The Nineteenth Byte

aditsu

5:00 PM

@Riker engage!

Riker

it's my name IRL, that's why I changed it fwiw

muddyfish

I was about to say the flag bug was back but it was an actual flag

Riker

lol

aditsu

flag? bug?

you mean the blue circle?

muddyfish

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Q: Chat flag notification, but no flag

It appears this bug is back. Upon refreshing any chat page (even when dumping the cache and hard reloading), a chat flag notification is displayed, but there is no chat flag.

aditsu

5:08 PM

I was thinking 🇺🇸

^ funny, that renders as a flag in the broswer, but as [U][S] in a text editor

wizzwizz4

@aditsu It's meant to render as a flag.

But on lots of systems, it renders as a tiny US.

aditsu

hmm, Unicode’s encoding of national flags is just crazy enough to work

wizzwizz4

I think it's fonts supporting digraphs.

ais523

oh, my fonts have no flag digraphs

aditsu

they're ligatures apparently

ais523

5:12 PM

so I hadn't realised at all that it was meant to render as a flag

wizzwizz4

Does anyone here remember this?

> Unknown site "adviza.stackexchange.com", don't know who to ping. Don't blame me, I'm just a bot.

aditsu

@ais523 I can't find any font that shows the flag either, but the browser is somehow doing it

oh wait! Noto Emoji!

even Symbola didn't work, but Noto Emoji has it

New Sandboxed Posts

5:31 PM

0

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Make the Shape This is a wider version of this question, so it may not get posted. Given a single character e.g. H or ! and a sequence of letters e.g. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz you must output the character drawn using the letters in the sequence. If you need more letters, just loop through th...

aditsu

6:14 PM

@flawr hey I found something: I can hide them from the android app (account -> notifications), then they go away on the desktop too (cc @KritixiLithos @Riker)

Kritixi Lithos

Ah, wonder why they haven't done that with desktop too

aditsu

they meant to, but there's a boog somewhere

welp, my DNS server can't resolve www.google.com.hk now

I'd google the error message, but.. erm..

ok, the .com is working

bah, I guess when in doubt, clear the cache

Luis Mendo

@Pavel Fat Overflow

aditsu

still failing :o

New Main Posts

6:47 PM

0

Q: Press any key to continue

Your task is to create a program that will display the following text, wait for the user to press a key, and then terminate the program: Press any key to continue... Trailing newlines are allowed. The program must exit immediately after a key is pressed. This is code golf, so the shortest a...

code-golf code-challenge

Kritixi Lithos

7:03 PM

@NewMainPosts I got free 15 rep by getting an accepted answer in less than a minute after posting

Ouch, I spoke too soon, I lost the rep :/

Riker

7:30 PM

@aditsu ah nice that worked

New Main Posts

0

Q: Be there or be square!

Everybody has heard of the phrase "be there or be square". So I thought it was time for a challenge about it. Input You will take a full directory adress as text as input via STDIN or equivalant. A valid directory adress will always be in the format of [drive:][directory] Output If the direct...

code-golf ascii-art

Mistah Figgins

7:52 PM

Oops...
I just realized why my input method wasn't working...

I was creating a Scanner with a string instead of a file with that String as it's name

so it always gave me the same input

flawr

@aditsu cool thank you!!

Riker

@wizzwizz4 hey did you see the retrocomputing HNQ?

@flawr no more plane crash videos for me ;)

wizzwizz4

@Riker Which one? We've been getting loads! :-)

Riker

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Q: What early home computers have more than one CPU, where both could be used by the programmer?

I am interested to know if any computers that are topical on this SE had more than one CPU, where this plurality could be leveraged by a programmer. Some cases I don't so much care about: The Amigas could add a faster processor, but doing so disabled the onboard CPU so that we couldn't multita...

cpu

I saw you protected it ;P

congrats though, happy your site got some attention!

wizzwizz4

@Riker It might need closing. :-(

Riker

8:05 PM

:(

probably due to "too broad"?

wizzwizz4

Yes.

It's inviting loads of tiny answers.

