The Nineteenth Byte

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

19:03

What would the summation of a string be?

feersum

It should prefix a capital sigma to the string.

Timwi

A character salad?

Alex A.

Announcement: Per our overlords, "Brainfuck" is not allowed in question titles. The system now checks for it and will not let you post unless you censor or otherwise change the title. "Brainfuck" is still acceptable within the post body, just not in the title.

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Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. pin this?

:3

Timwi

Fuck censorship! :-)

2

Alex A.

19:05

@Timwi Agreed, but we have to play by SE's rules. ;)

Optimizer

BrainF**k censorship

Alex A.

Jun 3 at 19:18, by Doorknob

B****fuck

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Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Booyah, your suggestion worked!

Alex A.

Yes, good suggestion. Thanks ;)

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. My pleasure :D

orlp

19:08

I propose B****fuck indeed

feersum

I prefer B***nfuck

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I suggest BrianCuff

orlp

@feersum but then we don't have ambiguity with ooty anymore

overactor

Brainshag?

Timwi

What are the odds that I should walk by a car with this license plate as we discuss brainfuck? m.imgur.com/gczNbgC

overactor

19:11

Brainhump?

@Timwi wow

TimmyD

C'mon, this is PPCG! It should clearly be Bfck

Alex A.

@Timwi Surely slim.

orlp

B7k

2

Alex A.

@TimmyD BF is golfier

2

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Timwi Enlighten me? My school blocks imgur.

feersum

19:13

b3298k

Alex A.

1boxed 4 u

feersum

Still imgur

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. Image not found

Alex A.

@feersum Oh right.

TimmyD

It's a license plate -- B FK 3298

orlp

19:14

@TimmyD it's B:FK 3298

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Merci, @orlp @TimmyD @feersum

TimmyD

I couldn't tell if the : was artifacting or actually on the plate

orlp

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ for wat?

Alex A.

Du rien.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

The license plate @orlp

Alex A.

19:15

Even though you didn't thank me. >__>

(Not that I'm asking for it

orlp

@AlexA. who would thank a bird?

Alex A.

I just know the French)

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. IIRC it's de rien

Alex A.

Non, it's totes du.

TimmyD

Du

Du hast

Du hast mich

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

19:15

@orlp Thank birds for them eating the disgusting stuff ^_^

Alex A.

@TimmyD ಠ_ಠ

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

translate.google.com/#en/fr/your%20welcome

Timwi

@TimmyD, it's actually on the plate, but it's not a colon, it's two circular stickers. All cars in Germany have that

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Even thought G.translate is unreliable.

orlp

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ you're*

you're terrible

Alex A.

19:16

@Timwi Germany? I thought you were in the UK.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@orlp Meh. :P

TimmyD

@Timwi I must admit I am unfamiliar with the license plates of Europe :D

orlp

@TimmyD there's no such thing

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

amuricah

TimmyD

@orlp Sure, France has a plate, Germany has a plate, etc.

orlp

19:17

Every country has their own license plates.

Alex A.

I was sad that Washington went from [A-Z]{3}-\d{3} to [A-Z]{3}\d{4}.

orlp

@AlexA. Us dutch is worse

Timwi

@AlexA., I was

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. Me too

TimmyD

Every state in the US has their own plates, plus another twenty thousand variations

orlp

19:18

we went from this

Alex A.

@Timwi Did you move?

orlp

to this

Timwi

Yes

orlp

NOW IT'S ASYMMETRICAL!

RAAAAAAAAAAAA

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Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

(

Alex A.

19:19

@Timwi Oh nice. How come, if I may ask?

Enjoying Germany?

@orlp I understand this frustration well.

orlp

fun fact

who can guess what the small '1' means?

Timwi

Ask me when I'm back home, I'm on my phone right now, it's hard to type. Don't know about the rest of Germany, but Berlin is great :-)

Alex A.

@orlp Little one

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@orlp They divided zero, and the zero was purged.

(cc. Vigilant)

Alex A.

@Timwi Will do. Glad you're liking Berlin. :)

orlp

19:22

Nope, it means that the license plate was stolen (or lost, or w/e)

the one without the 1 is now invalid

and it goes to 2, 3, etc

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

huh

Optimizer

what if the number is wider than the - ?

like 9001

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Optimizer bwaaaht over 9000!?

TimmyD

@Optimizer The government provides you with a free-of-cost car alarm and lojack device

orlp

@Optimizer you probably get asked questions

why your number plate got stolen 10 times

Timwi

19:24

Then you have some explaining to do as to why your license plate gets stolen thousands of times

orlp, stop reading my mind

Alex A.

