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5:00 PM
The thing you just got.
 
@J843136028 useless
 
Are they like upvotes but you can't downvote?
 
Unfortunately :/
 
A bit like that yes
 
@J843136028 No, mods can clear them.
Otherwise, maybe, but they are stars, so they are double-serving as favs too.
 
5:01 PM
@EriktheGolfer But normal users can't give anti-stars.
 
@J843136028 Stars were intended to put useful/interesting messages on the star board (over to the right) so that other people can see them well after the fact. They're also used for funny stuff and to agree with stuff too though.
 
@wizzwizz4 Are they called anti-stars?
 
No, they're called downstars :)
I like to think so anyway.
 
@Geobits No, they're called goatstars.
 
No, downgaotstars
 
5:02 PM
Isn't that right @Downgoat?
 
They won't be useful with those names at all, because a mod can only clear one star per message.
 
@EriktheGolfer Really?
 
Let's call it a mod super-anti-star!!
 
@EriktheGolfer Nah, clearing stars on a message means that all stars on that message get removed. And nobody who starred that message can star it again.
 
@EriktheGolfer super-anti-gaot-star*
 
5:03 PM
@TheveryevilROFLcopter (goat*) No, goat would only fit for PPCG, we need something to apply for the whole chat.
 
Every time I see 'gaot' my kick-mute finger twitches a bit.
 
@wizzwizz4, clear the stars on my post, please. It isn't useful.
 
@TheveryevilROFLcopter Seriously, don't.
@J843136028 You deserve stars for that message, but probably don't want them.
 
@Geobits Wait, you have a kick-mute finger?
 
5:04 PM
Done.
 
@J843136028 It's not really worth clearing. Stars are just a transient display, so they're not worth taking too seriously.
 
It happens on a semi-regular basis that people wish that their messages weren't starred, but that's not a good enough reason to clear them.
 
@TheveryevilROFLcopter Yes. It's considered rude in most places to display that finger alone.
 
Sorry, I need to go and do homework.
 
5:06 PM
I won't be so rude as to show the finger!!!
 
@J843136028 Bye!
 
@J843136028 Bye!
 
*waves*
 
@EriktheGolfer answers do not need to be shorter than those already in that language as long as it uses a different algorithm. This answer shouldn't have been deleted in my opinion
 
@muddyfish I didn't encourage deletion, I just notified.
 
5:16 PM
conflits: 25 décalage/réduction
25 shift/reduce
dang
It was because of a typo ._.
 
I just received the "popular question" badge on the first challenge I ever posted. From 2 years ago. 0_0
 
@DJMcMayhem Well, that is one way to get the badge!
 
@DJMcMayhem you write O_O with zeros? 0_0 :P
@wizzwizz4 no ROFLcopter is right
 
@Downgoat There are four ways to write that, depending on the level of surprise.
Excluding the different mouths.
 
@Downgoat I finished a working version of the parser :D
(It can't parse all of the language's constructs, but it already can parse some basic things)
 
5:30 PM
@J843136028 If you're ever curious about brain-flak, or have a question, feel free to ping me either in here or in the brain-flak room. I'd be happy to help!
 
:O :DdD
wirh bison?
 
Yep
Bison/Flex
 
._. is not very surprised, o_o is slightly more surprised, 0_0 is even more surprised and O_O is shocked.
 
@Downgoat o_O
Sometimes
 
@DJMcMayhem 0_₀
 
5:31 PM
Wat
unicode abuse eleven
2
 
Please stop mixing the... wat?
 
Zero Underscore Subscript zero
I also have ⁰-₀
 
@TheveryevilROFLcopter Flagged as potentially dangerous military information.
 
Such confuse
 
5:33 PM
On what branch do I push the parser?
master or develop?
 
Chat mods have more flag abilities. It's how you escalate ordinary flags on messages that threaten the survival of the entire planet.
By the way, the UN actually monitor this site.
 
(It's an unfinished ugly thing)
 
The Illuminati lost a bet.
 
