The Nineteenth Byte

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

22:01

@RikerW BTW? XD

I think it's a bunch of hogwash.

I also think Cell theory is a stronger theory than that

Martin Büttner

I think this is where I tactfully go to bed. Goodnight.

flawr

Dragons are the coronation of evolution.

RikerW

strawpoll.me/6604094

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@MartinBüttner Bye!

RikerW

@MartinBüttner G'night.

@MartinBüttner What time is it for you?

mınxomaτ

22:02

I will stay tactically awake.

RikerW

tactfully vs tactically?

mınxomaτ

@RikerW It's 11pm.

RikerW

I like the latter better.

@mınxomaτ What, for you too?

strawpoll.me/6604094

mınxomaτ

I'm 400km north of Martin.

RikerW

@flawr

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

22:03

@RikerW It's a picture, obviously.

mınxomaτ

And then slightly to the rigth :)

flawr

Tacit.

RikerW

wat?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I hear "tacit monadic verb" everytime I hear "tacit

RikerW

wat?

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ From friggin english class like me?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

22:07

XD

I don't have english anymore.

Just rhetoric

RikerW

I hate english.

Thus I learned sindarin.

Working on learning @El'endiaStarman's language.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

?

English?

Or minkolang

RikerW

No.

Neither.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Tell me?

RikerW

Gimme a mo finding it.

Plus nerdy images of him.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

22:08

XD

RikerW

starmaninnovations.com/portfolio/triumphs/creative

Has both. :P

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

huh

J Atkin

I'm almost ready to post this. Any last notes?

RikerW

I love that downtime when everybody clicks the link and isn't in chat anymore. :P

@JAtkin Yes, not enough donuts.

GIMME MOAR DUNUTS

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Everbody: paste what is in their clipboard

RikerW

22:12

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

arg.constructor.name[i%arg.constructor.name.length];

RikerW

From looking at the stars page.

J Atkin

tunein.com/radio/Best-of-Car-Talk-p36

RikerW

@JAtkin Californian?

J Atkin

No

RikerW

22:12

I listen to the reruns every saturday.

Zgarb

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-662-47221-7_17

RikerW

Zgarb

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ ^^

RikerW

Now I am justing posting random images.

OOh, cool paper @Zgarb.

flawr

@RikerW Comon, do not spam @AlexA.'s images.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

22:14

@Zgarb cool!

RikerW

He posts funny ones though.

flawr

He TRUSTED us!

Zgarb

I'm the second author.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

stahp

RikerW

That was the last one.

Zgarb

22:15

@RikerW Please don't spam images.

Doorknob

6 messages deleted

RikerW

Sorry.

bai for lunch

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

peace

flawr

Взрыв стратегического бомбардировщика Ту-95

►

#nocrash

#explosion

Destroying such a nice airplane... D:

crash nocrash

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

bai now

mınxomaτ

22:24

Wow, I got both a down and upvote at almost exactly the same time. Meta acts in strange ways.

New Main Posts

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Q: Decipher the mathematical symbols

If you've read the book Contact by Carl Sagan, this challenge may seem familiar to you. Given an input of a set of mathematical equations consisting of a number, an unknown operator, another number, and a result, deduce which operators represent addition, subtraction, multiplication, or divisi...

Alex A.

@Geobits I kind of had a feeling you'd approve. :P

flawr

Hi!

Bye!

Alex A.

Hello and goodbye!

Zgarb

The Beatles - Hello, Goodbye

►

Alex A.

22:31

I was just thinking of that song :)

RikerW

Is it just me or is @flawr obessed with airplanes, both crashing and not crashing?

Also, poll: Should I eat brownies, lemon bars, or chocolate bar with frosting?

star your choice

8

brownie

lemon bar

chocolate with frosting

Doorknob

/me stars a thing

RikerW

Really?

Doorknob

:P

RikerW

@Doorknob what to do when confronted with 10 angry watchmen?

nethack

Alex A.

22:42

@RikerW Rather than abusing stars, you could just use this: strawpoll.me/6604414

Doorknob

not get confronted by 10 angry watchmen

why are the watchmen angry

Alex A.

Their watches are never in sync

RikerW

I punched one while blind.

And hallucinating.

I was hallucinating then something, no clue what, happened.

Doorknob

Don't move around in Minetown while blind/hallu/etc.

