The Nineteenth Byte

12:20 AM

@randomra
HexCatcher is disqualified. Reason: Exception/Error
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 3
	at players.HexCatcher.takeTurn(HexCatcher.java:32)
	at main.Controller.playGame(Controller.java:77)
	at main.Controller.playGames(Controller.java:51)
	at main.Controller.main(Controller.java:238)

@randomra Nevermind, that's @flawr 's fault.

PhiNotPi

12:40 AM

that moment I realize I haven't done a proper malware scan for months and then become rather paranoid of the possibilities

TheNumberOne

What antivirus do you use?

PhiNotPi

Whatever's free. No budget for me.

This time around it's Malwarebytes.

TheNumberOne

I've been using McAfee(not free), I just recently switched to Avira(free)

PhiNotPi

I'll look into Avira.

hmm... right now "Detected Objects" is at 0, which can be either a good or bad sign.

TheNumberOne

According to av-comparatives.org, Avira is one of the best.

When was the last time you checked your screeps game :P

PhiNotPi

12:51 AM

Last week sometime.

It's just one of those things where I suddenly lose all interest in something for no apparent reason.

I have a life outside of Screeps, after all. That life is called PPCG.

8

Doorknob

Argh, @MartinBüttner keeps beating me to the rep milestone congratulatory messages. :P

TheNumberOne

@PhiNotPi I stopped really doing anything with mine when they changed the API considerably.

@flawr Upgraded Dijkstra and his cat.

Alex A.

1:09 AM

@Calvin'sHobbies Do you want to borrow some spackle and paint for your bathroom wall?

It'll be like Einstein was never there.

Alex A.

1:24 AM

@PhiNotPi I feel the same way regardless of what I try to do.

PhiNotPi

1:36 AM

I was trying to find a way to get a stack snippet to do stuff with a google document.

TheNumberOne

@PhiNotPi github.com/mikeymckay/google-spreadsheet-javascript

PhiNotPi

good find, but one problem.

> TODO: Use google forms for saving data

Alex A.

TODO: Find something that solves your problem

New Main Posts

2:06 AM

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Q: Javascript Rubik's Cube Scrambler #2

Okay, so I developed my previous Javascript scrambler further. Now it is made for ES6, and it's 112 bytes as of now. Any tips to improve byte count? Code is below: _=>{for(a=s=y=r='',x=Math.random;a++<25;s+=r+["'",2,''][0|x(y=r)*3]+' ')for(;r==y;r='RLUDFB'[0|x()*6]);return s}

Calvin's Hobbies

2:16 AM

Another SE mystery: I got a notification when this comment was made. How did the site know molarman was talking to me without the @Calvin?

Alex A.

There was no one else commenting on that post

Calvin's Hobbies

(Am I totally oblivious to comment responses?)

@AlexA. But his comment could have been totally unrelated

Alex A.

It could have been, but SE assumes it isn't.

Calvin's Hobbies

Do you have a meta post that backs that up?

Alex A.

Experience broseph.

I've done lots of commenting on SO and I've noticed that often.

Calvin's Hobbies

2:22 AM

Can we test it? Can you comment on meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/5384/…

Alex A.

Done

Calvin's Hobbies

Did you get a notification for my comment?

Alex A.

Oui

PhiNotPi

I voted to close it as "primarily opinion based"

Calvin's Hobbies

Ok. Thanks for the help

Alex A.

2:26 AM

Haha

@Calvin'sHobbies Any time.

Calvin's Hobbies

Still seems weird to me

Alex A.

Nah, it's just how SE works.

Spend lots of time in low-traffic tags on SO and you'll get used to all sorts of crap.

Calvin's Hobbies

I guess it's because not everyone knows about @Usering

PhiNotPi

"advanced pinging technique"

Alex A.

More like "only pinging technique"

If you're talking about @

@Calvin'sHobbies Particularly new users

Calvin's Hobbies

2:30 AM

@141888 Do user id's work in chat?

Alex A.

Idk. Who are you trying to ping?

Calvin's Hobbies

You chat.stackexchange.com/users/141888

PhiNotPi

Maybe, it might depend on chat ID vs site ID.

Alex A.

Nope, nothing happened.

trichoplax

@user26997 I don't think so

Calvin's Hobbies

2:31 AM

@trichoplax But that's not my chat id

@user141888 test

PhiNotPi

@user141888 ?

trichoplax

@121917 good point

@user121917 how about this?

