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7:22 PM
@Mego And that's no longer possible? Why?
 
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@Dennis Java 9 made _ a keyword
 
So they took the universal I have to assign this to something, but I won't actually use it variable and made it a keyword? Wow!
 
Anonymous
Java logic
 
@LuisMendo uh, do you have a problem with finiscini in particular or I don't get the joke?
 
What?
Why not $ ?
 
7:37 PM
Do you really want to work with Java that looks like PHP? That's why not $.
 
$ = 1, doesn't look like PHP to me
PHP is Perl+JavaScript. Not a good premise
My challenge got a chat room?
 
@DLosc I feel like one month might be a bit long. On the other side less than two weeks is probably to short. So I'd say two or three weeks.
 
7:53 PM
@Οurous You must mean PowerShell. We have many more dollars than PHP. :p
 
Oh, I forgot about PowerShell. Windows keeps trying to make me use it instead of Batch.
 
@Dennis It's probably more like "this is a bad practice so we should stop folks from being able to do it"
similar to what they did with goto
 
Or use _discardValue
They're turning into RUBY, forcing conventions
 
breaking bad practices != forcing conventions
 
@Οurous Why would you program in BATCH when PowerShell is available?
 
7:58 PM
@AdmBorkBork Because it was my first language, and I have a soft spot for it.
 
That's fair.
 
@Dennis C# has had that for a while, it's called a discard. It intentionally acts as a variable placeholder that won't be used, for lambdas and tuple deconstructing assignment and such.
I assume it's similar in Java
You can "assign" anything to the discard, but no memory is allocated for it and the result can't be retrieved.
 
pretty sure it's just reserved so you can't use it in java
 
Anonymous
It will probably be used for lambda placeholders like in Kotlin
 
8:20 PM
@AdmBorkBork Because you discovered BATCH first, and have a soft spot for it (my friend at school)
 
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AdmBorkBorkMean Diluted Integers Diluting a positive integer involves inserting a 0, one at a time, into every inner position in the binary expansion of the number. For example, for 14 (or 1100 in binary), the dilutions are 11000 = 24 ^ 11000 = 24 ^ 10100 = 20 ^ Taking the mean of 14, 24, 24, 2...

 
Hi y'all
Anyone up for Codenames?
 
8:35 PM
@Mithrandir Don't have time right now, unfortunately.
 
8:51 PM
@EriktheOutgolfer As I understood it, it's a typo. It should be finiscono (meaning they end, or they finish, in Italian)
 
@Laikoni Would you mind posting that as an answer to the meta question so that the community can vote on it?
 
tfw you have 2-week-old pending flags
 
9:20 PM
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Q: Create a scissors animation!

iPhoenixTry to create a simple ASCII art scissors animation! Challenge All inputs will be integers -31 through 31. The output will be an animation (To be outputted somewhere, as long as the previous frame is replaced. GIFs are allowed.), separated by (approximately) 1 quarter of a second. If the inpu...

 
@NewMainPosts animation :(
 
Animation :D
Fractional delay D:<
It's a lot easier in QBasic if the delay is an integer number of seconds.
 
Replacing the previous frame D:
 
It's a lot easier if we could just output each line :(
 
Yeah, I wouldn't need to juggle two uniques
 
9:27 PM
@totallyhuman Not much of an animation, then...
 
5 mins ago, by totallyhuman
@NewMainPosts animation :(
 
This is a job for... puts on cape HTML/JS-man!
 
thing is, time delays and replacing the previous image is really bad in a lot of languages
@ETHproductions Spiderman works with web
 
Not every language needs to be able to participate in every challenge...
 
I don't disagree but it's a lot of languages plus it isn't really necessary
 
9:35 PM
<starts writing another GUI program to emulate a console to do an ASCII animation>
<hopes font doesn't need to be monospaced>
 
@Sanchises feel free to take it! :) I think it will be a better challenge if you write it (both the polyglot or the other version), I don't have much time to write challenges.
 
@totallyhuman I do like animation challenges that are actually animations, rather than "print the frames one after another." The latter sort of defeats the purpose of having an animation--kind of like an image challenge where you can print a list of RGB values instead. The way the results look is an integral part of the challenge.
 
I had a serious concussion in early December, so I can only look at screens a few minutes at a time, and less than a few hours per week :(
I've spent most of the last two months in a dark room.
 
D:
 
On a positive note: I think I might get the world record in finishing the Wheel of Time audio book series... 10-14 hours each day makes for a fast "reading".
 
10:15 PM
@StewieGriffin dang, that's impressive, it took me maybe three months to do that...
 
@StewieGriffin Wow, what happened?
 
