The Nineteenth Byte

Mauris

06:00

Like, I doubt I will ever hit 61k rep on there, despite many hours of answering questions. But if I'd Googled and cited an RFC at the right place at the right time, y'know.

Took the original answerer like a minute of effort. (All of the other info was added on in later edits.)

Reto Koradi

@Mauris True. My highest votes/effort must be this one: stackoverflow.com/questions/23318875/…. I don't normally even answer questions this simple, especially not in popular tags. My guess is that this one accumulated upvotes because it has very good search terms in the title. People with the problem will probably find this question.

I believe John Skeet got about 500 upvotes for explaining the difference between static and non-static member variables in Java. Granted, it was a very nice and clean explanation. But not very demanding for sure.

Dennis

@Mauris Well, 6170 upvotes for that one is nothing compared to 4427 for this one:

4427

A: RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

You can't parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can't be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML. As I have answered in HTML-and-regex questions here so many times before, the use of regex will not allow you to consume HTML. Regular expressions are a tool th...

Mauris

Haha.

Look at this messy half-assed first-revision answer: stackoverflow.com/revisions/179147/1

It went on to get 9508 votes. It became Community Wiki at some point, and I'm not sure what happens to reputation when that happens?

Reto Koradi

@Dennis Yeah, that one is legendary.

Mauris

Sigh. The saddest thing about SO is how having a gold badge has a lot of psychological value. :(

Dennis

06:08

@Mauris You don't get any rep while it's CW, but nothing else.

undergroundmonorail

@Mauris my only gold badge on SE is the one that you get for just looking at the site a lot of days on a row

Dennis

On SO, I just got Fanatic. (that one ^)

Reto Koradi

@Mauris I know people say that, but I'm not convinced. I don't think I get more upvotes for the same types of answers now that I have a moderate amount of rep (and one tag gold badge) than I did when I joined last year.

Mauris

One of the gold badges is a ridiculous gimmick to get, and many of the other ones are just "get lotsa upvotes" which is akin to "win the lottery and/or ask a question in 2009".

The gimmick being visit the site 100 days in a row or whatever, yeah.

Because if your internet goes out for a day I guess you're not a trustworthy, valued user of the SO community and you deserve to get your progress on that kicked back to zero days?

Reto Koradi

Yes, that one is easy. Most of the other ones I have are for moderation type activities. Flagging, review queues, etc.

Mauris

06:12

Like, I don't even want to consciously visit the site daily to get the thing, because anything like that happening would just frustrate me.

Dennis

It's all to fuel our SE addiction.

Reto Koradi

The biggest problem I have with SO is that there are fewer and fewer good questions. My rep gain actually slowed, and that's the main reason. Well, and maybe spending more time here...

Dennis

Yeah, the signal-to-noise ratio is a bit of a problem on SO. I never understood why SO doesn't have more moderators.

feersum

No wonder...almost every good question has been asked, so only people too lazy/stupid to use a search engine will ask.

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Reto Koradi

@feersum That's probably part of it. But I only joined last year, and I think it has gotten worse even then. Frankly, just between us, the level is partly frightening. There are claims that SO is for "professionals". But I can't believe that more than 5% of the people asking questions are professionals. Then again, I have interviewed plenty of people that make it believable...

Mauris

06:21

Interviewing job candidates sounds fun.

Reto Koradi

@Mauris Fun? Sometimes. Mainly, it's very important. Nothing more important than hiring the right people.

Pietu1998

The main problem of SO is not even trying to a) fix anything yourself b) google the problem c) read the SO guidelines d) read the similar questions SO suggests to you when creating one. This leads to these questions.

Mauris

"(gestures at my candidate's whiteboard FizzBuzz solution) OK, but can't you shave off a couple of bytes there?"

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jrenk

Me in the Interview: I fill in a glass of water and fill in just a bit too much so it flows over. The Interviewer asks me "Nervous?" I answer to him "No I always give 110%."