@TheveryevilROFLcopter develop
 
5:39 PM
Mailto links don't work. :-(
 
Thank you Tux! But our key is in another keyring!
 
Also, unless you want your email displayed publicly, you might consider asking for a mod scrub there ;)
 
@TheveryevilROFLcopter I'll do it if you want.
 
Don't ask me... it's not mine :P
 
5:41 PM
Lag... Have I double-posted?
 
Yeah please remove the email
 
Yes, I had.
@TheveryevilROFLcopter Removed the history.
 
wtf
»  git push origin master
Username for 'https://github.com': tuxcrafting
Password for 'https://tuxcrafting@github.com':
remote: Invalid username or password.
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/vsl-lang/VSL.git/'
Elie@elie-asus — /d/VSL
»  git push origin master
Username for 'https://github.com': tuxcrafting
Password for 'https://tuxcrafting@github.com':
Everything up-to-date
 
Oh wait I am stupid
I tried to push to master but I am on develop -.-
 
5:45 PM
@Dennis Haven't you heard? It doesn't matter whether the meme is true, just that it's truthy.
 
@TheveryevilROFLcopter Don't overwrite cats.
3
 
@Geobits "False" is truthy...
 
@wizzwizz4 Exactly!
 
@TimmyD If anybody overwrites the cats they will be kicked.
 
5:46 PM
inb4 Miles is Dennis's new account
 
@Poke Really? :-O
 
i'm starting a rumor yes
 
But @Dennis is a mod... Why would someone give that up?
 
Images and videos of domestic cats make up some of the most viewed content on the web, particularly image macros in the form of lolcats. ThoughtCatalog has described cats as the "unofficial mascot of the Internet." The subject has attracted the attention of various scholars and critics, who have analysed why this form of low art has reached iconic status. Though it may be considered frivolous, cat-related internet content contributes to how people interact with media and culture. Some argue that there is a depth and complexity to this seemingly simple content, with a suggestion that the positive...
 
5:47 PM
@Poke Oh.
 
@wizzwizz4 Hahaha... Yeah. No mods have socks :P
@wizzwizz4 cats dogs
 
can i strikethrough a space --- ---
no
 
— You tou can
 
PS C:\Tools\Scripts\golfing> [bool]'False'
True
@wizzwizz4 It checks out.
 
5:48 PM
lolwut
 
@TimmyD It's the case in most languages.
 
@Geobits Not saying I don't. Sometimes you need to test what happens with mortal accounts. My sock most certainly doesn't have 18k rep on SO though.
 
@Dennis Sure, sure. I believe you. I was just replying to "why would someone give that up?" I totally believe you.
 
@wizzwizz4 Yep. But I don't have a "most languages" console open. I do have a PowerShell console open. So that's what you get. :p
 
Plot twist: NotDoorknob is my sock.
 
5:50 PM
One of my socks accidentally got elected moderator on another site :/
 
Wait, what?
 
@Geobits I hate it when that happens.
 
Ahaha, that's awesome.
 
Yeah. Turns out he was more popular than me.
 
5:50 PM
Btw that downvoting skull creeps me out. Nice work.
 
Once I was writing a bot, and then it became moderator.
 
@Geobits There's a shocker.
 
@Dennis Thanks!
@TimmyD I'll just take solace in the fact that everything is more popular than powershell.
 
shots fired
 
So, counting the underscores... that's a one-day suspension? :P
 
5:52 PM
sorry ಠಠ
 
Much better
 
@MartinEnder It's not really a "shots fired" if I mostly agree with the sentiment.
 
It's just locker room talk.
 
@Geobits Locker room...?
 
Reference to the second presidential debate
 
5:57 PM
With "everything" being italicized like that, you must literally mean everything. That means PowerShell is more popular than PowerShell, which is more popular than PowerShell, which is more popular than PowerShell, which is ... [stack overflow]
 
How many more debates do we have until Election Day on the 8th?
 
Just one, thankfully.
 
@Sherlock9 A few million.
 
Wednesday
 
Oh, you mean debates between the candidates? ...
 
