The Nineteenth Byte

Doorknob

1:00 AM

@IGoBest Seriously? I'm so dosappointed in you.

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Easterly Irk

rofl

Next command:

while true;do echo 'import os, sys;os.remove(sys.argv[0])'>p.py;python p.py;done

I Go Best

@Doorknob Wow. The groan factor dosan't get worse than that...

Doorknob

:D

Easterly Irk

^

Doorknob

@EasterlyIrk -1 not golfy enough

RenderSettings

1:03 AM

#! /bin/rm

use the shebang to remove itself :p

VoteToClose

You can golf out the space between the #! and the /bin.

Aqua Tart

Man, I was just doing awesome in Game Dev Tycoon then ended up releasing a really bad game for the G64 the same day the G64 people went bankrupt ;_;

Lost liek 10% of my fans

VoteToClose

Interesting:

YouTube Copyright Abuse Has Changed Me

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Alex A.

Almost-exact duplicate (I'm leaning towards dupe, but won't closehammer it): codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/52439/3808 — Doorknob ♦ 11 mins ago

All in agreement, cast close votes

All opposed, ...don't.

Aqua Tart

The challenge was in the sandbox for 2 days and no one said anything...

VoteToClose

1:16 AM

At least it wasn't 4 months. ಠ_ಠ

Aqua Tart

I now think we might need a new sandbox system.

El'endia Starman

More like we need incentives for people to review other peoples' Sandbox posts.

I Go Best

I'm not sure what system changes would prevent this sort of thing. The sandbox isn't, and isn't intended to be, a guarantee.

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El'endia Starman

^

I Go Best

It's more like asking your friends to proofread your work. They might catch some stuff, but in the end there's no guarantee that they caught it all.

RenderSettings

1:21 AM

@VoteToClose Oh, your question about the whitespace reminded me

Hoon has two different syntaxs: tall form and wide form

I've been submitting wide form, which needs () for grouping of runes

Tall form uses two spaces in between expressions...or newlines

So technically, tall form is cheaper

It would just look completely disgusting

VoteToClose

@RenderSettings See: perl

RenderSettings

like, instead of `~&(a $(a +(a)))` it could just be `~&
a
$(a +(a))`

err, an extra space after that first a on the second line

since newlines are only one byte, it's better since it doesnt need matching parens

VoteToClose

(just hit arrow up 3 times after clicking in the chat box)

RenderSettings

thanks :p

I assume it's better to not look insane than to shave off every single byte with newlines after each rune

VoteToClose

Umm... no, shortness is everything.

I Go Best

1:25 AM

That really depends on the purpose of the language. If it's made to golf, golf it :P

RenderSettings

I was afraid of that...

VoteToClose

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A: Quack the Angry Duck

Vitsy, 172 171 159 bytes Oh, geez. If I wanted something to show off the power of methods, I got it. ' 'V1+m 'kcauq'Z 'U:>'Z 58m5m6m' > 'Z5m6m'UUU'68m f3+bm9mamcm98m2m6bmcmam9mf6+8m3\[2m] a'U U'Z ' : >'Z5m Z2m98ma2m \VZ 2mfbm VVVZ2m78m2mVV7m 8m7m 68m2m9bm Try it Online! How this works is...

"It ain't pretty, but it works good"

I Go Best

Purse Dog meets Angry Duck.

VoteToClose

ಠ_ಠ My disapproval cannot be summed to a single emoticon.

I Go Best

Hmm, that's weird. Avatars in oneboxes seem to blur.

El'endia Starman

1:27 AM

Woah, now that you mention it, yeah.

VoteToClose

Huh.

Liam

@VoteToClose (ノ゜Д゜)ノ︵ ┻━┻

I Go Best

@VoteToClose Blame whoever originally said the "if you want to talk bad about Vitsy, now's your chance". I wouldn't have thought of it otherwise :P

VoteToClose

Feb 22 at 18:25, by TimmyD

@Dennis So ... you're saying that now is an appropriate time to badmouth Vitsy? ;-)

I Go Best

Feb 22 at 18:26, by Dennis

@TimmyD There never has been and never will be a better time.

See? My comment was mod-vetted >_>

VoteToClose

1:29 AM

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I Go Best

Knowing nothing about the language, I went shallow and made fun of the name. And it ended up working perfectly :D

Aqua Tart

I personally don't understand what's wrong with a purse dog.

Toy dogs are generally cute.

I especially like pugs.

I Go Best

I used to have a pug. It was no purse dog, though.

