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21:00
I call him stupid because he sued my dad after he got thrown from a horse
Claiming it was a workplace injury, I assume
And that your dad as the employer was liable
How did that turn out?
I think they settled out of court. I recall my great grandfather resisting and wanting to take it to court, but then he died at 98 and dad got his way.
I was too little to really understand most of it
And the ranch has since become an LLC to protect against that stuff
Except that, just a couple of weeks ago, he told me he was selling the ranch
Oh yeah? Retiring?
@AlexA. Your rightness is getting hot
That's really hot.
21:07
No. My grandparents own 25%, my uncle owns 25%, and my dad owns 50% of the ranch but does all of the work. This setup makes financing the ranch very illiquid (is that a word?). He got tired of fighting with family and trying to grow the ranch, so he's selling it.
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Q: Simulate a game of Craps

quartataCraps is a fairly simple dice game often played in casinos. Even if you aren't a gambler (which I'm not), it's still a fairly interesting game. Here's the rules: At the start of a game of Craps there's what is called the come-out round. The player rolls two d6s (six-sided die) and the two die ro...

@AlexA. already defined what the d6 was per your suggestion in chat
@NewMainPosts Finally bot jeez
He told me he is going to keep working though
That was 16 minutes.
@quartata My bad, missed it
21:08
@AlexA. np
@Rainbolt So he'll sell his 50% share but remain an employee?
I was honestly tempted to post my reference implementation as an answer but eh
I'll be back a little later. I have to take an exam now.
<3
=(
I just wanted to ask him something.
@AlexA. They are selling the entire thing. If my uncle and grandparents tried to hold on to their half, they would just be sitting on land that isn't producing any money. In Texas, that costs a lot.
21:10
Any guys good at probability stuff?
And the company will dissolve. He isn't retiring though - I assume he'll find another job
@AlexA. Good luck!
Ugh. I've decided that England is weird.
Followers of CGP Grey would know this already. :P
@flawr Depends. What is the question?
^^^^^
@Calvin'sHobbies I found a solution for my Python program, but I have a question about regex replace: Is there a way to access the entire match? r'\0' doesn't work.
It is about Zgrabs challenge
@flawr I'm currently editing the challenge.
Oh great
We got a star troll
OOOOh, Zgrab is here=)
21:16
not just one
(And I haven't yet begun to star!)
@Doorknob fix it pls
@flawr are you waiting for a plane to crash?
@El'endiaStarman I take credit.
I'm literally 2 minutes away from home, I'll clear then on my computer :P
21:17
'^ri*
@Geobits +1 for Gimp.
@flawr Edited.
@mbomb007 I don't see your answer there at the moment.
@El'endiaStarman Guess you can't see deleted answers yet. :P
I'm fixing it right now.
21:19
$_="^"x$_
Who cleared the stars?
Based Doorknob
All Hail Doorknob
@quartata That almost looks like an emoticon of some sort.
he did not
@Zgarb Thank you very much!
21:20
@Optimizer How knowest thou this?
I am not very fluent with probability stuff.
@Doorknob Ninja'd.
@El'endiaStarman It's Perl.
Hehe
21:20
Wasn't me. Just got home :P
53 secs ago, by Dennis
@Doorknob Ninja'd.
Oh it was Dennis-senpai
All Hail Dennis then
Why can't mods see who stars what?
because chat moderation is horrible, broken, and worthless
But at least you can auto-translate!
And how would that information be displayed anyway?
21:23
@MartinBüttner That "wrriognhgt" trick costs you one byte. :P
oh right, because I don't need ! for ?
thanks
Congrats on misleading @Martin, @mbomb007. :P
@Zgarb Shouldn't it be 1-p instead of p-1in the last line of what you changed?
@El'endiaStarman Little pop-up maybe similar to how it looks when someone enters the chat room?
So like right next to the starred message on the starboard the name would appear
@El'endiaStarman huh?
21:24
Point: 9
7
Don't Pass
@MartinBüttner mbomb007 was the first to use "wrriognhgt" trick on that question, I believe.
Good example of why the house always wins kids
@flawr Yes it should, thanks!
@El'endiaStarman oh okay, I didn't look at any of the other answers. it's a fairly standard technique, but in CJam it's rarely worth it for two strings.
@Dennis I'm sure you could golf this below 60 though if you tried :P
I feel like it should be possible to reduce the flood fill to a single operation
I was going to post a 53 bytes solution when I saw that @aditsu got to 54.
I'm currently trying to figure out what his code does to know if it is too similar to my own...
21:27
I'm replacing variables in the rest of the string
actually, I don't need the _Wf%! if I just sort all the pairs
I was almost half-asleep from sheer exhaustion (didn't sleep well) when all of a sudden a giant doge face and a purple stuffed tiger appeared in my face.
Now I'm awake
@Doorknob I was almost sure that was a low quality post
@Calvin'sHobbies Smokey picked it up, too. :D
21:28
@quartata nice game of life thing
@Dr.EmmettBrown spooky Halloween glider
@aditsu I finally fixed my answer.
@quartata now I'm totally caving a Jack-o-lantern like that
@quartata Ooh. I should carve one like a glider from Conway's Game of Life!
Make it a glider gun instead
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21:33
@quartata Yeah, then I'll animate the pumpkin!
Bonus: make it actually move.
@El'endiaStarman That would be something
@aditsu Yeah, your code does exactly what I had in mind. This was my approach: "Alex is "q_'t#6/{_5<)\er6>}*N/{)e=!},"wrong""right"?
I'm proud that I can even make Groovy incomprehensible line noise
def a={return Math.random()*6+1};int b=a()+a();(b<4||b==12)?{println"Crapping out: "+b}():{(b==7||b==11)?{println"Natural: "+b}():{println"Point: "+b;for(;;){int x=a()+a();println x;(x==7)?{println"Don't Pass";System.exit(0)}():{if(x==b){println"Pass";System.exit(0)}}()}}()}()
jeez, I always forget about er :p
21:35
Dammit I just found someone with a glider avatar: codegolf.stackexchange.com/users/36926/kevin-workman
Must... eliminate...
Put a block in their path!
@El'endiaStarman Or maybe a beehive
I have enough servos and parts that I probably could make an animated pumpkin...
That would work too.
21:43
@aditsu )@@cf/f* is one byte shorter.
I already got to 52, trying to golf more
Haha, OK.
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Q: IT'S CAPS LOCK DAY

