The Nineteenth Byte

1:57 PM

TBH, I wouldn't want to get teleported to SEHQ while, say, taking a shit

@NieDzejkob Yeah of course Shog draws a scrying circle on the toilet mirror first

yeah, the blood should be DNA-testable so that one can see which people are part of the oath, if shog approves

(The toilets at SEHQ of course)

also, that would be easy proof

well you just decrypt with all of the keys and DNA check the whole thing. Encrypted blood will not show results but the encrypted parts will all show results

1:59 PM

since when was the main topic in here blood rituals? Have you all formed a cult or something?

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Yes

The cult is called PPCG

J. Sallé

All hail the great Shog.

@moonheart08 blood oaths aren't rituals...

Anonymous

I started something and it got way out of hand :P

Shog-Niggurath, ~~The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young~~

hang on wrong title

feersum

2:01 PM

A ritual is just what non-technical people call an algorithm.

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why would they not call it a procedure instead? that's a more widely-used term

you mean a function, right?

no, not at all

I had a very relevant thread on bay12 for that technical joke, but i'm at school, so i can't grab it. It's a forum game where you are tech support, and, welll, things get a little eldritch. Praise purple

Dennis

> Praise purple

2:04 PM

@feersum The Algorithm? :P

Dennis

wat

@Dennis injoke. :P

if you go dig up the thread, and read through, you'll figure out what that is

for example, the procedure of waking up after an alarm is "shut the alarm off, put your clothes on, get up, make breakfast, go do basic needs, maybe a shower too"

Dennis

> Praise in Purple-Alzheimer's Association, Huntsville, Alabama. 145 likes.

No, that's something else.

I hope.

it is

lol

bay12forums > all

2:06 PM

that's what basically every forum claims about itself...

well, bay12forums is actually amazing, as it's the home of dwarf fortress. :P

somebody else may think differently though, that's my point

Good point

I swear this "Create an H out of smaller Hs" challenge is a dupe, or I'm having some severe deja vu ...

Q: Generate fractals from bit patterns in ASCII

sierpinski's carpet?

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Overview Write a program that prints out simple fractal patterns given a bit pattern encoding the fractal, plus the per-generation scale factor of the fractal and number of generations. Explanation Here is an ASCII representation of the Sierpinski Carpet: Generation 0: # Generation 1: # ...

This challenge is a subset of that one actually

2:10 PM

No, I had thought it was something related to "I beams"

Still no new what if on xkcd ):

dzaima

@AdmBorkBork I did have a similar idea CMC

How to I enter input to Esoteric IDE?

H of Hs with input k is basically Bit Patterns with input 381 k k

It seems like a dupe but I can't vote

though that one has to work for the general case so a competitive answer here would likely have to be better than just a port from there

also that one has a slightly different output format but that's not different enough

@NieDzejkob Debug > Input

2:15 PM

@EriktheOutgolfer oh, didn't see that here. Thanks!

@dzaima Nope, but that got me to this challenge, which is what I was thinking of, so thanks!

that doesn't seem like a dupe though

@NieDzejkob Remember that there are some menus to the right of the Help menu. Last time I constantly made this mistake.

hm, I'm completely unsure if this answer is valid, since flags now count as making separate languages

@moonheart08 TNB is hardly on-topic (about code-golf)

2:25 PM

no, debug is to the left

Of course that's different languages (unless it's somehow possible to combine both into a "bash+perl" language or something like that).

@EriktheOutgolfer I was talking about "Memory visualization" menu (Hexagony specific?)

each language has its own menus

@EriktheOutgolfer No, it's not a dupe, but in my remembering-part of my brain, it felt like a dupe.

@AdmBorkBork isn't it called the Hippocampus?

I don't remember ;-)

2:39 PM

that's only a part of the whole limbic system ;) (Google is your friend btw)

I wonder if someone has ever executed a Mornington Crescent program IRL...

@NieDzejkob (why not? What counts as IRL?)

@user202729 go to the station, buy a ticket and follow the instructions

No......

why not?

2:45 PM

normally people go from one station to another including the stations in-between, not going back-and-forth

@EriktheOutgolfer for each instruction, get on the train, wait until it stops at the desired station, and get off the train

yeah why would somebody want to do that irl

it's not like riding a train is any fun, is it?

@EriktheOutgolfer idk. Maybe it would make a good youtube video?

Consider that someone followed a Cook program... maybe.

Although... the dialog boxes don't really work. [Esoteric IDE]

3:03 PM

not Cook, but something similar has been done

... Chef.

@user202729 what dialog boxes?

When run on mono/Linux.

Although, as I can't compile RT.Util on Linux and have to pre-built DLL on Windows and then ..., (...)

lol there are ready-made binaries for Windows

no, it doesn't work on Linux

ci.appveyor.com/project/Timwi/esotericide/build/artifacts

At least the RT.Util binary sort-of works.

3:10 PM

no, it should be a dll

... "dll binary"?

The one used with HexagonyColoere is Version: 1.0.9999.9999, which seems to be older (?) than the version used with EsotericIDE 1.0.1599.0, but the dialog boxes are better.

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

3:28 PM

Q: Why does this show version 1.0.1599, while Assembly.cs shows 1.0.9999.9999?

New Sandboxed Posts

3:50 PM

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Self-Validating Triangular Program code-golf source-layout restricted-source Your task is to build a program that validates that the given input adheres to the following criteria: each line is one character longer than the previous, including the last line. the parity of every non-newline...

Poke

@feersum were we trying to quote dr strange

The sorcerers of antiquity called
the use of this language "spells".
But if that word offends
your modern sensibilities,
you can call it "program".

Why is mathoverflow the only .net site?

Oliver

@recursive Stax has really impressed me lately. And it's one of the few languages written in .NET!

@Oliver QUARK's interpreter is written in Rust. Does that count? :p