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12:01 AM
It's currently 29 off then :P
 
but, what could possibly be more popular than threats of kicks and suspensions?
 
nice
 
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Digital TraumaMany Happy Returns! I'm not sure whether to make this code-golf or code-challenge. Write a function that when it returns, it returns an extra frame up the stack. In other words, functions usually return directly to their callers; however, here the function should return directly to its calle...

 
Asking this question here because I know more people here than on other chats and metas. I just encountered a user on English.SE who has 100k+ rep, mostly from short answers of the "I just googled your keywords and copied the first thing that looked relevant" sort.
The kicker is that within 1 second of me downvoting his irrelevant answer to my question, my question was downvoted. I'm going to follow him elsewhere and see if he's running a script/bot that retaliates downvotes. If he is... is that OK on SE? Should I bring it up on the main meta, or the meta for English?
 
12:06 AM
a revenge script isn't allowed, but stalking users isn't exactly kosher either
 
I somewhat doubt the downvote on your post was related to your downvote (seeing as it now has multiple downvotes), and I very highly doubt the user has a script to revenge-downvote.
(I don't even know if such a script is possible)
 
@ETHproductions Can't be, not even mods know who voted how.
 
Oh yeah, that's quite true
 
bots can make the same guesses humans can, though
 
I honestly don't see why either post was downvoted, though I'm not familiar with English.SE
 
12:13 AM
doesn't have to be a guess. it could just be downvoting the question any time its answer is downvoted
 
people have various reasons
 
I did check enough of his answers to make sure he's not just a straight up bot
 
The answer seems somewhat related, though I don't think it's what you were looking for
 
He deleted the answer after I downvoted it.
 
SE is apparently not updating in my browser, I can still see it (I noticed the same thing with another answer earlier)
Reloading will make it disappear, I'm sure
And there it goes...
 
12:16 AM
Am in a library
 
@Sparr Honestly, I've experienced the problem you mention in your question quite a bit just from playing Catan with my younger siblings...
 
Internet is so slow, <1 Mbit/s. In the Issaquah library I always got >120 Mbit/s
 
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Conor O'BrienMCDI: Make and Change Directory into Input: A string consisting of only alphanumeric characters, whose length does not exceed 255. It is given as string input, through STDIN on a single line, through ARGV, etc. Effect: If a directory with the given name does not exist in the current directory, ...

 
language idea, /// but with Regex.
5
 
I'd love that. I've actually thought about making it myself
 
12:23 AM
@ETHproductions would appreciate a comment to that effect, so the dissent doesn't seem so even
@ATaco what kind of regex? PCRE would make for a crazy powerful language.
 
(I made a version in Java)
Well, it's different, but the initial concept remains the same.
 
language idea: a befunge+retina cross-over - moving across grid triggers text replacements for the nodes it passes over. No other memory space. Branching is done on a matches / doesn't match basis
 
Language idea: Tomatofunge
 
@ATaco Perl-compatible regex is best regex.
 
Tomatofunge sounds like a vegetarian dish.
 
12:31 AM
Or a parasite.
 
I vote for a parasite
 
dammit
I should start amximizing my terminals
 
hey, way of kings (the first book in my all time favorite series) ebook is free for the next 48 hours. I'd highly recommend it if you haven't read it
@Sparr hey, nice to see you!
 
@NathanMerrill downloaded. Why is the book 36 MB?
 
it's a big book. 1000 pages IIRC
 
12:38 AM
wow
still, why not just zip the book?
 
I don't know what goes into an ebook
 
Apparently "high resolution art"
 
oh yeah, the maps
 
I believe that Java's Regex is PC.
I wrote a script to convert to Unary.
It's too long to post in this chat.
 
Waaaat. Wikipedia is only 13 GB?
 
12:45 AM
gist: c5eea3b70e7f59d2b034eb772dfc17c8, 2017-03-24 00:45:03Z
u\{0(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}}/u\{1(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}#}/u\{2(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}##}/u\{3(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}###}/u\{4(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}####}/u\{5(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}#####}/u\{6(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}######}/u\{7(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}#######}/u\{8(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}########}/u\{9(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}#########}/u\{(#*)\}/$1/mult\{(#*)#\}\{(.*?)}/mult{$1}{$2}$2/mult\{\}\{.*?\}//u{512}
This script converts Decimal to Unary.
 
@ATaco Isn't that basically retina?
 
