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7:00 PM
@MartinEnder Forgive me if this comes across as rude. Instead assume ignorance on my part. Is there a reason you changed your name as a result of your marriage?
 
I just assumed he was a big Orson Scott Card fan >_>
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@Poke Mainly because I liked my wife's name more than mine.
 
fair enough
 
@MartinEnder May I ask you too for your opinion on the starred message about OEIS oneboxing?
 
Hey everyone, I have an idea for a challenge but I'm not sure how to best put it together, ie what challenge type it should be. A rough description would be dynamic 'fractal' generation, i use quotes because its not quite a fractal. Anyone have time to discuss?
 
7:03 PM
@flawr Not sure what exactly it would show, or how many SE sites would make use of it, but for us it sounds nice. :)
 
@flawr There's a post where you can post oneboxing suggestions on mother meta I think
 
Yeah I saw that post, but it does not seem very official.
 
@Phaeze There have been a few fractal-generation-ish challenges. More details?
 
Anonymous
Consider this: if your last name was 12 characters long, contained several diacritics, and was difficult for non-native speakers to pronounce, and your to-be wife's last name was 4 characters with no diacritics, and instantly pronounceable by anyone who speaks a Romance or Germanic language, which would you pick? :P
 
TIL a file in the nethack source that deals with melee combat is called uhitm. lol
 
7:05 PM
@Geobits here is a sample out put of a version i've done: github.com/MadillJ/InterstingCodeCollection/blob/master/…
 
> 4 characters
 
@Mego hard to pronounce? I always thought it was "byoot-nur". Was I saying it wrong?
 
The idea for the challenge would be to dynamically set the scaling factor and also the shape used
 
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ not that far off
 
@Geobits what movie was it, btw?
 
7:06 PM
Also, my new favorite movie is Interstellar. 10/1
 
@Phaeze Hmm. Well if the challenge is just to generate/draw that (with scaling and shape as inputs), it would probably work best as a [code-golf].
 
@Mego I'd keep the hard to pronounce name because everyone else sucks :[
 
@Mego I actually probably will change my last name when I marry. Anything is better than my current last name
I don't think I've ever encountered a form where it fits. I have to write it super small off the edge
 
@Dennis sure. I just checked, and I think the most recent commit should be good.
 
@Maltysen Bridge of Spies. It's a bit slow for my tastes, but it's a good movie nonetheless. Also, well, it's Tom Hanks, so it can't be that bad.
 
7:07 PM
@quartata how long is it? And what language is it derived from?
 
@Geobits ok cool, that should get me started on putting something together for the sand box
 
Sure. Once the spec is in there it'll be easier to give a more detailed critique. Good luck!
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ eh... suffice to say it isn't very golfy
 
okay
> 20 bytes?
 
@Geobits one more quick question, would you actually call that a fractal. I'm not 100% it fits the definition
 
Anonymous
7:09 PM
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ I wasn't meaning his last name specifically. Also, Büttner is only 7 characters.
 
My last name has been pronounced wrong exactly once in my life that I know of. It's a common verb in English, so I'm still not sure how that happened :/
 
and ender is 5.
 
anyone want to do some digging in the minecraft server?
 
Anonymous
My gf is very excited about not having to write or spell out (over the phone) her last name anymore after our wedding
 
@Geobits very good movie
 
7:10 PM
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ OK, done.
 
@Mego and 8 bytes because of the Ü
 
Anonymous
@Geobits Bits isn't a verb
 
@Phaeze Hmm. I'm probably not the best person to ask, to be honest :(
 
@Mego lol
We should do a anonymous name collection.
 
Anonymous
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ 7 in latin-1 and cp437
 
7:11 PM
My last name is constantly being spelled with a hard G. Its really annoying
 
@Mego I didn't know you were getting married. Congrats!
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ We should....
 
@Geobits Ok no worries, thanks for your help.
 
@BaldBantha Is your last name GIF by any chance?
 
Anonymous
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ Thanks!
 
7:11 PM
@MartinEnder There is this thread asking for suggestions for sites to be oneboxed. But it seems most of them have a seperate post as a feature-request. Do you think I should just add mine as a suggestion, or should I start a new post? I am not very experienced with meta.SE.
 
Anonymous
Oh boy hail, my car is gonna get hurt :(
 
@Dennis thanks!
 
