The Nineteenth Byte

@Christopher you can also only cast a close vote once, so if it's reopened you can't reclose it again

mods are exceptions of course

@flawr en.reddit.com/r/316cats

Comrade SparklePony

2:39 PM

Happy March for Science!!!!!!!!!

Qwerp-Derp

@Riker The last one

The brackets inside have to be balanced

@ComradeSparklePony cc @Downgoat

@Qwerp-Derp yeah, pretty much impossible with regex

Qwerp-Derp

@Riker Ah shucks, oh well

When I say "they have to be balanced" it means it's impossible for a multiline comment to have unbalanced brackets inside

doesn't really matter

you can't really tell where to end the comment

regex can't keep track of things like balanced brackets

it's trivial to do without regex, but just not with regex

Kritixi Lithos

@Riker cough balancing groups cough

2:43 PM

arbitrarily nested parantheses?

I don't think python supports that

I may be wrong though

Kritixi Lithos

afaik balancing groups only appear in .NET

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

hm okay

New Sandboxed Posts

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Average change in step count in the Collatz Conjecture numberarithmeticcode-golf The Collatz Conjecture has been done before, so this challenge takes it a bit further. The conjecture is explained in that question. Your task Your program must take two inputs, a start and an end value. The prog...

Learn How To Be Transparent

3:05 PM

Can anyone match balanced parentheses using regex?

sounded like kritixi said .net could

Learn How To Be Transparent

Try asking Martin

@mınxomaτ Try asking Jar'Edo Wens

Kritixi Lithos

3:30 PM

@Riker I'm not entirely sure if .NET regex can handle it, because I don't have much experience with .NET regex :P

ah k

26 mins ago, by mınxomaτ

Try asking Martin

Q: ASCII Art :Get a letter (A-Z) from its graphical representation

4:40 PM

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Q: Garbled Phone Numbers

You know how you get a voicemail message and the person's connection wasn't great, and you're trying to figure out how to call them back, but you're not sure if that was a "5" or an "8" they said? That's this challenge. The good news is that the caller read off their number twice, but it's garb...

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How can I get a character (A-Z) from string which contains its graphical representation ? for example, if I am using 3x5 letters, graphical representation for letter 'A' will be : # # # ### # # # # This one is for 'E' : ### # ### # ### Is there an algorithm or some ASCII art tricks to do...

code-golf ascii-art printable-ascii fastest-algorithm c#

5:01 PM

@LearnHowToBeTransparent .NET, PCRE, ruby regex too

Q: ASCII Art :Get a letter (A-Z) from its graphical representation

5:37 PM

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How can I get a character (A-Z) from string which contains its graphical representation ? for example, if I am using 3x5 letters, graphical representation for letter 'A' will be : # # # ### # # # # This one is for 'E' : ### # ### # ### This is actually what I have done but it's doesn't l...

code-golf ascii-art code-challenge fastest-algorithm c#

@CartManagerXD How goes the new language?

So quite today

@0 ' Which one XD?

@CartManagerXD the newest

@0 ' Microflak is almost done.

I have to show that stack tarversal is possible

5:41 PM

Seesh among geeks you are geek geeks

@Christopher Are you talking to me? I don't know what you are saying.

@Christopher D: no more Downchristopher?

Same here. Sometime my fingers type faster then my brain can

@Downgoat Yeah. I still would be that but Geobits would downvote me

I think Geobits will downvote you regardless

5

@Geobits what have you done D:

5:44 PM

@Downgoat Must you encourage trouble...?

It's really nice to be able to distinguish people in chat again...

@trichoplax Don't tempt me

Niceeeeee!

@Christopher :D

btw do the rows in this image look too big or is it good

They look really good

5:45 PM

@muddyfish You're literally in a CV spree today!

muddyfish

@EriktheOutgolfer apparently

code-golf kolmogorov-complexity

-3

Q: Calculate my reading speed

You must create a program that calculates my reading speed! The challenge First when the program is run wait for user input (a click or a keyboard key being hit you may choose one. When the user "triggers" the program print the paragraphs imported. Then when the user hits another key/click end ...

