The Nineteenth Byte

Son: Mommy, Mommy can i have a cookie!

Mom:Sure Honey there on the top shelf

Son:But mommy you know that I have no arms

Mom:No arms, No cookies

Mom:Joking, here catch!

Alex A.

Hahaha wtf

ಠ_ಠ

I thought you could relate if ~~you have no hands.~~ your hands are in an entirely different country.

Optimizer

... or in your ass..

which, also can be in an entirely different country..

Alex A.

u_u

aditsu

Bhangra Empire @ Bruin Bhangra 2009

►

Optimizer

9:01 PM

ughh. typical cliched stereotyping alert!

WTF does it even mean by

> Update available. Click to update your WhatsApp for Web

Alex A.

It means an update is available...?

Optimizer

for a web page?

and that too, as soon as I opened the page

Alex A.

Does it not install anything locally?

Optimizer

its a webpage

on a browser

we are in 2015 and I am still explaining you what is "WhatsApp for Web"

Alex A.

I have no idea what "WhatsApp for Web" is...

Optimizer

9:05 PM

do you know what WhatsApp is?

No

ಠ_ಠ

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I barely have any idea what WhatsApp is.

It's not something I have any reason to use.

That much I know!

Optimizer

so you call someone everytime you need to talk to them?

Alex A.

9:09 PM

Yeah, or text.

El'endia Starman

^

Optimizer

the or text part is mostly replaced by WhatsApp/Telegram

Doorknob

I've heard the name WhatsApp but I have no idea what it is.

minxomat

@Doorknob Free texts (with optional attachments).

Optimizer

so you guys are unaware of the 19 Billion USD acquisition by Facebook too?

Alex A.

9:16 PM

Yes

orange vegetable

okay

@Doorknob Squash?

orange vegetable -> carrot -> caret -> ^

Zach Gates

@Optimizer What

Optimizer

9:18 PM

wow, I feel like I am talking to bunch of 70 yrs old! :D

Zach Gates

:P

Alex A.

@Optimizer Squash?

Optimizer

oh, you might not know what does that mean as birds don't live that long

Alpha male vs beta male? I'll wait for the stable male, please, like at least 1.0

Tweeted by alicegoldfuss on October 1, 2015 at 9:14 PM

Geobits

9:39 PM

@Optimizer WhatsApp doesn't seem like it has much purpose, at least here. All the major carriers give unlimited texting. What other benefits are there?

Not even just old people. I don't know teens that use it either.

Optimizer

video sharing, voice messages, voice calls, attachments

groups

Geobits

So it's just Google Hangouts? :P

Optimizer

yeah, except for its much more common

Geobits

Not here it's not.

Doorknob

Not here either.

Optimizer

9:41 PM

is google hangouts more common?

(on phone)

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Yes or no.

Geobits

Well according to the first link I found when googling, WhatsApp is only on 8% of phones in the US.

I may be wrong, but I think most recent androids have Hangouts (installed at least) by default.

Alex A.

I didn't know Hangouts was a mobile thing too.

Optimizer

I dunno, but personally, even I would not feel like using hangouts that much.

Doorknob

Why not?

Optimizer

9:48 PM

(well, I don't feel like using android as well)

@Doorknob Google

Doorknob

...?

Optimizer

I mean the company

Doorknob

uh, yes, it's Google Hangouts. So?

Geobits

I tend to trust Google more than Facebook ;)

Alex A.

^

Doorknob

9:51 PM

^

Alex A.

I still have a Facebook account though. I just rarely use it.

Doorknob

I've never had a Facebook account >_>

Alex A.

They're not really worth the effort.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Late, but ^

Alex A.

What does everyone call the little USB storage devices? USB sticks? Thumb drives? USB drives?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

10:01 PM

Thumb/flash drives

Memory sticks, too

Hello :)

@Shebang Hello!

What's up?

Nothing much ^_^ you?

Alex A.

Hey @Vioz-

minxomat

10:15 PM

The tricky thing about programming a game AI is that unless you are pretty good at the game - you can't test it.

Alex A.

That's what ~~interns~~ ~~slaves~~ testers are for.

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Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@minxomat What game are you trying to program an AI for?

minxomat

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I'm writing a paper about adaptive AI. The game I'm demonstrating this with is checkers (both international and american). After a few intial games, the AI adapts its "intelligence" the the players ability.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@minxomat Huh! That's cool. Can I read your draft, or is it not in that state yet? (I love AI/game theory/adaptive intel.)

minxomat

I have many things to do before that ;) . I'm currently drafting an article on my blog about machine intelligence that is very, very detailed. After that I'm going to finish this adaptive AI thing.

Alex A.

10:20 PM

Checkers is different in the US than elsewhere?

minxomat

@AlexA. Yes.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@minxomat Link me to your blog? :3

Alex A.

What's it like elsewhere?

minxomat

Elsewhere we can move back (e.g.).

American Checkers Federation forbids that.

Alex A.

Whoa, that organization sounds super serious.

minxomat

10:22 PM

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ It's not online yet (the article), but it is going to be here: minxomat.eu

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@minxomat Ah, thanks!

XD Yup. The ACF will get your number if you play the game wrong.

minxomat

Yeah, I was just playing with a friend and was about to move back and suddenly we're surrounded by a SWAT team...

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Which is the real reason why the Brits don't lake the Americans ^_^

Alex A.

They don't put Americans in lakes?

Here I've been afraid my whole life of being laked by a Brit.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

xD They probably don't--blub

minxomat

10:27 PM

Brits dont lake americans because they fear tsunamis...

Alex A.

I don't think you can get tsunamis in lakes.

minxomat

If you drop an american in it .. sure.

Alex A.

