The Nineteenth Byte

El'endia Starman

6:00 AM

Which makes me wonder why he does dislike it.

Alex A.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Just doesn't appeal to me

I don't hate it

Calvin's Hobbies

@El'endiaStarman Well, you know what they say

Alex A.

@somebody Yeah. NeoVim is great.

El'endia Starman

Oooohhh, right, wrong-is-alex

Err, is-alex-wrong. No, wrong-alex-is. Hmm. alex-wrong-is. Sheesh. is-wrong-alex.

somebody

@AlexA. except for the fact that instead of 'Neovim', a description shows in Ubuntu Software updater

they should probably fix that

El'endia Starman

6:02 AM

Man, I keep feeling like I'm missing the right one...

@AlexA., mind helping me out? :P

DJ McGoathem

As a vim fanatic that hasn't used neovim, what's the advantage of it?

Calvin's Hobbies

Say, could we get a new name/url during graduation if we wanted?

Alex A.

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

El'endia Starman

o_O

I don't like you looking at me that way....

Alex A.

( ͡- ͜ʖ ͡-)

I closed my eyes

somebody

6:03 AM

@Calvin'sHobbies yes iirc

Alex A.

@Calvin'sHobbies No

Calvin's Hobbies

Thanks for clearing that up..

Not that I really want to, just wondering if it's a thing that happens.

(Also, does our SE site have the longest official name?)

Alex A.

We've had a number of name change discussions throughout our history as a site and the result is always "don't change," so even if we could I don't think there'd be community support.

somebody

@Calvin'sHobbies meta.stackexchange.com/questions/55572/…

6 years old, idk if still relevant

Alex A.

Still applies, but that says "before launch."

At this point, the site has graduated, which means it has launched.

somebody

6:07 AM

but we have no top level domain yet

DJ McGoathem

Yeah, but we don't have a top level domain yet.

Alex A.

We won't.

DJ McGoathem

why not?

Anonymous

Pretty sure SE sites don't get TLDs anymore except for those half-SE sites like Ask Different and Ask Ubuntu

Alex A.

Only Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Ask Ubuntu, etc. get top level names. The rest of the sites are sitename.stackexchange.com.

Calvin's Hobbies

6:09 AM

I think "Programming Puzzles & Code Golf" has the third longest name after "Motor Vehicle Maintenance & Repair" and "Software Quality Assurance & Testing". The irony.

DJ McGoathem

That is ironic. We should change it to just "p".

Anonymous

@AlexA. And all but SO are because they're not technically owned by SE, right?

somebody

then

Alex A.

@Mego No, they're all owned by SE.

somebody

tries to find who owns ppcg.lol

Alex A.

6:10 AM

@somebody It's @Quill.

DJ McGoathem

cd src

Oh, whoops, I typed that in the browser, not my terminal.

Anonymous

Oh wait it's PO that's owned by different people

Calvin's Hobbies

@Mego I though it was just because they existed before "Stack Exchange" officially did? (And they're big sites)

Anonymous

Yeah that's probably it

Calvin's Hobbies

PO?

Anonymous

6:10 AM

PhysicsOverflow

Anonymous

They broke off from SE, but use the SE software

Quill

@somebody that'd be me

Alex A.

@Calvin'sHobbies I don't think so.

Quill

Bonus level: chat.ppcg.lol

Boss level: avocad.ppcg.lol

somebody

@Quill i think you should add a router if you can

Quill

6:12 AM

Wat

somebody

i.e. redirect /m to meta, /q/<q_id> to /questions/<q_id> etc

Quill

It's done at a DNS level redirect

You can't have subdomains like that with a dns redirect

Hosch250

Still partying?

Quill

2ndmonitor.lol

Calvin's Hobbies

@DJMcGoathem 2 or 3 letters might be acceptable. Then we'd tie with Tor and Law

DJ McGoathem

6:14 AM

Well, 2 letters is a bad idea, since I don't think anyone here would like the name "pp".

somebody

i don't think 'PPCG' can be golfed down any further

Anonymous

We could just be CG

Quill

lol, needs to be in retina

Alex A.

