The Nineteenth Byte

El'endia Starman

21:00

@Optimizer Doorknobs are always worth not ignoring. How would you get in and out of your house? :P

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Optimizer

@El'endiaStarman biometric based auto opening/closing.

plus, was not referring to doorknob

TimmyD

@El'endiaStarman Most big stores in the US don't use doorknobs, they just have a sensor that opens the doors.

El'endia Starman

@TimmyD You live in a big store?!

@Optimizer Wow, cool, you have that technology? :P

FlagAsSpam

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TimmyD

I'm just saying, similar technology could be employed.

FlagAsSpam

21:02

This is my poetry homework. Why? Because Poetry.

Dennis

@El'endiaStarman Elsewhere, you just use doorhandles.

Optimizer

lol @ latest spammed msg

TimmyD

Pair the sensor with a new-fangled Xbox One Kinect with facial/body recognition, tada.

Anonymous

I just have bead curtains in my house

Anonymous

The 70s say hi

Optimizer

21:02

Doorknobs are now only found on bathroom doors here!

TimmyD

I'm sure there's someone somewhere already working on it, because here in 'murrica, we're lazy

El'endia Starman

@Optimizer I'm not sure that helps your case... :P

Dennis

Hahaha.

El'endia Starman

@Dennis Doorhandles are also worth not ignoring. :P

Optimizer

doorhandle as in @door?

New Meta Posts

21:04

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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...

Dennis

@NewMetaPosts SBITW

Alex A.

Took you long enough.

FlagAsSpam

^ Only 23 minutes late!

Alex A.

23

FlagAsSpam

>.>

TimmyD

21:05

@Dennis SBITW?

Doorknob

@Dennis SBITE* :P

Anonymous

@TimmyD Soggiest boot in the west

Alex A.

s/west/east/

TimmyD

Ah

Doorknob

@AlexA. ninja'd

Alex A.

21:06

;____;

FlagAsSpam

@TimmyD Slowest bot in the west.

Doorknob

No it's soggiest boot

Alex A.

Soggiest bottom

(Reference to O Brother Where Art Thou in case no one noticed)

Optimizer

well, I put up an in favor answer. I can't think of a reason for against answer, so someone else do it.

El'endia Starman

36 rep away from 4000 and 10 rep away from rep-capping. >_<

TimmyD

21:10

I didn't really care for that movie, which is strange, because in general I like the Coen brothers movies (I'm obligated to do so, living in Minnesota - it's part of the tax code)

FlagAsSpam

@AlexA. I noticed.

Alex A.

\o@

El'endia Starman

^ person holding a shield and sword

Doorknob

It's the Jelly emoticon. Aka the cinnamon roll emoticon :P

FlagAsSpam

Prepare for the wave of up votes. :P I don't see why anyone would disagree (yet, there's bound to be someone). — FlagAsSpam 15 secs ago

Optimizer

21:12

well, i don't see them coming

FlagAsSpam

I said prepare.

Optimizer

it needs to be a Yes from Alex/Dennis/Martin/Geobits to get a wave of upvotes

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Alex A.

Martin is extremely persuasive on meta. Surely if he said yes or no everyone would agree. :D

Doorknob

@Optimizer Geobits has replaced me? D:

FlagAsSpam

^

TimmyD

21:14

@FlagAsSpam Waiting for Geobits to downvote ...

Optimizer

I've been into cases where I said Yes first with almost similar reason, but someone else's Yes with similar reason gets 10 times more upvotes

FlagAsSpam

@FlagAsSpam <

Optimizer

@Doorknob you are being ignored.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

v

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Predictive carrots have hurt me before ;-;

FlagAsSpam

Mine had a purpose.

Doorknob

21:15

@Optimizer ono (as Alex would say)

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Mine didn't! :D

Alex A.

@Doorknob Yoko OH NO!

El'endia Starman

I just Spritzed President Obama's address from last night in about three minutes. :D

Optimizer

squirted?

FlagAsSpam

Ew.

Alex A.

21:16

@El'endiaStarman I don't know what this means.

El'endia Starman

Spritz

Optimizer

@FlagAsSpam hey! its an in general term. you dirty mind!

FlagAsSpam

I'm also disgusted by the word "moist". Doesn't mean I have a dirty mind.

Just have friends who overuse them as such. :D

Alex A.

@El'endiaStarman WAT. So you read the entire address in 3 minutes. And it wasn't his street address. How.

TimmyD

Wow, that's a pretty neat site.

Optimizer

21:17

@AlexA. i don't know what that means

El'endia Starman

@AlexA. Basically. I got a transcript by email and used a Chrome extension that is basically the same.

Alex A.

@El'endiaStarman How did you get the transcript by email? Want.

feersum

Well, political speeches have very low information density

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Optimizer

500 is still pretty readable

imma try 1000

oh, no 1000

El'endia Starman

@AlexA. ...I don't remember, actually. I think it's connected to when I signed up on petitions.whitehouse.com.

