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1:00 PM
@Dennis This posts explains the shadows!!!!!
 
Of the user cards? Yeah.
 
The eternal mystery is solved!!!!
 
It was a mystery? :P
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ tp @p @p 8 bytes, shortest command I think exists that can be done.
 
It was!
 
1:01 PM
You could've just asked me. :D
 
No, you didn't even know it was a mystery!
 
Fair point.
 
@VoteToClose Doesn't that do nothing?
 
@anOKsquirrel Outputs to client console, which is all I need.
 
@VoteToClose challenge?
 
1:02 PM
12
A: Output the Current Time

VoteToCloseMinecraft 1.8.7, 8 + 8 = 16 bytes Only one command block involved: tp @p @p Output goes to the client console like so: As part of the normal output. This is the system: tp means teleport. When given 2 entities (in this case, players), it will teleport the first player to the second. Sin...

 
ooh, that's clever
kill @e
 
^ Would lag, kills player, so interrupts the chain.
I thought about that. ;)
 
dang
 
It's only one byte shorter, anyways.
And it would have several thousand outputs per second.
 
@Sherlock9 can you use r=range ?
 
1:09 PM
Ook.
 
@VoteToClose just putting 'a' in a command block outputs the time
 
Command block errors don't go to console.
 
Has to be a valid command, unfortunately.
 
dangit
Hey, I found 11 diamonds in my survival (6 days in) in 4 minutes
 
1:15 PM
Ah, damn, if command block output to console was cancellable, I could use me 1.
 
oh, btw, do you use any resource packs?
 
I use shaders.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Only resource pack I use is my own, and it's a language pack.
 
lol ok
 
Just changes death messages. xD For fell out of the world: "%23 was fireballed by squid."
Ooh, ooh, xp 1 @p!
 
Hello again
 
1:26 PM
Heyo, Jedi!
 
@Mego Now, we both know that's not entirely true.
 
hi jedi
oh my, get the codeCrafted texture pack
 
@anOKsquirrel Link?
 
Does anyone know of a soupsearcher that isn't such a pain in the neck to install?
 
1:35 PM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Even shorter now - xp 1 @p
 
@aditsu Maybe when I get home to my laptop
 
soupsearcher?
 
@aditsu As in r = range or r = range(-n,n-1)?
 
@anOKsquirrel It's a type of program for cellular automaton research
 
really?
cool
 
1:37 PM
@Sherlock9 r=range as in r = range
 
@anOKsquirrel Why exactly does the texture pack retexture ores?
 
@SuperJedi224 Ore blocks? Because ore blocks usually suck
 
I used to use Realistico.
But then snapshots happened.
 
ah
i gtg
Also, what pack is youtube.com/watch?v=FEj-jX6sRag this?
 
Looks like some variant of Sphax.
 
1:49 PM
Does anyone know how to get golly hooked up to python?
 
@flawr is that Geobits?
 
Hi again
 
how about anEXCELLENTsquirrel?
 
I mean anOKsquirrel always sounds so mediocre.
 
1:57 PM
...
 
This sounds like a commercial advertising business cards.
 
I see, you just want to keep expectations low.
 
> Why be anOKsquirrel when you can be anEXCELLENTsquirrel? Get these new business cards, and be more than just OK.
4
 
@VoteToClose Suggestion for your Sock: VoteToReopen
 
Nah. It'll be: CoolestVeto
Because anagrams. c:
 
2:03 PM
so, this company called "Cards against humanity" earned 71K UsD on Black Friday sale
selling nothing
 
Selling nothing?
 
wowe
 
Interesting business model.
 
user image
2
their customer service went on fire:
 
2:06 PM
AAAAHAHAHA! You nailed it, kid. ;D
 
Any of you know of gaming headsets with good mics?
 
Nope, only with OK mics.
 
xD @flawr You're still harping on this?
 
if I change my name to anEXCELLENTsquirrel, will you take me seriously?
 
@anOKsquirrel No, because it'll take days to change.
 
