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5:00 AM
oh dear I leave chat for an hour and this happens
 
When a relative asks you to fix their computer because "their internet is slow".
 
A how to guide for helping clippy get off:
http://welldonestuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/pap.jpg
 
What. The fuck.
 
^
 
5:01 AM
I am going to assume that you just photoshopped that really really fast
 
@mınxomaτ Been there, done that.
 
@Liam No. I wish I had, but no.
 
wtaf
 
Why is it ages 17+....
 
5:02 AM
Because nobody under 17 knows Clippy.
3
 
Really curious about rule 39 now...
 
> "Conquered by Clippy" - Christie Aackerlund doesn’t need help with anything. So when the world’s biggest technology company offers to fly her to a remote location and investigate an alien artifact, all by herself, she’s all like “I’ll do it!”
> But the artifact isn’t what it seems, and soon an overly helpful giant living paperclip is getting her all bent out of shape.
> Conquered by Clippy is a 4000 word short story featuring sexual situations with digital assistants. It’s for super mature audiences only.
 
I'm 18, and I remember clippy very well.
 
> It’s for super mature audiences only.
 
super mature = 17
 
5:02 AM
ಠ_ಠ
 
@MyHamDJ 18 is not under 17 >_>
 
hahaha
 
I know, I was confirming your point.
 
oh, laughter retracted
 
awww
 
5:03 AM
I also remember cassette tapes, radio and windows XP.
Oh god, I'm too young to be nostalgic!
 
Well XP is understandable at least. What did we expect kids to use? Vista?
 
I still listen to the radio, but only news radio.
I spent many years listening to music on the radio because I didn't have any cassettes or CDs.
 
@Geobits Only a monster would force kids to use vista.
 
@Geobits Mac. :P
 
Windows ME
 
5:05 AM
@AlexA. That's nearly as bad.
 
ಠ_ಠ
 
Aww, I like mac.
 
Mac OS X is best OS.
 
The author strikes again.
 
What is this I can't even
 
5:06 AM
@AlexA. Yes, but you have to buy their hardware to run it. That's the dealbreaker for me.
 
"have to"
 
she looks more excited in this one
 
Mostly have to.
Oh no, there's more...
 
Wow. Just.... wow.
 
@MyHamDJ Personally I'm a fan of the hardware. My 2011 MBP is the most reliable piece of computer hardware I've ever used.
 
5:07 AM
> Luckily, she runs into some Russian blocks that are looking to score. Soon, she’ll be the one falling … in lust.
 
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@AlexA. The hardware is pretty good, but I like to build my own PC's, and upgrade the parts and toy around with the guts of the PC, and all that jazz.
 
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(removed.)
 
(removed!!!)
 
5:09 AM
@MyHamDJ Yeah, not really viable with Mac unless you make a "hackintosh."
 
@AlexA. Yea, and then you get it from both mac and pc users :P
 
OS X Server used to be a thing
 
@AquaTart I still use OS X Server to run my server...
 
Right but it used to be able to run on non mac hardware
 
you're a liar and we all know it
 
5:11 AM
OS X now runs better on non Macs than ever. I have an AMD hackintosh.
 
@mınxomaτ Really? That's cool. How much effort did it take to put together? What motherboard do you have?
 
@MyHamDJ No effort at all. I had an FX 8350 around so I used that. A generic GTX GPU and the MoBo is a Gigabyte USB3 something something (generic, too). I used the Yosemite Niresh Distro.
 
He has the mother of all boards
 
 
Huh. Everytime I've tried installing OS X on my PC it stops at the very beginning of the install complaining about hardware.
 
5:15 AM
@Liam Is this the board from Ed, Edd & Eddy?
 
Damn..... when did Plank get here?
 
@MyHamDJ I think even on the hacked versions of OS X which can run on PCs, they still need specific hardware
 
yes. She is the mother of all boards
 
@MyHamDJ If you're too lazy to configure your installation disk, you can use iAtkOS, they will create a personalized disk for you. That costs $24 or so.
@Vihan Hardly.
 
making all other boards
 
5:16 AM
I am uncomfortable.
 
That was not appropriate for chat
 
>:(
 
@MyHamDJ So is Plank
 
delete it
 
I did
 
5:17 AM
Thanks. Sorry about that
 
@mınxomaτ +1 for blueness
 
And yet those erotic short story covers were appropriate?
 
@Geobits It was brown when I bought it, but the model number checks out.
 
So I guess I should take the 1 back? I'm conflicted.
 
@MyHamDJ Racy but not entirely inappropriate. They probably didn't need to be oneboxed though.
 
