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12:00 AM
Hi Calvin.
 
Hi hobbies
 
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Q: Dynamic Encoding: A CIA Mission

user3502615The Challenge Mission You are Jim, a CIA agent in charge of super secret spies around the world. However, your enemies, the Naissurs, are highly trained in computer intelligence, and they can hack into your super secret communication systems. To contact your super secret spies, you must encrypt ...

 
12:30 AM
It echoes in here when nobody's around
 
echo It echoes in here when nobody's around
 
12:56 AM
user image
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I came up with an idea for a challenge, but I'm a lousy artist, so can someone please make me pixelart of these guys for use in the challenge specs?
Preferably at about 32x32 or so
 
WOOHOO someone else reads Irregular Webcomic!
 
@trichoplax Thanks! I think it went fine.
 
It's the big gun that Ground By A Mars Rover Rock Abrasion Tool has that's really messing me up
 
12:59 AM
@flawr Oh herro I am back do you still has question
 
Not doing much better on his helmet
 
Whenever my code doesn't work, I blame it on butterflies.
 
Oct 11 at 20:42, by Doorknob
I would tell everyone to move to Texas except it's bad advice
 
>_>
 
Just throwing that out there.
 
1:02 AM
I made a fancy thingy! (move your mouse around inside the square)
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I might make a challenge based on that
 
Working hard on that English homework, eh? ;)
 
I already finished all my homework :P
 
Lissajous figures are cool
 
The helmet still looks wierd, but...
 
@Doorknob I love the feeling of all of my homework being finished. It's like life has meaning again!
 
1:04 AM
@TheDoctor Oh, so that's what they're called?
 
IKR i didn't have much today :)
 
@Doorknob I don't get why I r at the beginning of the second test case is not a CLR. Could you please explain?
 
Gotta go, here's my WIP:
 
@Doorknob yup
 
1:05 AM
@Dennis See the last bullet point under Description.
 
@Doorknob Is indeed fancy.
 
@Geobits: I'm trying to hand-draw them in GIMP with only a handful of colors, so...
 
@Doorknob I understood that as the first and last word in the CLR do not matter, but after re-reading it, that's probably not what it means.
 
@Doorknob OOOH!
 
(They fit the challenge better that way)
 
1:07 AM
@Dennis You're the third person to ask about that rule, so I should probably go clarify it.
 
@Dennis This Louis vs. Rick thing is amazing. It reminds me of Texts from Dog, and to a lesser extent Texts from XCode.
 
@SuperJedi224 tried any apps designed for pixel art? like piskelapp.com
 
I tried piq, but the save image feature on that no longer works :(
 
@SuperJedi224 That's why I said it's a Work In Progress ;) You can use it as a template layer with your palette.
 
I'll go try the one you linked to
 
1:10 AM
@Dennis Clarified the rule; does that make more sense?
 
there are others
 
@Doorknob Yes, that's a lot clearer.
 
> I'm pondering seeing [the Matrix] again before it comes out on VHS.
 
1:15 AM
@El'endiaStarman i think the back to the future day has gotten to your head
did that really send twice?
 
@TheDoctor You shared that website!
 
It's better on laserdisc anyway.
 
@TheDoctor I see no doubles.
 
It's better on vinyl
and good.
 
You can't do a movie on vinyl.
Vinyl (and sound in general) is 1D. Images are 2D. Movies are 3D.
 
1:17 AM
Hmm. I think you could with a four-set of records. One for audio, one for each color channel.
 
One movie i saw had a black&white video encoded on a vinyl disc
 
I didn't say it was a good idea :)
 
I think you would only get one pixel changing color though.
Now, if you had thousands of vinyls...
 
scan the pixels like a CRT then
 
1:18 AM
Most likely, yes. Lo-fi is the best, ask any hipster.
 
That could work. It'd have an incredibly low frame rate though. :P
 
"dude check out my new HD 1x1px monitor!!"
 
@El'endiaStarman Or an incredibly fast turntable :P
 
You'd have to swap out the records every frame or two. :P
@Geobits At that point, materials science becomes very important. :P
Help! My tongue is stuck! :P
 
Aw, crap. Melted another video record.
 
1:20 AM
let me find a video...
 
The Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED) is an analog video disc playback system developed by RCA, in which video and audio could be played back on a TV set using a special needle and high-density groove system similar to phonograph records. First conceived in 1964, the CED system was widely seen as a technological success which was able to increase the density of a long-playing record by two orders of magnitude. Despite this achievement, the CED system fell victim to poor planning, conflicts within RCA, and technical difficulties that stalled production of the system for 17 years until 1981, by which...
 
@El'endiaStarman This means that 3D movies are 4D.
 
@DLosc they simply have two channels, one for each eye
 
1:23 AM
@DLosc But 3D movies aren't truly 3D. They're two normal movies shown to you in a way that the brain interprets as 3D.
 
ok why are there CDs everywhere
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Alright, I'm making some progress
 
@TheDoctor So they're 3D + 3D. Whatever that comes out to.
 
@Doorknob You might be too young to know this, but most of what you see aren't CDs :P
 
π-dimensional
 
1:25 AM
@Geobits Is it disk-shaped? Then it's a CD. :P
 
@Doorknob It's a D, but it's not C.
 
There's nothing compact about these discs.
 
@DiscLosc oh, ok
 
"rick"
"What?"
"can i get a puppy"
 
Sometimes it's hard to decide whether to flag a comment as offensive or just leave it:
therefore\nTABS < SPACES --> Alex is rightDoorknob ♦ 5 hours ago
There are several things wrong with it :/
 
1:31 AM
@Doorknob ^
 
;(
 
@TheDoctor Expected to see a record break apart. Was disappointed...somewhat. I was impressed that the record needle stayed in the grooves!
 
1:46 AM
Anyone in here know any C#?
 
I've programmed in it for work. So... no. :P
 
Not really.
 
Normally I'd say that's a good thing... but I really need some help with something in it
I'd take it to code review but I don't want to get lynched
Why do we have such a rivalry with code review anyways?
 
How dare you even ask that question! lynches
It's kind of a running joke. :P
 
Ah well
I'll figure it out myself
I'm writing a language in C# for the unusable interpreter challenge that's in the sandbox
 
1:52 AM
I have a gold badge on Code Review... <.<
 
the second one though?
@El'endiaStarman ^
@quartata link to your aforementioned sandbox thing?
@AlexA. I have a chat account on CR (for trolling purposes)
 
@TheDoctor That's wonderful.
 
@Doorknob i can't believe they graduated >:(
 
@TheDoctor ?
 
@El'endiaStarman ?
 
1:57 AM
Woo got to #6 in agar.io!
 
@TheDoctor you need to start using the reply button >.>
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@El'endiaStarman the second video involves a lot of smashing...
lol
 
@TheDoctor But not from spinning at a high speed.
 
@Doorknob @-d-tab is faster
 
@El'endiaStarman That game is awesome. If you run into someone with the name ಠ_ಠ who's doing really well, that's likely my girlfriend. :)
 
1:57 AM
@El'endiaStarman ikr too bad
 
@TheDoctor <C-o> r is even faster
 
<plug type='shameless'>
 
@Doorknob i don't vi
 
But do you vim?
 
you don't have to...
Ctrl+O to activate, j/k to move around, and r to reply
 
1:58 AM
@AlexA. Pretty sure you (or her) could guess which one I am. :P
 
@Doorknob I read "j/k to move around" and thought you meant "jk you can't move around."
 
lolololol
 
@El'endiaStarman Uh maybe?
 
We need a user named Doorbell to confuse tab-completers
 
There's a DoorHandle that comes in here occasionally but has insufficient rep to talk
 
2:00 AM
HEY
I was wondering if jon skeet could bounty all his rep away...
on one question
 
even I couldn't do that
(I'm pretty sure there's a limit on the max number of times you can bounty a question...)
wait, is there?
oh never mind there's not
so yes
 
:O
proceeds to blow 11k rep on World Big Dosa bounties
 
Can one person have multiple active bounties on 1 question?
 
someone haxes jon skeet, give all rep to themselves
 
haxes?
 
2:03 AM
@feersum no
 
hacks
 
hax
 
h4xx
 
HAAAAXXX
 
So he probably couldn't because it would take longer than his natural lifespan.
 
2:03 AM
... yeah
 
How much SO rep does he have?
 
