The Nineteenth Byte

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

10:00 PM

^^ who?

Anonymous

His morality is neither good nor bad

TimmyD

@Mego "Michael Jackson"-bad, or "dictator"-bad?

Aqua Tart

@Mego I would answer no.

Martin Büttner

gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light

Anonymous

@AquaTart I guess. He's very... grey...

Martin Büttner

10:00 PM

@mbomb007 ^^

Anonymous

> Question N°16
> Is your character a dragon?

Anonymous

Shit he's on to me

CoolestVeto

@Mego His morality is holy; he worships the gods with the Voice.

Anonymous

@CoolestVeto His morality is grey, he's the leader of the greybeards

Anonymous

Who are essentially Neutralians

Helka Homba

10:02 PM

Ramanujan took 3 guesses

Anonymous

He got Paarthurnax in 35 questions, 1 guess

Anonymous

I need more obscure characters...

Aqua Tart

@HelkaHomba Yeah he couldn't guess Abel at all

Seems to be bad at mathematicians

CoolestVeto

@Mego The Greybeards follow the Way of the Voice, which is holy. In the terms of Skyrim, they are good.

They are neutral when it comes to the war because it does not affect them.

Anonymous

All they really care about is teaching the Dragonborn so he can fulfill the prophecy

Martin Büttner

10:06 PM

can people think of important edge cases for meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/8682/8478 ?

CoolestVeto

@Mego Incorrect. They wish for him to follow the Way of the Voice; multiple times, the Greybeards state obvious resentment to dragon slaying and the "improper" use of the voice.

Anonymous

He guessed 4 Kings from DS1 even after I said no to being from a FromSoftware game

El'endia Starman

@MartinBüttner It really annoyed me that you only got to see the full effects at the very end, and couldn't play around with them.

Martin Büttner

I never actually played it

El'endia Starman

@mbomb007 Those are two of my favorite games. :D

@MartinBüttner It'd take you less than 15 minutes, probably.

I remember it being pretty short.

Helka Homba

10:07 PM

Can he guess non specific things? Like "bacteria" or "narwhales".

El'endia Starman

And the controls are weird.

Anonymous

He's still giving me Dark Souls stuff >_<

Anonymous

I'm thinking of the Boss Bat from Kingdom of Loathing lol

Aqua Tart

@HelkaHomba No, not usually.

He can, say, guess Chicken from Minecraft but not chickens in general

Mars Ultor

@Mego 0/10 Not obscure enough, use Yog-Urt

Aqua Tart

10:10 PM

You should try a real person.

He can guess video game characters very easily but real people are harder.

Anonymous

@AquaTart He failed to guess the Boss Bat

Aqua Tart

I don't believe that.

You probably answered one of the questions wrong :P

Is it in the database?

Anonymous

Most of them were "is the character linked to X game"

Aqua Tart

(It'll let you look it up afterwards)

Anonymous

Nope, wasn't in the database

Aqua Tart

10:11 PM

Really?

Anonymous

Yep

Aqua Tart

Hm.

Anonymous

I'd guess most people do NS for KoL

Mars Ultor

what does the link to lock/unlock a room on SE look like?

Martin Büttner

got Lee Sedol on the second guess, after asking the most random unidentifying questions o.O

El'endia Starman

10:12 PM

@MarsUltor It's in the room info/settings.

info -> access

CoolestVeto

Link me?

flawr

@El'endiaStarman I only have to digg out some test cases

I have the feeling that no one is going to participate=)

Digital Trauma

@AquaTart I couldn't find anything similar

trichoplax

@MartinBüttner I can't think of any edge cases, but are the matrix elements always integers?

Martin Büttner

yes

clarified

Anonymous

10:16 PM

I beat him again with the Naughty Sorceress, though it was in the database

El'endia Starman

@CoolestVeto Talking to me? If so, upper right corner, there's an info link. Click it. At the right side, there's the access tab. Click it. All the stuff you need for restricting a room, granting certain users special privileges, etc...