Too, umm, stocky for that >_>

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

bai

mınxomaτ

I need a better PC. I'm waiting 10s on average in my C# solution for the context menu to open after a right-click.

I Go Best

1:38 AM

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ You keep using that word; I do not think it means what you think it means...

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GamrCorps

WTF. Don't have two SE chats open at once... At least in my browser it caused a ping noise loop that scared the crap out of me

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@IGoBest that is true >_>

VoteToClose

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ bai

El'endia Starman

@GamrCorps I have two Chrome windows with SE chats in tabs.

Never had such a ping noise loop.

I Go Best

Yea, I don't remember that ever happening to me either, and I sometimes have it open on two PCs, much less two tabs.

GamrCorps

1:40 AM

Well I have chrome and it just happened again. Maybe its because I use Canary

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Or maybe it's because you use chrome

GamrCorps

nah

I Go Best

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Except two other people just chimed in who use Chrome ;)

feersum

I can only dream of a ping noise loop... I get no ping sound at all.

I Go Best

You didn't turn off the ping sound, did you?

El'endia Starman

1:41 AM

@feersum Speaker problem?

feersum

No, it's on.

Dennis

@VoteToClose Done.

feersum

I got new speakers since the ping noise stopped working, but no change.

I Go Best

@feersum Just checking; I've worked in IT :P

mınxomaτ

@feersum Look in the Dev console if anything failed.

GamrCorps

1:41 AM

I'm stupid. Just realized Calvin changed his username....

feersum

There's a single "no element found" message

I Go Best

Throw a periodic table at it.

GamrCorps

Make sure it is updated though

El'endia Starman

@feersum: Raise it on Meta.SE? I didn't get pinged for a month because I put off reporting the bug for that long.

feersum

Meh, pissing into the wind.

El'endia Starman

1:45 AM

Do it sideways and you'll have no problem.

mınxomaτ

@feersum ( ಠ _ ಠ )

Alex A.

Doing it into the wind is fine if you don't mind getting a little wet.

Maltysen

@AlexA. :/

Alex A.

@Maltysen ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

GamrCorps

Does anyone else here use Chrome Canary?

Aqua Tart

1:49 AM

@AlexA. ಠ_ಠ

Alex A.

@AquaTart ( ಠ ͜ʖಠ)

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Quick question: would a cat program be valid if a certain character (say, a space) couldn't appear in the input?

@feersum same here

Maltysen

@GamrCorps I used to, but now I have ubuntu

El'endia Starman

Oh hey, the Beta label in chat is gone!

Maltysen

o ya

Easterly Irk

1:55 AM

yep

GamrCorps

@Maltysen yeah I'm considering going back to normal. There has been a lot of unstable builds recently.

Alex A.

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ No

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. darn >:|

@Alex does this pass?

Alex A.

I can't really tell what's happening

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

The input is on the bottom right; the characters I type go to the thing.

mınxomaτ

2:06 AM

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Look what I found, @Doorknob :D

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

> image not found

Doorknob

I see it

that's... interesting

Alex A.

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ If it's reading input and writing it out without restrictions on the input, then yes.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. /...\` loops until (basically) EOF, d` moves the pointer right, i places input, and r sets the pointer's shape to the current cell.

@AlexA. Cool! My only question was if that would be acceptable output format, sorry for the ambiguity

Alex A.

What's the output format?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

2:08 AM

The playfield.

Alex A.

The what >.>

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

that black thingy

Doorknob

y u no make command line version of your language

Alex A.

That's your language's equivalent of STDOUT?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Which one???

@AlexA. I think so? There's no other way to output things...

Alex A.

2:09 AM

Then yeah, it's legit. That's why we say "STDOUT or closest alternative."

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Oh, right, d'oh.

Thanks!

np bb

G'night

G'night!

night

2:19 AM

@Doorknob Does an MC server count as a command line version?

GamrCorps

@VoteToClose no

VoteToClose

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

phase

How do you change the language of a codeblock on SO?

Alex A.

@phase 

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A: Translate oOo CODE

oOo, 1569 bytes Had to be done. Golfed: oooooooooOoOoooooooooooooooOoOooooooOOOoOoooooooOoOOoOOoOOoOOoOOoOOoOOoOoOoooOOoOOoOOoOOoOOoOOoOOoOOoOoooOoooOOooOOoOooOoOoOoooooOoooOoooooOOooOooOoOOooOoOoOoooooOoOooooOoOoooooOoOooOoOOoooOoOooooooOoOOoOOoOOoOOoOoOoooOOoOOoOOoOOoOOoOoooOoooOOooOOoOOoOoo...