5:58 PM
And will the world end before Dishonored 2 comes out on the 11th?
@wizzwizz4 Unfortunately :D
Thanks Geobits
 
@Sherlock9 Nope. It will take at least a week for the riots to spread everywhere.
@TimmyD Correct
 
Just add infinitum. Should solve that recursion error
 
@Geobits Prediction: whoever's voted in, over half of the US population will be unhappy.
@Sherlock9 Just add "ad infinitum". :-p
 
D: gtg gonna do HW
 
in which language?
 
6:01 PM
@wizzwizz4 Given that only ~40% of eligible voters actually vote in US Presidential elections, that's a big understatement.
 
Nah, infinitum is the infinity-th element on the periodic table. Bit hard to obtain, but great for those pesky infinity paradoxes and sums of infinite series
We might hit a voter low this time around, what with everyone being disgusted with the whole process
 
Yeah. The MN primaries were some of the lowest-turnout primaries we've ever had, and MN loves voting (we're consistently at or near the top in overall voter turnout).
 
Let's talk about something more fun!
> How about ?
 
@TheveryevilROFLcopter Congratulations! You posted the 1,000,000th message in TNB!
4
Assuming I counted correctly
 
@mbomb007 watnohow
:D:D:D:D:D GIMME THE MILLION
 
6:14 PM
@TheveryevilROFLcopter Well, obviously!
Wait... 1000000 messages?!?
 
There will not be a moment like this for... 9000000 more messages!
 
The lower-right corner of TNB shows how many messages there are.
 
And my message was Obviously ._. ._.
 
@mbomb007 It says 1003000 messages.
That's not equal to 1000003 messages.
 
6:15 PM
I clicked the number, and counted backwards in the transcript using Ctrl+F and class="message"
 
You can't have counted back 3000 messages!
 
@wizzwizz4 I did.
 
plz say me it was automated
 
That's dedication.
 
I used Ctrl+F in Developer Tools to search for a class that identifies a message.
 
6:17 PM
Wow. That's...
 
It said how many results on that page, then I subtract that number and go to the previous page.
 
I posted the first palindromically numbered message after 1kk!
 
Then I counted back ~180 messages on the final page. Still using Ctrl+F, of course
 
Also the first messages after 1kk.
@{roomowners} ^
 
6:18 PM
You can't pin as a mod?
@wizzwizz4 Wat you can do this
 
Disclaimer, idk if MOVED messages are counted Probably not.
 
@TheveryevilROFLcopter I can, but it's not polite to pin in other people's rooms.
Let's hold a poll. All those in favour of pinning the message:
I
 
@wizzwizz4 Use Strawpoll.me
 
@mbomb007 That's not restricted to TNBers.
But Ok.
 
6:20 PM
Me, just now: "Ugh, I have too many windows up, I can't find the thing I need to work on. I'll just get rid of these useless ones. closes one window, the one that I was actually looking for Wait."
 
@wizzwizz4 All those in favour of pinning the message: strawpoll.me/11449393
 
@TimmyD That's what happens with me and PPCG windows/SE chats.
 
http://www.strawpoll.me/11449410/ OBSOLETE!
Ninja'd.
@TimmyD Ctrl+Shift+T will fix it.
 
Window-window, not browser tab.
 
6:25 PM
@TimmyD Ctrl+Shift+N?
 
@mbomb007 AYE
Wtf I got a ping but it's not shown
 
@TheveryevilROFLcopter Can you put one for me too? I keep getting a weird error message:
> {"success":"failed","errors":[["Please check the box or enter the text seen above."]]}
?!?
 
@wizzwizz4 In IE, that takes the current tab and moves it to a new window.
 
@wizzwizz4 Can you not see the CAPTCHA?
Or are you a bot?
 
6:27 PM
@mbomb007 ... CAPTCHA?
Oh no...
 
lol
 
@mbomb007 That would suggest that TNB is responsible for almost 30% of all messages ever posted on chat.stackexchange.com
 
Would you treat me differently if I said "yes"?
 
