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12:03 AM
My Amazon order of what now
 
O_o
 
@AlexA. If you're looking for a Java IDE you really should try NetBeans.
It isn't everyone's cup of tea but I really like it.
 
37 mins ago, by New Sandboxed Posts
BEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNSSSSSSSSS
NewSandboxedPosts seems to agree
 
yas
65
A: Paint Starry Night, objectively, in 1kB of code

LegionMammal978Mathematica, score 14125.71 "a.png"~Export~ConstantImage[{75,91,110}/256,{386,320}] Simply saves this image: to a.png.

why on earth is this is getting so many upvotes
 
@quartata I really wish this wasn't voted so high
 
12:17 AM
It now has 73 upvotes.
 
^{2,3}
 
@AlexA. It's not even funny
 
"Hey, look at me, I can put no effort into this and still get like +700 rep."
 
he literally mortarboarded 2 days in a row from that
 
@AlexA. ditto
 
12:20 AM
in The Bridge, 46 secs ago, by badp
also I prefer my mod abuse to be lovingly hand-crafted thank you very much
looks like Doorknob isn't the only one
 
Are joke answers explicitly disallowed here?
 
@MartinBüttner Quick question: what exactly defines a "constant output" challenge? Is it that the output is always the same for a specific program, or that the output is always the same for all of the answers?
 
@AlexA. This isn't a joke answer though, it's just gaming the scoring system.
in The Bridge, 4 mins ago, by badp
convenient cropping is convenient
 
It's kind of a joke answer in that he couldn't have been serious in making it.
 
12:24 AM
It isn't pure blue though
 
Per the Help Center, all submissions must be serious contenders for the winning criteria in use. This is clearly not a serious submission. Joke answers are not welcome on this site. — Alex A. ♦ 51 secs ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
Like he said, he took the mean of each channel. So he tried to make an optimal color for it
That's something
 
Clicking the "post answer" button also requires effort
@quartata That doesn't make the answer any less jokey
 
Eh
Fair enough
Just be warned you're gonna get a lot of salt if you delete it. That's a lot of upvotes.
Not discouraging you from doing so :P
 
1
Q: Stacking blocks

DoorknobGiven an input of a list of blocks to drop at certain points, output the height of the resulting "tower." The best way to explain this challenge is by example. The input will be a list of 2n integers representing n blocks. The first integer is the block's x position, 0-indexed, and the second is...

 
12:36 AM
@quartata sorry, your latest comment got eaten by the purge. Repost it in the chatroom, please.
ninja'd
 
@NewMainPosts you and your "post a challenge every day" thing is starting to make me feel like not being lazy and doing something on PPCG
 
@Doorknob You can undelete comments deleted by a purge...
 
@quartata Every other day, actually. :)
@El'endiaStarman The sequence of events was: 1.) I migrated the comments to chat. This does not automatically delete existing comments. 2.) quartata ninjas in a comment. 3.) I use the "purge all comments feature" and undelete the comment containing the chatroom link.
Therefore, quartata's last comment didn't get migrated to chat, due to ninjaness.
 
@Doorknob ahh, gotcha
 
12:52 AM
tfw a bug fix halves your byte count
 
Brilliant idea:
I have a Linux laptop.
My school has some linux labs.
 
@PhiNotPi yes good
@PhiNotPi good good
 
I can ssh into them.
I can thus make my own computing cluster.
 
Er
Well yes
But I'm not sure your school will like that
 
That's why I put the word "brilliant" in front of "idea"
 
grc
12:56 AM
do we have a policy on functions that only work once?
 
@grc Yes they must be reusable
Otherwise they count as snippets
 
I feel like we've also made the assumption that everything runs on a "clean" environment.
So maybe the rule is that functions must be able to run multiple times, but programs only need to work once.
 
grc
I feel like I've seen variables initialised outside of the function's scope before
 
If you have tell us because they're invalid
 
Hey guys I just thought of a good output method
Throw the answer.
 
1:01 AM
As far as I can tell, the meta consensus is that programs which can only run once are valid.
With nothing stated about functions.
 
I'll find it one second
 
Unfortunately, the only thing I see is something from 2011: meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/355/…
 
@Cyoce Yes! Defend JS at all costs.
 
