The Nineteenth Byte

10:00 PM

@PhiNotPi hahaha

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ git has a shell? O_o

git rm -r one-of-the-directories
git commit -m "Remove duplicated directory"
git push origin master

Doorknob

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ uhhh isn't that PowerShell

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

How do I delete a directory in a different branch?

PhiNotPi

Formatting war: stackoverflow.com/posts/4673436/revisions

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Doorknob I guess it is?"

Quill

10:02 PM

~~it still runs git and stuff @doorknob~~ @CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ o_O

Doorknob

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ then what is "git shell"?

^

@Doorknob That's it.

... what?

Is that for Windows?

10:03 PM

cmder.net

A much better console for windows

Adnan

@Quill It already looks nice

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Adnan

It's just PowerShell?

Quill

lel

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

2 mins ago, by Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Doorknob I guess it is?"

Calvin's Hobbies

10:05 PM

git opens up powershell in your git folder and stuff, it's not really a git shell

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

WELL THAT'S NOT MY FAULT IS IT o^o

Alex A.

Clearly it is

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Github installed it on my computer.

Doorknob

Oh, in unrelated news, I may or may not be visiting Washington this summer for a math camp @AlexA.

Adnan

I have Git Bash on Windows

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

10:06 PM

@Doorknob DC, or State?

Alex A.

@Doorknob WAT

CSᵠ

@PhiNotPi such an oddly specific number it is

Alex A.

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I assume state because why would I give a shit if he was visiting DC? :P

Doorknob

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ well I pinged Alex so :P

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. I don't know where you live. CC @Doorknob

Alex A.

10:07 PM

Except that DC is actually really cool and you should totally go there

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

It is

Alex A.

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ You don't? I talk about my love for Seattle and Washington state in here all the time. :)

Calvin's Hobbies

Yet you know no trivia

Alex A.

Yeah :/

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. ._. but you're wrong

;)

Alex A.

10:08 PM

u_u

Doorknob

@AlexA. I might be going to this thing, and the only one that doesn't overlap with other things I'm doing is the one in Tacoma.

Calvin's Hobbies

eww, Tacoma smells

Alex A.

It actually does

They call it the "aroma of Tacoma"

The entire city smells terrible

Calvin's Hobbies

like overcooked broccoli

Quill

there's a town in canada that smells like tomatoes

Alex A.

10:09 PM

I'd take overcooked broccoli smell over Tacoma smell

@Quill That sounds nice

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

So how do I delete a folder in a branch in github? :/

Doorknob

git checkout and rm?

Alex A.

^

El'endia Starman

@Doorknob OH, I remember sorta considering applying to that. I had a nice poster-booklet about it.

Doorknob

except you're on Windows (eww) so it might be different

Calvin's Hobbies

10:10 PM

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Has anyone searched @Geobits' chat transcript to see how many times we've called alex wrong?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

and I don't know anything about git

Alex A.

@Doorknob I know exactly why you aren't doing the one in Dallas

Doorknob

@Calvin'sHobbies 226?

Alex A.

Holy crap

Quill

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Take GitHub's git tutorial. it's really good and you can learn it properly

Doorknob

10:11 PM

> the only one that doesn't overlap with other things I'm doing

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

fuck it, I'm manually deleting hte files.

Doorknob

I'm going to Duke TIP from June 12 to July 2

@AlexA. ಠ_ಠ

Alex A.

@Doorknob ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

El'endia Starman

Aroma of Tacoma

The "Aroma of Tacoma", also known as the Tacoma Aroma, is a putrid and unpleasant odor associated with Tacoma, Washington. The smell has been described as similar to the odor of rotten eggs. The odor is not noticeable throughout the city, but is rather concentrated in the Tacoma Tideflats and is frequently smelled by motorists traveling that section of Interstate 5. == History and originsEdit == The odor has been commonly known by the name "Aroma of Tacoma" since at least the early 1940s, however, there are instances of the word "aroma" being associated with Tacoma dating back to 1901 when local...

TIL

quartata

Glad to see I'm not the only one hiding in fear from the Super Bowl

Alex A.