Calvin's Hobbies

No pings

PhiNotPi

Well, obviously nothing's happening.

Alex A.

Nothing is happening. Everyone looks so foolish right now.

Calvin's Hobbies

2:32 AM

Yep

Alex A.

I wonder...

trichoplax

>! @Calvin'sHobbies this?

Alex A.

@@@@@@@@Calvin'sHobbies

Calvin's Hobbies

@trichoplax That got me

@AlexA. That didn't

Alex A.

:O

PhiNotPi

2:32 AM

@Ca

Alex A.

Maybe because trichoplax and I posted in too rapid succession. Allow me to try once more.

Calvin's Hobbies

@PhiNotPi No

trichoplax

Only because it's a standard ping... I was trying to do spoiler text but either it doesn't work in chat or I've got it wrong

Alex A.

@@@@@@@@@@Calvin'sHobbies

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. Yes

trichoplax

2:33 AM

@@cal test

Calvin's Hobbies

yes

PhiNotPi

I think I've seen "@Phi" work before.

Alex A.

@Ca

It must only need enough to uniquely identify you among the other chat users.

PhiNotPi

Maybe 3 letters or more is needed?

trichoplax

It takes 3 characters, yes

Calvin's Hobbies

2:34 AM

I think so, Ca doesn't work

Alex A.

@tri

@Calvin

trichoplax

Even if 2 is unique, it still needs 3

Alex A.

@PhiN

PhiNotPi

^ yes

trichoplax

@AlexA. the tri was successful :)

Alex A.

2:34 AM

I tri-ed and succeeded. B)

trichoplax

I don't know if a non-unique 3 pings both or neither

PhiNotPi

@tri-force

trichoplax

nothing

Alex A.

Who isn't unique on three? Let's see...

Calvin's Hobbies

@@Ale

trichoplax

2:35 AM

@PhiNotPi the space makes it work

PhiNotPi

Okay

Alex A.

@Calvin'sHobbies Got me

@Kat

Let's see what happens

trichoplax

In other news, a massive ping battle has broken out on PPCG

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. Ok. But it's weird that mousing over it doesn't highlight your last message (Mousingover @PhiN does)

PhiNotPi

@Ale

Calvin's Hobbies

2:36 AM

@trichoplax PingOfTheHill

trichoplax

lol

Alex A.

@PhiNotPi That got me, unfortunately

~~lol~~

Sp3000

@Alexa .com

trichoplax

@Calvin'sHobbies For me hovering over this message highlights (in grey...) @Calvin'sHobbies Got me

PhiNotPi

test

Alex A.

2:38 AM

@Sp3000 and @PhiNotPi both got me

TheNumberOne

Hello guys

Alex A.

So did El Numero Uno

Calvin's Hobbies

@trichoplax Right. But the @@ ones do ping but don't highlight

PhiNotPi

You have to add "http://" in front of the names to form a URL.

Sp3000

@Hobbies Maybe?

Alex A.

2:38 AM

@3000

Calvin's Hobbies

@TheNumberOne That worked. Hobbies didn't

PhiNotPi

@TheNumberOne Nothing.

Calvin's Hobbies

Pi is better than Phi

Alex A.

Herro

Sp3000

So there's a bit of fuzziness possible (lowercase/remove punctuation?) from "Alexa", and it has to be from the start because "Hobbies" and "3000" didn't ping

TheNumberOne

2:39 AM

Ping [ ](http://@Calvin'sHobbies@PhiNotPi@AlexA.@trichoplax)

@Sp3

That pings

Snarl

@TheNumberOne 3 pings for me

PhiNotPi

.

Sp3000

2:40 AM

That also pinged

That pinged you???

Pings are awesome.

Phi's one, I mean

Stealth pinging.

Is there a limit to how many you can ping at once?

Sp3000

2:41 AM

You can see what happened in the permalink

Alex A.

@Calvin'sHobbies I'll find out

trichoplax

I don't even know what just pinged me

@TheNumberOne Got you... lol

PhiNotPi

@TheNumberOne That got me.

Alex A.

Everybody wang chungs tonight

^ did that get anybody?

TheNumberOne

me

trichoplax

2:42 AM

yes

PhiNotPi

me

Sp3000

Yes

PhiNotPi

Is there a way to hid pings in normal URLS?

Calvin's Hobbies

Yes

trichoplax

#?

Alex A.

