The Nineteenth Byte

rydwolf

12:30 AM

I can't believe I just spent multiple minutes trying to figure out how to integrate e^{-ln(x)}

rydwolf

12:40 AM

something about this formatting is surprisingly validating

sometimes you just need to be told you'rwe ★Perfect★

If you're reading this, you're ★Perfect★

lyxal

12:51 AM

No, I'm lyxal

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This is real Australian politics

fr fr no cap

Bbrk24

1:31 AM

@rydwolf Always simplify before you integrate

Unrelated String

@rydwolf What AREN’T your strengths

Like arguably you do have a tendency to do things that if you ran them by someone else they would definitely tell you not to do them

But your history of pulling that off is still marketable :P

Bbrk24

@rydwolf you'rwe

Bbrk24

2:23 AM

"It's a simple change, how bad could it be?"

  302 passing (3s)
  19 pending
  2353 failing

Redz

...I must inquire how

Bbrk24

I mixed up \w and \s in the regex that tries to locate identifiers

Redz

eeesh

Bbrk24

Because clearly the w stands for whitespace

Redz

Never learned regex, but hell, even I can tell that's a terrible assumption to make

Bbrk24

2:28 AM

w is "word" (letters, digits, and underscore). whitespace is s

Redz

figures

what does the output look like?

Bbrk24

Now that I fixed that, only 1181 of the tests are failing

@Redz ParseError on literally everything because it doesn't know what a is

Redz

oof

Bbrk24

In other news, yarn test 2>&1 | less breaks my terminal and I have to close it and open a new window every time I do that. I have no idea why or how

@Bbrk24 now it's choking on :=

Ah. It can no longer parse {c, d} := a because the second identifier is d} and there is no closing brace.

(Context: I'm trying to add support for punctuation in identifiers. Everything is broken.)

lyxal

Hey, at least your regex problems are because the regex was incorrect

Nothing worse than finding out your program is erroring because it doesn't use the same regex engine another build target uses :p

Bbrk24

2:38 AM

there's only 207 failing tests left!

Redz

congratulations

Bbrk24

Oh, postfix operators are broken

Bbrk24

2:55 AM

Every time I think I fixed it the parser throws me a new case I haven't thought of.

The Empty String Photographer

6:32 AM

@rydwolf -1

?

Bubbler

7:05 AM

TIL too many computational threads can almost lock out the computer

like 64 threads on 16-core cpu

Themoonisacheese

8:46 AM

Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we've all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.

@Bbrk24 escape chars, use reset: askubuntu.com/a/25079/1674275

@Bubbler using more than real cores *2 will do nothing for you. hyperthreading might help you somewhat depending on the operations being performed, but any more and you're just spending time context switching

Bubbler

9:21 AM

@Themoonisacheese I had to experiment with it anyway because Google or-tools uses different sets of heuristics based on the number of threads

Bbrk24

12:39 PM

@Themoonisacheese I can't type reset if I can't type at all

Themoonisacheese

my guess is that you need to type "q" first to exit less

or continue resetting the terminal from the WM that works too i guess

Bbrk24

@Themoonisacheese I did, and after that the terminal stopped responding to my keyboard

I couldn’t press up to run it again, I couldn’t type a different command, nothing

Themoonisacheese

incredible what 50+ years of legacy crud will do to a standard

Ginger

1:12 PM

do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down

:p

Simd

2:23 PM

Why do people use perf_counter() instead of time()? Is there some advantage?

rydwolf

2:39 PM

@Bbrk24 This is actually how the roman empire fell

Ginger

only in JS do I need four configuration files for a 42-line script

Neil

3:35 PM

@Simd time tells you the time. unless you're a clock app, that's almost always not what you want

rydwolf

3:53 PM

I have two .edu emails, since I'm cross-registered at Pitt for ROTC...I wonder if I could get a second free trial of Amazon Prime for students

The Empty String Photographer

4:29 PM

If your computer: Turn off power/unplug, wait for battery to run out if necessary
If online VM: Use force kill feature

Bbrk24

@TheEmptyStringPhotographer Or just close the window and re-open it

No need to reboot my whole computer because one window stopped responding

The Empty String Photographer

While I have everyone’s attention, when is the next best-of post?