10:14 PM

@El'endiaStarman It has its own Wikipedia page? o_O

quartata

I've got my earplugs ready

@El'endiaStarman lolwat

Calvin's Hobbies

@quartata Hiding? I tried to bring it to ppcg:

6

Q: Who's gonna win the football game?

The American football championship, Super Bowl 50, is happening today at 11:30pm UTC (and you can watch it live online). This challenge was made to celebrate it. In an American football game, two teams compete to get the most points and there are six ways to score these points. We'll give each...

quartata

@AlexA. They had to reach 5 million articles somehow

@Calvin'sHobbies !

nuuuuu

Calvin's Hobbies

Though half of you have called it handegg and the other half are deliberately ignoring it I guess

quartata

@Calvin'sHobbies That's what Code Review uses for badges

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

10:16 PM

creepy moment. I pasted what was on my clipboard and got this:

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El'endia Starman

If only I had capability for a third monitor. I could put the game up on that one and use the other two for coding.

quartata

Or you could just code on all three monitors

2

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@El'endiaStarman you use two monitors for coding?

Calvin's Hobbies

@quartata Oh yeah. That might be too on the nose

El'endia Starman

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Write code on one, see result on the other.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

10:17 PM

@El'endiaStarman oh, okay.

El'endia Starman

Especially useful for web development and the like.

@quartata Absolutely.

Quill

something like that

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

-2 2^4 + 2 is not a power of two

quartata

I somehow have a silver badge on CR

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@El'endiaStarman I code like this:

El'endia Starman

10:18 PM

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ -2, you mean.

Doorknob

@quartata me too; it's for chat

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@El'endiaStarman indeed XD

El'endia Starman

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I do that for Python and command lines/terminals.

Quill

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ that's a cool browser theme

quartata

@El'endiaStarman I mean technically 1 = 2^0

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

10:18 PM

@Quill thanks ^_^

@El'endiaStarman Ah, cool.

El'endia Starman

@quartata Aye, but 18 - 2 is a power of 2.

Quill

I have a silver badge here for chat, on a side note. and one for posting here ;p

quartata

Oh right

@Quill but you've actually posted here

whereas I have never posted on CR

El'endia Starman

@Quill We're star-happy people. :D

quartata

(yet)

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

10:19 PM

D:

Doorknob

nor have I

El'endia Starman

I have gold badges on sites I've never posted on.

Electorate.

quartata

Also I don't know if anyone has noticed but Dennis actually has quite a lot of rep on SU

Dennis

31.8k 5 69 111

windows-7 linux windows bash command-line ubuntu google-chrome

Quill

I was planning on writing a script that opens all my sites I'm signed up for everyday so I can go for Fanatic on all of them

quartata

#32 all time actually

Doorknob

10:20 PM

@quartata I remember when he had waaay more rep on SU than on PPCG

El'endia Starman

@Quill IIRC a few people have done exactly that.

quartata

Oh that reminds me I just need 5 more answers for bronze string badge

Doorknob

6

Q: Create a Fanatic bot for Stack Exchange sites

Your challenge today is to cheat at badges! You will build a bot that will connect to a Stack Exchange site, log in as you, visit the /questions page, visit a question, and then visit 9 other questions in the "related" sidebar (because that seems sufficient to count as "activity," and I need to ...

code-golf

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@quartata tag badge google chrome ಠ_ಠ

Calvin's Hobbies

can Wolfram Alpha do tetration?

Alex A.

10:23 PM

@Calvin'sHobbies What can't Wolfram Alpha do?

Doorknob

ahahaha

Alex A.

Close enough

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. more like will it do tetration

Alex A.

Oh. Probably not.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

wolframalpha.com/input/?i=codes+that+can+detect+10+errors

quartata

10:25 PM

@Calvin'sHobbies Don't think so but you could feed it an appropriate Mathematica command

It should take any basic Mathematica command that doesn't use function composition and whatnot

Doorknob

was worth a shot

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

 A power tower can be implemented in the Wolfram Language as

  PowerTower[a_, k_Integer] := Nest[Power[a, #]&, 1, k]

or

  PowerTower[a_, k_Integer] := Power @@ Table[a, {k}]

Calvin's Hobbies

@quartata It won't interpret PowerTower :/

quartata

@Calvin'sHobbies Try something more basic

Alex A.

