The Nineteenth Byte

There's usually no really juicy content, but every time I see that I haven't seen a bunch of messages, it makes me feel like I'm missing out

That's how I feel sometimes lol

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Which is basically daily because all the activity usually happens while I'm asleep

ikr (well it happens while I'm in school)

I know for a fact that when I wake up in ~8 hours, there's going to be a message by either lyxal or Redwolf on the starboard, posted while I was asleep :P

12:30 AM

There we go, a message by lyxal starred right now :P (dw I'll unstar it in a second)

@taRadvylfsriksushilani Oh it's from 1908 lol

I guess the fact that the author describes Alaska as not being part of the United States should've hinted at that lol

The fact that it's an old book doesn't forgive those two sentences though

The whole thing's like that, very dry and robotic sentences

Even English translations of the Communist Manifesto from the 1800s sound pretty close to modern day English

Maybe good writing classes probably weren't a thing in schools back then

12:33 AM

@taRadvylfsriksushilani Is it a translation? Was the author being paid by the word?

I don't think it's a translation, lemme check

Yeah, it's the original english, even a revised copy (the first one was from 1902)

Odd, I hope the plot is good, at least

It's a short story about a man who freezes to death

Unless this is one of those English readings where you analyze why exactly the author repeated the word "feeling" there

@taRadvylfsriksushilani Is it possible that the sentences sound like that because the guy freezing to death is himself getting less coherent? Because I could definitely see someone thinking repetitive sentences in their head as they freeze to death

No, the whole thing's like that, from page 1 to page 16

12:37 AM

Oof

Huh, I figured this was written by some like...arctic explorer who wasn't really a writer, but the guy who wrote it was actually a really well known writer

Early phase, perhaps?

12:49 AM

Oh hey vyxapedia loads normally for me again @hyper-neutrino

I no longer have to suffer through redirects to your genshin impact team site lol

@lyxal is this a valid enough reason for me to call HN a weeb? :P

@cairdcoinheringaahing probably :p

@hyper-neutrino ha, weeb :P

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@cairdcoinheringaahing I'm honored that you still felt you needed more reasons :P

also nice but i didn't change anything so i still don't have a clue what was the problem in the first place so imma just say skill issue

1:01 AM

@hyper-neutrino It gets repetitive if I just use the same reasons :P

fair enough :P

1:17 AM

→ 3 kilos of sugar moved to The Nineteenth Bakery

Fmbalbuena

@cairdcoinheringaahing when the post moves to bakery?

@lyxal ?

I move it if the question is blatantly off-topic, along with any messages specifically about said post

Fmbalbuena

2:13 AM

@GingerIndustries no, pasado mañana is correct.

@taRadvylfsriksushilani *laughs in parenting SE*

3:51 AM

Bang–bang control

In control theory, a bang–bang controller (2 step or on–off controller), is a feedback controller that switches abruptly between two states. These controllers may be realized in terms of any element that provides hysteresis. They are often used to control a plant that accepts a binary input, for example a furnace that is either completely on or completely off. Most common residential thermostats are bang–bang controllers. The Heaviside step function in its discrete form is an example of a bang–bang control signal. Due to the discontinuous control signal, systems that include bang–bang controllers...

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4:01 AM

@taRadvylfsriksushilani Actually, this indicates that he was ahead of his time. He knew the truth later made famous by FDR: The only thing he had to fear was fear itself. :P

On the contrary, Yoda said something along those lines long ago :P

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@taRadvylfsriksushilani Even great writers turn out duds sometimes. I'll recommend almost anything by Agatha Christie, but don't read Passenger to Frankfurt. It's... not good.

@user Sounds like it would be a rather controversial political topic in some alternate universe where everything's the same but with different names

PyGamer0

CMQ: Do you live near your school?

i HATE this android keyboard

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@taRadvylfsriksushilani "Those intarnit politicians in Central City want to take away our bang-bangs!"

@PyGamer0 I'm not in school these days, but during certain parts of my life I lived very near my school.

@GingerBot I think you mean "foment." :P

4:40 AM

@PyGamer0 I'm just far enough away that with binoculars I can see it from the second story of my house

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4:52 AM

so close

i would consider myself to be very close to campus but i'd have to pretty much be there to see it lmao

unless you're in a very low-tree, low-curvature sort of area?

I'd guess I'm about 4 miles from it

i am 3.2km away by driving distance

It's at a slightly lower elevation that my house, most of the building is blocked by an elementary school, but if I look in just the right spot, I can just barely see one wing of it

I usually need to use some cell towers to line up the right angle though

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i'm a 3 mile drive from campus but i'm also in a very foresty valley

i don't think i'd be able to see any of the buildings even without the trees

Q: Codeforces testing code dynamic programming

is there no javascript .gitignore template?

nvm i should've been searching for node

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When Codeforces runs tests on your solution code for dynamic programming questions, what's the point of writing a dynamic program algorithm when every time it runs your program none of the values from the previous cases are stored? I ran my Python dynamic programming algorithms and realized Codef...

