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This made me wonder if the simplification can be automated, which led to me discovering simplish.org. It's not as impressive as I'd hoped though...
 
5.8k questions 58k answers
oddly satisfying
 
there's only 105 unanswered challenges. we should have an event or something where we try to answer as many of those as possible. (I think there's a couple which might be impossible, but proving that isn't any easier, but I'm sure the vast majority can be done with a bit of effort.)
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@Dennis BF to Sesos: ideone.com/uYIeVB
 
Let's start with quest for tetris.
 
Phi's already on that, isn't he?
 
9:35 PM
@DrGreenEggsandIronMan Some users are already taking that on.
It's in progress.
Yeah
and @El'endiaStarman I think
 
@DrGreenEggsandIronMan Where's that from?
 
stackexchange.com I think
 
@MartinEnder Good luck
 
@MartinEnder Yeah, we still have a few passive bounties
^^
 
@Fatalize As we just said, that challenge is in progress.
 
9:37 PM
@mbomb007 It's been in progress for so long that I doubt it will ever get answered
 
No, I mean a group of users is working on it.
 
If we can come up with a good prize, we could make it a competition. We take the list of unanswered challenges at some point in time, set a deadline (the end of the year, say, or just two months in the future or something), and everyone who is leading in one of these challenges at that time gets points equal to the challenge's net score (or 1 if that's less than 1).
 
The prize should be having helka write a challenge themed around the winner.
I remember doing something like that a while ago.
 
You can use my rep if you want. I'll bounty the overall winner.
 
Taking notes...
 
9:41 PM
I don't really need privileges on a site I barely participate in (aside from chat)
 
I'd probably bounty also. Not a huge one, but I'd contribute some.
I'd also compete though. :P
 
@Rainbolt pls send all teh repz
 
@MartinEnder We need more challenges inspired on GEB :-)
 
this one is interesting, but the input/output formats are needlessly complicated
 
haha ZWSP to the rescue fail
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Q: What is this character: '*​'?

terdonA friend pasted a command into a Slack chat room which contained the character *. This looks like a normal * but isn't: $ uniprops '*​' uniprops: no character named ‹*​› While if I run uniprops on the asterisk I get when typing on my machine, I get: $ uniprops '*' U+002A ‹*› \N{ASTERISK} ...

 
9:46 PM
@Fatalize I've just started working on the last major piece needed to complete the "proof", so to speak. It'll get answered soon enough, don't worry.
 
@MartinEnder a lot can be removed by upvoting the answers ... :P
 
@El'endiaStarman How much progress have you made?
 
@PhiNotPi I literally just started. :P
 
@El'endiaStarman okay good
 
Wow, Try It Online runs on… Bash?!
 
9:55 PM
@Dennis It's funny, writing Sesos somehow seems more fun than writing BF, but it's not actually any easier. In fact, the commands can't even be on the same line, and it's harder to read at a glance.
(I'm working on your challenge, in case you didn't figure that out)
 
@Lynn I don't think so?
 
oh
I misread as "runs bash"
 
10:19 PM
@mbomb007 My goal was to make it easier to type (and golfier), without making it easier to program in. I'd like to think I achieved that.
I went for one instruction per line since it's easier to generate meaningful error messages this way, but I'll happily add an option that allows more than one instruction on a single line.
@Lynn Indeed. It might not be an obvious choice, but I was more confident that I could write a backend in bash that isn't susceptible to code injection than in any other language. Since it mostly calls external programs anyway, it kinda made sense.
@mbomb007 That's neat. I should add that to the interpreter.
If that's OK with you, of course.
 
10:40 PM
@Dennis Can you give MATL a gentle pull? :-)
@Dennis Sesos <-- that name... :-D
 
As opposed to a rough pull?
 
@LuisMendo Done. I hope I didn't pull too hard. ;)
 
Haha
@DrGreenEggsandIronMan Of course. Gentle is better
 
@LuisMendo I initially considered cervelli fritti (fried brains in Italian), but then I realized that I couldn't pronounce that. :P
 
TIL Sesos is an actual word and thing.
 
10:46 PM
@Dennis The culinary reference is weird. I don't like the idea of eating that :-)
 
Neither do I. I just wanted a name that relates to messed up brains without being vulgar.
 
@Dennis Actually Italian pronunciation is easy for a Spanish speaker. Just pronounce longer the consonants that are doubled; replace "ce" by "che", and "v" is like in English. So: "chervel-li frit-ti"
@Dennis You totally achieved that, then
 
@LuisMendo That easy, huh? I went to Italy a couple of times, but that was a looong time ago...
 
^ what does that character exist?
 
