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7:00 PM
@El'endiaStarman Yep. Multiple tasks are tugas-tugas, as another example
 
@MartinBüttner I promise I didn't steal ideas, just playing with my numpad :D
 
@flawr Huh. Over a year ago. So much for "not too long ago" ... :-/
 
@QPaysTaxes Oh, sorry I can't help you there; I don't know C++.
@TimmyD Yeah, I saw that. Jan 1, 2015. No wonder I didn't remember it. :P
@Sherlock9 Alright, cool. What's the name of the language, again?
 
Enter PhiNotPi
 
Exeunt All
 
7:04 PM
@PhiNotPi Who?
 
Sure, I only know it from reading Shaxberd, I don't really have any experience with real stage directions :P
 
@PhiNotPi Is your real name Phil Votpi but you just mashed the l and V together?
12
 
@HelkaHomba ¯\(°_o)/¯
 
Woo, got mobile working
Now I can waste more time here :D
 
@El'endiaStarman Bahasa Indonesia, which literally translates to the Indonesian language. Note: Indonesian teachers get annoyed when people say they are speaking "Bahasa", because, no, you are not speaking "Language"
@Xanderhall Excellent! Me too
Did you decide to post that answer?
 
7:14 PM
@Sherlock9 Ahh okay, I just called it "Indonesian", but I wasn't sure given the abundance of other languages in that area.
 
Not yet. Had to catch the bus. I'll post it when I get home.
 
It's a dialect of Malay, in one sense. But most languages here are named after the region. So Indonesian for Indonesia
 
Gotcha.
Okay, go to bed. :P
 
See also: Bahasa Jawa and Bahasa Sunda. That's just the languages on my island of Java. I think we've got more than 1000 languages. Is that more than the number of esoteric languages?
Alright, alright. I was getting distracted by the fun of chatting in here :D Goodnight again
 
@Sherlock9 Another question, is there any rule against posting multiple answers for seperate languages?
 
7:18 PM
@Xanderhall Nope. People do it fairly regularly.
 
I do that too
 
@El'endiaStarman alright, thanks :)
 
Don't worry about it
 
@LuisMendo Look at what this guy has on the stick:
 
> In order to achieve their goal, they had equipped a rocket with eight huge boosters (not shown here). The boosters would kick the rocket to around Mach 4 in less than a second, at which time the booster (green tube) would kick in. As the rocket assembly reached around Mach 9, the final stage (sitting atop the booster) would fire its engine and, already starting at a speed of Mach 9, would take off from there, to break the land speed limit of Mach 10.
> to around Mach 4 in less than a second
I can't wrap my mind around this. :P
<_<
+1 for creative misinterpretation. :P
 
7:38 PM
Dammit: oeis.org/…
 
@FryAmTheEggman thanks for the formula :P
 
@FryAmTheEggman wait isn't it 38 and 34?
 
@FryAmTheEggman This is probably one of the weirder OEIS sequences I've seen in a while.
 
@Maltysen Oh uh, I said dammit because it was wrong :P
 
7:43 PM
oh. back to compressing strings I guess
 
@Maltysen I think you can do a better search thing before doing that: pyth.herokuapp.com/…
 
@FryAmTheEggman I'm looking for a way to just repr it as an int
 
I dunno why but the compression is dropping the leading 1 :/
Oh, neat idea
 
@flawr Poor Boba, how he shakes :-DD
 
the xx for 5 is messing me up
 
7:46 PM
Oh hm, mine's busted on 5 isn't it... :/
Oh, no... it works...? I mean I'm the greatest and I never make mistakes... never...
 
I think I can get mine shorter though
 
@FryAmTheEggman 28 ;P
 
Gah :P
 
@QPaysTaxes ....what? Did you explain this earlier? Maybe I missed it.
 
7:57 PM
@Maltysen If you use my check thing with your compression bit it looks really short. Not well tested but seems like it works: pyth.herokuapp.com/…
 
@FryAmTheEggman nice! you want to post?
 
