The Nineteenth Byte

Leaky Nun

00:00

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Q: Draw HyperNeutrino's benzene hegaxon icon in ASCII

In celebration of HyperNeutrino getting back their account and rep, following Mr. Xcoder. Apologies for rotating the picture for drawability. Print or output this ASCII art exactly. You may have trailing spaces and/or a trailing newline. _______________ / \ / ...

Destructible Lemon

would you like to see my current progress on the hello world program?

Leaky Nun

@HyperNeutrino I think you should do this challenge

> Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.

Terry Pratchett - Mort

Riker

00:14

one of my favorite quotes :D

@LeakyNun @HyperNeutrino what happened?

the age cut-off?

or something else

Leaky Nun

@Riker ya

Riker

o

Leaky Nun

2 hours ago, by HyperNeutrino

1. chat made it seem like I was <13
2. I deleted the contents of my entire profile which was very suspicious
3. Apparently I was reported.

but, all's well that ends well

8 hours ago, by HyperNeutrino

my rep just +6000'd

8 hours ago, by HyperNeutrino

@LeakyNun My content was reattributed to this account, essentially merging the two.

New Main Posts

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Q: Make a program that plays chess

Write a program that plays chess following all the standard rules, including en passant and castling. vertical castling is optional but not required. It must randomly choose a side, remember and display the position. It must also judge the 50-move rule and 3-fold repetition. In the case of a tie...

code-golf

feersum

> vertical castling

Mendeleev

00:25

Destructible Lemon

@feersum no, I know what this guy is talking about

Mendeleev

I have successfully put the Monstercat visualizer on my desktop

Destructible Lemon

there was a very famous chess problem, back in the time when chess rules were a bit ambiguous

feersum

@DestructibleLemon If you do, then you don't know what you're talking about.

Destructible Lemon

and the solution was to promote to a rook, and castle

of course, the loophole was then patched up

HyperNeutrino

00:27

wtf that ~~exists~~ *existed?

Destructible Lemon

@feersum now, that was uncalled for ;_;

@HyperNeutrino *existed

also another famous one involved promoting to an enemy knight

feersum

Do you have a good reference for this?

Destructible Lemon

no, but I remember reading about it. Again, it has been patched out of the rules

feersum

I'm not going to believe it then.

Destructible Lemon

Pam-Krabbé-Rochade

Die Pam-Krabbé-Rochade war nach früherem Wortlaut der FIDE-Regeln ein erlaubter Schachzug, dessen man sich jedoch nicht bewusst war. Es handelte sich um eine Rochade mit einem umgewandelten Turm. == Erläuterung == Nach früherer Regel durfte eine Rochade dann ausgeführt werden, wenn der König noch nicht bewegt wurde, der beteiligte Turm noch nicht bewegt wurde, zwischen dem König und dem beteiligten Turm keine andere Figur steht, der König über kein Feld ziehen muss, das durch eine feindliche Figur bedroht wird, der König vor und nach dem Zug nicht im Schach steht. Dies schließt aber nicht aus,…

but it is in german

quora.com/In-chess-is-castling-allowed-vertically

it was loophole abuse the entire time, but it was a funny loophole abuse

I don't think it was ever used in an actual chess game

HyperNeutrino

00:31

VTC the rules as unclear then

2

:P

welp gtg now, ಠ/

Destructible Lemon

@HyperNeutrino they clarified them

Mendeleev

what is ಠ/

feersum

So it's some kixnd of conspiracy theory claiming there's a "secret castling move" in one particular written set of rules?

Destructible Lemon

no, there used to be a technical loophole

Anonymous

@feersum No, it was a loophole that was later closed in FIDE rules

feersum

00:33

If you tried that in a game against anyone, you wouldn't have gotten away with it.

Destructible Lemon

nope.

but it was a funny chess problem, and the point is that the question asker isn't making something random up

feersum

The claim that it was an allowed move is bullshit, but I'll grant you were referring to something, so my apologies.

Anonymous

@feersum A judge would note that it was technically legal after a careful reading of the relevant section in the rule book, and then beat you with the rule book.

