The Nineteenth Byte

Wheat Wizard

12:01 AM

Does anyone here know Perl?

Pavel

s/know/use No one truly konws Perl.

ASCII-only

@WheatWizard a bit

Riley

@WheatWizard I know some perl

Probably not enough to help though.

ASCII-only

only people like tails from anagol truly know perl

DJMcMayhem

@Pavel except for ton hospel

Wheat Wizard

12:03 AM

What does the program @! do?

ASCII-only

also teebee, ton and mitchs

Pavel

> The only way to determine wether or not a string is valid Perl is to run it.

Wheat Wizard

It is valid perl (I have run it)

ASCII-only

pretty sure it's just a weirdly named array variable?

Wheat Wizard

ok

good

Riley

12:06 AM

@ASCII-only That's what I thought. Notepad++ doesn't highlight it, but that doesn't mean much.

ASCII-only

pretty sure it isn't initialized

but yeah anything starting with @ is an array, anything starting with $ is a scalar (not an array)

Riley

Yep, looks like it's just an array tio.run/nexus/perl#@@@gqGCroJGok6STrGnNVVCUmVei4KD4/z8A

Wheat Wizard

So it is essentially a noop on its own?

Riley

Yep

ASCII-only

tio.run/nexus/perl#@19QlJlXolCcnJiTWKTgoPj/PwA

Riker

12:09 AM

@Downgoat right now we're trying not to add any more names for people who already have at least 1

1000000000

How does one go about changing one's username on the chat profile?

ASCII-only

@1000000000 change username on one account -> change parent user

Riker

@1000000000 go to your chat profile and change your parent account

your chat profile username is the username of the parent acconut

i.e. PPCG, SO, arqade, etc

0 '

@ASCII-only @Riker Thanks

Conor O'Brien

@0' nice username

ASCII-only

12:12 AM

@0' 0/10 the derivative of 0 is just 0

Riker

lel

ATaco

I can't imagine I'll remember that name.

Too long.

Conor O'Brien

CMC: given an integer n, generate a triangle of n. For n = 5, the output might look like this:

ASCII-only

does there need to be a space

0 '

@ConorO'Brien I believe it is the username with the lowest lexicographical ordering possible on SE

Conor O'Brien

12:14 AM

@ASCII-only yes. but it can also be a 2d list/array, optionally 0 padded to the right

Wheat Wizard

@ConorO'Brien Can it be a 1D array with zeros padding?

Conor O'Brien

@WheatWizard sure

ATaco

RProgN2, 8 Bytes. R{1\Rp};

Input in the header because IO is currently improperly implemented.

Riley

@ConorO'Brien <s>05AB1E, 4 bytes </s> Doesn't output the last row

ATaco

That doesn't output the last row.

Conor O'Brien

12:16 AM

^

ASCII-only

@ConorO'Brien what about n=10

Riker

rip python's range function

Conor O'Brien

something like

1
1 2
1 2 3
1 2 3 4
1 2 3 4 5
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

ASCII-only

ouch

rip Charcoal

Conor O'Brien

why? lol

ASCII-only

12:18 AM

idk

Riley

05AB1E 5 bytes: FN>L,

Conor O'Brien

@ATaco also that's in reverse >_>

ATaco

oh

Well that's a bug with my Range function.

Good to know that exists.

Conor O'Brien

Stacked, 4 bytes

Riker

rekt

ATaco

12:21 AM

Oh, I forgot to actually implement \ .

That could cause it.

Wheat Wizard

@ConorO'Brien Brain-Flak 84 bytes

ASCII-only

;_; i'll have to make it noncompeting

ATaco

As do I...

But I can do it in 4 bytes theoretically.

#S\S

ASCII-only

i can do it in 15 bytes theoretically

ATaco

I actually like that solution, very simple.

#S is the "Stackify" function, \ puts that function under the input, and S then stackifies. So the input is converted to a stack with each value being converted to a stack.

ASCII-only

12:30 AM

wait nvm 17 bytes i'm getting my own builtins confused tio.run/nexus/charcoal#AS4A0f//…

Riker

ASCII-only

about calesyta: here is the esolangs wiki page, i think anyone with a wiki page for their submission should add it there

PhiNotPi

1:00 AM

I wrote a program to generate tie knots, given some parameters.