He could write a bot
@AlexA. many
 
oic
 
~817k
 
lots
 
2:04 AM
Someday I hope to see Jon Skeet post an answer here.
 
many many
 
Such rep
 
YES
 
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A: Fibonacci function or sequence

Jon SkeetC# 4: Stream (69; 65 if weakly typed to IEnumerable) (Assuming a using directive for System.Collections.Generic.) IEnumerable<int>F(){int c=0,n=1;for(;;){yield return c;n+=c;c=n-c;}} Single value (58) int F(uint n,int x=0,int y=1){return n<1?x:F(n-1,y,x+y);}

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No fucking way
 
2:05 AM
yarly
4 years ago though
and it's his only post here
 
Yeah, just saw that.
:/
 
>.>
 
Woah. 100 bytes in CJam? By @Dennis?! :O
 
@@jonskeet
 
I must have made one of the hardest challenges on PPCG...
 
2:06 AM
lolol
 
@TheDoctor u cannt superpng
 
wyyyy
 
It's really the wrong tool for this task. I still hope I'll be able to remove a couple of bytes...
 
> Last Seen Aug 13 '14
Jon Skeet stalking
 
@Dennis Does CJam still not have regex?
 
2:07 AM
I just thought I'd celebrate finally passing all the test cases by making my WIP public. :P
Nope.
 
someone should fix that
 
^
 
@AlexA. I took your suggestion and got a Halloween-themed avatar.
 
I noticed!
It was one of the first things I noticed when I first logged in today.
@TheDoctor ?
 
2:09 AM
I wish I could see it myself...
 
It's mniip
 
@Dennis You can't see your own avatar?
@TheDoctor Yeah. What about mniip?
 
My Chrome is borken.
 
mniip mniip
 
o no bork bork bork
 
2:10 AM
Somehow only affects my own avatar and WhatsApp web.
 
@Dennis command-r
 
what is command
 
or command-q
YOU DON'T MAC>>
 
what is mac
 
WHAT
 
2:11 AM
@TheDoctor Easiest hangman ever. It's 'commander'.
 
MAC IS BAST 
 

 

 
shift-alt-k da best
 

 
If this is what having a mac does to you, I'm glad I don't have one...
 
^
 
[tag:]
 
2:12 AM
And yes, I tried refreshing. It works fine in an incognito tab. Until I log in.
 
wut
@Dennis weird..
 
@Dennis Don't log in.
 
Is there a bug report on meta?
 
2:12 AM
For my avatar?
 
@Dennis try reinstall?
 
try using Firefox, a superior browser :P
 
Eventually. Requires time that I do not have...
 
delet system32
 
I think I've seen a meta.SE post similar to this.
tries to find it
 
2:13 AM
continues to be entirely unhelpful
 
@Doorknob I prefer a borken avatar, thank you. Firefox doesn't even handle permalinks correctly...
 
wags tail
 
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Q: Given a phone number, find any English words that it contains

portOdinGiven a 10 digit phone number, find any words that the numbers' corresponding letters spell out. This challenge is basically the opposite of Letters in phone numbers. Use any available dictionary file. For example, /usr/share/dict/words in Unix.

 
@Dennis what do you mean, doesn't handle permalinks correctly?
 
@AlexA. And where exactly would I find that? :P
 
2:14 AM
@NewMainPosts Seems so familiar...
 
Any of you watch Dark Matter?
 
@TheDoctor I don't know what that is, but it's the name of a good song.
@Dennis If you can find it, you shouldn't be using that computer
 
It's a show
 
@Doorknob Firefox has a bug that causes it to pass a decoded version of the URL to JavaScript. I have to include two separate permalinks in every other CJam answer because of this bug. :/ It's fixed in the lastest dev,.
 
@Dennis I can't find the bug report on meta.SE. I'm pretty sure there was one... perhaps Tavern could help
@Dennis I... have not experienced this issue
(but then again, I don't use CJam, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
 
2:16 AM
Try the permalinks in my answer to your challenge.
^ My avatar right now.
 
@Dennis Chrome link works fine on FF here
FF link is b0rken -_-
 
Stable or dev?
 
@Dennis hahahahahhahaha
 
I do believe I'm on the nightly, though
 
Yeah, it's fixed in the nightlies.
 
2:17 AM
that'd be it then
 
@Dennis maybe clear your cache
 
Cache wouldn't affect an incognito tab.
 
(Debian decided to do a stupid and rebrand Firefox as "Iceweasel" and include that in their repos instead of actual Firefox, so I had to download it from Mozilla's website and figured I might as well go with the nightlies)
 
@El'endiaStarman Still chugging away...
 
