The Nineteenth Byte

SuperJedi224

9:01 PM

@anOKsquirrel Pretty much.

Digital Trauma

curious - why did @Community delete this answer: codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/66006/11259

undergroundmonorail

user is deleted

does @community clean up abandoned answers like that?

that would be my guess but i don't actually have any knowledge

Digital Trauma

oh, right - yes I missed the user deletion

anOKsquirrel

sj i broke your bot

just ! will break it

ev3commander

no i broke it

i did it first

anOKsquirrel

9:13 PM

both of us did?

SuperJedi224

@anOKsquirrel Nope

quartata

@undergroundmonorail Yes it does.

One second lemme find the quote

Hmm, can't find it.

Anyways the Community user removed that answer because the poster's account was deleted

Apparently it was a sock or something

El'endia Starman

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A: Difference between a deleted user and a "destroyed" user

"Deleted" users have their display name denormalized, their account deleted, and all of their negatively rated posts will be deleted. Anything with a score of 0 or higher is retained with their "ghost" user. This is primarily for scenarios like a user requesting their account for deletion, and it...

When users are destroyed, all of their posts are deleted too.

quartata

9:28 PM

Ah, that's the post I was looking for.

Thanks.

TimmyD

@SuperJedi224 I snuck in underneath your JavaScript answer. ;-)

SuperJedi224

@TimmyD @edc65 already beat the heck out of it anyway

TimmyD

Yeah, that post is crazy.

@SuperJedi224 Do you need to actually split on _ in your string, or can you just index directly into the string?

SuperJedi224

@TimmyD I'll look into that after I finish writing my answer for this

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Q: Connect-n time!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect_Four Does anyone remember the 2 player game connect 4? For those who don't it was a 6x7 board that stands vertical on a surface. The goal of connect 4 is to, well connect 4! The connection is counted if it is horizontal, diagonal, or vertical. You place your...

J Atkin

9:44 PM

@TimmyD Whoops, I think my brain took a nap while I wrote that! Thanks for catching it.

quartata

@JAtkin zzz

TimmyD

:D

quartata

zzzz.... perl is a really good language stop hating on it... zzzz

zzzz.... no alex stop eating my lentils.... zzz

J Atkin

lol

quartata

zz... Oh sorry.

Anyways...

Have we ever had a pure chess KoTH?

El'endia Starman

9:48 PM

I don't think so.

Lembik

anyone know how to run a C# program in linux?

quartata

Oh wait here we go:

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Q: Chess Tournament

This is a chess-KOTH with simplified rules (because chess itself is already complicated, playing it via a simple program doesn't make it easier). At the moment it is limited to java (version 8), but creating a wrapper-class isn't that difficult (in case someone wants to do this). Chessboard The...

king-of-the-hill chess java

El'endia Starman

But that seems....overdone, so to speak.

J Atkin

Oh @SuperJedi224 You may want to pull the controller again from github. I fixed a few (many) bugs since this morning.

Lembik

As in codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/66059/9206

quartata

9:48 PM

@Lembik Mono

Grab mono and mcs, then compile the thingy with mcs FILE

Lembik

@quartata ok.. but first.. what should the extension be ? :)

quartata

@Lembik .cs

Sp3000

@SuperJedi224 Out of curiosity, what's the bounty of md5 quine for?

quartata

It'll produce an executable file.exe

Then just do ./file.exe

SuperJedi224

@Sp3000 I'll give it to the existing answer, unless there's a new one. In which case I'll decide tomorrow what to do with it.

Lembik

9:50 PM

ok so I only seem to need mcs

what is the mono executable for?

quartata

Installing mcs via your package manager will install the mono runtime

Which is what that is

Lembik

thanks..mcs has worked perfectly

but....Usage is: mono [options] program [program-options]

when do you use mono from the command line?