Anonymous

I'm guessing KoL characters aren't that commonly used

CoolestVeto

@CoolestVeto to Akinator? :P

Doorknob

help

Mars Ultor

@Doorknob Get firefox

trichoplax

10:19 PM

Your screen is somewhat wider than mine...

Doorknob

@MarsUltor -1 already have firefox

Anonymous

@CoolestVeto en.akinator.com

flawr

@Doorknob Recently I helped a relative who had over 500 tabs open, and he asked me to filter out the stuff. So I went throu all of them, and was found it was like a histery of the last year or so=)

Doorknob

O_o

Mars Ultor

@Doorknob Then use firefox, the tabs aren't as small

Anonymous

10:20 PM

@Doorknob Congratulations on being visitor #1 this decade to all those Lojban sites!

Doorknob

@MarsUltor -1 solves one problem, creates 100 more :P

@Mego ಠ____ಠ

Anonymous

Sooo close

Anonymous

7171 17 71 would've been so satisfying

El'endia Starman

wow

flawr

10:21 PM

fail

El'endia Starman

^^^ definitely

Mars Ultor

@Doorknob How?

Martin Büttner

> fail

> definitely

Anonymous

Shame on me for getting 2 extra Nice Question badges

El'endia Starman

@MartinBüttner If you insist. :P

trichoplax

10:21 PM

Right click on the first tab, and select "Close Tabs to the Right"

Anonymous

Clearly I need 20 more silver badges and 202 more rep

trichoplax

I'd be very impressed if you managed to achieve that without gaining a single bronze badge...

Anonymous

I just need a bunch more upvotes on my existing challenges

Anonymous

And more views

Doorknob

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Q: Congruence Relations

Given 3 positive integers a, b, and n (whose maximum values are the maximum representable integer value in your language), output a truthy value if a ≡ b (mod n), and falsey otherwise. For those unfamiliar with congruency relations, a ≡ b (mod n) is true iff a mod n = b mod n (or, equivalently, (...

we can ruin it with this one :P

Anonymous

10:25 PM

Good Question + Popular Question

Martin Büttner

he failed to guess Jon Skeet :(

El'endia Starman

@Doorknob Aw man, I already upvoted that one. :P

Anonymous

Sure, ruin my almost-satisfying numbers with more upvotes

Anonymous

That'll teach me

Anonymous

Hey that could make a neat challenge

Doorknob

10:28 PM

someone upvoted it. Wasn't me :P

Anonymous

Given ints n and i, output the ith n-satisfying integer. An integer k is satisfying if it only consists of n distinct digits, where n <= len(k)/2.

El'endia Starman

Is there a way to match those with a regex?

Anonymous

Probably

Doorknob

> A group of hikers set out and, without stopping, went 16 miles the first hour, 18 miles the second, 20 miles the third, and so on. Six hours after the first group set out, a second group set out going over the same route at a uniform rate of 50 mph. In how many hours, after the first group set out, will the two groups be together?

something doesn't seem right about this

Anonymous

I'm gonna toss the ascii-art one up on main

Anonymous

10:32 PM

@Doorknob 16t + 2t^2 - 50t

Anonymous

Seems easy enough to me

El'endia Starman

Oh, the actual solving the problem part is no big deal.

Hikers going at 50 mph, on the other hand...

Anonymous

They're actually all hedgehogs

Doorknob

I was more concerned about the first group, who will eventually be going faster than the speed of light

El'endia Starman

Not before the others catch up!

Anonymous

10:33 PM

It would take them many many hours to get to relativistic speeds

Digital Trauma

@Mego Looks like I upvoted this one previously. would you like me to retract my upvote? ;-)

Anonymous

They would almost certainly die before going that fast

Doorknob

> almost

El'endia Starman

So...you're saying...there's a chance. Yyyyes!

Anonymous

Hedgehogs with 7 chaos emeralds are the exception

mbomb007

10:39 PM

@MartinBüttner I've done that too. :D

I also played the Superhot demo when it was in dev.