@quartata LMAO
 
Anonymous
@flawr Go for a separate feature request
 
7:12 PM
Ok, thanks
 
@quartata its jiff
 
Anonymous
That way, it can be more efficiently :P
 
@Optimizer no
 
The Alex invasion is occurring at my house. D:
A magpie is nesting in a hole in my house wall.
 
7:13 PM
@VTCAKAVSMoACE Is everything wrong?
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Oh nvm ^^^
 
@BaldBantha yes
 
best alex-is-wrong pun ever
 
Anonymous
@BaldBantha You got a full-fledged chuckle out of me for that. Have a star.
 
7:14 PM
Thanks
 
@VTCAKAVSMoACE Just be glad he isn't still a goose. That would make a much bigger hole :/
 
@VTCAKAVSMoACE any updates on PPCG + Rêśúmè?
 
@Geobits Or a condor (*shudders*)
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ what's that?
 
7:15 PM
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ I got accepted months ago, lol
 
Anonymous
@BaldBantha What about Conor?
 
@Maltysen He put PPCG on his resume.
@VTCAKAVSMoACE yeah, but any other comments or anything?
@Mego ...that would be bad.
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ haha nice
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ STAY OUT OF VTC'S HOUSE
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ They were like, "Nice, I found some of your answers."
 
7:16 PM
okay
 
It was fairly insubstantial, tbh.
Even though it was, like, a good quarter of my resume.
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ get on the server and help make my full circle a deep circle
 
lol
Not sure if that is good that you have so much PPCG stuff, or bad that you have little else.
@BaldBantha I can't right now. I can get on from about 14:00 onwards (1:45 from now)
 
I wonder if I should set my computer's time to GMT
 
no
Are you PST?
 
7:20 PM
No, EST
Kentucky. Not a redneck
but all my friends drive rusty lifted chevys.
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Considering that I'm a high school student, the fact that it's only a quarter of my resume is a good sign.
 
@VTCAKAVSMoACE true
 
@VTCAKAVSMoACE Wait so you put PPCG on your resume and got hired where?
I mean, as a high school student, a programming job would be rare.
 
Anonymous
I think he means college
 
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ Shall @Dennis pull V?
 
@Mego he said he got a actual job?
 
2 mins ago, by VTCAKAVSMoACE
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Considering that I'm a high school student, the fact that it's only a quarter of my resume is a good sign.
 
At a networking company iirc.
Apr 1 at 21:11, by CoolestVeto
@EasterlyIrk Yes, actually. Got a job at a networking company.
 
@zyabin101 @Dennis already pulled V.
 
7:25 PM
@Dennis I missed it. >_>
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ I thought we were talking about VTC
 
@zyabin101 I suppose if he wants to he can but he'll see "Already up-to-date".
 
@Dennis You should make the tioupd program automatically say Pulled. to the person who asked to pull from some lang's repo in chat.
 
Eh, too many ways that could break and mess up chat.
 
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Q: Oneboxing OEIS entries

flawrIn math.SE as well as in codegolf.SE we quite often use OEIS (Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences), which the standard reference for sequences in combinatorics and number theory. I think - and apparently I am not the only one - this would be an excellent addition of sites that do get onebox...

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Any suggestions/improvement? Please vote!
 
7:45 PM
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ According to EU canon, at least, Han is totally non-Force-sensitive and luck is his superpower. :P
 
8 upvotes ftw
 
@El'endiaStarman lol
@BaldBantha That is his old name.
@flawr apparently.. :P
 
so he is still in high school and he works for a networking company
< is jelous
 
He doesn't yet.
And he graduates soon iirc.
probably already did
 
ooooohhh
 
7:48 PM
@BaldBantha IIRC he is graduating this year
ninja'd
 
> ninjuiced
ftfy
 
k I was like dang I'll work at chick-fil-a (not a bad place to work) in high school but getting hired on a programming job in high school....
 
@quartata For example, I want to select which repos appear in my "contributed to" section (also, I want more details on the contribution). Because right now, a mere issue counts "as much" as actual patches.
 
