The Sphinx's Lair - 2017-06-13 (page 1 of 4)

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12:02 AM

@Rubio Much more approachable than something like a meta puzzle

aye

problem being that solving it is usually not as approachable...

Depends

Surprised mine is standing

Mike's went down already

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1:46 AM

@n_palum What do you mean "went down"? That it was already solved?

@MikeQ Oh, yeah

Gareth McCaughan

I assume so. (Regarding what you wrote originally, I'm pretty sure Phoenix was referring to my "aye aye" nonense and not to your puzzle.)

@GarethMcCaughan Yes, it took me a few moments too long to figure that out. It's been a long day.

Lots of "male bovines strike nonsense (8)", if you'll pardon my cryptic French

2:47 AM

Hmm, the first letters of n_palum puzzle's title are TAIRHS which anagrams to A SHIRT :o (hope that's not the intended answer)

Possible but that means the puzzle content is a red herring

That'd, uh, explain the 'Not like this' and 'also not here' things, maybe

Kinda like this

well, yeah, but that puzzle was one line long and still unsolved

I don't think this would happen to a long puzzle such as n_p's, unless the content is a puzzle that resolves to ignoring the content (in which case the content is a puzzle anyway)

One possibility is the puzzle content will somehow spell out "First letters of title and anagram"

Or something like that

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6:44 AM

Oo, Anko has already found what I thought was the answer..

Good that I came in here before posting an answer..

1 hour later…

8:06 AM

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Q: Messages hidden in the "visit every square once" puzzle

I proposed my girlfriend yesterday, asking her to be my wife. but she did not answer me. Besides she gave me this 6 puzzles, below. She said I will know her answer after solving the puzzles. Inside the puzzle there is a poem she wrote for me. The puzzle ask us to visit every squares once, from s...

steganography grid-deduction

8:33 AM

Does anyone here have a Scratch account with a Scratcher rank?

I'm trying to see if I can put together a Spyfall server, but I need to test things with another user. Do not expect it to work any time soon.

This server will require: a.) access to a Scratch.mit.edu account that isn't a spam account, as you can't alter cloud data with a New Scratcher account, and b.) will require me manually adding you to the list of approved users (so no 'friends').

But ATM I need someone to test my code, to test if this is remotely feasible.

o/ @Sp3000

What's a Scratcher rank? I have an account...

Link to your account?

user image

Is New Scratcher the rank?

Yes.

Hey Mith

8:45 AM

@boboquack try leaving some comments on my stuff (username's superplane)

Wow, I haven't done much in a very long while there.

I've been a member for 6+ years, and was a mentor at Scratch Day, and I've done like nothing that I actually shared o_o

I've left a comment on your chess game

You need to like, share some projects, leave some comments, etc, and you might be able to get to Sratcher.

*goes back to work*

@boboquack what happens if you click the green flag here?

user image

:/

That's what I thought.

> share some projects

8:53 AM

@ASCII-only you have an account?

:| I need a project idea first

@Mithrandir Just got one, never really bothered because I never really liked Scratch

Link to you too?

@Mithrandir ?

Link to your profile?

scratch.mit.edu/users/ASCII-only

8:55 AM

...joined 2 minutes ago?

he "just got one"

ah

Hmm, let's see if I can get into one of my brother's students accounts

hah

Never save your passwords into a computer that's not yours, people

that part works

Wooooo

never save your passwords

would we need experienced accounts to use whatever you're building?

Yes.

:/

9:01 AM

There's no way it would work without it, unfortunately

I'll just set up some accounts for you guys ;P

*creates private room so that no unsavory beasts can get in*

@ffao mind if I use you as a test? Set up an account for you and do some stuff?

not at all (it's not going to be my account until I use it anyways :P)

> To be upgraded from New Scratcher to Scratcher, you must have at least two projects, several comments, love and favorite projects, and have been on Scratch for at least 2 weeks. You will receive a notification when you meet the qualifications.

two weeks is a pretty big hindrance

@boboquack Link?

link

9:06 AM

wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/How_do_I_become_a_Scratcher%3F

@JanDvorak tyvm

@ffao everyone start now. Won't be ready for a while anyway

Okay, @ffao, go to the user ffao12345

Am I supposed to do something with this user?

hang on a minute and I'll pop a project on in

*it

Whee... sorry, I'm just going to comment on a lot of your projects.

9:10 AM

I don't mind.

@ffao If you want it. I just created a simple project for that user.

scratch.mit.edu/projects/165806940

woo, I made cat paint

@ffao watch carefully

Password coming up:

etch-a-scratch?

:38072309 Rubio comes in later, says "I'm a moderator too! I can look at that!"

@boboquack Yeah, I shoulda purged it

But I didn't

SO he can look at it

*goes back to coding*

9:22 AM

Okay I'm going to steal a project

But I can't figure out how to make a custom loop block, why does Scratch have to have such bad loop support

now that in we're in programmer talk, how hard would it be to extract certain pixels out of an image and make a new image out of them?