Mauris

I bet Pyrrha is a good interviewer. "So you're stuck on an island, inside a blender, with a laptop..."

Reto Koradi

06:25

Those blender and manhole cover questions are silly, IMHO. I don't know how much they are actually used.

Dennis

Haha, being interviewed by a PPCG member might be quite entertaining.

Pietu1998

One could test the candidate's ability to learn by teaching them CJam/Pyth and seeing how fast they learn to golf

Reto Koradi

Honestly, a main reason why I've been enjoying this area of SE is the level of the people. I'm constantly impressed by the level of many members.

Dennis

Exhibit A:

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A: Regex that only matches itself

261 289 characters Regex with backreferences, 289 characters Yes, it is possible! /^(?=.{64}2\)\?\.\*\\.{204}\\2\\\{2\}\.\{11\}\$\/$)((.*)(\2\2)?.*\/\2\^\2$\2\?=\2\.\2\{64\2\}2\2\\\2$\2\\\2\?\2\\\2\.\2\\\2\*\2\\\2\\\2\.\2\{204\2\}\2\\\2\\2\2\\\2\\\2\\\2$\2\\\2$\2\\\2\{2\2\\\2\}\2\\\2\....

Martin Büttner

topologically, what is a hexagon with wrapping edges?

ah, still a torus apparently

Dennis

06:39

Martin Büttner

@orlp do you have a recent example where "reasonable input format" has been abused?

you also seem to be duplicating the effort of several meta questions that have already reached a consensus

Dennis

@MartinBüttner Since you're already up... Would this be doable?

Are you planning a snippet to list existing languages and their best answers? If so, what format should people use when adding a note about trivial variants? Perhaps the convention should be a section beginning ### Language variants and an unordered list of items in the format * Unary (123456 bytes). Explanation...? — Peter Taylor Sep 5 at 8:20

Martin Büttner

that sounds like a pretty cool idea

I don't know if I'll have time to add that to the snippet any time soon though

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Q: What input forms are 'reasonable'?

It's very common for a question to leave the input format unspecified and simply let the golfer choose a 'reasonable' input format. I'd say this is a bit vague, and we should decide what can be considered reasonable. I recognize two separate categories, with subcategories (feel free to edit): ...

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Find all matchings code-golfpermutations Golf this SO question in any language. Fewest bytes wins. Given two equal-size sets of positive integers, A={3,1,5} B={2,4,3} a matching pairs up elements from {(5, 2), (1, 4), (3, 3)} There's one matching for each permutation of n elements, wher...

Martin Büttner

06:48

FYI (everyone), I have turned the Labyrinth chat room into a general esolang discussion chat room.

Dennis

Well, that's it for today. Good night!

Martin Büttner

goodnight!

Pietu1998

Good morning everyone, it's 10AM here

jrenk

Dennis is from Germany right?

Martin Büttner

8:50 and I've been up for two hours U_U

@jrenk yes, but he's based in South America

jrenk

06:51

@MartinBüttner Ahh that explains the Good night :D

Pietu1998

It's 9:50 here to be exact, woke up at 6:20 to go to school :\

orlp

07:05

@MartinBüttner no

@MartinBüttner but I do see the same damn questions on challenges multiple times each week

'can I swap the order of the input'? 'can I also separate by newlines'? etc etc

flawr

08:00

@TheNumberOne D'oh! Well who knows, perhaps Wiles' proof is just gibberish and the few ones who actually reviewed it are just too proud to admit that they did not understand a single word!

flawr

11:53

What the hell happened at December 28. in 2013?

Optimizer

code-trolling

flawr

Ok the shitty charts of the analytics site do not even show the year...

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

It's somebody's birthday! popularity-contest Beta Decay was very selfish on their birthday, demanding cake from everyone and no plans to share! 🎂 It's bound to be somebody's birthday today, so why not make them a cake. Use Chef to make a delicious cake, with a nice "Happy Birthday" message ...

flawr

@Optimizer And why is there so much traffic ever since???