RikerW

WHY IS EVERYBODY WHITE SQUARES

@Doorknob Okay.

Alex A.

22:45

hallu

RikerW

hallo

4 mins ago, by RikerW

star your choice

Why people why, 4 stars?

:(

Thomas Kwa

What's the time limit on unstarring?

Alex A.

2 minutes I think

Thomas Kwa

is that cumulative across multiple stars and unstars?

That is, if I star something for 90s, unstar, star again for 90s, can I unstar it again?

Alex A.

Starring is rate limited, IIRC. And no, it's not cumulative across stars, it's per post.

Thomas Kwa

22:51

I meant cumulative across multiple starrings of the same post.

Alex A.

Oh

Starring and restarring the same post is subject to the same rate limit, I believe.

RikerW

LETS TEST! :P /s

Alex A.

No

RikerW

> /s

Thomas Kwa

Someone say something starworthy.

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Alex A.

22:52

I forget what /s is

Oh, sarcasm

RikerW

sarcasm.

Alex A.

nvm

RikerW

ninjaed

@AlexA. ninjaed that

:P

@ThomasKwa alex-is-wrong

Alex A.

@ThomasKwa Looks like you did

RikerW

Is alex-is-wrong not starworthy?

I think I am the only student here who regularly in active in chat during school.

Alex A.

22:54

You should probably pay attention in class instead :P

Ampora

Instead of doing work in my Java class, I log on to PPCG

RikerW

@AlexA. Yeah, but sex ed?

Maltysen

@RikerW I am

RikerW

No way.

@Maltysen Good.

Screw school.

Alex A.

Well, you gotta learn about it somehow...

RikerW

22:55

I learned that about a year ago, as did the whole class.

And this is a friggin private co-op/school thing, they don't have requirements or anything.

Thomas Kwa

Okay, I've found out that the star is locked in after two minutes of continuous starring.

RikerW

Okay.

Oh, and mods clearing the stars doesn't reset the timeout.

Thomas Kwa

Well, at least more than about 80 seconds of continuous starring.

but I trust @AlexA.

RikerW

It stills says "It is too late to undo this operation".

Maltysen

@RikerW do you guys also have chromebooks?

Alex A.

22:57

@ThomasKwa \o/

RikerW

@Maltysen No.

Bring your own laptop.

Maltysen

we only have them in certain classes, but those are usually the useless ones anyways

Alex A.

@Maltysen My school had paper books

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RikerW

Can't stop nethack... :P

Hey, typo (sorta)!

> It is too late to undo this operation

No full stop people.

Thomas Kwa

@AlexA. Now I'm thinking about making a book, but with hundreds of thin sheets of metal plated with chromium instead of paper.

RikerW

23:01

@Maltysen why are you active during school?

I am sorta homeschooled, and have stupid classes.

And they allow computers

Maltysen

> those are the useless ones anyways

meaning english and us history

Alex A.

@ThomasKwa I actually heard that one of the ancient peoples of South America (Mayans, maybe?) made books with thin sheets of gold as pages.

RikerW

@Maltysen Why are we even learning us history?

Its not like it has an effect now really.

Maltysen

I know right?

RikerW

Some bits like the constituition yeah, but like nothing else.

Maltysen

23:03

its just the same stuff over and over again

for like the 5th time since middle school

Thomas Kwa

I'm in AP USH

RikerW

And make the teacher mad with sindarin.

@ThomasKwa AP history????

Maltysen

world history last year was cool tho

RikerW

^

@Maltysen grade?

Maltysen

right now im 10, world history was in 9th

Thomas Kwa

23:05

Right now we're learning about after the Reconstruction

Alex A.

"Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it."

I've always wondered if that meant that if you don't study in your history class, you'll fail it and have to take it again.

2

RikerW

lol

Alex A.

I never liked history in school but I do think it's an important thing to learn. I mean, it's part of standard education for a reason.

RikerW

@ThomasKwa What about you? grade?

@AlexA. Yeah, but not US History.

Thomas Kwa

Junior

RikerW

23:07

Okay.

8/9th.

Thomas Kwa

4 AP classes; moderately hard schedule.

RikerW

Grades get messed up in homeschools.

Alex A.

@RikerW You mean US history isn't part of standard education? It was for me. Several years of US history was required as part of my high school education.

And world history was part of my middle school curriculum.

RikerW

@AlexA. No, just stupid.

