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8:02 PM
I really like following piece from Bach's Matthäuspassion:
 
@flawr As both a pianist and a math junkie, I love stuff like this.
 
@quartata It was just awesome how this guy connected all those topics and explained them in such a good way! Do you play piano professionally?
 
Nope, just for fun.
I've been playing since I was 6, so I like to think I'm good at it.
 
@flawr It's really nice :)
@flawr Looks like the Swiss keyboard is similar to the German one (perhaps unsurprisingly)
@BetaDecay I think at this point a eulogy is in order.
 
8:12 PM
they've issued a citywide 6pm curfew. :(
 
Wat
 
I don't understand how time is related to a flood?
 
@El'endiaStarman Ta-da!
@Optimizer Probably when the rain gets really, really heavy and bad.
 
Oh because of the flooding?
 
@El'endiaStarman but water is already up your a**
#SquattyPottyArea
 
8:23 PM
I just came across patentauction.com
a sketchy place were people try to sell their sketchy patents
 
Really?
Hmm
 
Underwater Frisbee Golf Disk Locator: patentauction.com/patent.php?nb=9278
 
Potentially profitable during a flood.
 
Now I know where to go if I ever want the patent for multi touch screens (OH SNAP)
 
8:29 PM
I can't even comprehend the first sentence.
> The invention relates to a system and a method for storing and reading information with a data storage medium for storing a piece of information and a reading unit for reading the information stored in the data storage medium, where the data storage medium has a dielectric and the information is formed by the presence or absence of at least one storage electrode in the data storage medium[...]
 
holograms as turn signals: patentauction.com/patent.php?nb=10594
 
@AlexA. Sounds like an SSD...?
I don't understand it really.
The stuff they make patents on...
 
I suppose nobody can steal your patent if they can't understand what you're talking about.
 
I just had a great idea.
What if someone made Chef but instead of being about recipes it was about patents?
I mean look at this.
 
Sounds like you've got a language to implement. Get to it.
 
8:36 PM
Ugh. I don't know whether to put it before Invisifuck or after Invisifuck but before the language where the code is musical notation.
Ever since I've joined Code Golf and realized that languages can be 100% useless and still be cool, I've had too many good language ideas.
 
What is "Invisifuck," dare I ask?
Is it like Whitespace?
 
Yes.
But the characters are characters like INVISIBLE SEPARATOR and other unprintables.
 
So multibyte unprintables?
 
Yes.
 
Brutal.
 
8:38 PM
I have the interpreter maybe 75% there.
It's difficult because in UTF-8 each instruction takes up three bytes
 
Is it a trivial BF substitution like ??? ?
 
What if we wrote a lenguage program with zero-width spaces?
 
D:
 
Yes it is.
I suppose I could try to make it not a complete substitution but eh.
 
You can always extend or modify it later.
 
8:40 PM
@PhiNotPi That's what this language is.
 
@BetaDecay @AlexA. is correct. Dydw i ddim yn siarad Cymraeg o gwbl.
 
translate: Dydw i ddim yn siarad Cymraeg o gwbl.
(from Welsh) I don't speak Welsh.
Haha
 
My best attempt at deciphering trichoplax: Qlqj v qqvz la fvnenq Plzenrt b tjoy.
 
I think "o gwbl" means "at all" but I may have mispelled or misused it, so it might just be ignored
 
translate: Qlqj v qqvz la fvnenq Plzenrt b tjoy.
(from French) Qlqj v qqvz fvnenq Plzenrt b tjoy.
Haha
Close enough
 
8:41 PM
it's rot13
 
Sounds like you need some better moisture guarding if you're at rot level 13.
 
more like 13" of rain
 
Brutal.
 
my dorm's on a hill though
 
That's nice. You'll be in a good position if there's ever a zombie apocalypse.
 
8:45 PM
Well that's good in terms of flooding but inconvenient in the case of a landslide or earthquake.
 
Do zombies flow downhill?
 
Yes, except for zombie salmon.
2
 
Damn. I forgot about the zombie salmon.
 
@quartata Depends how old you are now=) I assume you are older than 7 years, right?
 
Maybe if you live in a valley surrounded by hills.
That'll save you.
@flawr Yes how could you tell
@AlexA. If I ever make a game with zombies (totally hasn't been done to death), I'm putting in zombie salmon. Thanks Alex.
 
