The Nineteenth Byte

Alex A.

9:04 PM

@NewSandboxedPosts o hai

RikerW

@AlexA. No, it doesn't

FlagAsSpam

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Screw it - go ahead and steal my method if you want, I don't know JS. xD

Alex A.

@RikerW What?

RikerW

That really doesn't make him look good.

Alex A.

You mean being the first to get the Onion Knight hat doesn't make @quartata cool?

I think he's cool regardless. B)

FlagAsSpam

9:09 PM

aw.

Ooh.

I inverted the hair.

It now forms a beard.

Alex A.

Good god, spam with a beard?

FlagAsSpam

Yup.

TimmyD

@FlagAsSpam It looks like it's sticking its tongue out at me.

FlagAsSpam

Heh.

Gimme a sec, I'm changing the pic.

undergroundmonorail

I felt pretty confident about this math until I drew the conclusion that, if a woman's weight changes by -6/(3 + 0.02t) lbs each week she participates in a workout program, and she wants be 25 lbs lighter than her current weight when she gets married, she should start working out 50 weeks after the wedding.

Somehow that doesn't seem right.

Doorknob 冰

9:14 PM

@FlagAsSpam Oooh, good idea. My Archimedes is now a bathtub.

Alex A.

@Doorknob冰 When I first saw it I already thought it was a bathtub on your head.

Doorknob 冰

hahaha

Alex A.

Now it's bathknob.

@undergroundmonorail Seems legit. Retroactive weight loss is the way of the future.

Optimizer

secret hat?

Doorknob 冰

wait... Archimedes... bathtub...

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 1 min ago, by Doorknob 冰

@Pops ... I'm an idiot

FlagAsSpam

9:18 PM

Can someone refresh my profile?

Alex A.

Done

FlagAsSpam

Aww, the hat didn't reload!

Alex A.

Oh no

It did for me

FlagAsSpam

C'mon. Really, hats?

Afro-wat?

Alex A.

It's... disturbing.

FlagAsSpam

9:19 PM

xD It's beautiful and we both know it.

RikerW

@FlagAsSpam I have to agree with alex. Plus when you click the image in chat it takes you to the chat account, which is hatless.

Alex A.

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder but in this case I think your eyes are deceiving you.

RikerW

@AlexA. rofl

FlagAsSpam

Oh god, the image on this is now terrifying.

2

A: Why was 6 afraid of 7?

Java, 126 81 bytes Edit: I'm pretty sure that functions are allowed by default? If not, just tell me to rollback. ...yup. It's actually longer than I expected - Java replaces items in strings with replaceAll() once per match, not repeatedly until it stops changing. So I had to use a fancy for ...

RikerW

@FlagAsSpam That is what just popped up for me! It is terrible.

FlagAsSpam

9:23 PM

Yes, the hat fixed on my screen now.

With hat is so much better.

I mean, look at this beauty.

RikerW

@FlagAsSpam NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FlagAsSpam

Afrowat is coming to town.

Optimizer

so tempting to flag as spam right now

FlagAsSpam

She sees you when you're sleeping.

quartata

@RikerW ;_;

FlagAsSpam

9:25 PM

She knows when you're awake.

quartata

I'm special

Look there's a post on meta that says how special I am

FlagAsSpam

She's knows if you've been bad or good so hide for all f***'s sake.

Optimizer

@quartata link?

RikerW

@quartata I changed my mind. You are much better than @FlagAsSpam.

quartata

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A: Winter Bash 2015 Secret Hats

Onion Knight

@Eran this user. Credits for finding the user goes to Derpy in chat, I posted here with my own guess. — Shadow Wizard 11 hours ago

Except they keep calling me "the user" which is very dehumanizing

Doorknob 冰

9:26 PM

@FlagAssPam I clicked to your profile and saw the URL. I'm pinging you like this from now on

undergroundmonorail

it reminds me of the tone they use on the SCP Foundation

"The subject" "The anomaly" "SCP-XXXX"

FlagAsSpam

@Doorknob冰 What URL?

Doorknob 冰

The URL of your profile

you have the same problem that expertsexchange has

undergroundmonorail

they usually use preferred names in interviews but it's all very cold and clinical in the documentation

FlagAsSpam

kidsexchange

Get a better font.

Alex A.

9:28 PM

@FlagAsSpam That sounds awful.

quartata

I will never unsee this.

FlagAsSpam

It's actually a thing. xD

undergroundmonorail

This and poor keming basically ruin every sign you'll ever see.

quartata

Timwi

Hello

Is anyone actively working on the Rubik’s Revenge challenge posted two days ago?

quartata

9:32 PM

@Timwi It's from 2 years ago

Alex A.

^

J Atkin

^^

Doorknob 冰

Yeah but what's the difference

Alex A.

Time

quartata

2 days 2 years 2 centuries 2 eons

Optimizer

9:33 PM

the answer is still the same

quartata

'Tis all the same

Digital Trauma

@MartinBüttner this Retina answer - should I add 1 to my score to account for the -s passed to Retina.exe? What's your take?

quartata

@DigitalTrauma yes

Alex A.

@DigitalTrauma yes

Flags must always be counted in the score

TimmyD

Fixed my hat.