Alex A.

What's wrong with US history? As residents of the US, it's good to know how things got to where they are today.

RikerW

23:10

I have AP (not) Chem, English, Algebra II, AP Comp. Sci, and a couple other normal stuff like history.

mınxomaτ

> normal stuff like history

> normal stuff

Alex A.

> stuff

>

RikerW

> - <

mınxomaτ

> (removed)

Maltysen

AP (not) ?

RikerW

23:12

Labeled as AP, not at all AP. >-<

mınxomaτ

American Patriotism?

Arsenic Poisoning?

RikerW

Advanced Placement.

I think.

Maltysen

advanced placement

RikerW

ninjaed

mınxomaτ

Adhesive Pandas?

Maltysen

23:13

@mınxomaτ that also works

RikerW

Yeah, that.

ninjaed

Maltysen

@RikerW don't you get 2 electives?

RikerW

I do, piano and Comp Sci.

Maltysen

ah

RikerW

Comp sci is a joke though.

I only do it for the nethack time.

Maltysen

23:16

I skipped the actual comp si classes

RikerW

lol

Maltysen

and am doing the ap independent study thing

GamrCorps

I think this website is better than most computer science classes

RikerW

I am getting better at nethack though.

Maltysen

^^

RikerW

23:17

^^^

lol double caret edit

Ampora

Proof that this site is better than school: I have learned 100% of Fishing from this site and 1% of Java from school.

GamrCorps

I mean, Ive learned more stuff from just reading Martins' or Dennis' posts than I have in any CS class.

RikerW

^

Ampora

^^

Maltysen

and the ap independent study thing is in java

so you know, suicide in slow motion

RikerW

23:19

Ew.

:P

Poll: Best esolang? (includes golfing langs)

Can't have created it yourself.

GamrCorps

@RikerW why not just make a strawpoll or google forms? Also, my vote is CJam.

RikerW

Cause.

brb

Alex A.

@GamrCorps What's your reasoning for CJam?

Not saying I disagree or anything, just wondering

GamrCorps

@AlexA. Personal bias by the fact that its the only one (besides mine) that I know and can fully understand (although, I do wish there were some more features)

RikerW

docs.google.com/forms/d/…

Note: alex-is-wrong is not an esolang. (sadly)

Summary: docs.google.com/forms/d/…

@AlexA. you like pyth best?

Alex A.

23:33

I have no strong preferences but I chose Pyth because I can understand it better than other esolangs.

RikerW

Okay.

And spreadsheet of reponses:

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/…

GamrCorps

^ no access

RikerW

Oops.

Can you see the summary?

GamrCorps

yes

not the spreadsheet

RikerW

Sorry. gimme a sec

GamrCorps

23:37

not a problem

RikerW

gonna have to go in a moment.

Bai.

GamrCorps

bye

quartata

23:49

was bored and decided to make a random roguelike level generator:

mınxomaτ

Interesting medical article: Man with 2x the lethal Cyanide dose and two six packs of beer in his blood survives by treatment with various simple antidotes

quartata

haven't figured out how I want to do corridors yet

@mınxomaτ huh

Alex A.

@mınxomaτ All of the alcohol in his bloodstream probably washed out the cyanide. :P

quartata

@AlexA. except I haven't since it doesn't make corridors yet

Alex A.

You made a random box simulator.

quartata

23:54

Also disappointed that you didn't try and discourage me from creating anything marginally related to nethack

Alex A.

Good enough for a cake.

quartata

@AlexA. Do I get points for doing it in like 20 minutes?

Alex A.

No points. Only nods.

quartata

good enough

mınxomaτ

> He made a completely uneventful recovery and was discharged from the ICU to a psychiatric ward on the second day.

Alex A.

23:55

@quartata Ain't nothing wrong with Nethack, son.

@mınxomaτ Lol @ "uneventful recovery."

quartata

@AlexA. Is that you Doorknob?

Alex A.

Yes, I am Alex Knob

I have nothing against Nethack, I just personally couldn't really get into it.

quartata

Nov 17 '15 at 4:25, by Alex A.

Nethack barely counts as a video game IMO. It's like if someone was narrating D&D while watching their keyboard glitch out.

I can tell

Alex A.

I stand by that assessment. :P

You'll appreciate this, @quartata: My girlfriend gets irrationally upset when people say that Undertale is a good game. :P

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