What the fuck

Easterly Irk

^

That is epic.

phase

2:23 AM

@mınxomaτ What is Space.us?

Easterly Irk

us.org

mınxomaτ

It says what it is on the root page. It's closed beta.

Easterly Irk

space.us.org

phase

@mınxomaτ ooo how'd you get such special access?!?!

RenderSettings

@AlexA. holy shit

Alex A.

2:27 AM

Right?!

mınxomaτ

@phase I'm providing some resources, mainly the frontend hosting.

@AlexA. Pretty cool!

Doorknob

I'd say it's a bit more than "pretty cool" :P

Alex A.

It's okay I guess

Easterly Irk

^

/s

mınxomaτ

Reminds me of that one challenge that claimed it couldn't be answered in BF and immediately received a BF answer.

Doorknob

2:30 AM

@AlexA. ehh, kinda neat

Easterly Irk

link?

Alex A.

@Doorknob I've seen better

mınxomaτ

@Doorknob BF-like languages are perceived more difficult to use than they are.

Doorknob

Well, oOo CODE isn't BF-like; it's pretty much just BF

Alex A.

Is it?

Easterly Irk

2:32 AM

^^

I Go Best

The space.us logo looks eerily similar to the VLC logo.

Doorknob

@AlexA. A little nifty

Easterly Irk

@AlexA. yes

A 1:1 translation.

Optimizer

anyone near campbell area?

Alex A.

Depends. Which Campbell is this?

Doorknob

2:33 AM

the soup

Optimizer

camp bell

mınxomaτ

I like how you used Brainfuck even though the question said that was impossible. — Riking Jan 4 '14 at 1:09

@IGoBest That's the under construction animation. The logo is the favicon (afaik).

I Go Best

Yea... I kinda realized that after I posted that comment. Decided if I stayed quiet about it nobody would notice >_>

1/5 Did not work

Alex A.

4/10, all scores are out of 10

mınxomaτ

^

I Go Best

2:36 AM

2/5 most online rating systems I see are out of 5

Alex A.

4/7 the internet can't count

Doorknob

0/10 would not rhyme again

Alex A.

too late

El'endia Starman

@IGoBest For what it's worth, I was bemused as to why they would include VLC's logo on their page...

Didn't occur to me that it might be an "under construction" thing because those kinds of pages are so rare nowadays.

I Go Best

It really does look that way. I guess you can blame VLC for choosing a weird logo, though.

mınxomaτ

2:39 AM

2016 - the year when traffic cones are more widely known as a media player logo instead of actual construction sites.

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Maltysen

hahaha

I Go Best

Oddly enough, I don't really remember ever seeing actual cones striped like that.

A stripe at the top maybe, but not the wide, equal-sized ones like on the logo.

mınxomaτ

UK traffic cone.

El'endia Starman

Yeah, most traffic/construction cones I've seen were just plain orange.

Doorknob

trying again:

6 hours ago, by Doorknob

which figlet is best figlet?

mınxomaτ

2:42 AM

Why is there a dash at the beginning.

Doorknob

It's like a signature thing

I Go Best

Doorknob

for my homepage keyboardfire.com

El'endia Starman

@Doorknob Big or standard. Basically all the other ones are pretty much unreadable.

mınxomaτ

Drop the dash, looks better without

Doorknob

2:43 AM

@IGoBest costume? o.o

@El'endiaStarman lots of them are much better with line-height: 1.0

I Go Best

@Doorknob Well, I guess you wouldn't have to worry about being run over >_>

Doorknob

@El'endiaStarman Is this any better?

That's with line-height set to 1.0

Alex A.

@IGoBest I often worry about this

El'endia Starman

@Doorknob Much better, yes.

I Go Best

@Doorknob I like small in addition to the ones mentioned earlier. Slant isn't bad, but not great.

@AlexA. Can't you just fly out of the way?

Maltysen

2:51 AM

@AlexA. getting run over while wearing a traffic cone costume?

Alex A.

@IGoBest Not always fast enough

@Maltysen Yes

El'endia Starman

@Doorknob My preferences: standard, big, slant, small, in that order.

I Go Best

@AlexA. Stop golfing your movements, you'll go faster.

Alex A.

I prefer Brownian motion

Takes a while to get where I need to go though

I Go Best

What can Brownian do for you?

Alex A.

2:53 AM

lel

They can deliver packages in nondeterministic time

I Go Best

Terrible pun alert:

Brown : A Madtv UPS parody

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