DoorknobOCTOBER 23 IS INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY! UNFORTUNATELY, SOME DO NOT RECOGNIZE THE GLORY OF THE ALMIGHTY CAPS LOCK. THEY SAY IT SEEMS "OBNOXIOUS" OR "LIKE SHOUTING" OR SOME NONSENSE. IN ORDER TO CONFORM TO THESE OBVIOUSLY ILLOGICAL AND INANE COMPLAINTS, PLEASE WRITE ME A PROGRAM THAT TURNS NORMA...

Ah, my eyes!
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21:45
23 minutes for that one
Why is the bot so slow
because bot
y u not use normal SE notifier
SO TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY HUH?
I'm not sure I approve.
I THINK IT"S TOMORROW
OH RIGHT I FORGOT HOW BAD I AM AT REMEMBER WHAT DAY IT IS
21:47
NO IT'S TODAY
ARE YOU SURE
TODAY IS OCTOBER 22
BUT I TYPED 23 INSTEAD OF 22 BECAUSE I'M BAD AT NUMBERS
@Doorknob AH YES I SEE. YOU AREN'T ALONE
OK I think I just lost a couple of IQ points using caps lock like that.
3
I better stop.
21:48
WHAT A HORRIBLE WEBSITE!
I ACTUALLY USED THE SHIFT KEY!
it's the best website I've ever seen :D
I have to use the shift key, because my capslock is mapped to ctrl. :P
So someone just proposed an edit to my craps post that changes "Don't Pass." to "Don't Pass". and I'm not sure what to do...
I don't want the period outputted
my capslock has a green light under it :)
But if I move it out of the quote it is grammatically incorrect
21:50
@Dr.EmmettBrown Using a Mac I see
how did you know?
If you're using it as a literal string, code-block it.
@quartata
this is a test
@quartata Print the string "Hello, World!". <-- correct in the context of programming (note the period outside the quotes)
Alright fair enough
@Dr.EmmettBrown Magic.
21:51
Seriously, code blocks work well for this.
It's also a fairly old one, since the new ones have a silver light.
@Geobits That's what I did.
22:05
I left for several minutes to make my lunch and.......nothing, happened. Is everyone okay?
just writing a README
@Rainbolt I just saw "illiquid" in a Crash Course Economics video. Apparently, that's totally a word.
https://github.com/red-green/WikiCrawler/raw/master/output.png
read my readme :P
i'm sad the library takes ~2 hours to compile though
22:24
0
Q: Would someone like to build a crontab puzzle?

Thomas WellerI have just asked for a software that displays all times at which a cronjob runs. As I think more about it, this might be a nice golfing question. Unfortunately I'm not too familiar with the crontab specification, especially when it comes to combining operators such as */15,34,49-52 * * * * /pa...

