The Nineteenth Byte

flawr

12:00 AM

So you get the remaining votes on the next day or what?

Doorknob

@flawr no you just don't get the rep from them

El'endia Starman

So it's VERY good to hit it just before the day rolls over...

Doorknob

41% [76 libreoffice-core 750 kB/29.8 MB 3%]                  113 kB/s 33min 22s

why has this time gone up >:(

Alex A.

That's how time works, knob

Doorknob

I am pretty sure time isn't supposed to go backwards but ok

El'endia Starman

12:04 AM

@AlexA. He's a doorknob, not a dog.

flawr

@Doorknob How mean!

Alex A.

@El'endiaStarman Better?

Doorknob

50% [101 linux-image-4.2.0-1-amd64 693 kB/35.0 MB 2%]        1,045 kB/s 3min 1s

okay wait what

El'endia Starman

Lolz, indeed.

Doorknob

who designed this timer

now it's at 1min 42s O_o

Alex A.

12:05 AM

@Doorknob Time is an illusion created by the government to steal our tax babies. puts on tinfoil hat

El'endia Starman

They could say "the connection is probably lost," but it's more fun to do naive time-averaging to give you hope that if you wait around for 1,163 hours, it will finally finish.

2

Doorknob

:D

Pietu1998

Basically the timer changes a lot when your download speed changes. Or then the timer is just cat /dev/urandom | show-timer

Doorknob

89% [137 inkscape 12.7 MB/15.5 MB 82%]                           1,543 kB/s 27s

why has my download speed gone up by an order of magnitude? O_o

Pietu1998

why'd you need inkscape

El'endia Starman

12:07 AM

For what it's worth, file copy timers these days are a lot more consistent and accurate.

Pietu1998

@El'endiaStarman Depends. Sometimes they work, mostly not.

Alex A.

@Doorknob You need Internet Explorer for faster downlod.

Doorknob

downlod

Pietu1998

@AlexA. And Ask Toolbar for boosted downloads

Alex A.

And that purple gorilla spamware for extra internet

Pietu1998

12:08 AM

Bonzi Buddy?

El'endia Starman

Alex A.

@Pietu1998 YES

Doorknob

@El'endiaStarman I... don't even remember the last time I've seen a file copy timer. On the other hand, I am constantly tortured by download timers :P

TheDoctor

that's NT btw

El'endia Starman

@TheDoctor Yes, of course.

We attack at dawn!

TheDoctor

12:09 AM

lol

i really wish I had gpus

Pietu1998

Doorknob

why would you take a screenshot of a picture of a screen

5

like seriously

Alex A.

hahahahahahaha

Pietu1998

That's from my friend

El'endia Starman

In the off-seasons, I hire an animal trainer to help confront secret agents with situations which they are unable to report by radio.

TheDoctor

12:10 AM

i want 3 billion gbps

Pietu1998

I personally posted a screenshot of my Peak Download Rate and then he commented with that

Calvin's Hobbies

@Doorknob 🕛

Pietu1998

He beat me by about 2 orders of magnitude

Doorknob

@Calvin'sHobbies CLOCK FACE TWELVE OCLOCK

El'endia Starman

Beat me by about two orders of magnitude too.

Alex A.

12:11 AM

@Doorknob dos clok has face

I'm going to order some magnitude from my local Thai restaurant.

flawr

Cu guys, it is way too late again....

El'endia Starman

g'night!

Alex A.

@flawr Goooooood night

Pietu1998

So it's 2:17 am. Am I going to sleep? AM I GOING TO SLEEP? NO!

Alex A.

FIGHT THE POWER

Calvin's Hobbies

12:21 AM

Mini challenge: Given a 12hr time, find the distance between the endpoints of the clock hands if the hour hand is 1 unit long and the minute hand 2 units..

Alex A.

Closed as duplicate

Calvin's Hobbies

I've seen angle

Alex A.

So you mean Euclidean distance on the face of the clock?

Calvin's Hobbies

Yeah

Alex A.

