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9:00 PM
I now tried to add/substract 48, and got the exact same code as the BF answer...
 
Personally, I think it's fine to post a separate answer in SAF.
 
Here's my two cents.
 
If your language of choice is a trivial variant of another (potentially more popular) language which already has an answer (think BASIC or SQL dialects, Unix shells or trivial Brainfuck derivatives like Headsecks or Unary), consider adding a note to the existing answer that the same or a very similar solution is also the shortest in the other language.
 
9:05 PM
Well I lied it was Dennis's two cents
But SAF is like Headsecks: it is a trivial BF derivative. It may be "encoded" differently but it functions the same.
It's fine to post it, but note that it could work in BF also.
Dennis's two cents killed chat.
 
@quartata Yeah, sure. First steal my change, then accuse me of murder.
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@Dennis It wasn't you! It was your change!
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Is starbot back?
 
starbot?
 
9:19 PM
A while back everything in chat was being starred
Like that
 
What...
 
I only starred 3 posts...
 
Self fulfilling suspicion, I suspect
 
There is no star bot.
It's just someone trolling I believe.
 
actually... I have a suspicion...
 
9:21 PM
Well I can't star my own posts.
Hey, @quartata none of your posts are being stared!
starred*
 
My change post is being starred.
 
I starred that one
 
4 hours ago, by Agawa001
plz dont mess with stars im testing my new code, thank you
 
Oh. :P
 
It's not me sheesh
Just undo the stars pls
 
9:22 PM
I'm pretty sure this isn't a bot - it only started happening after I asked if there was a starbot - seems like a pretty human response
 
Why doesn't chat moderation let you see who is starring what
 
k
hm...
 
@anOKsquirrel Did you know you can press up or click on the arrow to the left of a previous post to edit?
 
yes.
k was actually an answer to a previous post. My internet is laggy right now
They unstarred everything....
 
@anOKsquirrel That was Martin.
 
9:27 PM
What do you mean?
 
Mods can undo stars.
 
Really?
 
And yet they can't see who stars what....
 
that's dumb
 
@MartinBüttner can I add the truth machine catalog to the list of catalogs on meta?
 
9:30 PM
sure
 
1{["[tag:status-accepted]","[tag:status-declined]"]mRp}h
Huh that doesn't work.
 
@quartata That makes no sense in Minkolang. :P
 
It was supposed to be CJam.
But I think I did it wrong.
 
Either it prints out status-declined or 21..?
@MartinBüttner I can't figure out what I did wrong...
 
9:36 PM
@quartata the ,
it computes the length of the first string
 
Ohhh
 
just get rid of it
 
I forgot you don't need to delimit the arrays
 
Does anyody know how to measure the number of bytes for s python program?
 
Too late to edit it...
@TanMath wc -c
If you use an editor that appends a newline (like vi) subtract one
 
9:38 PM
@quartata ?
 
@TanMath wc -c FILE
 
@quartata oh, a terminal is needed?
 
@quartata technically, there isn't even an array literal
 
@TanMath I mean, it's the easiest way.
@MartinBüttner 1{["[tag:status-accepted]""[tag:status-declined]"]mRp}h works thanks
 
[ and ] don't have to be matched and are individual commands. [ remembers the current stack depth (sort of), and ] wraps everything beyond the last remembered stack depth in an array.
 
9:40 PM
@MartinBüttner That's interesting.
You learn something new everyday, especially on PPCG
 
@flawr That explains why taking the highest element to try to figure out the distribution is worse than taking the second-highest.
 
Are there other ways?
 
@TanMath yes...
But why would you need to?
 
@trichoplax hello!
 
@TanMath You can use this: mothereff.in/byte-counter
But I don't see any point when wc is just as good
 
9:41 PM
@TanMath hello :)
 
Remember me?
 
Are you on Windows?
 
@quartata I actually used code from that for the byte counter on the Minkolang online interpreter page. :D
 
("sort of", because that remembered value is lowered when the stack falls below it, so if you do 5[;5], the 5 will be in the array. more importantly, some commands are actually implemented via popping the argument, so for instance [\] lowers the stack depth by two so it wraps the top two stack elements in an array in reverse order) (@quartata)
 
@TanMath Only vaguely I'm afraid
 
9:43 PM
@trichoplax i was the guy about neural networks...
 
I seem to recall you had a different user name.
 
@MartinBüttner I did..
 
unless there were two guys about neural networks...
 
@TanMath I do remember then
 
But i did visit after I changed my name
 
9:45 PM
my ideas are never original :P
 
Well, better go back to working on Rotor.
 
@MartinBüttner I was the T Abraham guy
 
right, that rings a bell
@anOKsquirrel sorry ;)
 
:P Now to think of some other thing
 
When we had the lab rat race
 
9:48 PM
@trichoplax yep!!
 
@trichoplax which reminds me... I never reran the final submission to accept it...
 
This was a clever challenge:
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Q: Translate your English source code into a foreign language

CJ DennisI have noticed that there are a disproportionate number of computer languages based on English. I propose to fix this by translating existing computer languages into foreign languages! Pick a computer language that uses English keywords/functions Pick any natural* language other than English Wr...

Too bad the languages I know have already been done
 
then again, kuroi neko's account has been deleted which is probably why I lost the motivation to do so
 
@MartinBüttner why did he delete this account.. His answer was the best
 
@TanMath I don't know
 
9:51 PM
is there a policy (either on this site or SE in general) about profanity in answers? i know no one cares here but a long time ago someone edited a swear word out of one of my answers and reverted my attempt to put it back and i got unnecessarily mad and actually left the site for a couple days. i'm over it now but i want to quote part of the code from my pb interpreter in an answer i'm writing, which includes "# TODO: make this not a piece of shit" and i don't know if that's okay
it's not necessary to have the quote there to make my point, i'm basically making fun of myself for writing a bad interpreter
 
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Q: Are expletives (cursing, swear words or vulgar language) allowed on SE sites?

Jeff AtwoodCan I use salty, expletive-laden language on Stack Exchange sites, like Q*Bert? For more information, see "What kind of behavior is expected of users?" in the Help Center. Return to FAQ index

 
thanks, but there are a lot of conflicting, highly upvoted answers, and i'd normally default to the top voted one but it's kind of wishy-washy and i don't know where the line is supposed to be drawn
legit though, thank you, i didn't know that was a thing
 
I feel it's fine here.
 
alright
worst case scenario it gets edited out and i try not to be so salty this time :P
 
Although I don't like it, it seems that it's okay when you're not directing it towards somebody
 
9:55 PM
A few days ago "brainfuck" was in an HNQ title again
It was from Code Review
The censor code didn't work apparently
 
I saw one here, too
 
i don't know if this is how they did it but if i was writing censor code for a network like SE where 90% of the users are programmers, i'd whitelist brainfuck
 
yeah.
 
@undergroundmonorail I'd value the word of Jeff Atwood over whoever that other scrub is
 
However, I feel in titles it should be censored
 
9:57 PM
Just sayin'
 
@quartata i understand why community wiki posts don't have an avatar but i really feel like this is a case where it would have been helpful to notice who posted it :P
ty
 
I gtg now, cya
 
ugh why are esolang interpreters always so shitty
 

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