I'm able to specify the desired basic look / size of the knot, and it will generate a list of options.

example output:

{[L, R, L, C, R, C, L, C, R, L, C, U] w:11 sy:-1 sh:2 tw:0 (-1 2 -2, 1 2 2 | -1 -1 1)->(eld) cm:8}

represents the following knot:

Pavel

@PhiNotPi Now go make it a challenge.

Riker

@PhiNotPi define "basic look"? how do you feed in that input

PhiNotPi

@Riker There's four main categories of knots depending on how the topmost layers are arranged. But I can also specify the desired "complexity" of the face of the knot, measured by the number of pieces of fabric which are visible.

Riker

oh cool

PhiNotPi

There are also several other mathematical properties that are filtered for, such as left-right symmetry (so both halves of the knot are equal size) as well as getting the width-height ratio in an acceptable range.

Riker

1:10 AM

oh nice

PhiNotPi

The numbers in the output give a pretty good prediction of what the knot will look like.

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2:02 AM

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2:25 AM

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Q: What criteria must a programming language fit?

On the default loopholes there is an answer that forbids making languages that are made specifically for a challenge. This is definitely a good idea. However, there are loopholes even to this. A user could create programming languages designed for a tag, trivializing many challenges. I believe th...

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2:36 AM

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Q: Meta radiation hardener

Background On this site, we occasionally have questions requiring programs to be "radiation hardened"; this means that the program has to be able to survive the deletion of one or more bytes, no matter which bytes are deleted. As is common for tasks that frequently get set in programming challe...

code-challenge metagolf hashing radiation-hardening

Matthew Roh

we need new avocado juic challeng

Pavel

No we do not.

ais523

60% of the list! admittedly, it required some favorable randomness, but even so, one image can say a lot

Pavel

Take that CodeReview!

ais523

and this is despite me not even trying to hit HNQ over the last couple of days; I've just been sitting back and enjoying the ride, getting more and more scared as it goes

Pavel

2:48 AM

Wait, are those all yours?

ais523

no, only one is

I have three challenges there at the moment though

Pavel

Still pretty good!

ais523

yes, this is a community effort

someone joined the site to upvote one of my answers, I think that's worthy enough

Pavel

Wait, do you use Goat's userscript? Shouldn't the icons be the fancy ones, and not the design-less ones?

ais523

although my proudest achievement of the last 24 minutes is the 5-char Turing-complete subset of JavaScript; that was a community effort too

but it's been widely competed

Pavel

2:50 AM

Oh yeah, I was there.

ais523

and I don't use any userscripts, it's just that none of the sites on that HNQ minilist have designs

Pavel

D: Why don't you use the Design Script?

ais523

I do all my PPCGing in incognito mode, I don't run it in my primary browser

installing a userscript every time would take far too long

Pavel

Wait, why do you need incognito for PPCG?

Matthew Roh

Does knuth up arrow notation apply as same with hyperoperation

hyperoperation has + and *

Downgoat

2:52 AM

Matthew Roh

knuth up arrow doesnt

Downgoat

Any feedback on this prototype-UI?

ais523

@Pavel it creates accounts for you (and thus tracks you) even when you're logged out, I find that fairly disturbing

Matthew Roh

> foked from

Pavel

If you're in chrome, you can just enable extensions in incognito in the settings.

Matthew Roh

2:54 AM

@Downgoat Also you could change 'code' to 'repos'

Pavel

@MatthewRoh That's not how this works.

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Free the Prisoners code-golf Your task is to free a few prisoners. Here they are, in their cells: [sad] [shame] [cops] Rules, explained They have to be specifically freed using whitespace as replacement for each replaced letter, and then place the words to the right of the string, with an...

Pavel

Those are the official terms used by GitHub

Matthew Roh

ok then

but "foked from" is a bit awkward

Pavel

@Downgoat Seems good, I think you should make a tab for the repo's wiki.

@MatthewRoh That is also the proper terminology.

Downgoat

2:56 AM

@Pavel wiki or README?

