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5:00 AM
@wat @Pavel reopened, downvoted. This is a really boring challenge.
 
Wat has a weeklong suspension, if I recall his meta post.
You shouldn't ping him.
 
When?
@Pavel What he got suspended?
 
chat banned I think he means
 
Something something 'mods are crazy 1940s germans'
 
5:01 AM
probably for repeating posted noise
oh, that
 
@Pavel Oh that thing
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ It's also pretty close to a dupe of this one
 
:( Meanwhile my challenge is ignored...
 
@DJMcMayhem that's a dupe >_<
VTCing
 
Well, shit.
 
5:02 AM
it's basically the same thing, but whitespace not variations of O.
 
It's pretty close, but not exact
(Ninja)
> Rules - Read the spec carefully
... OK?
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ O, you're right
 
Stack exchange is saying I can't vote to close WSF translator because I have already voted to close it. What?
 
I hammered it. Reload
Wait nevermind
 
ok maybe thats why.
 
5:07 AM
You have already voted to close it, when it got closed the first time. You can only VTC a challenge one time
 
oh ok. Thats kind of dumb, but there's probably a reason
 
That way two users can't get in a hammer war
 
Ah makes sense
or multiple underlings can't get into a massive open close war
 
Exactly
 
5:17 AM
hallo
 
@DestructibleWatermelon I've decided to revive Trees
 
What's Trees
 
@Qwerp-Derp cool
 
@Pavel A game I'm making
The button class is for that
 
5:19 AM
Ah
 
alternatively
In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting branches and leaves in most species. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, including only woody plants with secondary growth, plants that are usable as lumber or plants above a specified height. Trees are not a taxonomic group but include a variety of plant species that have independently evolved a woody trunk and branches as a way to tower above other plants to compete for sunlight. In looser senses, the taller palms, the tree ferns, bananas and bamboos are also trees. Trees tend to be long...
 
I asked about Trees. You seem to have linked me to Tree.
What is this.
 
We need atleast one more tree
 
Two trees are better than one.
 
@Pavel you'll notice the text mentions trees
its just to do with wiki title limitations I guess
 
5:26 AM
hey, anybody here used zeromq?
 
no
 
Anonymous
@WheatWizard "Underlings" is an interesting way to refer to people who don't have hammers :P
 
@Qwerp-Derp :D 10/10 great community service work
The world will thank you for the extra oxygen
 
I just read that Trump's approval rating is 37%
That seems way too high.
 
That is still like record low
 
5:38 AM
@Qwerp-Derp Necromancy? What's this?
 
@Pavel that depends on who you listen to for media
 
I understand, but still...
I know one person who wasn't disapointed by the election result, and that was because he figure Clinton was even worse, not that trump was better.
WTF
 
@Pavel That just means you are in a liberal circle. It doesn't necessarily represent the opinions of most of the country
 
I know all that
It's really disconcerting, nonetheless.
 
If you consider that roughly 50% of the country voted for him, it's pretty dang low
 
Anonymous
5:44 AM
@Pavel I think that person is a little bit confused
 
Anonymous
Either that, or it was that celebration of the wall coming down
 
rougly 50% of the country voted at all.
 
Anonymous
Or one of the many pieces of the wall that are displayed as monuments all over the world
 
57.6% apparently
 
@DJMcMayhem I thought it would be 30%
 
5:47 AM
@DJMcMayhem :/ my numbers show it's 47 percent of country voted
 
The broadest historical trends in voter turnout in the United States presidential elections have been determined by the gradual expansion of voting rights from the initial restriction to white property owners in the early years of the country's independence, to all citizens aged 18 or older in most of the last century. Voter turnout in the presidential elections has historically been better than the turnout for midterm elections. == Women's suffrage and gender gap == There was no systematic collection of voter turnout data by gender at a national level before 1964, but smaller local studi...
 
@Mego you can look at her twitter, she's a Trump supporter.
 