Downgoat

Does anyone here know who Sir Walter Raleigh is and how he related to Shakespeare's times? </homeworkHelpRequest>

wizzwizz4

@Downgoat He's a person who explored.

Queen Elizabeth the First liked him quite a bit.

Downgoat

ok, so did he like do anything important?

wizzwizz4

@Downgoat Yes.

I'm trying to remember Primary School history lessons...

Kritixi Lithos

8:07 PM

I'm trying to run cd $1 in a bash program but it doesn't work when I provide it the correct args

But it works on tio

Downgoat

do you have shebang line?

Kritixi Lithos

I do now, but it still doesn't work

muddyfish

somebody help me! I'm trapped in tvtropes!

Downgoat

@muddyfish here, try looking at this instead: google.com/search?q=goat+memes

wizzwizz4

@Downgoat Oh. He was a person who /(re-)*/discovered America.

Downgoat

8:12 PM

ah ok thanks

muddyfish

@Downgoat -1. nswf

Downgoat

and did he like do anything relevant to shakespeare?

wizzwizz4

He tried to colonise the "New World" in the 1580s.

Downgoat

@muddyfish O_o not for me

wizzwizz4

He was executed.

Downgoat

8:12 PM

D:

oh no why

muddyfish

@Downgoat just includes the word "sexy" when describing goats

wizzwizz4

@Downgoat Treason against James I.

Downgoat

IMO this is not NSFW unless your boss is a goat

@wizzwizz4 :O what did he do

take away his goat? :'(

wizzwizz4

@Downgoat Tried to kill him, I think.

Downgoat

oh damn

wizzwizz4

8:15 PM

Oh. And nobody knows whether it was an actual plot or a fake.

Propaganda or proposed assasination.

Downgoat

ok well shit

this has nothing to do with shakespeare

Kritixi Lithos

Google is your friend

wizzwizz4

@Downgoat It influenced his works.

Downgoat

oh, can you give me a link I can ~~copychange~~ take reference from about that?

Kritixi Lithos

Why don't you make your own GH pages as a "legit" reference >_>

wizzwizz4

8:17 PM

@Downgoat There's a BBC iPlayer thing.

Conor O'Brien

@Downgoat In node, do you know how to make a synchronous check for file existence?

apparently fs.exists(...) is deprecated

wizzwizz4

Cite that; it'll vanish in a few days.

Downgoat

@ConorO'Brien fs.statSync

though @ConorO'Brien what are you doing with file?

You should probably handle the error thrown by other sync functipn

flawr

@aditsu so in the youtube app?

aditsu

yeah

Conor O'Brien

8:21 PM

if(!fileName){
    err("no file passed");
} else if(!fs.exists(fileName)){
    err("no such file `" + fileName + "`");
}
prog = fs.readFileSync(fileName).toString();

statSync errors, tho. is there nothing that gives a boolean check?

aditsu

if (you.isUsing(node.js)) you.life.rethink();

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Conor O'Brien

ha. haha. ha.

Downgoat

@ConorO'Brien oh, use fs.readFileSync and catch its ENOENT error (that's what you're supposed to do)

Conor O'Brien

@Downgoat hm, okay.

Kritixi Lithos

I wrote most my 1000-word essay for school today, the day before we have to submit our work

wizzwizz4

8:33 PM

@KritixiLithos Well done.

Now write the rest of it instead of talking on TNB.

Kritixi Lithos

I wrote <20 words in the past weeks

@wizzwizz4 I think the reason I took a break from SE for almost 10 months was because it was interfering with my schoolwork :/

wizzwizz4

@KritixiLithos Ten...

faints

Kritixi Lithos

At least I've become a better golfer now :)

Conor O'Brien

I accidentally clicked on the "atom" icon (text editor) five minutes ago and forgot about it. Until it just opened.

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wizzwizz4

@ConorO'Brien I do that with other programs a lot.

Once I opened ~100 Google Earths.

Worst. Day. Ever.