3

Anonymous

The RAW allowed it, but it was clearly not intended to be legal, so it was later banned.

feersum

I don't think such ultra-literal loopholism is typically practiced in law.

Destructible Lemon

00:36

@feersum but this is game rules, not law, and the rules quite clearly did not specifically disallow it

feersum

But in practice no one would care. You would not be permitted to make that move in a tournament.

Destructible Lemon

@feersum in practice, I think the grandmasters didn't actually read the chess rules.

so we will never know if they would have been able to.

also they would have been sporting enough not to play like that

feersum

Right, the actual rules of chess are known by tradition, which would take precedence over a silly legalistic interpretaiton.

Downgoat

Will something bad happen if I turn off my computer while it says "getting windows ready do not turn off computer"

Mendeleev

yes

Downgoat

00:39

:| ono

Destructible Lemon

@feersum ok but why does this bother you so much that there was a loophole that technically was allowing a weird chess move that was patched up before it was abused?

if you were playing with a friend they certainly would not have let you get away with that, no

feersum

I would suppose that you would be more likely to get away with it with a friend than in a formal setting.

Destructible Lemon

nah, the friend plays by the traditional rules

the tournament plays by the written rules

feersum

And some other people don't?

Anonymous

An even better question is why is this argument still going on?

ArtOfCode

00:41

@Downgoat don't tell me you actually did it

Destructible Lemon

well, they have their own version of traditional rules, but vertical castling is included in none of them

Downgoat

:| it was taking a long tine

Mendeleev

you just did bork

Destructible Lemon

@Mego I was kind of wondering that too

ArtOfCode

@Downgoat welp have fun with a corrupted OS

Destructible Lemon

00:42

wait here is a better wikipedia article

Joke chess problem

Joke chess problems are puzzles in chess which use humor as a primary or secondary element. Although most chess problems, like other creative forms, are appreciated for serious artistic themes (Grimshaw, Novotny, and Lacny), joke chess problems are enjoyed for some twist. In some cases the composer plays a trick to prevent a solver from succeeding with typical analysis. In other cases, the humor derives from an unusual final position. Unlike in ordinary chess puzzles, joke problems can involve a solution which violates the inner logic or rules of the game. == Self-solving problems == Some chess...

Downgoat

@ArtOfCode its ok no one like window

@Mendeleev ;_; ono is like minor bork or like major-uber mork

Mendeleev

@Downgoat Yes

ArtOfCode

@Downgoat the latter is quite likely

LPT: when OS tells you not to do something, don't do the thing.

3

Downgoat

:| buy why does it take so long

mac don't do

Mendeleev

Because Windows is a bad "OS"

Anonymous

00:45

@Downgoat You've been told on more occasions than I can count to not use "goatspeak"

Mendeleev

It doesn't operate, so it's just S

Destructible Lemon

@ArtOfCode actually if this were true, then every windows10 user would use edge or something

Downgoat

@Mego I'm not one to argue about rules, but you're going to kick me because I posted one ";_;" in this room?

Mendeleev

@Downgoat It's probably because of the "mac don't do"

Downgoat

sorry, that message totally ruined the entire quality of the room

okay moving on...

@Mendeleev :| what is wrong with that message

Mendeleev

00:48

@Downgoat It's gaotspek

Downgoat

wtf

Am i supposed to talk like shakespeare to not get kicked

Mendeleev

no

Downgoat

how is it 'gaotspek'

Destructible Lemon

I think I have made my hello world program now. now I just need to install python 3 and then download the interpreter on this computer to test

Anonymous

@Downgoat chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/38335552#38335552 chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/38335547#38335547

Downgoat

00:49

yes that was the message I was reffering to

Anonymous

Plus many examples from yesterday that I don't particularly care to crawl through the transcript for, and multiple warnings and kicks in the past for intentionally obfuscated messages

Downgoat

@Mego are you kidding me

I have barely been on this room even lately

HyperNeutrino

Is grammar a critical component in stack exchange chat?