Matthew Roh

huh? why?

isnt "forked from" correct?

Pavel

Oh, I misread

Downgoat

@MatthewRoh I think he's reffering to the "Also you could change 'code' to 'repos'"

Pavel

Like three times

Downgoat

does the name/fork seem clickable when you see it?

Matthew Roh

2:57 AM

I mean, people seeing the word 'fok' in goathub is a bit awkward

no android app ;_;

Pavel

@Downgoat The wiki, I don't feel that the README deserves it's own tab, you can just do the same as GitHub where it's shown below all the files (Maybe scroll it independently from the rest of the screen, in it's own box).

@Downgoat Very.

Downgoat

@Pavel yeah, that's what I was thinking.

Wiki might come later, that'll require some page stripping

Pavel

Search bar.

It needs a search bar.

Downgoat

I'm trying to create a minimal version that I can start distributing for beta testing

@Pavel I have one of those for personal repos. Search API limitations are tight though. Only like 20 req/hr IIRC

Christopher Peart

Downgoat why do you have something called "PPCG design" that thing will never happen

Pavel

3:01 AM

No Windows Phone version?

(Cries)

Christopher Peart

@Downgoat droid?

Pavel

@ChristopherPeart It's a userscript

Christopher Peart

@Pavel it was a joke

:P

Downgoat

@ChristopherPeart what do you mean by "droid?"?

Christopher Peart

@Downgoat android

Downgoat

3:01 AM

what about android?

Christopher Peart

@Pavel my dad went to the google Pixel for the appstore

@Downgoat will you support it

@DJMcMayhem can I have hex as my username?

Conor O'Brien

@MartinEnder Kind of a retina feature request: that $* work with capture groups as operands, e.g. $1$*$2 or something

Downgoat

I am considering it but iOS is priority, so will do that first

@ConorO'Brien more golfy: $1*2

Pavel

I came up with a solution where you can make it for Windows Phone and not waste your time completely. You can make it a Windows Store app, and make it compatible for both.

Downgoat

@Pavel hahahahaha windows phone

nice one

:P

Pavel

3:03 AM

;-;

Christopher Peart

@Downgoat Windows phones are nice!

Conor O'Brien

@Downgoat but then that would mean 2 repeated $1 times

Christopher Peart

Like legit

They are actually super nice

Downgoat

@ConorO'Brien oh crap whoops

Pavel

Amazing phones, zero app support.

Downgoat

3:04 AM

I will earn $0 for making windows phone app

no one will buy :(

Conor O'Brien

Pavel

Microsoft gives you money every time someone downloads your app

Even if it's free

Downgoat

wait what

brb targeting windows phone

Pavel

Discalimer: May or may not be 1/1000th of a cent per download

Downgoat

As long as I can develop for both android & windows phone at once I am OK with distributing

Christopher Peart

3:06 AM

@ConorO'Brien what sucks is the phones are very very nice

Downgoat

@Pavel They are 100 goats on my farm so that is 0.1 cents :D

Pavel

Well, I'd download it.

Christopher Peart

@Downgoat how much will the app cost?

Downgoat

@ChristopherPeart So is my wish to buy a pygmy goat but it's not going to happen either

@ChristopherPeart None but push notifications require a server, for this I am offering two cases: 1) use my server for some cheap price of like $.99 2) server will be open source so you can download from github and deploy yourself

Christopher Peart

@Downgoat cool

If you do android I would try it

Pavel

3:11 AM

Actually, strictly speaking you don't get paid every time someone downloads, but every time someone views an ad on it.

Which is almost the same thing, there really are no free windows phone apps without ads and a 99 cent microtransaction to turn them off.

Downgoat

I would like to add ads to my app but that would be very annoying

Pavel

If they only exist on the WP version, if the alternative is the WP version not existing, I will bloody well pay those 99 cents to turn them off.

@Downgoat what language are you writing DownGit in?

Downgoat

Swift

Is everyone going to use their own name for GitGoat... :P

Pavel

iirc Android want you to use Java, and WP requires .net

Downgoat

oh god .net

Pavel

3:17 AM

J#?

