The Nineteenth Byte

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

9:01 PM

How'd you learn to golf so well, @Dennis?

Dennis

Practice. 1714 answers and counting.

(Some deleted, some not code golf. But anyway...)

Geobits

@TimmyD Maybe you're being choosier when picking challenges to compete in?

Dennis

I know choosier is a word, but eek.

TimmyD

@Geobits Decent thought. I haven't considered that.

Geobits

@Dennis Should I be choosier with my words?

Yodle

9:03 PM

I think knowledge and creativity come into play a bit in golfing. Knowledge of the language you're using (your own language helps a lot since you made it), and using that knowledge in a creative way.

Dennis

twitches

Geobits

"more choosy" sounds worse to me :P

I could always choose my words more carefully, of course.

Shebang

Would picky be better?

Dennis

Choosy sounds bad, period. :P

Geobits

'pickier' works, but has a slightly negative connotation imo.

TimmyD

9:04 PM

Choosy moms choose golf.

DrMcMoylex

More choosier?

Geobits

@TimmyD Only the choosiest moms.

muddyfish

Trumpscript is one of the most awful languages I've ever had the misfortune of writing in

Downgoat

@muddyfish :O :D :D :D :D :D you changed your avatar too!

Yodle

Does anyone here use visual studio express

muddyfish

9:06 PM

@Downgoat I know right?

Downgoat

Let the Down.* revolution begin

Geobits

Bandwagoners. I was the original down.*

>_>

Downgoat

i do not see a down in your username :/

suggestion: change name to DownDownGeobits

and make avatar red/black with -1

Geobits

There's not in muddyfish's either. It's all about the avatar :D

Downgoat

brb making generator for this

Dennis

9:08 PM

Bring. Back. The. Skull!

25

Geobits

I will if you can get 25+ stars on that.

5

Without pinning -_-

Dennis

Who pinned what? whistles

Downgoat

@Geobits wait which message

Geobits

1 min ago, by Dennis

Bring. Back. The. Skull!

muddyfish

@Geobits I do have a -1

It's just a bit small due to downscaling

Geobits

9:09 PM

@muddyfish No, he said I don't have "down" in my username.

arda

If this message gets, idk, 5 stars, I'll change my picture to downpearl

13

Geobits

I need downstars for this. I don't want red all over the left side all the time :/

Oh wait, I can cancel stars. never mind then >_>

Downgoat

@Geobits cant u unpin since ur RO

Dennis

It's not pinned. I just eleven'd a star on my own message.

Geobits

Totally eleven'd

arda

9:15 PM

oh boy it looks like I'll have to make a downpearl

Geobits

It's tempting to just remove them all, but I won't :P

Somebody ping me if it gets to 25, though.

Dennis

Don't worry, I will.

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

@Dennis cancel all stars on first one, then post **25** Bring. Back. The. Skull!. Have one person star it, if more, cancel all stars and eleven another star. There, I sped it up.

Downgoat

@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC remind me to not make you RO on any rooms i own :P

Dennis

I already eleven'd one star. Doesn't work twice.

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

9:18 PM

@Dennis Post a new message.

Dennis

Can't. It has to be that one.

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

@Dennis edit it, quick.

arda

daammit it reached 5 stars

DrMcMoylex

@Downgoat And while you're at it, don't un-RO yourself. :P

Downgoat

@DrMcMoylex ;____;

Dennis

9:20 PM

>_>

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

@Dennis 11 edit it.

Downgoat

@arda \oooooo////////// ::::::::DDDDDDDDDD

DrMcMoylex

If this message hits 10 stars I'll do absolutely nothing

5

Downgoat

@DrMcMoylex @mod pls eleven to say "I'll become downcatinhat"

arda

absolutely nothing = not breathing. Don't not do that.

