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9:00 PM
It looks great. :)
 
well then, let's see what magic we can squeeze out of 4 bytes
 
@BrainSteel
 
@Ale
 
@Bra
 
@AlexA.
Symmetry is nice.
 
9:04 PM
 
@BetaDecay Needs to be at least 3 characters to ping
@Bet
 
@Bet
 
Blast
 
@BrainSteel Do you mean in general or the symmetry of the "A"s in my name?
 
9:07 PM
Well, my brain decided that the sequence of "<full name person 1> <short name person 2> <short name person 1>" had to end with <full name person 2> lest the world be torn asunder and exposed to the mythic flames of chaos.
 
Uh... okay.
 
I mean... Uh... Something normal people say...
 
Strange things can happen when your brain is made of metal.
 
They're still working out the bugs D:
 
Hey, there's something @BrainSteel and I have in common!
 
9:09 PM
Made of metal?
 
Wait, Doorknobs have brains?
 
Still working out the bugs?
 
Doorknobs occasionally have literal bugs.
 
WD-40 works well to sort those
 
9:10 PM
@BrainSteel Ah yes, it's finally been revealed that "MOM" is in fact an acronym.
 
Happy accident ;D
 
It's also an acronym for the method of moments.
 
@Doorknob is MOM?
 
And Martin is dad.
We're one big happy family.
 
Who's Dennis?
 
9:11 PM
What does DAD stand for?
 
Door Hinge
 
That's clearly a hinge, not a knob.
 
I made no claims that it was a knob.
 
"Door Hinge" rhymes with orange.
 
That's an interesting accent you have there
 
@trichoplax DAD == Dennis And Doorknob...?
 
But Doorknob is MOM. So the MOM is intrinsic in the DAD...
 
I don't think this is going to work. We need to completely rebrand our mods.
 
They are one.
 
And where does that leave Geobits?
 
9:14 PM
Geobits...
He's the uncle with PCG's cousin
 
GRANDPA : Geobits Rarely Acknowledges New Doorknob Puns Awesomely
@BetaDecay What is PCG? Perhaps you PPCG? :P
 
Meh two Ps take way too much effort to write :|
 
"Pruzzles & Code Golf"
 
Haha
 
PCG is also our site icon.
 
9:19 PM
Progles & Code Golf
 
Puns and Cat Gifs
2
 
@PhiNotPi please don't remind me :(
 
@PhiNotPi There's another tiny "P" in there, barely visible.
Requires subpixel rendering to see.
 
I've never found BetaDecay in the gift shop keychains
 
Good thing Brian is usually there...
 
9:29 PM
^ our new icon
 
Beautiful.
 
For those with poor screen resolution:
 
1
Q: Possible Tetris sequences

xnorWrite code to figure out whether a run of Tetris pieces could be generated by the official Tetris algorithm. Fewest bytes wins. Official Tetris games generate the sequence of falling pieces in a special way. The seven pieces IJLOSTZ are dropped in a random order, then another random permutatio...

 
@PhiNotPi Can you make it into a speech bubble?
 
Can you change the avatar for New Main Posts?
It would be a step towards having our own icon...
 
9:38 PM
@trichoplax yes
 
user image
5
 
Beautiful :D
 
(fixed a pixel color)
 
@PhiNotPi Now we just need the meta version...
 
@Doorknob Do you own the New Main Posts account?
 
9:41 PM
@AlexA. No, but I can edit its name and picture.
(It's a feeds account, which means it's owned by nobody. I was the one who created it, though. Note the negative user ID.)
 
The second P looks really bad, but it adds to the character.
 
@Doorknob Oh, okay. Thanks for the explanation. :)
 
@Doorknob I'm guessing you could change the New Sandbox Posts avatar too then...? :)
 
@PhiNotPi I believe you mean it looks really perfect.
 
@trichoplax Yep.
 
9:42 PM
You know what to do, @Phi.
 
So now we just need to post an ...
 
In 100 bytes or less, write a program that draws a new PPCG icon...
 
I found it really difficult to type "an" in front of "[tag:art-contest]" despite knowing the "tag" wouldn't be displayed
 
@BrainSteel Pop con :D
 
Or we could just go with the incredible art already created by @Phi.
It really doesn't get any better than that.
 
9:46 PM
I'm assuming @Doorknob is about to update them any minute now :P
 
Somebody has to post either to main or to meta so we can check.
 
It's a profound statement on the haphazardness of the modern-day approach to programming, you see...
 
The second P certainly does have character. Reminds me of a zombie hand reaching up from the soil
 
I do not see that.
 
^
 
9:48 PM
@trichoplax It wouldn't be fair to our other two feeds. They might be offended to not have their own custom hand-drawn icon.
 
Thumb and curled fingers
 
Huh. We have a new loophole proposal feed?
 
I had no idea.
 
There was one recently - I should have remembered
 
What do those other two icons look like? I bet I can make some icons for them right now.
 
9:49 PM
@PhiNotPi you have your work cut out for you
 
Don't the other two just have the meta icon at present?
 
Boom. Sandbox. Done.
 
@Doorknob Can't you change those too?
 
It looks like they have the meta icon.
 
9:50 PM
You draw fast. With watermark, even...
 
Then the work is already done.
 