Christopher Peart

@Downgoat GitGoat is the official name? Yasss

Downgoat

I want to change to GoatHub but too late

will try to do refactor after I don't do CS HW

actually can someone who knows Java help me with it

Pavel

Hai

Sure, I know Java. (Not Swift tho)

Christopher Peart

GoatHub would be cool

I know java

Pavel

GoatHub sounds like a fetish subsection of pornhub... sorry...

Downgoat

3:22 AM

@Pavel I have been saying this for so long!

no one has noticed

Pavel

Wut, when?

Downgoat

Feb 17 at 3:41, by quartata

GoatHub. Duh.

read next few messages after linked one

Destructible Watermelon

What was the issue with downgit?

@Pavel ok who starred this

Christopher Peart

hides

codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/110857/… <-- Trivial edit = dupe

Matthew Roh

3:39 AM

We had a DNA simulator, but not an animated one?

Destructible Watermelon

I'm doing some work on my koth, but I'm still trying to figure out how muddyfish's thing works

Pavel

You should try pinging @muddyfish ^

Christopher Peart

How does one remove all whitespace from input in jelly?

Destructible Watermelon

well, I'm sure he will wake up and help me out

not

wat

please help troubleshoot my mopidy issue

INFO     Disabled extension material-webclient: Dependency The 'setuptools' distribution was not found and is required by wifi not found
INFO     Disabled extension alarmclock: Dependency The 'setuptools' distribution was not found and is required by the application not found
INFO     Disabled extension gmusic: Dependency The 'setuptools' distribution was not found and is required by the application not found

Destructible Watermelon

3:43 AM

install setuptools and also get wifi

wat

$ sudo -H pip install setuptools
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in ./.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages
Requirement already satisfied: packaging>=16.8 in ./.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from setuptools)
Requirement already satisfied: appdirs>=1.4.0 in ./.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from setuptools)
Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.6.0 in ./.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from setuptools)
Requirement already satisfied: pyparsing in ./.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from packaging>=16.8->setuptools)

Destructible Watermelon

oooh

sucks to be you I guess

wat

@DJMcMayhem @Riker In The Peoples Python can you please swap me with wheat for __import__?

Destructible Watermelon

dammit, this going to need a lot of rewriting I think. I need to rewrite how the player interacts with the controller

and then a fair amount of code depends on how it is currently written

can I just ask the players not to modify their own health?

Thomas Ward

@wat fun fact, @Riker needs to do a bit of code revisions for "The People's Python" :P

Destructible Watermelon

3:49 AM

Guys, for a koth can I rely on the bot classes not modifying one of their stats?

as in healing itself

Thomas Ward

@wat ... mostly because he's made what I think might be some egregious errors with exception handling heh

Downgoat

@ThomasWard aaaaahhhh, code reviewer! :P

Pavel

@DestructibleWatermelon You can declare it as a private variable in the superclass.

Destructible Watermelon

@Pavel uh wat

Pavel

This isn't a java question is it

Destructible Watermelon

3:50 AM

doesn't private mean only the bot itself can access it

Thomas Ward

@Downgoat not my fault @Riker got up and dropped it into CR :P

Destructible Watermelon

and so is the exact opposite of what I want?

Pavel

You can add public getHealth() { return health; }

Destructible Watermelon

umm

why would all my bots share the same amount of health

Pavel

It's not static

Destructible Watermelon

3:52 AM

also is python

Pavel

Well then.

Downgoat

@Riker :O HOW COULD YOU BETRAY US AND GO TO CR D:

Destructible Watermelon

also I want my controller to edit the stuff out of class scope probably

wat

discuss.mopidy.com/t/…

Thomas Ward

@Downgoat though this is not ultimately what drew me to this room, of course, it's an interesting coincidence i'm the only reply to @Riker's inquiry. :P

Pavel

3:53 AM

In that case, it's enough to specify that bots may not modify their own HP directly.

wat

hey @ThomasWard why did you decline my flag

Thomas Ward

laughs evilly and disappears into the shadowy mists again

Riker

holy shit 5 pings

Thomas Ward

@wat alright... puts on mod hat, and picks up the diamond-fueled phaser rifle]