Also congrats on 20k btw. Just pointing that out.

Destructible Lemon

@Downgoat :O downgoat has been haxed

Downgoat

@HyperNeutrino of course, screw everyone typing on a phone

Mendeleev

00:51

Is grammar a critical component in Stack Exchange chat?

Destructible Lemon

I remember something about windows annoying people about using edge

Downgoat

Is this an 'is it' or 'should it' question

Destructible Lemon

although it hasn't annoyed me about it yet...

HyperNeutrino

I typically don't bother using proper grammar, and neither do I (usually) correct people on it, though I doubt that's the reason @Mego doesn't like those messages.

Downgoat

idk could just be bad day

ArtOfCode

00:53

@DestructibleLemon no, not "do what your OS tells you", I said "don't do what your OS tells you not to". I haven't encountered Windows telling me not to use anything other than Edge, yet.

Anonymous

@Downgoat chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/38333231#38333231 chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/38291037#38291037 chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/38291077#38291077 chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/38291088#38291088 chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/38291125#38291125

Anonymous

Plus many more from that last one forward that I didn't feel like linking

Anonymous

Grammar is not a critical component of chat, but intentionally obfuscating your messages (via "goatspeak", "leetspeak", or any other transformation) is disruptive and makes it harder to follow conversations.

Downgoat

ok we're going to need to kick Destructable Lemon ASCII-only Qwerp-Derp and more too

ArtOfCode

@Mego can you point me at the bit of chatiquette that violates, since I'm not familiar with much of it?

HyperNeutrino

00:57

Repetitive occurences of the same forementioned action is discouraged. Standalone occurences are not likely to induce kick-muting.

Anonymous

@Downgoat Tu quoque is not a reasonable response. Yours were the ones that I noticed, because they were very disruptive.

Downgoat

@Mego nothing is intentionally obfuscated unless you count using u instead of you and the ;_; emoticon very obfuscated ways of talking

Anonymous

@ArtOfCode "Don't Be Disruptive"

Downgoat

@Mego I can also link wikipedia links I think are relevant

@Mego your kick ban has been more distruptive the room in no way disolved into meaningless chatter or such

Mendeleev

Now it has dissolved into ban and chatiquette discussions.

ArtOfCode

00:59

Okay, this ain't going anywhere constructive. @Downgoat try goatspeeking less; @Mego FWIW that was pretty borderline, you might wanna consider being a touch less strict on it.

Mendeleev

This sucks

HyperNeutrino

Whether or not something is disruptive is quite subjective. I didn't find it disruptive because I'm used to that kind of abbreviated and "obfuscated" language, but others might. I agree with @ArtOfCode that there needs to be some sort of compromise otherwise this chat is going to become a mess of arguments and/or accusations.

Downgoat

topic change idea: have we had an OCR challenge before

Destructible Lemon

hey do you wanna see my hello world program for sad-flak?

Mendeleev

@Downgoat Kinda

Downgoat

01:01

I'm sure I remember one being posted before but 0 progress in search results

Mendeleev

there's the dice one in the sandbox

Downgoat

shit forget the s sorry for goatspeek

Destructible Lemon

too late I'm posting it anyway

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({}`()~)
(`()~)
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({}`()~)
(({}))`()~
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(`()~)
((({})))(<>`()~()())(<>)(())
42
({}`()~)
(`()~)
30
({}`()~)
(`()~)
85
({}`()~)
(({`()~})()()())({()})(())
98
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Downgoat

~~wait does mathematica have OCR built in.~~ POS

ArtOfCode

It has everything built in

Anonymous

01:02

@Downgoat There's the one you wrote 2 days ago

Downgoat

weird, I never got a notification about Peter's comment

Anonymous

SE sometimes eats comment notifications like goats eat tin cans

ArtOfCode

Would not be surprised if it had DoHomework or GiveMoney or SolveWorldPoverty built in

Destructible Lemon

probably has something like givemoney but just displays money

HyperNeutrino

I would not be surprised if it had a CreateBuiltin built in.