This says 54.4%
 
Anonymous
This says 60%
 
Anonymous
Well, between 58.9% and 60%, due to differences in how states count their ballots
 
Anonymous
5:50 AM
So around 60% of all eligible voters in the US voted
 
Anyone on Windows 10 Insider Preview: Win+Shift+S allows you to copy a section of the screen.
 
@Mego what is VAP Highest Office?
because that matches the 54.4
 
 
Anonymous
@NathanMerrill As it says right there on the page, Voting Age Population
 
Anonymous
But there are people of voting age who are not eligible to vote
 
5:52 AM
Because they haven't registered
Or are in jail
One of the two
 
Anonymous
Registration has nothing to do with it
 
right, but "Highest Office"?
 
Anonymous
It's mainly non-citizens
 
vs Total Ballots Counted
 
Oh yeah
 
Anonymous
5:52 AM
Highest Office means the percentage of people who voted for the highest office on the ticket
 
Anonymous
Which is President in presidential election years and either gubernatorial or congressional counts on midterms
 
Anonymous
The counts show that about 2.5 million people who voted didn't vote for president
 
Anonymous
Or voted for a write-in in a region where write-in vote counts are not reported
 
All the political news today is really sad. Here's two things that happened today:
A) It's been discovered Trump has potentially been in communication with Russian officials for five years
B) Trump has a fetish for 'golden showers'
Guess which one everyone is talking about.
I'm all for dissing on trump's latest embarassment, but can we please keep it to anything related to politics? In the grand scheme of things, a fetish isn't all that wrong.
 
Actually, I'd rather if we kept it to anything not related to politics.
2
In TNB atleast
 
5:59 AM
@Pavel Is A really true? Like I know Trump can be considered a sketchy charcater but A seems a bit far O_o
actually nevermind, dr ham jam is right
 
Well, that's why I sad 'potentially'.
We don't actually know for sure, but the CIA released that info earlier today. They're not naming any sources though.
Still, if you have to talk about politics on your newshow, why are you talking about B and not A?
 
@Downgoat If you're looking for a topic change, I just wrote the first tiny bit of a brain-flak matched-bracket test. Try it online!
I'm pretty proud of it
 
D: I don't speak brainflak either
 
What does -a do?
 
Why don't we talk about cheese, I like cheese
 
6:02 AM
@Pavel String input
 
Ah
Oh no it only matches round brackets.
I thought it was a brain-flak validator in brain-flak
That's still really cool though.
 
Yeah. It's gonna take atleast another hour or so to add the other brackets
 
Speaking of cheese, I made a thing in a language named after cheese!:
 
How long did that take?
 
cheddar> let f = (> : 5)
cheddar> f(6)
true
cheddar> f(4)
false
 
6:04 AM
It'll also be hard to make it fail on non-brackets
 
:O Hello @ASCII-only! You're back :D
 
@Downgoat according to my timecapsule form, you have two languages you're supposed to be developing.
 
oh those were just jokes
I was not going to actually implement them
 
goddamit goat
3
 
I was thinking to just make a PPCG challenge and have you guys do that part
 
6:05 AM
@Pavel I'm not sure. I lost track. 30-60 minutes?
 
I can't delete form submissions.
Wow. That's... pretty good.
Is there a challenge for this? I'm fairly certain there is.
 
Yeah, I wrote it. :P
 
Make sure to add an explanation when you post!
 
@Downgoat hopefully
 
Yeah, I have a commented version. I didn't bother to post it because it's 13k bytes
 
6:08 AM
That's... 12.8k bytes of commentary.
For a 200 byte program
 
Nah, it's mostly whitespace
 
Oh.
Hastebin?
 
By my count, it's about 400 bytes of whitespace, 400 bytes of comments and 200 of code
 
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Q: Need help on python 3x on creating an input string that gives a true or false output

catEach single digit from 0-9 is valid. two or more digits are valid as long as it doesn't start with 0. x+y x-y x/y x*y are valid expressions Nothing else is a valid expression Hints on how to do it will be useful and how the code works. Thanks in advance

 
Hmmm. For a string based challenge, is it reasonable to assume that inputs will not contain unprintable characters?
 
