The Nineteenth Byte

Seggan

00:25

you have been helped

emanresu A

... i completely forgot to start voting for the RO stuff, let's pretend it was always going to be utc 1am

New Posts

01:00

Voting for room owners just dropped. Vote or you don't get any butter for Christmas

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Seggan

@emanresuA suggest adding the nomination text into the voting answers

emanresu A

I'm just following older formats - besides we're trying to keep things compact here

and all the voting links were off by one because I was trying to be clever but can't count

rydwolf

wow there are apparently several seggan fans out there lol

Seggan

its all part of my conspiracy to eventually take over every main chat roo - err, i mean im just popular

emanresu A

Hivemind at work, huh

ATaco

01:15

I for one just want PLDI to take over

emanresu A

Also can one of y'all mods (@hyper-neutrino?) feature this and unfeature+lock the nominations post? (also did I trip any automatic flags by posting six answers in ten minutes?)

ATaco

Do y'all use a Preview userscript for your chat Markdown?

emanresu A

@emanresuA (and 11 the New Posts message)

Seggan

01:39

doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2401.11817

~~r/singularity has been strangely quiet since this dropped~~

lyxal

@ATaco working on it :p

~~being in favour of the room owner addition process has always been part of the plan to expand the scope of my site~~

Gonna stuff the roster with pldi members

Seggan

01:55

42 mins ago, by Seggan

its all part of my conspiracy to eventually take over every main chat roo - err, i mean im just popular

lyxal

You're not just popular

You're Seggan

Seggan

Sandbox Posts

03:06

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Given binary array X, decide if for each 0≤i<len(X), X[i] = X[(i + 2len(X)) mod len(X)]. Sandbox Notes This comes from puzzle where the array is the lamps. Should I use another equivalent expression than above?

rydwolf

05:13

My RA is awesome

She just took over the fence holding for me for tonight so I can sleep in an actual bed for one night lol

mousetail 'he-him'

06:34

I'm playing an Agile Consultant in my DnD campaign now. Consultation usually ends in violence so far

mousetail 'he-him'

08:39

@Ginger Happy to help if you have rust questions

@RubenVerg All of us can play both sides and we'll have no losers

RubenVerg

09:02

well then there's no sides

which is a good thing I guess

mousetail 'he-him'

I prefer to see it as an epic fantasy battle with everyone fighting on the same side against nothing

Themoonisacheese

09:22

thank you, wikipedia

mousetail 'he-him'

Where is that?

Themoonisacheese

random article i was editing

mousetail 'he-him'

So from the Switserland perspective the article is low importance, not the other way around

Themoonisacheese

makes more sense

i love when software does that though, assigns a tag that means something else to novices that makes it seem like it's roasting you

DeadLock does that, it has a button on the main menu that says "Learn to play (recommended!)"

lyxal

10:08

@RubenVerg the real winners here are the golflang creators who get more spaces where their languages can be ~~advertised~~ used :p

That's the side you want to be on :p

RubenVerg

i guess i'm really playing all sides then

New Posts

12:45

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Q: Perfect ruler search

Definitions: A sparse ruler, or simply a ruler, is a strict increasing finite sequence of nonnegative integers starting from 0, called marks. A ruler is complete if the set of all distances it can measure is {1,2,3,...,k} for some integer k > 0. A ruler is perfect if it is complete, and no comple...

Ginger

14:16

@mousetail'he-him' noted :p

the question is if real-time chat would even be useful for byte heist

and tbh yall could just use matrix

mousetail 'he-him'

Since Discord exists, I don't really feel the need for a chat feature

Ginger

fair

matrix my beloved etc etc

someday discord will finally collapse, and I'll be atop the rubble

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mousetail 'he-him'

Looking forward to it

Ginger

based

att

gave codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/169376 its 42nd upvote and a suggestion for -1 at the same time 😔

Ginger

14:30

politics.se with the topical HNQs

mousetail 'he-him'

@NewPosts What does it mean if a ruler can measure certain distances?

att

I think distance between marks

Themoonisacheese

@mousetail'he-him' pretty sure it has to do with actual RL rulers, as in, you could measure a distance of 2 units if the ruler has numbers that are 2 apart

Ginger

15:19

oh dear

mousetail 'he-him'

This happens all the time

Global vars and typescript never work properly, even if they are builtins

RubenVerg

@Ginger i don't want to host three synapse instances on my server(:

though it's probably a better idea than rolling my own thing

Themoonisacheese

15:35

@RubenVerg why host multiple? you can just host one, no?