10
Q: Do function submissions have to be reusable?

Martin BüttnerSimple question: if I answer a code golf with a function (for a task which is supposed to terminate), does the function actually have to be reusable? Or could it, say, modify some globals which break the function when called again? (Note that this is not about whether functions may modify their ...

 
Ah there it is
thanks
 
1:03 AM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ JS IS THE BEST LANGUAGE EVER AND THOSE WHO DOUBT IT WILL BE THE FIRST TO DIE WHEN THE REVOLUTION COMES
6
 
@Cyoce JS sucks
8
 
@Cyoce Thank you.
 
feel free to put a bounty on my head
 
@quartata There already was one ~
 
+250 for quartata's head!
 
1:04 AM
You know JS sucks when those who hate it get 2 stars as opposed to one
 
but mine has 2 stars
 
I can cancel them :)
 
@Zizouz212 Please do.
 
mod abuse
 
But seriously, I do not understand how one can code in such an obnoxious language.
Speaking of obnoxious, chemistry sucks.
 
grc
1:05 AM
can someone take the bold italics off the starboard please?
ty :D
 
@grc There :)
 
@feersum I will seek political asylum in CR
 
lol
 
@quartata he's a spy! double the bounty before he reaches the embassy!
 
in The 2nd Monitor, 5 mins ago, by quartata
Hello don't tell anyone from PPCG I'm here or they'll lynch me
 
1:07 AM
I have the urge to go to chemistry and say two things: I have a chemistry exam and I'm not studying because chemistry just sucks. And because chemistry is such a joke that I will never have to use it in my life. Ever.
Should I say that in the chemistry room? :P
 
say it on the last day of the class
 
My exam is tomorrow :)
in The Periodic Table, 7 secs ago, by Zizouz212
I seek help.
 
@quartata Prepare for a lynching
 
in The 2nd Monitor, 2 mins ago, by PhiNotPi
Hello I'm from PPCG here to lynch quartata.
 
in The 2nd Monitor, 1 min ago, by Mat's Mug
Jan 8 at 17:34, by Phrancis
PPCG people ಠ_ಠ
 
grc
1:15 AM
@Doorknob I think you made an off-by-one mistake in test cases 1-3
unless I misread the spec again...
 
It's probably my fault
Which part specifically?
 
grc
[0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 0, 0, 1]
[1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2]
[1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2]
[1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2]
[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3]
[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9, 9, 9]
^ my outputs
(7, 4) and (2, 5) don't overlap I think
 
  #####
      ####
#####    #
this is what I'm getting for the second test case
 
This place is empty. It feels so weird!
 
grc
@Doorknob it looks like you're mixing zero/one indexing
 
1:19 AM
@grc Oh, yeah, you're completely right. Thanks, hang on, let me fix the test cases.
@grc Alright, now do they seem right?
 
Boo
 
grc
@Doorknob yep, thanks
 
@ChatRelay Greetings, Dr. Relay.
 
@grc Sorry, thanks for catching my mistake
 
in The Nth Monitor, 1 min ago, by PhiNotPi
I would like to take this opportunity to say that I still have no regrets about StackEgg.
 
1:31 AM
>:O
I guess @quartata doesn't care about us anymore.
 
@AlexA. Now that's debatable
I don't wanna be lynched see
 
We loved you. We thought you loved us too.
 
@quartata too late
 
so you can't be on both CR and PPCG? will you break the universe by doing it?
 
haha no
See I don't have a neck
Plus I'm just a hologram anyways
 
1:35 AM
He's already sought refuge
 
I'm not stupid enough to come back here
 
@quartata Nor do I. I used to, but @AlexA. called it 6/10 very phallic. :P
 
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
@Quill It's okay, he is actually @Doorknob.
 
1:38 AM
Yeah, really.
And if he tries the bash/zsh defense, it is a sham.
@Quill wtf?
 
@RikerW For the record I don't live in Texas and I believe I am a good 10 years older than Doorknob
 
LIES!!!
 
I also have nothing to do with household objects
 
Yeah, he doesn't either. He is you, so he is also a liar.
Proof:
Jan 18 at 17:48, by Doorknob
If I were you, I wouldn't deny it. I would get the SE staff to merge my account into yours, which would give you a diamond :P
He is debating, and @quartata and @Doorknob are the two sides of the arguement.
He is arguing with himself.
 
