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7:02 PM

@Dennis how come you locked this? Shouldn't it have just been deleted?

It's too awesome to be deleted

@MDXF it has a golfed answer in basic

@Riker Well yeah, then why is it invalid?

Relevant meta discussion: What additional information should be allowed in a submission? — Dennis ♦ Dec 7 '16 at 6:12

7:16 PM

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Q: Display random colored pixels

I've always liked screens full of randomly colored pixels. They're interesting to look at and the programs that draw them are fun to watch. The challenge Fill your screen, or a graphical window, with colored pixels. The rules Your program must have an even chance of picking all colors in the...

code-golf graphical-output random color

i should get the hang of pillow someday

Why does this have 14k (!) subs

random note of the day: the pools in this comic are the ones from Narnia I think

No matter how fast I swing, I can never travel outside this loop! Maybe space outside it doesn't exist! But I bet it does. This tire came from somewhere.

@TuxCopter sigh

@TuxCopter get used to it

wait did it just gain 2k as you refreshed

7:20 PM

memes like this don't stop for a while

@Riker No I just have a very short memory

ah

And I had it wrong by 2k

@totallyhuman none of the above, cov fe fe with e pronounced like in Spanish

I pronounce it as [cofefe]

7:22 PM

I always think of it as "co-fef-eh"

;-;

Nintendo please add this pokemon in the next generation

@Riker The trees are too far apart - I can see sky...

lol

@Riker and the pools are a bit too small

ye

I think it's supposed to be the narnia ones though

7:26 PM

Where's their rings then

dunno

In the absence of any predators, I assume the Wood Between The Worlds is now almost entirely filled with guinea pigs

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hm

I'd think a lot of other worlds would also spontaneously gain guinea pigs as part of the local fauna

Anonymous

@trichoplax Nah, it's filled with owls, like Futurama

user image

TIL Trump speaks Samoan

7:32 PM

@Mego It seems I've seen less Futurama than I'd thought...

Anonymous

@trichoplax A lot of episodes have owls acting like pigeons, and reference the owl overpopulation

Maybe it's just my memory that is less than I'd thought

@trichoplax Wouldn't inbreeding become a massive problem?

Anonymous

For example, in S6E23 (The Tip of the Zoidberg), Zoidberg and Farnsworth are sitting on a park bench feeding bread crumbs to owls

@trichoplax I should move to the Wood Between The Worlds

7:36 PM

@DJMcMayhem I don't know. Maybe having an arbitrarily large space to expand into would allow that problem to gradually sort itself out

@BusinessCat I had made a few ruby golfs which were all puts gets.gsub(/foo/,'bar') without knowing anything else.

Anonymous

@DJMcMayhem That would be the one

That alone gets you surprisingly far.

Anonymous

I don't have Futurama episodes memorized yet - my wife and I just rewatched that one last night so it's fresh in my memory.

7:37 PM

@trichoplax But Polly and Digory only introduced a couple guinea pigs, right? So there isn't enough genetic diversity at the beginning

@Mego Such a fantastic show. I've watched through it 2-3 times already

@DJMcMayhem depends on whether genetic mutations occur as frequently outside of earth as they do on earth, assumptions about scientific laws following earth's laws on other dimensions are always iffy

@DJMcMayhem I thought they found several others there from previous experiments (since none of them had been able to return). I don't know how likely long term species survival is with that kind of bottle neck though

Mmhmm, good point. Both

I think I remember reading somewhere that the minimum genetic diversity needed for humans to safely repopulate without worrying about inbreeding is 100 people?

I think?

Let me see if I can find that link.

There's probably at least one question along those lines on Worldbuilding

Given grass, guinea pigs will survive for years by themselves in a semi-comatose state of simultaneously eating, sleeping, and producing feces.

Anonymous

7:40 PM

@trichoplax That's like 50% of all questions on Worldbuilding

@DJMcMayhem this?

That's the one!

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Q: How many people are required for a healthy re-population of the Earth (Post-Apocalypse)?

