The Nineteenth Byte

msh210

9:00 PM

@Mego But it uses the language's regex, and has very different output.

Anonymous

'(ab)*','abab' -> {'(ab)*':[{'a':'a','b':'b'},{'a':'a','b':'b'}]}

Anonymous

(using Python notation for lists and dicts)

Anonymous

@msh210 True, so it probably wouldn't get closed as a dupe. Just be prepared for a few close votes, regardless

msh210

@Mego To close as...?

mınxomaτ

What's the maximum image width in a post before it gets downscaled?

Anonymous

9:02 PM

@msh210 Some people like to VTC as dupe even when it's just related and not actually a dupe

Anonymous

@mınxomaτ Probably something like 80-100% of the post container

mınxomaτ

Which is constant, so what's the max px size? :)

VoteToClose

@Mego Huhwat?

msh210

@Mego Pfft. Well, if I do post it, I'll try and be very clear near the start of the post about how it's not a dupe. For those who don't read a whole post before voting to close it.

Anonymous

@msh210 I highly recommend you post your challenge in the Sandbox before posting it to main, so that you can get more feedback than just the people currently in chat

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Anonymous

9:05 PM

@VoteToClose Very funny

msh210

@Mego Thanks.

Anonymous

@mınxomaτ It's not constant - mobile posts will have a different width than desktop posts

Beta Decay

Okay, I might post this in an hour unless anyone else has any problems with it

Anonymous

@mınxomaτ On desktop, it appears the post width is 660px, if that helps

mınxomaτ

kthx

Anonymous

9:08 PM

@BetaDecay So Natrium and Kalium are the only 2 special cases?

quartata

Just to make sure I'm understanding this right

Thomas Kwa

@Calvin'sHobbies I don't want to exclude new users, so I must agree with you here. There's no better way to gain experience than participating.

What about catalog challenges, then? Should we also encourage multiple answers in each language, as long as they aren't exact duplicates?

quartata

Does the Apache license let me distribute modified versions of source code?

Like the GPL?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

This is my OCD. I can't decide on which to develop

Anonymous

@ThomasKwa I see no issue with this

Doorknob

9:13 PM

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Spaces in file names? >:O

Anonymous

who keeps starring everything?

5

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Doorknob Yup. I use windows puts on sunglasses

@Mego That would be me. I got my votes back, as you can tell.

msh210

Well, thanks for your help, folks.

Anonymous

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Ooh do I have more yet?

Anonymous

@msh210 Anytime :)

Geobits

9:14 PM

>_<

Anonymous

Nope, mine are still gone

Anonymous

And who freaking pinned that?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Mego What a shame. holds a stack of about thirty stars

Anonymous

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ 20, minus the ones you've used

Doorknob

@Mego huh?

msh210

9:15 PM

@Mego That was me, just as a joke. I've unpinned it.

Doorknob

oh I missed it :P

Anonymous

@msh210 Ahh, lol

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Mego O_O NOO MY STARZ I only have ten left then

Anonymous

The stars in here can get out of hand, in case you couldn't tell :P

msh210

@Doorknob It was "who keeps starring everything?"

Anonymous

9:15 PM

(and I am one of the worst offenders)

quartata

Despite having been signed up for it since the very beginning I am not in the Overwatch beta

sobs

Geobits

You can still watch over @Beta though :P

quartata

It's not the same dammit

Geobits

When life gives you lemons...

make melons ;)

Beta Decay

Make Beta lemonade

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Seadrus

9:19 PM

nope, no less strange than before

Geobits

@Seadrus The room? This is pretty mild, all things considered.

quartata

Yeah I've seen it far weirder

Seadrus

oh god thats terifying

Geobits

I can only see one starred message in the scrollbox right now, for instance.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

*terrifying ಠ_ಠ

quartata

9:21 PM

ಠ___________ಠ

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Geobits Mobile device?

Geobits

No, desktop. I don't mean the sidebar, but the main chat box.

Anonymous

@quartata print('ಠ'+'_'*int(input())+'ಠ')

Anonymous

@BetaDecay That was not one hour

Geobits

My fault, I pinged him with a bad pun.

quartata

9:23 PM

@Mego Lmao Python3

Anonymous

@quartata Python 2 input is bad

quartata

'_ri*'ಠ_@\

Anonymous

That's CJam, right?

quartata

@Mego Yes.

Anonymous

Cool

Anonymous

9:24 PM

I should run that through seriously.py

Calvin's Hobbies

@quartata At what width do those start looking like tank treads?