Wouldn't answers to that other challenge be able to make a trivial modification using some sine/cosine nonsense to answer this one?

Hence dupe. ;P

(I'm just being difficult because I don't want to think hard enough to actually participate in this chat challenge.)

Thomas Kwa

12:25 AM

@Calvin'sHobbies input in what format?

Pietu1998

Task: golf sqrt((sin(hrs*30deg)-2*sin(mins*6deg))^2+(cos(hrs*30deg)-2*cos(mins*6deg))^2)

Calvin's Hobbies

@ThomasKwa hh:mm

@AlexA. (that's ok, I'm really expecting answers)

@Pietu1998 Seems bout right

Thomas Kwa

Will input ever be h:mm?

Calvin's Hobbies

no

Star?

Alex A.

What?

Are you assuming it's me who starred those things?

Dennis

12:34 AM

@MartinBüttner I think it would be beneficial to change yes to yes | tr -d \\n in your catalog. Too many posters seem to interpret infinite stream as infinite lines of finite length.

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. Shun barrier until you solve: Output the names of two distinct PPCG users using fewer bytes than are in the names combined.

Alex A.

tries to think of users named after commands or errors

El'endia Starman

Minkolang online interpreter now has examples! :D

Alex A.

Examples of what?

Various fruits and vegetables?

Types of antique Persian rugs?

El'endia Starman

Take a look.

Thomas Kwa

12:39 AM

abs(1-2e^(iπ/30(expr(sub(Ans,1,2))-5expr(sub(Ans,4,2

Dennis

"Dennis
"2*

@Calvin'sHobbies We seem to have a bunch of those.

Calvin's Hobbies

@Dennis I shoulda said distinct names >.>

Thomas Kwa

Wait no, that doesn't work

Alex A.

@El'endiaStarman Nah, I'll just assume it's the rugs.

Anonymous

@Calvin'sHobbies what is this I don't even

Alex A.

12:48 AM

Don't worry about it.

Alien G

@AlexA. I always worry about it.

Calvin's Hobbies

@Mego Come build self repairing spleef arenas

Thomas Kwa

abs(1-2e^(iπ/6(expr(sub(Ans,1,2))-11/60expr(sub(Ans,4,2

Dennis

"Dennis"" Williamson
""River"1$

Alex A.

@Calvin'sHobbies Is that what you guys are doing on the server right now?

I might be able to sign on a little later this evening

@Dennis Who is Williamson River?

Calvin's Hobbies

12:51 AM

Dennis Williamson
River Williamson

Alright

Anonymous

@Calvin'sHobbies I will in a little bit, helping my mom set up her amazon firetv

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. I'm the only one on :/

Alex A.

:/

Anonymous

:\

Pietu1998

:|

Alex A.

12:52 AM

@Mego Make sure to keep a fire extinguisher handy

Anonymous

@AlexA. I have your mixtape, it's the exact opposite of fire

Pietu1998

for q in __import__("itertools").cycle(["/","|","\\","-"]):print("\r:"+q,end="")or __import__("time").sleep(0.5)

Thomas Kwa

:—

long dash is better

Anonymous

@Pietu1998 n,q=0,r'/|\-';while 1:print("\r:"+q[n%4],end="");__import__("time").sleep(0.5)

Anonymous

itertools is never the best option

Pietu1998

12:59 AM

@Mego SyntaxError

Anonymous

Where?

Pietu1998

You can't do statement;while

Alex A.

@Mego My mixtape...?

Anonymous

@AlexA. knowyourmeme.com/memes/check-out-my-mixtape

Anonymous

@Pietu1998 s/;w/\nw/

Alex A.

1:01 AM

@Mego ok

Pietu1998

@Mego Yeah, but I wanted it on one line :D

for q in __import__("itertools").count(0):print("\r:"+"/|\\-"[q%4],end="")or __import__("time").sleep(.5) is better though

Anonymous

n=0\nwhile 1:print("\r:"+r"/|\-"[n%4],end='');n+=1;__import__('time').sleep(.5)

Pietu1998

@Mego Yeah, but I wanted it on one line :D

Anonymous

You don't need count(0) either

Anonymous

count(start=0,step=1)

Anonymous

1:03 AM

(defaults)

Anonymous

Back to helping my mom, bbs

Anonymous

vanishes

Chinatsu-creepy-chan

Cover the sides only the sides. Then cover only the center.

