The Nineteenth Byte

Alex A.

12:00 AM

His avatar isn't listed so no

El'endia Starman

I have not laid eyes upon him for a fair time.

quartata

Writing this is really difficult I forgot how complicated it is to explain DND to non-DND players

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

o_O

HEEYYY

Look who's here

Alex A.

@quartata The sheer complexity of D&D is a significant barrier to entry.

In elementary school my neighbor tried to teach it to me. I lost interest very quickly.

quartata

@AlexA. It isn't THAT complicated

I'm just try to explain 3rd edition which sucks and is the most complicated

Alex A.

12:02 AM

Why explain that version then?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

When did @El'endiaStarman become a bard?

quartata

@AlexA. You'll see, alright?

STOP ASKING QUESTIONS

Alex A.

@quartata #cantstopwontstop

SuperJedi224

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ @Seadrus Hi

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@SuperJedi224 Herro

Seadrus

12:15 AM

@SuperJedi224 hi

quartata

12:30 AM

almost done writing this

I remember now why I don't play 3rd edition anymore.

undergroundmonorail

12:47 AM

i've only played 3.5 and i liked it

i would be willing to try any of the later versions but from how they've been described to me i don't think i would like them as much

phase

0

A: Cat goes "Meow"

O, 22 16 14 bytes 29 bytes - 15 Q"tac"`J=J" goes \"Meow\""+Q? It's long and can be golfed more

Doorknob

1:03 AM

HATS HATS HATS (soon)

quartata

@Doorknob !!!

Alex A.

@Doorknob Is something supposed to happen on this page?

Nvm

The tab says, "Nothing to see here, move along"

feersum

hahahah I just finished typing a question about OCaml for SO and get this:

> suggested tags:python

Doorknob

@AlexA. these are not the hats you're looking for

Alex A.

@Doorknob But they are the hats I'm looking for D:

quartata

1:11 AM

writing the reference implementation

Once I've got that this challenge will be good to go

Alex A.

It hasn't even been posted by the sandbox bot yet. :/

quartata

I haven't posted it yet.

Alex A.

Oh, okay. You mean "good to go" as in ready to be posted to the sandbox?

quartata

@AlexA. Yes.

Alex A.

Oh, okay. I thought you meant to main.

@Doorknob Vim question for you

You know how <esc>A goes into insert mode at the end of the line?

Doorknob

1:20 AM

no just A

Alex A.

Assuming I'm not already in insert mode that is

Doorknob

you should be in normal mode 80-90% of the time anyway

Alex A.

You know how I love insert mode

Doorknob

:(

Alex A.

I'm in it 98% of the time

Doorknob

1:21 AM

y u no vim right

Alex A.

idk

I use it for quick things; I don't try to use it effectively.

Anyway

How do I get to insert mode at the beginning of the line?

Doorknob

I

that's a capital i

Alex A.

OIC

THANK YOU

undergroundmonorail

you're welcome

Doorknob

...

El'endia Starman

1:23 AM

That's funny. I knew about I (and in fact, that's what I usually use), but not A. :P

Anyway...

Two Steps From Hell - Christmas Medley

►

^_^

feersum

My method of using Vim is to hyperventilate and frantically mash the keys in hope that one of them will exit.

El'endia Starman

<esc>:q

Alex A.

TIL one must submit one's timesheet on time or one does not get paid. :I

feersum

I figured that out aftetr mashing the keys a few times :P

El'endia Starman

:P

Alex A.

1:25 AM

@feersum My method of using Emacs is to accidentally enter Emacs because why else would I get in there myself then Google how to get out of it

undergroundmonorail

my method of using vim

Linux

►

Doorknob

Type  :quit<Enter>  to exit Vim                               0,0-1         All

undergroundmonorail

(that actually happened when i tried to close vim once)

Doorknob

at least vim says this when you hit Ctrl+C

:P

El'endia Starman

The only commands I know: I, :q, :q!, :w, :wq, and maybe yy and dd. :P

Doorknob

1:26 AM

... how do you "maybe" know something?

Alex A.

@El'endiaStarman I like dG

s/I/A and we know the same things

And a, of course. Doorknob knows how I love insert mode.

El'endia Starman

@Doorknob I basically know what they do, but I rarely use them.

Doorknob

@AlexA. ಠ_ಠ

Alex A.

@El'endiaStarman dd is delete line. dG is delete the contents of the current line and everything thereafter.

El'endia Starman

ahh

Alex A.

1:28 AM

Useful for clearing out temp files

Doorknob

d is delete, any operator doubled operates on the current line only, and G is the motion to go to the end of the file.

feersum

Why would you want to make a temp file empty instead of deleting it?

El'endia Starman

I know yy is "yank line", but usage is a bit confusing. Oh, and that you can type a number before hand, I think.

Doorknob

So G in normal mode goes to the end of the file, yG yanks to the end of the file, and cG changes to the end of the file.

El'endia Starman

OH, almost forgot: select text to copy it, and right click to paste.

Doorknob

1:29 AM

ಠ_ಠ

(for when a plain ಠ_ಠ isn't enough :P)

El'endia Starman

:P

Alex A.