@ffao In Scratch?

no, anywhere

@ffao If you have the raw pixels, then really easy

It's only hard if you have to 1. convert it from a file or 2. You have no image support

scratch.mit.edu/projects/165809253

FR: OB Scratch projects

9:28 AM

@Mithrandir ?

Depends what you mean by "extract certain pixels". If you mean hiding an image as another steganographically then pretty easily

ok, I'll look into it

user image

@boboquack That wasn't my intention (see the project - I wanted to turn off screen refresh)

user image

^does this look right?

(there's a list and a variable names 'Locations', which are not the same)

*named

9:34 AM

wait 0 secs?

Yes.

I need that so that I can see :P

Can't you set a cloud variable to a string?

Only numbers.

Don't you have CASE?

@Techidiot ?

9:34 AM

why are you setting Location in the ifs, then setting it outside the ifs?

Because it works, apparently

@Mithrandir He means switch ... case ... statements

Case statement instead of If-else..

@Techidiot Nup

Nope.

9:35 AM

Oh.

but to me looks like that whole thing could be just "set cloud variable to random, set Location to item cloud variable of Locations"

^

@Techidiot I can do an alternative though

How about you take a look inside and see what I'm doing?

Ah- conflict of interest over 'cloud variable'?

9:38 AM

@boboquack I still need to make that happen only once.

I can also apparently only have one cloud variable :/

/afk

Ooh! This makes it more interesting!

@Mithrandir So something like this doesn't work?

user image

^ that's what I meant

how can I see the other scripts? this editor is really confusing

@ffao Click on another sprite

k, got it

9:45 AM

@ASCII-only I stink at golfing.

This isn't golfing, it's optimizing :P

@ASCII-only Scratch?

Also is the wait 0 secs necessary

@manshu Scroll up

this isn't golfing, the if chain would be a pain to keep

No one has written an answer to palum's puzzle?

9:51 AM

user image

this one cloud variable thing really complicates matters

> Here are the details on what functionality the current implementation of cloud variables supports on Scratch. Cloud data has a limit of up to ten (10) cloud variables per project. Cloud variables can contain only numbers (unlike regular variables, they cannot contain letters). A character limit of 10,240 digits per variable has also been implemented, which translates to 300.7 KB of cloud data storage per project.

but you're only getting one?

wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Cloud_Data

Every time I try to create a second one it doesn't

scratch.mit.edu/projects/22003344/#editor

scratch.mit.edu/projects/10096959/#editor

^could these help?

Hi guys I arrived

10:06 AM

@Wen1now o/

@boboquack Every time I click create when I try to create a new cloud variable the popup disappears and no variable is created

Yeah, those store lists of multiple variables in a single cloud variable (I think), so I thought they might help

Feel free to fork my project and do what you can ;)

What are you guys doing?

I tried to follow the conversation but got lost :(

playing with Mith's scratch

@Wen1now read from here

10:12 AM

Woah, why scratch? Surely there are better ways?

Surely there are. But not that I can do ;P

(also, this was running through my head all night, and I had to give in)

Woah, I remembered my scratch details from a few years ago

Yeah. Even @Rubio can do scratch :p

I feel so smart now

@Wen1now You have an account with a Scratcher rank?

10:13 AM

Yeah

scratch.mit.edu/users/BWen123

@Wen1now click the green flag here please: scratch.mit.edu/projects/165800633

tell me when you have, please

@manshu ?

mmhm

What does the 'users' list say?

@Rubio You know scratch?

10:17 AM

@Wen1now I love how you edited a perfectly non-descript mmh to a still perfectly non-descript mmhm

i know OF it, but I've never used it myself

I am supposed to use it for my CS50 course on edx but I haven't yet

Rubio is up, I think this means it's time to accept that I'm not finishing this puzzle today and trying again tomorrow

@manshu Okay, scratch that, Rubio obviously can't use Scratch

@mith Sorry, I just saw your comment. The users list says 1, 4

(anyway, I invite people to make their own - it's probably preferable for someone else to make one than use my have-to-reload-and-hack-Scratch attempt)

@Wen1now Huh. I have to check my code to see why the 4 won't show up on my end.

10:20 AM

1 and 1 it shows.

for me too

Wait, for users it shows 1 and 2

and user ready shows 1 and 1

Hey have a go at scratch.mit.edu/projects/70580574 and see what happens

@Wen1now Your Marco Polo is nice :D

@boboquack well yeah - but you can't alter cloud data with a New Scratcher account so the two will only show for you

Well, tbh I stole the marco code and the code for the smooth movement

So really all I did was the polo code

10:25 AM

oh.

btw What's your Polo record?

Player score: 103 for Marco

92

and 110 for Marco.

Yay first project

@ffao Soon to reach 100 votes :)

10:28 AM

Wait, you do know in Polo the aim is to avoid the red duck?

oh.

then I think that I can score better :p

@ASCII-only What is it?