In my particular Earth, much has remained after the human-killing virus, and nature is thriving - even taking over the cities. It's beautiful. But I have separated the healthy populace in orbit until it was safe to return. In a near-future scenario, where I have rescued only a few non-relate...

science-based apocalypse near-future post-apocalypse genetics

Anonymous

@Phoenix Sub out grass with meat and the same holds for cats

Assuming domestic guinea pigs, you could leave one in that wood and then find it in nearly the same spot years later.

Anonymous

7:44 PM

@Phoenix That's also assuming the lack of hawks and other birds of prey

We made that assumption at the very start

There are no predators

Anonymous

Oh, I read that as "the woods", ie Earth woodlands with predators and such

Anonymous

I'm tired

lol

Also handy that the only humans in that wood were English, with a cultural aversion to eating guinea pigs

7:45 PM

Can I just say that I love TNB? In a room dedicated to code-golf, we can have a perfectly serious conversation about guinea pig inbreeding and overpopulation, complete with genetic research and mathematical analysis?

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Anonymous

@DJMcMayhem Also owls and Futurama.

I was assuming this was all leading up to "golf the following well specified simulation"

Anonymous

@trichoplax Naturally

"Given an exponential guinea pig growth of x, output the guinea pigs alive after y years, assuming there are no side affects due to inbreeding. One guinea pig cannot reproduce, sorry."

I think the best way to solve this is experimentally.
Step 1: Gather ~20 guinea pigs.
Step 2: Drop everything else, you now have ~20 guinea pigs, what more could you want.

Anonymous

7:48 PM

@Phoenix Step 3: Trade ~20 guinea pigs for ~20 kittens.

@StephenS I would find it a serious cause for concern if a single guinea pig could reproduce

@Phoenix step 4: move somewhere where guinea pigs are food, profit

@Mego The problem is that kittens become less adorable with time.

Anonymous

@Phoenix Provably false

@StephenS ಠ_ಠ

Erik the Outgolfer

7:49 PM

@Mego wrong: I'd trade 'em for ~50 kittens or something

Anonymous

@EriktheOutgolfer I'm assuming a 1:1 exchange rate

@Mego No, see, kittens become cats, which while rather engaging to watch, are not actually all that adorable.

@Phoenix i.imgur.com/2tIslLr.jpg

+1

Erik the Outgolfer

@Mego would you trade 1 EUR for 1 USD then?

7:51 PM

no, +🟊

Anonymous

@Phoenix Again, provably false.

@StephenS Your unicode is too powerful for my font.

@Phoenix it's a star

mine too, and i never see boxes on a chromebook

Erik the Outgolfer

come on it's just a black star

7:51 PM

xahlee.info/comp/unicode_stars.html

o0

@Phoenix cat is adorable can confirm #unbiased

@Mego I suggest a compromise:

user image

Erik the Outgolfer

fake 0/10

Is that a cat reproducing by budding?

Anonymous

7:52 PM

@Phoenix This is acceptable

Guess there's a reason SE rips their icons from here:

user image

@EriktheOutgolfer It's on wikipedia it must be true.

why does every user on ppcg rickroll me ;-;

Erik the Outgolfer

huh?

riker has a rickroll

votetoclose has a rickroll

7:54 PM

>_>

something something tinyurl.com/ppcgsoundtrack I think it goes.

v.ht/riker

that's what you get for stalking my profile :p

@totallyhuman My profile is rickroll free, but uninteresting

i was trying to see what your avatar is :P

7:54 PM

@totallyhuman a guinea pig duh

Anonymous

My profile is similarly rickroll free because I know when to stop beating the dead horse

@Phoenix it's http://bit.ly/ppcgofficialsoundtrack, and it links to a different song by rick astley

@Riker define different

...

kek

7:55 PM

i recognized that url as well

it's actually a different song

@StephenS Try clicking it and find out.

the video didn't even load :P

Erik the Outgolfer

well my profile is rickroll free too

@Phoenix already did, hence the dictionary request

7:57 PM

mine is rickroll free too but it's honestly just a placeholder

Erik the Outgolfer

come on it's actually different

huh? is there any rickroll?

@EriktheOutgolfer v.ht/riker

@EriktheOutgolfer On the right, v.ht/riker

Ninja'd

Erik the Outgolfer

ooh it doesn't use https

rikeroll

7:59 PM

that actually makes sense

jolf code to heuristically solve P = NP

@ConorO'Brien 404

404

fixed now

try again

nj

Anonymous

7:59 PM

This rickroll nonsense has gone too far

probably

Anonymous

We devolved from intelligent discussion to rickrolls

As usual

sorry :P

Were we really at intelligent discussion..?