I really want to get this reopened. It was close but reopen votes expired

@muddyfish Interestingly, I've also cast more than what I usually cast.

Also Wheat Wizard changed his name again.

@Christopher 4/19/2017 has already passed

@CartManagerXD Opps fixed

5:50 PM

@EriktheOutgolfer Again? the last time I changed my name was breifly after I joined from my proper name to wheatwizard

@CartManagerXD so that is who you are

@CartManagerXD Your name is CartManager XD.

Why are you trying to troll?

Yes that is my new name

I'm not trying to troll I saw it in a parking lot and I thought it would make a good username

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Q: I'm still [on hold!]

This question is about something that everyone hates: being on hold (on the phone) The standard on hold "conversation" goes something like this: music for 15 seconds Thank you for calling <company name>. We will be with you in a second music for 15 seconds You are number <number in queue> in th...

code-challenge audio

@CartManagerXD I think you've been Wheat Wizard, Möbius Strip Chicken, Möbius Strip Mall, Wheat Wizard, Möbius Strip Mall, Wheat Wizard, Sorghum Sorcerer, Wheat Wizard, CartManager XD. And there's some 11 in there too I think.

5:53 PM

@EriktheOutgolfer Oh yeah I forgot about all the ones in between. My bad

But I think it's the first time you changed your avatar.

@Christopher This looks much clearer than it was. One thing I'd point out is that usually code golf is an open ended competition, rather than having a deadline. If you award the acceptance tick after a week you can still update it if a shorter solution arrives in the future. Would you be happy with that so that new answers can continue to come in?

Its the second time

Now you look much like Christopher.

Also I think you forgot about those names because they were 11'd (or otherwise set by a mod) to you instead of changing them yourself, since you had them for 30 days at a time.

@Christopher Also the input section only lists two inputs, the text and a user input. If the user needs to indicate both the start of the timing and the end of the timing should there be three inputs? The text, a start user input, and a finish user input? Either way that would be worth clarifying

6:00 PM

@trichoplax done

@EriktheOutgolfer I don't think my name was ever 11'd

How did you then have a name for 1 or 2 days at a time?

I had it and then I changed it due to popular demand

I thought that you can only change your name once per 30 days though.

@EriktheOutgolfer You forgot the time he was briefly 0 '

6:01 PM

No thats certainly false

@0 ' You're 1000000000 though.

@0 ' Oh yeah for the april fools day joke

@EriktheOutgolfer When I changed my name from 1000000000 to 0 ' I changed my name something around 6 times before settling on the final version

@Christopher I can't think of anything else, so this gets my reopen vote

Apologies to all Firefox users for the horizontal scrollbar

ETHproductions

6:05 PM

What causes that, your username?

Hmmm

Yeah, I forgot it did that

It also causes my window to spontaneously scroll right

Oh, I always thought that was a space.

Every time I type a message

6:05 PM

Yeah mine too

It would be great if you could not do that...

0

Q: I'm still [on hold!]

This question is about something that everyone hates: being on hold (on the phone) The standard on hold "conversation" goes something like this: music for 15 seconds Thank you for calling <company name>. We will be with you in a second music for 15 seconds You are number <number in queue> in th...

code-challenge audio

ironic

it's on hold

Someone should report the bug

@Riker Now it has 2 reopen votes

>_<

I thought you were wat/dmitry/whatever he is atm

I was WheatWizard, but I am CartManager XD now

and forever

6:07 PM

No he is Mendeleev.

@Riker "I'm still [on hold!] [on hold]"

@CartManagerXD Hmm... it should probably be tested a little more thoroughly before it is reported

@CartManagerXD why "XD"?

"I'm still [on hold!] [on hold [on hold [on hold [...]]]]"

@CartManagerXD yea, I figured that from your prof description

6:08 PM

@0 ' I think its best to not play around with the chat. We should let the devs figure out the problem.