El'endia Starman

@Chinatsu-creepy-chan Works with a starfield too!

mınxomaτ

But starfields are boring.

Alex A.

1:12 AM

@Chinatsu-creepy-chan Is this the hallway in The Shining?

Chinatsu-creepy-chan

TBH IDK

Going to sleep already

G'night

Btw why 19? 19 = 2^4 + 2^2 - 2^0... but nothing too special

El'endia Starman

Vɪʜᴀɴ

1:31 AM

random question (this chat has been quiet for too long): burritos or burgers?

mınxomaτ

I've never in my life had a burrito, so burger, i guess.

Doorknob

@mınxomaτ you should eat one

they are tasty

Vɪʜᴀɴ

^

Alex A.

Usually burger but sometimes burrito.

Calvin's Hobbies

burger << burrito

Alex A.

1:42 AM

Depends on the source.

If I'm going to make it, burger because it's easier.

Doorknob

@Calvin'sHobbies Burger left-bitwise-shift burrito?

Calvin's Hobbies

much less than

quartata

@Vɪʜᴀɴ burrito

easy

I actually have an aversion to hamburgers (but not like turkey burgers). I have no idea why.

So I guess it also depends what kind of burger you are talking about.

Alex A.

Eat veggie burgers. Simple solution. :P

quartata

Burrito would still win

@AlexA. I like veggie burgers

Kind of depends on the type though

I primarily like quinoa-based ones

Calvin's Hobbies

1:46 AM

Quick poll: What fraction of your meals are homemade? (i.e. not restaurant/microwave dinner)

Vɪʜᴀɴ

@Calvin'sHobbies I'd say about 5/6

quartata

@Calvin'sHobbies 75%

Calvin's Hobbies

@Vɪʜᴀɴ Same here probly

quartata

Actually

Terrible estimator lol

Calvin's Hobbies

@quartata Want to help build ice-spleef in minecraft?

quartata

1:52 AM

@Calvin'sHobbies Ye I suppose

Got nothing better to do while Scream Fortress downloads

Why ice instead of snow though?

So it is slippery?

That's cool

Anonymous

@Calvin'sHobbies I'm about to join you guys

Calvin's Hobbies

@quartata Ice will repair itself automatically

PhiNotPi

@Calvin'sHobbies college student, <5%

Alex A.

Why does this have 2 upvotes? It's not even a challenge, it's nothing.

Alien G

2:07 AM

Someone just answered with 3 bytes... codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/62044/…

Alex A.

I would say that this is why you should wait to accept an answer, but I won't say that...

El'endia Starman

@Vɪʜᴀɴ BURGER!

Alien G

@AlexA. Just did, ;_;

Anonymous

How do you do small text in markdown?

Anonymous

Actually nevermind

Anonymous

2:18 AM

@AlexA. I'm redoing this in actual code-golf fashion

Anonymous

0

Q: Halloween Golf: The 2spooky4me Challenge!

A current internet meme is to type 2spooky4me, with a second person typing 3spooky5me, following the (n)spooky(n+2)me pattern. Your mission is to implement this pattern in your chosen language. You should write a program or function that takes a value n (from standard input, as a function argume...

Anonymous

done

New Main Posts

0

Q: Boo! A Halloween Code Golf Challenge

Write a program that takes an input from STDIN of length 2 or more characters and adds the string ~BOO!~ (that string has a leading and ending space) in a uniformly random spot in the string that is not on either end. Disallowed sample inputs: 2 or (an empty input) Disallowed sample outpu...

code-golf

0

Q: Halloween Golf: The 2spooky4me Challenge!