@QPaysTaxes Oh, lol.
 
Anonymous
My cat desperately wants lunchtime to be a team sport :/
 
Hrm actually it doesn't seem to work...
 
:/
which part?
 
7:59 PM
Gimme a sec, but I don't think it's that different from yours so if I get it to work you can just update :P
 
my compression screws up 50, btw
I needed an extra byte to handle that
 
Huh, your compression has the same problem as mine did, you seem to be missing the leading 1?
 
@FryAmTheEggman what leading 1?
 
With a +1 it works for two more bytes
Missing the first 1
 
oh
well my compression is just C
 
8:01 PM
Yeah idk what's up with that, it happened to me to using ."...
 
cringing at the golfing attempts of these people linustechtips.com/main/topic/26333-the-under-100-line-challenge
 
Huh, maybe I messed up? That one works fine... (I'm good at this...)
 
no i made a new one
also, you can save a byte with your checking code
change 2 to 5 and move it to the front, take out the quote
 
Oh, sure, makes sense
Did you mean 10 instead of 5?
 
8:04 PM
probably
 
I didn't actually try it, just did it in my head :D
 
Oh, hm, some of your string is still borked? :/ pyth.herokuapp.com/…
Oh, I think my code is checking stuff that's too different from yours, I guess I got confused... Well I think I get 27 unless I'm missing something about how to compress with C: pyth.herokuapp.com/…
 
@FryAmTheEggman and can you do the thing with removing the quotes?
 
It seems to be 20 for me so I think it's the same length
 
8:18 PM
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
@flawr :(
TIL about this:
TypeScript is a free and open source programming language developed and maintained by Microsoft. It is a strict superset of JavaScript, and adds optional static typing and class-based object-oriented programming to the language. Anders Hejlsberg, lead architect of C# and creator of Delphi and Turbo Pascal, has worked on the development of TypeScript. TypeScript may be used to develop JavaScript applications for client-side or server-side (Node.js) execution. TypeScript is designed for development of large applications and transcompiles to JavaScript. As TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, any...
 
@zyabin101 I made it just the other day to be able to share a blog with my gf (who is moving to a place 12 and 1/2 time zone hours away soon).
 
@quartata My initial reaction: so, JavaScript, but for those people who can't handle dynamic typing. :P
 
@QPaysTaxes hayyyyy
 
8:28 PM
@VTCAKAVSMoACE Now that's a long-distance relationship. :P
 
Anonymous
> so, JavaScript, but for those people who can't handle JavaScript's half-assed dynamic typing
 
@El'endiaStarman Yup. Just yup.
 
$ tsc t.js
error TS6054: File 't.js' has unsupported extension. The only supported extensions are '.ts', '.tsx', '.d.ts'.
already off to a good start
 
@QPaysTaxes alfalfaaaaaaa
 
$ echo "[] + {}" > type.ts
$ tsc type.ts
type.ts(1,1): error TS2365: Operator '+' cannot be applied to types 'undefined[]' and '{}'.
10/10
@QPaysTaxes I know, right?
 
You
8:32 PM
Hello.
 
I can't believe it myself.
 
You
@QPaysTaxes Yes. It's me. MUAHAHAHA!!!
:P :D
 
@quartata: I'm actually unsure if you're liking TypeScript so far or not. :P
 
Anonymous
Installing an SSD in my computer has been one of my best decisions so far
 
@Mego Out of curiosity, did you install one because of a certain ARPG?
 
8:35 PM
@You Holy crap (>.>) this scared the crap out of me because I thought you had my image.
 
@El'endiaStarman Oh I'm gonna hate it for sure because it's still JavaScript
But at least they did something right
 
You
@VTCAKAVSMoACE I thought you had my image too. :P
 
Anonymous
@FryAmTheEggman It definitely might have possibly been a reason for it. The main reason was that my gf's dad was getting rid of a lot of his old tech stuff because he just bought a bunch of new stuff, and he offloaded it on us. We got 2 SSDs, a Dell desktop-turned-home-server, and a speaker system.
 