I mean what for?

quartata

You can use it to run the executable, kinda like java

But you don't need to since mcs chmods the executable for you

Lembik

ok thanks

quartata

Just run it like a normal executable

Lembik

9:52 PM

great to have an expert here!

Sp3000

@SuperJedi224 ;)

quartata

Ironic that I am an expert on something I hate

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@quartata Java?

quartata

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ No, C#

Lembik

@quartata aren't we all :)

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

9:54 PM

@quartata ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ close enough

Lembik

about to add a bounty.. haven't done this in ages :)

quartata

> In July 2000, Anders Hejlsberg said that C# is "not a Java clone" and is "much closer to C++" in its design.

lies

Lembik

I suspect my challenge can be won by just starting at a larger number

TimmyD

Crowdsource it: Actually offer free pepperoni this way through a nationwide chain that delivers. Wait a week. Do a web search for "best number of pepperoni to order". — Todd Wilcox 4 hours ago

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I would recommend trying to solve this problem for a one-dimensional pizza first. — Jack M 2 hours ago

I didn't know the Math people could be so funny.

:P

El'endia Starman

9:58 PM

While definitely amusing, I think he's actually also being somewhat serious. :P

Oh, and a side benefit: a 1D pizza would have no calories!

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TimmyD

It's essentially "How do you maximize a randomized packing problem" ... and that ain't an easy task.

Seeya later, folks!

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@TimmyD Peace out

El'endia Starman

Seeya!

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

The same place we usually do... — Scott Downey 6 hours ago

Lembik

this is an amazing answer ! codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/10702/9206

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

10:07 PM

indeed

El'endia Starman

10:20 PM

-2

Q: Why is the temperature of the ice/water increasing?

I was wondering what is that , because im stuck.

physical-chemistry

Thomas Kwa

I'm tempted to link to Wikipedia: Water

Zgarb

@El'endiaStarman So they are stuck in ice/water, and its temperature is inexplicably increasing...?

overactor

10:33 PM

Hi all

mınxomaτ

Just when you thought rendering a code flow diagram would help you refactoring...

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xnor

Python golfers: There are 3 more days for the 200 rep bounty for Sum of Two Squares and I know of interesting golfing improvements that haven't been done yet

Thomas Kwa

@xnor You're trying to corrupt my Python style with golfing experience through a bribe.

Peter Taylor

@Doorknob Just discovered this by searching for the transcript because I was wondering why there wasn't anything on meta about hats and I hoped it was because we were going to be spared them this year :(

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Rotate / Flip a Unicode Box Drawing Given a Unicode box drawing, followed by a series of rotate and/or flip commands, output the result of those operations on the drawing. For clarification, a box drawing can be made from the following characters: ─ │ ┌ ┐ └ ┘ ├ ┤ ┬ ┴ ┼ ═ ║ ╔ ╗ ╚ ╝ ╠ ╣ ╦ ╩ ╬ ...

El'endia Starman

10:40 PM

@mınxomaτ o_o wow

Martin Büttner

@PeterTaylor I'm glad there's something that could bring you back to The Nineteenth Byte. ;)

(I'm still curious about your trivial Retina solution to that regex compilation challenge)

xnor

quick, let's have rational and interesting site-related discussion!

Peter Taylor

@xnor, do you want to volunteer to debug the Lucas primality testing code which I'm hoping will speed up my "good" prime search? ;)

@MartinBüttner I haven't ever tried writing anything in Retina, so it's possible that I got the wrong end of a stick.

mınxomaτ

What would be a good domain name (preferably .org) for a programming language "xyz" if domain "xyz".TLD is already taken. (Thinking of xyzlang, getxyz etc.)

Peter Taylor

lang.xyz?

programming.xyz?

mınxomaτ

10:47 PM

xyz is meant to be a placeholder, not the actual name.

Martin Büttner

@PeterTaylor damn, I was hoping you could teach me a new trick :/ ... I've tried all sorts of things... I can get the ^ to work, but not $.

overactor

xyz.io?

