The Nineteenth Byte

Doorknob

2:00 AM

ok now how do I fact check that

Alex A.

hahaha

Doorknob

rofl

thanks Wolfram Alpha that's incredibly helpful

BrainSteel

@AlexA. Which rodent indigenous to Washington in the late Jurassic Period was largest?

Doorknob

@BrainSteel pretty sure there was no Washington in the late Jurassic Period

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. Pshh, they're not even pre-millennial. Not even Pearl Jam or Nirvana?

Doorknob

2:01 AM

unless Washington is waaaay older than I thought

Calvin's Hobbies

Alex A.

@Calvin'sHobbies I'm pretty sure their first EP came out in 98 or so.

Calvin's Hobbies

^ Love seeing that sign when I've driven past

Alex A.

@Calvin'sHobbies Kurt Cobain would have been pissed about that. :P

BrainSteel

@Doorknob Shhhh, it was a trick question

Calvin's Hobbies

2:02 AM

Why?

Doorknob

@AlexA. Who's the person with the 158th most dogs who lived in Washington in 1910, sorting people with an equal number of dogs alphabetically by last name?

Alex A.

@Calvin'sHobbies Haha idk. I thought I had read that he didn't like being famous or something.

@Doorknob You have absolutely no way of fact checking that so I could pretty much say whatever.

Doorknob

>.>

looks for verifiable obscure Washington trivia

Alex A.

haha

Doorknob

actually there are a number of other things that I could be doing right now, all of which are a better idea than that one

BrainSteel

2:04 AM

Say John Smith.

Alex A.

No idea is a better idea than researching useless trivia.

BrainSteel

It's a pretty common name.

Maltysen

@BrainSteel it's clearly @AlexA.

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. What box did the space needle come in?

BrainSteel

@AlexA. Is much older than he's letting on...

Doorknob

2:05 AM

Today in math class...

> A: "oh there's a point discontinuity at the origin"
B: "you mean (0,0)?"
A: "... no the other origin"

5

Alex A.

hahaha what

Maltysen

which one were you? :)

Doorknob

neither was me :P

BrainSteel

Does his name look like A or B?

Doorknob

uhh, my name starts with an A...

BrainSteel

2:07 AM

One step closer to stalking Doorknob

Doorknob

actually it's pretty easy to figure out my name considering it's in my email address :P

Alex A.

His last name is Knob.

BrainSteel

Doo R. Knob

Doorknob

Doo "Scooby" R. Knob

according to @AlexA. at least

Alex A.

Scooby @Doo, where are you?

Doorknob

2:08 AM

I'm... right here

BrainSteel

Right here is a server somewhere at SE

Alex A.

@Calvin'sHobbies The Space Needle was a prize on the inside of Canada's cereal box. They just wanted the cereal so they gave us the pointy building.

BrainSteel

We're all there.

Maltysen

@Doorknob but, but gmail is saying that andy @ [my website] is not a valid email :(

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. What was the name of the earthquake in 2001? What kind of room is in the center of the library? What was there before Safeco field? Complete this: Artis the ________. (I shall yet outmatch you in Seattle trivia!)

Alex A.

2:11 AM

@Calvin'sHobbies Nisqually Quake

Calvin's Hobbies

Safeco Plaza (Seattle)

Safeco Plaza, previously 1001 Fourth Avenue Plaza, and the Seattle-First National Bank Building, is a 50-story, 192 m (630 ft) skyscraper in downtown Seattle, Washington. The building is referred to by locals as "The Box the Space Needle Came In". When the tower was completed in 1969, it dwarfed Smith Tower, which had reigned as downtown's tallest building since 1914, and edged out the Space Needle (1962) in Seattle Center by 25 ft (7.6 m). It was the first class-A office building in Seattle. Safeco Insurance Company of America leased the building May 23, 2006 to be its headquarters, and renamed...

Alex A.

I don't understand the second question

BrainSteel

What is the longest floating bridge in the world?

Alex A.

Long Float Bridge

Maltysen

Evergreen Point Floating Bridge

Alex A.

2:12 AM

No way

I drove over that earlier today

BrainSteel

> The Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge at Evergreen Point is the longest floating bridge in the world. The bridge connects Seattle and Medina across Lake Washington.