Dennis

9:22 PM

If I was going to eleven it, it would be to change the avatar. >_>

Downgoat

@arda i think he means absolutely nothing specific to the fact he achieved 10 stars

@Dennis ok, will create avatar and send too you

arda

@Downgoat yeah, thatsthejoke.jpg on my end

DrMcMoylex

@Downgoat @noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC I think your opinions of what mods/ROs are for are slightly skewed

Downgoat

@DrMcMoylex i am skewed :P

see: avatar

Dmitry Kudriavtsev

CMC: transpose a matrix (rows -> columns)

Fatalize

9:28 PM

So transpose?

Dennis

That's a transpose, not an inverse.

Dmitry Kudriavtsev

words are hard

3

Downgoat

^

i couldnt agree morr

Fatalize

@DmitryKudriavtsev 1 byte: z. Probably works in a plethora of other esolangs

Dmitry Kudriavtsev

I'm used to pressing ctrl-c in terminal to cancel. tried it in chat (instead of escape) and accidentally selected it. Now I accidentally pasted it.

@Fatalize No golflangs please

Fatalize

9:30 PM

Mathematica: Transpose (I'm just guessing here)

Downgoat

@DmitryKudriavtsev cheddar: @.transposed

Shebang

Python: zip(*m) with m being the matrix.

Downgoat

What does zip do

Dmitry Kudriavtsev

mkay

Shebang

If a = [1,2,3] and b = [4,5,6] are lists, zip(a,b) = [(1,4),(2,5),(3,6)] pairs up the elements

* is the splat operator, so for a matrix it will dump all of the rows

and then zipping makes them columns essentially

Dennis

9:41 PM

@DmitryKudriavtsev Fine. APL, 1 byte: ⍉

Fatalize

^ lel

Dennis

@Dennis This is why attempting to exclude golfing languages from anything is pointless.

@Dennis Yes, I totally agree.

TimmyD

Self-ping abuse 11

Yodle

No ~~golflangs~~ langs at all then!

TuxCopter

Ok

Domino: A lot of dominos

TimmyD

9:48 PM

Dominos, 0 bytes - rotate the picture

TuxCopter

My most upvoted answer is my only vim answer o_O

arda

@arda umm I'm still not used to gimp and I cancelled my creative cloud subscription sooo... can anyone help me become downpearl?

Dennis

Of my five top answers by votes, I only like one. Of the answers I really like, only two made the top 30...

feersum

Due to Seed HW, I now have an answer in my top 5 voted that I spent more than 5 minutes on.

TuxCopter

Please give us the secret of reversing PRNG ;_;

feersum

9:53 PM

A rare exception to the upvotes proportional to inverse effort squared law.

DrMcMoylex

@TuxCopter all of my top answers are vim, lol

And one jelly I guess

feersum

@Dennis Did you see my Seed CnR answer?

TuxCopter

Oh

I just hit 3K \o/

Dennis

@feersum I did.

TimmyD

Visualize Bit Weaving is my only top-5 that I spent more than five minutes on, and it's also my favorite. My highest-voted answer (for infinite disk I/O) is junk.

Adnan

9:54 PM

Almost all of my top answers have 4 bytes or less...

Emigna

One of my top 5 answers is over 300 bytes (in 05AB1E) :P

Fatalize

My top answer is 0 byte...

Adnan

This one is summoning Cthulhu. — aloisdg Jul 19 at 18:53

hahaha

Dennis

@Fatalize By feersum's law, it should have infinite upvotes.

TuxCopter

This is probably how laymen imagine code. — CrazyPython Jul 19 at 21:09

Emigna

9:56 PM

@Adnan Yeah that comment has more votes than the answer :)

Fatalize

@Dennis 258 at the moment, getting about 1 to 2 upvotes per day, so given infinite time yes

Dennis

@arda You don't have to anymore. It got 7.

TimmyD

feature-request The rule that upvotes equal the inverse of the effort squared is now known as feersum's law.

Adnan

@Emigna that also seem to happen a lot

feersum

Well you still have to expend some effort to type "<Name> 0 bytes" and click post.