Optimizer

21:19

600

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

20000

El'endia Starman

@feersum I've Spritzed IFLS and phys.org articles too.

Alex A.

@Optimizer El'endia read President Obama's entire speech in 3 minutes. I was amazed because that's quite fast. I joked that it wasn't his postal address, i.e. mailing address.

TimmyD

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Any suggestions for helpful math functions?

feersum

21:20

I'm not familiar with either of those.

Optimizer

so, I am actually liking 700 speed

I knew this concept, didn't exactly know the term

El'endia Starman

Mine's set to 850 wpm at the moment.

Alex A.

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ +

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. ಠ_ಠ

Optimizer

@El'endiaStarman how much do you retain in mind after say 1 minute of reading?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

21:21

Any suggestions for useful complex math functions?

Alex A.

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Hey, it's helpful. :P

El'endia Starman

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ log(log(e^(x-1)-1)+1)

Optimizer

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ !

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Optimizer thank you

@El'endiaStarman log base...?

Optimizer

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ so that you can do ITS OVER 9000!!!!

FlagAsSpam

21:21

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Nth fibonacci.

Alex A.

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ + with complex arguments

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I'm a math guy, so log defaults to 10

El'endia Starman

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Sure, let's go with that. :P

Alex A.

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I would think that for math people, log would default to base e.

FlagAsSpam

^

Alex A.

21:22

At least it does for me.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. Number theory.

ln is base e for me

TimmyD

@AlexA. I've seen that as ln

ninja'd

FlagAsSpam

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ n^i

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@FlagAsSpam Thank you.

Optimizer

whats with the single contrasting alphabet in each word?

Alex A.

21:22

Well yeah, it's ln also. But in a lot of fields, base e is implied in log (such as statistics).

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@FlagAsSpam And thanks

El'endia Starman

@AlexA. Perhaps a search for "White House mailing list" might prove fruitful...

FlagAsSpam

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ The integrals (definite, 0 to var, infinite, incomplete)

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Derivatives, too. ;)

TimmyD

@AlexA. Statistics. That ain't "math" :p

Alex A.

@El'endiaStarman I'm far too lazy to actually open a browser tab and perform a Google search.

@TimmyD ಠ_ಠ

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

21:24

@FlagAsSpam o_o for code golf? XD

Anonymous

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ docs.python.org/3/library/math.html

TimmyD

@AlexA. ಠ_ಠ

Optimizer

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1 min ago, by Optimizer

whats with the single contrasting alphabet in each word?

FlagAsSpam

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Gamma definition.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@FlagAsSpam Nice :D

FlagAsSpam

21:25

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Trig reductions (limitedly, nothing too fancy)

El'endia Starman

Readline, the Spritz-style Chrome extension.

FlagAsSpam

@Optimizer See my username. c:

Optimizer

notice me senpais

@FlagAsSpam F Lag Ass Pam?

FlagAsSpam

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ The Catalan series has popped up every once in a while.

El'endia Starman

@AlexA. This is probably it.

FlagAsSpam

21:26

@Optimizer Plasma F**s

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@FlagAsSpam :D

FlagAsSpam

OEIS lookup? :P

(not quite as serious, that one)

Optimizer

a series containing Nth number from Nth OEIS number?

FlagAsSpam

^

El'endia Starman

More info on the White House's email list.

Optimizer

21:28

@El'endiaStarman See @FlagAsSpam's username

FlagAsSpam

Or, provided with one argument, the series until cancelled by interrupt.

El'endia Starman

@Optimizer It's for Alex. Not spam. :P

Alex A.

@El'endiaStarman Thank you senpai

El'endia Starman

Well, and for anyone else who's interested.

Optimizer

who said its spam?

I just wanted you to looks at his username

that's it

El'endia Starman

21:28

I see it all the time.

So often, in fact...

That one could consider it...

Optimizer

me too

El'endia Starman

Spam........

Optimizer

PJ

El'endia Starman

/me flags FlagAsSpam as spam

FlagAsSpam

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Optimizer

21:30

@El'endiaStarman since u brought up the topic, answer my question you mod

PhiNotPi

I would even support changing the rep for question upvotes to +100.

Alex A.

@PhiNotPi You'd rep cap after 2 upvotes.

El'endia Starman

@PhiNotPi Do you WANT to make Calvin our overlord?

^^ that too

FlagAsSpam

fastest-close-in-the-east

PhiNotPi

Then we can raise the answers to +100 also

TimmyD

21:33

@PhiNotPi ಠ_ಠ

Optimizer

fastest-cap-in-the-west

Zach Gates

^

FlagAsSpam

Calvin is going to log in and suddenly find himself with 21k more rep.

@Calvin'sHobbies Make sure you screenshot this for us. ;)

Optimizer

+21523

more like +2..

(due to width limitations)

El'endia Starman

@Optimizer I retain pretty well the broad structure and points. Details, maybe not so much, but that's generally true of reading normally anyway.

Optimizer

21:36

the second question

El'endia Starman

@Optimizer No comment.

