The Nineteenth Byte

Lazy way to implement laziness - make only an offline interpreter that is prone to crashing and can cause irreparable damage to people's computers. No one will bother downloading it and checking that your answers work, so you can get away with answering anything.

Bubbler

That's lazy way to implement anything at all

Or, make an interpreter that takes ages to compute 1+1 or anything basic

user

plus(a, b) = plus(b, a)

Actually, that's not a valid implementation at all

Bubbler

At one point people will come to check your interpreter's source code, so it won't work

user

Yeah

Redwolf Programs

That's why you hire me to write it so nobody can ever understand it again

user

12:13 AM

Implementing adding by repeated incrementing would get pretty slow for exponentiation, at least.

Bubbler

Sounds like writing an interpreter in BF

user

@RedwolfPrograms "Redwolf Programs: We'll write unreadable source code for your unreadable esolang!"

"Call 1-800-ESO-LANG today!"

Unrelated String

yeah tail recursion shouldn't be too hard to implement

Neil

12:27 AM

@cairdcoinheringaahing I don't have 11 Question badges, 8 Answer badges, 4 Participation badges, 20 Moderation badges and 2 Other badges

Bubbler

@cairdcoinheringaahing 5Q, 10A, 3P, 15M, 3O

Lyxal

@RedwolfPrograms how much do you charge?

Bubbler

2:45 AM

(I'm missing Favorite, Stellar, Great, Famous, and Socratic for question badges, and I think I'll get Socratic first before any others)

New Sandboxed Posts

4:04 AM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Quine Countdown! quine code-golf Write a program that accepts a single parameter n and outputs another program that outputs another program etc until the nth call outputs the original input n again. Scoring is a modified version of codegolf: For input 100, add together the code length of each pro...

Redwolf Programs

I just found a $900 chromebook on sale and I'm really tempted to buy it

Razetime

4:24 AM

@RedwolfPrograms why but a chromebook tho

Redwolf Programs

For the same price and processing power you get way faster start up time, longer battery life, better performance for web browsing, etc. All of the useful features of Linux, without the compatibility issues. Don't have to deal with Windows bloatware or telemetry.

They aren't great for some things, but it's basically the perfect device for a programmer (esp. an HTML/JS programmer)

Bubbler

and you can use various cloud services for other kinds of programming anyway

Razetime

4:39 AM

hmm

Unrelated String

5:03 AM

cloud services seem like a hassle but i guess you basically have to use them for anything practical anyhow

Redwolf Programs

You can run anything on a chromebook that you can on a typical laptop

Lyxal

Chrome OS? More like Chromosome OS am I right? \s

(for legal reasons that's a joke)

Lyxal

5:26 AM

@RedwolfPrograms (or anyone else in America): is it true that y'all don't have kettles? Just verifying a news story.

Redwolf Programs

I've seen some people with electric ones, but they're not at all common at least where I am

Lyxal

Okay thanks for the verification

Redwolf Programs

5:45 AM

There are way more chromosomes than just the sex chromosomes...

2x-1

CMQ: How many chromosomes are in Chromosome OS?

Lyxal

@RedwolfPrograms dah. I logged into stackexchange on my smartwatch to say that, only to find you had ninjad me

all that effort for nothing

Smh

Redwolf Programs

@2x-1 You changed your profile picture :p

Lyxal

Yes it's an accurate graph now

Redwolf Programs

Also why do you hate esolangs

Lyxal

5:55 AM

idk. its odd because they themselves have made several esolangs

cmq: what is the smallest screen size youve used se chat on?

Redwolf Programs

1366x768 :p

Lyxal

youve never lived.

2x-1

@RedwolfPrograms Because I've made several esolangs

Lyxal

try chatting on a 41mm screen

2x-1

@Lyxal 0x0 (sunscreen) :p

Lyxal

6:01 AM

@2x-1 i tip my hat to you

Unrelated String

@Lyxal my grandmother has an electric one and i swear i have seen a non electric kettle at some point in my life but yeah kettles do not exist in the us

we just use pots if we need to boil water lol

Lyxal

@UnrelatedString see that's funny because down under it's the opposite

almost every home has an eletric kettle

Razetime

6:23 AM

Question: has anyone ever read the chatiquette

Lyxal

yes

are you saying I ain't following it?

Razetime

nah

Unrelated String

long long ago

Razetime

just asking

because I haven't

Lyxal

oh lol

It's literally a single md page

Bubbler

6:24 AM

I read it but forgot most of the details except the generic "be nice"

Lyxal

I remember that off-topic is okay if it ain't interrupting on topic and it ain't spam

Razetime

@Bubbler the whole thing is an elaboration on that

user202729

7:46 AM

An oddly-code-golf-like question on Stack Overflow: stackoverflow.com/q/65934161/5267751

Razetime

8:07 AM

@user202729 maybe we can port it here

Adám

Yeah, just remove the restriction that it has to be regex.