"orlp" is Dutch for "mind reader."

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. wat

Timwi

Well Timwi is German for "bye, off to play badminton now"

Dennis

Viel Spaß!

Alex A.

translate: Viel Spaß!

(from German) Have fun!

Dennis

19:26

Well done, Bingeling.

Alex A.

Hahaha

Is that a reference to the show Friends? That's what Janice calls Chandler.

Dennis

I know!

Alex A.

:D

J Atkin

I'm about ready to post this (meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/7669/42736). Does anyone see any problems (especially with the controller - many bugs may lie there).

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

19:47

Important mathematic functions.

Anonymous

My horrible arithmetic mistake was on HNQ for hours :(

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Mego HNQ?

Anonymous

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Hot Network Questions

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Mego oh

:P

Anonymous

I messed up the average value of dice rolls in my question

Anonymous

19:50

And I can't fix it now because it would invalidate answers :/

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Mego I was confused on that.

Anonymous

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ sowwy

Anonymous

Also my python code is being stupid

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Mego not a problem ^_^

My answer would've been invalid either way.

Anonymous

I have Python code that looks something like this:

Anonymous

19:54

import multiprocessing, subprocess

def mp_run(x):
  try:
    subprocess.check_output(['thing'],timeout=1)
  except subprocess.TimeoutExpired
    handle_thing

multiprocessing.Pool().map(mp_run, stuff)

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

What is this for?!

o_o

Anonymous

And a TimeoutExpired exception somehow propagated past the except, leading multiprocessing to throw it back up in the main ~~thread~~ process

Anonymous

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ sekrits

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Mego Ah, I see. I assume 'thing' is some nefarious work for the government.

Anonymous

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ as always

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

19:57

@Mego You sneaky devil you XD

Anonymous

Gah, disk i/o is a horrible bottleneck

quintopia

I got back from Christmas shopping and started golfing and totally forgot to be at work 2 hours early. I was supposed to open the place. Think anyone will notice?

Alex A.

What kind of place is it?

And were you going to be the only person there for a while in the beginning of the day?

TimmyD

@AlexA. Taco truck.

Alex A.

Legit.

quintopia

20:00

An after-school tutoring service. And yes.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@quintopia GG

Alex A.

@quintopia As long as you make it there before the kids get out of school then you're probably fine.

quintopia

:(

I did. I made it before any employee noticed. But if some parent tried to come in during those two hours, comes back, and mentions the fact, I'm toast.

Alex A.

:|

Well... Fingers crossed that no parents came.

quintopia

And by toast I mean.. I don't know what happens. I can probably grovel and stuff.

Anonymous

20:03

Parents are awful

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Mego o-o

Anonymous

As a kid, parents are awful. As an adult, parents are worse.

Alex A.

@Mego Mine are pretty great.

Anonymous

@AlexA. I meant other people's parents

Anonymous

Why would someone downvote this?

Anonymous

20:04

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A: The versatile integer printer

JavaC++C, 363/27 = 13.4.... Java prints 1, C++ prints 2, C prints 3. Not breaking any records here (because Java), but I really like the clever, abusive way of making a polyglot in these languages that I discovered. //\u000a/* #include<stdio.h> #ifdef __cplusplus #define o "2" #else #define o "...

Alex A.

Most of my friends' parents are nice. Most of them...

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Mego Obviously because they can't handle the Java

It was too much.

Alex A.

My best guess would be that they didn't consider C++ and C to be sufficiently different to count separately (though I would disagree with that reasoning).

But one can only speculate in the absence of comments...

Ending sentences with ellipses. Channeling my inner TanMath...

Anonymous

Probably

FlagAsSpam

Holy hell...

Anonymous

20:07

But whoever just upvoted it mortarboarded me :D

FlagAsSpam

100

A: The versatile integer printer

15 languages, 68 66 65 bytes / 15^3 = 0.019... Retina, Starry, Prelude, ETA, Axo, Labyrinth, Hexagony, Foo, Brian & Chuck, Gol><>, evil, Whitespace, Fission, ><> and GolfScript. After a massive rewrite, I managed to fit in four more languages. The code contains the few tabs for Whitespace. Sinc...

Anonymous

@FlagAsSpam 100 UPVOTES?!?

New Sandboxed Posts

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Priming a Pristine World Heavily inspired by this question. Let's define a pristine prime as a number which is itself prime, but will no longer be prime if you remove any contiguous substring of N base 10 digits, where 0 < N < digits in number. For example, 409 is a pristine prime because 409 ...