Optimizer

so u also dont know why

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11 secs ago, by Optimizer

1 min ago, by Optimizer

whats with the single contrasting alphabet in each word?

TimmyD

It's probably their proprietary mechanism that allows the eyes to focus correctly

Optimizer

-.- stupid chat bug

El'endia Starman

The Japanese sent a spacecraft to Venus, failed to put it in orbit, and succeeded five years later.

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New Main Posts

21:38

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Q: What are some approaches to this implementation problem?

I'm preparing for the British Informatics Olympiad by solving as many programming problems as I can, and I've stumbled upon one that seems currently above me. Go to Question 2 I'm struggling to find a way to put this into code. My first thoughts was to simply use brute force- i.e.. highlighting ...

programming-puzzle

SuperJedi224

bye guys

El'endia Starman

@Optimizer Huh, I didn't get that question the first time, and the repeated self-quoting made me not take it so seriously. :P

Optimizer

@El'endiaStarman its name is Akatsuki! behold the Infinite Tsukuyomi

El'endia Starman

@TimmyD is right. It's where you focus on the word in normal reading, and when you're focusing there, you comprehend the entire word at once.

TimmyD

Lkie if you siplmy sawp lertets yuo can stlii unerdsantd

(that was really hard to type, btw)

Optimizer

21:40

likeifyoudontactuallyneedspacesbutusethemcozyoulovethem

TimmyD

#hashtag

FlagAsSpam

ಠ_ಠ

@TimmyD That's a pound sign.

Not british pound £, but #.

El'endia Starman

@TimmyD I remember reading something about that, and if I recall correctly, you can't scramble the letters totally randomly, but you must have at least the first and last letters in the right place.

TimmyD

Nope, it is quite obviously a hastag symbol and was invented by Twitter.

El'endia Starman

@FlagAsSpam # that #

FlagAsSpam

21:41

ಠ_ಠ

TimmyD

@El'endiaStarman Yeah, something along those lines.

El'endia Starman

... o.O

That's a !.

TimmyD

Shebang

El'endia Starman

:25986094 Hahahaha, took you long enough. :P

FlagAsSpam

Shebang has to be my favorite programming term.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

21:42

@El'endiaStarman Forgive me. Emotional stress. Not good for grammarz.

TimmyD

@FlagAsSpam Coders have dirty minds.

> unzip, strip, touch, finger, grep, mount, fsck, more, yes, fsck, fsck, fsck, umount, sleep

El'endia Starman

@TimmyD s/Coders/All people/

TimmyD

@El'endiaStarman Fair point.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@TimmyD Or s/Coders|All people/you/gi

Alex A.

^

FlagAsSpam

21:46

My favorite fortune aphorism is: B4 I4Q, RU/18 QT 3.14

Doorknob

nodjs

Alex A.

@Doorknob nods Yes, this is indeed JavaScript.

TimmyD

It's like "Sup, JS?"

Doorknob

hahaha

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

nuuu my votes are gone

Alex A.

21:48

?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I kannot haz stars

Doorknob

kanno*

FlagAsSpam

No one got the B4 I4Q... joke?

Alex A.

...Ha.

TimmyD

@FlagAsSpam We got it, we just didn't think it was funny. :p

FlagAsSpam

21:50

sigh

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Desperation:

El'endia Starman

> Image not found

FlagAsSpam

SCIENCE WARS - Acapella Parody

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Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@El'endiaStarman Why?

El'endia Starman

[shrug] I just get an XML file when I click on it.

Alex A.

21:52

^

El'endia Starman

Aaand uploading it through SE worked.

Doorknob

You should use a sane image hosting service like imgur

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Huh.

I use printscr

Alex A.

Don't

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

ok

Doorknob

21:53

^^

El'endia Starman

Or, better, use the "upload" button to the right of the message box.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

O_O

I had no idea that was there

El'endia Starman

Okay, can someone confirm this works?

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A: Pythagoras' Other Leg

C, 96 bytes Alternately increment y (the other leg) and z (the hypotenuse) until their difference drops to 1. Output every exact match (c==0) you encounter on the way. int x,y,z;main(int c,char**a){for(x=z=atoi(a[1]);++y<z;c=x*x+y*y-z*z,c?z+=c>0:printf("%d ",y));} Call the compiled program wi...

TimmyD

Adiós for now.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@TimmyD Peace!!

El'endia Starman

21:55

Seeya!

Aww c'mon...I can't use Coderpad anymore!

Alex A.

Been 7 days?

El'endia Starman

Probably.

Alex A.

In the movie The Ring, when they say you'll die in 7 days, they actually mean your free trial of CoderPad will die in 7 days.

El'endia Starman

In ordering #5, self-driving cars will happily drive you around, but if you tell them to drive to a car dealership, they just lock the doors and politely ask how long humans take to starve to death.

That alt text. o___o

Alex A.

3 hours ago, by orlp

and it locked the doors and asked me how long it takes for a human to starve to death?

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