@Mendeleev define Wikipedia
does it include wikimedia?
edits?
 
@NathanMerrill Current revisions of all English articles in main namespace.
 
compressed?
 
@Dennis Perl-compatible regex is NOT regex :p
 
12:47 AM
Compressed with bzip2 at extreme setting.
Wikipedia + all namepaces + all history is 250 GB compressed
 
@NathanMerrill thanks. I wish I could hang out here more. Haven't been doing much PPCG in a while, or recreational coding in general lately. Work and life have me distracted with projects.
 
Apparently expands to multiple terabytes of text.
Wikipedia offers free copies of all available content to interested users. These databases can be used for mirroring, personal use, informal backups, offline use or database queries (such as for Wikipedia:Maintenance). All text content is multi-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). Images and other files are available under different terms, as detailed on their description pages. For our advice about complying with these licenses, see Wikipedia:Copyrights. == Offline Wikipedia readers == Some of the many...
 
@Mendeleev to most people, "Wikipedia" is just the main namespace, without edit history that isn't a recent edit war.
 
@Sparr yeah. I have read a lot about Wikipedia
 
Retina is like this but actually useful.
 
12:48 AM
also you have to consider whether you are including images and media that is linked from wikimedia commons and other mediawiki sites
 
@Sparr What do you do?
 
ProTip: Don't start 250GB torrents on your 320GB hard drive. It creates filler files.
This will be fun™ to clean up
 
currently changing jobs from Splunk to LinkedIn, doing server deployment automation, monitoring, etc
also currently bootstrapping an off-grid everyone-lives-in-vehicles intentional community in San Francisco
also in project ramp-up mode for some summer events that I need to build physical things for, including reviving a dead cabin boat
 
Linked-in. That's a big name
although, looking at splunk, that seems far more interesting
 
Should I HPKP?
 
12:53 AM
my role is the same at any big software service tech company. I don't actually use Splunk at Splunk, and I won't be touching LinkedIn's site or services at LinkedIn.
I'm layers away from that
 
user165474
Wait, the reputation for viewing deleted posts is 2000? I thought it was 10 000...
 
surprise! :)
 
user165474
@Sparr It's 10 000 on Stack Overflow, which is the first Stack Exchange site I used, so I had that number memorized. :P
 
user165474
Also, according to the Stack Exchange edits, I've "reached" 3.7m people on SO whereas Dennis has only reached 3.1m people here :P Then again, SO is a much larger community so it's very biased... :)
 
It's because we don't have a design yet. When we get a design the reputation levels will go up.
 
user165474
1:01 AM
Oh... Does that mean everyone below 25k will lose a some privileges?
 
user165474
(I would presume so)
 
user165474
Okay. Well theoretically as of now I'll only lose one, which is the 1.5k one; the 1k one will become the 1.5k one
 
Well then I guess I just need to gain 86 more rep before graduating
 
user165474
@DJMcMayhem What does the term "graduate" mean?
 
1:08 AM
No wonder my laptop was running so slow, I accidentally left a bruce-forcer running all day.
 
user165474
@PhiNotPi I did that once and it crashed my computer :( lol
 
was this result worth it?
  0  0  1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
  0  0  0  1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
  0  0  0  0  1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
  0  0  0  0  0  1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
  0  0  0  0  0  0  1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0
  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  1  0  0  0  0  0  0
  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  1  0  0  0  0  0
  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  1  0  0  0  0
  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  1  0  0  0
  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  1  0  0
  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  1  0
  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  1
 
that depends. could you have guessed that that would be the optimal solution?
 
user165474
Is this a matrix?
 
yes
 
1:12 AM
that solution probably falls into one of two categories. either "that's what I thought, and what a waste of CPU", or "omg, that's amazing, I had no idea a solution would be that simple"
 
user165474
So wait, to what question is the matrix meant to be the solution?
 
I would say it falls into the waste of CPU category, but maybe not since I wasn't sure if any interesting large solutions exist and it appears that there are none.
 
I don't know the question, but I'm intrigued that all the cases above 5 seem to have a solution that's just a rotated identity matrix, but a few of the small cases seem to have some other interesting diagonal pattern
 
The question relates to a Lembik-related matrix challenge.
 
user165474
1:20 AM
@Sparr What do you mean by rotated? Like [0, 1], [1, 0]?
 
user165474
0 0 0 1
0 0 1 0
0 1 0 0
1 0 0 0
 
user165474
@PhiNotPi Is the challenge posted on PPCG?
 