@You 3spoopy5me
 
You
?
 
Anonymous
8:37 PM
Labyrinth runs have never been smoother :)
 
@Mego Nice :0 I've been to lazy to do it myself, but I know I really should because most of the reason I'm afraid to fight Malachai is that I think I'll die to massive fps drops :P
 
Anonymous
I die to Malachai because SRS Summoner is not a good build for fighting him :P
 
Anonymous
I haven't gotten to him on Merciless yet though; just unlocked eternal lab
 
SRS is one of those builds that I'm always thinking about making but never have. You like so far?
Nice, maps are a lot of fun, best endgame I've ever played in an ARPG :)
 
Anonymous
It's really fun to hold down a key and watch flaming skulls murderize everything
 
8:41 PM
@Mego That reminds me of Super Tails... :P
 
Anonymous
My build is actually somewhere between Zombie/Specter summoner and SRS summoner, due to 1) first build, 2) not asking for help, 3) SSF, and 4) not finding SRS until cruel
 
Anonymous
@El'endiaStarman Hyper Tails*
 
@Mego Hyper Tails doesn't exist. You can only get Super Tails with the seven super emeralds.
But both Sonic and Knuckles can go Hyper.
 
My first builds were a lot like that, kind of all over the place. Also back in the crazy days when like half the good gems were drop only >_<
 
Anonymous
8:43 PM
I always thought it was Super from the 7 regular and Hyper from the 7 super. And since Tails doesn't get any benefit from the 7 regular, he only has a Hyper mode, not a Super mode.
 
Nope. He's called Super Tails in the game.
 
Anonymous
Huh. TIL.
 
Anyway, those canaries that surround him are super useful. :P
 
Anonymous
But yeah, the Flickies killing everything is cool
 
Anonymous
Except when they kill stuff you wish they didn't and it glitches out
 
8:45 PM
hahaha, indeed
Oh, looking at the description of the video I linked, there's this:
> UPDATE 10/7/15: Apparently, my wonder above was already answered by this point. The Super Tails that you see in this game was originally going to be Hyper Tails, himself. This can be seen in some of the dumped ROMs of Sonic 3 where Tails had two transformations: Super Tails and Hyper Tails.

The Super Tails in those beta copies was simply the same as this final one you see in this video, except he didn't have any Super Flickies to accompany him. The Hyper Tails you'd be able to unlock in beta versions, however, brings those birds back.
 
Anonymous
So we were both right-ish
 
Yep, apparently so.
 
Anonymous
Man, good times with that game. I haven't played S3&K in like 10+ years
 
It's easy to get an emulator and ROM for it. I last played it last year or two years ago.
 
Anonymous
I have Sonic Mega Collection 2 on PS2. I might fire it up soon.
 
8:51 PM
Incidentally, there's a comic on this. :P
 
Got my ears sunburned during school :(
 
Anyone here know haskell?
 
1
Q: Are there More Hard Objects or Soft Objects

MaltysenTangentially inspired by the opening to the What-If book. The input is a rectangle of spaces, with objects made of #'s inside: ######## # # ######## ### #### ### #### ### The objects will always be non-intersecting rectan...

 
Anyone know why the following isn't working?
flatten 1 [x] = x
flatten n [x] = flatten (n-1) x
flatten n xs = map (flatten (n-1)) xs
 
When you're trying to figure out Dennis' code but then he golfs it... >_<
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9:05 PM
@Cyoce What does it do currently?
 
@QPaysTaxes No. n is how many levels to flatten.
 
@QPaysTaxes No, I mean what is the buggy behavior currently
 
@quartata It errors. Occurs check: cannot construct the infinite type: t0 = [t0]
 
i.e what's the problem
@Cyoce What's your type definition?
 