Conor O'Brien

8:44 PM

o_o

flawr

@Laikoni I just read your post about pointfree.io , but I found it doesn't work with list comprehensions f x = [k|k<-[1..]] !! x i.e. no output is generated, however f x = [1..] !! x works just fine.

Anonymous

@wizzwizz4 Wow, it only took a day to open and close 100 copies of Google Earth? How did you get access to a supercomputer?

wizzwizz4

@Mego Some hadn't properly opened yet.

It took about 7 minutes to enter the command to kill them.

Anonymous

Still, that's insanely fast for several copies of Google Earth

Anonymous

My cat is trying to write code :/

Anonymous

8:52 PM

She crawled on the keyboard and typed aasddsfasjhioujl;kfhjA^@&@*OIHB$MNSA+(&Y. I didn't know she knew Perl.

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aditsu

@ConorO'Brien it starts in 3 sec here, old computer?

or full memory?

wizzwizz4

> Array found where operator expected at .code.tio line 1, near "@&@*"
(Missing operator before @*?)
Bareword found where operator expected at .code.tio line 1, near "@*OIHB"
(Missing operator before OIHB?)
syntax error at .code.tio line 1, near "@&@*"
Execution of .code.tio aborted due to compilation errors.
Command exited with non-zero status 255
Command being timed: "/srv/wrappers/perl"
User time (seconds): 0.00
System time (seconds): 0.00
Percent of CPU this job got: 66%
Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:00.00

It's not quite valid.

Anonymous

@wizzwizz4 Huh. Apparently she needs to read a tutorial.

Anonymous

0, apparently

Luis Mendo

Or 2 in 05AB1E

Mistah Figgins

9:03 PM

My cat does that

I was trying to play an fps, but my cat decided to get on my desk

I ended up rebinding all the functionality I could to my mouse so I could play with him sitting on my keyboard

He was pretty interested in me dying over and over

wizzwizz4

Actually thinks outside the box.

aditsu

@MistahFiggins it didn't catch the mouse?

you had one job, cat

Mistah Figgins

I was playing ratz instagib, so There were plenty rats on the screen... :)

I'm more worried about how interested he was in me dying...

wizzwizz4

There is no answer to life.

(As we were on the topic of FPS death.)

aditsu

@MistahFiggins go to google and type "cat secretly", see what suggestions come up :)

Mistah Figgins

9:11 PM

The correct way to say it is "Actually, there is no answer to life"

lol "cat secretly barks"

"jerry secretly cat cheese"?

What even?

Mistah Figgins

9:27 PM

How am I supposed to chat?

Conor O'Brien

@aditsu 2 or 3 years old, not that much used memory

@MistahFiggins like you are now?

Mistah Figgins

He got off my keyboard finally :)

Obviously

Anonymous

@MistahFiggins That looks like an extremely fluffy kitty

Mistah Figgins

He's pretty fluffy, and also fat

mınxomaτ

The fur color reminds me of coffee. I'm going to make some.

Anonymous

9:31 PM

I'm going to need to cuddle him at the soonest convenience

Anonymous

It's a well-known fact that penguins and cats are symbiotes

Mistah Figgins

I have another 2, one has a sort of "pet squirrel" stuffed animal that he carries around everywhere :)

mınxomaτ

My cat doesn't like keyboards. But she watches when a video is playing.

wizzwizz4

@Mego Post a video of it; humans often can't tell the difference between adult and young penguins except by size, and it could well become viral.

Anonymous

@wizzwizz4 No, see, you have to golf the request

Mistah Figgins

9:33 PM

oh god

wizzwizz4

@MistahFiggins That link doesn't work.

~~Here; let me fix it for you.~~

Mistah Figgins

Some aren't as cute...

Anonymous

@MistahFiggins It's adorable

wizzwizz4

@MistahFiggins They used Photoshop. You can see the line where they cut the cat's head.

In GIMP it would've been harder to see, if used properly.

Mistah Figgins

view at your own risk, it looks horrifying

Conor O'Brien

9:36 PM

@TuxCopter what does "ns" mean in french, as an acronym?

TuxCopter

Nothing AFAIK

wizzwizz4

@MistahFiggins You made a typo. That should say "do not view".