Downgoat

01:06

._____________. ok what

HyperNeutrino

Also I made a userscript that allows you to type @Username without pinging people. It restricts one of a mod's many abilities if they install it but it's not commonly used.

@Downgoat that is actually just weird

Are you sure you didn't do an HTML edit?

I see typos/grammar mistakes and formatting issues in there.

Downgoat

@HyperNeutrino I don't know what you're talking about >_<

HyperNeutrino

> applied

you mean "applies"

Anonymous

@HyperNeutrino How exactly does that work? And I'm guessing it's the @@ superping ability that is impaired?

Downgoat

is anyone here familiar with C++'s std::unique_ptr? I was told by someone it's lifetime is 'its scope' but if that is the case how can you return it from a function

HyperNeutrino

01:08

@Mego Yes. It autoreplaces @@ with @<zwsp>.

@Downgoat I have no idea what it is, but from the description you provide, I would think that it's used to prevent it from being used outside of the function in case it is accidentally returned.

Downgoat

I mean the function returns an std::vector<std::unqiue_ptr<Token>> so idk if accident :P

Riker

@HyperNeutrino maybe have it replace \@ with that instead?

makes more sense

HyperNeutrino

@@ is easier for me to type :P

Destructible Lemon

o ffs I tried writing a python thing to substitute the characters with the correct characters but when it prints it just prints =s

windows is so bad.

ok how do I make a vm.

Mendeleev

@DestructibleLemon download virtualbox

Destructible Lemon

01:21

ok I really need dennis to put this on tio because it doesn't work on windows

@Mendeleev knowing windows, the vm will probably work faster

maybe if I install emacs, that has an os

Anonymous

@DestructibleLemon What's the code?

Downgoat

01:41

Question: VSL can deduct function return types but not always. Should I require specifying function return type for all cases for consistency?

HyperNeutrino

Depends. What's the raison d'être for VSL?

Downgoat

@HyperNeutrino I wrote infos here: github.com/vsl-lang/VSL/tree/fix/command-chain#problem

HyperNeutrino

Oh okay, so if it's not a golfing language, then yes you should require that to prevent people from becoming confused later on.

Destructible Lemon

@Mego just regular substitute code

HyperNeutrino

@DestructibleLemon exact code? I can try to problem solve but idk if I can

Destructible Lemon

01:44

It works on tio

Downgoat

@HyperNeutrino ok

HyperNeutrino

@DestructibleLemon Can I see exact code? I can boot up a Windows machine on my brother's laptop right now to test/bugfix

Destructible Lemon

@HyperNeutrino the problem was windows

HyperNeutrino

have you found the problem

Jim

@DestructibleLemon When running Windows the problem is always Windows

Downgoat

01:46

^ true, I was not able to use windows but I fixed because the problem was window was open so causing glare :P

Jim

@HyperNeutrino You finally got your account back as I see!

HyperNeutrino

Yes :)

Well actually, not really, I just got all of my posts, comments, and rep back from content reattribution (i.e. merging).

Except a few things were not merged; namely, my deleted posts.

Destructible Lemon

@HyperNeutrino it works on tio, not windows. Problem is clearly windows

HyperNeutrino

Which ended up being good :)

@DestructibleLemon yes but have you fixed the windows problem?

Destructible Lemon

I went on tio. Solved

HyperNeutrino

01:49

@DestructibleLemon yes but it's good to learn what the issue was

Destructible Lemon

Also I'm on mobile because windows froze

HyperNeutrino

unless it was literally just Windows being stupid, which I wouldn't doubt.

Downgoat

@HyperNeutrino :O :D that is good. Did they say specifically what caused them to delete previous acount?