@wizzwizz4 Are you a bot? Calculate Ackermann(10000, 10000) if yes.
 
@trichoplax ... Probably.
 
6:29 PM
Not saying it's false, just wow...
 
@wizzwizz4 Would you treat yourself differently if you said "yes"?
 
As for pinning it, if enough people star it then it will stay at the top for a while, whereas if they don't then there doesn't seem call for pinning it anyway...
 
@trichoplax Yup. I went back and starred it.
 
@TheveryevilROFLcopter 2 ↑^999810003 - 3
I mean, no.
 
@wizzwizz4 lolwut
 
6:30 PM
@mbomb007 ... I don't understand.
 
@TheveryevilROFLcopter It wouldn't fit in the chat box.
 
Fair enough :P
 
Might be better to leave pinning for a round number like 1,048,576
 
y u do dis ;_;
 
6:32 PM
?
 
y u no want to pin million
 
@trichoplax I sort of understand this weird human fascination with numbers of form 10^n...
 
That makes you a well designed bot
 
@tri lol, haha ... just glancing at your avatar, I thought you were Downgoat.
 
@tim Why do you golf pings?
 
6:33 PM
@TimmyD I get that a lot recently...
 
@trichoplax I still think binary is more "pure" than Base 10.
 
@Thev Why not?
 
It's great at storing information densely.
 
The best base is obviously ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
 
@wizzwizz4 Hence my suggestion. I love powers of 2
@TheveryevilROFLcopter So far, only 4 people want to even star it, let alone pin it :P
 
6:36 PM
@TheveryevilROFLcopter No sexual references please.
 
It's a sexual reference?
 
@TheveryevilROFLcopter Yes.
 
I, unfortunately, know what it means.
 
@TheveryevilROFLcopter Have you been making that joke for a long time without knowing that?
 
6:37 PM
I said this because 69 is a nice number
The two numbers are basically reversed versions
 
@TheveryevilROFLcopter How does that make you feel?
 
Uh huh. not convinced
4
 
@wizzwizz4 ELIZA?
 
@TheveryevilROFLcopter Tell me more...
 
I'm confused. Do you want to pin the 1,000,000th message or Congratulations! You posted...?
 
6:38 PM
I see...
 
Somehow I don't think anyone in this room is that naïve ...
Whoa. IE auto-umlauted that.
 
@TimmyD I used to be. Those were the days...
@TimmyD IE is great!
 
@Dennis ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
Only reason I moved away from it is ES6 support.
 
6:39 PM
@wizzwizz4 wise decision
 
@wizzwizz4 Even Microsoft moved away from IE...
 
Is it still called an umlaut if the language isn't German/Hungarian/etc.? That seems wrong.
 
@mbomb007 That doesn't clarify anything. I already saw that.
 
6:40 PM
@TimmyD I think it is.
 
@Dennis Oh. Ask @wizzwizz4
 
@Dennis The one that's actually been starred.
 
I honestly see no reason to pin it.
Pins are for important announcements
2
 
Which is the 1,000,000th anyway?
 
@Dennis The one I replied to in my congrats
 
6:42 PM
@Dennis It's a few days ago...
 
:O I've never been pinned before
 
2 days ago, by The very evil ROFLcopter
Obviously ._.
 
@DJMcMayhem Whoever pinned that, stop.
 
@DJMcMayhem The importance has passed.
 
@Dennis And it probably doesn't count messages moves to Trash
 
6:42 PM
»  echo -n '0q10' > hello.vsl
»  ./vsl.exe hello.vsl
error: ALL YOUR BASES ARE BELONG TO USE (ot: unknown base)
 
:( it was nice while it lasted
 
@Dennis It was just meant to be a little joke. I was going to unpin it anyway... sulk
 
You want to pin "Obviously ._." to the starboard with no context??
 
@TheveryevilROFLcopter Use?
2 days ago, by The very evil ROFLcopter
Obviously ._.
 