ಠ_ಠ

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

XD Well, if you're anywhere near where I am, we might get some pretty interesting sights, to say the least.

Thomas Kwa

I feel like there's a much more elegant proof of my three-fruit pie thing that I'm missing.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

10:30 PM

What's your current proof?

Alex A.

Thomas Kwa

I'm not quite done with it, but there's lots of casework.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. ... o_____o

Oh, I see. What's the claim?

Alex A.

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Volcanic eruption in my state, 1980.

Thomas Kwa

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A: How many three-fruit pies can you make?

Pyth, 19 18 bytes -1 byte by @FryAmTheEggman I claim that the number of pies that can be formed from an ascending list [x1,x2,x3,x4,x5] is: floor(min((x1+x2+x3+x4+x5)/3,(x1+x2+x3+x4)/2,x1+x2+x3)) Or in code: hS[/sJSQ3/sPJ2sPPJ [See revision history for TI-BASIC and APL programs] Proof of...

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

10:32 PM

@AlexA. ᴏ________ᴏ ᴡᴏᴏᴏᴏᴡ

Thomas Kwa

The claim is that three-fruit pies are maximized by taking from the largest piles of fruit every time, and that it always reaches a certain upper bound.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@ThomasKwa Oʜʜʜ...

Thomas Kwa

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Have you a custom small-caps keyboard?

Alex A.

That's the Cyrillic "n"

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Yᴇs, I ᴅᴏ ɪɴᴅᴇᴇᴅ ^_^ I ᴀʟsᴏ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴏɴᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴍᴀᴛʜ sʏᴍʙᴏʟs: ∧×⌊⌋≤≥¬↦∈∏∩⊇⊂⊃ℤℝℂ

Alex A.

10:41 PM

Apcлaн is my last name in the Tatar Cyrillic alphabet.

Thomas Kwa

If all caps sounds like yelling, then small caps sounds like yelling from far away, at the correct distance to be the same volume as normal conversation.

Alex A.

Hahaha

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

XD

minxomat

It's fancy. The text equivalent of wearing a monocle.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

YUS HIPSTER ʜɪᴘsᴛᴇʀ

Alex A.

10:45 PM

آﺮﺴﻠﺎﻦ is my last name in the original Tatar Arabic alphabet.

^ irrelevant, just having fun

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

XD I love the characters -- it looks sort of like an emote

Alex A.

Hipsters don't wear monocles; they wear thick rimmed glasses with no lenses.

minxomat

What kind of twisted emotions do your emoticons have @CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ ...

Alex A.

^

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

XD

I would explain by expanding all the characters out, but LTR vs RTL is confusing.

I'm just saying the sideways [ looking one looks like a mouth, the u with a dot looking one looks like an eye, and the right one looks like a crying eye

The rest is just acne

Sparr

10:49 PM

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I think you're putting way too much expectation into those characters being rendered the same in all our different OSes/browsers/fonts

Alex A.

Yeah. I don't see any of things you mentioned.

Sparr

also, :/ @ your name having small caps in it causing name completion to not work right in the chat room

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Sparr (1) Right. (2) Type @C + tab.

minxomat

@Sparr It works. Just type the C. @CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Alex A.

^

Sparr

10:50 PM

just one letter is horrible practice!

20 years on IRC has trained me to type 3 characters. 5 if that's ambiguous.

minxomat

More than one is wasted energy.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

That's how I ping @Sparr, @minxomat, and @AlexA.

Sparr

@minxomat just one is wasted time, if you have to pay attention to the order of the names to tab through them

I don't want to have to interact with the GUI to type a message

Doorknob

Or use chat as it was intended to be used and use the "reply" button

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Typically, the one that most recently talked shows up.

Alex A.

10:51 PM

You have eyes, don't you? Just look at which is selected...

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

^ doorknob

Sparr

@Doorknob get me keyboard shortcuts for that button

@AlexA. "look at the screen" is not a step in my typing habits

Alex A.

:P

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

XD

Doorknob

@Sparr github.com/KeyboardFire/sevichat

Sparr

10:52 PM

while I'm typing this message, I am reading the top comments on the right, checking my mailbox status icon in the top right corner of the screen, and doing a few other things

minxomat

Still better than users with completely untype-able names.

Sparr

@Doorknob thanks!

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

oh yeah, like that guy with the weird eyes

Alex A.

@Doorknob That's really cool!

Sparr

I'd love the autocomplete to be a bit smarter and have fallbacks

if I type @Co and there are none, it should get fuzzier in its match

show me @C* maybe

Alex A.

10:53 PM

@minxomat Type @ and press tab. It gets ಠ_ಠ right away.

minxomat

Not talking about this specific user.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Sparr YES. Fuzzy logic FTW

Alex A.

@minxomat My point is that if the username begins with an abnormal character, the name will appear first when you just type @.

Works in comments and in chat.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

quick help me how do I wrap lines in a <pre> tag?

Doorknob

<pre>
like
this?
</pre>

Alex A.

10:55 PM

^

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I mean when the lines get too long

Sparr

@AlexA. what is an "abnormal character"? do I have to type @; for a name that starts with ;?

Alex A.

Idk

Sparr

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ test

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

<pre>like thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiissssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss‌sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss‌ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss</pre>

Sparr

10:56 PM

blah blah

Doorknob

word-wrap: break-word

I think

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

?

Sparr

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ hit ctrl+k or prefix every line of the message with four spaces

Doorknob

wait I lied

it's white-space: pre-wrap

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Oh, thanks @Doorknob.

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Sparr

oh, are we talking CSS? I thought we were talking about in here

Alex A.

I have no idea what's going on

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

XD Yes, CSS. Writing a blog post.

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