@BaldBantha speaking of getting programming jobs in high school, a google recruiter just emailed me since I passed level 3 of foobar. Not that I'll pass the interview/be allowed to take it, but still \o/
 
@Maltysen what is foobar
 
7:52 PM
names that i remember vtcablahblahblah hacing: that, VoteToClose, CoolestVeto (anagram) and FlagAsSpam
 
@BaldBantha a google easter egg
@Maltysen woah nice
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ ?? where do I find this?
 
@BaldBantha i didn't know about it either, but apparently google recruits people by giving people with programming related search histories a programming challenge
 
@BaldBantha gone now
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ really?
 
7:52 PM
you can only access it if you participated the first time
 
I just got an email from a real google recruiter
 
and I started it last week
so I'm not sure why people are saying its gone
 
yeah
 
I got the invitation in google search last week on wednesday
 
@Maltysen ohhh
@Maltysen you need to be invited?
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ yeah, I was searching some programming thing, and google search like did some 3D css transforms and I was like what?, and then it said "you speak our language, up for a challenge?"
and I clicked yes
 
@Maltysen In what language?
 
7:56 PM
@mınxomaτ it wasn't a language thing IIRC
 
@Maltysen that's epic. Good for you!
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ I'm gonna fail level 4 tho :/
 
:/
what is it about?
err don't say
 
I'm a fairly competent vim user, and I use vim several hours a day. I'm still discovering new really useful features.
 
don't get in trouble for leaking info
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ lol
vim is deep
 
7:57 PM
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ well lemme just say the current one I'm working on right now is about combinatorics
 
For example, I just discovered cit (change inner tag). That's amazing!
 
I can't believe I didn't find that earlier.
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ @BaldBantha @Mego To explain, I'm an HS student whose school supports student internships through various companies in London.
 
@Maltysen cool
 
7:58 PM
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ Have you found the change *last* inner tag yet?
 
@VTCAKAVSMoACE OIC
Oh and british high school takes you through more advanced stuff than USA highschool
 
@Geobits no. What is it?
 
I almost went to a british boarding school a few years back
 
@BaldBantha (it's an American school)
The school just happens to be in London.
 
@BaldBantha That's true for almost every school, though :P
 
7:59 PM
@VTCAKAVSMoACE OIC
 
@Geobits well if you were interested at all i have the first draft of my challenge on the sandbox: meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/9294/19547
 
@mınxomaτ TRUDAT. Thats why I'm homeschooled/consortium
 
@Maltysen gl!
 
@BaldBantha I went here. Highly recommended. Fun times.
 
@mınxomaτ Is it like BFA?
 
8:01 PM
@BaldBantha you're homeschooled too? high five
 
(black forest academy)
 
@BaldBantha no idea what that is.
 
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ :D hallo
 
Oh its a boarding school in southern germany/black forest that several of my friends attend (IRL friends)
 
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ are you in/at highschool [age]?
 
8:02 PM
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ no, I'm graduated. (From homeschool)
 
okay
college or life?
 
Does anyone here play Magic the Gathering?
 
I don't really revealing that I'm homeschooled b/c it gives the impression of a sheltered kid who doesn't know much of the outside world
@wizzwizz4 absolutely. Well, until I went camping and lost my $150 deck
 
@wizzwizz4 Geobits and rainbolt.
 
@BaldBantha Did you know that it's Turing complete?
 
no.
Well, yes, but not how.
 
and it's magic: the gathering (with the colon)
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ lol, that's a funny way of asking.
Life
 
@BaldBantha basically the stack of cards is the memory
 
Or just "magic" for nurds
 
8:04 PM
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ did you attend college?
 
Not yet. I took a bunch of classes while I was in high school though. (LIke 20 credits ish)
At community college
 
@BaldBantha deck of cards is memory, different cards that manipulate the stack are actions on it.
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ okay cool
 
lets notify some mods about the oeis oneboc
 
Tryitonline onebox....
it'll never happen but we can dream
 
8:07 PM
imagine
 
Why can't it happen?
 
tryitonline inline widget
@wizzwizz4 SE devs have to code it in. doubt they will do it for just 1 site and when alternative is not that hard
 
All @Dennis needs to do is to implement an API...
 
SO doesn't like changing things for us. :(
 
@wizzwizz4 no.
 