Martin Büttner

@flawr because a lot of the users stayed anyway, I guess?

flawr

11:56

Do you know what attracted so many users back then?

Optimizer

2 mins ago, by Optimizer

code-trolling

I can do it again if its not clear

flawr

It does not answer my question.

Martin Büttner

sure. the code trolling challenges were what attracted so many users

flawr

I mean there must have been something that shared this throughout the whole community?

Martin Büttner

they were ridiculously popular

also, our most popular question ever was posted that week

(the 2014 new year's challenge)

flawr

12:01

I cannot believe that there hasn't been someone mention it at SO or something like that.

There surely haven't been hunderts of users just waiting for the right moment to spam the site with stuff, there must have been something that triggered the propagation?

Martin Büttner

I don't know, I wasn't an active user before March/April 2014

Sp3000

There's two posts about PPCG on the SE blog, if that helps: 1, 2

Especially 2

flawr

12:36

Any haskellers here?

haskellians?

Martin Büttner

@Zgarb I think ^

flawr

@Zgarb Are you still alive?

@Zgarb If not, how does being dead feel?

TheNumberOne

12:55

@MartinBüttner How do I get your leaderboard snippet to work with the word bytes replaced with characters ?

Martin Büttner

it doesn't check for the word "bytes"

TheNumberOne

It fails if you use the word characters in the header instead :/

Martin Büttner

which challenge did you test it on, and which copy of the snippet are you testing?

TheNumberOne

http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/57363/the-margin-is-too-narrow
http://meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/5139/leaderboard-snippet

Martin Büttner

which answer uses characters?

TheNumberOne

13:00

I was fixing answers so that they would work with the snippet. I changed one of them to characters, and then back to bytes.

Martin Büttner

can you change it back to characters so I can test it?

TheNumberOne

sure

hmm, works now. Must have been because of caching :\

Martin Büttner

the API needs a few seconds to deliver the new data

PhiNotPi

Always blame caching.

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Zgarb

13:44

@flawr I'm awake now.

flawr

14:03

@Zgarb I heard you know haskell?

Zgarb

You can say that, yes.

flawr

May I bother you with a beginner question?

Zgarb

Sure!

flawr

I have a list of 3-tuples.

i want to find the 'best' tuple

the best one is the one where the last tuple-entry is maximal

my approach was as follows:

maxi [(a,b,c),(d,e,f)] = if c>f then (a,b,c) else (d,e,f)
maxi x:xs = maxi [x, maxi xs]

Zgarb

Can you reorder the tuples so that the first entry should be maximal?

flawr

14:10

The first line seems to be ok, but as soon as i add the second one to my file I get an error Parse eerror in pattern: maxi

That would be possible yes.

Zgarb

Then you can just do maximum xs where xs is your list

flawr

Ah, and then i can directly compare tuple1 > tuple2 because of the lexicographical order?

Zgarb

Yes.

flawr

Thanks, nice idea, I can use that for golfing it later=)

But other than that, can you see what is wrong with my second line?

Zgarb

But in your line, you're missing parentheses: maxi (x:xs) =

flawr

14:12

Ah lets try!

Oh thank you very much, now it works. I just have to figure out now why it works=)

Beta Decay

14:39

Can someone verify this for me?

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A: It's my Birthday :D

Mathematica, 203 Bytes simpleCake[n_] := StringRepeat[candle, n] ~~ "\n" ~~ StringRepeat[top, n] ~~ "\n" ~~ StringRepeat[mid, n] ~~ "\n" ~~ StringRepeat[bottom, n] simpleCake[0] := "Congratulations on your new baby! :D";

I don't know Mathematica but it doesn't look right

PhiNotPi

15:12

Epic fractal: gap-system.org/DevelopersPages/StefanKohl/images/…

Zgarb

@flawr Are you doing the margin challenge?

@PhiNotPi That looks familiar. How is it made?