@Mego just got around to listening to the podcast. really? mi-go? I thought it was meh-go O_o
 
Yeah, same here
My whole life is a lie
@Riker meh-go or may-go?
Is there even a difference?
 
there's not
@DJMcMayhem "DJMcJanuaryHem" just doesn't have the same ring to it smh
 
10:32 PM
there is a difference..? I'm confused are you saying they sound the same
 
They sound extremely similar to me, but there's a little difference
Maybe it's an accent thing. At least where I live, if someone has an 'eh' followed by a 'g', the 'eh' becomes 'ay'
 
Anonymous
Definitely an accent thing
 
@totallyhuman meg-go and may-go are the same IMO
 
Anonymous
Mango != mengo
 
but mi-go and meh-go aren't
@Mego oh, true
also, I have a hard time keeping track of doorknob vs mego in the podcast
random thought: a little colored blip on the youtube vid would nice to distinguish who is speaking
 
10:35 PM
@Riker That would be really hard
 
bah, looks like a Python upgrade broke Charcoal
 
not that 'hard' but definitely tedious
@Neil the language?
 
@Riker well, verbose Charcoal, at least... I can't really write succinct Charcoal
 
how do you pronounce peck and trait
 
@totallyhuman 'pehk', 'trayt'
 
10:37 PM
peh-kek, trayt
 
How else?
 
pick, treat?
 
...so the sound is different right? :P
 
Obviously I can tell the difference between 'eh' and 'ay'. I'm just saying that the difference is small, and adding a 'g' sound makes the distinction smaller in my ear
 
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J843136028Constructing Matrices from Rectangles Input is an r by c matrix of non-negative integers (you may input r and c as other parameters if this helps with golf). This may be inputted as a 2D array or, if you prefer, a 1D array (though taking in r this time is necessary). Strings separated by spaces ...

 
10:38 PM
But apparently I'm the only one that says 'aygz'
 
^
also, LOL, ELVM has "vimscript" listed under its little esolang list
 
I dunno, I guess I've heard accents that say egg as ayg
 
@Riker Hahahaha
Well, it does have the crappy nonsensical features and horrible documentation that an esolang would have
 
vimscript? crappy? it's not that good >.>
 
Vim is excellent. Vimscript is horrible
 
10:42 PM
fixed
@Mr.Xcoder I don't think most people where I live know that those mountains exist >.>
 
o0 a seed quine
how would one even go about doing that
other than brute force
 
IIRC sp3k said he had a way to generate them
but then his comp died and he lost the program (which was running)
might not have been them tho
ah, no, feersum
Oct 28 '16 at 13:10, by feersum
So I need to test my Seed answer generator... but I'm recoiling in horror at the thought of trying to find a working Befunge-98 interpreter.
 
...but you're writing a seed program that will pseudorandomly generate a befunge program that will print the seed out. that's... what...
also seriously will feersum ever explain his seed hello world
 
11:02 PM
@totallyhuman ಠ_ಠ. Just... ಠ_ಠi
@DJMcMayhem Disregarding that's probably a really bad idea, can I use vimscript as a scripting language without, you know, the text editor bit?
 
@Pavel Good question.
Uhmmmm......... yes?
But it'll be really slow because you'll have to boot up a bunch of extra vim instances that you're not actually using
 
@DJMcMayhem I think Dennis is considering vimscript as it's own language for TIO
 
D:
How is he planning on doing that?
I don't think it could even really do STDIN/STDOUT without vim
 
@DJMcMayhem It was just a thought you posted in talk.tio, I don't know if Dennis knows a lot about vim
@DJMcMayhem I just tested, you can do this in your vimrc and start vim:
echo "Hello, World!"
quit
It prints a bunch of extra spaces though
 
Yeah but that prints it to vim, not STDOUT
 
11:10 PM
@DJMcMayhem No, it prints it to stdout.
You can try it yourself
It's still there after vim quits
 
Huh
BTW s/uit//
 
> It's still there after vim qs
...also what's the point of unefunge
 
@DJMcMayhem Maybe you could do something more reasonable with ex?
 
Lol
@Pavel bleh
 
;-; vim is too smart to let me edit /dev/stdout
nano lets me write to stdout
 
11:29 PM
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Q: 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝖲𝖺𝗇𝗌 𝗔𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿

pfgIntroduction Try to convert words to two different unicode fonts. Challenge Your task is to transform your input string into the 𝖬𝖺𝗍𝗁 𝖲𝖺𝗇𝗌 and 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗕𝗼𝗹𝗱 unicode characters. All uppercase words should become lowercase 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗕𝗼𝗹𝗱 words. For Example: WO...

 
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codebreakerImagine you're a dishonorable scientist trying to prove that getting heads on a coin flip actually has about 70% probability when flipped 100 times. The trick is, you're going to flip the coin an arbitrarily large number of times (say, a million) and select the slice of 100 flips that contains t...

 
11:40 PM
Dupe Watch: this dupeof this? not going to vote because hammer
 
CMC: find real roots of a polynomial represented as a list of coefficients
 
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