The Nineteenth Byte

@Sherlock9 it's like [](http://@Sherlock), but with a zero with space (that you'lll probably need to copy from elsewhere) between the square brackets

quartata

@TanMath This is not true, Greek is not dead. Latin is.

Optimizer

radish

Sherlock9

@TanMath @Sherlock9 is a sock of @Sherlock9, m8

VoteToClose

@Calvin'sHobbies HISS

quartata

@Calvin'sHobbies damn Calvin why did you do that

Alien G

11:07 PM

@TanMath ?

Doorknob

@Calvin'sHobbies SILENCE

Anonymous

ALT-255 will get you a nbsp

quartata

You can also use an invisible separator which is nicer because it makes it harder to figure out using Inspect Element

Optimizer

@Calvin'sHobbies flags

quartata

Renders without an amphersand

Sherlock9

11:08 PM

Anonymous

HTML doesn't work

Doorknob

nice try :P

Sherlock9

BLARG

quartata

@Sherlock9 Actual char

anOKsquirrel

[ ](wat)

hmmm

Doorknob

11:08 PM

You need an @ anyway

Anonymous

STOP IT GUYSSS

noobs get gud

nope

git push && git take lunchmoney

3

Sherlock9

11:09 PM

<wbr>

Calvin's Hobbies

ftp://works as well as http:// I believe

Anonymous

hi

quartata

git fetch me a drink

@Sherlock9 You need the actual char.

Doorknob

@Calvin'sHobbies one char golfier, too

Optimizer

git push everyone leaking spoilers

Thomas Kwa

11:10 PM

How do I get a diagram of a function in J like TryAPL does?

@Dennis

I LIVE

@ThomasKwa I dont think you can?

git --help --im-trapped

Calvin's Hobbies

@Sherlock9 You can also view a message's history to see what people really typed

Anonymous

11:11 PM

git fetch && git good boy

Alex A.

:D

Sherlock9

My thanks to

@Calvin'sHobbies I see. Thanks again

anOKsquirrel

test

quintopia

Someone tell me if this is duplicate: given list of two digit numbers, each of which may appear multiple times, output any two digit numbers which were not listed

Thomas Kwa

@quintopia I don't know if it's dupe, but it sounds pretty boring

quartata

11:13 PM

@quintopia range between 10-99 uniq done

Doorknob

@Sherlock9 you can stealth ping multiple people in one link, btw

quartata

How do you make a range in Pyth?

Sherlock9

R ?

VoteToClose

Vitsy wins. c:

Calvin's Hobbies

Python is at least a name of a thing and I bet has been used as a human nickname

quintopia

11:15 PM

Trivial in languages with sets I guess

Doorknob

@Sherlock9 ಠ_ಠ

Alex A.

@Calvin'sHobbies Probably only for scary biker dudes

Sherlock9

Right, right. I said I would only use it once.

I'll go back to trying to get Pyth to work. Thanks again @Doorknob @Calvin'sHobbies

quintopia

What was that a poll? Best name?

Alex A.

@Tia27 Hello!

VoteToClose

11:17 PM

@quintopia If forced to, which programming language name would you name your child?

Calvin's Hobbies

@quintopia strawpoll.me/6127121

Sherlock9

Quick Pyth question. How do you repeatedly divide Q by 2 if it's divisible by 2?

Until it isn't divisible by two, that is

Alex A.

while iseven(Q) Q = Q ÷ 2 end

Oh sorry, wrong language

#sorrynotsorry

quartata

> I want you to have a nice time living here. So I will hold off on snail pie for tonight.

Sherlock9

.W%Q2=Q/Q2Q, right?

quartata

11:19 PM

gee thanks toriel

Doorknob

while(Q%2==0){Q/=2;} in Rust. :P

Alex A.

@Sherlock9 There's gotta be a shorter way than that

quartata

@Sherlock9 Use backticks to make code pretty

Doorknob

Or $Q/=2until$Q%2 in Perl.

quartata

@Doorknob :D

Alex A.

11:20 PM

Hush now, nobody uses Perl

Doorknob

ಠ_ಠ

quartata

@AlexA. ಠ_ಠ

Calvin's Hobbies

oh, perl could be a name

Anonymous

2,%YW2@\;2@%Y

Alex A.

Every time someone uses Perl, an angel goes to prison.

Sherlock9

11:22 PM

@Mego Is that Pyth?