RubenVerg

one would be for normal stuff on rubenverg.com, a separate one for mautrix, and then a third one for golf together

my moderation tools:

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Ginger

@RubenVerg ~~conduwuit better~~

RubenVerg

@Ginger does it not use 1gb ram like synapse does?

could've hosted it on my pi if it didn't completely break

Themoonisacheese

@RubenVerg tbh this feels like it should all be hosted on one instance

RubenVerg

@Themoonisacheese i don't think i want golf together stuff on rubenverg.com nor other stuff of mine (tinyapl probably) on golf together

(golf together is eventually getting a domain)

mautrix idk if it plays nice with having normal accounts on the same homeserver?

assumed it'd be better to have a separate one

Themoonisacheese

15:39

@RubenVerg yeah that works fine for me

RubenVerg

do the created users have like a prefix?

@Themoonisacheese oh okay

Themoonisacheese

the /synapse-admin user list is understandably filled with puppets but yes

@RubenVerg this is a mautrix-messenger user i.sstatic.net/kBMUg4b8.png

RubenVerg

i have no particular reason to think this but it feels like separate instances would be better from a legal standpoint

Ginger

@RubenVerg can't check because my VM is down, but it's pretty resource-light

RubenVerg

talking about legality, i don't understand the docs for GDPR and synapse

Themoonisacheese

15:43

i mean this becomes a matter of personal preference but i wouldn't think twice about it

RubenVerg

like, do i have to do anything? do i have to provide like an email to accept requests to erase? does synapse have a button for that? do i put the email somewhere in synapse or do i have to host another site that lists that email?

all the docs say is "yeah so it's like emails so you wouldn't expect people that received the thing to not have it anymore" (which is kinda dubious tbh) but nothing about what I have to do to conform

Themoonisacheese

@RubenVerg if the account is on the instance, users may delete their own account and that should wipe what is wipeable (not much). you may also delete users from url/synapse-admin if you have that installed

RubenVerg

so i have to provide a way for people to ask me to do that

mousetail 'he-him'

A contact me link would probably be enough

Themoonisacheese

also:
> When does the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) not apply?

> The GDPR does not apply if:

> the data subject is dead
> the data subject is a legal person
> the processing is done by a person acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, or profession

RubenVerg

15:50

oh

that's probably helpful

Themoonisacheese

is this your trade, business or profession? i'm pretty sure it is not

source is europa.eu/youreurope/business/dealing-with-customers/…

RubenVerg

sure isn't(:

Themoonisacheese

the point would still stand if you eventually start doing this as your job though, say your site becomes a global sensation overnight and users are throwing money at you, then you would have to reconsider

RubenVerg

yeah of course

not like that'll happen anytime soon(:

Themoonisacheese

that's what i said about my minecraft proxy and then i got to do tech support for 2b2t players (derogatory) for 2 years

Unrelated String

15:56

😭😭😭😭

Themoonisacheese

also it got blamed for a hack that didn't actually happen and was in fact just a facade to conceal a more powerful, more secret hack

Unrelated String

amazing.

mousetail 'he-him'

Finding the balance between wanting to build something proper and professional and but also not wanting a second job is real

Themoonisacheese

my problem is that everything that i make well, i make it because it solves a problem i have, so people that use it have the same problems i do and, like, i've been there

and nobody helped me! that's the entire reason i made the thing! who am i if not a tyrant if i don't help them?