Like FlagAsSpam talks to herself?
 
1:43 AM
Yes... I think.
I haven't seen that...
So IDK.
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ s/her/him/
 
@AlexA. No, "he" is a "her".
 
What? FlagAsSpam is a dude.
 
1:46 AM
Nope.
He is your sock, and you are a girl, so yeah.
 
Well, I'm not a girl, and my socks are just cotton socks in my closet.
 
Nope, you are lying.
 
Dec 2 '15 at 21:53, by FlagAsSpam
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ ಠ_ಠ Don't tell me what to do. I'm a strong free woman, and I don't need no man!
 
^
 
just ping and ask?
 
1:48 AM
@FlagAsSpam
Are you a girl?
 
He specifically told me once while we were playing Minecraft that he's a guy.
 
@RikerW Xe migh be asleep
 
@AlexA. You still play?
 
Not much on the server.
Occasionally locally.
 
You should play on the PPCG server more.
 
1:49 AM
Dec 2 '15 at 21:56, by FlagAsSpam
What about it? :P
Instance of talking to oneself
 
@Doorknob can I be a mod?
 
You'd have to be appointed by a community manager or elected if/when we graduate.
 
Are we giving out diamonds?
If so I'd like one too.
 
@AlexA. Aww.
@PhiNotPi I wish.
 
1:51 AM
I have a dictionary of values; I want to display the keys sorted by their vlaues. How do I do this in Python?
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Python 2.7?
 
No, Python 3.
 
Gimme a mo, I think I know.
 
5
Q: Python 3 sort a dict by its values

user2094432I looked everywhere on the internet, still have no clue how to do this. The only methods i found work only for python2 or return only list of tuples. Is that possible to sort dictionary by its values? Example of dict i use: {"aa": 3, "bb": 4, "cc": 2, "dd": 1} Order of sorted dictionary I want ...

 
@Doᴡɴɢᴏᴀᴛ thanks :D
 
1:54 AM
Anyone wanna try testing repl.it/BhHZ for anything wrong? It's a brackets fixer that I'll be using in ESMin.
 
x = {1:2}
z = ((y, x[y]) for y in sorted(x, key=x.get, reverse=True))
for y, w in z:
print(y, w)
dang, ninjaed
 
@ՊՓԼՃՐՊՃՈԲՍԼ I will! :D
You don't care about non-ES6 browsers?
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ coolthx
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Pssh, who does? :)
 
Oh, I see how it is...
let s_go;
 
1:57 AM
({{) => ({{}}) is this what you want?
 
@ՊՓԼՃՐՊՃՈԲՍԼ SyntaxError: Unexpected token '>'
 
@Doᴡɴɢᴏᴀᴛ What browser?
 
@ՊՓԼՃՐՊՃՈԲՍԼ Safari 9.0.1
Oh, that's the arrow functions
 
2:00 AM
Dude it's ES6. Use FF.
 
@ՊՓԼՃՐՊՃՈԲՍԼ No non-es6 support?
 
Not yet.
Maybe ESMax will fix that.
(We'll see.)
 
())( -> (())()
()())) -> ((()()))
( { [ fix me -> ( { [ fix me]})
(((((((((((((] -> ((((((((((((([])))))))))))))
 
That's working right.
 
2:02 AM
Okay
 
@Doorknob or @AlexA. Can you unfreeze pretty please? chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26380/…
 
["] -> ["]"]
 
@Calvin'sHobbies
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ That's good too.
 
2:03 AM
Alright
 
(Expected.)
 
Alright, looks good to me.
 
I'm trying to think of something that I could use high-performance computing for.
 
2:17 AM
@PhiNotPi Factoring large numbers that have 2 really big prime factors.
 
@PhiNotPi Computing things with high performance
 
^
 
Write the world's strongest Tic-Tac-Toe AI.
 
Yes pls.
We should have a challenge to create the best tic tac toe bot.
 
Make a Memtest86+ cluster and become the world's highest performance RAM validator.
 