A current internet meme is to type 2spooky4me, with a second person typing 3spooky5me, following the (n)spooky(n+2)me pattern. Your mission is to implement this pattern in your chosen language. You should write a program or function that takes a value n (from standard input, as a function argume...

code-golf string

quartata

0

A: Halloween Golf: The 2spooky4me Challenge!

CJam, 18 bytes ri_2+"spooky"\"me"

Fastest golfer in the west

Anonymous

Wow my internet is crap right now

Anonymous

2:24 AM

Can't even load python docs

Anonymous

On a side note, why have I not downloaded those yet

quartata

2:34 AM

I wish the people upvoting my quine would go upvote something else

It got outgolfed people

Dennis

Which quine?

quartata

The cheaty one

Anyone here know GS2?

I need to outgolf Dennis but I'm stuck at 17 bytes

Dennis

Hahaha.

quartata

17 bytes in Stuck too

Dammit dammit dammit

I knew I should have posted the GS2 answer earlier

If gs2 didn't have to do read-num it would be 16 bytes

Actually if gs2 would just let me increment a char it would be 2

This is annoying.

One second

Dennis

3:00 AM

The char? The input could be longer than one digit...

Calvin's Hobbies

@quartata sleep

quartata

@Dennis I know I realized that

@Calvin'sHobbies ?

Calvin's Hobbies

in mc

Alien G

@Calvin'sHobbies how long have you been working with mc servers?

quartata

Oh sorry

Dennis

3:01 AM

Wow, that chat sound is loud!

Calvin's Hobbies

Since the ppcg server started

Alien G

So since?

Dennis

Aha! I had turned up the volume to watch Peter's video. Dammit.

Alien G

I'll ask later, I have to go for now.

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlienG June

TheDoctor

3:03 AM

^.^

Alien G

Eh, I'll be on later.

quartata

I should have posted all my answers at once.

I won't make that mistake again @Dennis watch out I'm coming for you faster golfer in the west zzzz

Dennis

My motto is post early, edit often.

Alien G

I lied, guess who! XD

Reto Koradi

3:19 AM

@quartata Strangely enough, I also had 18 characters for that challenge! ;) Then I thought I might try if I could figure out GolfScript, since I had downloaded it the other day. But not surprisingly, Dennis beat me to that. Then I thought it might be simple enough to figure out in Pyth. I was very close, but couldn't find the right operator to join the strings before Maltysen posted.

Anonymous

3:30 AM

Cmon guys, I gave you trivially-golfable Python code, and nobody is going to post the Python solution?

quartata

18 bytes in microscript ugh

I cannot think of any languge where this is shorter than 17

Actually it would be 16 in Rotor

But it is not anywhere close to done

Dennis

0

A: Halloween Golf: The 2spooky4me Challenge!

Python, 31 bytes lambda n:"%dspooky%dme"%(n,n+2) Ask and you shall receive.

quartata

Hey I was about to do that

Ah well

Here lemme outgolf you in Groovy

Dennis

First time I wrote a lambda.

quartata

I wonder how long this would be in ti basic

Reto Koradi

3:42 AM

@quartata All the content was there with 15 bytes of Pyth. Except that it had annoying newlines between the pieces of output.

Dennis

Very. Lowercase letters are 2 bytes in TI-BASIC.

quartata

Oh right I forgot about that

Anonymous

@Dennis good job

quartata

darn I was going to do perl too

well hey got a groovy one

This is like the Halloween arms race

Anonymous

@quartata This ain't a golf, it's a spoopy arms race

quartata

3:56 AM

Zigzactly

2spoopy

Mauris

3

I may have a problem.

Dennis

@quartata That's a popular cry for help you got there. :P

Anonymous

@quartata It took a lot of effort to do "spooky" instead of "spoopy" in that challenge :P

Mauris

I'm going to bed at 5 AM now, instead of golfing twenty spoopy Halloween thingies. Truly the loser's option.

Dennis

@Mauris I know the feeling.