@wizzwizz4 Dangit. Ninja'd
 
6:43 PM
@trichoplax I keep on thinking that you are downgoat
 
@wizzwizz4 Just a fun error message with an unknown base
 
Yeah, Obviously ._. is hardly reason to celebrate. Sorry Tuxcopter.
 
@TheveryevilROFLcopter Ah. /me laughs.
 
@TheveryevilROFLcopter Change your name to TuxCopter! :-)
Please?
 
6:44 PM
Good idea brb
 
@TheveryevilROFLcopter Sad day. Shoulda been counting.
 
@ConorO'Brien So many do. I don't remember this happening last halloween...
 
@trichoplax then, I think the downgoat was an upgoat.
 
^
 
Ah. I thought we'd had a downgoat for longer
 
6:45 PM
Was he even a goat one year ago?
 
@Dennis I think so.
 
I dont
 
he was always a goat
at least on the inside
 
Perhaps all the tears just make it seem longer
 
@MartinEnder His avatar wasn't
 
6:46 PM
I know he was a goat 10 11 months ago.
but 12 as of now... -.(o.o).-
 
At least as early as Feb
 
Ask the feed bots
 
@trichoplax ... Good idea...
 
wait I thought downgoat was always a gaot?
 
TUXCOPTER
 
6:48 PM
@TuxCopter Half penguin, half ROFLOLOLOL!
 
he was a goat confirmed
Oct 31 '15 at 1:31, by Vɪʜᴀɴ
random question (this chat has been quiet for too long): burritos or burgers?
wait idk
 
that shows the current avatars
 
(but the original names)
 
random question: emacs or vim?
 
6:49 PM
I believe the avatar was a picture of an actual goat though
 
@TuxCopter n++
4
 
@ConorO'Brien ...
 
all wrong. sublime.
 
Atom for GUI, nano for terminal.
 
atom is basically sublime in slow
 
6:51 PM
sublime is basically vim in slow
 
and vim is basically n++ in slow
 
n++ is notepad in slow
 
Notepad++ is Windows only. Non-competing.
 
Overruled. Real programmers use windows :P
4
 
@ConorO'Brien ಠಠ
 
6:52 PM
Yeah, right.
 
@Dennis s/in/is/ ?
 
If you don't count desktops, Microsoft's market share is non-existing.
 
my, am I a real star today
@Dennis yeah, I was just kidding. everyone knows real programmers use potato linux
 
@ConorO'Brien s/Windows/Linux/
 
@Downgoat s/Linux/ButterflyOS
 
6:53 PM
Wat
 
@Downgoat random: what was your avatar a year ago?
 
we need to make GaotOS
 
OK it's getting really bad. I wanted to look up downgoat's profile and almost clicked on my own avatar on the avatar bar
14
 
@Dennis Non-existing? Corporate IT is basically entirely Microsoft.
 
@Downgoat s/Linux/GNU\/Linux/
 
6:53 PM
@Downgoat I made OaaS
 
@ConorO'Brien ghost
 
@MartinEnder It also costs 70 bucks more. o_O
 
@Downgoat OH YEAH
 
@TuxCopter add g to beginning and t to be end
 
@trichoplax hahahahahahahahaha
 
6:54 PM
@Downgoat It means Operating as a System
For now the kernel is totally borked (GDT and IDT loading crash the CPU)
 
@Dennis it's free for as long as you like
 
@TuxCopter Goat operatoring as the OS
 
wtf
 
fixed acronym too
@trichoplax turtle =\= goat ;_;
 
@trichoplax Idea to make less confusion: change your avatar to a sheep
 
6:55 PM
@Dennis Now I'm really glad I held back from making fun of people who were confusing our avatars...
 
@TuxCopter ;_; y u sai trichoplax should maek eivl avatar too
 
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@Downgoat OK, I can't even understand that. I'm also not sure which parts are genuine typos and which are on purpose.
 
@Downgoat evil a Tara?
brb/gtg
 
@Dennis this is not hooves, just autocorrect
 
So for those in confusion, my red avatar came first :P
 
@trichoplax I was right \o/
 
@ConorO'Brien wat
 

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