Anonymous

And see what happens

quartata

@Calvin'sHobbies 200 ish

Anonymous

But that requires booting up my Linux VM, because stupid Java and Cygwin and stuff

Doorknob

@quartata Did you golf that script down even more? It was longer last time I saw it :P

Anonymous

9:26 PM

@Doorknob No it's just cold

Doorknob

@Mego oooor you could switch to a superior OS :D

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quartata

It's 12 bytes now. I think that's as short as it can get in CJam.

@Doorknob Yes.

Anonymous

@Doorknob I use Windows-specific programs on this machine, and running them in wine or a VM is much more inconvenient

quartata

GolfScript would be shorter I suspect since you don't have to do ri

Doorknob

@Mego such as what?

Anonymous

9:27 PM

@Doorknob I don't need to give you the whole list of programs I have installed

Geobits

Ooooh, can I see the list? I promise I won't tell Doorknob.

Doorknob

so what programs do you have now that don't exist / don't have alternatives on not-Windows?

VoteToClose

1 hour ago, by feersum

CockOS? Sounds legit.

Doorknob

@VoteToClose I uh what

Geobits

There are lots of proprietary, in-house things for businesses that don't work right except on Windows, if it's used for work at all.

quartata

9:29 PM

@Mego I can guarantee you that either there is a native Linux alternative for every program on that list or the program can run with Wine

Sp3000

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ What did you mean when you said "Mind if I use it?"

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Sp3000 The algorithm. Sorry, that was vague.

Anonymous

@quartata Perhaps, but it's not worth going through the effort to migrate everything over, install wine, debug wine, reinstall wine, and then use stuff

quartata

Calvin builds a witch farm on the PPCG server

Next day, Etho builds one

Etho Plays Minecraft - Episode 425: Witch Farm Designing

►

Calvin=Etho confirmed?

Anonymous

calvin-is-etho

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Sp3000

9:30 PM

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Er... okay? (It's the usual string build FizzBuzz algorithm, right?)

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Sp3000 No, not that I know of; I've always seen a third conditional. I guess I've never seen a golfed FizzBuzz algorithm before.

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Q: Electron Configuration Diagrams

Challenge Given an element name and its charge, output its electron configuration. Input Your input will be the full name of each element (the range being from Hydrogen, 1, to Calcium, 20) with some exceptions - you should be able to account for the following inputs: Natrium - This is sodium ...

El'endia Starman

@VoteToClose Not yet. It's not a particularly interesting problem, so...

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Current "Unusable language" schematic.
Input	i	Takes a numeric input and push to the first stack
Warp	~	Goes to the same instruction in other program and increment accumulator
Dup N	:N	Duplicates the top value of the Nth stack
Pop N	;N	Pops the top value of the Nth stack and puts it into the accumulator
Drop N	,N	Pops the top value of the Nth stack
Distr N	KN	Distributes the contents of the Nth stack across the stacks, starting with N and wrapping around.
Put N	PN	Puts the value of the accumulator on to the Nth stack

Sp3000

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ See top voted answer

Calvin's Hobbies

9:32 PM

@quartata Calvin = Helka Homba

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Sp3000 Oh, haha.

VoteToClose

quartata

@Calvin'sHobbies Channel does not exist

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

^

Calvin's Hobbies

Try now

Anonymous

9:33 PM

@quartata Is this supposed to have the trailing backslash?

Beta Decay

@Mego Damn it, my watch is playing up

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Calvin'sHobbies Here's a sub :D

Anonymous

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ carrot.gif

VoteToClose

@Mego carrot.png

quartata

@Mego Yes

Anonymous

9:34 PM

@quartata It's not playing nice with bash/python :/

quartata

@Mego Put it in a file.

VoteToClose

This comment was useless. Ignore.

quartata

Then run it like cjam file

Calvin's Hobbies

@quartata Our witch farm didn't require endless arrows at least. I did copy this, though I can see some room for improvement.

Anonymous

@quartata Durr. That's be easier than passing it on the command line. Though I was using my Seriously script, not cjam directly

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

9:37 PM

@Calvin'sHobbies What resource pack do you use?

Anonymous

> $cat test | python seriously.py
> CJam

VoteToClose

@Calvin'sHobbies Provided that we can use arrows from a skeleton farm, Etho's one would work perfectly fine.

Anonymous

Success

Anonymous

@VoteToClose Should probably migrate this discussion over to the proper room :P

VoteToClose

It was the only comment I was going to make. ;)

Calvin's Hobbies

9:39 PM

@VoteToClose But then we need a nearby skeleton spawner. (Or else two afkers and an item transport system from our current skelly farm.) Skellies spawning means fewer witches anyway.