Anonymous

Or ,;╘≈╙@%

Anonymous

@Sherlock9 Absolutely not

Anonymous

It's Seriously

Sherlock9

@Mego No, wait. I recognize the @\

Doorknob

@AlexA. s/Perl/Julia/ >:D

Anonymous

11:23 PM

Equivalent operation to what you want: Q mod pow(2,floor(log(Q)/log(2)))

Anonymous

Now just do that in Pyth

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. strawpoll.me/6127457

Anonymous

Well, except that if Q is a power of 2, you get 0

Anonymous

But meh

Alex A.

@Doorknob Incorrect

Doorknob

11:27 PM

huh I was expecting a ಠ_ಠ but ok

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Guess the hidden communities (better title needed) code-challenge graphs random Background This challenge is about the stochastic block model. Basically, you are given an undirected graph, where the nodes represent people, and the edges represent social connections between them. The people ar...

VoteToClose

doorknob-is-wrong?

quartata

@AlexA. Every time someone uses Perl, a puppy is saved.

TanMath

hi!

quartata

Every time someone uses anything other than Perl, a server kitty dies.

TanMath

11:28 PM

did the stealth ping work?

VoteToClose

@quartata quartata-is-very-wrong

TanMath

Hi!

Anonymous

Every time someone uses Seriously, I ask "why?"

TanMath

@Mego no, you say "Seriously?!"

did any of my stealth pings work?

Alex A.

Every time someone uses ???, I unashamedly laugh at them

Sherlock9

11:30 PM

J4FNrPQ8 ?-3%@N1 4?-2@N1=J*J+1@NZ=JJ?%2@NZ=JJ=JZ;?QJ1

FREE AT LAST

VoteToClose

^ Ew. That is too much Pyth to be golfed.

Sherlock9

I got the damn Pyth code for sums of squares up and running!

TanMath

@Sherlock9 no offense, but looks like th longest pyth code ever!

Sherlock9

BUT AT LEAST IT WORKS @U@

/me is broken now

TanMath

hello!

Alex A.

11:31 PM

Your stealth pings aren't working

VoteToClose

^

TanMath

@AlexA. how do you know?

Doorknob

try hovering over them

Also we can just look at the "source code" of your messages

TanMath

hello! Alex A.

Doorknob

no

TanMath

11:33 PM

I copied and pasted from @Mego's stealth ping to quartata

Calvin's Hobbies

@TanMath You need an @ sign. I just explained it

Doorknob

@TanMath Then his didn't work either.

Sherlock9

@VoteToClose Yeah, at 53 bytes, this is stupidly long

@TanMath Probably

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. Umm, are you actually right? strawpoll.me/6127457/r

VoteToClose

Longest Pyth code was associated with printing song lyrics.

TanMath

11:34 PM

hello!

Alex A.

That worked

TanMath

yay!

hello!

Alex A.

@Calvin'sHobbies That's odd. I didn't even vote for 0%.

quartata

Escaped the ruins

Doorknob

/me votes for 50% :P

TanMath

11:35 PM

hello!

quartata

So far CJam is being a true-pacifist, as it should be

TanMath

hello!

hello everybody!

quartata

@TanMath Please stop over-using stealth pings.

Calvin's Hobbies

^

Alex A.

Use sparingly

Doorknob

11:35 PM

^

Anonymous

@quartata All I know is, my gut says "maybe"

quartata

I can tell you're using them by the extra space.

@Mego lmao

You doubt my blind true-pacifist skills

TanMath

@quartata i am too excited!

Doorknob

waves trout around vaguely menacingly

TanMath

no more stealth pings for the day

Calvin's Hobbies

11:36 PM

@Doorknob Why have I never seen this trout?

Alex A.

Anonymous

@Calvin'sHobbies Probably because you behave

quartata

> You think you're really smart, don't you? ... So you were able to play by your own rules. You spared the life of a single person... I bet you feel really great

Mego = Evil half-flower monster prince confirmed

Anonymous

@quartata ?

Alex A.

Half shark-alligator, half man

TanMath

11:37 PM

how long did it take you guys to realize this?!

Anonymous

If that's Futurama spoilers, I'm only halfway through season 5 I think

Alex A.

Dr. Octagon - Halfsharkalligatorhalfman

►

quartata

It's from UNDERTALE.

Anonymous

Oh

VoteToClose

@Doorknob He's never wrong or right. He is in a state of Shrödingers Incorrectness, a derivative of the Wronginberg Principle.

Anonymous

11:38 PM

I was referencing Futurama

quartata

The game I've been talking about the whole time.

TanMath

@VoteToClose hahaha

quartata

@VoteToClose hehe

46 mins ago, by quartata

@Mego

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. too many fins

quartata

@Calvin'sHobbies too many cooks

Calvin's Hobbies

11:39 PM

cooks?

stop

Anonymous

ninjo'd

quartata

> i'm sans. sans the skeleton.