Ginger

end of the year, just like every year

The Empty String Photographer

4:45 PM

End of the year is getting kinda close tho

Bbrk24

4:55 PM

We have another couple months still

The Empty String Photographer

5:08 PM

It’s only 3 months

Seggan

5:39 PM

@TheEmptyStringPhotographer humans are not devices

and they dont use transistors, so they are not electronic

Ginger

@Seggan by this argument any light bulb more than a few decades old isn't electronic :p

Seggan

and i would agree

rydwolf

Electronic != electric tbf

Ginger

I've always used them interchangeably

Seggan

^^

rydwolf

5:53 PM

I wouldn't call an electric lawnmower "electronic", for example

The gooble says:

> (of a device) having or operating with the aid of many small components, especially microchips and transistors, that control and direct an electric current.
"an electronic calculator"

Ginger

my ELECTRONIC LAWNMOWER

Seggan

imho electronic has the capability of switching, be it vacuum tubes or transistors

ie be able to compute stuff

rydwolf

IMO if it uses electricity it's electric, and if it uses electronity it's electronic

Ginger

nothing instills me with confidence in the NEMA 5-15R electrical socket quite like hearing a spark as I plug my laptop charger in

rydwolf

Tbf, that's from the large capacitors in your charger brick rapidly slurping up power

I assume the same sparking happens with other socket designs, it's just less visible/audible

Ginger

6:14 PM

this is ground pin erasure

jan

6:35 PM

i am so bored

are you guys back in uni yet (it starts in October where i live)

Seggan

starts in october for me too

Unrelated String

Started 3 weeks ago for me :P

Simd

6:59 PM

@Neil I just do t = time() and then later elapsed_time = time() - t. What's wrong with that?

Neil

well, in the worst case, something such as NTP can rewind your clock in between your two measurements

Simd

7:15 PM

@Neil interesting. Is that not supposed to happen with perf_counter?

Neil

no, that's guaranteed to be monotonic

Simd

@jan starts on Monday here

@Neil thanks All is clear now

DLosc

@Bbrk24 Oh goodness, I've done this more times than I care to admit

Ginger

did they lose the platinum measuring stick or something

The Empty String Photographer

8:06 PM

@Seggan OBJECTION: humans can invert a Boolean, it is possible with thinking. Humans are basically AI and AI is a form of computer, albeit a quite inaccurate one.

Ginger

there's nothing artificial about my intelligence :p

DLosc

8:32 PM

@Themoonisacheese Same in QBasic

The Empty String Photographer

Lossless compression is essentially translation into an alternative representation of bytes which happens to result in less data required to store it.

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I wonder what happens if you create a random chat room and the remove yourself from owner, without anyone else there.

Ginger

8:47 PM

@TheEmptyStringPhotographer chat lets you do it

the room will just have no owners unless a mod adds one

lyxal

@jan started back in August, 7 weeks in

@Ginger or until chat auto adds one

Ginger

oh right, I forgot that was a feature

att

oh i’m also starting october

rydwolf

9:57 PM

@Ginger I mean, tbf, cramming mathematics and CS and advanced language into our brains is pretty artificial, and that's a big part of intelligence :p

Unrelated String

~~The artificial portion of my intelligence is a 3:1 mixture of dextroamphetamine and levoamphetamine~~

Ginger

real

rydwolf

10:14 PM

"How many times will a class make everyone take a survey that's a thinly veiled depression screening" has been an interesting statistic to track

emanresu A

10:55 PM

... at least three in my school's case

lyxal

You guys are taking uni surveys?

Gosh dang I barely do end of semester course feedback surveys

Also "what reliability features does UDP have" was an exam question I had to answer today

Definitely a fun one given the nature of UDP

I do not like being a morning person

:p

Bubbler

11:09 PM

@lyxal Do I get full credit for leaving it blank?

lyxal

11:24 PM

I think the checksum counts as reliability, so no :p

Bubbler

11:40 PM

damn

rydwolf

I like how we live in a world where you can end up quoted in a NYT article with the username "catturd"

> Another MAGA influencer, a person who goes by the online name Catturd, posted, “Unless you want your pets eaten, you better vote for Trump.” Catturd has 2.9 million followers.

Bbrk24

@UnrelatedString is that Adderall?

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