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12:26 AM
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

MegoCompute the RFC 2550 date RFC 2550 is a satirical proposal (published on April 1, 1999) for a space-efficient ASCII representation of timestamps that can support any date (even those prior to the beginning of the universe and those past the predicted end of the universe). The algorithm for compu...

 
Anonymous
I'm not gonna bother trying to wait for the bot
 
ARG! NINJA'D AGAIN.
 
@NewSandboxedPosts umm... ninja'd?
 
Tinypress gave me this writing prompt:
> You find out you're a DNA experiment combining as many recessive genes into one person as possible. That's why you've always felt so different from everyone else.
I'm a bit offended...
 
12:33 AM
That could explain the leafy antlers though.
 
Shush, leaves are the new black.
> A man takes a vacation to another dimension only to find that everything he was trying to get away from, he's brought with him.
Wow, those ideas are all a bit depressing.
 
Anonymous
@mınxomaτ The end result wouldn't be different at all. Miscarriages are fairly common.
 
> You're proofreading your masterpiece, when the dreaded box appears: 1 new answer has been posted. Dennis is awake.
 
that's pretty much three sentences, tbh
 
12:41 AM
> Dennis is awake.
Spooky.
 
Anonymous
> You are now in second place. Dennis has out-golfed you.
 
@RenderSettings It's several clauses at least. I count sentences by full stops >_>
 
yeah, all of those stories in the article are just prompts i've heard before turned into run-on sentences. smh.
 
Anonymous
For 3 sentences, you can steal from The Phenomenon:
 
Anonymous
> Do not look outside. Do not look at the sky. Do not make noise.
 
12:43 AM
> Don't blink.
 
> You're pretty sure you would have remembered buying a dog. And then you feel its scales.
 
(it was a pretty neat episode)
 
> The first post queue is not empty. It's a .
 
Anonymous
@Geobits That's the day I don't touch the queue :P
 
> The post wants you to parse an expression with matching parenthesis. You're using Retina.
 
12:45 AM
I got the most votes in popcon. (I don't count the infinite BF loop >.>)
 
Anonymous
> I have this HTML file. Can you write a regex to parse it?
 
Here's a one-sentence one that hits me harder than most:
> Serial downvoting reversed
 
Anonymous
Lol
 
Anonymous
But sometimes a user's posts are all crap and need to be downvoted!
 
I know right?
 
Anonymous
12:49 AM
Like that Alex guy
 
Anonymous
His posts are worse than crap - they're wrong
 
Man, the bird-on-bird tension in here is palpable.
 
lol
> 40 freaking creepy ass-two sentence stories
> Day 312. Internet still not working.
:O
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ how did he post this then
 
> It's better than starving, but not by much. I just wish the blender didn't make so much noise when the blades hit bone.
 
Anonymous
@Upgoat Wrote a letter that was delivered by carrier penguin to someone who had internet access, obviously
 
@Mego were you the carrier penguin?
 
Anonymous
@Upgoat Nope, I'm a top-secret spy programmer penguin
 
You aren't a liberal alien from another planet like alex?
> bird-target impact
10/10 would shoot again
 
1:17 AM
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ D:
 
...with a camera!
 
Bird-target impact is serious stuff. You should see the kind of hole a goose makes in a plane.
 
Not joking.
 
So that's why I keeping seeing magpie-shaped holes in planes. @AlexA. must have like alien bird-invulnerability powers or something.
This title:
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Q: Need Help. Plugin Minecraft. Java Language

Ethan MillsI've set a location for two kitpvp players and i want to spawn them to their previous positions before they spawned to Kitpvp arena. Any Ideas?

 
1:22 AM
Hard to believe that's being downvoted.
 
Seems clear to me. Well-written and completely on topic, too.
 
Anonymous
The sarcasm is palpable here
 
Oh, I haven't even started drinking yet.
 
Anonymous
1:25 AM
Neither have I
 
On a completely unrelated note, I just dropped Minibits off for the summer.
 
Anonymous
That's going to start when I start working on implementing RFC 2550
 
@Geobits at?
@Mego how do you implement that?
TIL Coffee
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ With his mom.
 
okay
@Mego lol same with my cat.
 
Anonymous
1:30 AM
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ With alcohol, obviously
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I skimmed the spec. Alcohol would definitely raise the chances of it being implemented correctly.
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ It'll be the most productive beta ever.
 