@quartata Currently, I don't have one stated, but I tried putting flatten :: Int -> [x] -> x and that didn't work
 
9:18 PM
The infinite type sounds pretty epic
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ It doesn't mean what you think it does :P
 
cat
it's a recursive type, right?
 
@quartata No, I'm pretty sure it's the key to the universe.
 
Inconceivable!
 
Means it is a self-referential type
so yeah
 
9:21 PM
@trichoplax I don't think you know what that word means.
 
I'm glad someone got it :)
 
:D
And you're not Texan.
 
cat
What's your point? Hmm?!
 
Your username is clearly "QPaysTexas".
 
@cat His horn.
 
cat
9:23 PM
Is there a point to your lives!?! -- Medic
 
@QPaysTaxes You seem to be contradicting yourself... ;)
 
cat
@QPaysTaxes LOL
@QPaysTaxes yes there is c:
 
@cat wait he says that?
 
@QPaysTaxes But you're contradicting this ;)
 
cat
it's to learn to spell Inconce etc. etc. [sic]
 
9:24 PM
:P
 
cat
ehh
 
eeeeeeeeeeeee programming
 
@QPaysTaxes Incidentally, that makes you at least 7/13 Sicilian...
 
@QPaysTaxes ಠ_ಠ
 
cat
9:25 PM
@QPaysTaxes o.o
 
@cat I'm setting that as my ringtone now
 
@QPaysTaxes Over half - you sell yourself 1/26 short
 
@QPaysTaxes ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
LENNY RESTORED
i]ttot/)xzai(hrzKctg.:p/mm/w[uA
 
cat
^
 
@QPaysTaxes Nope. it's the link to the wat picture but scrambled.
I can arbitrarily scramble text
 
9:27 PM
Welcome to PPCG, where a random string of letters may or may not be valid code in some oft-used language.
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ʖ ͡( ͜͡)°°
lenny shufled
°͜͡) ° ͡͡)͜͡)° °͡(͡ ʖ° ͡ ͡ʖ ͡ʖ(°(ʖ(͜°° ͜° (° ͜)ʖ)͡
@QPaysTaxes Too much work.
 
@El'endiaStarman Never mind the halting problem, we're struggling with the starting problem...
 
bahaha :P
 
hey @QPaysTaxes do you want to know your XOROR?
 
Still don't know why it isn't working :(
 
9:30 PM
why not? :3
21
Q: The XOROR sequence

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'BʀɪᴇɴCellular Automata are truly fascinating. The ones that are usually talked about are the binary ones, i.e., the ones representable by a number. However, those, in my opinion, have been done to death. Ternary CAs are more interesting, but we have all of ASCII to consider! What fun could that be! I...

QPaysTexas
qay{^gy}{2
qy{^gy  6i
y{^gy>y6
{^gy> wo6
_gy>g  >y6
 y>gyg> wo
y gy >y  8
y  >  gy88
yy>>>g >y
y> >gy  gy
Your welcome.
 
cat
@cat, Is PPCG definition shifting (or shifted) compared to two year ago? — Vi. 37 secs ago
 
> QPaysTexas
 
cat
In reply to:
 
@Maltysen I know.
 
cat
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because underhanded challenges are no longer on-topic on this site. meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/8326/20469cat 6 hours ago
 
9:31 PM
The second line looks like valid CJam
@cat, Is PPCG definition shifting (or shifted) compared to two year ago? I though the sole reason of PPCG is to offload funny trickery with the code away from StackOverflow. Underhanded contests or code trolling definitely feel like a funny trickery... — Vi. 1 min ago
Eere v P:tebnt
Chat mini challenge: given a string S and an integer N, generate a shuffled version of S that has a levenshtein distance <= N. The string must be shuffled, and cannot simply be outputted.
@QPaysTaxes Well, the challenge is done randomly.
which lang?
 