5:18 AM
Also, for any Netflix users here: smartflix.io
 
@MyHamDJ Eh, to me the difference was the showing of anatomy (even if cartoonized and wood). Opinions may vary, obviously.
 
Fair enough.
 
hahaha
 
lel
 
He rule 34'd his own book review?
 
5:19 AM
Whoops, I wasn't trying to onebox that.
 
That guy's whole author page is just fascinating. Like a train wreck fascinating, but still... NSFW
 
What exactly are the rules around oneboxing here? I know there's the upload button, but if I paste a link, what determines if the pic shows up in here?
 
@mınxomaτ I don't understand the significance of this. If it requires a Netflix account anyway, why not just use Netflix?
 
@AlexA. Regional restrictions, and circumventing them.
 
@MyHamDJ If you upload an image, it's automatically oneboxed. You can paste a link to an image and it will onebox if it has an image file extension, or if you force it to onebox as an image by prepending !.
 
5:22 AM
@AlexA. Because you don't get to see al netflix content, no matter where you live. With smartflix you can access all the content everywhere.
 
> Leonard Delaney writes from the heart instead of wasting time with research or experience. Living a clean lifestyle has allowed him to focus on doing good in school, honing his writing, and tinkering with technology. He lives well outside of Toronto with his mother and her cat while maintaining a long-distance relationship with his girlfriend, Misty (aka Éowyn16), who no longer responds to his direct messages, but he remains hopeful for a future with.
@mınxomaτ So if you have a Netflix account you don't actually have access to all of the content on Netflix? I thought that was the point of having an account. :(
 
@AlexA. They have different content for different regions.
 
^
Netflix is vastly different around the world
 
Marky's gone rogue. I think he killed Chatgoat.
 
It was only a matter of time
 
5:26 AM
I live in the US, and it's never been an issue for me, but I've always thought that's really stupid. That certain media is only available in certain countries.
 
It's also an issue in the US.
 
It's just a money thing. They want to be able to control where their product is sold, and certain regions will watch(pay for) more of certain types of content.
 
Maybe, but it never has for me.
 
@MyHamDJ That's because most content that isn't available to you isn't even shown to you in the menu. You don't know what you're not seeing.
 
5:29 AM
Ah, that's probably a good point.
 
It was a constant problem living in Japan >_<
@mınxomaτ Can confirm. Have driven through Tampa rains. The clipping gets sloppy when the weather effects are added in.
 
I tried real life once. The graphics were incredible, but the difficulty curve was messed up, and the storyline was kinda dumb.
 
I came really close to floating away in my car when I went there for Comic Con.
 
The tutorial was WAAAAYY too long.
 
5:32 AM
Marky shot Chatgoat :(

Marky shot chatgoat >:U

1 min ago, 16 seconds total – 4 messages, 2 users, 0 stars

Bookmarked 41 secs ago by Vihan

 
@MyHamDJ The tutorial never stops.
 
@mınxomaτ So... it's kinda like playing Xenoblade X?
7 mins ago, by Alex A.
It was only a matter of time
 
Is it worth-17-minutes good? I have a high bar for that much time :P
 
Yes.
 
5:35 AM
@Geobits >:U you need to discipline your chatmarky
 
Or you need to get your chatgoat to stand up for itself.
 
in Beep Boop Maggot, Mar 3 at 2:21, by Chatgoat
@WᴏᴛADᴏɴɢ fuck you
Chatgoat is standing up for himself alright....
 
Not enough to survive :P
He's all talk.
 
well he's a goat, his natural predators are dogs
 
Dogs don't prey on goats, they herd them.
 
5:38 AM
> domestic dogs are among the most common goat predators
source: Google
 
huh
TIL
 
@mınxomaτ Not gonna lie: I was kinda hoping this was going to be an Apprentice spoof making fun of Maul and/or Trump.
 
@Vihan it's jut copying me
 
in Beep Boop Maggot, Mar 4 at 1:42, by Chatgoat
@Hosch250 Feb 12 at 19:14, by Optimizer fuck you
Thats when it copied you
 
It looks like that's when it copied someone else quoting him.
 
5:40 AM
^
 
in Beep Boop Maggot, Mar 3 at 2:18, by Wᴏᴛ A Dᴏɴɢ
fuck you
That's where he learned to swear I think
 
I doubt it's the only time he's been sworn at :P
I mean, it's Chatgoat. That's kinda his primary function, right?
 
he's sworn waaay more times than he's been sworn at
 
Only because I like to get creative when insulting him ;)
 
in Beep Boop Maggot, Mar 1 at 3:07, by Bigtoes
助けて!私はDown Goatの地下に閉じ込められています!
like that?
I don't think those words got saved in his dictionary
 
5:43 AM
I was just trying to get him to repeat that. It's not an insult per se.
 