6:17 AM
Generally, but depending on the challenge you may wish to ask the OP.
 
I am the OP. :P
 
@DJMcMayhem Yes
 
For which challenge is this?
 
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Q: Are the brackets fully matched?

DJMcMayhemYou must write a program or function that takes a string of brackets and outputs whether or not that string is fully matched. Your program should print a truthy or falsy value, and IO can be in any reasonable format. Rules and definitions: For the purpose of this challenge, a "bracket" is any...

I'm trying to write it in brain-flak, and that might be able to save me a ton of bytes
 
Wait if you're the OP you get to decide that.
You don't need to ask here.
 
6:20 AM
Well yeah, but I don't want to arbitrarily override things for my own convenience
 
@DJMcMayhem okay I can't post cheddar answer but cheddar but it would of been: s->!s.sub(/\(\)|\[]|{}|<>/r)
 
Why not? Just go non-competing
 
I don't think the challenge benefits from unprintables in any way. I'd clarify that in the question.
 
no I mean like code is in bindings branch which is non-merged
 
The sed answer would also break with newlines.
 
6:23 AM
OK cool.
It would be nice if we could just always assume printable-ASCII unless explicitly stated otherwise
(Although I guess newlines are a little bit of a weird case)
 
Meta post?
 
6:36 AM
@ASCII-only You're back what
 
@Qwerp-Derp I'm back what
 
@ASCII-only :O you're back! Where have you been?
 
@Qwerp-Derp Holiday, rarely any internet + no laptop
 
@ASCII-only Unfortunate
 
Nice to meet you!
Ooh! New xkcd up!
 
6:42 AM
This is probably the most beautiful video on Youtube
 
I watched it right through. Looks and sounds like noise to me...
 
Trichoplax stumbles upon the point of the video.
 
If the point is noise, why is it posted here?
 
This is a trick question, isn't it.
 
It's really not
 
6:49 AM
Well, my theory is that Qwerp-Derp though we would enjoy seeing it, and seeing as how chat's really slow right now, noise isn't causing any harm.
 
@Pavel Yup (except for the noise bit)
 
anyone know what happened to calesyta?
 
@ASCII-only Uhh it died
OK the website is down as well
 
Who is caleysta?
 
@Pavel It's a competition for esolangs
 
6:56 AM
@Pavel Chat being slow is no excuse for noise. It means someone arriving in chat has to scroll back through noise to find what the previous conversation was about, and also makes reading the transcript painful.
 
I think someone needs to fix this then, it hasn't been updated in a few months
 
Muahahaha, it works!
The matched bracket-tester, that is
 
@Downgoat probably? idk when exactly i'll be able to spend more time on my laptop though
@trichoplax Can you unfreeze the VSL room? Thanks in advance
 
For all of []{}()<>?
 
Yup
It also fails on non-bracket inputs, which was surprisingly the hardest part
 
7:03 AM
I'm assuming this is for brain-flak?
 
Yep
Give us the TIO link
 
Just a second, I'm writing up an answer
 
Oh, it's written in brain-flak?
 
>:D
 
TIO makes those for you tho
 
7:08 AM
@ASCII-only Done (in case the message in the other room doesn't ping you)
 
@trichoplax It did, thanks
 
What's VSL?
(I'm relatively new)
 
It was a language in development, similar to Cheddar but designed to be faster, the interpreter actually hasn't been started yet
Development kinda stalled when I went on holiday, looks like Downgoat has been learning some C++
 
I hear Cheddar is fast now, the goat did a thing so it compiles as C? Something like that, not really sure.
 
e.e
my school computer is idiotic
"URL that is being blocked: academia.stackexchange.com/questions/82909/is-it-fair-to-give-zeros-to-students-who-missed-early-assignments-because-they-a
Reason this is blocked: Keyword: "ass""
 