It's codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/49218/… but with one additional restriction: that the number of bits flipped to go from one column to the next is constant.
 
user165474
Ok, that's interesting. I don't like the idea of taking columns because you're not supposed to do that but oh well, such is life :P
 
user165474
@PhiNotPi Wait, so by the number of bits flipped, you mean like element-wise and then sum, right? So (1, 2, 3) -> (4, 5, 6) gives 7?
 
1:28 AM
I'm going to make one of those visual puzzles what like puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/49921/…
some time
 
user165474
@DestructibleLemon That is a very strange coincidence if you ask me. :P Probably unrelated, but interesting observation.
 
Yeah, I tried some other capitalisations and learned not to put random urls in imgur
 
@HyperNeutrino example:
  0  0  1  0  1  1
  0  0  0  1  0  1
  1  0  0  0  1  0
  0  1  0  0  0  1
  1  0  1  0  0  0
to go from first column to second, you flip 3 bits and keep 2 constant, same with 2nd -> 3rd and 3rd->4th, etc.
 
user165474
Would that work with this?

0 0 1 0 1 1
0 0 0 1 0 1
2 0 0 0 1 0
0 1 0 0 0 2
1 0 2 0 0 0
 
One of the restrictions of the challenge is that values must be 0 or 1
 
user165474
1:33 AM
@DestructibleLemon I am both tempted to do that and afraid to do that :P
 
user165474
@PhiNotPi Oh, that makes it a lot easier.
 
user165474
But I also noticed some non-binary values in your gist page?
 
user165474
@DestructibleLemon I should have listened to you while I had the chance ;_;
 
I warned you
also making the puzzle now
 
user165474
lol i have learned that lesson too (rip)
 
user165474
1:37 AM
well time to erase my web history
 
Are you at school at the moment?
 
user165474
Fortunately, no. Actually, imgur.com is blocked at my school. I'm at home right now.
 
FFS congress removed all privacy regulations for ISPs
 
@HyperNeutrino lucky lol
 
and my VPN is also located in US so don't know what this means >_<
 
user165474
1:42 AM
Yeah lol had I been at school I would have not seen it though, so that probably would have been luckier. Unless school officials looked it up and kicked me out of school. Which, given my current state, I wouldn't mind too much.
 
would school officials believe "I was putting random urls in imgur"
 
@HyperNeutrino there's also an interesting connection between these types of matrices and space telescopes
 
user165474
probably not.
 
user165474
@PhiNotPi What is this connection? I'm interested.
 
user165474
@DestructibleLemon Then again, school officials may also wonder why I'm looking up sites about marijuana (answer: homework [long story])
 
1:45 AM
homework makes sense
 
user165474
yeah, like it's for civics class so I need to look at a civic issue, and it's a pretty big one in canada/us
 
@HyperNeutrino if you look at the diagonals of these matrices, they represent a 1D coded aperture: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coded_aperture
 
user165474
@PhiNotPi That is very interesting. Will look further into it
 
@HyperNeutrino Oh, sorry. I meant once we get our design
(which as we all know will happen on November first)
 
user165474
@DJMcMayhem Oh it is? Okay, I did not know that. And is 45k like the reputation required for the last privilege to be given? And also, what does the term "design" mean here?
 
1:56 AM
gonna make a program to help me with my puzzle
 
@PhiNotPi Cool!
 
gist: Factorial Function, 2017-03-24 02:09:14Z
u\{0(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}}/
u\{1(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}#}/
u\{2(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}##}/
u\{3(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}###}/
u\{4(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}####}/
u\{5(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}#####}/
u\{6(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}######}/
u\{7(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}#######}/
u\{8(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}########}/
u\{9(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}#########}/
u\{(#*)\}/$1/mult\{(#*)#\}\{(#*)}/mult{$1}{$2}$2/mult\{\}\{.*?\}//
sub\{(#*)#\}\{(#*)#\}/sub{$1}{$2}/
sub\{(#*)\}\{\}/$1/
sub\{\}\{(#*)\}/$1/
factorial\{(#*)#\}\{((?:#+,)*)(#+),(#+)\}/factorial{$1}{$2$3,$4,$3$4}/
factorial\{(#+)\}\{\}/factorial{sub{$1}{##}}{#,#}/
factorial\{(\d+)\}/factorial{u{$1}}{}/
factorial\{\}\{([#,]*)}/$1/



factorial{5}
Factorial Function in this regex thing.
 
user165474
Um. Question mark?
 
user165474
This is a regular expression?
 