@TimmyD *effort squared

TuxCopter

9:58 PM

+1 for golfing on phone — TùxCräftîñg 9 hours ago

Fatalize

And I had to remember the name of the language I read the specs of a few days before

Emigna

@TuxCopter I love that comment! So good :)

TuxCopter

This has more upvotes than the answer

Dennis

50% of my answers are posted from my phone.

It's a real pain with Jelly btw.

feersum

That guy who made Jelly should have been more considerate of mobile users.

Emigna

9:59 PM

Posting from the phone is not a lot harder than by computer in 05AB1E since there are lots of chars I can't write on my keyboard either

Dennis

@feersum Agreed. It's still better than trying to write Python on Ideone though.

Wait, when did TimmyD become DownShell?

feersum

Isn't that SideShell?

Adnan

@Emigna on Windows, you can use the Alt-Gr button

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Emigna

@Adnan Sure, but the chars that gives me access to are only a press away on a mobile as well

or most of them at least

arda

10:02 PM

@Dennis well played :P

DrMcMoylex

:O I just passed leaky nun in rep! \o/

TuxCopter

Coding in Jelly... on a phone

Hardcore coder detected

Fatalize

@DrMcMoylex After he stopped coming for 2 months :p

Lol, yep

emojicode.org

10:12 PM

21 3

o_O

looks at Adnan

@Dennis +999 best name ever

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

What's the best election tracker?

feersum

TNB.

When a winner is declared, I'm confident someone will mention it here.

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

^

@feersum different states polls close at different times

It is a gradual process.

feersum

10:21 PM

Your point is?

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

7pm est is when first state releases results.

Let's get an election coverage team here on TNB.

Alaska's poll close at 1AM EST, the latest.

6PM, indiana and kentucky polls close, the earliest

Downgoat

@ConorO'Brien question: do you know of any JS image manipulation libraries?

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

TNB will have electoral results in 22 mins.

We won't forget congress.

Hi, @1000000000

1000000000

@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC Hello

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

US Senate is at 37/30, out of 100 available seats; democrat/republican.

The house is at 9/2.

Can anyone join in covering the election? In the turkey 2016 coup, we got live location of erodgan's plane.

Fatalize

10:35 PM

No way I'm staying up for this

I'll laugh tomorrow morning

:p

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

Exclusive perspective from code golfers

0 journalists in the field

Downgoat

@Fatalize AFAIK US has more nuclear weapon than France so hold your laughter :P

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

Slowest results

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Wheat Wizard

@1000000000 How are you doing?

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

^

@Downgoat If this message gets 20 stars, I'll down-ify my avatar for 30 days.

Downgoat

10:43 PM

@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC nah

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

;_;

Downgoat

question: how to create drag/drop file uploader

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

@Downgoat use the source, goat

Anybody here at the polls right now? :P

If the Polls Close While You’re Still in Line to Vote, Don’t Leave: mentalfloss.com/article/88493/…

Downgoat

@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC if you are gonna give BS answer pls dont ping >_>

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

@Downgoat Inspect element drag-droppable dialogs, base it off of their's

@Downgoat vsl status update

Downgoat

10:46 PM

10/10 very good solution

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

look at GH's dialog

google it

Downgoat

@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC orly

mbomb007

For those of you that saw when I posted my Atomas highscore, I just beat it (after 1 or 2 games, which took forever), with Nd (60) 57136.

I woulda made it much higher if I hadn't taken a risk.

DrMcMoylex

@HelkaHomba Why did you accept an answer so quickly? (And not even the shortest one)

Helka Homba

Oops. Misclicked. Thanks

DrMcMoylex

11:04 PM

My gosh. There are so many things to vote on and I don't know what any of them are

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

@DrMcMoylex You're at the polls?

DrMcMoylex

No. Filling out my ballot before I go drop it off

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

@DrMcMoylex Vote democrat.

State?

feersum

You don't have to fill in all of them?

DrMcMoylex

@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC I'll vote how I vote. :P

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

11:07 PM

@feersum You don't have to vote at all.

DrMcMoylex

@feersum I don't think so

Election 2016!

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