The Nineteenth Byte

El'endia Starman

3:01 AM

Chattiest TNB users, in terms of average messages per day.

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

End the tabs versus space war So, there has been a great deal of debate of whether to use tabs or spaces to indent/format code. Can you help the university settle the dispute, by going to an incredibly crazy unique method of formatting. Your job is to write a full program or function which expa...

Nathan Merrill

@El'endiaStarman I'm quite glad I'm far down on that list

though, I don't remember Alex being so chatty

El'endia Starman

@NathanMerrill That's because he hasn't been this past month.

feersum

Hey, someone changed my avatar on main

How can this happen?

Nathan Merrill

yeah, but even before, I don't remember him chatting as much as The Bit Byte

Business Cat

3:04 AM

Tux is #2, no surprise >_>

Dennis

@feersum Gravatar is being stupid. I got the blue one for quite some time on mobile, but the old one on my desktop.

Downgoat

@El'endiaStarman :D I outgolfed 10 people on M/D

El'endia Starman

Chattiest TNB users in the month of August.

Dennis

Recognized my ass.

El'endia Starman

@NathanMerrill Probably wasn't so blatant...

Nathan Merrill

3:06 AM

@El'endiaStarman oh man, am I really in 4th?

:/

Dennis

@El'endiaStarman Yowza. Does that take name changes into account?

@Dennis Yep.

Who is TheBitByte?

ColdGolf

@Downgoat Formerly ColdGolf.

Downgoat

3:08 AM

ah new user

oh

El'endia Starman

The guy responsible for five new room owners. :P

Dennis

Member for 13 days...

Oh, it's ordered by ratio. Nvm.

Downgoat

13 days and he brought in five ROs to keep the room composed? o_O

that's impressive

I mean not good impressive but still

Nathan Merrill

its more of a matter that mods are fast acting :)

(thank you!)

El'endia Starman

@RohanJhunjhunwala Ctrl+F5

Business Cat

3:13 AM

@caching y u do dis

Downgoat

@BusinessCat oh my your avatar...

Nathan Merrill

@El'endiaStarman you should put a random query parameter on the js file each load

unless you actually do want caching :P

El'endia Starman

@NathanMerrill OR I can gradually train people to Ctrl+F5 if something's not working. :P

More seriously, though, changing the permalink system was a pretty drastic change. I don't expect much more from here on out.

Geobits

3:31 AM

Minor nitpick: Sorting by columns works great, but the icons for ascending/descending seem backwards to me.

El'endia Starman

@Geobits They're from sorttable.js, so not really my choice.

Geobits

I figured as much, it's just so weird.

El'endia Starman

I kinda agree though.

Geobits

I mean, it's only different than every other table ever. No big deal :P

El'endia Starman

@Geobits status-completed

Geobits

3:38 AM

Woo :D

DanTheMan

@El'endiaStarman Wow, I'm 49th out of 151

Well, more than 151

Geobits

@El'endiaStarman Hmm. Kinda anyway. On the first click for a column it's still backwards, then it goes "right". Very odd.

El'endia Starman

@Geobits Yeah, I just pushed the fix for that.

Geobits

> Developer is very responsive to even minor concerns. 5 stars

El'endia Starman

^_^

Downgoat

3:42 AM

vihan:~ $ gcc
clang: error: no input files
vihan:~ $ brew install gcc
Warning: gcc-6.1.0 already installed

halp how to actually use GCC and not clang

DanTheMan

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Dennis

@Downgoat Use an OS where GCC is GCC?

Downgoat

but... but... mac?

:/ alex has been gone for so long he doesn't even show up in the ping auto-complete thing

DanTheMan

@El'endiaStarman How often does TNBDE update its database?

El'endia Starman

@DanTheMan Hourly.

Dennis

3:46 AM

I usually say these thing in jest, but why on Earth would gcc execute anything but gcc?

4

DanTheMan

Good to know!

Downgoat

>_> homebrew builds from source. my mac is going to catch on fire building GCC

Dennis

@Downgoat Try brew info gcc. That should tell.you where the real GCC is hidden.

Downgoat

thank you very much

:/ didn't tell me path of GCC unfortunetly

Dennis

What did it say?

DanTheMan

3:49 AM

Chattiest people of this year

Sp3000

@Downgoat Can you do which gcc?

Downgoat

FFS— basically mac has a symlink of GCC to CLANG in /usr/bin, /usr/bin cannot be touched, not even by root so you're essentially f*cked if you want to use gcc to run gcc

@Sp3000 first thing I did. /usr/bin/gcc

Dennis

@El'endiaStarman I'm not sure why, but on my phone, the result from the query show for a second, then vanish.

Sp3000

Ah k, thought I'd try asking anyway :P

El'endia Starman

@Dennis Ctrl+F5- wait a second, mobile. Hmm. However you clear the cache, do that.

Dennis

3:51 AM

@Downgoat Try /usr/local/bin/gcc.

Downgoat

aha! it's gcc-6

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

RGB Gradients Given two six character RGB values (ranging from 000000 to FFFFFF inclusive) representing two colors, and a number of steps in the form of an integer N, determine the N interim colors for a gradient between the first color to the second color and display these with the two start an...

Geobits

@DanTheMan I don't think you're counting days right there...

Dennis

@El'endiaStarman A regular refresh did the trick.

El'endia Starman

@Dennis Excellent.

Dennis

3:53 AM

Alex was here only 8 days? Something's wrong...

DanTheMan

@Geobits You're right!

El'endia Starman

Yeah, there are two WHERE filters on dates. They have to be the same.

DanTheMan

Chattiest people of this year

Dennis

52...

I should

talk

Geobits

Hmm. 53 days I haven't talked this year.