Technically, yes.
It's a bunch of regular expressions that run repeatedly on that last line until the value is constant.
 
user165474
2:10 AM
That is really cool. Regex never fails to amaze me...
 
user165474
BTW does anyone know why ETH has an account called ETHBot?
 
@HyperNeutrino Because he wrote a chatbot and needed an account for it?
 
Also, the output of that function is in unary, because converting from unary to decimal is a pain.
#,#,##,###,#####
 
user165474
Oh... well... that might be rather large output then...
 
I can make a unary to decimal function.
 
user165474
2:17 AM
@ГригорийПерельман Strangely enough, I have seen ETHBot answers somewhere before
 
user165474
@ATaco Coolio. I'll try to make one as well, it might be a good regex/programming exercise.
 
@HyperNeutrino Because that's the account he's logged into on chrome and occassionaly he opens chrome by accident.
 
user165474
@ГригорийПерельман Oh, okay. Makes sense. Thanks, I was kind of intrigued by this!
 
user165474
I took chrome off of my taskbar because I never want to accidentally open it (the Linux version is rather slow), but for whatever reason, external links like links from Discord will open with chrome.
 
user165474
@ГригорийПерельман Did you change your username from Pavel, or is that a completely different user?
 
user165474
Okay.
I wonder if any two users have the exact same image as each other.
 
prolly a bunch of blank google account ones exist
 
user165474
Aren't they given a unique rotationally-symmetrical avatar though? (I think)
 
@HyperNeutrino Yeah, that was to get 20 rep for access to chat
 
user165474
@ASCII-only You mean ETHBot?
 
2:31 AM
@HyperNeutrino Yeah
 
user165474
oh k. Right, I forgot about that restriction. lol. I also forgot about the 50 rep comment restriction. funny, because i just answered a meta question yesterday and i had to look this all up
 
gist: Fibonacci, 2017-03-24 02:35:17Z
u\{0(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}}/
u\{1(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}#}/
u\{2(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}##}/
u\{3(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}###}/
u\{4(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}####}/
u\{5(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}#####}/
u\{6(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}######}/
u\{7(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}#######}/
u\{8(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}########}/
u\{9(\d*)(#*)\}/u{$1mult{##########}{$2}#########}/
u\{(#*)\}/$1/
d\{((#{10})*)(\d*)\}/d{over10{$1}0$3}/
d\{((#{10})*)#(\d*)\}/d{over10{$1}1$3}/
d\{((#{10})*)##(\d*)\}/d{over10{$1}2$3}/
d\{((#{10})*)###(\d*)\}/d{over10{$1}3$3}/
d\{((#{10})*)####(\d*)\}/d{over10{$1}4$3}/
d\{((#{10})*)#####(\d*)\}/d{over10{$1}5$3}/
d\{((#{10})*)######(\d*)\}/d{over10{$1}6$3}/
d\{((#{10})*)#######(\d*)\}/d{over10{$1}7$3}/
d\{((#{10})*)########(\d*)\}/d{over10{$1}8$3}/
d\{((#{10})*)#########(\d*)\}/d{over10{$1}9$3}/
d\{over10\{\}(\d*)\}/$1/
over10\{(#*)(#{10})(:(#*))?\}/over10{$1:sub{$2}{#########}$4}/
over10\{#{0,9}(:?(#+))}/$2/
mult\{(#*)#\}\{(#*)}/mult{$1}{$2}$2/mult\{\}\{.*?\}//
sub\{(#*)#\}\{(#*)#\}/sub{$1}{$2}/
sub\{(#*)\}\{\}/$1/
sub\{\}\{(#*)\}/$1/
fibonacci\{(#*)#\}\{((?:#+,)*)(#+),(#+)\}/fibonacci{$1}{$2$3,$4,$3$4}/
fibonacci\{(#+)\}\{\}/fibonacci{sub{$1}{##}}{#,#}/
fibonacci\{(\d+)\}/fibonacci{u{$1}}{}/
fibonacci\{\}\{(#*,)+(#+)}/d{$2}/



fibonacci{12}
Get the Nth Fibonacci number, returns in Decimal.
 
user165474
um.......... it may take me a few years to understand that. But nice job. :)
 
user165474
Also nice GitHub username
 
@HyperNeutrino Looks like most if it is just things like unary operations e.g. unary subtraction etc
 
user165474
2:40 AM
@ASCII-only Yeah, looks like it. I can kind of understand most of it but I don't know for sure exactly what it does.
 