8:08 PM
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ You should accept your SO for who they are, instead of expecting them to change :P
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S[EO] would still probably decline.
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

PhaezeDynamic Fractal Generation Pattern Specification The pattern starts with two variables: Number of Sides (ie. Shape) a scaling factor greater than 1.0 The first step is to draw a unit sized shape based on the input, ie. triangle will have sides of 1, 1, and sqrt(2), square will have sides of...

 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Why not? We are programmers too! We can do things.
 
Chat would still have to support it somehow.
 
@Dennis can do anything.
Ping me if that gets starred, so I can change it to an @ ping that will show up on the starboard.
 
8:09 PM
@wizzwizz4 it's probably not happening.
 
Why not write @user user?
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ I edited it at the same time as it was pinged.
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ 'cause it doesn't look pretty.
 
> cuase it aint purty
@Dennis Are you sure?
 
Recursive ping loop.
 
@Optimizer Yes
 
8:12 PM
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Can we have a message that replies to itself?
 
@Optimizer Am I
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Of course.
 
May 27 at 17:27, by Dennis
Yes.
 
@Dennis A split-second too late.
 
yup, that was fun
 
8:12 PM
:30025639 That didn't work.
 
@Optimizer now edit
 
:30025653 Wrong room.
 
just found this:
 
8:13 PM
sandbox guys!
 
@El'endiaStarman I'll stop now.
 
stop please.
 
@wizzwizz4: the message has to exist for it to be replied to, so even if you guess right, you can't have a self-replying message without editing.
And yeah, if you want to keep trying, take it to the Sandbox.
 
^
@El'endiaStarman it also has to be in this room.
 
8:15 PM
@El'endiaStarman That would've been a stable loop. :-(
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Yeah. Man, could you imagine the chaos if you could reply to messages in other rooms?
 
@El'endiaStarman ._.
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ I was laughing so hard it took meeeee forever to get this uploaded.
 
served
 
@BaldBantha wtf
 
8:16 PM
@El'endiaStarman I WANT THAT
 
I DON"T WANT YOU TO HAVE THAT
 
> hearby
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ no look at the time and date
 
..... hereby
 
8:16 PM
Oh BTW this is at NumeralOne's house
 
@BaldBantha I did.
> my forever
 
:99999999 Dear Future TNB,
I am writing this message to congratulate you on your conquering of SE Chat. Think of me when you post your final 8-figure message.
--wizzwizz4
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seriosusly stop please.
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It's getting annoying. I'll be tempted to flag if you continue.
 
I wonder how long that'll take. Lessee, we did 10,000 messages in 10 hours recently...
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ on most occasions, that message would've been funny (whiz's message)
 
@El'endiaStarman 10000 in 10 hours? o_O
 
but when it was prefixed by at least 5 otehrs, not so funny.
 
At that rate, it'd take 8 years, more or less. However, I'd expect the rate to increase over time, so...5 years?
 
@El'endiaStarman not that many all by ourselves though.
 
@Maltysen Did you try if the foofighter easter eggs are still there?
 
8:19 PM
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ +1 for amazing spelling
 
@wizzwizz4 it will not work as you will have to edit it and then it won't be editable anymore
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ All chat messages contribute to the message id number.
 
@El'endiaStarman Even... spam-bot posts? (No, I am not even thinking of it...)
 
@mınxomaτ huh what?
 
@Maltysen Enter foofighter at the foobar terminal.
 
8:21 PM
@El'endiaStarman yeah, that's my point
 
@mınxomaτ foofighter: command not found. Type help for a list of commands
what did it used to do?
 
@wizzwizz4 yes go to sandbox and spam bad idea the mods will be on u
 
@wizzwizz4 don't.
 
foobar:~/ tumblingcube$ foofighter
Scram gravy ain't wavey!
foofighter: command not found. Type help for a list of commands
 
Seriously don't.
 
8:22 PM
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Oh, I missed that you were replying to that specific message. No, we as TNB didn't do that, but we as the whole SE chat network did.
 
@NewSandboxedPosts maybe not a fractal.
@El'endiaStarman yeah
but we did a lot
 
@mınxomaτ You played foobar? o_O
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ
 
We're not even at a million yet :(
 
@mınxomaτ well now we all know your email ;P
strange why that doesn't work for me
 
8:22 PM
Another:
$ smokeystover
Where there's foo, there's fire!
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ I did check in chat at mathematics.se and was told that it does fit the definition of a fractal
 
>>> 766908/30026013
0.025541453006098412
TNB is responsible for about 2.56% of all SE chat messages.
 