8:50 PM
@AlexA. reminds me of undead carp in Dwarf Fortress
 
@quartata You're older than 7? Man, you sure had me fooled. :P
@quartata Glad I could be of service.
@PhiNotPi I don't know what Dwarf Fortress is but I'm intrigued by the concept of undead carp.
 
10/10 should try DF
 
Dwarf Fortress = Minecraft except it came first
 
Half Life >>> everything
 
Well, actually, that doesn't do it a lot of justice.
 
8:54 PM
Minecraft is good too though
 
ermahgerd hurf lurf
 
Dwarf Fortress > Minecraft in every measure of complexity
 
@quartata wat
 
It's basically like NetHack and Minecraft.
@AlexA. hurf lurf = half life
 
Oh gotcha
 
8:56 PM
you will also want to get familiar with the wiki: dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Main_Page
especially that little "New to Dwarf Fortress" box
 
Looks complicated.
 
It's rather amazing how he continues to add more details into the game.
Recent development appears to be in musical skills
 
9:16 PM
I just came up with a solution for when pages are loading too slow while browsing the internet.
 
Offer them cookies?
 
While you are reading a webpage, the browser finds all of the links on the page and loads up those pages in the background. When you click on a link, you already have the page downloaded.
 
I hear websites love cookies, just not oatmeal raisin.
 
possible security issues? probably.
 
Especially if links are to spam sites.
 
9:22 PM
I just installed Dwarf Fortress in Linux.
 
How's it working?
 
Does "The Dark Goblin Pits of Döstazolak" sound like a nice place to live?
 
Not particularly... sounds a little smelly.
@flawr Do you know/like Rosetta? I absolutely love their first two albums (but dislike the rest).
 
@PhiNotPi Wouldn't work for pages that use AJAX.
Or similar technologies
 
@PhiNotPi I thought GoogleChrome is doing something like this?
 
9:34 PM
I honestly have no clue what current web browsers do.
I just though it was a kinda funny idea
 
They go wibsit and get all the pagse
 
@PhiNotPi Let's make a webbrowser that just caches the whole internet that you can find by starting at wikipedia=)
@AlexA. Sounds great, no I didn't know those so far!
Reminds me of YOB (just bought this CD):
 
@flawr If you liked Itinérant, I also recommend Au Pays Natal from the same album.
 
I am already listening to the rest of the album=)
 
9:50 PM
Awesome. If it's on Bandcamp, note that the album actually ends with Au Pays Natal. The tracks after it are ambient tracks that are meant to be played overtop of the others.
I'm listing to Yob now. Good so far! Reminds me a bit of Earth (from what I remember of them).
Oh, vocals just came in. No longer reminds me of Earth. :P
 
Hehe, and similarly you might also like Inter Arma, quite unknown but quite a particular style.
 
I'll have to check them out too!
The name actually sounds really familiar but I don't think I've actually heard them before.
Listening to The Cavern now.
 
Perhaps because of the latin proverb "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"
 
I don't think I've seen that before. What does it mean?
Also, I wonder if mod chat translate can do Latin...
translate: Inter Arma Silent Leges
(from English) Inter Arma Silent Leges
Nope.
 
Inter arma enim silent leges is a Latin phrase meaning "For among [times of] arms, the laws fall mute," although it is more popularly rendered as "In times of war, the law falls silent." == In Ancient Rome == This maxim was likely first written in these words by Cicero in his published oration Pro Milone, although Cicero's actual wording was "Silent enim leges inter arma.". At the time when Cicero used this phrase, mob violence was common. Armed gangs led by partisan leaders controlled the streets of Rome, yet such leaders were nevertheless elected to high offices. == In the United States == In...
 
9:55 PM
Ah, okay.
 
The cavern is a great album or piece, which ever you'd like to call it!
 
I really like it so far!
Wow, I'm really digging this.
Do you know/like Baroness?
I know that @Doorknob loves Baroness. We always listen to them in the car together.
 
we... do?
 
On our vacations.
 
oh, of course
 
10:05 PM
Doorknob is a huge metal fan.
 
\m/
Something for tomorrow, have to go to bed now=)
 
0
Q: A golfing snippet!

UndefinedFunctionI've been experimenting with stack snippets recently, and one of the things I personally thought would be useful on this site is a snippet for both testing and improving code golf's. Such a snippet would allow us to quickly verify code validity and test an improvement without leaving the page! ...

