The Nineteenth Byte

@Seggan Yeah that's looking way better

It was doing some weird like, flower-shaped orbit earlier, which I thought was cool but was pretty sure wasn't intentional

Do the protons move, and have too high of a mass for it to be noticeable? Or are they fixed in place right now

4:02 AM

Fun fact: One jelly bean contains enough calories to power an LED light bulb for half an hour

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DLosc

6:25 AM

@jezza_99 There isn't. What to use instead will depend on what you're trying to do.

@RadvylfPrograms But I like lines that have the same number of characters to be exactly the same length D:

No joke--in Notepad++, the default style for Haskell puts certain keywords in bold, which is slightly wider than the non-bold version of the same font. It was bugging me and I had to change it.

user

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't it also help editors' performance if the font is monospace?

Like they don't have to calculate the width of a character or whatever?

DLosc

IDK

Though I think all fonts have some characters that don't monospace correctly (correct me if I'm wrong), so...

user

True (or most, at least)

Anyway, if you have some construct that's aligned, it's nice to be able to use the up or down arrows and go down to the same place on a different line without using the left and right arrows to get to the right place

One thing I hate about Word (well, non-monospace fonts) is that it sometimes when I hit the up arrow, it feels like the cursor should go to one letter but it actually goes to another

DLosc

I don't mind that so much when it's text, but when I'm writing a CGCC explanation for my Brachylog or BQN code... grrr

Unrelated String

7:08 AM

Unrelated String

7:23 AM

come to think of it fonts should be able to like
set a default width that overrides the width of the glyph in the fallback font

8:02 AM

@Seggan Always has been, according to rust fans. Still won't, according to JS fans

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emanresu A

9:26 AM

Wasm technology will improve over time, but JS is immortal, for better or worse

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11:09 AM

Any tips for solving the box folding challenge? My current attempt is more than 1000 bytes but doesn't even work

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Seggan

1:00 PM

@RadvylfPrograms if you look later in the video, you can see i selected a proton in the inspeector

if you watch the x value, it increases by like .002 every second

they just have a very high mass compared to the electrons

better view of proton movement

lyxal

ew mm/dd/yyyy

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4:27 PM

@WheatWizard this should be truthy right?

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@mousetail I mean I'm a "JS fan" and still support Rust, Wasm, etc. becoming popular

More competition can't hurt it, and the alternatives all have definite advantages for some things

@UnrelatedString YES

You are a rust fan too though

Add it to the woff standard. Call it woffl.

@RadvylfPrograms It should be cooled woof

4:46 PM

@mousetail I don't think so. How are you folding it?

Along every corner

The 2 connected segments overlap exactly

I even tried it IRL to confirm

What do you mean you folded along every corner?

Every edge is folded 90 degrees exactly

Ok, that doesn't really specify much tbh. There's a lot of ways to fold everything 90 degrees.

There is not, there's exactly one way to fold a edge 90 degrees inwards

4:51 PM

Ah so all the edges are folded in the same direction.

Yes

I don't think it's possible to make any kind of cube with a outward 90 degree angle

You definitely can.

But you might need to also do some other non 90 degree angles.

Anyway, I don't think this is possible with simple folds.

It seems some of the folds need to be done simultaneously.

Or you need to bend the paper temporaroily.

#1#2#3#
4     4
#     #
5     5
#1#2#3#
6
#

I've numbered the folds that need to be made.

What order are they made in?

@WheatWizard Here's an example of a net that requires a outward 90 degree angle to cover the cube:

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Although it's not a simple fold.

You can do 1 2 3 5 4 6

Fold 5 doesn't work anymore once you've folded 1 2 3

Yes it does, the 2 5 folds exactly overlap at that point

5:07 PM

Where does the extra paper go? Like it seems like you physically can't make that fold without the paper intersecting itself.

If you look at my picture, the left cube just has 1235 done, next step would be 5. The loops perfectly overlap eachother

Are you folding the 5s one at a time?

I can't fold the first five without also folding something else simultaneously.

No, both at once. Again, the 2 5s are in exactly the same place at that point. You couldn't fold them seperately

They are not?

The 5s are right next to each other.

Oh I see you copied the diagram wrong, there should be 3 # in between

5:13 PM

Ah ok.

total width is 5 squares

Let me cut out a new model.

Ok well this definitely requires some cheeky folding.

It requires bending the paper for sure.

Because otherwise the paper has to pass through itself.

But this is a tough one.

I don't think my original model considered paper self intersection here, so it's probably an issue for my statement. I wonder if there's a way to tweak it so that it can avoid the self intersection issue ...

I really wouldn't know how to even model self-intersection in a algorithm, without adding a entire physics library

It can be done geometrically, I will probably amend the question to specifically allow self intersection. But I want to check first that I can come up with an example that doesn't need it.

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This can be folded into a cube without any self intersection.

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This is even smaller.

Ok I will permit self intersection.

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## is always illegal if it appears anywhere

5:26 PM

@mousetail No, step one is to just fold over the flap to basically get rid of the square.

Damn that makes my answer illegal again since it assumes all angles are 90 degrees

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would this be valid?

Yeah I think so.

You can just roll up the big chunk.