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Default normally but I think I used planetminecraft.com/texture_pack/codecrafted-texture-pack-125 in a video or two.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Calvin'sHobbies Ah, cool! Thanks.

El'endia Starman

9:55 PM

@Mego Yes. I don't remember exactly who though.

VoteToClose

@Mego And he uses etho-teric languages.

SuperJedi224

Hi.

VoteToClose

24 secs ago, by SuperJedi224

Hi.

Anonymous

carrot.py

VoteToClose

carrot.vt

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

9:59 PM

carrot.psd

VoteToClose

carrot.cron

SuperJedi224

10:12 PM

Hi Alex.

Dennis

That was fun:

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A: The Combinatorics of Transistor

CJam, 74 67 bytes q~4@:Mm*:$L|{:+W$\-M),&},f{0-:F1@@{_m!\I-:Nm!/I(m!/*N}fI;Fm!Fe=/}:+ I've verified all test cases on my desktop computer using the Java interpreter. This took 2.2 seconds for 1 ≤ M ≤ 8 and 3.5 minutes for M = 10. Try this fiddle in the CJam interpreter or verify the first 84 ...

I wonder if I'm missing something super-obvious that would let me cut my byte count in half...

El'endia Starman

@quartata It is in my in-progress novel! :P (One of the characters is named Rotor.)

Alex A.

@SuperJedi224 Hello!

mınxomaτ

@El'endiaStarman Reminds me of the craptastic movie R.O.T.O.R.

El'endia Starman

Never seen it.

mınxomaτ

10:23 PM

It's mad old.

Well, not that old.

imdb.com/title/tt0098156

Alex A.

That's not that old.

El'endia Starman

2.3/10. Wow.

mınxomaτ

Highly recommend reading the user reviews for comedic gold.

El'endia Starman

You're right; it's 10 years younger than the first Star Wars.

mınxomaτ

I've never seen this movie but I remember it for its ridiculous title.

Anonymous

10:25 PM

There are few movies with a lower rating

Alex A.

> My therapist thinks that a lot of my current problems stem back to this film

Anonymous

This is one

mınxomaτ

Birdemic has multiple sequels though ^^

Also, german youtubers managed to make the worst movie of all time (1.1/10): imdb.com/title/tt4404474

flawr

@AlexA. youtube.com/watch?v=OsjfNVEloyA

Anonymous

After looking through Kirk Cameron's imdb profile, I'm beginning to realize he's been in like 80% of bad American movies

Alex A.

10:37 PM

@flawr Listening to it now. I like it so far. :)

quartata

10:50 PM

I love waffles

mınxomaτ

^

quartata

Dammit I was thinking about doing this @Mego:

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A: Seriously, GolfScript, CJam, or Pyth?

Python 2, 404 * 0.6 * 0.8 = 193.92 import sys from subprocess import* from tempfile import* c=["CJam","java","-jar","cjam.jar"] p=["Pyth","./pyth.py"] g=["Golfscript","./golfscript.rb"] f=NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False) s=sys.stdin.read() f.write(s) f.close() n=open('/dev/null','w+') for l in [...

But I thought it wouldn't be that accurate

Guess it got the bounty anyways

Anonymous

@quartata fastest interpreter-mashup in the west

quartata

@Mego pew pew pew

Alright serious time

I'm thinking about making a fastest-code challenge

Any little things I should be aware of?

SuperJedi224

@quartata What about?

Alex A.

10:54 PM

Fast code

quartata

I was thinking something about en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_space_partitioning

It might a better code-golf though

Alex A.

@quartata Favorite waffle toppings?

quartata

@AlexA. Fried eggs are nice.

Strawberries and blackberries are good too.

Alex A.

Earth Balance and maple syrup.

quartata

@AlexA. Ooh that's nice.

Maple syrup is kind of pricey; I have this brown sugar syrup I use instead

Tastes good on waffles and french toast mm

Alex A.

10:59 PM

I've only made French toast a couple of times. I made pumpkin French toast most recently and that shit was delish.

quartata

ooh

I made pumpkin granola last Thanksgiving. Goes really good on pumpkin pie

SuperJedi224

When possible: Butter, syrup, whipped cream, and chocolate chips. Sometimes caramel sauce as well.

Otherwise, just butter and syrup.

Alex A.

Whipped cream, chocolate chips, and caramel sauce is too much. How do you savor the waffle flavor?

quartata

minimalistbaker.com/pumpkin-maple-pecan-granola

This was the recipe

@AlexA. Honestly I don't like putting too much sugary stuff on my waffles, especially if they are belgian waffles (what I normally get from my grocer).

