of Best of PPCG 2015 winners? I've written a challenge in honor or quartata and MuddyFish, and I could post it now or wait for an "official ceremony".

trichoplax

6:38 PM

Aug 4 '14 at 16:35, by Martin Büttner

(please don't star this)

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Optimizer

13 secs ago, by trichoplax

Aug 4 '14 at 16:35, by Martin Büttner

(please don't star this)

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Geobits

Ah crap. I started the star wars again, didn't I? Time for me to bow out...

Cyoce

18 secs ago, by Optimizer

13 secs ago, by trichoplax

Aug 4 '14 at 16:35, by Martin Büttner

(please don't star this)

ninja'ed

Zgarb

21 hours ago, by Zgarb

The starboard is now just transcript links and announcements. I guess that's an improvement over the usual "star this" stuff.

Optimizer

@Geobits star wars episode VIII ?

trichoplax

6:39 PM

It wasn't long ago there were consequences for streams of cascading quotes. Best to tread carefully

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

The starboard looks so meta

mini-challenge: find an OEIS where the character codes of the characters in your name are contained in it. First person to find one wins.

New Sandboxed Posts

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Letter subsets Consider two letters, L1 and L2. L1 is a solid subset of L2 if and only if all of the lines can be placed on L2 without rotating or breaking L1 or marring the image of L2; this is L1 s.s. L2, symbolically. For example, I s.s. T because you can place the line of I on T without a di...

Geobits

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ oeis.org/…

Too easy.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

argh I meant in order

but gg

Geobits

6:54 PM

Oh, well there isn't one for mine then. I imagine most users are the same.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Yeah, that's true.

Maybe cat has one

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