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10:00 PM
they're allowed
 
Ok phew
 
Mar 9 at 23:47, by Alex A.
We meet again, Dr. Lennipede.
Look a message up
 
I trust that women have minds and morals. Aborting your own child has to be one of the hardest decisions in life.
 
Man I've been in TNB for like 1.5 hrs now, I could have learned everything in javascript: the good parts
 
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@epicTCK you can learn that in 0s.
/s
 
10:01 PM
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ there's a more recent one
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ B/c there are not any good parts of JS
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Link?
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ fixed
 
@epicTCK voila
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ \o/
Now you need to quote it again later :P
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Ok how do you get these permalinks so fast?
 
@AlexA. Sorry I meant to reply to this earlier but... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
 
10:02 PM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Link to transcript! send attack drones!
 
@epicTCK there's a reply button
no like, click the reply button
@epicTCK future replying ? XD
 
Linking chat posts after yours like "I am a time traveler!"
 
@HelkaHomba I doubt it's nearly so hard when you consider it nothing more than a mass of cells enslaving your body.
 
@El'endiaStarman Slave masters are nothing more than a mass of cells enslaving your body.
 
10:08 PM
 
user image
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Ok Ill stop now.
 
> (April 2020) BREAKING NEWS! TRUMP FOUND HIGH ON MJ, CASTS DOUBT ON HIS REELECTION
(heaven forbid)
 
Looks like I missed more politics
and memes
 
10:12 PM
welcome back
were we in politics earlier?
 
@El'endiaStarman Oh, so it's not a life, just a mass of cells? I scrub skin cells off all the time in the shower and I don't call it murder. Sorry, I don't mean to trip you up :P I definitely agree that abortion has no easy answers, and I really don't know my personal stance on it, my main point was that in general men aren't qualified to try and give the answers. Anyway, have some 🍨
 
NVM, plus one for icecream emoji
 
@HelkaHomba I sure hope I wasn't implying that I believed what I said there.
 
1
Q: Continued Fraction of a Rational Number

mbomb007The continued fraction of a number n is a fraction of the following form: which converges to n. The sequence a in a continued fraction is typically written as: [a0; a1, a2, a3, ..., an]. Your goal is to return the continued fraction of the given rational number (positive or negative), whether ...

 
@HelkaHomba Now you're just forcing it for the sake of memity
 
10:13 PM
@El'endiaStarman No, don't worry :J
@Rainbolt 🍊_🍊
 
@Rainbolt Naw, I'm sure he was just taking the time to compose his replies.
 
he means the food I think
 
@HelkaHomba Are those watermelons or oranges?
 
which is a good thing ^^^
 
@HelkaHomba Oh, yeah, maybe.
 
10:14 PM
@El'endiaStarman Tacos/half of pyramids with yellow circles around them
 
@El'endiaStarman I mentioned last night that his most serious responses always include dessert
 
@HelkaHomba Tangerines \approx oranges, so looks like my second guess was basically right. :P
 
Avocad emoji to be released in unicode 9! btw gtg
 
10:15 PM
BAI
@epicTCK Unicode 362880?
 
@Rainbolt I don't like debates to get angry or non-constructive. It adds levity (and can change the topic for the better :p)
 
@Rainbolt Huh, I missed that.
 
@HelkaHomba /agrees
we were getting pretty close if not past that
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ 🍙_🍙
 
10:18 PM
@HelkaHomba The effect will wear off if you start to hand out too many sweets
 
^^ can we pin this? :3
 
No.
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ When both Fatalize and epicTCK were chatting? Yeah.
 
@El'endiaStarman yeah :|
 
99.99% of the time the answer to "Can/should we pin this?" is "No."
 
10:19 PM
@AlexA. so you want to worry and be sad? how unfortunate. #badlogic
 
Yes
 
Me in this election. ^
 
which election?
2 people saying other, please ping me ._.
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ
 
10:21 PM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ call it "Bloggoat"
 
ROASTE
     D
3
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ what is the blog about?
 
