@trichoplax I meant the indicator, "Rainbolt is typing...". On that note, I used to work in tech support and I could see the actual content of what the customer was typing. Sometimes this expedited things, and sometimes it felt unethical. Some people would start typing "I do not understand why I have to" and then start deleting and type something much nicer.
They could also see me typing, but not the content. I learned that if you start typing, they pause, and so I started composing in Notepad and then pasting into the chat.
@mbomb007 over the course of your life, how many times have you consumed a dairy product that originated from an animal you've already consumed a dairy product from?
@ais523 It would appear that Node runs programs until all timed events are complete, which makes sense. I guess that makes my life easier because I don't have to handle them separately in Node.
@Rainbolt I use screen sharing to train and support people. They share their screen with me so I can see what they are typing into the chat window. I frequently just interrupt with the reply before they complete the sentence.
@Rainbolt Wow. No we have nothing that creepy. And not even the "is typing" indicator. I think it's important that people know which things are public and which are private. I'm uncomfortable with recently discovering that stars (on questions) are public, even though private upvotes and downvotes makes it easy to assume stars will be private too
I sometimes use question stars as a temporary way of keeping track of a question. That doesn't always mean I like it, which makes the public list of questionable usefulness...
I imagine a lot of people assume it means "I really like this question". I certainly find myself thinking that a question with lots of stars must be popular (and it usually is, which reinforces the assumption...)
The tooltips don't seem to match up with usage. Upvote: This question shows research effort; it is useful and clear Star: Click to mark as favorite question
A long time ago, we were told (see the revision history) that if you mark a question as a favorite it would alert you to updates on that question. So you could basically be alerted when someone else posts an answer. That never got implemented, and then it got pulled out.
@Rainbolt I was wondering about that. I had the impression I should be getting notifications as if it were one of my own questions, but I couldn't remember why I thought that, and why it wasn't working...
It made sense to me - you favourite a question and then you hear when it has a new answer or comments
You have to mark it as a favorite to it in order to get the notification. If you don't want notifications, don't mark it as a favorite. Seems easy enough to avoid the feature if you don't like it.
A toggle for notifications. As it is, I can visit my profile to see which of my favorited questions have updates. So it's useful to favorite them, but not so much that I want notifications on all of them.
Rather than continue to comment on other's posts. I've decided to open myself up to downvotes by answering.
There have been at least two recent metaso questions related to this issue.
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Which is about being able to be notified on edits on only a single post. ...
@wizzwizz4 I can, but I was hoping there would exist a version for people just learning Scratch, where the drag and drop interface is most of the benefit
Yeah but the entire point of the language is that it's a graphical interface that kids can easily grasp. If you're going to scrap that, you might as well use a "better" language imo.
That reminds me: I've been thinking about hosting a server-side leaderboard somewhere. Crawling though all answers requires a lot of bandwidth and is rather slow (for me, at least). The requests could be cached, interpreted, and only the relevant parts sent to the snippet.
Cops and Robbers: Significant Whitespace
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For the purpose of this challenge, we'll define whitespace as only linefeeds (0x0A) and spaces (0x20). Note that most languages and regex flavours consider many other characters as whitespace as well, both inside...
@ais523 if you want to make a radiation-proof language, just make it collapse every run of identical characters into a single copy of that character ;)
because I have something of a compulsive tendency to want to make languages interesting
@MartinEnder that would work, yes, and now I'm wondering if there are esolangs which already work like that
the thing about A Pear Tree, though, is that it can probably also survive insertions or edits of characters (although you have to start worrying about hash collisions before long)
on another note, how do you print an integer without leading newline in Common Lisp?
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that only depends on how big the cops will get. if brute forcing turns out to be too easy, cops can always move to bigger programs. the ways to insert the whitespace will grow very quickly.
If you're brute forcing, how do you know if an attempt is successful? Run it and wait for it to finish? That sounds like you'd be trying to solve the halting problem.
I'm doing some Project Euler problems. The question asked for 100, but I did 1000 by accident. I even got recursion limit and edited the limit for 1000. What now? ;_;
WHAT IS THIS DOING HERE?
How low can you go? - Signal Limbo.
Sometimes we need a low voltage, sometimes we need a high voltage. Let's design a VDC power supply!
The challenge is simple, with 2 lines (+5V and GND), Create a Variable DC power supply on a standard breadboard that ranges from +12...
^ I have a feeling that's going to turn into the electrical engineering version of Mathematica
there's surely got to be a DIP through-hole charge pump somewhere
and amplifiers are trivial, although again, finding one with four pins (which I think is the minimum for one usable in this challenge?) might be difficult
For the purpose of this challenge, we'll define whitespace as only linefeeds (0x0A) and spaces (0x20). Note that most languages and regex flavours consider many other characters as whitespace as well, both inside and outside the ASCII range so you might not be able to make use of the correspondin...
This is part of a Cops and Robbers challenge. Go here for the cops' part.
For the purpose of this challenge, we'll define whitespace as only linefeeds (0x0A) and spaces (0x20). Note that most languages and regex flavours consider many other characters as whitespace as well, both inside and outsi...
Explicitly disallowing or disadvantaging arbitrary (classes of) languages
This has become much rarer recently, but the occasional challenge by a new user still includes it, so here as an answer to point them to.
Disallowing arbitrary languages (or classes of languages, primarily things like "no...
Yay, I've got a significantly faster iterative solution for the sortable years challenge ... that is the same 71 bytes as my brute forcer solution ... :-/
I guess you could allow that, but it seems more likely to be misleading and unhelpful to competitors, rather than assisting their desire to use Brainfuck.
I'm a Mathematica person rather than a Matlab person. You get the answer out exactly by default and then you can do N@% if you want a decimal approximation.
Rather than continue to comment on other's posts. I've decided to open myself up to downvotes by answering.
There have been at least two recent metaso questions related to this issue.
Allowing Editor to notify downvoters
Which is about being able to be notified on edits on only a single post. ...
WHAT IS THIS DOING HERE?
How low can you go? - Signal Limbo.
Sometimes we need a low voltage, sometimes we need a high voltage. Let's design a VDC power supply!
The challenge is simple, with 2 lines (+5V and GND), Create a Variable DC power supply on a standard breadboard that ranges from +12...