@Dennis Yep. Very easy. Actually I speak some Italian. Very easy coming from Spanish
 
10:51 PM
@LegionMammal978 There's levitating business man in a suit, and that is the character you're wondering about?
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Should alias term1 term2 make term2 an alias for term1, or vice versa?
 
The alias comes first, then the original.
 
May 27 at 15:15, by LegionMammal978
@LeakyNun Mathematica, C#, C, l33tsp34k, American English, JavaScript (if I have MDN open), Coq proofs, and a few others
^ the languages I do know
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ "alias term1 to term2", so term1 should be an alias for term2.
 
I know English and can fake my way through programming.
 
10:52 PM
cool, thanks @El'endiaStarman and @Dennis
 
@Dennis BTW, sesos means "brains" not just from a culinary perspective, but in general, at least in Spain. Isn't that the case in America? So you may want to remove the culinary reference from GitHub. Just sayng :-P
 
@LuisMendo Probably I learned Spanish a good decade after being in Italy for the last time.
 
@Dennis Hahaha. You should go back then
 
10:54 PM
@LuisMendo At least here, sesos is never used in a non-culinary sense. Wikipedia agrees with me.
Sesos es el término usado para referirse al (cerebro) generalmente en un contexto culinario pues los sesos, como la mayoría de órganos internos y demás casquería, pueden emplearse como alimento. Entre los usados con este fin están los de cerdos, ardillas, caballos, vacuno, monos, pollos y cabras. En muchas culturas, diversos tipos de sesos se consideran una delicia. == Consumo == Los sesos se preparan con frecuencia revueltos con huevo. En el sur de Estados Unidos pueden encontrarse sesos de cerdo enlatados en gravy, que a menudo se preparan con huevos revueltos para obtener eggs n' brains. También...
 
Ew :-)
 
Totally.
 
so, you omitted the profanity? +1
 
RAE agrees with me. But then, I don't consider RAE the reference in general
 
Those are the ones that try to convince us to write güisqui, right?
 
10:56 PM
Yep
Exactly for that reason I don't consider it a good reference
:-D
Also bluyín
Ugh
 
I'm not even sure what that stands for.
 
Haha. It requires some imagination
 
Wait, blue jeans?
 
any git people in here?
 
I use git, but I shouldn't.
 
10:57 PM
This is my "favourite" @Dennis
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I use git but my knowledge of it is fairly minimal.
 
I use GitHub, but xkcd-style
(literally)
 
@LuisMendo Yikes. Bluyin is worse though.
 
Though, from what I've heard, I seem to know more about git than most people in here....which is weird.
 
@El'endiaStarman if I have a regular folder, how do I make that folder's content into a github repo?
 
10:59 PM
My universal fix to git problems is delete and re-clone.
 
I use git and I've never had to delete all the data and start over from the same code, so I guess that makes me an expert.
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@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Go into the folder, git init to turn it into a git repo, commit everything, make a repo on GitHub, do git remote add origin <link to GitHub repo>, git push origin master.
 
@Downgoat what happened to the comment on my EULA? it's not there anymore.
 
C:\Users\Conor O'Brien\Documents\Programming\eacal (master)
λ git push origin master
To github.com/ConorOBrien-Foxx/eacal.git
 ! [rejected]        master -> master (non-fast-forward)
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/ConorOBrien-Foxx/eacal.git'
hint: Updates were rejected because the tip of your current branch is behind
hint: its remote counterpart. Integrate the remote changes (e.g.
hint: 'git pull ...') before pushing again.
hint: See the 'Note about fast-forwards' in 'git push --help' for details.
 
@DrGreenEggsandIronMan Whoa cool
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ You created the repo with a readme most likely
Next time make it empty
In the mean time just use --force
 
11:05 PM
-.- and a gitignore. now what
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ git pull origin master then git push origin master again.
 
@El'endiaStarman you are a wizard. thanks!
 
> wizard
clearly a hedgehog
 
hedgehog wizard.
 
anyways it's a pretty basic command, get used to doing git pull
 
11:07 PM
Don't do git pull.
It's an error-prone command which leads to you deleting your repo and starting over.
 
OK.... get used to doing git fetch and git merge branch
 
You mean git merge <BRANCH>?
 
yes I was thinking of something else
 
11:24 PM
Git is pretty easy if you do a tutorial or something
 
@Dennis hey could you add eacal to tryitonline? you don't have to if you don't want to subject yourself to node again. ;)
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I'll look into it. Remind me in a couple of days if I forget.
 
Okay, will do. Thanks!
 
11:59 PM
Who would have thought I'd spend two days on something that was supposed to be as simple as getting the clip of the current weapon
Blergh. My enthusiasm for this KoTH has definitely gone down
 

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