\o/

@Doorknob trout

Alex A.

Seriously stop doing this.

Doorknob

→ 8 messages moved to Trashcan

Stop it please.

quartata

@Doorknob nailed it

whoa

What just happened?

Doorknob

11:42 PM

@TanMath I marked the flags on your messages as invalid, saving you from a 30-minute chat suspension, but no warning next time.

Thomas Kwa

@VoteToClose Schrödinger*

Calvin's Hobbies

mods incoming

quartata

@Doorknob Ah, that's why the sudden flood of mods came

SE chat system is really well thought out and designed

Doorknob

Chat moderation is terrible, horrible, and broken, yes. :/

rand al'thor

Why is someone flagging S's in here?

Thomas Kwa

11:43 PM

@quartata /me has difficulty simultaneously learning J and detecting sarcasm

quartata

@randal'thor Nothing to see here, move along.

Calvin's Hobbies

@randal'thor Because someone was spamming them like crazy

Anonymous

Yeah room owners and site mods should have first go at dealing with flags, before the mod/10k hordes come

quartata

Keep calm and hate SE chat

Doorknob

This has been discussed extensively on meta.SE. 1, 2, 3.

The general result of all chat-related meta posts, though, is [status-we-dont-care-about-chat]

Anonymous

11:44 PM

Watching mods/10ks pour in when a flag is raised is like watching vultures circle around an animal corpse

quartata

@Mego They aren't 10ks.

They're room owners.

Anonymous

That then

Doorknob

@quartata yes they are

TanMath

sometimes this place can suck

Anonymous

Those people :P

Doorknob

11:45 PM

10k+ network-wide

quartata

@Doorknob ? me no understand

Anonymous

@TanMath Yeah, especially when people spam

2

Doorknob

@quartata Huh? Only users who are mods or have 10k+ network-wide see chat flags.

TanMath

@Mego i mean in general

Anonymous

@TanMath Me too

TanMath

11:46 PM

including the people here, the chat, the site as well

Anonymous

Nobody is forcing you to stay

Alex A.

If you don't like it you don't have to participate.

TanMath

this place is the weirdest place

Doorknob

I think we can all agree on that :)

Wad Cheber

Theory: The user in question was devoured by an anaconda, and the anaconda proceeded to gloat about his victory on the victim's keyboard.

TanMath

11:47 PM

?

Alex A.

He's talking about your "s" spam

Anonymous

@WadCheber No it's a Python you don't even go here

Wad Cheber

Snake language consists solely of the letter s.

rand al'thor

@WadCheber Tell that to Voldemort.

Parseltongue is a more complex language than that.

Thomas Kwa

@Doorknob Wait, 10k network wide means the sum of your rep everywhere?

Anonymous

11:48 PM

What is this Harry Potter nonsense

Doorknob

Yeah, snake language has indentation too.

Anonymous

This is The Nineteenth Byte not ~~Mos Eisley~~ RIP

Wad Cheber

@Mego Seriously.

Anonymous

@WadCheber ಠ_ಠ

Wad Cheber

@Mego Mos Eisley is alive and well!

rand al'thor

11:49 PM

@Mego You've been invaded by SFF.

TanMath

@Mego ninja'ed

Thomas Kwa

If so, can I just get 10k now by signing up on 40 new sites?

Doorknob

@ThomasKwa nope, only sites with 200+ rep count

TanMath

@WadCheber no it isn't

Anonymous

@WadCheber Oh it got revived?

rand al'thor

11:49 PM

@TanMath chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley

Wad Cheber

@TanMath Yes, it is.

rand al'thor

@TanMath Wad and I are in there right now.

Anonymous

@randal'thor No we've been invaded by flag-chasers, the SE equivalent of ambulance-chasers

Doorknob

in Mos Eisley, 8 mins ago, by Wad Cheber

We're getting flags because there seems to be a snake in another room.

Wad Cheber

@TanMath I was there, man. I saw some things. Bad things....

Doorknob

11:50 PM

haha

TanMath

@Doorknob seriously?

rand al'thor

@Mego You think this is a flag-chaser invasion?

Man, you ain't seen nothing.

TanMath

in Mos Eisley, 6 mins ago, by rand al'thor

@WadCheber And Doorknob is making threats to the person who posted the S's.

rand al'thor

In Mos Eisley we once had a flag draw 18 mods and 3 CMs.

Wad Cheber

@Doorknob Thank you, I'll be here all week, folks, be sure to tip your waitress.