Mistah Figgins

yes... Can't say I didn't warn you

Too late to edit now

TuxCopter

@MistahFiggins what

Mistah Figgins

Don't. why did I post that???

symbiotic my ***!

@Mego Stay away from my cat!

Anonymous

9:41 PM

But I love cats :(

Mistah Figgins

I hope you are a cute cat penguin and not a monster like the other one shudder lol

Anonymous

I'm just a penguin

Anonymous

Symbiotes, not hybrids

Conor O'Brien

@TuxCopter hm. I was just viewing a tf2 match in french and saw that come up

Mistah Figgins

Google decided that that was what others had searched for

@ConorO'Brien it means Nice Shot

Conor O'Brien

9:43 PM

@MistahFiggins right, but the match was in french. and was in response to me saying "good job lol" (in french)

Mistah Figgins

hmm...

maybe he was talking to someone else?

Conor O'Brien

it could have moved from english to french and he could have ignored me, tho

yeah

Anonymous

TIL this website exists

Anonymous

Instead of a rubber duck, I have this cutie:

Anonymous

wizzwizz4

9:48 PM

@Mego I found that today too...

Who linked to it?

Mistah Figgins

This is how I solve 90% of my friend's code problems

"Hey can you come over? I'm having trouble"
"What does your code do?"
"Well its supposed to do blah blah but... ooooh. Thanks!"

Wheat Wizard

You guys should check out 1000000000's really clever answer to the rise and reset sequence here. IMO it's a really good example of clever golfing in Brain-Flak and even if you don't understand the language I think it is really cool.

Anonymous

@wizzwizz4 Workplace HNQ post

wizzwizz4

@Mego I remember now... Thanks.

@MistahFiggins I had the impression that one of my friends was really, really, really good at programming until I realised that I was just doing that to them whilst they stayed almost completely silent.

I asked them for help, described the problem, found the solution, left, came back, thanked them, left again, then fixed it.

Mistah Figgins

Fact: Having a pet to talk to vastly improves your coding ability when no one else is around

unless he sits on your keyboard

And tries to get your cursor

wizzwizz4

9:58 PM

@MistahFiggins I have Neko for that.

Cats like mini-cats more than cursors.

So if you've got mini-cat running away from cursor, cat stays away from it too.

Anonymous

I've finally converted to the PyCharm side

Anonymous

It's the first good Python IDE I've found that I like

Mistah Figgins

I recently finished my Del|m|t interpreter, if anyone's interested. Waiting for Dennis to put it on TIO...

wizzwizz4

@MistahFiggins Do you want to ping him?

Mistah Figgins

I did , in the TIO chat

How soon can I start posting answers with this language? Do I have to wait until there is an online interpreter? I assume not

muddyfish

10:11 PM

@MistahFiggins you can post answers whenever

wizzwizz4

@MistahFiggins You just have to wait until there is a public interpreter.

muddyfish

they're only competitive if they're posted after the last update you did to the code

@wizzwizz4 if it's on github, it's fine to post in

Mistah Figgins

Thanks all. I'm going to post cat, Hello, world, etc in a bit

wizzwizz4

@muddyfish I think web.archive.org also counts.

Conor O'Brien

yes, it only needs to be available (only needs to be free for Cops and Robbers)

Mistah Figgins

10:13 PM

No quine yet though

muddyfish

@wizzwizz4 anywhere online with a trusted datestamp

VoteToClose

You've gotta be kidding me.

I just heard a loud pop come out of my left speaker in my laptop.

And now no noise is coming out of that side.

ATaco

I think you just blew your speaker m8

VoteToClose

It wasn't even turned up! It was at two ticks. :I

wizzwizz4

@VoteToClose At "low volume", a pair of headphones that I once had access to created a ridiculously loud feedback loop when plugged into a Windows PC.

Dennis

10:25 PM

@WheatWizard Without any Brain-Flak knowledge or an explanation, it just looks like a lot of brackets though...

ATaco

Does Brain-Flak have more or less brackets than Lisp?