@HelkaHomba Mostly programming, some math, and some (optionally math/programming) related rants
 
either comix or programming
comix blog is moar fun
 
Comics blog stays on that other doman
 
10:22 PM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ avocad-fuel code
 
@Downgoat sighs
 
Blogdragon?
 
:D
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ "Conor O'Bloggin"
 
10:24 PM
XD not a bad idea
a little too vain tho
 
@AlexA. considering that the chance the computer explodes before it can finish running that program is bigger than it producing the wrong result, I think it's fine
 
Why do both the built in timer apps for Windows 10 and Android not let you directly type a timespan in >>:|
Do I really need a multiselect of all the numbers from 0 to 59? I think I have them memorized...
 
> Windows
use mac instead
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ no
 
10:28 PM
pls no
 
@ArtOfCode What's your OS of choice?
 
mac is no
 
@orlp Okay
@ArtOfCode Mac is life.
 
@AlexA. Windows 10.
 
10:28 PM
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ lend me a few thousand so I can buy one then ok
 
too much blue name
 
@ArtOfCode ಠ_ಠ
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ ohey I typo'd
 
10:28 PM
@AlexA. Or Linux, for servers.
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ you definitely did
 
that was a year (?) ago?
 
It's just so much easier than Mac. And you have more freedom, rather than being locked down like Apple wants you to be.
 
I disagree, I think OS X is much easier than Windows
Granted, "easy" is inherently subjective
 
10:30 PM
@ArtOfCode yes
 
Heh. Fair. I've spent the past decade on Windows systems up from XP, so I just know it.
 
I was on Windows from 95 to 7 but I switch to Mac in 2011
I can get around on either but I prefer Mac
 
Oh yeah, I was at your Windows Departure Funeral.
 
10:31 PM
And I still have to use Windows for work
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ ???
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Each person who leaves Windows has a WDF.
 
Plus Windows is so much more widespread in education and enterprise, so if you know Windows you don't have to switch systems so much.
 
0/10 bad caps
 
10:33 PM
Also, linux et al. look like procrastination hell
 
?
 
Do we have a 'Print the Nth palindromic number' challenge?
I see a 'Print the Nth non-palindromic number', but not a palindromic one?
 
Probably not because it's pretty boring
 
10:36 PM
okay
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Replace linux with codegolf, and that's the story of my life.
 
If both exist, they're duplicates.
(not Linux and code golf)
 
only 1 exists
 
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ cool XD
 
10:37 PM
Hey @Dennis What's the difference between Jelly and m?
 
Currently it's small
M uses arbitrary precision in all cases whereas Jelly doesn't
 
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ M has symbolic data types and a lot of bugs.
 
But why are there two jellys?
 
Since most people have already jumped on the jelly train (haha), I'll look into M.
 
@Dennis brb closing Unix & Linux SE as a duplicate of PPCG
3
 
10:39 PM
Super mod powers!
Closing entire SE sites!
 
A site I don't even moderate!
 
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ Because M will be quite different from Jelly one day. It's currently barely more than an idea.
 
@Dennis suggestion: add a 2*n-1 function--it's very useful.
 
Yeah, I had thought about that.
 
2*n-1 or 2**n-1?
 
10:42 PM
the former
 
Why is that particularly useful?
 
I would also like to know the answer to this inquiry
 
If nothing else, it would be useful to map 0/1 to -1/1 and to iterate over odd numbers.
 
^
it could take an optional left argument that would be l*r-1
 
> optional left argument
There's no such thing in Jelly.
 