Seriously? We have a Cooking SE, and now we have a Coffee SE?
 
@Rainbolt wat
@QPaysTaxes nice!
 
I hope they don't survive and get absorbed by Cooking
 
@Rainbolt Coffee SE has been around forever
Well, not forever. But a while
 
cat
Then Beer SE should also be absorbed by Seasoned Advice
 
9:40 PM
Yea, you're right
 
About a year and a half I think
@cat Beer SE is totally dead lol
 
What is "Seasoned Advice"?
 
cat
@Rainbolt Cooking.SE
Like Ask Different == Apple.SE
 
Ah
 
cat
@quartata as dead as OpenSource.SE? Lemme go check...
 
9:41 PM
@cat 0 questions a day.
Open Source SE is actually not dead at all
 
It's not like having Java and C# both on Stack Overflow is causing an issue for anyone. Having cake-baking and beer on the same stack aught to be just fine.
 
Vi.
How did PPCG change during the last two years?
 
We matured, I guess.
 
Vi.
I feel the crestfall similar to old funny StackOverflow compared to contemporary boring.
 
cat
9:43 PM
Hey @Vi!
 
we did graduate :P
 
OpenSource.SE gets twice as many questions per day, but beer.SE gets 8 times the amount of visitors per day
 
@Vi. We're still funny. Don't worry.
 
@Vi. If this is about and , I find neither to be funny tbh
And I have a wonderful sense of humor.
 
What do you call a fish with no eyes?
 
9:44 PM
(or at least I think)
 
cat
@quartata not code trolling, just popcon and underhanded
 
Vi.
For underhanded there is entire IOCCC...
 
A fsh!
 
cat
ha ha ha
 
Vi.
[dup] Can you please review all my questions and give recommendataion: shall I continue to invent questions like them or they generally no loger fit here?
 
9:44 PM
@Vi. a what?
 
What's the best part about two satellites' wedding?
 
cat
@Vi. yes, and there's no way to objectively decide who has "won"
 
Vi.
International Obfuscated C contest.
 
@quartata It's in SPAAAAACE.
 
cat
@Vi. I'm looking into it :D
 
9:45 PM
@El'endiaStarman No the reception
 
Vi.
Why winner or non-winner is so important?
 
@Vi. Oh, I see
 
ba dum tish or something
 
cat
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ ioccc.org
 
@quartata Aw, I didn't remember that one. I've seen it before.
 
9:45 PM
oicccc
 
Naruto does the same thing
 
@Vi. your FUSE question needed more specs, but was close IMO. the genetic question would be a good fit for our meta. Break SE is still not allowed
 
Vi.
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Maybe for PPCG it is better to be ever young?
 
The writers probably do that intentionally because everyone who watched those anime as a kid has grown up some.
Oh, nvm then
 
9:47 PM
@QPaysTaxes I love One Piece! :D
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ what.
 
17 mins ago, by Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
21
Q: The XOROR sequence

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'BʀɪᴇɴCellular Automata are truly fascinating. The ones that are usually talked about are the binary ones, i.e., the ones representable by a number. However, those, in my opinion, have been done to death. Ternary CAs are more interesting, but we have all of ASCII to consider! What fun could that be! I...

Cyoce
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{  >k
{{> u
{>e u
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@QPaysTaxes hi fives
 
Vi.
@NathanMerrill The "Break SE" was mostly to supplement someones's Worldbuilding post.
@NathanMerrill What is lacking in the FUSE question.
Are there my non-closed and upvoted questinos, but anyway not fitting in anymore?
(Inside my mind PPCG is becoming a thing of past, with current PPCG being just a grave a top of it. Will Wolrdbuilding also stop being funny in a while?)
 
@Vi. Have you done any research at all into how many questions per day we have now, versus how many we had whenever it was that you left forever ago?
 
@Vi. I'm not nearly knowledgeable enough to answer that question, but I'd assume an "Implement a filesystem" is a good question.
 