@feersum I have a file on my desktop for testing submissions. I do cd Desktop && vim untitled.jl, write code, :w, :!julia %, :q. Then next time I come in and dG the old crap and write new crap.

Doorknob

cG (delete everything and go directly to insert mode) is a character golfier

Alex A.

:D

Finally you're embracing my love of insert mode

El'endia Starman

......golfing vim commands. Welp.

Doorknob

1:31 AM

well I mean you have to be in insert mode in an empty file because otherwise you can't really... do anything :P

undergroundmonorail

vim golf is a thing

Alex A.

@El'endiaStarman We have some vim golfs here

Doorknob

^^

El'endia Starman

oh, huh

Doorknob

vimgolf.com

it's quite fun actually

undergroundmonorail

1:32 AM

i've seen people golf keystrokes and also apparently there is a scripting language or something? i have seen people golf in that

Doorknob

vimscript

El'endia Starman

Wow. You people have even LESS time to do productive stuff than we do! :P

Alex A.

It makes no sense but it's better than Emacs Lisp

Doorknob

@El'endiaStarman "productive"? huh?

El'endia Starman

Oh I'm sorry, HERESY.

undergroundmonorail

1:32 AM

@Doorknob this chat is probably one of the only places on the internet you don't need the word "actually". this chat is well aware of how fun reducing characters is :P

Doorknob

@AlexA. it does make sense! except when it doesn't which is like 95% of the time

@undergroundmonorail :D

undergroundmonorail

Vimscript: The Good Parts

Doorknob

3

(obligatory)

Alex A.

hahahahaha

undergroundmonorail

have you guys seen The Birth and Death of Javascript? i watched it again today and it is funny as well as interesting

destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript

it's by the wat guy

Doorknob

1:35 AM

"the wat guy" :D

Alex A.

Wet guy?

Doorknob

wat

Alex A.

Does he require a towel of some kind?

@Doorknob tl;dw

undergroundmonorail

also the Useing You're Type's Good guy

and the A Whole New World guy

Doorknob

@AlexA. JS is weird and so is Ruby

undergroundmonorail

1:37 AM

and also the Boundaries guy but that one is obviously more serious than the rest of them

Alex A.

@Doorknob I thought you loved Ruby

Doorknob

@undergroundmonorail oh I remember watching that one too :D

@AlexA. I do!

but:

Alex A.

> butt

Doorknob

llama@llama:~$ irb
irb(main):001:0> a = a
=> nil
irb(main):002:0> a
=> nil

undergroundmonorail

> llama@llama

Doorknob

1:38 AM

as opposed to:

El'endia Starman

Obviously, Doorknob is Optimizer's sock.

Doorknob

llama@llama:~$ irb
irb(main):001:0> a = b
NameError: undefined local variable or method `b' for main:Object
	from (irb):1
	from /usr/bin/irb:11:in `<main>'

El'endia Starman

(Which I'm sure has been joked upon before.)

Doorknob

@El'endiaStarman Oh no! I've been discovered!

undergroundmonorail

seriously just watch wat it's 4 minutes and 16 seconds long destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

Alex A.

1:38 AM

@Doorknob irb == Institutional Review Board? (i.e. an ethics committee)

Doorknob

@El'endiaStarman yes, the connection between my username and Optimizer is a Standard Joke that is No Longer Funny

@AlexA. interactive ruby (REPL)

Alex A.

@Doorknob I know

@Doorknob It's well known that your love of llamas predates your love of Optimizer.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Doorknob Thence called a SJNLF

quartata

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

DND Level Tables In 3rd edition DND, there a lot of stats that you have to keep track for when you level up. Let's fix that by making some nice tables for them. Crash Course on 3rd edition DND 3rd edition DND is very complex since it does not have "classes" in the traditional sense of most RPG...

Don't forget to tell me how much it sucks

Also @AlexA. I wrote the reference implementation in your favorite language

@Doorknob I have the 3rd edition of this sitting on my desk.

It says "Covers JavaScript 1.2"

I feel out of date

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

1:54 AM

Did I tell you how awesome ES7 is going to be?

Alex A.

@quartata -1 for implementing in Perl

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

:3

quartata

@AlexA. hue hue

Oops there's some formatting problems

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

JavaScript ES7 supports exponentiation. a ** b.

And async functions

eeee

Alex A.

@quartata Perhaps because Meta still has MathJax, which makes code blocks stupid

quartata

1:55 AM

What the heck

Anonymous

@quintopia Fastest pythonista in the west

quartata

@AlexA. Ohhh...

See, they don't show up in the edit preview...

Alex A.

Especially because Perl overuses $, which MathJax just eats up

quartata

Do I have to escape the dollar signs?

Alex A.

Is that a question there's no question mark edit: yes it was

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

1:57 AM

^ nor is there one there :P

quartata

Escaping the dollar signs fixes it but keeps the dollarsigns

Anonymous

Yay I motorboated yesterday :D

El'endia Starman

@Mego You mean mortarboarded, right? :P

quartata

@AlexA. melp melp

Anonymous

@El'endiaStarman Yeah that

Alex A.

1:59 AM

@quartata Idk what that means

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