2:08 PM
@VoteToClose oh dangit
 
@anOKsquirrel Yes, Seriously.
 
@VoteToClose get codeCrafted pack
 
@flawr /me headdesks.
 
@flawr actually, no
 
@anOKsquirrel Eh. This photorealism is nice. c:
 
2:10 PM
@VoteToClose But the repeaters have those markings!
 
Logitech typically do have pretty good ratings.
 
should I buy one from Best Buy?
I might
 
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Your headphones, your choice.
 
2:15 PM
Just looking for recommendations. The problem is I just got non-mic headphones. I like my headphones, but I need a headset ;-;
 
1
A: Implement LaTeX accent macros

Pietu1998Pyth, 51 46 45 bytes I remove the curly braces and split at \, just like Reto Koradi's CJam answer does. I then just add barf to the first part and remove it in the end to save the code for handling the first part specially. jtMsMCm,+@".^_"eChd*\ -ld4>d3c-+"barf"z"{}"\\ Try it online.

See: second sentence of ^
 
does skullcandy.com/gaming-headset/… work with PC too?
wait yes it does
 
2:34 PM
@Optimizer at least they spent it well :)
 
heh
while another million slept hungry
 
except for Matt who bought a piece of crap
they made donations too
 
Any C golfers wanna help a new guy?:
1
A: Output the Current Time

GamerdogC,179 177 bytes #include<time.h> #include<sys/time.h> main(){struct timeval a;char b[40];for(;;){gettimeofday(&a,NULL);strftime(b,40,"%H:%M:%S",localtime(&a.tv_sec));puts(b);usleep(1000000);}} Ungolfed: #include <time.h> #include <sys/time.h> main(){ struct timeval a; char b[40]; for(;;...

 
I have to close this tab, or I will never get anything done today...
cu
 
2:49 PM
use space
its better
 
Oh my god, so many damn suggestions.
Simplify your imports: java.util.* instead of the two java.util imports, java.text.* for the same reasoning. Use for(;;) for infinite loops. Use String[]a in the main declaration. Use interface A{static void main(..., as this will shorten it even more. You can use Exception over InterruptedException, and you can replace ex with e. You can also remove all text inside the catch, as this does nothing anyways. — VoteToClose 2 mins ago
I didn't realize how long that was. xD
 
3:21 PM
@ThomasKwa Do you still have a J question? I'm more or less a beginner myself, but maybe I can help.
 
3:44 PM
@Optimizer Some yes
 
@Sherlock9 There's more than one?!?
 
I KNOW! I was shocked too!
Not one, not two, but at least three porn sites @VoteToClose
 
Is Conway's Game of Life a valid programming language?
 
Yes.
 
has it completed turing?
 
3:57 PM
@aditsu `r=range` might have worked. Except that
`r=range`
`lambda n:sum(i*i+j*j==n for i in r(-n,n+1)for j in r(-n,n+1))`
is still 69 bytes including the newline
 
@Optimizer Yes, there is even a challenge about it.
 
0
A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Sherlock9I sort of did this backwards but here's my idea for a quick game-making challenge. (Unedited from the linked post. Will edit as comments come in.) Make a day of the week game There have been many day of the week challenges on this site. This is just one example. This challenge is to make a gam...

 
I mean valid for answering...
 
Yes.
 
@Sherlock9 You should delete the question that's on main posts while you sandbox this, then, when you're done sandboxing, edit the deleted question with the updates and undelete. c:
 
4:03 PM
My n00b is showing
Danke @VoteToClose
 
Bitte sehr, @Sherlock9
 
wow, game of life is planning for world invasion:
 
@Sherlock9 aww
 
@aditsu Yep. I'm working on another idea, but I don't think it will beat 69 bytes
 
@MartinBüttner When did you create Labyrinth?
 
4:10 PM
Uhhhh, August maybe? Check the GitHub repo.
 
"Commits on Aug 23, 2015

@mbuettner

Update HW "
What?
 
