The Nineteenth Byte

@Mego I wouldn't say that everything is on-topic. Per the SE guidelines, the chatrooms are supposed to be at least vaguely related to their parent sites.

SuperJedi224

And they are.

By the way, has anyone ever submitted a redstone circuit as an answer to a code golf task?

Alex A.

Here not so much. :P

SuperJedi224

Any idea how it would be scored?

Alex A.

Can they check primality?

El'endia Starman

9:22 PM

@SuperJedi224 Blocks, probably.

Alex A.

I know you can add numbers.

El'endia Starman

@AlexA. Someone built an ALU. Yes.

Alex A.

Whoa

Calvin's Hobbies

I've simulated rule 110 in minecraft so it's definitely TC

SuperJedi224

asks google what ALU stands for

El'endia Starman

9:23 PM

@SuperJedi224 Arithmetic Logic Unit. :P

SuperJedi224

Yes, I just found the wikipedia article

Arithmetic logic unit

An arithmetic logic unit (ALU) is a digital electronic circuit that performs arithmetic and bitwise logical operations on integer binary numbers. This is in contrast to a floating-point unit (FPU), which operates on floating point numbers. An ALU is a fundamental building block of many types of computing circuits, including the central processing unit (CPU) of computers, FPUs, and graphics processing units (GPUs). A single CPU, FPU or GPU may contain multiple ALUs. The inputs to an ALU are the data to be operated on, called operands, and a code indicating the operation to be performed; the ALU...

Anonymous

Yeah MC redstone is TC

El'endia Starman

@AlexA. I think this is the original.

Optimizer

@Calvin'sHobbies lololololol

MAAL

Calvin's Hobbies

?

Optimizer

9:26 PM

minecraft as a language

Peter Taylor

@Optimizer With the carrots I flagged one as spam and eventually just gave up on mature conversation. That's why I was absent from chat for quite a while yesterday.

Calvin's Hobbies

@Optimizer Has good educational potential

Alex A.

@Calvin'sHobbies Indeed, that's what got BrainSteel interested in electrical engineering.

Optimizer

carrot.minecraft

Alex A.

@PeterTaylor I gave up on mature conversation in here a long time ago. :/

@PeterTaylor I actually made a separate room specifically for discussion about golfing code. It's called Code Golfer's Corner, if you'd like to join.

It's not very active.

Disclaimer: I often find mature conversation overrated, hence my chat trolling. :P

Anonymous

9:30 PM

carrot.redstone

Optimizer

I think our profile pictures are a really nice proof of matureness

flawr

i.dont.carrot.all

@Mego git commit sepuku

Calvin's Hobbies

@PeterTaylor I'm with you. Minecraft is obviously more appropriate here, though talking about it is at least constructive. The carrot carets are silly and nonconstructive.

New Main Posts

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Q: Imitate an ordering

Given two lists of numbers, a source and a pattern, reorder the source to match the relative ordering of the pattern. Any two entries of the reordered source should compare the same way as the entries at those same positions of the pattern. For example, the input s = [-5, 9, 4, 13, 11, -6, 0] p...

Calvin's Hobbies

I feel the same about the tha_tha guy

Alex A.

9:34 PM

I like to use "ಠ_ಠ" to express my general feelings about things. (Not the account. That isn't mine.)

Optimizer

@AlexA. yeah sure

Calvin's Hobbies

But it's become a symbol indicative trolling, unlike other emoticons like :) or :P

Alex A.

Has it?

Optimizer

ಠ_ಠ

2

Calvin's Hobbies

I mean it's harder to know when "ಠ_ಠ" is used seriously or not, if serious is the word

Optimizer

9:37 PM

it can never be srsly

Alex A.

I use it with a purpose: It usually is an accurate depiction of my face when I respond to certain things.

Optimizer

in no serious mood, I will actually send that emoji

Alex A.

I never use emojis amidst a serious mood.

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. never like "Thanks for the help golfing Sp3000 :)"?

Anonymous

@Calvin'sHobbies Yeah because who would say that

Alex A.

9:38 PM

@Calvin'sHobbies Oh, good point.

Come to think of it, I usually only use :/ in more serious situations.

It's my "seriously, guys?" face.

SuperJedi224

I'm back

Optimizer

ಠ_ಠ

2

Alex A.

I wonder if I can make a userscript to auto-suspend anyone who uses the word "carrot" in a chat post.

Optimizer

carrot

Calvin's Hobbies

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A: Make a PNG image with "Hello World!" with programming APIs, in the shortest code possible

Bash + ImageMagick: 35 33 Default font, default text size, default colours: convert label:Hello\ world! a.png and here's the result: Thanks to DigitalTrauma and sch for the help :-D

chat.stackexchange.com/…

Alex A.