Destructible Lemon

@HyperNeutrino windows doesn't print the special unicode

HyperNeutrino

@Downgoat They thought I was under 13, because 1) stuff I said in chat, 2) I deleted PII very rapidly which sketched them out, and 3) I was reported

@DestructibleLemon oh. that's just windows then :I

Jim

01:50

@HyperNeutrino "Windows being stupid" is an axiom for me. But sometimes Linux is too

HyperNeutrino

For whatever reason, merging did not merge over my deleted posts which I am personally very happy with. Overall getting my account deleted and then remerged was good for two reasons; 1. I may have gotten sympathy votes >:-) (I certainly hope not though...), and 2. My deleted posts are no longer attributed with this account :D

Downgoat

@HyperNeutrino :| I think I said I was in 3rd grade a couple time in chatroom >_< @StackExchange pls don't delete account

@HyperNeutrino brb retracting all sympathy votes

HyperNeutrino

lol

Downgoat

:O I crossed 20,000!

Destructible Lemon

"Hope"

HyperNeutrino

01:51

Yes, I congratulated you on that a couple of hours ago. ಠ_ಠ

Downgoat

@HyperNeutrino oh :| thanks :P

HyperNeutrino

1 hour ago, by HyperNeutrino

Also congrats on 20k btw. Just pointing that out.

Ok maybe only 1 hour

Close enough :P

Jim

@DestructibleLemon That's just numbers on the Internet though. But congrats :)

HyperNeutrino

@DestructibleLemon Well yeah, I was hoping that the upvotes were because they were good questions, not just because people felt bad for me getting my account deleted.

2 days ago, by Downgoat

@HyperNeutrino excuse me I judge my self-worth in SE reputation :P

Destructible Lemon

Also good thing i posted the code in chat so I can find it if it never unfreezes

HyperNeutrino

01:53

rip windows

Downgoat

Challenge idea: write a UTF-16 program which when interpreted as a UTF-8 program, outputs itself.

Destructible Lemon

Windows is popular because windows is popular. Can someone make that into a loop picture?

Downgoat

score is in UTF-16 scalars

HyperNeutrino

So, a quine.

Destructible Lemon

So a quine?

HyperNeutrino

01:55

With different scoring.

Destructible Lemon

Oh ninjad!

HyperNeutrino

CMC: Make a chatbot that automatically says "ninja'd" when more than 75% of the words between two messages are shared, case insensitive. Only needs to handle messages that are up to 50 messages apart. Please use Sandbox to test.

brb doing exactly that

Anonymous

@DestructibleLemon chcp 65001

HyperNeutrino

Wait I need a NeutrinoBot account again :I

Downgoat

CMC: what percent of self worth is SE rep

Destructible Lemon

01:56

@Mego wat

Helka Homba

@DestructibleLemon use the door

2

Downgoat

@DestructibleLemon yea but has to handle encoding

HyperNeutrino

Well, I mean, my ~~life~~ lack of a life is 100% SE...

Anonymous

@DestructibleLemon Command prompt command for changing the code page to UTF-8 so that Unicode chars print properly

Destructible Lemon

Well, it's frozen anyway

Downgoat

01:57

wait Fixed challenge idea: Write UTF-16 program which outputs itself in UTF-8 source code when interpreted as UTF-8, and outputs itself when run in UTF-16

though not sure how challenge idea would work

not all interpreters support different encodings

is it OK to restrict to those interpreters?

HyperNeutrino

So, a quine, that happens to work when run in two different encodings with like no other difference?

Destructible Lemon

^

HyperNeutrino

:I I have a file called "kms.bat"

It looks like it would kill the computer when run

@echo off
set COUNTER=1
:top
copy NUL kms%COUNTER%.bat
@echo "set COUNTER=1">> kms%COUNTER%.bat
@echo ":top">> kms%COUNTER%.bat
@echo "start kms%COUNTER%.bat">> kms%COUNTER%.bat
@echo "goto top">> kms%COUNTER%.bat
start kms%COUNTER%.bat
goto top

totallyhuman

>.>

HyperNeutrino

@DestructibleLemon Is ^^ how you froze windows?

totallyhuman

02:00

I think the more important part is

Windows <.<

Destructible Lemon

No, I froze it by using windows

HyperNeutrino

So, you froze it by using it. So, windows == freezer?