@Riker ^[citation-needed]

@Riker Its part of the name CartManager XD is shopping cart pusher

Oh so cart pusher is cart manager?

I saw one in a parking lot and I thought it would be a good username, so here we are

can we please trash the message that causes the scrollbar?

2

6:10 PM

Is it a specific message or a username?

@CartManagerXD .. apparently that's correct

@0 ' Please

O_o

it does nothing for me also

"O '"

@JanDvorak It's not just one message. It's two messages (I'm using Chrome yay).

My window is scrolling right then left with passing messages

6:11 PM

@0 ' that's bordering on abusive names

I don't know what exactly causes it, but i know who apologised for it

now it's breaking my formatting

when I try to ping you

You can't ping him

@EriktheOutgolfer you have a 5 minute window to change your name

you can only reply

6:12 PM

i can ping him

@0 '

@Riker That didn't ping me

what

You can ping @0 ' just fine, it merely causes havoc in the reply box

Dennis sock just joined the room.

@Riker Hover over it, it doesn't show his last message so he hasn't been pinged

6:12 PM

huh

... and it probably contributes to the scrollbar havoc, I would guess

@0 ' Change your username. If your username affects other peoples experience of this site and interferes with chat formatting, it's abusive and it's time to stop.

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Did Dennis' sock just join the room? @EriktheOutgolfer

@JanDvorak That's not havoc, just the username.

@EriktheOutgolfer you realize he's probably joined as that acct to not be disruptive

a contracted slim noun

6:13 PM

@EriktheOutgolfer Well, someone mentioned Firefox, so I started Firefox.

It still contributes to the scrollbar username, though.

a contracted slim noun

And my window just scrolled right. Nice.

@mınxomaτ My username in and of itself does not cause problems, the problem happens when someone types my username verbatim into chat

@Riker No it's for testing the site as a new user.

@Okx acontractedslimnoun is Dennis's sock.

@0 ' This is not an argument. Any issue is bad enough.

6:14 PM

@0 ' they certainly will

... or at least they'll use the reply arrow

What is going on

@JanDvorak The reply arrow does not cause my username name to appear in the message verbatim. My username (though it may not look it) is 0 followed by 28 tabs, followed by '

We would appreciate it if you could solve the problem by changing your username until this bug can be fixed

@Christopher chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/36882823#36882823, chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/36882847#36882847 (use Firefox to see them)

@0 ' Which incidentally happens as soon as someone uses the autocomplete feature. And chat constantly jumping left and right for everyone is a pretty annoying outcome.

6:17 PM

Wow

@0 ' Which serves no purpose, is evidently interfering with multiple things and isn't even a username in the first place. The right thing to do is to change it and not trying to rationalize this childish behavior.

@Dennis Hmm... I didn't notice that the autocomplete feature did that. Okay, I will change my username until the problem is resolved

minecraft.net/en-us/article/skii-resort

Since there is no reason to have superfluous whitespace in your username, I'd urge you to keep a sane name even if the bug is fixed.

@0 '

Did that ping

6:20 PM

Question: should I make a GitGoat widget

@Christopher No it didn't please don't do that its whats causing the problem

@Downgoat yes. And GitGoat for android

Okay, username should be fixed

@Christopher Don't use TNB for experiments. Use private chatrooms or the sandbox.

I think @ASCII-only is doing gitgoat for android

6:21 PM

That would be great 0'

@Downgoat yaya

@mınxomaτ I picked my username because it has alphabetically first username out of all the allowed usernames. I did not know about the chat problem until afterwards

Since you know about it now, you'll need to change it immediately if you wish to remain in this room

Also a mod should refresh chat cache.

@0 ' This is still not a reason. You still have whitespace in your name.

usernames are not the place for experiments.

6:24 PM

@EriktheOutgolfer That won't help yet as the username has not yet been changed

@mınxomaτ Picking a username because it is alphabetically first is as much a reason as any for picking a username

@O ' True.

Please no fighting.