PhiNotPi

sauce: mathoverflow.net/questions/125224/…

It's rational points on a sphere, up to a certain maximum denominator.

Zgarb

Ok, cool. It reminded me of this.

Beta Decay

Reminded me more of the Sun

Geobits

15:47

No mention of Marbelous yet? meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/6918/14215

Beta Decay

16:00

@Geobits You have a keyboard ;)

Geobits

I assumed somebody more familiar with it would have added it. I've not used it, and wasn't involved in the creation of it enough to give details. I know something along the lines of "a group of users made a language about dropping marbles onto stuff". :D

Beta Decay

Haha that's enough for me :D

Geobits

Maybe slightly more, but my entry there would look very poor next to the others. I believe the usual term is 'stub'.

Martin Büttner

16:16

@Geobits I keep forgetting that Marbelous exists, and when I think of it I keep forgetting that I'm sort of a co-author...

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I'll write up an answer later

@PhiNotPi if you want you could link the new esolangs chat room from the question

Alex A.

@Dennis Did I miss some context for this or do you just really like doughnuts and coffee?

Beta Decay

@AlexA. Who doesn't?

Martin Büttner

@AlexA. it was an answer to my question

Alex A.

Was the question "Who likes doughnuts and coffee?"

Martin Büttner

the question was right above the picture :P "topologically, what is a hexagon with wrapping edges?"

Alex A.

16:29

I saw that, I just didn't understand how a doughnut coffee mug answers that.

aditsu

@AlexA. it's a photo of a donut, it even says so

Alex A.

No dude, the doughnut is in your mind

aditsu

although I don't particularly like that spelling

Beta Decay

Hey Martin is this answer messing up the leaderboard? For me I think it's the volume of answers that's making it really slow

Alex A.

@aditsu It's the more common modern American spelling AFAIK

Beta Decay

16:30

@aditsu I don't like it spelled 'donut' either

Martin Büttner

@BetaDecay it takes about half a second for me to load, and this answer seems to be displayed correctly

Beta Decay

Hm I've got a crappy internet connection

Alex A.

@aditsu @BetaDecay Who spelled it "donut"? :P

aditsu

@AlexA. you did

Optimizer

donot spell doughnut as donut

Geobits

16:32

Am I missing the reason that diagonal programs have a space between lines, while others don't? (in the word search question)

Beta Decay

@AlexA. The wrong people

Alex A.

@aditsu Check the transcript, broseph. Ain't no donuts from me.

@Optimizer doughnot

Martin Büttner

@Geobits so that the angle between rows and columns is still 90 degrees?

aditsu

@AlexA. chat.stackexchange.com/messages/23984539/history

Alex A.

That didn't happen, SE made that up

They're trying to frame me

aditsu

16:34

now that you have a diamond you just have to go wild rewriting history... I see how it is

Geobits

@MartinBüttner I don't see what you mean. In the example given in the Q, why is the top row for the diagonal one i·p instead of ip?

Optimizer

yousing mod prowess for personal gain?

Martin Büttner

@Geobits in the horizontal code, the i is underneath the r, not the p

Geobits

Ah, ok I see. I didn't see the space at all in the example. That makes (some kind of) sense now.

Still feels weird to have a full "unused" diagonal line between lines, but at least I see the reasoning for it now.

Dennis

@AlexA. Topologically, hexagons and coffee mugs are doughnuts/toruses.

Alex A.

16:40

I've seen that gif before. It absolutely destroys my brain.

Dennis

The mug is from xkcd (a must-have for a Topologist like me).

Alex A.

Isn't the plural of "torus" "tori"?

Dennis

In English, both are valid.

torus

Noun: torus ‎(plural tori or toruses)

(topology) A topological space which is a product of two circles.
(mathematics) The standard representation of such a space in 3-dimensional Euclidean space: a shape consisting of a ring with a circular cross-section: the shape of an inner tube or hollow doughnut.
torus m ‎(genitive torī); second declension
torus c

Verb: torus

Second-person singular imperative present form of torua + the suffix -s.