7:13 AM
That's probably your school's IT department being worse than average
@Pavel IIRC Downgoat made it compile to an intermediate representation so it doesn't have to reparse the code every time or something
But VSL is going to have a C++-based interpreter and Bison-based parsing so it should be faster, plus it has some features Cheddar doesn't have
 
@TrojanByAccident get a VPN
 
@Pavel none work, they all get blocked
 
And can anyone assist me in finding a good .py -> .exe program? All the ones I've found don't work
 
CXFreeze
 
7:16 AM
@Pavel Uh that's most likely not the reason
 
@Pavel "Editors' Note: Download.com has removed the direct-download link and offers this page for informational purposes only."
 
The software is probably on the computer itself, all you need is a third-party task manager e.g. Process Hacker
 
@Pavel I've tried, can't get it to work
@ASCII-only Or I need to reset the Admin's password
which I, for some reason, am able to do
but I'd rather not
 
Is this a loan laptop or a school computer?
@TrojanByAccident If you don't need it to be cross-platform just open it in IronPython and build to a .NET executable
 
Discussion of how to bypass school administrative restrictions is best avoided here, even though your intentions are clearly not malicious.
 
@trichoplax Oh yeah sorry
 
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A: Are the brackets fully matched?

DJMcMayhemBrain-Flak, 1101 bytes {({}<>)(<>())(<>{}<>)(({}))((((()()()()()){}){}){})({}[{}]<(())>){((<{}{}>))}{}{{ }{}(<{}>)((()))(()<>)(<><{}>)}{}(({}))((((()()()()()){}){}){}())({}[{}]<(())>){(( <{}{}>))}{}{{}{}(<{}>)((()))(()<>)({}[{}](<()>)){{}{}(<(())>)}{}{<>{{}}<>{{}}((<( )>))}{}(<><{}>)}{}(({}))(((...

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Done!
 
Awesome
 
@ASCII-only ?
@ASCII-only Downloaded py2exe, told me that I needed py2
 
@TrojanByAccident Not really important, it's just that I had a loan laptop and enabled Control Panel which I found really useful
@TrojanByAccident It isn't that hard to port to Python 2
@TrojanByAccident Also that isn't mine btw and it's a few years old
 
7:29 AM
@ASCII-only I've got a laptop given by the cyberschool, for the school year, if that's what you mean. I've got access to some stuff, but I don't really have any system privs
 
Clone the hardrive in the present state and install a new OS.
 
@Pavel There's no need
 
There is every need.
 
I'd just get a third party Registry Editor and enable Control Panel + Task Manager
 
@ASCII-only I've got Task Manager and Control Panel access, just not full control
 
Anonymous
7:34 AM
Why are you still on the topic of bypassing administrative restrictions?
 
@DJMcMayhem Trivia: The encoded request is less than 200 bytes long.
 
@TrojanByAccident Does that computer block urls with "Michelle" in them because that word contains "hell"?
 
Yay I made a ProgressBar class for my game
 
@Dennis Cool. How is it encoded?
 
DEFLATE-compressed, raw binary.
 
7:36 AM
@Sherlock9 no, hell is fine. it'll block a google search for 'How to fix a crack in iPhone screen', though
 
For containing "crack" and "iPhone"?
 
@Sherlock9 for containing 'crack'
however something like 'crackmarket' is not blocked
 
I'm just going to sit here with my head in my hands for a few minutes
 
I'm probably overthinking the storage issue. A 64 KiB permalink costs 0.0006 cents.
 
That is simply awful filtering
 
7:39 AM
@Dennis Speaking of compression, that reminds me. Why doesn't this bubblegum program work?
For that matter, why are the two example programs the same?
 