Alex A.

Well shit

BrainSteel

See, I know more about Washington than you and all I had to do was google "washington trivia"

Calvin's Hobbies

What neighborhood does Bill Gates live in? (Someone just said it ;P)

Alex A.

Medina

BrainSteel

2:13 AM

Source, by the way.

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. There's a red curvy room representing the heart of the building.

Alex A.

I've seen the backside of his house from the water

Maltysen

What is the highest point in Washington?

Calvin's Hobbies

Mt Ranier ~14k feet

Maltysen

hey this gives me a challenge idea

meta-golf code-golf

BrainSteel

2:15 AM

PPCG - where we discuss state trivia.

Maltysen

write a program that given answers and questions, writes a program that is a trivia game

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. Name 10 islands in Washington state without looking anything up. (I can stop these questions if you want..)

SuperJedi224

@quartata Why doesn't i{z1p work?

Alex A.

@Calvin'sHobbies Don't stop but note that I'm doing other things at the same time so I might take a minute or two

SuperJedi224

(Or, equivalently, i{p if input is guaranteed to be only 0/1)

Alex A.

2:17 AM

San Juan, Whidbey

Camano

Lopez

Hm, Camano might be the one that isn't actually an island

BrainSteel

I'm impressed.

Calvin's Hobbies

Fox, Orcas, Blake, Bainbridge, Mercer, Stewart, Harbor

I believe WA has the largest state run ferry system in the US

Alex A.

I forgot about Bainbridge and Orcas and I honestly didn't know the rest existed.

u_u

shame

quartata

@SuperJedi224 I don't think that's what you had on there

BrainSteel

I can't name any physical features of Kansas, so it's okay. Then again, Kansas doesn't have any physical features.

quartata

2:23 AM

You had something else I don't remember

Anywho I think i{p is the shortest

SuperJedi224

i{z1p is what I had. Because it transforms inputs not in {0,1} into 1

Alex A.

@BrainSteel It has that big flat part

quartata

You know I just thought of something clever

@SuperJedi224 Ah I see

Huh I must have put it in wrong or something

BrainSteel

It's got them flint hills. And that one "peak"

And a couple lakes.

quartata

So instead of having BrainFuck but encoded in 1 bit

You take TinyBF and encode two instructions in 1 bit

Calvin's Hobbies

2:24 AM

The Soundgarden song Spoonman is about Artis the Spoonman from Seattle (who I've seen perform :D)

Alex A.

Didn't he pass away?

Calvin's Hobbies

Don't think so. "Years active 1972–present"

Alex A.

Oh! Okay. Good news then.

Calvin's Hobbies

@BrainSteel Kansas has Dorothy and her dog. That's about all I know.

BrainSteel

Something something yellow brick road.

God, the number of times I've had to sit through that movie.

Calvin's Hobbies

2:27 AM

@BrainSteel That was in Oz, not Kansas ;)

BrainSteel

Fair point. She had an Auntie Anne, I think.

And that weird fortune teller.

SuperJedi224

The book was written in either 1899 or 1900. I've heard both.

BrainSteel

I'm a little surprised I haven't had to read the book.

We had a bit about it in US history, though.

El'endia Starman

The apostrophe in "El'endia Starman" just broke Visual Studio 2015's developer command prompt. Because it goes like $CmdPathFile='C:\Users\El'endia Starman\...'...

Calvin's Hobbies

There were lots of books, The Wizard of Oz was just one. Gotta love that Jack Pumpkin head and the living sawhorse.

Alien G

2:30 AM

Yo!

Alex A.

> There were lots of books

Like, in existence?

BrainSteel

Indeed.

Calvin's Hobbies

Lot's of Oz books.

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Q: Create an image by mapping colors to letters

Given an input string only containing the characters bBcCgGlLpPrRwWyY and newlines, generate an image where each string of characters between newlines is a row of the image. Each letter corresponds to a color in this table below: y yellow #FFFF00 Y brown(olive) #808000 r red ...

Calvin's Hobbies

Though Jules Verne > Frank Baum

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SuperJedi224

2:31 AM

Apparently XP Orbs are bomb proof. Yay.