Anonymous

4:01 AM

12 answers from 8 unique users, 5 upvotes. Cmon people, can't you see I'm trying to rep farm here?

quartata

Damn Julia outgolfed Groovy

Alien G

@Mauris Great reply to one of my problems btw :D

Dennis

@Mego Rep farming at night on a Saturday? Good luck...

Anonymous

@Dennis I'm planting my crop for harvest this week

Alex A.

@quartata Are you surprised? Groovy is based on Java, after all...

Dennis

4:11 AM

I'm also not sure what you're complaining about. :P All my answers are at 0 or +1, and I posted the first 17 byte answer...

Alex A.

github.com/Manishearth/ChatExchange

^ Connect to SE chat from Python

Anonymous

@Dennis I was mostly joking because I revived the challenge from a rapidly-closed awful one

Alex A.

I probably would have helped the OP of the old one revamp it into a good challenge, help them learn the ropes.

> very lowercase

Reto Koradi

@Dennis It's Friday!

Dennis

Not here. :P

@AlexA. Hahaha.

Alex A.

4:27 AM

It's still Friday here, and here for me is here for everyone.

Anonymous

@AlexA. It would have invalidated existing answers

Dennis

The question already has 2 delete votes, so those answers are going to disappear anyway...

Alex A.

Assuming 3 other delete votes come along.

Anonymous

Tempting...

Alex A.

4:28 AM

ಠ_ಠ

Dennis

@AlexA. It only takes 3, so one more is enough.

Alex A.

@Dennis o rly

Dennis

The number of required delete votes depends on the post's score IIRC. For 0 or less, it's definitely only three votes.

@Mego Go ahead. Do it. hovers cursor over review-ban button

:P

Anonymous

@Dennis ?

Anonymous

Oh

Anonymous

4:31 AM

My picture duh

Anonymous

I wouldn't actually do that

Dennis

I was just extending the joke...

Anonymous

I know

Anonymous

I was verifying that I'm not as terrible of a person as I pretend to be usually

Alex A.

deletes Mego's account, suspends Dennis, freezes chat, laughs heartily

Anonymous

4:33 AM

@AlexA. like a boss

Dennis

Review history is public anyway.

Alien G

@AlexA. Forgot the part about banning me for not knowing who the mods are.

Dennis

You didn't? ಠ_ಠ

searches for kick-mute button

Alien G

Nope, I didn't.

Anonymous

Don't worry @AlienG, you're safe for like 3 years

Alien G

4:44 AM

Hell, I didn't even know how to check back then... .-.

@Mego What happens after 3 years O_O

Anonymous

@AlienG He finally finds the button

Dennis

kick-mutes @Mego

Alien G

Well remind me to make a new account in 3 years.

Anonymous

@Dennis Yeah right

Alex A.

@AlienG codegolf.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators

Dennis, me, Doorknob, Martin Büttner, and some guy named gnibbler who's never around.

Alien G

4:46 AM

@AlexA. I know that now...

Alex A.

Eh. suspends anyway

Anonymous

@AlienG You should also know by now that alex-is-wrong

Dennis

@DLosc No unbalanced brackets in Pip?

Alex A.

@Mego alex-has-suspension-privileges

Dennis

alex-may-be-wrong but alex-has-super-powers

3

Alien G

4:47 AM

Don't worry guys, more stupidity is sure to come :P

Anonymous

alex-is-wrong dennis-is-right doorknob-has-a-trout carrot

Alex A.

also-martin

Anonymous

vtcasafhjksafhsajkhsadhuwasm

Dennis

You called me slow and Martin a carrot? You're walking on thin ice. :P

Alex A.

<.<

lightning-dennis martin-carrot troutknob

Dennis

4:56 AM

LOL, troutknob.

Anonymous

I'm slow

Alex A.

slow loris

Anonymous

slowest-penguin-in-the-west

Alex A.

There are no penguins in the west

Anonymous

Exactly

Anonymous

4:59 AM

And I'm the slowest

Dennis

I just remembered this:

Oct 24 at 20:18, by Alex A.

Slow Carrot Dennis.

There seems to be a pattern here.

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