2:18 AM
 
function winTicTacToe(game){winTicTacToe(game)}
 
High performance meme generator
 
^
YES YES YES
 
^^
 
Compute memes in parallel
 
function makeMeme(){return "ಠ_ಠ"}
 
@ETHproductions -1 not golfed
 
@Doᴡɴɢᴏᴀᴛ m=_=>"ಠ_ಠ"
 
@ETHproductions -1 not enough jquery
 
2:24 AM
@Doᴡɴɢᴏᴀᴛ m=_=>$.getDisapprovalLook($.originalDisapprovalLook)
 
m=_=>$("ಠ_ಠ")-1
 
-1 not enough -1
 
0
A: Add two variables using jquery

DowngoatDefinitely use jQuery Because the power of jQuery is obviously unparalleled, here is how to do with with 100% jQuery: var a = 1; var b = 2; $("<script>c=+("+a+")+ +("+b+")</script>").appendTo($(document)); Now c will hold your result and you used nothing but jQuery! As you can see jQuery is r...

 
@Geobits m=_=>$(-1)
 
Best function ever.
 
2:26 AM
@ETHproductions =_=
 
Ugh. Order still processing :(
 
@RikerW Tic Tac Toe is strongly solved
 
≈_≈
 
@Doorknob m=ಠ_ಠ=>$(-1)
Whoa
ಠ_ಠ is a valid property name in JS
 
@ETHproductions apparently it's a letter in the Kannada language :\
 
2:30 AM
Not to be confused with the Canadian language.
 
@Doᴡɴɢᴏᴀᴛ Did you not know that?
@PhiNotPi No I'm pretty sure it's the same
 
@AlexA. no, should I?
 
Canadians are all like, "ಠ_ಠ, eh"
 
The letter is tha
 
@Doᴡɴɢᴏᴀᴛ Yes
 
2:31 AM
@AlexA. ಠ_ಠ
 
@quartata You're still here? I thought you left us for Code Review.
 
The More You Know .jpeg
 
??
I've been here the whole time
 
skeptical
 
I might have been viewing while logged out at certain times
 
2:33 AM
Why would you do that?
 
@AlexA. Skeptics
 
Why log out for skeptics? It's fun sometimes.
 
@AlexA. Because you wanted to lynch me
 
I should ask Skeptics.SE whether quartatertots as actually been here the whole time.
 
> quartatertots
 
2:34 AM
@quartata You misunderstood. I wanted to lunch you.
 
Too big. Lunch him a quart at a time.
 
One does not simply consume a quart of solid food.
 
One does if one is hungry.
 
Depends on what it is a quart of
 
For meat that would be about two pounds.
 
2:37 AM
Pfft. Meat. Like anyone actually eats that. :P
 
That's like over a quarter of my diet.
 
I'd hope two pounds of meat would be over 25% of your diet.
 
@quartata I know, I was thinking more like hacking the other entries...
:P
 
Pan seared pork medallions in white wine and cream sauce, served over whole wheat orzo pasta.
 
2:41 AM
Looks like a pile of shit.
I made that when I was like 14.
 
Served food matches picture in menu. 5 stars, would not return.
 
> Set tabs to only 4 spaces
In my course programming style guidelines
\o/
Teaching good practices
 
That doesn't mean convert tabs to spaces, it means the size of the tab stops...
Feel free to read your chosen meaning into it, though :P
 
Believe me, I am :P
 
My friend just made a thing with iptables and ImageMagick that flips every single image in his web browser upside down. :D
 
2:48 AM
:O
 
@AlexA. Would you like Nethack better if you knew that one of the conducts it keeps track of is whether you are a vegetarian or vegan
 
@quartata I would like Nethack better if it was less confusing. But sure, I guess that helps. :P
 
@Doorknob
 
@Doorknob
 
On an extremely tangentially related note, someone at my school who is a vegetarian was giving away these kind of creepy stickers a few days ago
 
2:54 AM
another victory for team ant
 
@Doorknob good god
I have pretty much no respect for PETA.
2
 
@AlexA. they do some sort of keyword manipulating thing so that pictures of maimed cats show up on the first page of kittens on Google Image
I saw it once and it made me kinda sad that they need to be so invasive to get their point across
 
They're not very good at it (or Google has slapped them for it), because I don't see any maimed ones now.
 

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