BrainSteel

carrot.jpg

SuperJedi224

@Calvin'sHobbies So is Herbert George Wells.

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. What was there before Safeco field?

PhiNotPi

@SuperJedi224 you should play on the PPCG server

Alex A.

Kingdooooooome

SuperJedi224

2:34 AM

@PhiNotPi Is it on offline mode?

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. My oh my!

PhiNotPi

no (not because we didn't try)

Calvin's Hobbies

@SuperJedi224 No..? It's a remote server that you must have an internet connection to play, so multiple people can play at once.

Read about here: ppcgmc.herokuapp.com

PhiNotPi

@Calvin'sHobbies I'm assuming jedi's copy of the game isn't... pristine enough, if you know what I mean.

Calvin's Hobbies

Ohh

SuperJedi224

2:36 AM

I may need to borrow my brother's account again then.

PhiNotPi

Like when I first tried to login, before I got the game.

Calvin's Hobbies

Yeah :P

Alex A.

Hahaha I remember that

Calvin's Hobbies

I'm not sure how to "fix" that but I wouldn't really want to

PhiNotPi

@Calvin'sHobbies It should be a single line in the settings file.

Alex A.

2:42 AM

LetPhiIn=1

PhiNotPi

basically yeah

Calvin's Hobbies

@PhiNotPi But it makes things less secure.

> However, it introduces security risks, as it allows anyone to use any username to join your server. For example, one would be able to login as any white listed player, or as an op and run all administrator commands.

SuperJedi224

Well, I guss I've got to go for the night. But first:

PhiNotPi

shhhh

SuperJedi224

Calvin's Hobbies

2:45 AM

Also, no skins.

Alex A.

No one has skin, we're just flesh gross stuff stuck to bones.

mınxomaτ

Captchas are getting really specific.

BrainSteel

It's totally spelled doughnut.

Alex A.

^

Doorknob

lies

Alex A.

2:50 AM

I got a Captcha once that was too offensive to share in chat.

mınxomaτ

I love that captcha comics are a thing.

Alex A.

Basically it accused me of being a homosexual and tried to lighten the blow by adding a number to the end.

BrainSteel

Apparently, according to wikipedia the spelling "donut" and "doughnut" are both acceptable in the US, but the UK prefers "doughnut." Looks like another score for British spelling.

Doorknob

British English spelling is the center of all evil

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BrainSteel

Don't colour it in that light.

Doorknob

2:54 AM

I will continue to emphasize this.

Alex A.

I realize you like to practice incorrect spellings, BrainSteel.

BrainSteel

It's my favourite way to spell things.

Doorknob

I hope this dialog will convince you otherwise.

BrainSteel

Yeah, well this image says otherwise.

Alex A.

We certainly use fewer extraneous vowels in the US catalog of words.

(i.e. a dictionary)

Doorknob

2:56 AM

@BrainSteel wat

I mean... you're not wrong

Alex A.

brainsteel-is-not-wrong

technically

Calvin's Hobbies

D'you think a wet shirt would get dry sooner by wearing it or by hanging it up? (no dryer/radiator available)

Alex A.

Hanging it up

BrainSteel

I'd rather not wear wet shirts, so my instinct is hanging even if it's wrong.

Doorknob

you should wear it because alex-is-wrong

Calvin's Hobbies

2:57 AM

But your body is warm

But there's better airflow if it's hanging

BrainSteel

I'm not going to wear the shirt for you. It's the principle of the thing.

Find a space heater :P

Alex A.

Take a few quarters from a donation bin somewhere and take the shirt to a laundromat.

@Calvin'sHobbies Oh my

BrainSteel

I thought we decided @Geobits was the hottest one here? Put it on him.

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. What if it is your only clean (but wet) shirt? (fyi I'm not actually in this situation :P)

Alex A.

@BrainSteel When did we decide that?

Calvin's Hobbies

3:00 AM

@AlexA. Ok, those comments are kinda awkward now that I think about it..

Alex A.

@Calvin'sHobbies How dirty are the other shirts?

@Calvin'sHobbies Haha. Want some mod assistance?