(this is, it turns out, entirely fallacious but y'know)

to solve this, i've taken the very good and cool option of simply not making more things

mousetail 'he-him'

I feel like I usually find the another product that does exactly what my solution as trying to solve, right after I build my own inferior version

Themoonisacheese

16:05

that too

CMR: Netsky - I Refuse music.youtube.com/watch?v=vl26xpPyFsw

mousetail 'he-him'

Shout out to the worst podcast player in existence: alyceosbourne.github.io/cast/# (By me and a friend). We joked you could make en entire podcast series about all the bugs in this player

RubenVerg

16:57

@mousetail'he-him' better than youtube music

(yours supports rss)

still mad that they killed google podcasts

hyper-neutrino

17:09

@emanresuA it is done

ignore me locking the wrong post by accident

emanresu A

18:05

Thanks!

RubenVerg

18:17

my pi apparently started working again so golf together is once again available (with https!) here

how long will it work again? no idea

emanresu A

@hyper-neutrino uh could you also unfeature the nominations post

Ginger

18:34

I've just had a terrible idea

Seggan

lets hear it

hyper-neutrino

18:49

@emanresuA it is also done

emanresu A

thanks

Ginger

18:59

yep, this is the worst

github.com/gingershaped/userscripts/raw/refs/heads/main/…

I call it Stack Roulette

Wezl

okay but what is the idea

im still confused

Ginger

wait I can make it work for network sites too

@Wezl chatrooms have different themes depending on their parent site, this userscript selects a random one every time the page loads

Wezl

i mean it looks good

emanresu A

unless you pick scifi.se

Seggan

19:37

what on earth is this theme lol

expressionengine.stackexchange.com????

Ginger

who here has the s.data.replace error spam issue? I'm gonna write up a meta post

can those who do set a breakpoint on the erroring code and tell me what s is

hyper-neutrino

@Ginger is that christianity or am i stupid

Ginger

christianity golf and coding challenges

Seggan

AAA GIS SE IS SO UGLY

Ginger

ough

~~apparently gis stands for garish imagery stackexchange~~

Seggan

19:44

got CR third time already

still waiting for PLDI

Ginger

PLDI uses the default theme

which I think I added

ATaco

21:30

Lots of Enthusiastic voting in the Election

Glad to see it

lyxal

21:56

→ 6 bananas moved to The Nineteenth Bakery

Seggan

ty

Dannyu NDos

22:11

It goes against our policies to require the input to be a linked list (which is not randomly accessible), right?

ATaco

@DannyuNDos Requiring input to be a specific structure is advised against, and maybe unobservable.

But X/Y problem, why is it required anyway?

Dannyu NDos

'Cause I wonder if Haskell can shuffle it in linear time.

ATaco

That somehow has me more confused as to what you're doing

Dannyu NDos

In general, shuffling a linked list goes like this: Move the entries into a contiguous array, apply Fischer-Yates, and move them back.

Haskell can do this thanks to FFI, but I'd like to see a more "native" solution.

ATaco

But why would our policies matter for that?

Dannyu NDos

22:20

'Cause 1. Requiring answers to be a specific language is a bad idea, and 2. As you pointed out, the requirement on the input is unobservable.

ATaco

Oh, you want to write it as a challenge

Finally got Function Overloading working in Brainchild

att

22:50

I think linked list input should be enforceable

Sandbox Posts

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Mega Man: Powered Up Objective Given the name of a robot master in Mega Man: Powered Up except the trailing string Man, output the name of the robot master (again, except the trailing string Man) whom the inputted robot master has advantage over in fighting (with his weapon). Mapping (Input -> Ou...

Dannyu NDos

I feel like I've been posting quite much of this kind of challenges involving "cycles", but whatever

Oh wait, I can generalize this like "Find the robot masters of your language!"

caird coinheringaahin g

23:15

Man, I fully missed the 2 year anniversary of me being elected :P

God, I've been here for ages :P

hyper-neutrino

oh that means i missed my 4 years

that's concerning

caird coinheringaahin g

Yeah, I'm basically 2 weeks after you guys

Sep 29th vs Oct 11th

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