PCG, as appears on our favicon, hurts my life.

Anonymous

Most people refer to us as Code Golf and not the full PPCG (regulars aside)

somebody

6:15 AM

PCG = Puzzling Code Golf

Quill

@Mego computer graphics

Calvin's Hobbies

@somebody I guess tying with beer and pets isn't so bad

somebody

@Mego but it's inaccurate D:

Anonymous

@AlexA. Luckily we only have to put up with it for 6-8 more weeks

DJ McGoathem

@somebody There's probably a Mathematica builtin that beats it.

Alex A.

6:16 AM

@somebody Not really

Anonymous

We could be Code Puzzles, and be cp.stackexchange.com! Wait... Nevermind.

somebody

@AlexA. well, it's not entirely accurate

Alex A.

It's no more inaccurate than "Programming Puzzles & Code Golf," which will close any programming puzzle as off topic and downvote it into the depths of hell.

Quill

@Mego MODS!

Hosch250

What do you define as a "programming puzzle"?

Anonymous

6:17 AM

See I was actually serious about the suggestion until I saw the URL

Anonymous

And then thought better about it

DJ McGoathem

I'm glad you did think better about it.

somebody

@Hosch250 a programming challenge with a clearly defined goal and scoring system

Alex A.

@Hosch250 programming-puzzle

Quill

You could get CodeFatBlasters

Anonymous

6:18 AM

@Hosch250 code-challenge fastest-code restricted-source cops-and-robbers etc

Calvin's Hobbies

What was that super starred message @Doo made once? No offence but I'm hoping the graduation message beats it.

Alex A.

@somebody No, that's a code challenge.

somebody

oh

then we should be cccg?

Alex A.

Nov 12 '15 at 22:26, by Doorknob

okay seriously stop abusing stars

Calvin's Hobbies

I don't even know what a "programming puzzle" is (it was a tag once that meant something special)

Alex A.

6:18 AM

75 stars

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. yeesh

Hosch250

Cops and robbers was killed?

Alex A.

Nope

El'endia Starman

@AlexA. Wait, isn't that the record for the SO chat?

Alex A.

We beat their record

Anonymous

6:19 AM

@Quill You mean this beta site with terrible stats, or the 2 closed versions before it?

El'endia Starman

@Hosch250 It wasn't killed, it kinda...just...starved.

Hosch250

Holy smokes, how did that get 75 stars?

Alex A.

Star abuse

Anonymous

@Calvin'sHobbies The Tetris GOL one would be the best example

Alex A.

Irony

Hosch250

6:20 AM

Remember, I was going to post the ~~cops and robbers~~ Trumps and Immigrants.

Alex A.

@Calvin'sHobbies It still is a tag and its meaning hasn't changed

Hosch250

Except I was told I couldn't reference the Trumps.

somebody

@Mego tetris gol one?

Calvin's Hobbies

@Hosch250 Why not? When was this?

Anonymous

@Hosch250 The issue with that one was not because of CnR being dead, but because ಠ_ಠ

Hosch250

6:21 AM

A while back.

Anonymous

@somebody highest voted unanswered

Hosch250

@Mego Cause of what?

El'endia Starman

@somebody ...you contributed to solving that one.

Anonymous

49

Q: Build a working game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life

Here is a theoretical question - one that doesn't afford an easy answer in any case, not even the trivial one. In Conway's Game of Life, there exist constructs such as the metapixel which allow the Game of Life to simulate any other Game-of-Life rule system as well. In addition, it is known that...

Anonymous

@Hosch250 It was very politically-charged and not a good fit for our politically-unaffiliated site

somebody

6:22 AM

oh

Hosch250

Oh, I know that.