10:45 PM
oh, right, fixed arity
 
11:03 PM
everybody's working for UTC-midnight
 
5
Q: For protected questions, require local reputation to comment

Monica CellioQuestions are occasionally protected when they start attracting unwanted input -- because the question was on the Hot Network Questions list, because it hit Reddit, because it's about a hot-button topic that everybody wants to weigh in on... Protection allows a community to prevent some stuff tha...

monring
 
Monking PPCG folks
 
good morning CR people
 
11:12 PM
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ So did I
 
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ Oh my gosh! I was expecting something like my name, which broke some of SE's code (and other companies' code) because of the apostrophe.
 
lol I know
That's especially a pain in T-SQL, since the only way to escape a single quote is with another single quote
 
3830
Q: How do I correctly pass the string "Null" (an employee's proper surname) to a SOAP web service from ActionScript 3?

billWe have an employee whose last name is Null. Our employee lookup application is killed when that last name is used as the search term (which happens to be quite often now). The error received (thanks Fiddler!) is: <soapenv:Fault> <faultcode>soapenv:Server.userException</faultcode> <fault...

 
@Quill Easy, if unethical solution: Fire Null.
 
My favorite programminghorror I've ever encountered in real life:
list = string.split()
list = split(string)
 
11:18 PM
what
 
That made me cringe pretty hard.
 
Another easy solution would be to drop ActionScript3 for a decent language
 
which language?
 
@me or quill?
 
11:18 PM
VB.net
 
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ you got the @s backward
 
@ss backwards?
 
Or I didn't feel like it was worth pinging @you.
 
in The 2nd Monitor, Nov 15 '15 at 20:20, by Phrancis
@TomV I found that at my old job when I had to search for a client whose name was O'Donnell and the app fired an ODBC incorrect syntax near "Donnell" error... ;D
 
What's really interesting is if your name was made up of emojis
 
11:20 PM
Give it a few years, I'm sure it's coming.
 
@Geobits The new Kardashian baby name
 
@Quill Oooo that would break so many things
 
"It's pronounced winky-winky-eggplant"
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ she's not even mad... she's just disappointed
 
11:22 PM
@Phrancis Aren't emojis just Unicode though? They'd break all the same stuff.
 
@Quill ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
Er, yes, they're Unicode
 
@El'endiaStarman Yeah, they are
 
It would probably break all those old VB apps at least
 
There's a different Unicode set for them than for diacritics... don't some apps only support the sets of Unicode with the diacritics and not emojis?
 
11:23 PM
Probably. There are different "versions" of Unicode, after all.
 
Man, I was so excited thinking that I had gotten infinite lists working with pure Perl and tied arrays until I tried iterating over it :/
For some reason it needs the size of the array....
 
enter PhiNotPi
 
hello
 
From this comment, I learned of the existence of the Node package five.
 
11:26 PM
Ah, for gets the entire array first. That's why.
@El'endiaStarman oh dear
 
@El'endiaStarman Life happens in Five.
 
@El'endiaStarman look at the pull requests on it
 
> five.klingon()
 
> five.async(
Node.JS in a nutshell
event loop all the things
 
11:29 PM
Hey if any of you can vote on Code Review, check out this incredible answer by user with only 300 rep on a question over a year old
 
-1 no attempt at golfing
2
 
lol golfing in Java
 
:/
 
How should I determine what order to put the words in pretzels dictionary compression? I.e. Which words are more important to express with few characters?
 
47
A: The Many Memes of PPCG

Sp3000Meme: Java Origin: Java's existence Cultural Height: Always Background: The go-to example of a verbose language. It can be used in many contexts. For comfort: A: My golf is too long :( B: At least it's not Java As a red flag: A: Uh oh, my golf is almost as long as Java's B: Clearly, you'r...

 
11:31 PM
@Cyoce If you figure it out, please tell me.
 
@Cyoce more common words I'd say divided by word length
 
Java is sad because you guys are mean :(
 
@Geobits Java is too long to be sad
 
Knock Knock
Who's There
*pause*
What do you want, Java?
 