Where did the stars go from that comment?

Mod cleared for some reason

6:26 PM

Star abuse detected!

7

Oh OK

@EriktheOutgolfer #Starbait

It's not starbait when someone constantly stars and unstars stuff.

PPCG Rep distribution... it's interesting

The graph seems like.......upside down mirrored square root symbol

6:30 PM

true

sorta

Peter and Lynn made it imperfect

Slightly

Ah, happy new day to everyone!

West countries don't yet have happy new day.

Must be around 8 or 9 something in Greece?

Wait what happened to the stars? I starred a message but it has no stars? Whats going on?

% cleared them

6:34 PM

ROs and mods can clear stars. And then you can't star again.

@DobbyTheFree-Elf Who is %?

Get it, % (mod) cleared them?

@EriktheOutgolfer Why did they do that?

@EriktheOutgolfer it's JavaScript operator for mod

Lol

Because there was star abuse, and you can't just clear one star, so they needed to clear 'em all.

Star abuse?

6:35 PM

What is a star abuse!

@EriktheOutgolfer I meant right now he joined the room

?

9 mins ago, by Erik the Outgolfer

Star abuse detected!

@EriktheOutgolfer What's star abuse!

?

It's when stars are abused/not used as they should be used.

6:36 PM

Thats not very descriptive

I guess there aren't much ways you can use stars; either star or don't

So how can they be abused

it's starring many messages in a short amount of time

particularly ones that aren't funny or shouldn't be starred for another reason

When a message is interesting to you, you star it. If you randomly intentionally star a message, you're abusing stars.

such as RTL chars and format breaking stars

Controversial?

Statements, you mean?

With "another reason"!

?

@Riker

6:38 PM

@DobbyTheFree-Elf yes, among other things

@Riker We don't often have those in TNB, and they're allowed in the Sandbox where they usually are.

we have them way more than we should

Q: Tabs in a username cause repeated sideways scrolling of chat window for other users

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This affects at least Firefox. Tabs are currently permitted in usernames, and in chat the presence of a user with a name containing a long string of tabs causes the chat window to have a horizontal scrollbar and to scroll spontaneously left and right as new messages appear. Would it be simplest ...

bug chat display-names

All Cretans lie!

> Möbius Strip Mall

@CartManagerXD I like that name a lot more than any of your others ;P

6:40 PM

@Riker Its still my username everywhere else

ah

@Riker are you a passionate biker?

no >_<

just kidding :)

@Riker btw did the last update for GitGoat fix your crashing problems?

6:41 PM

ker-ker

@trichoplax That is not quite accurate, the problem happens when a lot of tabs are said in chat

I dunno let me test

Its not the tabs in the usernames that is causing the problem its just tabs being said in chat. — Möbius Strip Mall 1 min ago

Star this if you like Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Requests for stars rarely get stars

Apr 7 at 20:08, by mınxomaτ

@Alt-F4 Don't post messages just to get on the starboard.

6:44 PM

Are people of Asian countries considered black?

Bye

Good night/evening :)

night!

@DobbyTheFree-Elf no, generally not

@Christopher Hey I'm sorry for snapping at you earlier when you attempted to ping 0tab'. Turns out that was not what was causing the issue. That being said you probably shouldn't be testing chat features in TNB.

7:02 PM

So, it turns out the problem with the tabs only happens when the tabs are in a code block

@Dennis can I change my username back?