Alex A.

Do you teach in Spanish or English? If Spanish, what's the word for "torus"?

Since when is "torus" a verb? :O

"I will torus you, Dennis."

"I torused at the grocery store yesterday."

"Brb, gotta torus"

Dennis

I teach in Spanish but do my research in English. Oddly enough, I never taught Topology. :P

Geobits

16:45

@AlexA. I think this example kinda works: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/torua

Dennis

Torus would be toro in Spanish. You could also say rosquilla, which means doughnut.

Geobits

I thought it meant donut? ;)

Dennis

Potato, potato. :P

Alex A.

translate es: donut

(from English) Donut

translate es: doughnut

(from English) Donut

Huh

translate: rosquilla

(from Spanish) donut

Dennis

Spanish is the mother tongue of oh-so-many countries. Don't expect consistency. rosquilla is the word Homero Simpson uses.

Alex A.

16:50

You mean the dad from The Simpsons?

Dennis

That one.

Alex A.

translate es-py: donut

>.>

It doesn't recognize the language code for Spanish (Paraguay).

aditsu

@AlexA. the Tori Spelling is interesting :p

Alex A.

Haaaaaaah

translate de: donut

(from English) Donut

aditsu

another possibility would be "tories", but that means something else in the UK :p

Alex A.

16:53

translate de: doughnut

(from English) Donut

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

I WANT TO SAY DONUT IN EVERY LANGUAGE

translate en: Krapfen

(from German) Donut

Dennis

I didn't realize that was built into chat. o_O

Geobits

ドーナツ

Alex A.

@Dennis Mod tool

Dennis

Haha.

Alex A.

I don't understand why we have this ability

It seems completely unnecessary and yet I love it

Dennis

16:55

Are you serious?

Alex A.

About what?

Dennis

Is that really restricted to mods (or possibly room owners)?

Geobits

translate en: something

(from Emoticon) :(

Dennis

LOL

Alex A.

Hahaha

@Dennis Yes

aditsu

16:57

gogoașă

Alex A.

translate: gogoașă

(from English) gogoașă

@aditsu What language is that supposed to be?

Google Translate doesn't recognize it either

translate ja: donut

(from English) ドーナツ

@Geobits ^

Geobits

17:13

@AlexA. That's what I said :P

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Dennis

Nevermind.

Geobits

Yeah, ust a transliteration. It's the usual way of seeing it, for example: kawaii.kawaii.at/img/… (middle of header text)

Beta Decay

Wow, people are really looking to into the It's my Birthday challenge

@BetaDecay, one question: should program infinitely listen to input and produce cakes or one per execution? — sigod 45 mins ago

Geobits

Infinite cake generating machine? Count me in.

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undergroundmonorail

17:29

@Geobits scp-wiki.net/scp-871

my school is doing a pokemon league thing today where you challenge a bunch of gyms, etc

but my competitive team is spread out across a couple of games + pokemon bank

and i have to get them all back together

\what a pain

Geobits

That sucks. I moved all my good stuff to bank or Omega ruby while I was filling my dex. Took quite a while, transferring from all games since platinum.

undergroundmonorail

a long time ago i started working on a living dex

honestly i'm like 5/6ths done but i haven't worked on it in a long time

i'll probably finish it when gen VII comes out as i am a lazy bastard

Geobits

I've probably got the same amount living. I keep meaning to organize my bank so that the first boxes are all in dex order (and I can see what I'm missing living), but uuuuugh.

undergroundmonorail

i feel it

Geobits

I should probably dump the hundreds of near-perfect Eevees I've got, too. I bred far too many searching for a shiny Umbreon :)

undergroundmonorail

17:38

i have about a million shroomish because i wanted a shiny 5iv breloom

i got one eventually :)

Geobits

Oh I got my umbreon, too :D

undergroundmonorail

the most tedious thing was when i needed like 3 extra Leftovers

the only way to get more is to have a pokemon >level 80 with pickup, and then

if they get an item after a battle (idk what those odds are)

there's a 5% chance it'll be leftovers

excuse me, i was mistaken

i just looked it up and there's a 1% chance it'll be leftovers

Geobits

Eww. Glad I never looked into getting more of those. I have a few traded in from older games.

undergroundmonorail

how'd you get them through bank?