Hey, it's still better than having to use javascript.
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11:34 PM
ಠ_ಠ
 
shots fired
 
I have nothing against Java, but I can.
 
@Geobits I.disagree().then((you) => you.shoo())
 
I have nothing against javascript. Except, well, javascript :P
 
@Downgoat that was my first thought... Except more common words in English are not necessarily more common in challenges... Also, "the" is the most common word, but including it in the dictionary takes up a valuable slot while only saving one byte
 
11:35 PM
@Cyoce what's why you should do: (total_words - rank) / length
 
I read this 3 times and still have no idea what I am supposed to do. Am I the only one? — DenkerAffe 4 hours ago
 
You're questioning the value of one byte in code golf?!
 
@El'endiaStarman but why save one byte when you can save more?
 
in The 2nd Monitor, 4 hours ago, by Jeroen Vannevel
@DanPantry I'm convinced that somewhere there is a random word generator working 24/7 and each time it creates compilable JS, it's released as a new JS framework
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factory of monkeys writing JS frameworks
 
ohai
@Quill ohhh
BTW, what is .then?
I was having problems with it.
 
11:42 PM
it's a promise
 
You know the real world idea of a promise... yeah, that
 
It does something... later
 
TIL JS can promise to do stuff for you.
 
11:43 PM
Once you eat your dinner, I promise, then, you can have dessert
 
dinner.eat().then((dessert) => dessert.eat())
 
woah too much CR in too little meeseges
@Quill coooooolio
 
Problem with JavaScript is not that it's inherently bad, there's just too many of it
 
it's similar to a callback, but the callback idea is builtin to the type
 
11:45 PM
(yes, intentional grammar error)
 
> There are 14 competing javascripts. I know, I'll write one javascript to bring them all together with the best parts from each!
 
^
there are no best parts, so that won't exactly work well
 
^^^^
 
JavaScript is like the foster child that turned out a success once it finally grew up
Went from home to home looking for a decent place to live, but nothing
 
11:51 PM
I adopted it :3
 
> You're not my real dad!
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ what happened to your eye??
 
@Downgoat Geobits poked me?
 
@Geobits ಠ_ಠ
 
11:53 PM
s/poked(.+)\?/stabbed\1!!!/ <badpun>
 
I wanted to see his poker face.
 
you did not just do that XD
 
Oh I did. Deal.
 
11:54 PM
Badum-Tsh. tumbleweeds with crickets on them
 
inb4 ninja annoucement
 
Ninja'd!
 
What? I never disappoint.
 
11:56 PM
We interrupt this transcript to bring you a ninja announcement
 
Did you guys look at the transcript of the round table chat from earlier?
 
It was hectic, like 15 discussions happening at once
 
Round table?
 
The pizza place?
 
11:57 PM
@AlexA. no, king arthur's place
 

MSE Town Hall #1: Comments

5 hours ago, 59 minutes total – 380 messages, 48 users, 716 stars

Bookmarked 4 hours ago by hairboat

 
Should [1,2,3].map(1) output [1,1,1]?
 
@Quill Whoa, I totally missed this. Damn.
 
A free for all meta town hall? Oh god that sounds terrible.
 
11:58 PM
Can't be all bad. 716 stars...
 
@quartata it was at 5am for me, and I didn't miss it
 
@trichoplax Total or on a single post?
 
I had no idea about it, I mean.
 
True. Stars mark importance, clearly.
 
I wasn't there either, but from reading through, very hard to follow since there was just so much going on at once
 
11:59 PM
@trichoplax That's 11 stars a minute
 
@Downgoat does 1() return 1?
 
@AlexA. I assume total - I'm just reading off Quill's sign
 
Oh
 
@Maltysen no
 
@Downgoat then, no
 
11:59 PM
@AlexA. it's a conversation; the counts are totals
 
@Quill [REDACTED BUT INSERT CURSES HERE]
 
@Downgoat It would be nice, but probably not a good idea
 

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