BrainSteel

Especially if you read "better airflow if it's hanging" with respect to a person's body.

Geobits

I thought about answering that ping with something witty, but umm... I'm gonna go back to what I was doing now...

Alex A.

@Geobits and I can have a wet t-shirt contest.

BrainSteel

@AlexA. I seem to remember a conversation long ago about PPCG members' relative attractiveness. Geobits was singled out, because, well, he always is.

Alex A.

3:01 AM

Haha

Geobits

Interesting. Nobody here knows what I look like, but you all came to the right conclusion anyway. Bravo ;)

BrainSteel

geobits-is-hot

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Calvin's Hobbies

I picture a triangular body

Geobits

@BrainSteel I don't know whether to bandwagon-star this or not :/

Dennis

PPCG users really like cats!

Alex A.

3:03 AM

geobits-is-conflicted

@Dennis I like cats. Meow.

Doorknob

dogs are better

BrainSteel

On the internet, nobody knows you're a cat.

Alex A.

@Doorknob YES

Dennis

I have yet to post an answer involving dogs that earns me an insane amount of upvotes though.

BrainSteel

Dogs are nice too :D

Alex A.

3:05 AM

Animals are great

mınxomaτ

That's how every captcha should be: random.irb.hr/signup.php

Alex A.

Truth be told, I think Calvin knows more Washington trivia than I do.

Dennis

sigh My kernel wants to update. That didn't go exactly well the last time...

Doorknob

nairaland.com/1841757/it-true-php-ugly-language#25212399

Cwhatwhat?

Dennis

WTH is C÷÷ supposed to be???

BrainSteel

3:09 AM

How do you accidentally find the divide symbol on a keyboard?

Alex A.

o u dont no that language?

Sp3000

Is it like C where all printable ASCII is replaced with the APL keyboard?

Doorknob

@AlexA. i dont no that lenguij

Alex A.

@BrainSteel Option+/

Dennis

C⍨⍨

BrainSteel

3:10 AM

÷ sonuvagun

C==

so just C?

uh yeah

C----

C*=C

3:11 AM

--C++

C⍋⍋

©++

C}}

++ɔ

CCC

3:12 AM

Looks like we found a new carrot.

PhiNotPi

c++.jpg

Doorknob

@Dennis or a new ಠ_ಠ

mınxomaτ

@PhiNotPi That's something else

Doorknob

I have similar feelings about this situation:

Jul 30 at 17:52, by Doorknob

ahhhh what have I done

Alex A.

©åRo™

Dennis

3:13 AM

Carrot is the new ಠ_ಠ.

mınxomaτ

Carrಠt++

PhiNotPi

> Carrot is the new carrot.

Alex A.

@mınxomaτ Put it in a tag and you've summarized all the memes

Doorknob

@AlexA. and tack on an -is-alex to the end of it

PhiNotPi

Carrಠt++.tag

BrainSteel

3:14 AM

And then say it's wrong

mınxomaτ

carrಠt++-is-wrong

Doorknob

or that

Dennis

@AlexA. summarize-all-the-memes

BrainSteel

I'm sure you can fit a ಠ_ಠ in there

Alex A.

@Dennis :P

Doorknob

3:14 AM

Alex A. ♦, Seattle, WA

11.8k 2 17 62

code-golf string math number ascii-art kolmogorov-complexity popularity-contest

Geobits, Western Hemisphere

12k 2 29 89

code-golf king-of-the-hill popularity-contest string code-challenge graphical-output random

^ basically a summary of all the memes

Alex A.

@mınxomaτ In a cosmic sense, yes.

Doorknob

y u no onebox

PhiNotPi

summarize-all-thಠ_ಠe-memes

Alex A.

@Doorknob chat usrs dont 1box

mınxomaτ

that takes up half my screen.

Doorknob

3:15 AM

you have a very small screen

^

Or a phone.

Zoom out

768

get a bigger screeen

3:16 AM

screeeen

Kroltan

@BrainSteel /a very small screen/

PhiNotPi

at least 768,000

Alex A.

He has at least 768,000 screens?

BrainSteel

768,000 1-pixel screens. What a nightmare.