1:42 AM
@mınxomaτ in what way?
 
Well there's also the complement:
 
@ZachGates I know for a fact ^ is not true. >_>
@Mego do you implement everything with alcohol?
 
2:04 AM
Interesting black-and-white simulation (from Quest for Tetris): goo.gl/17IJfj
 
checks for rickroll
 
you've probably already seen it
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ It's step one:
 
Anonymous
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Everything except alcohol. That would be unbounded recursion.
 
Anonymous
Unfortunately, before I can have alcohol and get to coding, I have to do my penance (dishes).
 
2:14 AM
Good things come to those who wash.
 
Anonymous
Then my cat must be extremely blessed, for how many baths she takes daily
 
Cats do that to be blessed in the next life. Because obviously they were cursed in this one, or they wouldn't be cats.
 
Anonymous
Since cats have 9 lives, clearly they have to bathe a lot in order for their blessings to roll over enough to life #10 (which is the first non-cat life). Based on empirical evidence, this is accurate.
 
The math checks out.
 
So... I'm a walrus because I was bad at being a cat? huh, TIL.
 
Anonymous
2:18 AM
Anyway, dishes time
 
Anonymous
Then I get to figure out how to correctly and efficiently calculate the base-26 prefix for large years in RFC 2550 timestamps
 

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Discussion about the J language (jsoftware.com) (code.jsoftwar...
 
Anonymous
2:36 AM
Dishes are running and I have a drink
 
Anonymous
All is well
 
Anonymous
Well, except that my drink was too weak
 
Anonymous
A little extra Jameson fixed that, though
 
oh no
now you can't get drunk so fast
 
Anonymous
2:38 AM
It's not about getting drunk; it's the flavor balance
 
Anonymous
It's very very difficult for me to get drunk
 
Anonymous
I need about 3 Long Islands to get close
 
you had too much so now you are mostly immune?
 
Anonymous
Not like iocaine powder, either :P I've always had a high tolerance for alcohol
 
so what happens if you drink 4 beers?
normal glass bottle size
 
Anonymous
2:45 AM
I am mad that I had to drink beer
 
Anonymous
I dislike beer
 
Anonymous
I don't like the taste
 
Anonymous
Lagers are the closest to palatable I've found
 
Anonymous
But even then I'm not a huge fan
 
2:46 AM
okay
 
Anonymous
Cider, wine, and liquor for me
 
okay
@Mego relavent.
 
Anonymous
Jack is alright, but I much prefer Maker's Mark or Jameson for whiskey
 
did you see the glass?
 
Anonymous
Yes, I did :P
 
2:54 AM
:P
does it have to be real and/or rational?
 
Integer. And I just proved that every number can be, so I removed it
 
okay
I can give a informal one?
but yeah
 
Anonymous
For the math people here: is there an easy, efficient way to compute the nth string comprised of uppercase English letters (A-Z) in lexical sort order?
 
@Mego Add 1, then bijective base 26
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ informal one?
 
Anonymous
E.g. 0 => A, 1 => B, ..., 25 => Z, 26 => AA, 27 => AB, ...
 
2:58 AM
the base-converting algorithm in jelly.py:
def to_base(integer, base, bijective = False):
	if integer == 0:
		return [0] * (not bijective)
	if bijective:
		base = abs(base)
	if base == 0:
		return [integer]
	if base == -1:
		digits = [1, 0] * abs(integer)
		return digits[:-1] if integer > 0 else digits
	sign = -1 if integer < 0 and base > 0 else 1
	integer *= sign
	if base == 1:
		return [sign] * integer
	digits = []
	while integer:
		integer -= bijective
		integer, digit = divmod(integer, base)
		digit += bijective
		if digit < 0:
			integer += 1
 
Nth triangular number = 1+2+3...+n, n-1th = 1+2+3...+(n-1) = Nth - N
nth - (n-1)th = n
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Yes, that's the proof I found
 
and (n-1)th - nth = -n
@LeakyNun okay
 
def to_b_base_26(integer):
	if integer == 0:
		return []
	sign = -1 if integer < 0 else 1
	integer *= sign
	digits = []
	while integer:
		integer -= 26
		integer, digit = divmod(integer, 26)
		digit += 26
		if digit < 0:
			integer += 1
			digit -= 26
		digits.append(sign * digit)
	return digits[::-1]
Substituted 26 to the algorithm
@Mego
 