9:45 PM

I'm fairly certain Mego was kidding.

Anonymous

@AlexA. Wrong, I was being sarcastic

Alex A.

Hm. So alex-is-right after all.

ಠ_ಠ

mister-wrong

Alex A.

oh my god

ಠ_ಠ

What's up with your god?

Anonymous

9:50 PM

It's a bit sad to see Alex setting up jokes so his alt can deliver the punchlines

9

Optimizer

LOLOLOL

Anonymous

It's like watching a Jeff Dunham show

Anonymous

Every bit as painful

Anonymous

alex-is-jeff-dunham

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Optimizer

has this been added to meme catalogue yet?

alex-is-* tags

Alien G

9:52 PM

@GamrCorps Sorry for doubting your math... I got the same equation.

Anonymous

The alex-is-wrong one has been

Anonymous

The others are trivial extensions

ಠ_ಠ

Has Alex in general been added to the meme catalogue?

Optimizer

@Mego i think that it should be changed to alex-is-*

Anonymous

Nah

Anonymous

9:53 PM

alex-is-wrong was the original

Anonymous

The memeogenesis

SuperJedi224

...

Optimizer

but now we barely used alex is wrong.

its derivatives are more popular

Anonymous

No, we use synonyms for wrong, like Jeff Dunham

feersum

alex-is-bing

Anonymous

9:55 PM

And Bing

Anonymous

And Java

Optimizer

bing is generally more correct than wrong

at least the bing predictions

SuperJedi224

Anonymous

Bing is good for one thing supposedly, and if you have to ask, you don't need the answer

Optimizer

you mean the matches?

Anonymous

9:56 PM

Yeah the matches

Anonymous

My sugar cane farm design has a serious flaw :/

Anonymous

SuperJedi224

I'm actually in the process of converting my design to someting similar.

But thanks for reminding me that I don't need as many hoppers as I thought I would

Anonymous

I'm not sure how to get them all to go in the water/hopper

TheDoctor

carrot.tar

ಠ_ಠ

10:07 PM

tar.tar

Anonymous

tar.tar.sauce

ಠ_ಠ

quarta.tar

Optimizer

^ read this and say that @ಠ_ಠ is not @AlexA.

you cannot be more wrong

thus, only @AlexA. can say that.

ಠ_ಠ

optimizer-is-wrong

hm no, alex would use meta tag

optimizer-is-wrong

Optimizer

since @ಠ_ಠ is @AlexA. , he is wrong too.

10:12 PM

...

Eeeh, it is a great song!

Optimizer

only alex would say that its a great song

SuperJedi224

That is probably not entirely true.

New Sandboxed Posts

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Literally just printing the source code code-golfquine Wait a second. We already have a contest where you print the source code. Right? Wrong. The challenge Print out the source code. Not to STDOUT, but to a physical printer. The rules: You must write a complete program that prints out its...

SuperJedi224

10:20 PM

^ Everyone upvote that

Anonymous

No why

Anonymous

It's barely different from the quine challenge

Daniel M.

Should I not allow lpr?

Anonymous

Then you could just pipe to /dev/lp

SuperJedi224

I hope my new harvester design works out.

Anonymous

10:24 PM

Simply adding "print to a printer instead of STDOUT" to a challenge is not enough to make it not a dupe of the previous challenge

SuperJedi224

That may be true, I suppose.

Daniel M.

I was thinking more along the lines of java where printing means having to go through this

Anonymous

Why would you do that though

Anonymous

Take old answer, add 4 for |lpr on command line, voila

SuperJedi224

In most browsers, Javscript has a builtin for opening a print dialogue.

Anonymous

10:28 PM

Or take old answer, add however many bytes it is to redirect stdout to /dev/lp, voila

Anonymous

For java: System.setOut(new PrintStream("/dev/lp"));

Anonymous

It's a trivial transformation between the old code and the new

Daniel M.

How about banning lp(d/r) and similar commands

SuperJedi224

If you can be specific about what that covers, go ahead.

Anonymous

I'd say that's getting too restrictive

Anonymous

10:31 PM

That's ultimately how every printing system on Unix/Linux works

Daniel M.

Though then I might as well say no built-ins, and then it's completely impossible

Anonymous

Exactly

Anonymous

It's not a good challenge, and a dupe of the quine challenge

Daniel M.

I have a few other ideas that i'd like to bounce around

Anonymous

Go for it

Daniel M.

10:35 PM

How is calculating the golden ratio, but you must do that by dividing subsequent Fibonacci numbers. Input is n, and the program must print f(n)/f(n-1)

I searched it a while ago and it wasn't an existing thing

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