Kroltan

recursive screens > all

BrainSteel

3:17 AM

INFINITE SCREENS

PhiNotPi

each screen produces one photon and then dies

Kroltan

INFINITE INFINITIES

BrainSteel

Screens are hardcore.

Alex A.

INFINITE SCREENS => INFINITE SCREAMS

Alien G

Oh god. Twizler + Gum != good (I done fucked up)

BrainSteel

3:18 AM

screening intensifies

Kroltan

RECURSIVE SCREAMS

Alex A.

@BrainSteel Hah like at a film festival

Kroltan

thats the feel of sudo rm -rf /

mınxomaτ

@AlexA. Or cancer treatment.

Alex A.

--no-preserve-root

BrainSteel

3:19 AM

O_o

Alex A.

Haha

Kroltan

@AlexA. --old-systems-sad

Alex A.

@Doorknob Wrong textbox?

Doorknob

llama@llama:~$ su
Password:
root@llama:/home/llama# rm -rf /
rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on ‘/’
rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe

copy paste fail

BrainSteel

I do not have the balls to try such a thing, even though I know it won't work.

Kroltan

3:20 AM

^

Doorknob

I did hesitate before hitting enter... :P

Kroltan

hesitate as in create and boot a vm, then type the command? :P

BrainSteel

I would hope so. With my luck, I'm going to have a bug that allows --no-preserve-root to be enabled by default or something.

rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on ‘/’ alone, take this:

quartata

Apparently D's mixin is stupid and doesn't realize that if there are a finite amount of strings in an array, and a call to mixin is guaranteed to pick only one from it it only needs to compile the whole array

That's great.

PhiNotPi

you should add a keyboard shortcut for --no-preserve-root

Kroltan

3:24 AM

with my luck, i'm going to have this bug on the last live linux cd-rw on the last computer on earth

BrainSteel

Why take risks with keyboard shortcuts? Real programmers run Suicide Linux.

> Any time - any time - you type any remotely incorrect command, the interpreter creatively resolves it into rm -rf / and wipes your hard drive.

PhiNotPi

I was watching Twitch Installs Arch Linux

apparently a botnet took over and tried to install Gentoo

Doorknob

hahaha

Alex A.

haha that's a thing???

PhiNotPi

twitch.tv/twitchinstallsarchlinux

BrainSteel

3:27 AM

Hahaha, "playing Programming"

Doorknob

doesn't Twitch do everything now, not just games?

Alex A.

Apparently

mınxomaτ

Like watching Bob Ross for 8 days continuously: twitch.tv/bobross (currently 40k people watching, I remember it was over 60k at times).

Alex A.

I don't consider installing an OS to be a game

@mınxomaτ Bob Ross is a boss.

mınxomaτ

Bob Ross is best human.

"happy little trees"

Alex A.

3:31 AM

Did you hear about the time when a colorblind fan asked him if he would be able to be a painter and Bob Ross painted a beautiful snowy mountain range and sky with just grays?

I really want to hug Bob Ross.

34 mins ago, by Calvin's Hobbies

But your body is warm

mınxomaτ

pls no bob ross fanfic

GamrCorps

Does anyone know of a list similar to something like "things every programming language needs"?

Alex A.

There's no one answer to that

mınxomaτ

^

like ... at all

GamrCorps

well do you know of something to get me started?

mınxomaτ

3:35 AM

Has to have some means of performing some subset of logic

Alex A.

Mouse is a very simplistic language where everything is handled as integers. It has no concepts of strings or arrays or anything.

Doorknob

@GamrCorps stack-based, tape-based, or what (something else)?

GamrCorps

stack

Alex A.

Ostrich-based

3

Doorknob

ಠ_ಠ

Alex A.

3:38 AM

ಠuಠ

mınxomaτ

Straight outta homework assignment

Doorknob

@GamrCorps maybe take a look at Underload (iirc it's one of the most minimal)

@mınxomaτ ugh I lost my autocomment script somehow

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Q: A community hall

A community hall owner gives it on rent for family functions and parties. He charges Rs.1 thousand for a booking no matter how long is the booking.For each day, he receives some requests to book the community hall which consists of the starting hour and ending hour of the booking. Owner can’t t...