Alex A.

@undergroundmonorail Back in my day, we used every part of the Pokemon.

On the Oregon Trail

Geobits

17:41

Not through bank. I meant slightly older games, like XY.

undergroundmonorail

ohh

flawr

@Zgarb Yes I did it in matlab, but I tried to do it also in haskell as an exercise=)

Alex A.

@flawr Matlab is alright but Octave is better. ;)

flawr

For golfing purposes totally=)

Alex A.

What's your preferred language for regular (non-golfing) programming?

flawr

17:43

I already thought about creating an 'octave' golfing language.

Zgarb

@AlexA. Mine's Haskell.

flawr

The only language I understand good enough is Java.

Geobits

Hey, what happened? We were talking about Pokemon and all of a sudden it got changed to programming stuff?

flawr

Well I do understand Matlab quite well, but this just feels like a crappy language...

Alex A.

@Geobits Yeah, because Pokie mans are boring.

@flawr That's because it is :P

undergroundmonorail

17:46

i can't find my competitive ferrothorn or ditto

Geobits

5 mins ago, by Alex A.

@undergroundmonorail Back in my day, we used every part of the Pokemon.

flawr

I mean it is like putty, nice to play around with but not really good for anything constructive.

undergroundmonorail

the weird thing about ferrothorn is that i found one that is exactly the same as my competitive one except it can't be my competitive one, it's not level 50

wat teh heck

Geobits

That sucks. I wasn't ever much a fan of ferro, but still.

Alex A.

@Geobits For food, clothing, and supplies.

undergroundmonorail

17:47

stealth rocker tbh

suicide lead because i had nothing better to do with my 6th slot lmao

Geobits

:D

undergroundmonorail

it deals decent damage with gyro ball if it has to but mostly it just drops rocks and gets out of my way

Geobits

Slowest stealth rocker ever :P

undergroundmonorail

that's the thing

no one ever expects focus sash ferrothorn haha

i've seen people make horrible plays into it expecting a switch, but i know it'll live long enough to drop rocks and then i don't care

on paper it's not great but in practice it's helped me out a few times

Geobits

I guess I could see that. Tricksy.

undergroundmonorail

17:51

i've thought about replacing it but there's nothing i can think of that i specifically want

i haven't played XY in so long, i've been all about OR since i got it

but i want to use X today because my trainer is cute

Geobits

I do wonder why they got rid of the clothing in ORAS. While it was dumb having to unlock all the different shops, it was nice having slightly customizable options for how you show up to others.

undergroundmonorail

i have a couple of theories

the first is that brendan and may are iconic and they didn't want you to mess up the existing characters

the second is that customization is a kalos-only thing that is never coming back

i really hope it's the first one

Geobits

I feel the second is most likely :(

undergroundmonorail

yeah :( but i can hope i guess

in pokemon insurgence you can hire a guy to sit in your secret base and use 3 audinos that only spam heal pulse

it makes grinding less of a big deal haha

Geobits

You can get them in OR too, there are QRs posted around online. Very nice, especially if you have a few reset bags to clear the HP EVs afterward.

undergroundmonorail

18:02

true

Geobits

EV training has gotten really easy lately, though.