Martin Büttner

that said "I have never written anything in Retina" --> I'd assumed you'd just have a plain .NET regex solution.

mınxomaτ

@overactor All xyz.tld's are reserved,

overactor

@mınxomaτ all of them? wow

xyz-lang.TLD?

Martin Büttner

10:49 PM

^

or without the hyphen

ideally both

overactor

whenever I can't find a programming language on google straight away, I add lang to the search query

Rainbolt

@mınxomaτ Ever played Untangle? That's what your flow diagram reminds me of

overactor

@MartinBüttner good point

mınxomaτ

@Rainbolt I have a feeling that if I click this link I'll be stuck playing this game for an hour.

overactor

@mınxomaτ Maybe the real solution is renaming xyz

mınxomaτ

10:51 PM

@overactor That's not my decision to make.

But I think xyzlang is a good middle ground.

Rainbolt

@mınxomaτ An hour is not bad honestly. I played CookieClicker for like a week.

Peter Taylor

@mınxomaτ Even things like .rocks?

mınxomaτ

@Rainbolt When we discovered CC me and my friends made a challenge out of it who can build the fastest system (Hard+Software) for as many clicks/ms as possible.

@PeterTaylor Yeah.

Peter Taylor

Is your programming language called McDonalds or something?

Rainbolt

@mınxomaτ Were you judged by click speed or by most cookies? In other words, did upgrade count or was it just pure clicks?

mınxomaτ

10:54 PM

@Rainbolt By actually registered (ie counted) cookies per ms.

Doorknob

@PeterTaylor When I said "almost," I was specifically thinking of you. :)

mınxomaτ

There. I registered xyzlang.org (and xyz-lang.org/com plus get-xyz.com just in case).

overactor

@PeterTaylor What kind of language would McDonalds be?

El'endia Starman

@Rainbolt Mmmm...I like the music...

@overactor Like Pancake Stack, but better, and with burgers.

SuperJedi224

@PeterTaylor Hi

Peter Taylor

10:58 PM

@overactor One made by someone called McDonald?

Rainbolt

That would be McDonald's

Not McDonalds

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@mınxomaτ how did you do that?

mınxomaτ

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ By clicking "Show Code Map" :P

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@mınxomaτ which app?

mınxomaτ

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ C# in VS

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

11:00 PM

oic

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Q: Calculate the Arithmetic–Geometric Mean

This question was inspired by this HNQ. The Arithmetic–Geometric Mean of two numbers is defined as the number that repeatedly taking the arithmetic and geometric means converges to. Your task is to find this number after some n iterations. Clarifications You take three numbers, a, b, n in any...

code-golf math number-theory

mınxomaτ

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ According to R#, this namespace has a cumulative cyclomatic complexity of over 16,000. :D

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@mınxomaτ Nice!

Rainbolt

Awww. I spend all this time refactoring to reduce cyclomatic complexity, then someone like you comes up with a new metric, "cumulative cyclomatic complexity"

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El'endia Starman

About 2/3 done with Untangle... :P

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

11:08 PM

Oh, I had a program that did that. However, this chat message is too small to ccontain it.

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Doorknob

Well, VirtualBox still hates me.

Now I can't install the guest additions because reasons.

overactor

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ is that a Fermat reference?

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Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@overactor Yesh :3

El'endia Starman

> I've been nice so fare, but at this pace I'll be dooing levels all night, so time increase the complexity a bit.

Peter Taylor

@Doorknob The worst problem I've had with VirtualBox was on one computer where the BIOS was too cheap to allow access to the virtualisation support which the CPU had, so VirtualBox would only run 32-bit images.

Rainbolt

11:15 PM

@El'endiaStarman You can finish that game?

I thought it went on forever

El'endia Starman

There's a row of dots at the top.

Sp3000

@xnor Darn xnor, still!?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ArithmeticGeometricMean.html

Sp3000

(Puts on impressed face)