 
Seems we have a similar taste not only in books=)
 
:D
Goodnight!
 
10:07 PM
Thanks, good afternoon!
 
Haha thanks!
Disclaimer: Don't actually know whether @Doorknob likes metal but I assume not.
 
You would be correct in that assumption.
 
Are you more of a classical fellow? Perhaps gangster rap?
 
Uhh... well, this is my favorite song:
 
ಠ_ಠ
 
10:13 PM
I also like all the songs by Zero Decibel Productions.
 
I ninja'd your comment by 10 seconds :)
Serious ಠ_ಠ at "I will not go into detail about how to generate the art" when the goal is "generate the art."
 
0
Q: The Drunken Bishop

Padarom In public-key cryptography, a public key fingerprint is a short sequence of bytes used to identify a longer public key. In SSH in particular they can be used to verify that a server is in fact the server I'm expecting to communicate with and I'm not targeted by a man-in-the-middle attack. ...

 
11:12 PM
woo, boil water advisory!
 
:|
 
So... part of the city's underwater, I can't go anywhere, everything's closed, and my water's unsafe (not that there's any water pressure)
 
Well that sucks.
 
So this is the chat
fancy
 
11:24 PM
Yes, this is The Nineteenth Byte, the dedicated chatroom for Programming Puzzles & Code Golf. Welcome!
 
can confirm: is fancy
 
@PhiNotPi That's terrifying. I do hope you're somewhere safe with ample supplies.
 
I'm just in my dorm room with my laptop, some microwave pizzas, soda, and ice cream.
 
Haha college life continues, largely unaffected.
 
I wouldn't mind some of that rain
 
11:30 PM
I imagine you're prefer to do without the flash floods though.
 
it would cause a panic
 
As it usually does.
 
Used to live on the east coast, now I'm somewhere on the west coast where it hardly rains.
 
Southern California?
I'm in the rainy part of the West Coast: Washington.
 
I'm east of that
 
11:33 PM
Ah, okay.
 
not too far from the scab lands
 
I have no idea what that is.
 
yeah, those
 
Nice, so you're a fellow Washingtonian?
 
no, but close
they love potatoes way too much here
 
11:38 PM
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, perhaps?
 
no
 
Hello Status! Welcome to the Nineteenth Byte!
 
I won't say, have to keep some air of mystery
 
Haha alright. I'm not trying to press you to tell or anything, just curious.
 
but honestly there's not too many towns in Idaho's chimney
hello, @quartata
 
11:43 PM
regarding that patent auction site I found earlier, I think I found a winner: patentauction.com/patent.php?nb=11103
 
Wow.
 
> you can produce your own fuel as you drive
 
That is definitely the winner.
I have taken it one step further by using the brown slugg that is produced by electrolysis I have found a way to use it to produce
 
> profected
 
has been profected it will
Wow, ninja'd on that one.
 
11:44 PM
> cars being able to completely on water
Completely what?
 
lol
 
Well, @Phi, I think there's a golden opportunity awaiting you here.
This seems too legit to pass up.
 
"rehydranated hydrogen" - isn't that just hydrogen?
or does it involve mythical hydras?
 
Well, the rehydranation process probably adds hydrogen, so it could alternatively be called "mega hydrogen."
It may also have something to do with hydrangeas.
I guess we won't know for sure until Phi buys the patent and enlightens us.
 
wow, he actually has a website: awshydrogen.com
 
11:48 PM
maybe the hydrogen is merged with another hydrogen
but then that'd be an isotope of helium
 
notice how the globe in the center of his website is actually backwards
 
This website is super legit.
Hahaha you can zoom in on the tech specs but they're just bigger and grainier up close. Entirely unreadable.
 
oh gosh the website talks
 
It sure does.
 
also a pretty great patent: patentauction.com/patent.php?nb=11038
Notice how, for both this and the previous one, there's not any evidence that the patent actually exists.
 
11:55 PM
> Unlike current technology that relies on quantum levitation
Oh right, our current hover technology.
 
well it is 2015
Marty McFly is due to show up sometime this month and steal a hoverboard
 
@PhiNotPi Not only that the patent exists, but that the technology itself exists or is even possible.
@Status October 21st!
 
I'm trying to figure out if this is legit: patentauction.com/patent.php?nb=9339
It's patented in multiple countries.
 
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