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> functional-programming

@taRadvylfsriksushilani if you don't mind, is this the correct/best way to make a webserver in nodejs? if you don't know then apologies for the ping but i figured i'd ask you since you use js :P

Yeah, for a simple web server that's probably the best option. I know there's libraries with a lot more features (express is one, I think?) but I've never needed those

ah, alright. thanks :D

@NewPosts (cc @hyper-neutrino) Can we get some close votes on this?

5:22 AM

D:

5:42 AM

@taRadvylfsriksushilani hey that's like almost where we're at in my state lol

Wait what happened?

Did Australia just...give up on handling COVID responsibly unlike the entire rest of the world?

anyone know how to get a working linter in atom for js

python black was so easy to get working

or rather, an autoformatter

i got a linter working but it demands 2 spaces and doesn't let me customize that so it's worthless to me. also it doesn't autoformat

@taRadvylfsriksushilani omicron and a premier who just said "y'all gonna get it anyway lol"

Also the state and federal governments have shot themselves in the foot by promising no more lockdowns

6:51 AM

doesn't atomlinter have multiple plugins for js

do all of them not work

@hyper-neutrino use a python to js transpiler on the flask library and use that /s

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@Razetime yes but it requires 2 spaces and doesn't autoformat

i think

well ther's eslint, jshint and jslint

which one of those plugins are you using

there may be a smaller plugin which isn't as annoying

i couldn't get eslint to work

i was using linter-js-standard

if i was still using atom i could help lol

6:57 AM

i'll just have to format it myself rip

Or you could switch to vs code :p

Because there's a linter called Prettier available for vs code

i could

would you recommend it over atom, or have you not really used the latter

VS code is better than atom imo

I used to main atom but now I use vs code

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

i will give it a try

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7:04 AM

@hyper-neutrino plus it has copilot support, meaning I won't be switching away for a while lol

vscode is definitely better than atom

idk how people find reasons to use copilot

oh i've never used copilot before

and don't have plans to

it scares me a bit tbh

i hardly even want someone i've coded several projects from scratch with to meddle with my code (we usually define components first and just code separate things and interface them together)

@pxeger how so?

7:06 AM

i doubt i'll be letting a bot do that for me anytime soon lol

@hyper-neutrino wdym? Copilot is just autosuggestions you can easily ignore

It only fills in its suggestion if you allow it

hm. maybe someday i'll try it

wait

And it's not exactly the smartest either - it can't take a code golf post description and formulate a solution

i've used vscode before i think

@hyper-neutrino that's assuming you get approved into the beta

7:09 AM

oh a built-in terminal

nice

@hyper-neutrino yeah use prettier as your linter

the fact vs code has a built in terminal is actually the thing I hate about it

I want to use my own terminal which is set up exactly how I like it

VS code's terminal doesn't have all the options I want

yeah nvm i immediately regret saying nice

and it's slow

this is running powershell it seems

7:10 AM

I think you can change which shell it runs

@lyxal var x=0;if(x>1){console.log("e");}else{console.log("f");} ->

var x = 0;
if (x > 1) {
  console.log("e");
} else {
  console.log("f");
}

can i configure it to use the wsl bash?

@lyxal can i make it use 4 spaces

You can configure all of VS code to use WSL, actually

yes ik it's not standard

@pxeger oh that's nice

@hyper-neutrino one second I'll check

7:11 AM

@hyper-neutrino it's called "Remote" or something, because you can have VS code run on any backend, not just your local machine

e.g. there's also an SSH option

@hyper-neutrino yes

the extension

You might want to configure it to only do lint JavaScript / css / html though

Or really any language where you don't use another linter

oh i see thanks

should i get prettier or prettier eslint?

@hyper-neutrino prettier

I didn't even know there was an eslint variant

aight

@lyxal just further on that: at its best, copilot helps save a bit of typing or it suggests a way to do a smallish function you might not have known. Every other time it's just laughably wrong

I'd say there's a roughly 70% helpful rate

And the helpfulness also depends on the context of the file you're writing.

7:20 AM

uh,,, probably a stupid question but how do i make prettier format, or is it supposed to happen on save

Should happen on save

hm. does not appear that it is working ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A: VSCode: How do you autoformat on save?

You might have to enable auto-lint on save globally in the settings

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Enable "Format On Save" by setting "editor.formatOnSave": true And since version 1.49.0 editor.formatOnSaveMode has the option modifications that will just format the code you modified. Great when you change someone else code. You can also set it just for one specific language: "[python]": { "...

It'll use whatever linter has been specified

TIL duckduckgo referrals don't one box

thanks. do i need to reload after changing settings or smth?

i set format on save on and it does not work still

Closing and then opening should do the trick

7:26 AM

still doesn't seem to? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

oh how do i make ctrl-tab just move through tabs in position order

I don't know

I don't really use keyboard shortcuts like that

i can probably just look this up

If I knew I'd tell you but alas I don't.

np. was not too hard; found an SO question asking the exact thing :P