@BetaDecay Yes, but @PhiNotPi didn't draw high-quality masterpieces for them, unlike the ones he drew for main and meta :P
 
It would be better if they were all distinguishable
 
@Doorknob PhiNotPi's an artistic genius, I'm sure s/he could knock something up ;)
How much of the world is in shadow at the moment?
 
About half?
You mean populated areas?
 
9:52 PM
Yep
 
n% where 0 < n < 100.
 
Not including places that are always in shadow?
 
Where's always in shadow?
Apart from underground places
 
Under bushes, bridges, ...
Deep sea
It's quite a big question.
 
And people have things called flashlights that remove and cast shadows for brief periods of time.
 
9:55 PM
Did you want to know where it's night time?
 
Voting to close this question as too broad.
 
^ I slaved over that.
 
I can see :P
 
Hahaha, that's fantastic
 
Your hard work paid off.
 
9:56 PM
I have to change the icons now. Can't let that go to waste. :P
 
How do you visualise loopholes?
 
A crappy circle with the word "loop"
 
lol
Maybe something like Ouroboros?
 
That's too intellectual
We need something dumber
 
as a hand with a poker card poking out of the sleeve
 
9:58 PM
That could work
 
I'm not sure we've got the pixels for that.
 
depends on the skills of the pixel artist :P
 
Have we got room for 5 aces?
 
Judging from @Phi's work... It will be another masterpiece.
 
That much is certain
 
9:59 PM
 
Haha that's a little disturbing
 
What on ... ?
I don't know which direction he's going so I don't know which type of disturbing I'm seeing
 
@trichoplax Yeah
 
It's night time where you are, and where I am, and most places East of here (as long as you don't go too far South)
 
@aditsu am I being stupid or is it a bug that this set intersection is always empty? goo.gl/wfH9ge
 
10:03 PM
There
So all of America is in light
That's good enough
 
@MartinBüttner probably bug 72
 
ah I see
well that's annoying :D
 
sorry >_< I'll try to make a new release soon
 
@BetaDecay If you mean the US, yes. If you mean the North American continent, no.
(it's night time in parts of Canada, kind of)
No wait. It's August. Ignore me.
 
10:09 PM
All of North and South America are in daytime. I just got confused.
 
best card-out-of-sleeve I could make
 
@Doorknob does that make it time for the change?
 
it is done
4
 
By the time one of them posts I am going to have forgotten, and be shocked
 
Wow you are the most game mod ever :D
Probably why you're so good at modding (?) ;D
 
10:29 PM
0
Q: Comparing two numbers

Beta DecayChallenge Given two integers a and b as input, you must write a program which outputs if a>b, a==b or a<b. The integers will be in the range -(2^32-1) to 2^32-1. Outputs If a>b output A is greater than B If a==b output A is equal to B If a<b output A is less than B Where you replace ...

 
It works!
 
10:52 PM
omg omg ^^^^
 
what works?
 
@aditsu Look at the icon for New Main Posts
 
aah! so ugly
 
I believe you mean amazing and incredible and perfect in every way.
 
suure... slowly steps back
 
11:03 PM
@BetaDecay Re Alex's comment: Function or full program?
(It does specify a program, so after two function submissions I'd like a reconfirmation :P)
 
that was some quick 3 upvotes o.O
within 5 seconds of each other...
 
Man, why does greater than have to be a whole 12 letters :P
 
@aditsu I have little python experience.
 
@aditsu ... headdesk
Are you sure you don't want to just post your own answer? :P
 
I did, in CJam :p
 
11:13 PM
In Python, I mean
 
nah, just edit it
 
Eh, let's make TNO take it :P @TheNumberOne
 
lol
 
I'm too ashamed for missing that :P
 
11:16 PM
If anyone likes ubuntu troubleshooting, I have something for them.
@Sp3000 You deleted your's ?
:(
 
@AlexA. uhhh, are we not using the new snippet that can handle links?
 
Apparently not because your answer and mine both had links and they didn't work in the snippet.
Question for @Beta.
 
yeah it's the old snippet
@BetaDecay ^ why?
 
Where does the new one live?
I forgot to add a snippet to my primes challenge.
 
it's the non-minified one in the leaderboard snippet
 
11:23 PM
In Beta's?
Which leaderboard snippet do you mean?
 
@TheNumberOne As I said, "Eh, let's make TNO take it :P"
i.e. edit already :P
 
@AlexA. eh, sorry, I meant "leaderboard snippet meta post"
 
@aditsu Thanks for your comments on Sp3000's post and on my post.
 
You forgot to take out the space in the middle strings
(otherwise it prints double space)
 
np
 
11:29 PM
I like how, in esolangs like BF, the hardest part is printing the strings
 
@MartinBüttner Cool, thanks. FMOPP has a leaderboard now. :)
@MartinBüttner @BetaDecay I updated it to use the new leaderboard. Beta, if you prefer the old, just roll back the edit.
Linked language names work now
@MartinBüttner To update the minified snippet, can I just plop the code into jscompress?
 
probably, although I usually compress the HTML, CSS and JS sections separately
 
That's what I mean
 
yes, you can do that
 
thank you :)
 
No problem!
 
11:58 PM
Wait... gimme a sec
l7{\+_7/_Lf|=},&
 
At first glance that looked like some weird, elaborate emoticon.
 
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