VoteToClose

Ohhhhhhh goood good good. Apparently a reboot fixed it.

Because logic.

Driver fail.

Dennis

@ATaco Brain-Flak has only brackets.

ATaco

I maintain.

Mistah Figgins

Command Line arguments add to your byte-count right?

DJMcMayhem

10:27 PM

@Dennis I have plenty of brain-flak knowledge and it still just looks like a lot of brackets to me

VoteToClose

@MistahFiggins Yes.

Mistah Figgins

Thought so. Thanks

DJMcMayhem

Although to be fair, even my own brain-flak code just looks like nonsense to me most of the time

Anonymous

Well, Youtube is claiming that I watched a video that I definitely have not. Not sure how that works.

Anonymous

It says I watched it all the way through. It's an hour-long video, and it came out half an hour ago. I've been watching another video for the last half-hour.

mınxomaτ

10:43 PM

> Beginning in January 2017 (Chrome 56), we’ll mark HTTP pages that collect passwords or credit cards as non-secure, as part of a long-term plan to mark all HTTP sites as non-secure.

Anonymous

@mınxomaτ Good. Good riddance to HTTP.

Anonymous

TLS isn't that hard

mınxomaτ

@Mego Manager: "Why is our site marked non secure?" - Dev: "Because it's not TLS" - M: "What if we make the password field ... not a password field?".

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Anonymous

@mınxomaτ Chrome can't fix stupid

feersum

Just add a Java Script that draws stars over the input box.

DJMcMayhem

10:50 PM

Spammy spammy spammy

Anonymous

@DJMcMayhem Too slow

DJMcMayhem

Thanks whoever it was

quartata

@DJMcMayhem Np

mınxomaτ

CSS is painful. I'm bad at UI design.

Anonymous

Looks like Smokey found it

DJMcMayhem

10:52 PM

Yeah I know, I was the one who reported it. :P

Anonymous

Wow, that user spammed both here and on Android

Anonymous

Nukes inbound

Mistah Figgins

Yay, Del|m|t TIO

PhiNotPi

I just found a 3-word google search which gave exactly one result.

feersum

Googlewhack

A Googlewhack is a type of contest for finding a Google search query consisting of exactly two words without quotation marks, that returns exactly one hit. A Googlewhack must consist of two actual words found in a dictionary. A Googlewhack is considered legitimate if both of the searched-for words appear in the result page. For example, typing an asterisk (*) into the Google Search Bar turns up no results. Published googlewhacks are short-lived, since when published to a web site, the new number of hits will become at least two, one to the original hit found, and one to the publishing site. �...

PhiNotPi

10:57 PM

yeah I know, I was one word too long

Mistah Figgins

The same thing happens for this very chat... If we post them here, they will show up there

New Sandboxed Posts

11:21 PM

0

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Splix.io - King of the land king-of-the-hill You are an enterprising dot who want's to increase the land under his control. This is quite simple - travel outside your current land and loop back into your land and everything in that loop is now owned by you. But there is a catch. If some other d...

DJMcMayhem

11:35 PM

0

A: Draw an ASCIIrisk

Valyrio, 44 bytes main{ urnep(kyv("*",dereb("ascii"),2)) keli} main{ starts the program urnep( prints kyv("*",dereb("ascii"),2)) creates a star using the letters from ascii, each part 2 characters thick keli} ends the program and quits Interpreter available soon!

I have a hard time believing this answer

Conor O'Brien

codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/106385/31957

DJMcMayhem

Weird

Anonymous

codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/106379/45941

Anonymous

If they keep answering and deleting, they'll get answer-banned soon enough

Conor O'Brien

this is bizarre

ah:

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A: "Hello, World!"

ValyrioS, 21 bytes Based off a Game of Thrones language. The S is the static version that has no classes or functions. main{ urnep("h") keli} How does it work? main{ starts the main code block urnep("h") is equivalent to the print() statement in python. "h" is a global pre-assigned constant...

Mistah Figgins

11:42 PM

@ConorO'Brien Huh. Well, scroll up to see my answer!