Vi.
9:53 PM
No, I didn't do research. Last time I visited Area51's page on PPCG, the number of questions per day was low, but this may be OK for PPCG and Puzzling...
 
cat
@QPaysTaxes 32 : 126
 
inclusive
 
cat
127 is DEL, which you don't want (probably)
 
[Pretzel]$ irb
irb(main):001:0> Array [1, 2, 3] # convert array to array
=> [1, 2, 3]
irb(main):002:0> # ok that works
irb(main):003:0* Array 1..5 # convert range to array
=> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
irb(main):004:0> # ok that works
irb(main):005:0* Array "abcdef" # convert string to array
=> ["abcdef"]
irb(main):006:0> # shit
irb(main):007:0* # wait a minute... I've seen this behavior before...
irb(main):008:0* exit
[Pretzel]$ node
> Array("abcdef")
[ 'abcdef' ]
> // Ruby, I thought you were better than this! Resorting to JavaScript's behavior?
 
9:54 PM
@Vi. I think part of your problem was/is that you thought of PPCG as being funny. That hasn't been its intent for a while, maybe ever. It is intended to be fun, and having higher, more objective standards goes a long way towards making that a reality.
2
 
@QPaysTaxes Then Array [1,2,3] should return [[1,2,3]] not [1,2,3]
 
cat
cat @ mint-kitty : ~ $ python3
Python 3.5.0+ (default, Oct 11 2015, 09:05:38)
[GCC 5.2.1 20151010] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> list("abcdef")
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f']
>>>
^ @Cyoce
Is that what you wanted?
 
@cat See? Even Python gets this right!
 
cat
@Cyoce Whaddya mean even!? Python does a lot of stuff right, thank you :P
 
Vi.
@El'endiaStarman For me, the primary goal of PPCG is fun, the secondary goal is education (I've learned some things here). Proving whose Code-Fu is stronger (for which one needs strict winning criteria) is a weak goal...
 
9:56 PM
@QPaysTaxes Then Array "abc" should be ["a", "b", "c"] and Array 1 should do something other than wrap. this could (and most likely should) be an error.
 
cat
>>> list("أَبْجَدِيَّة العَرَبِيَّة")
['أ', 'َ', 'ب', 'ْ', 'ج', 'َ', 'د', 'ِ', 'ي', 'َ', 'ّ', 'ة', ' ', 'ا', 'ل', 'ع', 'َ', 'ر', 'َ', 'ب', 'ِ', 'ي', 'َ', 'ّ', 'ة']
 
Vi.
The FUSE question's stem is like this: Even simple FUSE programs are usually verbose, maybe that's because of this C library interface. How far can a program go (possibly without using the library whatsover) while still providing a minimally meaningful FUSE filesystem interface?
 
cat
@QPaysTaxes A binary string? Like ASCII?
 
Vi.
If the FUSE question went well, there may have been other questions about [ab]using "bulky" APIs in a concise way... Such questions are although inherently system-dependent and may require domain knowledge.
 
@Vi. I think the main goal of PPCG is solving problems. Well, actually, two problems at once: 1) the original problem and 2) the shortest way to solve it (for challenges). Furthermore, we as a community have been gradually placing more emphasis on competing within language classes, like Java vs C#, and less on winning overall. I've never won a challenge myself, but I've had fun developing and using Minkolang nonetheless.
 
9:58 PM
@Vi. I can't tell if you are complaining about the requirement for winning criteria or something else entirely. You're all over the place with your complaining.
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If you are interested in understanding whether PPCG is declining in popularity, I can introduce you to SEDE. If you are interested in understanding why things have changed in the past couple of years, I can help you understand how to use the search function on meta.
 
cat
@Vi. But it was underspecified, and the penalties were ridiculous. -200 bytes for using the only availble library, or implement a userland filesystem yourself, really?
@QPaysTaxes what's sample?
 

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