Destructible Lemon

@HyperNeutrino obviously

HyperNeutrino

ah ok

Downgoat

@HyperNeutrino yea but is hard no

because you can't interpret UTF-16 as UTF-8 otherwise bad will happen

because there will be null byte everywhere

HyperNeutrino

02:03

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I don't understand encoding :P

CMC: Make a program that contains at least one space that when run will output itself without spaces. The space must do something. quine code-golf has-specification-issues-and-thus-cannot-be-a-main-post

Downgoat

@HyperNeutrino f=_=>` f=${f}`.trim()

is JavaScript

HyperNeutrino

what is `stuff`

Downgoat

CMC: Type deductor or Type inferrer

@HyperNeutrino template string (string which support interpolation)

HyperNeutrino

That's not a CMC ಠ_ಠ

Downgoat

@HyperNeutrino yes it is beacuse there is a right answer

HyperNeutrino

02:08

@Downgoat but does the space do anything

Downgoat

@HyperNeutrino yes it does

HyperNeutrino

ok

Downgoat

it changes string

HyperNeutrino

-.- I meant, you can't remove it and have it not break

Downgoat

:| 0/10 impossible in JS then

wait actually

Destructible Lemon

02:09

Change it to removing first char of string

HyperNeutrino

> =_=

Downgoat

f=_=>`f=${1- -0?f:0}`

HyperNeutrino

nice

Destructible Lemon

Instead of trim

Downgoat

now will ~~bork~~ break if you remove space

HyperNeutrino

02:10

yay

Destructible Lemon

Does it print without spaces?

Downgoat

shit :|

HyperNeutrino

olol i forgot to check that

Downgoat

fixed: f=_=>`f=${1- -0?f:0}`.replace(/ /g,'')

HyperNeutrino

yay

Destructible Lemon

02:12

Better specification and harder cmc; make a quine loop where both programs are the same except one has no spaces in it

Quine loop of length 2

Wheat Wizard

Is there a golfy way to do a reduce in Haskell? I can't make heads or tails of foldl

Destructible Lemon

@HyperNeutrino someone mentioned bug in anyfix in talk.tio

Make a fix for anyfix

HyperNeutrino

link?

Downgoat

@DestructibleLemon hm, that means the space can't result in broke

HyperNeutrino

too lazy to look up room

Downgoat

02:16

Am I allowed to say 'bork' or will that result in bad thing happening

Destructible Lemon

@HyperNeutrino i'm too lazy to figure out copy paste on mobile

HyperNeutrino

oh lol

Helka Homba

CMC: type a tab on any mobile device

Downgoat

@HelkaHomba VTC as impossible

Destructible Lemon

What happens when tab is in chat?

Helka Homba

02:18

tab is in quotes: " "

it stayed a tab but looks like space

Destructible Lemon

I did it

Downgoat

huh, so I guess it's a browser rendering thing

DJMcMayhem

@HelkaHomba " "

Vim ftw

Downgoat

User Script request: use pre whitespace for whitespace in chat

Helka Homba

@Downgoat goats don't count as mobile devices

Destructible Lemon

02:20

O no bork when at start of message

DJMcMayhem

I did it

Downgoat

@DJMcMayhem D: you don't have vim setup to convert evil tab to space?

Destructible Lemon

" "

DJMcMayhem

@Downgoat Normally, but I don't have my full .vimrc on my phone :P

Downgoat

:O how do you gets vim on your phoen

:O idea: make vim app for iOS

DJMcMayhem

02:21

Plus I can still do a tab if I want

Helka Homba

play.google.com/store/apps/… ?

Downgoat

wow ok

DJMcMayhem

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.momodalo.app.vimtouch

@HelkaHomba Yeah, that one

Downgoat

:( I made a terminal for iOS (it was sandboxed too) and ran a linux VM but apple reject

Question: is STL statically linked by default?

I read that it was dynamically linked, but if I can take an executable from one computer and run it on another, most likely the libc or whatever it uses isn't going to be in exact same spot

Jim

@Downgoat libc and STL are different

Downgoat

02:29

shit mean stdlib

Jim

STL is not linked by default

Destructible Lemon

@Downgoat apple is meen

Downgoat

its ok I can use myself :D

Jim

@Downgoat If both computers are on Linux, the easy way is just to recompile for each

i.e. take the source code from a computer from another instead of the executable

Downgoat

@DestructibleLemon :O you spelt wrong

Helka Homba

02:42

what's the name for a url like kitten.academy without normal suffix?