@wat rule #1 of chat flagging: don't abuse the chat flags for nonsense crap like "come back"

wat

D:

sorry

Riker

3:55 AM

ok

@wat no

Thomas Ward

rule #2: What you flagged, in my opinion, toes on the border of 'nsfw' but doesn't pass into the realm of really being NSFW to the point I'd squish it

Riker

ask wheat

cc @WheatWizard

wat

ok, I see

Riker

@ThomasWard yep will do tommorrow

@Downgoat because I actually wrote not shit code

and wanted it to be even less not-shit

@ThomasWard thanks for the answer btw

Destructible Watermelon

my code is incredibly bad

Downgoat

3:56 AM

@Riker how? it's tagged [python]? :P

Pavel

@DestructibleWatermelon Submit it to CR

Riker

oh shnap

the burn is strong

Thomas Ward

oh snap

Riker

I have been roasted

just like [burn redacted it was too strong]

Pavel

wikiwand.com/en/List_of_burn_centers_in_the_United_States

Destructible Watermelon

3:56 AM

Sometimes I think that I wouldn't be good at obfuscating code, because I wouldn't where to start. Then I remember what my code looks like

Riker

well night guys imma go to sleep now up early tomorrow

Thomas Ward

@Riker most important is replace literal_eval with a JSON load instead.

Destructible Watermelon

I'm gonna trust people don't heal themselves

Thomas Ward

unless you want to introduce evil EVIL code injection risks of chaos and despair

Riker

@ThomasWard yeah thanks

Downgoat

3:57 AM

@Riker okay now we've crossed a line... :'(

Riker

:( sorry

Downgoat

:P it's okay

Destructible Watermelon

does curry even get roasted?

Riker

fixed

@DestructibleWatermelon no clue

Destructible Watermelon

I don't think it does

Thomas Ward

3:58 AM

you can roast curried meats. I've done it...

... accidentally.

Downgoat

I do not talk about the cat stew we goats eat on the farm so... :P

Riker

;-;

Downgoat

it's Rightgoats fault...

this is why he has no friends

Destructible Watermelon

wait a minute

who is rightgoat?

Thomas Ward

@DestructibleWatermelon Downgoat, but from the alternate universe that I opened a time-space interdimensional bridge to.

Downgoat

4:03 AM

that was you??

Thomas Ward

@Downgoat it's fun messing with Dark Chaos powers.

Unfortunately, not being careful enough means there's evil like dimensional portals that appear randomly. Trying to fix that... :)

Pavel

But who is this Leftgoat I heard about?

wat

Please help.

discuss.mopidy.com/t/…

Destructible Watermelon

someone should make a koth involving goats with different polarities

actually I'm starting to think I should have a class

that holds an object from the player created class

Wheat Wizard

@Riker Ask me what? I can't follow the conversation

Downgoat

4:05 AM

@wat problem is obvious

wat

what is it

Downgoat

> sudo -H pip install setuptools

>_>

you are using python

Rly?

4:06 AM

I did not write the application

@Downgoat Kek.

Thomas Ward

@Downgoat don't diss Python - some of the most important things of eternity are in Python

including SmokeDetector :P

Pavel

What's that?

Downgoat

@ThomasWard python semantic are OK but whoever came up with syntax was on LSD

Thomas Ward

spam detector

wat

i prefer ruby

Destructible Watermelon

4:07 AM

@Downgoat ok what

Thomas Ward

@Downgoat you're thinking BrainF*ck, not Python :P

Downgoat

BF barely even have semantic ._.

Pavel

We should all just use J#.

Thomas Ward

BF writers were on LSD + Ecstasy when they wrote it according to what I heard

wat

Nevermind, I installed python-setuptools from repos instead of pip and the problem went away.

Downgoat

4:09 AM

Fun Fact: I was eating goldfish when making cheddar

Pavel

I told my friend about Cheddar. He's making something called BeanScript now, which will supposedly be better.
Last time I checked in on him, he was trying to parse complete function calls with Java regex >_>

Destructible Watermelon

@Downgoat wat

did you cook them first?

I didn't think anyone ate goldfish...