2:42 AM

So you can do at least 5 at a time

google.com/@phinotpi

trichoplax

An invalid # at the end of a URL will still work as a link to the top of the respective page, right?

Yes, it is possible.

pointless test

404 error.

I didn't say it was a valid URL

PhiNotPi

2:44 AM

@tri @TheN those both worked.

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. @Sp3000 @trichoplax @TheNumberOne @PhiNotPi @MartinBüttner @Doorknob 7 test

Alex A.

@TheNumberOne That pinged me and I don't know how

Yes

7 test worked

Yes

2:45 AM

@Calvin'sHobbies worked

Let us not tempt the fates or anger the mods

Calvin's Hobbies

Doing a lot more might annoy people :P

TheNumberOne

too... many... pings...

Alex A.

@trichoplax Disagree. Let us tempt all the fates and anger all the mods.

PhiNotPi

The period is where the stealth pings occur.

Alex A.

Okay, thanks!

trichoplax

2:47 AM

@AlexA. I think you need an @

PhiNotPi

@s are needed

Alex A.

D:

PhiNotPi

@TheNumberOne Pinged me twice with the same message.

Calvin's Hobbies

Doorknob did a future self ping the other day. How did that work?

Alex A.

@PhiNotPi @Phi @PhiNot @PhiNotPi @Phi

TheNumberOne

2:48 AM

22021783: ping

Calvin's Hobbies

@PhiNotPi Was it just edits? e1 e2 e3 e4

Alex A.

@Calvin'sHobbies I couldn't figure it out

PhiNotPi

Only gives one notification, but all 5 are highlighted.

TheNumberOne

@TheNumberOne ping

trichoplax

@Calvin'sHobbies You have to edit the first message once you know the transcript id of the second (I think)

Alex A.

2:49 AM

@Calvin'sHobbies

PhiNotPi

I think it was like this:

test edit: @PhiNotPi edit 2: 3: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/22021795#22021795

trichoplax

@trichoplax In response to the following question

Calvin's Hobbies

@Calvin'sHobbies Is this me?

PhiNotPi

46 secs ago, by PhiNotPi

nope...

Calvin's Hobbies

Test

trichoplax

2:49 AM

Does this work?

Calvin's Hobbies

It is me!

TheNumberOne

47 secs ago, by TheNumberOne

editing

editing again without resubmitting top

PhiNotPi

@PhiNotPi edit

test 2

Calvin's Hobbies

Have a ping @Sparr :)

Alex A.

@Calvin'sHobbies Did my highlighted tag of you ping you?

PhiNotPi

2:52 AM

Got it to work.

Alex A.

@PhiNotPi Masterfully done.

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. Which one? I've lost track

trichoplax

test for visible link length

Alex A.

Haha

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. This one? Yes I believe

Alex A.

2:53 AM

Okay

@TheNumberOne Did that same one ping you?

TheNumberOne

@Calvin'sHobbies Hi

@AlexA. no

Calvin's Hobbies

@TheNumberOne Now you're just messing with nature

Alex A.

@TheNumberOne Not the highlighted tag of Calvin above?

TheNumberOne

@AlexA. nope

Alex A.

@Calvin'sHobbies edit?

Calvin's Hobbies

2:54 AM

@Optimizer likes to be bothered

TheNumberOne

@AlexA. can you edit so I can see text

Calvin's Hobbies

ping the llama instead

Llama, come here.

test l_?

@AlexA. works

2:55 AM

llama

PhiNotPi

$$$

Alex A.

The bonking noise of a chat ping is so satisfying.

PhiNotPi

It looks like it works for a few seconds but then doesn't.

Alex A.

You mean a blank link?

TheNumberOne

@trichoplax remove spaces between brackets.

PhiNotPi

2:57 AM

Yeah, the blank link.

Alex A.

@PhiNotPi dolla dolla bill, y'all

trichoplax

@TheNumberOne thanks :)

PhiNotPi

test

Alex A.

@PhiNotPi Who or what was that supposed to ping?

PhiNotPi

What did my link do for you?

TheNumberOne

2:59 AM

about:blank

Alex A.

It made all of my wildest dreams come true

PhiNotPi

I gave it a message number instead of a name in the URL.

Alex A.