1+1

quartata

10:29 PM

...

Adnan

Hahaha

Calvin's Hobbies

Oh, the Nest[Power[a, #]&, 1, k] thingy works, I see

Cyoce

Does a | or a \\` make more sense for delimiting the true/false sides of a ternary expression? I.e. is a?b\c` or a?b|c better?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Cyoce your markdown died

Calvin's Hobbies

\ since | looks like or, but : is most familiar

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

10:31 PM

`\`` = `

Cyoce

goddamn

Calvin's Hobbies

Cyoce

why can't chat markdown work properly

Calvin's Hobbies

\

Adnan

\

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

10:31 PM

` = `

quartata

=

bro do you even mini-markdown

Alex A.

@quartata I maxi-markdown

I use mark-maxidown

I markleft

Copyleft

10:34 PM

I Marcus

Cyoce

Trademarkdown

El'endia Starman

...well. That train derailed abruptly.

Calvin's Hobbies

downy karma

El'endia Starman

your fault @quartata

4

Cyoce

quartata-is-the-root-of-all-evil

Calvin's Hobbies

10:35 PM

Sometimes I think we need a bigger starboard

7

Userscript

where?

Make one

u

v

10:36 PM

@Calvin'sHobbies Maybe make the people list expandable.

Cyoce

Also, does it make more sense for {} to be shift stack,and () be increment/decrement, or vise-versa?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Cyoce the former.

Still the former.

Put the chat where the starboard is and and the starboard where chat is! #badidea

Calvin's Hobbies

Just keep this open in another window (but will it autoupdate?)

Cyoce

Now, I need to decide what actually typing {} or () will do. Since they have no effect on program state, they must be overriden with a special function!

Geobits

Is there a starboard at all on the new mobile UI? Can't find one except the 'stars' link in the menu that goes to another page.

Cyoce

10:39 PM

@Calvin'sHobbies but it doesn't say how many stars it got?

Quill

@Calvin'sHobbies have a userscript hide the chat users and open rooms, that makes the starboard bigger

Calvin's Hobbies

@Geobits how many messages total were in that full transcript?

Geobits

Around 500k IIRC.

trichoplax

@Calvin'sHobbies Try using your monitor in portrait instead of landscape...

I get more than twice as many that way

Geobits

That's terrible unless you have an easily rotatable monitor.

Calvin's Hobbies

10:44 PM

@trichoplax that involves rotating my neck in bad ways

trichoplax

@Geobits I'm on a laptop - I definitely wouldn't leave it that way :)

@Calvin'sHobbies Perhaps a system of mirrors...?

Geobits

Mirrors and projectors. Wall coding :)

Quill

Caravan Palace - Lone Digger

►

trichoplax

@Geobits I'd love to have a 4 wall set up

Alex A.

@Quill Oh hey, my girlfriend loves Caravan Palace.

Quill

10:45 PM

they're great

El'endia Starman

in PyAcidic, 34 secs ago, by El'endia Starman

in The Nineteenth Byte, 3 hours ago, by El'endia Starman

Okay, thoughts and ideas requested: let's say I implement a \track() command that "watches" a sequence and does something when something happens. As a specific example, let's say I have a sequence that is the number of factors of natural numbers, and whenever there's a new maximum, I want to print the corresponding number. How should this be written? What would be clear notation?

Calvin's Hobbies

@trichoplax like these?

El'endia Starman

fedbck pls

Quill

a generator, maybe

El'endia Starman

Pytek

Discussion for this in-development language

Geobits

10:47 PM

I read that earlier, but I don't have enough context to have ideas about it.

trichoplax

@Calvin'sHobbies That's brilliant!

Geobits

new SequenceOfFactorsNewMaximumListener(Sequence toBeWatched){...};

:P

Maltysen

what is pyacidic?

Calvin's Hobbies

@trichoplax ikr!

El'endia Starman

@Maltysen The next language I develop.

Maltysen

10:49 PM

cool. what does it do

trichoplax

@Calvin'sHobbies I wear glasses and I can see things happening behind me if they are sufficiently high contrast (like a bird flying across a bright sky background).

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Which encoding is this?