@Pavel ... what a weenie

oh some guy made a language --> I can make a better one

Pavel

(I'm kind of helping him, one of the projects we can do for our CS class is to implement a programming language)

Thomas Ward

@DestructibleWatermelon if there's nothing else to eat, anything tossed into a fryer is decent heh

Dennis

I'm a bit disappointed downgoat is min instead of reversed.

Pavel

4:15 AM

Except I have no idea how that's supposed to work.

Destructible Watermelon

how many languages are there that are named after java/javascript puns

Downgoat

@Dennis leftgoat should be reversed

@Pavel you have awesome CS class

we here make BankAccountTester

Destructible Watermelon

what would rightgoat be then?

Pavel

@Downgoat Wouldn't that be upgoat?

@Downgoat BTW, do you mind if I steal some of your source code? I have no idea how to write a proper parser >_>

Dennis

@Pavel I'd like to see the teacher's face if the result is anything like Jelly or Half-Broken Car in Heavy Traffic.

Pavel

4:18 AM

I suppose I could submit Sushi.

Wheat Wizard

@Dennis @1000000000 did a good deal of his work for his algorithms class in Brain-Flak

Destructible Watermelon

Imagine a 2d language actually used for professional code because it is actually useful...

Dennis

O.O

Destructible Watermelon

what exactly is an algorithms class?

PhiNotPi

solution: make a 2D language (any quality is acceptable), but then give it the best scientific computing library ever.

Wheat Wizard

4:21 AM

@DestructibleWatermelon Its a University course required for computer science majors that teaches people how to write code that doesn't have a ridiculous order notation.

Pavel

@PhiNotPi So, transpiles to/from Mathematica?

Destructible Watermelon

you know, a lot of my more recent code has had terrible order notation. Specifically Turtlèd code

the square number generator is ridiculous I think

or maybe my interpreter is just crap

Thomas Ward

your interp. is failing, that's always the reason.

Destructible Watermelon

I think it'd still take a while anyway

yeah, its definitely pretty bad with how it uses strings when it could use numbers, but still

my code is pretty hard to read. the spaces are each made up of a list, with two lists in it and a bool, which says whether there is a flag. the lists have the amount of each team in it and if any on a team is holding the flag

this is why I must work on this alone

and also for the sake of your own sanity you may not look at the source code anymore

Pavel

Submit it to CR

Thomas Ward

4:29 AM

and prepare for a reaming :P

Destructible Watermelon

no, even though the people on CR suck

I do not hate them that much

Downgoat

@Pavel steal source code from where?

It is OK if you link to author and source

Pavel

The GitHub repo, but it was mostly a joke.

I'm using Java, not Node, so it won't be too helpful.

Destructible Watermelon

example of a function from the code

def has_enemy(space, team):
    if not is_wall(space):
        index = 0 if (team == 1) else 1
        return space[index][0] > 0

Pavel

I've been looking through though, just seeing how everything is put together.

Destructible Watermelon

4:38 AM

I have an awful feeling my koth is always going to be way too slow

and that I won't be able to speed it up

Pavel

Destructible Watermelon

but code review

also their heads might asplode

Pavel

That's the point

This is a clever plot to drive them all insane as revenge for them getting a design before us.

Destructible Watermelon

this code could be a memetic hazard SCP

Matthew Roh

5:02 AM

SO is "Make me code" and CR is "Fix my code", whats the difference?

betseg

@DJMcMayhem me hasattr plz

betseg hasattr

Dennis

@MatthewRoh Neither is true. "Fix my code" in on topic in SO, but not CR. "Make me code" isn't on topic anywhere.

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Q: Html beginner needs help here

Hello guys since two weeks I had started to learn html as the first step for me to learn coding and I love it but right now im facing a few problems and I will Mention one for now and I hope I will get some helpful advises and sources to learn faster and of course the answer of my question ::: Ok...

programming-puzzle

Albert Renshaw

^Lol

so on that post he was just asking a very basic HTML question (He thought he was on stackoverflow not CG).. I almost Answered the question explaining how the HTML tags worked with just a paragraph or two and then titled my answer:

#English, 832 bytes

Pavel

5:17 AM

HTML is not easy to get wrong, unless you're on IE I suppose.

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