Downgoat

what do you mean without a 'normal suffix'

I don't think there is any official categorization of TLDs but I guess you could just use 'non-standard TLD'

Mendeleev

@Downgoat can you add the replacement "Mendeleev" -> "wat" to your userscript

Downgoat

no I will get kicked

Mendeleev

@HelkaHomba gTLD for global TLD

@Downgoat Why?

Downgoat

if a mod has userscript they will think I said that word and kick-ban me :(

Mendeleev

02:46

stop it, they're not obsessive dictators

respect them, don't annoy them

Downgoat

I'm not joking I was kick-banned for using one instance of ;_;

so I am not going near that stuff anymore

Mendeleev

That's because ;_; is actually noise

Downgoat

so is 'wat'

Mendeleev

no one got banned for saying wat in the context of a username

Make a thing that translates @wat to @mendeleev

Downgoat

why not change username to wat?

the text replacement in userscript doesn't work on chat beceause it messes with websockets

Mendeleev

02:48

I promised to not change it until 2018

Downgoat

wait what when

Mendeleev

Apr 14 at 19:15, by Mendeleev

This is my final username for a while (i.e. I will avoid changing it until 2018 at least)

Downgoat

pretty sure that claim is non-binding

Mendeleev

I'd still like to respected to avoid annoying the mods (btw, that's a thing that you shouldn't do)

Downgoat

@Mendeleev yes, and that's why I will not write a thing to change your name to wat

Mendeleev

02:51

i see

Helka Homba

and in chem chatrooms you'd see a lot of watium

Downgoat

@HelkaHomba lies

inexpensivecomputers.net/product/giant-duck is this real

> $140,000.00

nevermind

btw a bunch of the images are broken on the site

Mendeleev

03:35

@Downgoat Just means the category has no assigned image

Wheat Wizard

Ok its been an hour, sorry @NewMetaPosts

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Q: Would a golfing tips chat room be a good idea?

Lately I've been trying to get into Haskell golfing. And its been great fun. However I have found myself asking a lot of questions into The Nineteenth Byte (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). I've also seen people asking for tips in languages I don't know (I only know python so thats a long list). In my experie...

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Destructible Lemon

turns out my hello world program doesn't work

Mendeleev

03:48

rip

Kritixi Lithos

what language is it in?

totallyhuman

question:

Mendeleev

@Downgoat I just did a huge update on inexpensivecomputers.net - please look at

Anonymous

04:11

@Downgoat I thought you had moved past that

totallyhuman

who chose the number 19 specifically for the name of this room and why

Wheat Wizard

There are 18 holes in a golf game

A pub at the end of a golf course is oft called the 19th hole

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Q: Would a golfing tips chat room be a good idea?

Lately I've been trying to get into Haskell golfing. And its been great fun. However I have found myself asking a lot of questions into The Nineteenth Byte (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). I've also seen people asking for tips in languages I don't know (I only know python so thats a long list). In my experie...

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Wheat Wizard

@NewMetaPosts Yay! you did it

Anonymous

04:26

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A: Let's think of a creative name for our chatroom

Well, the traditional generic name for the country club bar is "the nineteenth hole", which suggests The Nineteenth Byte or something like that.

Anonymous

dmckee was one of the original moderators of PPCG when it was first created

Downgoat

@Mendeleev btw trying to checkout a giant duck and it's rejecting my card, can you send one to me and I'll pay later?

Downgoat

04:50

Question: if applying for an internship req. does it make sense for saying 'I'd like the opportunity to participate' and 'I think I'd be a valuable addition for your team'?

I mean I'm probably going to spend 90% time in mailroom

Mendeleev

@Downgoat hell no

Downgoat

is saying "I am always looking to learn new things" too cliché

I mean it is true

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