Dennis

3:55 AM

more.

Geobits

Don't do it. It ruins your stars/message ratio :P

Dennis

Ah carp.

Downgoat

Geobits

> What the everyone uses

Quill

is clang bundled with osx natively? I thought xcodetools came with clang and gcc

Geobits

4:04 AM

Apparently it comes with fake gcc, symlinked to clang.

Or at least that's what a cursory googling showed me as I wore that smug linux grin.

Downgoat

@Quill gcc = ln -s /usr/bin/clang /usr/bin/gcc

DanTheMan

Tip from a Windows user: Get a linux virtual machine

I use Oracle VM

Downgoat

@DJMcMayhem question: how to search for hex character in vim?

DanTheMan

And with Oracle VM, you can install Guest Additions so you can have shared folders with the VM and stuff like that

Downgoat

O______O i removed random byte of binary and it still works

Geobits

4:14 AM

Golfing at its finest.

Downgoat

^

for some reason -Os provides output of apparently same size of -O3

very odd

question: is there zero difference between int a = 4 int a (4) and int a {4}? Surely there should be at least some

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@DanTheMan lol, the bit byte is 3rd

Geobits

@Downgoat For primitives I believe they are the same (though I've never seen the {} form used. Does that really work?). For other things it can vary: stackoverflow.com/q/1051379/752320

Aren't you supposed to be learning java though? :P

Leaky Nun

4:37 AM

CMC: abs(n-1) in oasis

(my record: 3 bytes)

DanTheMan

What exactly does CMC stand for?

Chat ____ Challenge?

Geobits

mini

Leaky Nun

mini

****

(command list: github.com/Adriandmen/Oasis/blob/master/info.txt

DJMcMayhem

@Downgoat what do you mean?

Do you mean search for [0-9A-F]?

Leaky Nun

(cc @Adnan)

DJMcMayhem

4:43 AM

Or search for a character with a certain hex value?

DanTheMan

CMC: A000265

Javascript, 26 bytes: f=n=>n/2==(n/2|0)?f(n/2):n

Leaky Nun

rip oasis

Sp3000

Jelly: N&:@ (I swear we've had a challenge like this on the main site...)

DJMcMayhem

Hahaha

They try to pad their numbers in the annual reports by counting Galileo's redundant systems as multiple computers, but they're falling behind badly either way.

DanTheMan

The graph is kind of cool: oeis.org/A000265/graph

Leaky Nun

4:51 AM

@DanTheMan n>n>2÷x-n2÷a*nn2÷x-n*+1

(cc @Adnan) The lack of conditional and stack operators made me build the conditional from (n%2)*(case if n is odd) + ((n+1)%2)*(case if n is even)

also, the lack of modulus made me build it from n-n/2 where / is integer division

... i only think of ways to build them when i desperately need them

I meant n-n/2*2

Sp3000

@El'endiaStarman :( I get server 500s when I try to do SELECT 1/0 FROM ...

El'endia Starman

5:16 AM

@Sp3000 ....huh, weird.

Sp3000

Does /runcode just silently die if the query fails?

El'endia Starman

Interesting, it's psycopg2's fault. (psycopg is the library I use to connect to the database and run queries against it.)

You should now get a nice, friendly error message.

DanTheMan

At least you can't DROP TABLE ...

Sp3000

5:40 AM

@El'endiaStarman Thanks, I was just trying to debug a query: List of users sorted by most messages starting with CMC

El'endia Starman

@Sp3000 ...whut da heck...?

Sp3000

(thanks for fixing the link, that was awkward)

El'endia Starman

I still can't get it to stay.

Leaky Nun

@Adnan sorry for giving you the third ping, but here:

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A: Output "Fit" numbers

Oasis, 25 bytes (non-competing) n2÷an»»n»4÷xx-p>*nn2÷x-+0 Try it online! I have not failed my master. \o/ There are many missing features which must be built. For example, there is no conditionals, so the formula I am using would be f(n/2)*[1+(n%4>0)] + n%2. Actually, there is no modulo eit...

Sp3000

@El'endiaStarman The hint is line 45 of TNBDE.js :)

El'endia Starman

5:46 AM

@Sp3000 Okay, I see what's going on. It's basically HTML injection, eh?

Sp3000

Yeah :P hence why I had to get you to fix error messages

El'endia Starman

Oooh, I see...

Okay, it should be fixed now. You'd have to Ctrl+F5 though.

Sp3000

Oof, I see what you did there :P

El'endia Starman

*blows raspberry*

Sp3000

Okay, I give up, I had my fun :P

Sherlock9

6:08 AM

@LeakyNun How about a challenge where, given n, print a spiral of the alphabet n characters long?

El'endia Starman

.....I just realized that I can literally get statistics from how often New Main Posts posts and thereby figure out the questions per day stats of the site.

In the last month, there have been about 9.55 questions per day, and in the last year, there have been about 8.07 questions per day.

Maltysen

@El'endiaStarman and you can use the one-box test along with 11ing to check if it was legit or not

El'endia Starman

Hah, indeed. Won't be 100% accurate, but not far off.

Destructible Watermelon

yo

El'endia Starman

Incidentally, (approximate) number of questions each day over the last year.

New Main Posts

6:28 AM

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Q: Roll the Alphabet into a Spiral

Write a program or function that, when given n, will print a spiral n characters long made up of the Latin alphabet repeated as needed. Test cases 4 AB DC 40 UVWXYZ TGHIJA NSFABKB MREDCLC LQPNOMD KJIHGFE 0 10 GHIJ FAB EDC Rules Your input will be a n...

code-golf

Sherlock9

Hey there @DestructibleWatermelon

@Emigna Ah, I see now

Shall I delete my comment?

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