I didn't get pinged and I don't see a link

TheNumberOne

☼

PhiNotPi

Wrong slashes? //

okay

TheNumberOne

3:02 AM

‍

Sorry, trying to find invisible characters.

trichoplax

@TheNumberOne You may need infra red

TheNumberOne

trichoplax

@PhiNotPi I think colon-chat message transcript only works as the first thing in a message

TheNumberOne

Ping

Alex A.

φ¬π

PhiNotPi

3:05 AM

How did that blank one work?

:22021963

D:

Evil cackle.

@Kat

3:05 AM

@TheNumberOne I got a ping. Pete knows how

Alex A.

^ @Katya did that ping you?

@trichoplax Who is Pete

TheNumberOne

0

Q: What is this invisible character?

I have strings in my code that contain invisible characters. look at the string below, the invisible characters is between the m and the last double quote. I would like to know a) what is it? b) how to detect these? I've tried both "draw_white_space": "all" in preferences and the plugn Trailing...

string sublimetext sublimetext3 invisible

trichoplax

@AlexA. Pete only knows

Alex A.

dafuq

TheNumberOne

Peter Taylor

Alex A.

3:06 AM

Oh, okay

trichoplax

@TheNumberOne OK that works...

PhiNotPi

TheNumberOne

:(

trichoplax

@AlexA. but actually I meant the deity Pete, as in "for Pete's sake"

PhiNotPi

Ohhh yeahhh...

trichoplax

3:07 AM

?

I wonder if this works to star my own post

TheNumberOne

PhiNotPi

//

trichoplax

@TheNumberOne pinged

@TheNumberOne (and 2nd time)

Katya

@AlexA. Kat was successful in pinging me

TheNumberOne

@trichoplax That's what he meant.

trichoplax

3:09 AM

Now we just need to check with the other Kat and we'll know how this works

Alex A.

@Katya Interesting, because Kat does not uniquely identify a member of the chatroom. (Though it does in terms of those currently in the room)

trichoplax

@PhiNotPi pinged

TheNumberOne

@PhiNotPi @Then works too!?!?! :(

trichoplax

@AlexA. pinged

Alex A.

It's not blank though

3:10 AM

@AlexA. sure isn't

Is now

@AlexA. Are you sure you had the "special" character in there?

trichoplax

@AlexA. (removed)

Alex A.

@PhiNotPi No I forgot it

@trichoplax Yes I removed it, hence blank ;)

PhiNotPi

3:11 AM

@PhiNotPi test

trichoplax

@AlexA. what is going on?

Alex A.

So much ping

wow, such ping, very bonk

trichoplax

@AlexA. No I get that - I was trying to get a fake blank but failed miserably :)

PhiNotPi

My previous post is a reply to itself.

trichoplax

@PhiNotPi It turns itself grey when hovering... Cool

Welcome to meta chat

Alex A.

3:14 AM

Well, there's nothing new left in the universe to know. φ¬π figured it all out.

trichoplax

Right. Back to writing questions then...

Alex A.

The only thing I've figured out is how to make φ¬π with my keyboard.

@Katya Can you mess around on PPCG while a patient is in an MRI? :P

PhiNotPi

:/

Alex A.

@PhiNotPi Sneaky

PhiNotPi

Well, I need to catch the sleep train.

trichoplax

3:23 AM

@PhiNotPi Remember to turn your volume down so all the pings don't wake you...

PhiNotPi

See you all sometime... this week.

Bye!

trichoplax

Bye :)

Alex A.

BYE

@trichoplax Should we test this?

trichoplax

Lol no!

Alex A.

How mad do you think Phi and/or the mods would be if I made a chat bot that just pinged Phi over and over?

trichoplax

3:26 AM

Unless you want to write a bot to ping every few minutes while you sleep

Woah - spooky

Alex A.

:D

trichoplax

lol

The birds have started singing - I should be asleep myself...

Alex A.

Well you should probably turn your volume down too.

trichoplax

Oh dear...

Alex A.

:P

trichoplax

3:31 AM

I'm probably going to write questions for a bit though

Alex A.

Sounds like your priorities are in the right place.

trichoplax

I'm looking to double my all time question count before the weekend

Alex A.

What's your current count?

trichoplax

1

:)

Alex A.

Haha

trichoplax

3:32 AM

I've sandboxed a few but only 1 ever made it through so far...

Alex A.

Well you've gotten further than I have. I've never posted to main and only one to sandbox.

I ended up deleting the sandboxed one though because it was crap.

trichoplax

I have a few KotHs that will hopefully make it through in the coming weeks/months, but for now I'm working on a nice simple golf

I had a few that were duplicates or simply not possible

Alex A.