Not Dennis but if your username is not the issue I don't see why not

It's still an issue

can't be pinged and causes mayhem in the input box when autocompleted

@CartManagerXD It is fine. I didn't even notice. I was just finding out what was going on

@DobbyTheFree-Elf They are Asian color. When you refer to an Asian you don't say "Look at that black person" you say "Look at that Asian"

Citation: Asian cousins

@0 ' I'm going to judge it by the outcome in my browser. If you change it back and there is no problem in chat, I won't take any action. If you change it back and it causes problems, I'll let you know so you can change it again. I'd recommend chatting in the sandbox for a few minutes with the new name to find out (I'll be there too to see if it causes a problem)

@trichoplax Okay, sounds like a good idea

7:13 PM

@trichoplax I have suggested an edit on your question. How does it look

@CartManagerXD Experiments in the sandbox seem to confirm your root cause (tabs in backticks are a problem). If we can establish that they are the only way the problem occurs, I'll accept the edit

Ok cool

@trichoplax Unfortunately since the sandbox is currently broken, it will be a bit until we can test other places where it could possibly break

whoops wrong room

Conor O'Brien

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:3 rep is good

DJMcMayhem

7:37 PM

That's cool

This is a random observation, but I noticed that the product of your badges 2 × 44 × 111 = 9,768 is less than your rep, but the product of my badges 4 × 87 × 229 = 79,692 is greater than my rep

I wonder which is more common

@DJMcMayhem My product is very close to my rep I have a product of 11280 and 11256 rep.

@0 ' All confirmed now. Your username does not cause the room to side scroll unless someone encloses it in back ticks. I'd still recommend against keeping it since it causes confusion when someone tab completes it, but it is not as disruptive as initially thought

@trichoplax Glad we finally got to the bottom of all this. I'll probably change my username to something else unless they decide to fix the pinging/tab completion issue.

@00 00000 I liked your username. :(

7:52 PM

@00 00000 That would be much appreciated.

00 00000

@mınxomaτ Yeah, currently what I am hearing from the meta is that including tabs in your username is not meant to be supported (like varieties of unicode characters) so I'll probably end up replacing them with spaces

@0' Tons of people have unicode characters in their names, just to be edgy and they don't remove them. I thought your username was pretty cool.

@CartManagerXD Well, fingers crossed that StackExchange decide tabs are worth fixing

No side scrolling here

it did cause scrolling here

7:59 PM

@Mendeleev ffs

@Mendeleev It only happens in firefox, please don't use the TNB for experiments

people specifically said that it broke their browsers

it's a really bad idea to try that again.

@0 ' Ah

I've unsuspended you for now, as it prolly wasn't intentional, but still

@Riker Thanks

8:00 PM

>_<

Why was I suspended anyway?

@Mendeleev auto-suspension from flags

it was flagged

Mithrandir

because that's what flags do

oh?

8:00 PM

@Mendeleev your message ( the deleted one, just was a ping for the user) was flagged

it was approved, for good reason (it was annoying af)

I thought they just reported to moderators. Didnt know it was auto flagged

O_o

it wasn't auto-flagged, it was manually flagged and auto-suspended when it was approved

@0 ' so it shouldn't do anything since people don't use firefox

rip spelling

kek

well, just don't do it again, k?

8:01 PM

aight

@Mendeleev halp my fingers cannot type

I have to use my nose to type now

@Christopher G R A M M E R

@Christopher I'm not a person, apparently

also @Christopher you're not Down Christopher any more

@Mendeleev really?

8:02 PM

omg

@JanDvorak rip

A very welcome change.

:P poor downgoat is sad

@Dennis Why?

@Christopher To ping him type @0' don't tab complete, alternatively you can always reply

8:03 PM

welcome change indeed

@JanDvorak Why use Firefox?

@Mendeleev What is it

Please use the sandbox for tests

:36884880 There's a sandbox for that.

I should try to put a U+202e in my username.

8:04 PM

and don't ping users that don't want to be pinged

@Mendeleev the chrome dev team is bad at PR

@Mendeleev Do we really have to go down this road again? I thought I made my opinion on this subject perfectly clear when you were DownWat.

@Mendeleev Please do, my ban finger is tingling.

@Dennis Why would you ban me for it?

Because if you actually can, it will most likely break everything.

No you shouldn't. All, please stop posting unless you really do have something to say. Discussing how to screw up formatting or things that generally belong in the sandbox is off topic here. We've already lowered the signal-to-noise ratio to a record low in the past few hours. Let's all make an effort.