Anonymous

8:00 PM

14 mins ago, by DJMcMayhem

Can I just say that I love TNB? In a room dedicated to code-golf, we can have a perfectly serious conversation about guinea pig inbreeding and overpopulation, complete with genetic research and mathematical analysis?

@Phoenix narnia->guinea pigs->rickroll

Erik the Outgolfer

what a shame! how did we let ourselves drive away!

CMC: KC "Can I just say that I love TNB? In a room dedicated to code-golf, we can have a perfectly serious conversation about guinea pig inbreeding and overpopulation, complete with genetic research and mathematical analysis?" without builtin string compression

Anonymous

@StephenS 2 bytes: No

KC?

8:01 PM

kolgorov complexity or however you spell it

Anonymous

@totallyhuman kolmogorov-complexity

there's no repetition though

Erik the Outgolfer

what Mego said, not really compressible...wait a sec

How many gps were introduced to narnia in the first place? I think we need a good estimate before continuing.

Anonymous

@Phoenix Somewhere between 2 and 3 billion

8:04 PM

I said good estimate.

Anonymous

It's a better estimate than C. S. Lewis gave us

Anonymous

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I would send the face of disapproval emoticon, but It is no longer in my clipboard and I cannot be bothered to look it up.

What a relief

@Phoenix ಠ_ಠ

you should always have ಠ_ಠ in your clipboard

8:07 PM

The Tacoscripts spoil us.

@Phoenix I don't think any of the ones in the Wood Between The Worlds ever made it to Narnia

Wait, right. You know what I mean though.

<_> too late to edit

Hmmm.... >_> >_< and <_< are ale reasonably valid emoticons but <_> looks weird.

Anonymous

Certainly after a long time, one of the guinea pigs would've found a ring, tried to eat it, and then fell into the Narnia pool

...i don't see how this is any smarter than rickrolls

Oh. That does open a route for predators...

New Sandboxed Posts

8:10 PM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

How many substitutions till palindromization? code-golfstringpalindrome Given a string, find the minimum number of character substitutions needed so that the string is a palindrome. E.g. the string abchefa needs 2 substitutions, so it can take any of the following paths: abchefa -> afchefa ->...

Anonymous

After enough inbreeding, guinea pig survival instincts like "don't eat things that aren't food" and "stay away from strange pools of water" would be long gone

@totallyhuman There isn't a requirement to be smart, only not to be disruptive

well, "evolved"

@Mego I think those would be the last to go.

I'm still curious what they would drink, without crossing dimensions

8:12 PM

I wonder what a biome would look like where all the animals shared a common ancestor, that being a guinea pig

You need a ring to cross dimensions, otherwise they're ordinary pools, right?

Yes it's just normal water otherwise

Probably, I haven't read it in a while, my bad

You should ask about that

@Phoenix wouldn't it be scifi/fantasy?

8:14 PM

Worldbuilding would definitely take it. Their breadth of scope is vast

Apparently there's only one guinea pig in the WBTW: narnia.wikia.com/wiki/Guinea_pig

The question is about how a world would look given some starting conditions.

SciFi is more about existing fiction, rather than speculative questions

If that's not on topic IDK what would be.

@DJMcMayhem noooooooo

@DJMcMayhem I guess I must have blocked out the fact that most of the experiments were failed, and in my mind I remembered them all ending up in a happy place

8:16 PM

:-;

Our plans just came crashing down

No wait

Shame it wasn't a gecko

Wiki page says it, so she may have been pregnant

Yes ^

8:19 PM

On a different note: I have a graduation tonight, a graduation tomorrow night, an evaluation on Monday, and then I'm home free

But what if we can allow the possibility that guinea pigs exploding was just them teleporting in a noisy way, leaving nothing behind.

@StephenS I have to be in school until June 23

@Phoenix hehe well I'm homeschooled so I just have to log 180 days and I'm set

Same here

@Phoenix oh ignore that then

Our 180 days extend until June 23

8:22 PM

@StephenS Even if that were true, the inbreeding problem would be significantly worse

Which is an understatement

@DJMcMayhem right you are

@HelkaHomba Is this language that your using Java 8 compatible?