I thought you were referring to a certain user related to cops and robbers in general.

DJ McGoathem

And yet: codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/67452/…

Anonymous

@DJMcGoathem In my defense, I downvoted that one in the sandbox

Alex A.

Someone should invent a language called "trump" that prints random ignorant quotes during runtime and ignores half the input of functions. — Jean-Paul Dec 25 '15 at 21:46

hahahahaha

somebody

@El'endiaStarman progress kinda stopped

Anonymous

6:23 AM

@phase man fix your online ide

phase

@Mego commands.md has an outline of what you need

El'endia Starman

@somebody It's only temporary.

phase

@AquaTart I believe it is already implemented

Calvin's Hobbies

@Mego I wouldn't have minded, as long as it's a valid challenge and all. Bringing up politics might get Hosch lots of downvotes but that's their decision

Anonymous

@phase I found that after trawling through o.c and posting my answer

Anonymous

6:25 AM

@Calvin'sHobbies It could have easily been completely unrelated to politics

phase

@Mego wait why is my language relevant after 5 months?

Quill

@Mego No, I meant the 102 year old turtle living in Singapore Zoo with the same name.

Anonymous

@phase Because it's always relevant <3 also there was a trivial challenge and I wanted to post a bunch of answers for the silver code golf badge (which I got thanks to O)

Anonymous

@Quill Oh neat I should go to Singapore

phase

@Mego O, you're whalecone.

Anonymous

6:26 AM

But seriously fix your IDE

El'endia Starman

> whalecone

Quill

Yeah, they're a cool species but they're going extinct

Anonymous

Or better, make an internet-safe version of O and have Dennis add it to TIO

El'endia Starman

SAVE THE WHALECONES.

somebody

internet-safe?

phase

6:27 AM

@Mego it works

Anonymous

No file I/O, no network access, no eval/execing user code in the mother language unless it is also safe

somebody

@phase presumably that means one that can be run via python/command-line

Calvin's Hobbies

@somebody What are you responding to? (You know you can respond to individual messages by clicking the little arrow on the far right of them)

Anonymous

@phase Try j.1\/^ with input 5 in the IDE

phase

@somebody um... what...? It's written in C and anyone could have been able to run it for like 8 months.

Anonymous

6:29 AM

It's easy enough to run

Anonymous

It's just not safe because file I/O (unless that's disabled in oide and I missed it)

phase

@Mego ^ was never reimplemented when we switch to the C interpreter. I think the issue's still open.

Anonymous

@phase It worked in the REPL

phase

@Mego I think it is

ohhhhh

It's not updated

Anonymous

y u no automatic pull and build

phase

6:31 AM

because Heroku won't pull submodules unless you manually push

Anonymous

Oh that's lame

phase

I had a big fight with Heroku support on that one

Alex A.

@Quill Just like crusty Fortran programmers.

Anonymous

Couldn't you just add something like os.system('git submodule init && git submodule update') in the flask script?

Alex A.

@phase Did you end up sleeping on the couch or were you able to reconsile and cuddle?

phase

6:32 AM

@Mego -__________________________-

Quill

@AlexA. just like PHP

Anonymous

if not os.listdir('libregexp'): os.system('git submodule init && git submodule update')

phase

@AlexA. I said "hey cn u do dis" and they said "no bro we cnt"

@Mego why couldn't you do that last year ;-;

Quill

ll

phase

@Quill \\

Alex A.

6:33 AM

@Quill I want to see PHP burned in effigy

Anonymous

@phase I didn't know you were having the issue

Alex A.

@phase #tragic

phase

@Mego I told you like twice c'mmmon man get it together you delicious albino penguin

Alex A.

haha wtf

Quill

@AlexA. I have the php bronze bagel on CR, i feel privileged enough to hate on php X)

phase

6:34 AM

why use #tags we we have tags

Anonymous

I do not recall this

Anonymous

Because Alex is lazy

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