@ATaco for some reason that looks horribly inefficient
retina > a million regeces
 
Well, retina has an understanding of bytes and chars, and a decimal/unary conversion in built
This has neither
 
hmm is there an interpreter for this anywhere
 
Not that I've published
I may publish it soon
 
Which lang is this?
 
2:47 AM
I've not named it yet.
 
Wait, is there anything that this does that retina doesn't?
 
@ГригорийПерельман Probably not
 
Probably not.
 
-2
Q: Parsing numbers and primes! [HARD]

Some guyGiven an integer, calculate its score as described below. If the integer input happens to be prime then the largest digit in the number will be added to the score otherwise the smallest digit will be subtracted from the score to produce the final result. Example Here's an example of calculati...

 
user165474
@NewMainPosts I saw square brackets at the end of the question so at first I thought it had been closed :P
 
2:52 AM
@ATaco Wait, which regex flavor?
If it's PCRE or Ruby we could say it does more than Retina.
 
PCRE.
 
PCRE has more features than .NET
That's it, this language is the new Retina.
 
No, .NET has more than PCRE iirc?
 
In particular, Java's Regex, which is Almost-PCRE, (Lacks Conditionals)
 
.NET is bog-standard regex but with balancing groups, PCRE does weird things like recursive groups.
@ATaco Oh, java regexes are not more powerful than .NET
 
2:55 AM
Yeah
.NET has recursion as well
 
Wait, really?
I did not know that.
From SO:
> C# regexes share some syntax with PCRE regexes. Most of the features overlap but both libraries keep their own specifics:

A couple examples:

PCRE

Supports recursion
Supports backtrack control verbs
Supports constructs like (?(DEFINE) ... )
Supports more options
Offers a DFA parsing mode
Supports partial matches
Supports \K
Supports X++ shorthand syntax (equivalent of (?>X+))
.NET

Supports capture stacks and duplicate named groups
Supports balancing groups
Supports variable length lookbehind
 
my puzzle nears completion
 
@DestructibleLemon Which one is that?
 
yeah nvm .net has balancing groups instead of recursion
 
not published yet
 
@HyperNeutrino No, 25k is the max needed
 
@ASCII-only Yeah, and recursion is more powerful than balancing groups.
 
I'll see if a PCRE Lib exists for java.
 
@ГригорийПерельман how
 
Actually, I'm not sure if it's more powerful now that I think about it. It might just be more convenient to someone more used to PCRE
 
3:02 AM
Java's Regex is less powerful than both, so this needs fixing.
 
Be warned, last modified in 2002 and not very stable.
 
.Does it have Recurrsion?
 
ok, now I must figure out what the answer is
to my puzzle
 
I mean, it doesn't need it, recursion is possible with even literal replace with the way this works.
 
I think so? You can look at the website.
 
3:03 AM
oh, I know
 
You could also download PCRE directly and make api calls to it.
 
@ATaco yeah, why do you even need pcre though
if you're not using it
 
Because I could be using it.
 
how to upload to stack.imgur.com?
 
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A: Parse text file with regular expression

MikeMJRegex does not seem to support recursive matching, so I suggest you just use java.util.regex and set a limit upon the number of levels of nesting. For example, to allow up to fifty levels of nesting, with an 'unlimited' number of bracket pairs on each level (except the deepest), you could use ...

 
3:04 AM
@DestructibleLemon see the uplaod button to the right of [send]?
 
how to without posting to chat
ehh doesn't matter anyway
 
@DestructibleLemon post to sandbox + delete?
 
not the same...
makes no difference
 
In what other case would you want to?
 
@DestructibleLemon you can make a userscript
 
3:14 AM
gist.github.com/TehFlaminTaco/f285eb6bc208b66d701e265b26366941 <Onebox Snip> Fibonacci in Fibonacci, For the lels
 
there has been an unforeseen complication in the puzzling
 
@ATaco pls make times10 or mult10 so it is shorter
 
Naaaah.
 
Are (?#) normal regex comments, or did you implement that?
 
I implemented, but they're PCRE comments.
 
3:27 AM
I uhh... don't comment my regexes. I just leave a # or // comment above explaining what it's doing.
Can you add #! support so I can use it as a pro version of sed?
 