Significantly isn't a strong enough word lol

@StephenS :D Nice! I was too

For the purposes of a challenge, it might be simpler to model a species that reproduces exclusively by cloning

@DJMcMayhem I can say "was" too in a week

8:24 PM

Congratulations!

Or should I say Congraduations?

You should not.

What is it with TNB and homeschooling.

Riker also

@Phoenix Are you saying you're a homeschooler too?

Homeschooling makes people better at golfing?

@DJMcMayhem I'm not, it just feels like a higher than average proportion of people are.

Mendeleev iirc goes to some sort of e-school so he stays at home too.

It's natural that you would meet a higher proportion here than you would in school

8:26 PM

I think homeschoolers have more free time, so more time to goof around on their computers learning esolangs, but that might just be me

^ point

I'm at school and I goof of on my computer a lot.

^ another point

@Phoenix not in your pajamas though :P

although... they block stack exchange at my school

under "online communities"

8:29 PM

@VoteToClose I guess so

@HelkaHomba It might be worth looking into dynamic proxying if you find yourself doing that reflection business often. It's much more optimized.

Also, @Dennis, have you looked further into making TIO links code-snippet friendly with StackExchange?

@VoteToClose I might just make my own PatriciaTree like you were saying. ("dynamic" sounds like a scary term when applied to Java :P)

@VoteToClose What's wrong with the current TIO links?

@HelkaHomba Dynamic proxying is the coolest thing I've ever seen in Java.

@Phoenix Nothing. But it takes users to a different page, whereas integrating with code snippets makes users more likely to try answers on their own.

@Phoenix think the JS snippets, just for any TIO language

8:34 PM

that would have to be implemented by SE

We're due graduation (features) though, and since we're coders we should have some say in our features, right?

@totallyhuman false XMLHttpRequest is a thing

hmm

@VoteToClose wut?

you could put tio in a snippet though ^^

That's what I'm saying lol

@VoteToClose so an API from Dennis plus a bit of JavaScript in a snippet = runnable code in a post

8:36 PM

^^ not a bad idea

We used to have it in the gradscript but it borked.

@StephenS thumbs up

@Phoenix I'm familiar. ;P

Not everyone is.

hehe i dunno why SE allows everybody to make chat rooms

VSCode doesn't let you drag and drop code, it's so annoying

8:38 PM

that's basically just asking for abuse

@totallyhuman Not everybody, you need 100 rep IIRC

100 rep is not hard really

@TuxCopter aka association bonus?

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/59715/totallyhumans-room

100 anywhere

Site-independent.

8:39 PM

@totallyhuman That's not how SE chat works...

no but that's the point

prepares banhammers

rip

;-;

@totallyhuman hover over the diamond

8:41 PM

i know...

huh TIL that

the diamond means that

kinda odd but ok

it means it's a gallery :P

No, that's the lock.

oh

nvm me then

And the reason the diamond is there is because mods can turn that off

Like, not all mods can enter site mod rooms

8:42 PM

@quartata so mods can lock each other out of rooms?

hmm what would've happened if i didn't link the room in here

Yes although not to target people obviously.

@totallyhuman I found it via all rooms

ah

So the same result would have happened anyways

Yay I've got a bounty that I answered

Bye rep xD

8:47 PM

How do I embed JQuery in a code snippet?

in talk.tryitonline.net, May 21 at 14:31, by Dennis

How would you, e.g., compare the expected and the actual output? They would be on different parts of the screen and you'd have to scroll.

@Dennis Fair.

@VoteToClose You think about your life choices and decide against using JQuery.

@Phoenix Yeah but like it actually really helps here

@Phoenix but this is code-golf and jQuery is twice as short 0.o

8:54 PM

@kalsowerus Yeah, the docs are lacking that right now. The best explanation can be found here.

you can also use the compressor but it only works for a limited number of lowercase words

Is cat usually considered a programming language for PPCG?

no

Then, is there an esolang where the empty program prints whats in the filename of its argument?

Not that I know of

probably lol

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