@Wen1now Chaos game fractal drawing (stolen) (now changed so turbo mode is unneeded)

Then I scored higher than 1300. And then I stopped

Ooh, we had to do the equilateral triangle with r=1/2 as an assignment

10:33 AM

@Techidiot ... I have no words to describe what is happening with that question

lol.. ^ditto

Which question?

which question?

3 days 14K is :O

This

I am ninja'd :(

10:35 AM

Nice, are you getting the bounty now?

I rep capped for 3 consecutive days because of that single answer

And I'm already at +80 today

Here, have another upvote :)

@ASCII-only What is 'Points per side?'

Gareth McCaughan

ugggggh

I just want it to have more than 100 votes, but given how unlucky I am I'm sure it will stop at 99 :p

@Wen1now It's from the one I stole, with 0 points per side you just have the corners, with 1 you have midpoints etc.

10:37 AM

Oh, right

Userscript idea: when you attempt to upvote a person, that person's checked for the rep cap. If he is rep-capped, the upvote is silently delayed for 24 hours.

Gareth McCaughan

please no

user image

@JanDvorak Hmm good idea but ^^

@GarethMcCaughan what?

Gareth McCaughan

10:38 AM

I mean, the rep-cap is there for a reason, and deliberately defeating it would be rude

oh hey Mithrandir

drat :-D

"I'm a moderator too! I can look at that!"

:P

Well, as I said earlier, the rep system has a lot of perverse incentives

Gareth McCaughan

10:40 AM

true. but that doesn't mean automating the perversion is a good idea.

Answer a trivial question: tons of upvotes; dupe-close it: just shouting and maybe a serial downvote.

I'm still amazed at how that question took off.

the ineffable power of HNQ

3

It's also got like 49 upvotes o_o

btw @Mithrandir How is the spyfall server coming along?

What has 49 upvotes?

10:46 AM

49

Q: Do hot peppers kill cancer?

While browsing Health.SE, I came across an answer that makes the following claim: A 2007 study by Nottingham University2 found that spicy foods can help kill cancer cells. Capsaicin, which is what makes many foods spicy, attacks the mitochondria of the cancer cells, triggering their death. ...

medical-science nutrition cancer scientific-papers

@Wen1now I'm trying something - I created a new project which is now letting me have more than one cloud variable. *shrugs*

Okay. After tonight, I'm next around at ... tomorrow afternoon or sometime thereabouts (in +16hrs)

@Gareth looks like Oehm trumped us all..

Gareth McCaughan

As so often.

On what?

Gareth McCaughan

Hugh Meyers's puzzle.

10:56 AM

what's yer Scratch username again @wen?

nvrm

Looks like some IATA code hidden in there. — Techidiot Jun 6 at 13:01

Looks like he picked my old comment and made a puzzle :p

@ffao you have a leg up on that Surveillance report. Solve that thing!!

Puzzles on IATA codes are centuries old :p

I am desperate to know the solution and I haven't got a clue on how to solve that.

I don't think ffao has a clue either tbh :P

Also I thought Sid said "Oehm stumped us all", for the C4

11:05 AM

@Techidiot I was considering putting in a link to that puzzle as a hint.

Someone take a look at scratch.mit.edu/projects/165815453 please?

:)

@Sp3000 that too..

@HughMeyers long time, no see.

(and still no see)

It's been a very busy year. I haven't been on much.

11:08 AM

@Mithrandir Could you add Jeopardy music?

Yeah. It has been for me too.

Good to see so many familiar faces. Or avatars.

Wow.. Now I realize that half of this year has passed already. I felt like 2017 has just started..

Half of the year passed in just 2 days. I think it has happened before.

Take care all. I'll try to post more in the coming weeks.

I really should fix my chronino generator already

11:12 AM

:)

@jan how bad a condition is it in?

It leaks only occasionally, but each leak takes months to clean up

I thought it was an isolated incident but apparently it's not

:| I think I broke Scratch

Why is previous points always [1] * 10

heh :P

Nvm got it it wasn't broken at all

11:26 AM

0

Q: What is the missing number in this puzzle?

?/2/2/1/4/3/5/6/1 Consider the simplest pattern with the 4 basic mathematical operations.

calculation-puzzle number-sequence

11:44 AM

Good work Oehm

@ffao why do math things always blow up and warrant like a bazillion upvoted D:

New plan. Create sock puppet to post HNQbaity math puzzles. Answer them on main user. Bask in the glow of upvotes and shiny rep.

Programming Question: Anyone have any experience with SOAP based Webservices?

@Rubio ...get diamond removed; suspended

... and fulfill a campaign promise! It's perfect!

Ah, you'd do that for me? :P

11:58 AM

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Q: Anonymous letter from somewhere sometime today

Not many know of me, and even less have touched what is mine. A lonely fella I am, like being the smallest pebble in the puddle, Unless you ask the bishop, he owns the title, according to a beavers idea. Reached I am by twelve shiny points, across that much and two more... Almost e...

@Mithrandir (actually I'm not sure doing that's even illegal, as long as neither account upvotes the other's post and the answer isn't accepted. heh!)

repcap

?

That doesn't defeat the rep cap at all

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