Digital Trauma

9:35 PM

@AlexA. Yes - that's my understanding - though I can find some counter examples - e.g. codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/66291/11259

Alex A.

@DigitalTrauma Why is this a counter example?

There don't appear to be any flags

FlagAsSpam

0

A: Is it a hat or a cake?

Yes, it is edible. For a while, my profile looked like this: A first, I thought it was a cookie that is in England that has shortbread layers with a cream filling and a jam centered upper layer, called a Jammy Dodger. Which are in and of themselves delicious. I prefer my current hat setup...

-1? D:

Timwi

@quartata Weird, how did I miss that? Thanks :)

Alex A.

@FlagAsSpam Granted, it adds nothing to the existing answers and seems to primarily have been posted for the sake of silliness.

FlagAsSpam

@AlexA. See: hats

Also - it does add something. I thought it was a jammy dodger.

Dennis

9:41 PM

@DigitalTrauma The newest version of Retina no longer requires the -s flag. Single file mode is now the default.

Alex A.

@FlagAsSpam You thinking it was a jammy dodger doesn't actually add useful information. You could have left that as a comment.

FlagAsSpam

This is true.

deletes and comments

Alex A.

2

A: Is it a hat or a cake?

It's very probably a cake, since sufganiyot refers to this jiddish hanukka specialty mentioned here, which is kinda cake. And also you can wear it as a hat now here. That's amazing, isn't it?

This is the ideal answer since it actually explains what a sufganiyot is.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. I look at this, and I think something must have happened in chat.

FlagAsSpam

Dat rep doe.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

9:47 PM

I upvoted it just to make it go away XD

Alex A.

metal \m/

Martin Büttner

@DigitalTrauma no

As of yesterday, Retina no longer takes the -s flag.

That's default now, and the old behaviour can be recovered with -m.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

**Challenge:** Given an arbitrary string of text (ASCII only), find an output of it using the following operations:
* [A-J]: push 0-9 (respectively)
* R: duplicate the top item on stack
* W: Output the top item stack as character
With operations `K-O` being `+-/*%`

SuperJedi224

Hi guys

Martin Büttner

Also, I never counted -s because I considered it a standard flag and it would always be possible to get the same byte count or less with separate files.

Digital Trauma

9:52 PM

@MartinBüttner Oh, ok, makes sense - thanks

Martin Büttner

@DigitalTrauma also if Retina did still take the flag, it would cost 3 bytes

Digital Trauma

@MartinBüttner how so?

Doorknob 冰

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ "mini"?

FlagAsSpam

There's no replace method for strings in AppleScript.

ಠ_ಠ

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Doorknob冰 Erm. Yes

Is it hard?

El'endia Starman

9:54 PM

Perhaps, but it's definitely not "mini".

Martin Büttner

@DigitalTrauma minus, s, space

Doorknob 冰

^^

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@El'endiaStarman Oh, right.

SuperJedi224

@FlagAsSpam What site did you get the "everybody gets a hat" hat on? I got it earlier today on Mathematics.

FlagAsSpam

^ Same.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

9:55 PM

@Doorknob冰 can you mod-abuse that mini out of there?

Doorknob 冰

@MartinBüttner Single char flags are usually counted as 1, no?

Digital Trauma

@MartinBüttner Really? I always thought each flags is just counted as 1

Martin Büttner

Not unless they can be combined with something like -e

Such that you can do -ne

Doorknob 冰

Come to think of it, it does make sense to count them as 3...

(and -ne as 4)

Martin Büttner

There's a meta post. Search for "special invocations"

@Doorknob冰 well except that -e counts as a standard flag so it isn't counted

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

9:56 PM

Danke doorknob :)

Doorknob 冰

@MartinBüttner Only because -ne 'foo' is the same as -n somefile

quartata

3 hours ago, by quartata

I'm starting work on a golfy version of Perl.

3 hours ago, by quartata

It'll be postfix (unlike Pyth) and it'll use CP437 for reasons that I'll reveal later

\o/

@Doorknob

Booo Perl

9:57 PM

ಠ_ಠ

El'endia Starman

The Physics of Car Crashes

►

quartata

I see that made Doorknob happy.

Anyways, it'll be transpiled like Pyth. Working on it right now.

Alex A.

@El'endiaStarman I saw this and momentarily assumed flawr had posted it. :P

quartata

I call it: pl

El'endia Starman

@AlexA. LOL. :P

Doorknob 冰

9:58 PM

@quartata that's not going to be confusing at all

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Perl, or not Perl? Give me one convincing reason.

Alex A.

@quartata Call it PL/I.

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Not Perl because Perl is bad.

quartata

@Doorknob冰 Gotta a better name?

Doorknob 冰

no :P

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Perl because its name is golfier than most languages'

quartata

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Perl because eval + -p is a 5 byte REPL

Witness the power

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

9:59 PM

@AlexA. Not a good reason :P

El'endia Starman

Btw, 60 kph ~= 37.3 mph, and a two-ton car traveling at that speed has about as much energy as a stegosaurus (or elephant) dropped from the top of a three-story building.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Doorknob冰 Right

@quartata whoa

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