Huh. I thought Labyrinth was older than that
 
Wow. I really ought to do more Minecraft answers. o-o
 
@aditsu Yeah, the other idea I had unfortunately involves the prime factorization, and I don't that will work very well without just opening Sympy
@aditsu Or doing it in Pyth. Lord I miss PQ
 
It makes up 15.5% of my entire rep, and I only have 5 answers in MC.
 
4:24 PM
@aditsu I got a Python solution to work without brute-forcing everything number from -n to n!
Trouble is it's 204 bytes
def g(n):
if n==0:return 1
if n==1:return 4
a=1
for i in range(-(-n//4)):
j=4*i+3;k=j+2;b=0;m=1
while n%j<1:n/=j;b+=1
if b%2:return 0
while n%k<1:n/=k;m+=1
a*=m
return 4*a
 
ugh, they made the currency number font gradually increase to the right in our latest currency notes. it looks so bad. people will kerning issues will stop carrying real money :D
 
Hello
 
Hi. :D
 
Hi @quintopia
 
I'm back.
 
4:26 PM
Hi @SuperJedi224
Yay star abuse!
 
@Sherlock9 what challenge was that thing you just posted
 
stappit plz
 
25
Q: Count sums of two squares

xnorGiven a non-negative number n, output the number of ways to express n as the sum of two squares of integers n == a^2 + b^2 (OEIS A004018). Note that a and b can be positive, negative, or zero, and their order matters. Fewest bytes wins. For example, n=25 gives 12 because 25 can be expressed as ...

The one about primes 4k+3 and 4k+1 and their exponents and such
Equation 18 on that page
 
Ah. I had been considering a similar challenge, though something more like "The number of primitive Pythagorean triples with hypotenuse less than n"
 
@Doorknob Heh, people didn't try to bump up that heavily starred message into the 70s, eh?
 
4:30 PM
@quintopia That could still work
 
@ChrisJester-Young lol, it finally got automagically unpinned
 
@Doorknob Yeah, there's a scheduled task that does that.
It got up to 64, I see. Still the highest on chat.SE, even if not all three chat servers. :-P
 
yep :P
 
I'm not sure there's more than 70 people in here
Total, I mean
Incidentally, am I correct in assuming we're all male here?
 
You can't assume any such thing. A lot of people are gender-undisclosed.
 
4:36 PM
It's not relevant to anything. Just wondering
Right, sorry @ChrisJester-Young
 
@Sherlock9 I would assume that someone who hasn't already made that known wouldn't be comfortable answering that question.
 
We could all do a public service and say our preferred pronouns right here and now...
 
he/him/his
 
Same
 
4:38 PM
@quintopia No. People deserve their privacy, and whether they wish to disclose is up to them.
 
^
 
@ChrisJester-Young this is a voluntary action, and it is possible to give pronouns without disclosing gender
 
If you refer to someone as "he" or "she" incorrectly, it can be easily and quickly corrected by said person. Asking people to explicitly announce something like that could be felt as an invasion of privacy.
(On the Internet, anyway.)
 
I use "they" by default, just to be careful.
I'll assume everyone's a "they" until I'm told otherwise.
 
@Sherlock9 oh, seems to be the same formula I used (from OEIS)
 
4:42 PM
@ChrisJester-Young So do I, usually, unless I've seen someone use a different pronoun already. Even though my inner grammar pedant yells at me for it :P
 
It's not an invasion of privacy if not saying anything is a valid option
 
@aditsu Oh, I see. I'll try writing it Pyth
 
@quintopia Sure. Actually, in an IRC channel I run (sometimes), we actually have a spreadsheet people can fill in if they wish to.
 
@quintopia "I"
 
@aditsu after looking at your code, I cut the Python to 184 bytes. Still not good though
 
4:50 PM
@aditsu confusing. Am I talking about me or I right now?
 
@Dennis Incidentally, there's a userscript that lets you do this without the privilege floating around on Stack Apps.
 