They've already got that kind of vanilla flavor

Alex A.

The batter usually has a little vanilla extract.

quartata

11:02 PM

@AlexA. Yeah

Why are we talking about food again

Alex A.

My sister found a recipe for beer waffles. They contain vanilla stout.

@quartata Because food is amazing.

quartata

@AlexA. Ah yes right.

Why did this get 48 upvotes anyways

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A: The World's Smallest Web Browser

Pure Bash (no utilities), 200 bytes - 40 bonus = 160 while read u;do u=${u#*//} d=${u%%/*} exec 3<>/dev/tcp/$d/80 echo "GET /${u#*/} HTTP/1.1 host:$d Connection:close ">&3 mapfile -tu3 A a=${A[@]} a=${a#*<p>} a=${a%</p>*} echo "${a//<\/p>*<p>/" "}" done I think this is up to the spec, though o...

Anonymous

Why are all the avatars broken

SuperJedi224

@quartata I don't know.

quartata

@SuperJedi224 Why can't my super long answers get that kind of upvotage

SuperJedi224

11:06 PM

I really don't know.

Anonymous

Given that @SuperJedi224's is the only one showing up, I blame him

quartata

@Mego Means something is blocking the avatar server most likely

SuperJedi224

They're all rendering right on my end.

quartata

Actually I just reloaded the page

They are broken for me too

Alex A.

11:07 PM

Last fall I tried to make a pumpkin pie with fresh roasted sweet pumpkin. As it turns out, pumpkin is too heavy for starch-based binders (which is probably why they almost always contain egg). It was like a bowl of hot snot with a leather top. The crust was great though.

Anonymous

Looks like imgur is getting DDOS'ed

Anonymous

And cloudflare kicked in, which broke https

quartata

@Mego Seriously?

Alex A.

The avatars weren't loading for me so I left and came back. Not they mostly work except for xnor.

Anonymous

11:08 PM

And hitting continue leads to a 403

Anonymous

@SuperJedi224's works because it's a gravatar

Alex A.

I think mine is.

SuperJedi224

Mine's hosted via google actually.

Alex A.

I'm fairly certain that mine is a Gravatar.

Anonymous

@AlexA. It's a Gravatar hosted by imgur

SuperJedi224

11:09 PM

The image is hosted on stack.imgur.com

Alex A.

I remember resetting my Gravatar from my actual face to the bird because one day I signed on and it was showing my face rather than the bird that I had uploaded to SE.

@Mego Uh, okay.

SuperJedi224

Which is odd because the other stack.imgur.com images I'm looking at in another tab aren't running into that problem.

Anonymous

@SuperJedi224 Are you using HTTPS?

SuperJedi224

<Does some element inspecting> No

quartata

They're broken for me too

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Ruby on Rails I'm looking to dig out this long-buried question proposal (the number of upvotes suggests a few people are interested). A question for reviewers based on the old question: Keep the different direction tracks (- | / \) or use one character to represent track (. maybe)? ...

I can't believe this has been in the sandbox for 4 years and the author is still working on it

Alex A.

11:19 PM

I haven't seen Gareth around in forever.

quartata

Last edited Jul 11 by him

That's not that long ago

SuperJedi224

<shift+refresh>

Nope, still broken.

Alex A.

@quartata Right, I mean I haven't seen him post anything. Apparently he was "seen yesterday," according to his profile.

The last message was posted 1 hour ago.

mınxomaτ

Is a code golf challenge that combines a cg task and a classic riddle a valid challenge? This is my idea: h50.imgup.net/storytime9e8c.png

Alex A.

11:36 PM

Why not post it in the sandbox?

Anonymous

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A: Electron Configuration Diagrams

Python 3, 617 bytes s=""" {18} {10}{14} {2}{6} {0}{1} {17}{9} %2s {3}{11} {13}{5} {7}{15} {8}{4} {16}{12} {19}""" t={'hydrogen':('H',1),'helium':('He',2),'lithium':('Li',3),'beryllium':('Be',4),'boron':('B',5),'carbon':('C',6),'nitrogen':('N',7),'oxygen':('O',8),...

Anonymous

first :P

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11:47 PM

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Q: The Orphanage Story

"First time I've been back here in over twenty years. Makes my blood turn cold just looking at the place." Jenny gripped Ron's hand tightly. He'd told her all about the miserable years he'd spent here as a child, about the abuse and the cruelty. She'd wanted to go to the police but he would have...

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