8:07 PM

I'm wondering if 0' is Mendeleev's sock

@JanDvorak ...

@Dennis Does not work :(

@Mendeleev Doesn't work

@JanDvorak OMG, you've found me out!

I am not Mendeleev, or CartManager XD's sock

0' is not my sock

8:17 PM

Who is @CartManagerXD?

wheat wizard

I know the sandbox bot is about to show my new sandboxed question but I would like to announce I am looking for testcases on this question. So if you want to help I'd be happy to make a cool image for you.

ooh make one of DJ's profile pic

it's always great for stuff

and I'd be happy to help with whatever, assuming I can

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

@Riker Do you have a 256x256 version?

New Sandboxed Posts

0

The Image of the Dragon I saw a cool gif of the dragon curve made from a square, and thought what if we started from another base image. So I wrote a program to do this. It's so cool that I thought it would be fun to do it as a challenge. Task You wil...

8:21 PM

@CartManagerXD sure, 1 sec

.... ofc stack.imgur goes down

DJMcMayhem

@Riker I second this motion

@CartManagerXD ^^

@DJMcMayhem :D

@Riker @DJMcMayhem Added

:D

Anything you think that needs to be clarified before I post this challenge?

8:35 PM

I think it is ok

looks good to me

Q: Find a User's SE Reputation

Inb4 answers with all possible situations hard coded

Beta Decay

Hey, can anyone verify that the answers to this are valid:

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Challenge Given a SE user's ID, output the sum of their reputation from across all of the Stack Exchange networks the user has signed up to. Rules If a user has 101 or less reputation on a site, count it as zero in the sum. You should not count Area 51 rep or hidden communities!! URL shorte...

code-golf internet stack-exchange-api

I'm not convinced that Area 51 rep isn't counted by them

Q: Golf an unbeatable chopsticks bot

1

From Wikipedia: Chopsticks is a hand game for two players, in which players extend a number of fingers from each hand and transfer those scores by taking turns to tap one hand against another. In this challenge "splits" can only be 4->2+2 or 2->1+1. Challenge Make a bot that plays chopsti...

code-golf game

user165474

8:58 PM

-1

Q: I'm still [on hold!]

This question is about something that everyone hates: being on hold (on the phone) The standard on hold "conversation" goes something like this: music for 15 seconds Thank you for calling <company name>. We will be with you in a second music for 15 seconds You are number <number in queue> in th...

code-challenge audio

user165474

Should we edit the title to be "I'm still" so the [on-hold] part completes the title?

TuxCopter

Esolang idea: An esolang based on n-body simulation

I don't really get why it is on hold. I don't like the challenge, but I think that it is clear. I feel like people voted to close just because it would be funny to see [on hold!] [on hold]

@TuxCopter so a non-deterministic one?

TuxCopter

n-body sim is deterministic

9:09 PM

Chaos theory, quantum fluctuations, etc...

Wow my internet borked

TuxCopter

I mean the simple things like little particles orbiting around each other :P

Yeah, that's a chaotic system

@TuxCopter Reminds me of this game

9:42 PM

that's an epic game

-is `qwe` possible?
-yes if `asd` is true

Would you think qwe is possible without asd?

yes

Would you trust a random wordpress blog for a challenge? It's the only thing I can find about the game ;_; (my challenge is about to put on hold)

sakuraentorizasshi.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/…

10:31 PM

Is it just me or have Bitcoin transactions gotten really slow.

Q: Confirm a town by looking at it's "map"

10:54 PM

0

A town Below is an example of a town, it consists of a 2D string or an equivalent (e.g; a 2D array of characters, array of strings, etc). The "town" is a top down map of it's roads. Each character can either be one of the following. - or : : a street (horizontal or vertical) = or | : a highway...

code-golf string ascii-art

Question: would you say multiple inheritance actually bad OO-design? The arguments I've seen are the most strawman ones, so curious if I should bother adding to cheddar

Geobits

Go with quantum inheritance.

It's a subclass of A or B, but you don't know which until you look.