You want to make SheBangs..?
 
Sure. #!java /usr/local/bin/fibonacci.jar
 
Uh, building C code is clicking the compiler button in VS/CLion/Code::Blocks/Whatever, or am I missing something?
 
Figuring out how to code in C because all you know is java
 
3:41 AM
@ГригорийПерельман I mean if you are writing "Hello World" C program then yes, it's that simple, but anything more complex than that and hell will be greeting you >_>
 
Added #Comments
 
@MistahFiggins Well, you learn Prolog first, and then 10 years later you emerge from the library having achieved spiritual transcendence and no longer need to code in C.
Prolog is the weirdest non-esolang.
 
Alright, I'm naming this ReRegex.
 
Cool
Wait, is there a repo yet?
 
3:45 AM
@ATaco WARNING: No README found.
 
Call via java ReRegex.jar code.rr
And you are correct, I've not set up a readme.
 
"throws exception"
ಠ_ಠ
 
Is there a ban system in GH?
I don't mean termination of service when I violate the TOS.
 
 
Doesn't Eclipse auto-insert the exceptions as needed?
 
3:49 AM
Yep.
 
tio.run/nexus/… <-- open Debug, look a the timings, and weep
 
how should I phrase the wording on my puzzle, given that the puzzle is entirely in the picture?
 
@ATaco There's also a handy "surround with try/catch"...
 
@MistahFiggins catch (Exception e){} is worse than throws Exception
 
I haven't actually posted a puzzle before
 
3:57 AM
@ГригорийПерельман You're right. but both autofill with the exception type
 
The only reason I did it is because I just wanted to pass all exceptions to STDERR and halt.
 
It does that if you leave off throws Exception
 
Yeah but Eclipse does the Red Squiggly line.
 
4:06 AM
The infamous squiggly in Word is the most annoying. You click ignore once (no "ingore all") and as soon as you modify that paragraph, it comes back
 
Yea!
and a hard g in gif
 
Java still #1 non-web lang, good to see.
Windows is beating Linux tho
:(
No, wait, that's development platform, not personal OS.
Yeah, Windows makes sense to be number 1
49.5 percent say they hate java
:(
Visual Basic 6 has a 90% disaproval, so, sucks to be a VBA developer I guess.
 
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Q: What does it want?

Destructible LemonSo, I found this image. I feel like it wants something You might wanna go ahead and download the image, because it will be useful to be able to scribble around on the image for counting and stuff. It won't mind What does this image want? P.S. The puzzle is all in the image. It knows to tell ...

 
4:24 AM
that's a really mean prank
 
@ГригорийПерельман the good thing is it only took 60-80 minutes to fix
 
Cool
@ATaco Maybe you can include a kind of 'Standard Library' for things like converting base 10 to base 1
 
That sounds like cheating.
 
4:39 AM
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You already basically have function definitions.
 
huh?
language?
 
I've named it ReRegex
 
It's retina, but better|worse
 
Much worse.
 
Does it do anything Retina doesn't do yet?
 
4:46 AM
I don't know Retina well enough to answer that yet.
 
Does anyone know when Martin Ender tends to be online?
 
But I think they're fundimentally different in that Retina executes the regex(s) once, where as this does it until it's stable
 
Global != Repeated
 
4:49 AM
That'll run forever in ReRegex.
 
So, I have a dilemma. Maybe you folks can help me figure out the best course of action.
My recent question has ASCII-art as input and output. I wrote the question to specifically require I/O as either a multiline string or a list of strings. But I've received answers that use a 2D array of single-character strings instead (if I understand Mathematica's type system correctly).
List of single-char strings" for string input was not well-received on Meta.
 
Can you link the answer?
 
So, question: should I stick to what I wrote and require posters to change their code (which would be consistent, but wouldn't add anything interesting to the algorithm), or should I change the specs to allow what people have already written (which would override the Meta consensus on strings)?
@ГригорийПерельман Here
 
4:52 AM
A truth machine in this is 1$/11/<INPUT>
 
Yeah, Mathematica doesn't have a concept of characters.
@DLosc I think you should require the answer to comply with meta concensus, you can trivially add a builtin to merge the strings so it shouldn't harm anyone too much.
 
@DLosc It seems like you can always expand the loop out to always make an octagon. Interesting challenge +1
 
@MistahFiggins I wasn't gonna give anyone that hint, but yes. ;)
 

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