0
Q: Which is better - a catalog Q, or a shortest code Q?

ghosts_in_the_codeI had the same doubt as specified here (which is why I haven't accepted any answers yet). Reading it told me that both kinds of questions are accepted: Catalog question - Users attempt to find the shortest code in every language. No answer is accepted. Shortest code question - Users attempt to...

 
I stil haven't figured out how to get apgnano working right.
 
I am sad the Quine Pride Parade isn't going to be reopened. I have a wonderful Python solution.
 
5:12 PM
Is there a better Python cat than print(input())?
@quintopia Post your quine here then
 
1
Q: Running length of the movie in human readable format

Vasu AdariWhenever i search for running length of the movie in IMDB it is displayed in minutes. Immediately i would try to convert it into hours and minutes. It would be better if we could automate this. Sample input: 150 min Output: 2 hours 30 minutes

 
5:43 PM
Anyone got any ideas on how to improve this? n=int(input().split()[0]);i,j=divmod(n,60);p="s"if i-1else"";q="s"if j-1else"";print(str(i),"hour"+p,str(j),"minute"+q)
Bear in mind that ` backticks for strings don't appear to work in Python 3
 
@Sherlock9 Yes, use code formatting so it's readable :P
 
n=int(input().split()[0])
i,j=divmod(n,60)
p="s"if i-1else""
q="s"if j-1else""
print(str(i),"hour"+p,str(j),"minute"+q)
Took advantage of the fact that Python 3's print function uses " " space as a default separator
 
Anyone remember the challenge where each submission had to place the code into a grid, thus making the problem harder and harder?
 
30
Q: Let's make a word-search!

YpnypnIn this challenge, we will together create a word-search containing many programs in different languages. I have started us off with a grid of 60-by-25 blanks (·), some of which are replaced by the characters of a Ruby program. To answer, choose a language that was not yet used. Using your chos...

That one?
 
Yes, that one! How many seconds did that take you?
:P
 
5:53 PM
I remembered the title, so not long :P
(It was the third search result for "word search")
 
Nice, thanks =) I didn't remember what the challenge was about, so I didn't know what to search for...
 
6:09 PM
i,j=divmod(int(input().split()[0]),60)
z=lambda x:"s"if x-1else""
print(str(i),"hour"+z(i),str(j),"minute"+z(j))
Alright. Now what?
Also, 221 rep! Yay Sherlock!
 
6:21 PM
Why do some people prefer the 4 spaces over <pre></pre>?
 
Because it makes more sense to use Markdown when you have it. Also because you have to HTML-encode all your <s when you're using HTML, which is obnoxious and unnecessary. Also, you get syntax highlighting with Markdown. Also, it's more standard. Not to mention that four spaces is actually <pre><code></code></pre>, so using <pre> tags might break userscripts too.
 
also it's what the Make-This-Code button in the SE editor does
 
^ or Ctrl+K
 
(laziness is my favourite explanation for anything)
 
Eh. <pre> feels so much more... formal.
 
6:24 PM
wat
 
(~-.-)~
 
Heh. Someone used a language called "Watch" for my time question.
1
A: Output the Current Time

yetiwatch, 11 bytes watch -n1 . Output: Every 1,0s: . (SPACES) Sat Nov 28 19:07:51 2015 The amount of spaces depends on the terminal width.

 
0
A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Κριτικσι ΛίθοςMore Carrots! popularity-contestascii-artgraphical-output Your task is to print (ascii-art or graphical output) a carrot to STDOUT. It can be anything of your own imagination, a caret, or a carrot, or even a carrot made out of carets or vice versa! This question based on this meme of PPCG. Th...

 
6:34 PM
@VoteToClose That's not a language
that's just a coreutil
the real language is bash/sh
 
^
 
@NewSandboxedPosts 4 minutes late...
 
@Doorknob Not in my coreutils.
 