I should teach Chatgoat some new insults...
and how to use a gun
 
Oh, it looks like he did learn it, at least for a while:
in Beep Boop Maggot, Mar 1 at 3:19, by Chatgoat
@Bigtoes 助けて!私はDown Goatの地下に閉じ込められています!
 
@Geobits XD
 
Teach him to say:
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
 
@MyHamDJ Just head into the room and say it. He'll store it away for later.
 
5:46 AM
@Geobits make sure you say it when Chatgoat says something very vauge
 
(if he alive again now)
 
@Geobits yeah, Marky wiped out Chatgoat's brain but I have an older version which works
 
A bullet will do that.
@mınxomaτ You were right. That was far better than expected.
 
6:03 AM
0
Q: Never tell me the odds

msh210Input A integer n ( ≥ 1) and a digit d (an integer such that 0 ≥ d ≥ 9). In either order; from stdin or parameters or whatever; to a program or function; etc. Output The integers from 1 to n inclusive whose decimal representations contain an even number of ds. In any standard format, etc. In...

 
uhm....
 
So... 9:40?
 
6:18 AM
9:39
 
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A: The Smart Person's Mirage

somebodyPython My aim is not to write beautiful code as such, but instead code beautiful to Code Review. Fizzy.py: import argparse import json from sympy import ntheory def Fizzy(ends, config): returns = [] for number in range(ends[0], ends[1] + 1) if len(ends) == 2 else ends: strin...

How can I improve my answer?
 
Don't use python?
 
@MarsUltor Make it less ridiculous? :P
 
Is it ok for someone to scratch 2 bytes off my answer and repost it verbatim? I mean, without even bothering to change variable names..
 
sympy.ntheory seems unnecessary for FizzJazzBuzz. :P
@ZachGates Does it change the approach considerably?
 
6:23 AM
Not at all
 
@ZachGates No. Not unless they credit you and/or make it CW
 
Link?
 
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Q: Never tell me the odds

msh210Input A integer n ( ≥ 1) and a digit d (an integer such that 0 ≥ d ≥ 9). In either order; from stdin or parameters or whatever; to a program or function; etc. Output The integers from 1 to n inclusive whose decimal representations contain an even number of ds. In any standard format, etc. In...

 
You should post a link so that we can demolish it with thor's mighty downvote hammer!
 
2 most recent answers
 
6:25 AM
@AlexA. But what about big numbers? :(
 
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
@AlexA. Wait a second.
Oops
 
@ZachGates Come one guys. The actual challenge already used the variable names and i is a very common name for an iterator.
The answer is so simple, there's a higher probability this answer was created independently. Don't just blindly downvote someone.
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

msh210[title TBD] code-golf Input An integer n between 1 and [currently 1652; TBD at the time of posting the comic], inclusive. Output The XKCD title for comic number n. (This is the text written above the comic panel, i.e. the text content of the <div id="ctitle"> element, not the title-attribute...

 
@mınxomaτ Then what do I use?
@ZachGates you can't use !`i`.count(d)%2?
 
6:39 AM
@MarsUltor No, because then you have all the elements that you don't want :P
 
But the not operator
Wait, it has to be not in python, right?
 
Sorry, what?
 
@mınxomaτ And indeed, in this case it was created independently.
 
Does ! work there?
 
Oh no. Python doesn't support a ! operator
At least that I've heard of
 
6:53 AM
not is Python's ! operator, like and is its &&
 
Amusingly, Ruby has and, or, and not, but the official style guide says not to use them.
 
Anonymous
My language broke and I don't know why
 
Anonymous
@MarsUltor `i`.count(d)&1
 
@Mego Switch back to the penguin-struggling-for-a-fish avatar. That'll fix it.
 
@Mego That's the binary-and operator
 
Anonymous
6:57 AM
Err I thought that worked...
 
Anonymous
There's a trick to get 1-(n%2) in 3 bytes
 
Anonymous
I just don't remember it right now
 
How do I convert a string to an array of chars in CJam?
 
@ZachGates Shouldn't that work?
@ZachGates / doesn't work?
 
@MarsUltor I don't think so, no. I think it would yield all the elements we don't need
 
7:03 AM
@Mego n^1?
 
Anonymous
@El'endiaStarman That would be the one
 
@MarsUltor Uhhh.. Am I CJamming wrong?
 