@mınxomaτ nope
 
@Maltysen These are all references to:
Smokey Stover is an American comic strip written and drawn by cartoonist Bill Holman, from 1935 until he retired in 1973. Distributed through the Chicago Tribune, it features the wacky misadventures of the titular fireman, and had the longest run of any comic strip in the "screwball comics" genre. == Overview == Born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, Bill Holman (1903–1987) moved to Chicago, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts while working as an office boy in the Chicago Tribune art department. Relocating to New York City, where he worked as a New York Herald Tribune staff artist, Hol...
 
8:24 PM
that's actually quite a bit
 
@El'endiaStarman :-O It must be more than that.
Everybody, post loads of messages!
 
I don't htink so.
 
Keep over 20 conversations going at once.
 
@El'endiaStarman I wonder who is higher than us except SO
 
Migrate all things to TNB.
 
8:24 PM
There are at least 1000 rooms on the site, even counting slow ones (but not frozen).
 
Migrate all the things!
 
@mınxomaτ lel, easter eggs inside easter eggs
 
@Maltysen Because it was an old version at 146.148.62.204
 
@Maltysen The Bridge has 2707k. Yes, that's almost 3 million.
 
@El'endiaStarman o_O
 
Just about 9% of all SE chat messages.
 
Math is over 1.6M too.
 
damnit, switching rooms keeps repinging me with old messages. :/
 
Can't stop listening to Undertale soundtracks
 
8:26 PM
6 mins ago, by Bald Bantha
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ +1 for amazing spelling
that just pinged me for the 3rd time.
 
@wizzwizz4 srsly. We told u to stop.
 
@BaldBantha I stopped.
 
Root Access has about 1.19 million.
 
@LegionMammal978 search Tsoku G. and RichaadEB on youtube and listen to their covers.
 
Really nice error message though:
 
@mınxomaτ how far did you get?
and what happens if you run out of time on a challenge
 
I was on the older one. Sadly, that one was just a promotion for the Imitation Game movie.
I can't say anything about this one.
 
They hunt you down and bludgeon you to death with a giant pink unhappy face.
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Worse. Google permanently redirects to Bing. shudders
 
8:40 PM
D:
WTF
WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT TO SOMEBODY
@mınxomaτ ... and SE still uses bing translate. >_>
 
@mınxomaτ so there weren't any actual challenges?
 
@Maltysen Yes but more codebreaking and less combinatorics. I solved like three challenges. Doesn't matter much since it was just a publicity stunt anyway ...
 
oic
 
(the address was in a trailer for the movie if I remember correctly)
 
well I think the only reason I got the combinatorics one was cuz I was explicitly requesting math challenges cuz the last few math ones were REALLY easy. but then I got to lvl 4 and :/
 
@Maltysen No, the new one is basically all combinatorics. I know someone who managed almost all. Time compelxity is the key here.
 
A Facebook Sixth Sense http://kirszenberg.com/facebook-sixth-sense
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By the way, here's how foobar detects if you're "worthy": It sends your search request's POST data to the foobar google app. If it doesn't match <whatever> you're /denied/.
 
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Q: Freehand Circles Drawing Tool

ᔕᖺᘎᕊ What is it? A userscript that lets you draw directly onto images on any Stack Exchange site to add freehand circles (or anything else you might like to add). It has been designed to work like StackExchange™ SuperCollider Freehand Circle™ Editor - [Now supported on EVERY StackExchange site!...

 
8:52 PM
Heyyyyy my first post on PPCG just got another up vote. \o/
 
a face
@VTCAKAVSMoACE that made me think for a bit your account got nuked or something
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ (ง ͠° ͟ ͡°)ง
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ enjoying it? ;)
 
8:55 PM
:D
great!
 
@ᔕᖺᘎᕊ what's better than making the burninated dragon look kinda like shog?
 
haha lol. nothing could be better :P
 
@ᔕᖺᘎᕊ Wait, did you just, like, detect that your user script was linked?
3spoopy5me
 
@Quill Are there supposed to be pictures?
 
@VTCAKAVSMoACE s/.*/[redacted overused meme]/
 

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