@Sherlock9 I once found a site blocked for "Prohibited Friendship content"
I think there's a message here
Friends and fixing broken iphones are not allowed
but buying/selling crack is fine
Also, twitter is not blocked, though Facebook and all others are
 
You can't kill the website blocker in Task Manager?
 
@ASCII-only no, it's got the iBoss certificates in the system
 
@DJMcMayhem Two reasons: 1. I messed up the wrapper. Forgot Bubblegum can actually take input. 2. Input should be 1 2, not 1, 2.
 
and youtube is only always blocked in firefox, only blocked half the time in chrome
 
7:44 AM
@DJMcMayhem Why not? :P
 
Well when you put it that way...
 
Anonymous
Man, just when I thought I was done being sick... The chest cold is back with a vengeance.
 
@Mego Actually, colds can't express "vengeance"
you should know this, it's BASIC
 
@DJMcMayhem Bubblegum was mainly a critique of our definition of programming language. I thought it was nifty to fullfil both criteria with the same program.
 
I could tell. Just reading the spec is dripping with sarcasm
It's like "Well sure, I'll be a real language by your definition. But that's it! No more!"
 
7:48 AM
I have made that CW, if you know of other languages where * is a valid program for multiplication
 
Py2exe gives "Python version 2.7 is required" when I try to run it e.e
 
Anyway, the reason I asked was because I really wanted to post this answer
 
@DJMcMayhem Oh, haha. How did I miss this opportunity? I don't thi k you need the hexdump in your answer.
You know, for "clarity".
 
Good point. Edited
 
Anonymous
But how will I ever reproduce that ASCII text without a hexdump?
 
7:55 AM
With your flippers and a regular keyboard
 
I'm not sure regular keyboards are made for flippers.
 
Anonymous
My keyboard only has one key on it: "make pun"
 
That's the punguin edition, yes?
 
Anonymous
This answer is a shoo-in for Best Explanation next year
4
 
Anonymous
@Dennis Naturally (no that isn't a new programming language)
 
7:59 AM
Yet.
 
Anonymous
Well, I have the exclusive claim on adverb languages :P
 
@Mego F that keyboard, then
 
@Mego *yet
 
Anonymous
>_>
 
… I got ninja'd by Dennis minutes after him
brb checking my eyes
 
Anonymous
8:03 AM
I have other plans for adverb languages already
 
Anonymous
That I should be working on
 
Already spoilers
 
Anonymous
I can't escape :(
 
@Mego Those comments should probably be moved though.
@Mego You're adverbly affected
 
Anonymous
@Sherlock9 Tanks for that
 
8:08 AM
Cheers, mate :D
 
@Mego You're the bomb
 
Mego set us up the bomb.
 
8:29 AM
Bubblegum looks a lot like Python.
 
@Pavel It gives you something to chew on ;)
 
 
2 hours later…
10:43 AM
I see Geobits ventured into comic drawing.
 
@mınxomaτ that's tearable
 
@Mego Seriously? a +1?
 
Anonymous
11:23 AM
@TrojanByAccident Yep. The contributor who wrote that code (glares at @ASCII-only) missed it.
 
@Mego whoops sorry runs away
 
Anonymous
Hey, it's an easy mistake to make :P
 
Anonymous
You still get lots of points for writing a much better implementation of primality testing than what I originally wrote
 
@Mego I was being punny :P
@Mego in that repo, in the .travis.yml file, I'm assuming deploy: provider: pypi user: "Mego" password: secure: . . . is your password?
 
Anonymous
@TrojanByAccident It's encrypted
 
11:32 AM
@Mego I know. I was wondering if you'd mind me testing my crypto-analysis scripts with it
 
Hallo
 
Anonymous
You can try, but I doubt you're going to break RSA anytime soon
 
He maybe have a quantum computer
 
@Mego maybe not.
@TuxCopter I wouldn't be able to measure my computing power if I did ;)
And as of current, I'm still both in school and unemployed, meaning I'm neither working for google nor have access to their quantum computer
 
Anonymous
A 3-qubit quantum computer won't help you break 4096-bit RSA
 
11:43 AM
6 mins ago, by TrojanByAccident
@Mego maybe not.
 