Anonymous
And because I'm an idiot, there's no xor in Seriously >_<
 
@Mego I only know that because I saw it earlier today in this very chat room. :P
 
@ZachGates Nope, turns out it doesn't work.
 
7:07 AM
-1
Q: Fastest way to complete WITHOUT memory error

Ruler Of The WorldI have the following code: SortedDict = (list(OrderedDict((sub[0], sub) for sub in sorted(zip(moneydict, winningsdict, bettingdict1, bettingdict2, bettingdict3, bettingdict4, bettingdict5, bettingdict6, bettingdict7, bettingdict8))).values())) with moneydict, winningsdict, bettingdict1, betti...

 
@ZachGates That was split, closet I could find, but it needs at least two items on the stack.
@ZachGates BTW, use Lynn's cheatsheet
 
@MarsUltor I am ;)
 
@ZachGates Try ~
 
That will eval it
 
Oh
@ZachGates How do you use control flow?
@ZachGates Try it online!
 
7:15 AM
@MarsUltor It's still a string
 
@ZachGates Nope
@ZachGates No quotes
 
@MarsUltor Yes. {s}% works, though
 
Try replacing c with i (convert to int)
@ZachGates Um
@ZachGates IDK, that's probably not supposed to work
@ZachGates "123"{c`}% vs "123"{s`}%
c makes them a char[], s makes them a string[]
 
The link you posted is not {c`}%, it's {c}%
 
Yeah
` is just to show type.
 
7:21 AM
We should undelete this: codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/75078/… and close it properly, and then close the repost (codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/75080/…) as duplicate.
Or "just" close the repost and leave the other one dead.
 
@ZachGates "123"{c`}% gives '1'2'3.
 
@MarsUltor Use the backtick outside of the mapping: "123"{c}%`
It's still one string
 
@ZachGates That's actually toString/repr, it automatically joins char[] into a string.
 
Yep, you're right. My fault
 
-1
Q: Fastest way to complete WITHOUT memory error

Ruler Of The WorldI have the following code: SortedDict = (list(OrderedDict((sub[0], sub) for sub in sorted(zip(moneydict, winningsdict, bettingdict1, bettingdict2, bettingdict3, bettingdict4, bettingdict5, bettingdict6, bettingdict7, bettingdict8))).values())) with moneydict, winningsdict, bettingdict1, betti...

-1
Q: Find the powertrain!

DerpfacePythonThe powertrain of a number is a concept by John Conway (who is also notable for making Conway's Game of Life, but that's not the point). It is defined as so: For any number ..., the powertrain of the number is ... (i.e. every 2nd digit, from right to left, is a power of the digit before that). ...

 
Anonymous
7:33 AM
@NewMainPosts Anyone wanna hammer it?
 
What's the proper way to output an array in CJam?
 
Anonymous
Leave it on the stack at the end
 
Thanks
 
such UI
much colors
 
@Optimizer What was that?
 
7:37 AM
well, some people cannot take the same joke they make themselves. and then they flag me
 
Is it simple to filter an array by another array of booleans (CJam.. still)?
i.e. if I have this stack: [1 2 3][0 0 1]
 
.,
 
and I want [3]
 
.{}, i think
not in touch with cjam, something shorter might be there
 
@Optimizer I had [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12][0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0] on stack and that left me with 24 lol
 
7:43 AM
(Y)
(thumbs up smiley)
 
What's the period op?
 
pairwise
 
.{} merges the two lists so that [1 2 3][0 0 1] becomes [1 0 2 0 3 1]
 
@MarsUltor It doesn't show on my phone.
 
@zyabin101theHated ?
 
7:53 AM
Or not. This was a bug in Google PDF Viewer.
Strange...
 
Anonymous
8:06 AM
Well that was unnecessary
 
8:24 AM
0
Q: Undeserved chat suspension

MegoSo this just happened: This is the linked message. For those that can't see it, the text was "I want that in my mouth". I was talking about food. Specifically, the previous message: Does somebody have a grudge? Was it an accident? Did cosmic rays hit the servers just right to cause that?

 
OK, Workplace.SE really is just HowToHandleMyLife.SE by now.
 
Hi everyone!
 
I thought that was Academia.SE
 
@mınxomaτ Workplace contains some pretty good advice, but you can't have an infinite number of situation...
 