@Dr.EmmettBrown I've replaced the boxed image with its URL. Its 64 million pixels make chat completely unusable on my phone...
No worries. Just explaining my actions.
What did I miss?
(This is normally the part where Alex says "You missed me")
@Dr.EmmettBrown Ooh what's this
22:36
@quartata Read his readme. It explains it.
Ooh cool now I don't have to press buttons in order to surf Wikipedia
I like
A wild @SuperJedi224 appears
you use "chat"
It's super effective!
hi jedi
such move.
very affect
22:41
wow
....no response yet from SuperJedi224. He must have fainted!
Ahh! A Force ghost!
/me tries to use an IRC command, out of habit
guys guys guys
i have a DJI phantom on my desk!
22:46
^
expensive quadcopter
also very cool
Ooooh, nice.
And I hate how that website scrolls.
Rounding causes the strangest bugs, truly.
> Covered in cream cheese, my friends will love these bagels.
Ahhh, English homework...
22:49
I'm getting Strunk and White flashbacks
@Doorknob wait what grade are you in now?
6th, right?
9th >.>
I wish you went to my high school :/
move to Texas :P
22:52
@Doorknob Oh, NOW I get what you mean by "orbited the sun 14 times"
lol too far away
...A black hat appears
you mean grc?
indeed
his avatar is Black Hat from XKCD
22:54
yes. yes it is.
right, @grc
More stupid SM64 glitch videos I can't stop watching them
It's like crack for game developers
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not me.
22:57
0
Q: Humans hate base-2 and programmers hate humans - let's connect them!

kiler129Background The task is simple but every programmer implemented it at least once - Stackoverflow have a lot of samples but are they short enough to win? UserProblem story You're a grumpy programmer who was given task to implement file size input for the users. Since users don't use bytes every...

@NewMainPosts what
I don't even what
Can someone tell me what this person is asking
> code gold
Oh no
Two way converter between exact number of bytes and prefixed bytes. It's just...
Oh I get it now
see my second comment. it's too unclear and badly phrased
Somehow just got an upvote what
23:02
but it is an interesting challenge, some editing is needed
If someone wrote a single function to do both these things, they should be exiled.
true
especially if they took input from a global variable
So basically if I wrote this in Perl you'd hang me
Good to know
Perl is acceptable, as long as it's done in a single regex.
lol
i've been meaning to ask you regex people: is \\s+ a valid regex?
23:05
yes, of course
What flavor of regex?
wait no
wait yes it is
it matches a backslash and then one or more ss
Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes
See this is why I don't answer questions for "you regex people" :)
supposedly java
23:07
Even the regex people don't know the answers ;)
in java its supposed to match whitespace
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Oh god what happened to his arm?!?!
in almost every single regex flavor ever (including Java), \\s+ matches a backslash and then one or more ss
^^
and \s+ matches one or more whitespaces
of course, if this is embedded in a Java string literal, you need to escape backslashes
ugly double-escaping :/
23:08
maybe the double \\ was to escaping it
¯_(ツ)_/¯
in SE Diplomacy, Oct 19 at 23:02, by Air
@Doorknob Ahh, good old 'sup son in SE chat... I'm not sure I've seen one yet with all its arms and no edit icon
augh why SE
¯|_(ツ)_/¯
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ weird
¯\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\_(ツ)_/¯
23:11
...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There. Code blocks fix all.
¯/_(ツ)_\¯
i'm laughing so hard right now... we sooo need
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Q: Evaluating the score based from a chess FEN string

AdriandmenChallenge Forsyth–Edwards Notation (FEN) is a standard notation for describing a particular board position of a chess game. Your challenge is to evaluate the score using the FEN string. This is an example of a FEN string: 5k2/ppp5/4P3/3R3p/6P1/1K2Nr2/PP3P2/8 Using this string, you can calcula...

I'm editing this post for grammar and clarity, while keeping the backstory and specs the same. Is that kosher?
23:26
@Doorbell Can you please change my display name back to TheDoctor ?
@Doorknob ^
</oops>
@DLosc yes probably
it needed help
@Dr.EmmettBrown Like he said earlier, you can change it on another site you're registered on and then apply the change to the whole network.
i tried, didn't work
Why did you change it in the first place if you didn't want it?
Back to the Future Day.
^
i didn't realize there was a limit :/
Thanks doorknob!
want some dogecoin?
:P
Shouldn't be too hard to create an animated pumpkin
23:41
@aditsu so is CJam still only on Sourceforge? :/
went looking for LED strips, found this: sparkfun.com/img/delorean-large.gif
@Doorknob Also, only CJam is still on Sourceforge...
@TheDoctor: I know of an image I want to post in response. I just need to find it first.
Found it!
user image
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23:57
:P

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