Anonymous
@LeakyNun Thanks, that's similar to what I had
 
3:00 AM
Anytime
 
Anonymous
Actually that's not working
 
Anonymous
 
@Mego Sorry, s/integer -= 26/integer -= 1
s/digit += 26/digit += 1/
 
3:21 AM
Surprisingly readable path tracer in 99 lines of C++
 
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Q: My "keybore" is key-boring me! Help me find a minimal keystrokes

Leaky NunCredits to @Agawa001 for coming up with this question. Proof of ownership transfer. Explanation My new "keybore" only has 2 buttons, namely + and -. The number in the memory starts at 0. Each consecutive press of + or - will increment/decrement the memory for exactly how many times it has be...

 
@trichoplax Wow, that's incredible.
 
^
 
I couldn't work out whether to post it in here or Computer Graphics...
I love that it's all spheres - even the apparently flat walls are just huge spheres
 
Yeah, I thought that was pretty clever since it reduces the amount of code needed.
 
3:31 AM
^^^^
@trichoplax both!
 
Anonymous
I've finished the spec for my sandboxed post. Comments?
 
Anonymous
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

MegoCompute the RFC 2550 date RFC 2550 is a satirical proposal (published on April 1, 1999) for a space-efficient ASCII representation of timestamps that can support any date (even those prior to the beginning of the universe and those past the predicted end of the universe). The algorithm for compu...

 
@Upgoat nice grammars.
Did that fix cheddar's array parsing?
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ thanks
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ no ._.
 
._.
Ꝙ_ Ꝙ
TIL I can :P with style: ꟼ:
 
3:41 AM
@El'endiaStarman I think you could also make a square light source using just spheres too
I'm not 100% sure though...
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Q_Q crying canes?
 
crying spears of FIREEEEE
 
@Mego What's the point of having the month and day and hour and stuff?
 
char letter = '2';
How do I make this be 5?
 
in C? add 3 to it
 
3:48 AM
letter = letter + 3? (yes, in C)
 
or letter += 3
 
thanks
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ o_o
\o/ swap works!
 
@JesterTran Looks like it doesn't work
 
@LeakyNun was just about to edit that sandbox title to be a link to the challenge on main but you deleted it a moment too soon...
I was about to press save on the edit and it vanished in front of me :)
 
3:53 AM
@trichoplax Oh, sorry
 
No problem it didn't take a lot of work...
It's handy to make it a link so anyone following the sandbox post has a shortcut - I don't see it as essential though
Mostly letting you know because it made me laugh that the timing was so perfect
 
Anonymous
@LeakyNun Increased precision. RFC 2550 isn't just about representing any year efficiently in ASCII - it's about representing any single point in time, with as much precision as desired, efficiently in ASCII
 
@JesterTran It works ideone.com/YcSTb2
@trichoplax Actually, I deleted it before posting it :p
 
Damn. I ran out of episodes in a series that isn't good enough to follow weekly. Now what?
 
@LeakyNun Oh. In that case it was Stack Exchange that timed the announcement to me perfectly...
 
3:56 AM
@Geobits Homocide Hunter
 
@Geobits You seem to have answered your own question...
 
@AlexA. Not tonight at least. Maybe something a bit lighter.
 
@trichoplax Oh... I did not delete it.
 
@trichoplax I was hoping for more of an answer than "don't watch it any more" :P
 
Either a mod deleted it or agawa deleted it.
I can't delete it.
 
3:57 AM
I deleted it.
 
@Drunkbits Closed as unclear what you're asking :P
 
Wait a sec, "Drunkbits"?
 
@NathanMerrill Closed as unclear
 
>_>
 
<_<
 
I'm really confused by seeing the name Upgoat next to a downgoat icon.
 
@Upgoat @Drunkbits is this the replacement you were looking for?
 
@LeakyNun thanks, do you know how to check if a char variable is equal to 5? e.g. variable == '5'?
 
@JesterTran I believe so?
 
@Drunkbits my icon is upgoat, you must be drunk
 
3:59 AM
ok
 
@trichoplax Nope. No interest in expression parsers right now.
 
I forgot the basics of C lol
 

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