@VoteToClose Huh. Apparently on my system it comes from the procps package, which also provides kill, pgrep, ps, top, etc.
Description: /proc file system utilities
 This package provides command line and full screen utilities for browsing
 procfs, a "pseudo" file system dynamically generated by the kernel to
 provide information about the status of entries in its process table
 (such as whether the process is running, stopped, or a "zombie").
 .
 It contains free, kill, pkill, pgrep, pmap, ps, pwdx, skill, slabtop,
 snice, sysctl, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, and watch.
 
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Not here.
 
6:38 PM
What distro/OS?
 
So... what do you guys think of my sandbox answer?
 
OSX El Capitan. c:
>compgen -c | grep -i watch
xkbwatch
 
@VoteToClose oh
 
> oh <-- so disappointed
 
@ΚριτικσιΛίθος The output should be less vague, I think
 
6:41 PM
it should be "le captain"
 
goodbye for now, I guess
 
@NewSandboxedPosts That's definitely Too Broad. @ΚριτικσιΛίθος
 
@ΚριτικσιΛίθος If only because the carrot should be less subjective. Maybe add minimum size. Also how are we grading if it actually looks like a carrot, but that part may not be necessary
 
@ΚριτικσιΛίθος "most creative" is not objective.
@Optimizer It's espanyolish.
 
hwta?
 
6:44 PM
hwta
 
SHOOT I should have taken a screenshot of my rep!
Hang on
Let me see if I can get it here
Apologies for temporary spam to get the thing under my profile pic
And it still says 201 here o_o
 
It takes ages to update. ;)
 
Wunderbar
 
But nah, just look in your graphs page. Go to profile > reputation and hit "graph".
 
@Sherlock9 why?
 
6:48 PM
221 rep for @Sherlock9
 
He's proud, give the man some space.
 
He's so proud, he refers himself in third person
 
@Optimizer Har
@VoteToClose In my graphs page now, but how?
Well, nuts
@VoteToClose Trouble is, I now have 231 rep. I missed
Hence, the phrasing "should have"
 
what so special with 221?
I personally like 231 better than 221
 
221B Baker Street @Optimizer
 
6:57 PM
ohh
well, i am not as much of a sherlock fanboy are you to remember that..
 
That's fair
 
i probably would like Dr Strange better than Sherlock ;)
 
Anyway, sorry for the spam, everyone
 
oh, you call that a spam? ah, I forgot you are new here...
^
Oct 31 at 16:38, by Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
^
start reading the chat from that link.
5 pages full or spam carrot
 
XD
 
7:09 PM
Has anyone seen geobits since this happened? ?
 
It appears that you forgot carrot.bf, carrot.gs, carrot.rot26, "rot dup2 show show range show-lines".gs2, carrot.o, carrot.h and carrot.hpp, to name a few
I would have written the gs2 code in lowercase, but lowercase "o" is undefined in gs2 as of this writing
 
@flawr no, I think he is trying to make that a reality..
 
@Optimizer Let's recreate this incident!
 
@ΚριτικσιΛίθος ಠ_ಠ
forced never works out.
 
7:23 PM
My first Seriously answer!:
0
A: Find the absolute value of a number without built-in functions

TanMathSeriously, 8 bytes My first Seriously answer, to a 2 yr old answer! 2,^21/(^ Seriously is a stack based language. What this does is it pushes 2 on the stack, then the input, then the power of thr input with the 2 already on the stack. Then it pushes 1/2 on the stack (that is the "21/") and it...

I hope @Mego is happy!
 
@ΚριτικσιΛίθος A) .png is already in there B) There aren't enough people to join in C) The only time recreating an incident is more fun than the incident itself is the reenactment of battles
 
@Sherlock9 Then let's invite people!
carrot.pdf
 
@ΚριτικσιΛίθος are you distributing out flyers for that?
 