Doorknob

11:51 PM

@randal'thor I remember that! I was there. :P

Anonymous

@randal'thor I saw Mos Eisley :P

Wad Cheber

Everyone was there.

The chat room was full of blue names and frivolous room freezes.

Alex A.

"frivolous"

Anonymous

Having seen the conversations that led to the freeze, I would not call it frivolous

rand al'thor

@Mego You're thinking of a different freeze.

Wad Cheber

11:52 PM

@AlexA. Yes, on that occasion, several mods decided to freeze the room for fun.

@Mego Different situation entirely.

Doorknob

@Mego You mean the time Shog came in and slapped everyone? That was later.

Sherlock9

@WadCheber A gentle push, will suffice

Wad Cheber

JohnP from martial arts had never frozen a room, so he was playing around.

TanMath

hey, i have a Star Wars question @randal'thor @WadCheber

rand al'thor

@WadCheber From Martial Arts? I thought he was from Health.

Doorknob

11:53 PM

@TanMath There's a chatroom for that. :P

rand al'thor

@TanMath I'm famous on SFF for not having seen Star Wars :-D

Wad Cheber

@TanMath Don't ask Rand. He'll have to get on his donkey

TanMath

@Doorknob i am lazy

Doorknob

... valid point

TanMath

@randal'thor Seriously?!

Wad Cheber

11:54 PM

@TanMath Ask me. If it's from the original trilogy, I can help.

Anonymous

@TanMath Be less lazy

Calvin's Hobbies

Do wookies eat meat?

Doorknob

@Mego Less lazy? But... that requires more effort!

Wad Cheber

@TanMath There's a Mos meme about Rand.

rand al'thor

@TanMath But I may soon have a tag badge for Star Wars!

anOKsquirrel

11:55 PM

@Doorknob and I'm too lazy for that!

Wad Cheber

@Calvin'sHobbies Chewbacca tried to, which is how the Ewoks captured everyone.

Anonymous

@WadCheber Ooh I have a question about the original trilogy. How is it possible that Anakin survived the massive loss of blood from getting his limbs severed?

TanMath

@WadCheber it is... why doesn't palpatine and darth vader know that leia is the daughter of anakin?

Calvin's Hobbies

@Mego the firce

Doorknob

@Mego Don't lightsabers automatically cauterize any wound they inflict? :P

TanMath

11:56 PM

@Mego that isn't in the original!

Ixrec

@Mego I think lightsabers cauterize their wounds is the simple explanation

Wad Cheber

@Mego Prequel trilogy. But the answer is that lightsabers cauterize the wounds.

Doorknob

@Ixrec ninja'd

TanMath

yep they do

Anonymous

the joke

you

Doorknob

11:56 PM

@WadCheber double-ninja'd

Ixrec

everyone said it at the same time so it must be true

Wad Cheber

@TanMath They weren't there when the twins were born.

TanMath

@WadCheber but then how do they know about luke?

Ixrec

I don't think they do know about Luke at the beginning of the OT

Wad Cheber

@TanMath They didn't until sometime after ep. IV

TanMath

11:57 PM

@Ixrec they don't?

rand al'thor

@WadCheber This reminds me of that recent SS question...

TanMath

@WadCheber you mean sometime in ep. IV

Ixrec

nope

TanMath

@randal'thor sssssssss

Ixrec

they reason the Empire was on Tatooine in Ep IV was because of R2-D2's message, not because of Luke

TanMath

11:57 PM

SS -> sssss

Wad Cheber

@TanMath Vader assumed his kid (he didn't know there were two babies) had died with Padmé.

Alex A.

@TanMath Do not

Doorknob

Do not want

TanMath

it was a joke!

Anonymous

@TanMath Jokes are funny

rand al'thor

11:58 PM

@TanMath Well, his real name is SS-3.1415926535897932384626433, but we call him SS.

TanMath

@Mego except sometimes you do not get them

Alex A.

Not a good choice of joke after what Doorknob said earlier.

Ixrec

I don't think they have any idea Luke exists until Vader goes "I sense something... a presence I haven't felt since..." and runs off

TanMath

@AlexA. i am daring

Wad Cheber

@TanMath Possibly. Luke introduced himself to Leia as "Luke Skywalker" aboard the Death Star, so if his words were recorded and Vader heard the recording, he would have known.

Anonymous

11:58 PM

@TanMath If you're the only one who thinks it's funny, it's not funny

Wad Cheber

@Ixrec He was talking about Obi Wan.

Calvin's Hobbies

@Ixrec I thought that was about Obi Wan

Ixrec

ah, you're right

rand al'thor

@Mego I think it's funny too!

Doorknob