FlagAsSpam

@MartinBüttner You should add Vitsy and Minko, wouldn't take much.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Mego I KNOW

I WAS SO CONFUSED

@FlagAsSpam true that

Anonymous

20:08

100 up, 0 down

Alex A.

Not unheard of for Martin.

FlagAsSpam

101 now.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Mego you're welcome :D

Anonymous

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ What about my welcome?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I used my last vote of the day

Alex A.

20:08

s/your/you're/

Anonymous

@AlexA. ninjo'd

TimmyD

@Mego Dang, that's clever. +1

Anonymous

@TimmyD :D

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Mego s/o/a

Martin Büttner

@FlagAsSpam I don't know either, but are you sure the existing code wouldn't wreak all sorts of havoc in one or both of those?

Anonymous

20:10

I discovered that javac translates unicode literals while trying to do the thatha minichallenge in java

Martin Büttner

I think I looked at Minkolang around language 8 or 9 and decided it wasn't going to work out.

Anonymous

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Nope, it's correct as it is. Ninjo'd means ninja'd, but with a sweet banjo lick afterwards

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Mego s/z/q

Anonymous

And I discovered that C/C++ compilers don't expand unicode literals while attempting the same challenge

Anonymous

But I never thought to use them together

Anonymous

20:11

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ There isn't even a z in that message what are you on about

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Mego precisely.

Martin Büttner

@AlexA. this one feels better though ... it's a) not a pop-con and b) competitive. :)

Alex A.

:)

Martin Büttner

it also disproves @feersum's inverse square law :P

FlagAsSpam

:D

feersum

20:14

Hmm, the measuring equipment seems to be faulty. Better replace it.

Anonymous

@MartinBüttner Certainly you could fit Seriously in there

feersum

deletes point from dataset

Anonymous

@feersum Seems legit

Alex A.

If there's one thing I've learned by studying statistics, it's that you can misuse all sorts of methods to prove just about any point you want, so long as no one calls you out on it.

FlagAsSpam

Have you noticed that reputation numbers seem bolder today?

Martin Büttner

20:16

now that you mention it...

FlagAsSpam

It's way too bold.

Rainbolt

Going where no rep has ever gone before...

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Anonymous

@FlagAsSpam That's the way (uh-huh uh-huh) I like it

3

FlagAsSpam

Seriously though, you think they'd be more respectful of the reader. Such bold, knavish rep counts.

Anonymous

@FlagAsSpam ಠ_ಠ

FlagAsSpam

20:17

I'm not just imagining it, though, ya?

Rainbolt

.reputation-score {
    font-weight: bold;
    font-size: 12px;
    margin-right: 2px;
}

Nope, not imagining it

Anonymous

@MartinBüttner Would any of the languages in your polyglot be horribly messed up/offended by a 0x7f char?

FlagAsSpam

@Rainbolt To split infinitives that no man has split before...

@Mego Yes, ><>

Anonymous

@FlagAsSpam Fooey

Zach Gates

I don't quite understand your comment :P (Maybe I'm just not reading the question carefully enough) @FlagAsSpam

Martin Büttner

20:18

@Mego hm, good question

does it matter where I put it?

FlagAsSpam

@ZachGates You can just output the entire stack. If things push to it later, it's no problem, right?

Anonymous

@MartinBüttner Just after you print the Seriously output and before any other . or EOF

Zach Gates

@FlagAsSpam What does that have to do with: "The code must be a palindrome, meaning it reads from right to left the same as in left to right."?

Martin Büttner

@Mego how much of the existing code would mess up Seriously?

Zach Gates

@FlagAsSpam Also, the ! operator only outputs the TOS

Anonymous

20:20

@MartinBüttner Probably none, as long as you pushed what you needed on top of the stack, output, and quit

Rainbolt

@FlagAsSpam "It is exceedingly difficult to find any authority who condemns the split infinitive—Theodore Bernstein, H. W. Fowler, Ernest Gowers, Eric Partridge, Rudolph Flesch, Wilson Follett, Roy H. Copperud, and others too tedious to enumerate here all agree that there is no logical reason not to split an infinitive."—Bryson (1990), p. 144.

You have no authoritay

FlagAsSpam

@ZachGates I know, but you can remove the comment and the extra ! and the final string just gets put to the stack, but never output, and then the program terminates, right?

mınxomaτ

InfoSec.SE discussion are really heated. Seems like when it comes to infosec, everyone suddenly becomes an expert.

FlagAsSpam

"Greetings, Planet!"!"!tenalP ,sgniteerG" is what I mean, @ZachGates

Rainbolt

I know more about infosec than someone in the world

Zach Gates

20:23

@FlagAsSpam Yep, you're right. Thanks!

mınxomaτ

@Rainbolt That is probably true (literally).