Hordes are ridiculous.

undergroundmonorail

it's true \o/

Geobits

I didn't even bother transferring my pokerus in for quite a while.

undergroundmonorail

fml, i got this ditto up to level 50 before realizing it doesn't even have imposter

Geobits

Another for the breeding yard :P

undergroundmonorail

18:05

i'm not going to /do it/ but the thought entered my head that

i could totally afford to just buy an ability capsule

Geobits

Hmm. Would that work? I didn't think it would give the hidden abilities.

undergroundmonorail

i forgot imposter was the HA

oops

Geobits

I wasn't sure, though. I forget those capsules even exist most of the time. Haven't used one.

undergroundmonorail

i love having a ditto as an actual battler

it's so good to just let people set up and then sweep them with their own guy

before mega kanga was banned i swept a whole team with ditto as their mega alakazam that traced parental bond from my mega kanga

Geobits

I've seen a few, but never tried it out. So much harder to get a good one when you can't breed them.

undergroundmonorail

18:09

...you know transform copies their stats right?

like you don't even have to ev train a ditto

the only reason ivs ever matter is to dictate their Hidden Power type and honestly who cares

Geobits

Huh. I did know that, but my brain didn't connect that fact in any meaningful way. I feel dumb right now :D

undergroundmonorail

technically you want to be as slow as possible in case you and your opponent are both down to your last mon and they're both ditto (so transform fails)

slower ditto wins the struggle war

but like, come on

Geobits

Yea... I'm not optimizing for that corner case :)

undergroundmonorail

on showdown it's one thing because it takes no effort but whatever

Geobits

Hmm, I guess I'll squeeze him onto a team and see what happens.

aditsu

18:12

@AlexA. Romanian (you could have found out easily with a google search)

undergroundmonorail

choice scarf is the best ditto item because you'll always outspeed and you're not going to set up as ditto anyway (you come in after they've set up ;) )

Alex A.

@aditsu You underestimate my laziness.

aditsu

18:23

so, any more feedback on this? I'd like to post it soon

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Cut a pizza into identical slices This is what I thought this question was going to be, before I fully read it. A group of code golfers walk into The Nineteenth Bite Pizzeria and order a pizza. It comes in an irregular shape, made of unit squares. Your task is to help them cut it into identical...

Alex A.

Mega lol @ "Nineteenth Bite Pizzeria"

Optimizer

Split the pizza into 19 equal pieces

aditsu

@AlexA. I didn't come up with that, it's from the other question :)

Alex A.

@Optimizer Then give all 19 slices to Doorknob

Optimizer

no

Alex A.

18:27

It is the only way

Optimizer

lol @ 3D touch of iphone. Isn't it what long tap on other phones/OS does?

Alex A.

I don't know what 3D touch or long tap is.

Zgarb

Apparently (skimming over Google results) 3D touch means that the phone knows how strongly you push the screen.

Sounds more annoying than cool to me.

Geobits

That seems... weird.

Alex A.

Oh. I didn't realize the iPhone did that.

Optimizer

18:42

it didn't

Alex A.

I pound the shit out of my phone and it doesn't seem to care.

Optimizer

its the new 6s(+)

Alex A.

But then again I have an old one.

@Optimizer Oh, okay. I'm stuck in the past with a 4S. :P The 6+/6S+ feels like an iPad rather than a phone to me.

It's enormous.

Geobits

It does seem like it's going to be used in basically the same way as a long press on Android, though. The most common thing I see on a few sites is "contextual menus".

So, long press, right click, whatever you want to compare it to.

Optimizer

the real benefit of force would be in games

he just demoed a game where you keep pressing and swiping to shoot continuously. But force can change the zoom/type of weapon etc

Geobits

18:47

Hmm. That sounds interesting, but I'd have to get my hands on it to see I think. It seems to me that it would be really hard to fine-control your force while swiping.

Pietu1998

Is there an apple press event or something ongoing?

Zgarb

@AlexA. I got my first smartphone about a month ago. Every time I use it I fear I'll break the screen or something.

Geobits

@Pietu1998 Yea, it's new-iPhone-everybody-talk-about-it-day. This is the first I've heard from it, though :)

Optimizer

LOLOLOL "entirely new technology - Live Photos" and "4K"

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