New Sandboxed Posts

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Make a bottom to up poem Based on the "Pretty Ugly" poem. You are given as input a number (number of stanzas), and 4 arrays/lists of strings, called "negatives", "negations", "positives" and "filler" sentences (although you can name the variables anything you want). You must output a "pretty ugly"...

user202729

@Adám (can't find a duplicate. There's only codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/20433/…)

caird coinheringaahing

9:37 AM

@Razetime You can sum it up in a very golfy way as "Be Nice. Be On Topic. Don't Spam"

Anush

@cairdcoinheringaahing we don't really insist on people being on topic here do we? ;)

2x-1

@cairdcoinheringaahing -11 bytes: "Don't Spam" can be part of "Be Nice", since spamming is not nice to other chatters.

caird coinheringaahing

@Anush I mean, we usually ask that people stay somewhat on-topic, and if there's two conversations going on, one on-topic and the other not, we ask the off-topic one to move/stop. But generally, no, people can chat about whatever :)

Anush

@cairdcoinheringaahing :) The second point is the important one. The offtopic conversations should have low priority for the scheduler

Bubbler

10:21 AM

Be On Topic -> Don't Go Way Off Topic

Anush

@Bubbler I am not sure you can describe the gifs as anything except way off topic :)

I am very happy with the priority rule. Be as off topic as you like but if someone says something on topic, shut up

New Main Posts

10:55 AM

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Q: Can I use my own language?

I'm wondering if I can use my own language (that is, the language is created by myself). I'm not sure, because it's not known by others and may cause unfair competing (for example, printing "Hello, world!" in Stuck -- it does this when the program is empty. I mean, I can fairly well "create" a "l...

New Meta Posts

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Q: Can I use my own language?

I'm wondering if I can use my own language (that is, the language is created by myself). I'm not sure, because it's not known by others and may cause unfair competing (for example, printing "Hello, world!" in Stuck -- it does this when the program is empty. I mean, I can fairly well "create" a "l...

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caird coinheringaahing

@NewMetaPosts Ok, so that's migrated. Time to VTC as dupe :/

There's a deleted answer in the Undelete Votes tools page that violates a standard loophole (reading from external site) but was posted before the standard loopholes were a thing. Should it stay deleted, or should we undelete it?

I think we've grandfathered a lot of old answers when it comes to the standard loopholes, but I'm not sure if its worth undeleting or just leaving it be

2x-1

1:39 PM

MS-DOS has Country and Ctty as its commands. The second command is not a typo.

caird coinheringaahing

Ugh, I had a 16 byte Jelly answer to this until I saw "Your function or program must terminate within 2 seconds for inputs of at most 30 digits each."

CMC: ^ but no time restrictions

Jelly, 16 bytes Dḅ-ıS0Bḅ-ı=ʋ1#BḌ

Anush

2:14 PM

does anyone know where you can get big word lists for different languages?

E.g. Russian

by big I mean > 100,000

Redwolf Programs

3:18 PM

I hate JS's array sort so much

John Dvorak

looks sorted to me

caird coinheringaahing

@RedwolfPrograms Can you do .sort(a=>+a)?

Also, yes, that's disgusting

Redwolf Programs

No, you have to do .sort((a, b) => a - b)

Razetime

3:45 PM

Of all the things they improved in ES, somehow they missed this one

ngn

4:01 PM

@Anush maybe wiktionary or aspell

Wezl

@Razetime everything has to stay backwards compatible though

so adding new syntax is fine, or sometimes more functions, but it can't change functions much

Razetime

oh well then

Redwolf Programs

4:17 PM

Maybe sortMin and sortMax functions, that minimize/maximize for a function?

Anush

@ngn aspell seems to have a corrupted dictionary for russians

Redwolf Programs

[4, 1, 2, 8].sortMin() would be [1, 2, 4, 8], and [4, 1, 2, 8].sortMin(x => x * 3 % 4) would be [4, 8, 2, 1]

Razetime

it's kinda annoying that you'd need to bloat with more fucntions

although that would be very convenient

ngn

4:50 PM

@Anush gunzip </usr/share/aspell/ru.cwl.gz | prezip-bin -d >ru.txt (the result is koi8-r encoded)

@Anush to open with vim, add this to ~/.vimrc: se fencs=utf8,koi8-r

Wezl

5:49 PM

̄̄̄̄̄ ̄̄̄̄ ̄̄̄ ̄̄ ̄ ̄ ̄̄ ̄̄̄ ̄̄̄̄̄ ̄̄̄̄̄̄

beautiful

Redwolf Programs

I graphed a quadratic with macron diacritics in the sandbox chat once

Wezl

exactly, that's where I saw it, thanks for the inspiration

Newly Featured Questions

6:02 PM

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Q: Count the bytes of a program

Note 2: I accepted @DigitalTrauma's 6-byte long answer. If anyone can beat that I will change the accepted answer. Thanks for playing! Note: I will be accepting an answer at 6:00pm MST on 10/14/15. Thanks to all that participated! I am very surprised that this has not been asked yet (or I didn'...