FlagAsSpam

\o/

@Rainbolt Me too!

Anonymous

You could always make Seriously exit with an error due to recursion: kk`XQ r@R`R

FlagAsSpam

Also, @ZachGates, if Milky Way is just one file, why not shebang it and make it an executable?

lang-feature-request

mınxomaτ

This guy even tried to challenge "the bad guys" for a fight: security.stackexchange.com/posts/107328/revisions

Anonymous

20:25

@mınxomaτ 1v1 me m8

Zach Gates

@FlagAsSpam I would, but I have never done that before.. :)

SuperJedi224

Hello

Rainbolt

So many chat flags...

Alex A.

My favorite was "I like Ruby" being flagged as spam/offensive.

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feersum

You never know... it could be offensive in context!

Doorknob

20:32

Flags? I missed them.

Alex A.

In Mathematics, as usual.

Doorknob

not a surprise

Martin Büttner

there was one earlier on "what is 1+1"

Rainbolt

Maybe the ten previous posts were all "what is 1+1" "what is 1+1" "what is 1+1" "what is 1+1" "what is 1+1" etc.

Anything can be spam in context

Well, I can't actually post the same message twice in a row so there goes that theory

FlagAsSpam

@ZachGates #python?

@ZachGates Also, I believe you can shorten the palindrome further to "Greetings, Planet!"!tenalP ,sgniteerG" because exiting by error is permitted unless stated otherwise.

El'endia Starman

20:48

@mınxomaτ He must not have seen Iron Man 2. Or Iron Man 3.

mınxomaτ

@El'endiaStarman Or better yet: AoU

Zach Gates

@FlagAsSpam I could also use ¡ (termination with output)

FlagAsSpam

@ZachGates Uh. Unnecessary. Just using the one I put up is string capture + output + exit by error.

Optimizer

stop making fun of Marvel films -_-

FlagAsSpam

It tries to do inverse tangent on the TOS (which doesn't exist), which (should) throw an ArrayOutOfBounds or similar exception. @ZachGates

Optimizer

20:51

@AlexA. flags as spam

Zach Gates

@FlagAsSpam Yeah, you're right :P

FlagAsSpam

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Q: Increase reputation awarded for questions

It has come to my attention that the amount of reputation awarded for questions can be adjusted on a per-site basis. For example, Stack Apps awards +10 reputation for question upvotes. As you probably already know, we currently award +5 reputation, as do most Stack Exchange sites, including Stack...

^ This is important.

Alex A.

Hence the featured tag. :P

El'endia Starman

@Optimizer I, at least, wasn't. I like 'em! I was referring to how the Security.SE answerer included his name and website (which had his address) and basically said "Come at me bro" to criminals. Which is incredibly reminiscent of Tony Stark doing the same thing in...Iron Man 3, I think.

TimmyD

Holy cow, Calvin's rep is going to explode.

Alex A.

20:56

Don't forget rep caps.

FlagAsSpam

> Dost thou even hoist? 10 minutes ago, Tony Stark

Optimizer

@AlexA. even if its an adjustment in rep via a script?

Alex A.

@Optimizer Yep.

TimmyD

Calvin's rep is going to Math.Ceiling(explode)

Optimizer

so only 200?

FlagAsSpam

20:57

@TimmyD STACKOVERFLOOOOOOW!

Optimizer

his rep is going to increase by just 200 :(

FlagAsSpam

That's not okay. o-o The rep cap shouldn't affect this.

Doorknob

in The Twentieth Byte, 10 mins ago, by Doorknob

Calvin would gain 29775

Not taking into account the cap

Still trying to figure out how to do that via SEDE

@Optimizer no. The change is retroactive

Optimizer

so rep cap will still apply as per the day of the challenge?

FlagAsSpam

Oh ^ Well then.

Doorknob

20:58

@Optimizer Yeah

Optimizer

oh then maybe okay.

Anonymous

Hmm

Doorknob

Still, it could be >10000 change for some users

Optimizer

but then he might only gain around 2-3K

Anonymous

So people could possibly retroactively cap due to increased question rep?

Doorknob

20:58

Yes

Optimizer

@Doorknob i doubt

FlagAsSpam

/me regrets not making more challenges.

Optimizer

so we can come closer to being legendary?

Anonymous

Which means Calvin might get Legendary :P

Doorknob

We still don't even know whether we're making this change

Optimizer

20:59

for once you have said something worth not ignoring

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