Martin Büttner

@Mego I think your challenge could really have used at least one test image before going live...

El'endia Starman

@mbomb007 I've played that too. :D

Anonymous

@MartinBüttner Ah crap I forgot to edit in the corpus

GamrCorps

^^

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Q: Generate ASCII Art

Given a black-and-white image in any reasonable lossless format (png, ppm, etc.; filename or raw bytes) as input, output ASCII art that is as close to the input image as possible. Rules Only linefeeds and ASCII bytes 32-127 may be used. The input image will be cropped so that there is no extra...

code-challenge ascii-art image-processing

GamrCorps

10:43 PM

Adding regex to CJam is hard...

I'm trying it anyway.

Mars Ultor

@Mego There should be a size restriction. (default font size)

Otherwise you can just use 1pt font and get it almost exact.

Anonymous

@MarsUltor It's raw text, not rich text.

Anonymous

The image will be generated using 20 point font, as shown in the scoring script

lirtosiast

Oh, that's a non-monospace font. Interesting.

Anonymous

I thought a non-monospace font might make things more interesting

Anonymous

10:51 PM

Really though, the corpus shouldn't matter, since you shouldn't be optimizing for the test cases anyway :)

Martin Büttner

but people need something to test their code

Helka Homba

@Mego But a 5 minute limit on 500 images is way different than on 5.

Anonymous

@HelkaHomba True. It's going to be 8 images.

Helka Homba

^^^ too

Anonymous

Once my slow internet finishes uploading to imgur >_<

El'endia Starman

11:00 PM

@Mego Send them to me and I'll upload them for you. That'll be faster, surely? :P

LegionMammal978

Dang it

Accidentally broke the clip for the H key on my keyboard :(

Anonymous

@El'endiaStarman I don't think you understand how the internet works

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El'endia Starman

WHAT? How dare you accuse me of such a thing?!

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

wait what's the internet

My Ham DJ

flawr

11:11 PM

@MyHamDJ The internet is dead.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I'm sorry, but the author of this Facebook comment clearly believes you were.

My Ham DJ

Her hair is messy in that comic.

LegionMammal978

en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Internet&oldid=415539506

El'endia Starman

@LegionMammal978 lawl

flawr

Printernet

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

11:20 PM

@MyHamDJ It's not the same person.

LegionMammal978

Oh, and en.wikipedia.org/w/…

El'endia Starman

@LegionMammal978 I wonder if the OP included their own statement in that...

Anonymous

There, corpus added

Anonymous

And clarifications made

Anonymous

Now the challenge sucks less :P

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

11:33 PM

>_>

CoolestVeto

@somebody That is not valid. Every language has a beginning, and, even though this has little done on it so far, it may turn out to be a great language. +1 — CoolestVeto 7 secs ago

ಠ_ಠ I'm upset by downvotes on the languages pages.

Anonymous

I think the downvote is perfectly acceptable (which is why I added mine)

Anonymous

If a language is uninteresting/trivial, downvoting is fine

My Ham DJ

@CoolestVeto Link?

Anonymous

@MyHamDJ The comment permalink acts as a link to the answer

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

11:35 PM

^

CoolestVeto

wat

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Q: Graduation Meme Tally

Now that we're graduating, it's time to tally up the number of times someone suggested that PPCG was graduating, even before the annoucement! (see here) Your program will receive a list of chat messages. Each message has three pieces of data: the user (e.g. Geobits), the timestamp (e.g. Aug 19 '...

code-golf date

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

But. It doesn't count as a JS answer, and Japt/Jolf/ESMin would be shorter. — somebody 46 mins ago

I am happy that people have noticed jolf ^_^

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A: What programming languages have been created by PPCG users?

Glava I, GamrCorps, made Glava in January 2016. It is still a MAJOR work-in-progress, but it is still very useful. Click the link above to view the docs and download the interpreter (written in Java). Glava is a Java dialect focused on code golf. Many of the common keywords and phrases can be s...