...Iceweasel?
 
2:19 AM
yes <.<
 
That's... hm.
 
isn't it funny how my highest rated question was originally a joke...
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A: Weirdest way to produce a stack overflow

TheDoctorPython import webbrowser webbrowser.open("http://stackoverflow.com/")

 
llama@llama:~$ apt show iceweasel
Package: iceweasel
 [...]
Description: Web browser based on Firefox
 Iceweasel is Firefox, rebranded. It is a powerful, extensible web browser
 with support for modern web application technologies.
 
I never really liked Firefox. I used IE until Chrome came out. (Nobody hit me.)
 
@TheDoctor This answer is the reason I recognize you.
 
2:20 AM
I mostly just use Firefox because it has Pentadactyl, but it also seems to be slightly faster than Chromium on my machine.
also, Mozilla <3
 
lolol
 
Firefox is good for exactly one thing on my machine: Hulu.
 
firefox for me is only good for one thing: being preinstalled in Kali Linux
 
I was going to ask you why. Then I read vim-like key bindings. 'nuff said.
 
I use Safari because it came on my Mac and it's good so I don't care enough to swap it out.
 
2:22 AM
CHROME MASTERRACE
...really, no stars?
 
the way to get stars is not to ask for stars
typically, asking for no stars is how one gets stars
Aug 4 '14 at 16:35, by Martin Büttner
(please don't star this)
12 stars, case in point :P
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And then there's random stars.
 
@Dennis nice speed-close
 
I have a policy against starring things including the word masterrace. Sorry ;)
 
2:33 AM
47 seconds is not too shabby. :P
 
@Dennis 10 second comment ninja!
 
@Dennis Pfft. You answer in CJam faster than that.
 
I've seen questions on Stack Overflow get closed by 5 separate users in less than that amount of time. (But then again, that's SO...)
 
@AlexA. Mine has more details. :P
 
IIRC there was one that got deleted in under 2 minutes. I was one of the delete voters :P
 
2:35 AM
I think Dennis wins this one; four links take more than ten seconds to type out.
 
Yeah I know. I deleted my comment.
So this:
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Q: Given a phone number, find any English mnemonics

portOdinGiven a user inputted 10 digit phone number, find any words that the numbers' corresponding letters spell out. Numbers are inputted without punctuation (18001324, not 1-800-1324). The output should have words separated from numbers and other words with hyphens. Each number's translation should be...

has 2 reopen votes but serious issues.
Calling all people willing to turn this into a viable challenge
 
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Q: Search for a file in CMD and bring me to the first path found

whatever61I would like to achieve the following in CMD: Will search for a specific filename - This I know how to do, with dir /s filename Once found it will bring me to that path. Example: I am now on C:\, if that file was found in C:\test then it will open C:\test in command prompt. Alternatively, I ...

 
Why is @NewMainPosts so slow lately?
 
2:50 AM
He might need moral support.
 
@NewMainPosts It's okay, buddy. We've been friends for a long time now. I'm always here for you. tenderly embraces
 
... I want to make him reply, but I'd have to make a new post on main to do so. :P
 
It would take him 30 minutes to realize I'd been hugging him.
 
What are our percentages of [good serious challenges that need minimal tweaking], [newbie challenges that need lots of tweaking], and [questions that don't belong here even slightly]?
 
44, 27, 91
 
2:56 AM
if you defined those more clearly, I could run some advanced searches to get actual statistics
 
28, 12, 60
 
If there was a good algorithm for determining that programmatically, I could hop on SEDE and tell you.
 
@AlexA. SEDE doesn't have deleted posts
 
69, 69, 420
 
99,99,99
 
2:57 AM
@Doorknob Good point.
 
Snapchat
 
Snapcat
 
@feersum having them add to 100 made me think you were serious for a second.
 
If there was a good algorithm for determining that, we wouldn't need close privileges >_>
 
@Calvin'sHobbies Do you think [score of 10+], [everything else], [closed for 7+ days or deleted with a negative score] would be good criteria for that?
because if so, I could definitely figure out those numbers
 
2:58 AM
The power of math.
 
There are many challenges that get lots of votes just because they have lots of answers.
 
👌😺
 
@ThomasKwa yeah, that is an issue
 
^
 
2:59 AM
@Doorknob Sounds about right. Though I expect many off-topic questions just have 0 votes.
 
Meow
 

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