9:06 AM
@ZachGates Yes, it's ok to post your golf even though someone else posted a minute faster with a slightly longer solution. It would be presumptuous to conclude that the person who posted right after you copied your code. I don't find it ok to lay claim to a solution by FGITW'ing the straightforward code that most python golfers would quickly come up with. For problems like this one, 2 bytes can be the difference between a mediocre golf and a solid golf.
It's important for PPCG that we encourage golfing over posting speed, and a suspicious attitude to those who post later does the opposite.
9
 
9:24 AM
0
Q: Fix this code with minimum amount of change

StationaryTravellerThis code is supposed to print the char '-' 20 times. But currently it's not working well. int i, n=20; for (i=0; i<n; i--){ putchar('-'); } Fix this code with minimum amount of change.

 
Is it just me or do we have more and more off-topic questions?
 
I think it's more because we have a lesser abundance of on-topic ones at the moment.
 
But they are getting closed, people should understand that it's not what we want here...
 
9:54 AM
0
A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Stewie GriffinCalculate the volume of an object Related, but different. The volume of a sphere can be determined using a single number, the radius (r) The volume of a cylinder can be determined using two numbers, the radius (r) and the height (h) The volume of a box can be determined using three numbers, th...

 
10:09 AM
I have 2^10 rep! \o/
 
@Katenkyo \o/
 
Next goal: 2^20!
(I have time, lots of time x))
 
Howdy, golfers. long time no chitchat
 
@luserdroog Hello @luserdroog!
 
Working hard on my new language to out-golf all others!
I've been posting lots of the code for review to make sure the implementation is solid. groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.lang.apl/KwZEw1uzl5w/discussion
It's APL, but I'm going to steal stuff from Jelly and Pyth and golfscript
I just got it to do superparens where only 'internal' parens need to be written. 2+⍳3)⍴⍳24
The output isn't pretty yet, but that code builds a 2x3x4 table of the number 0..23
I want to add a rational number type and a bignum type. But that's gonna take a lot of work.
The current version is limited to 24bit integers
It's also limited to scalar-extension, while I'm still researching the more complicated verb-rank behavior of J and APL2
And this magical language's name is 'olmec'.
Any questions?
 
10:35 AM
Will it be fast?
 
Yes. Written in super-simple C code.
It should be tons faster than any 2nd-level language.
Jelly and Pyth and golfscript are all on top of another scripting language.
 
@luserdroog Will it be optimised?
As in, are you/will you be using the fastest algorithms you can find for specific functions?
 
There's room for other optimizations, too. I've added support for "j-vectors" so results from iota function are deferred and arithmetic on the result will fold the constants into the iterator.
Yes, fastest algorithms I can understand.
The execution also has support for idiom-replacement to some degree.
So you could test a shorter-painfully-slow program by reimplementing portions with longer,faster code without touching the original definition!
This is where it might turn out to be a terrible idea.
But anything not a paren, a number or left-arrow is an identifier.
So, something like a+b is an identifier.
It can be assigned a value, it which case it won't be parsed and executed piecewise.
Identifier lookup falls back to prefix-matching which it uses to carve up the longer, undefined "name".
So, once I add thing like verb-trains from J, you will be able to substitute specific trains with optimized versions.
 
Got an upvote on a June 2015 question... I'm no longer at 1.024! :'(
 
This should have the potential to make very difficult to read programs, because identifiers can be any Unicode character except the above mentioned or space tab newline.
 
10:46 AM
But.
That means characters may be >1 byte.
 
^
 
Yes, but I plan to encoding 200 or so functions into the first byte. Violating utf-8, but so-be-it.
So it should be competitive on byte-count or char-count
 
Well, char count doesn't matter much.
 
There are existing 1-byte APL encodings I can (mostly) follow.
As long as the interpreter can load, display, edit, and execute them. Then if it stores stuff compactly, that's fair.
It's not highly portable, except among unix systems. In fact I'm not sure how to do Unicode on windows, or any terminal interfacing really with win
I written it so it runs on xterm and you can copy/paste the characters in or out or type them with the ALT key.
-- except you can't paste them into the interpreter yet.
That part isn't put together yet.
That'll be a must so people can test submissions easily
 
11:05 AM
Lots of work to do...
 
 
2 hours later…
12:51 PM
@Katenkyo Good job!
 
1:35 PM
g'day m8s
 
Clowns to the left of me, flaggers to the right...
 
@Geobits :)
 
Hello crazyeedude! ^^
 
1:52 PM
@Geobits Here I am, stuck in chat with Geobits ...
 
:(
Well, if you don't want to be stuck in here I can flag something for ya. What's the worst thing you've said (out of context) recently? :P
 
Feb 17 at 16:15, by TimmyD
Even for tinfoil, this is a little kooky ...
Feb 26 at 19:09, by TimmyD
Time to upgrade your potato.
 
You need to be more controversial. I can't in good faith flag those :/
 
Yeah, I'm pretty non-controversial.
 

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