Anonymous
Here, you can even have the public key: curl -s https://api.travis-ci.org/repos/Mego/Seriously/key | python -c 'print input()["key"]' | openssl rsa -pubin -inform PEM -text
 
lol
I have no idea what curl is
 
you what ಠ_ಠ
 
@Mego *quantum annealer
 
Anonymous
@TrojanByAccident It's a program that does requests
 
11:53 AM
It may be possible for a quantum annealer to break RSA though, but I'd think it D-Wave is close to making ones with that many qubits yet
 
Anonymous
curl -s http[s]://URL sends a GET request to the URL and dumps the output on STDOUT, without showing the progress bar
 
Anonymous
@ASCII-only Quantum annealers aren't TC. They can't run Shor's algo.
 
@Mego how do I install it?
 
Anonymous
@TrojanByAccident If you're running Linux, you should already have it. If you're on Windows, grab Cygwin.
 
@Mego Wait Google has an actual quantum computer?
 
11:57 AM
@ASCII-only Yes
@Mego I've got Cygwin, although it's disabled via Sophos due to 'virtualization'
 
Oh wait nvm IBM has quantum computers already too right?
 
Anonymous
Yeah, but only like 4 qubits
 
Anonymous
(not counting the D-Wave AQCs)
 
12:11 PM
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Q: Should I delete a downvoted question?

SamCle88Some times ago, I posted a question that is now -3. I got some good answers that helped me (and I accepted one of them), but the -3 score hints that the question is not good. Should I delete it?

 
12:27 PM
Programmable 5 qubit QPC.
Oh great. Hail.
 
1:17 PM
I made a fast solution to this challenge
Here:
 
1:31 PM
Is it possible for humans to create gravity waves powerful enough to be measured? (assuming the detection equipment is literally almost touching the wave-generation machine)
 
Almost certainly not.
 
Yeah, I agree, I'm just curious how the 1.3-billion light-years vs. a couple millimeters compares with the inverse square law.
 
Wolfram alpha seems to say that those distances are about 28 orders of magnitude apart.
Which, by inverse square law, means we only need a signal 1x10^-56 times as powerful.
 
Of gravitational energy. That's the hard part.
 
1:38 PM
The entire earth-sun gravitational system radiates 200 watts of gravitational energy
Also, LIGO is 4km long, so you can't get closer to it than 2km
so there go 6 orders of magnitude
LIGO could detect about a 1 watt source
Unfortunately, that's about as much as the moon going around the earth.
 
more than that... inverse square law now says 1x10^-44
 
Sorry, you're right.
 
So 100,000 watts, right?
 
Yep
Or 5000 sun-earth systems
all within 2km of LIGO
500*
 
Challenge accepted.
What if we magically duplicated our Sun and got them orbiting so close that their surfaces touch? How much gravitational energy does that radiate?
 
1:43 PM
Quickly supernovas
Not sure
When two black holes merge, 5% of the starting mass is released as gravitational energy
might be similar?
 
Anonymous
2:08 PM
@El'endiaStarman Ask Randall
 
2:37 PM
I'm pretty sure that wouldn't pass review.
 
2:50 PM
tfw someone creates a "System-Wide Emergency" ticket for an idea s/he had...
 
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Q: Trailing Newlines, Spaces, Limited Precision and Language Limitations

carusocomputingI think we should gather a list of all languages that are, by default, allowed to to do things differently on challenges that do not explicitly disallow it. Every question I write it seems that someone asks if, "Can I do X instead of Y?", or if, "Can I have X different from the specified output, ...

 
This is definitely the last Behringer mixer I've ever bought. Everything I used from this brand has been utter crap. The XENYX and MIDAS pres are noisier than TNB when there are no mods around.
 
Anonymous
@mınxomaτ Shots fired
 
Ahahaha
 

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