One of these days I'm going to have to try participating in a KotH. Perhaps my first will be one of yours!

trichoplax

Do you like (can you tolerate) JavaScript?

I'm learning it to try and write a Stack Snippets KotH

Alex A.

I'm not allergic, I just don't know it very well.

Alex A.

3:54 AM

<3

trichoplax

Now I'm going to be searching for hidden links and pings in everything...

TheNumberOne

4:21 AM

@Everyone Good night!

New Main Posts

5:04 AM

-1

Q: Unicode compression in golfing

I've seen some Unicode-encoded answers in ASCII art challenges like this one in CJam: "03½åÙªWË#å¥ÜZ2ò'ýðDc}¦Ð£RÞ5ä<Üå§ÖÞYÏuäOe ¤¶è2²|ZëßB«ô¬cm"257b2bSf*Qa/"®=&ðS¢Òpût£Ð`ç«^º,[öÄ©3¸YÝæ[%$>\D£ (´õÓÆeUØRHáÄ¡ããîùK½ÊÆÇ:UBÍm¥·fèäBÓEwWOkQq×tÌVfè£g8·¨ q©ñäp-ÁgUÚ´Éõ'>r Ê#"256bDb" .\"'()-/:\_|J"f=...

tips unicode

Katya

5:43 AM

2k reputation is strange

I see deleted posts

3

New Meta Posts

0

Q: How do I include a link to a large file

I have a large text file (~6kB) that forms part of my challenge. How do I provide a link to download it instead of embedding the text in my question? I believe I have seen other questions do this but I don't have any examples.

support

New Main Posts

6:04 AM

0

Q: Evaluating Parentheses and Brackets as Integers

Write a program that takes in a string of the four characters ()[] that satisfies these points: Every left parenthesis ( has a matching right parenthesis ). Every left bracket [ has a matching right bracket ]. Matching pairs of parentheses and brackets won't overlap. e.g. [(]) is invalid becaus...

code-golf arithmetic recursion

Katenkyo

@AlexA. By spamming @Kat you were pinging me >_<

3

Sp3000

6:30 AM

@Calvin'sHobbies Do you have more test cases for the parentheses challenge?

Calvin's Hobbies

@Sp3000 Not on hand. It seemed simple enough and I didn't really want to bother :P

I can add more if you really want. Is there a case you're not sure about?

Sp3000

Well basically testing more brackets together (you only have 2 at a time) and deeper nesting

e.g. something like [([][][][][])([][][])([][][])(((((([][]))))))]

It's simple, but people can still botch it with stupid algorithms which look like they work but don't :P

Calvin's Hobbies

6:45 AM

@Sp3000 Added this as example

Sp3000

Ahaha k, thanks. Sorry about that :)

Katya

7:00 AM

@Katenkyo It appears that pinging @Kat pings both of us

Optimizer

@Kat

Katenkyo

7:17 AM

I feel that I will be pinged a lot this morning x)

New Main Posts

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Q: Create a basic spell checker

Create a basic spell checker In this challenge, you have to implement a basic spell checker. Your program will use the first input as a source. Specifications You will receive two inputs, one is a sentence/paragraph you use as a source for your spell checker, and the other includes wrong word...

code-golf string

New Main Posts

7:39 AM

0

Q: Write a compact spelling checker

Here is a list of 1000 basic English words. Yes, I'm aware that there are only 999 words in the list! It was taken from Wiktionary so blame them! Your task is to write a program that accepts a word and returns TRUE or FALSE (or 0 or 1) depending on whether the word is in the list or not. You mus...

code-golf

Katenkyo

Wow, everybody want a spell checker !

aditsu

8:14 AM

bicuz dhey cnat spall

Martin Büttner

8:35 AM

@Calvin'sHobbies why thank you

Katenkyo

Well, if anyone is interested :

0

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Summoner war You're a Summoner controlling Demons called cells. Regulary, some tournament are done to dertermine who will be the king. And the king is always the strongest ! As it is a turn-based game, each Summoner will play twice against each opponent. So, for each pair of submission, they wi...

New Sandboxed Posts

0

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Summoner war You're a Summoner controlling Demons. Regulary, some tournament are done to dertermine who will be the king. And the king is always the strongest ! As it is a turn-based game, each Summoner will play twice against each opponent. So, for each pair of submission, they will all fight ...

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