@Optimizer Here is da flyer
 
7:34 PM
i has heared the partay and i wish to join
carrot.gif
 
The sock is here!
 
carrot.py
 
carrot.sh
 
carrot.bf
 
7:41 PM
carrot.vbr
 
carrot.^
 
carrot.class
carrot.party.start()
 
carrot.rb
 
7:43 PM
AN ALIEN!
 
carrot.srs
 
BLARG
 
What the hell
 
carrot.vb
 
7:46 PM
@Calvin'sHobbies Invitation
 
carrot.spy < the file name for the future ShortPy file
 
Not interested
 
@Calvin'sHobbies then goodbye!
 
finally the starring message is unpinned!
 
7:48 PM
carrot.hi
 
@AlienG Thanks for the link! I love it already :D
 
@Sherlock9 ;D
 
8:17 PM
@Mego I hope you like my answer.
 
8:34 PM
o-o My german-irish friend that I'm staying with (who's a teacher) just asked me the significance of the number 420.
That was an interesting conversation.
 
Anonymous
Tell them that it's 10 times more significant than the answer
 
xD Was tempted, but her students were writing it all over her board.
 
how to know thread count of your process in linux : huH?
 
She's promised to say "Blaze it!" next time one of her students says it. ;D
I love this.
3 mortarboards in a row!
\o/
 
Anonymous
Just 96 more to catch up to Dennis
2
 
8:46 PM
Ook.
 
Do you guys think I should post this in meta?
 
Who here speaks Pyth?
3
I'm still working on counting sums of squares
This is what I have so far
J4FNrPQ8?-3%@N1 4*J+1@N0?%2@N0=JJ=JZJ
 
@GamrCorps So... redstone inventions are 0 bytes total?
 
@GamrCorps Wow, you code fast.
 
@quartata Ive had it done for a few days
 
8:51 PM
I haven't finished mine yet because slogging through NBT is more painful than I thought >.<
 
@VoteToClose What do you mean?
 
^^ Told you.
@GamrCorps I misread it. :D Nevermind.
 
@VoteToClose ok lol
 
@GamrCorps That does not count bytes!
How is it that there are so many people who don't know what a byte is???
 
We know what it is.
 
8:53 PM
No.
 
@feersum "byte" is in quotes
 
We're making a relation.
We're calling it bytes because it makes it comparable.
 
It's not bytes and not comparable.
 
@quartata it was relatively simple: loop through blocks, add the corresponding amount of "bytes", loop through tile entities and add the length of each command (if it is a command block), and loop through entities and add the amount
 
@feersum Half the point of code golf is how cool it is, the other half being making it short. If not half, then a large percentage of CG is cool factor. Minecraft coding is pretty damn cool, but it isn't in relative bytes. To include MC coding, we're going to have to make some relations to characters, at the very least, because otherwise we discard all MC answers for "incomparability".
I, for one, welcome our new Minecraft CG overlords.
 
8:58 PM
"overlords" Yeah, okay buddy.
 
There is no meaning in comparison of answers between different languages anyway.
 
Just added some screenshots to the repo for those who are interested
 
Even if they both use files made of bytes.
If you want to have a byte-based scoring system, you need to make an encoding of Minecraft programs to byte strings.
 
@GamrCorps Do you need to have MCEdit to use this?
 
Anonymous
0
A: Running length of the movie in a human readable format

MegoSeriously, 77 bytes ε" min",Æ≈;:60:@\@:60:@%'sε(;)1>I"%d hour"+(#@%'sε(;)1>I"%d minute"+(#@%@k' j Seriously is seriously not good at string manipulation. Try it online with explanation.

 
Anonymous
8:59 PM
Yay I did it
 
1.9 hates MC edit.
1
A: Running length of the movie in a human readable format

VoteToCloseVitsy, 57 54 52 bytes Oh, wow, I don't even have integers in my language. o-o VVa6*Dv/D1M-D1m'ruoh 'Z' 'OVvM1m'etunim 'Z N1-(['s'] VV Capture the input as a final global variable, and push it again. a6*Dv/1M- ...

 
1.9 has been released?
 
@VoteToClose Unfortunately, yes. BUT MCEdit supports undefined blocks so it works fine
@VoteToClose I will make a mod version if you want as well.
 

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