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9:00 PM
@Dennis My tab setup on my "main" Chromium window is [Miaou, SO chat, MSE chat, SE chat, SO questions, meta questions, PPCG questions, Puzzling questions] in that order. I'm tired of the order getting messed up and having to manually stick everything back where it's supposed to go.
(If I hide titles, I can't see new messages, questions, etc. of course.)
 
@Doorknob冰 Yes you can.
 
but how?
 
Chrome animates SE tabs even if they are pinned when new posts are made.
 
9:02 PM
@mınxomaτ Only once
I want to see the (1) thingy
 
(1)
4
 
@Doorknob冰 Hey now. I mean, I like you and all, but ...
 
@Doorknob冰 :O I forgot about Miaou
 
Anonymous
@AlexA. I think everyone did
 
9:03 PM
Miaou?
 
Anonymous
It's way too easy to be obnoxious on Miaou
 
 
What is a miaou
 
Anonymous
It's like this chat, but with more spammy, screen-filling fireworks animations that anyone can set off
 
9:04 PM
Fireworks was removed :P
 
How do I get therez?
v
 
@Doorknob冰 Really?? Was it because we complained to the guy the last time I was in there?
 
Anonymous
You must go down a path of regretting your life decisions, starting with Dennys.
 
@AlexA. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
@Mego *Dennis
 
9:06 PM
Dennjs
 
Anonymous
So I beat Pyth in the Roulette challenge \o/
 
Anonymous
By one byte currently, but it still counts :D
 
^ I still do use Miaou quite frequently in a private room for conversations with friends. As you can clearly see :P
 
Anonymous
Make that 3 bytes
 
9:09 PM
@flawr DennJS
 
@flawR
 
My name doesn't have any languages except R. :(
 
Guys I need your help. What would be the approximate eBay value of a book titled "Microsoft Visual J++ 6.0 Programmer's Guide"?
 
Anonymous
9:11 PM
@PhiNotPi -$200
 
What in the world is J++?
 
Anonymous
0
A: Russian Roulette, Revisited

MegoSeriously, 27 25 bytes "*BANG!*"6J"*click*"nW,X. No online link because there is no way to do a prompt with piped input. Explanation: "*BANG!*"6J"*click*"nW,X. "*BANG!*" push "*BANG!*" 6J push a random integer in [0,6) (n) "*click*"n p...

 
Anonymous
happy dance
 
I have no idea what J++ is.
 
@Dennis Well R is basically flawR
 
9:12 PM
$0.00. It was discontinued.
 
Anonymous
@PhiNotPi It's the two worst things in the world combined. Microsoft and Java.
 
Anonymous
Visual J++ (pronounced "Jay Plus Plus") is Microsoft's discontinued implementation of Java. Syntax, keywords, and grammatical conventions were the same as Java's. Microsoft discontinued support of J++ in January 2004, replacing it to a certain extent with J# and C#. == J++ compared to Sun's Java implementation == While J++ conformed to the Java language specification, Microsoft did not implement certain features of the official Sun Java implementation in its Visual J++ product line. Remote Method Invocation (Java RMI) and Java Native Interface (JNI) are such examples. In addition, J++ implemented...
 
... but what is J++?
ಠ_ಠ
 
^
^^
^^^^
^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
Anonymous
Well, 2 of the 3 worst things. I don't see any Perl.
 
9:12 PM
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I win
 
Anonymous
@Hurricane996 Please don't spam
 
Exponential carrot
 
@El'endiaStarman But it has A*
 
@Mego Good god
 
@Mego That is most definitely not spam
 
9:14 PM
@Cy
@Cyoce It's exponential not whatever is more that you feel like
 
What's exponentia
(l)
 
1
8
16
64
128
 
Anonymous
@Doorknob冰 2^n carrots in a row is most definitely spam (or rapidly approaching it)
 
That's exponential
2
 
@Mego No. Spam == unsolicited advertisement.
 
9:15 PM
4
32
256
 
Anonymous
Electronic spamming is the use of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited messages (spam), especially advertising, as well as sending messages repeatedly on the same site. While the most widely recognized form of spam is email spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam, online classified ads spam, mobile phone messaging spam, Internet forum spam, junk fax transmissions, social spam, television advertising and file sharing spam. It is named after Spam, a luncheon meat, by way...
 
Anonymous
drops mic
 
var i = 0;
while(true){
    document.getElementById("input").innerText = "^".repeat(Math.pow(2,i));
    document.getElementById("sayit-button").onclick();
    i++
}
 
Anonymous
9:17 PM
 
put that in console
 
Anonymous
@Doorknob冰 Silence, heretic
 
@Mego ... are you seriously linking me to Urban Dictionary for actual definitions >_<
 
Anonymous
9:18 PM
@Doorknob冰 No I'm just going down the results page from googling "spamming"
 
@cycoe is not function
 
Anonymous
All of them agree with me
 
I found these gems lying around:
 
1 min ago, by Doorknob 冰
 
Anonymous
@Doorknob冰 Cease your blasphemy
 
Anonymous
9:20 PM
I see one source that says you're right, and many that say you're wrong.
 
Anonymous
@PhiNotPi Sweet firewood stack
3
 
@PhiNotPi flags as offensive
 
@Mego Interestingly, books are on average denser than most woods.
2
 
9:26 PM
The text weighs them down.~
 
wtf..the Mac save dialog does not allow me to enter a directory!
 
@El'endiaStarman Does that surprise anyone? If you’d just asked me, I’d have pictured myself lifting a book and then lifting some block of wood of the same size, and I would have guessed the book is heavier.
 
@feersum Yes it does. It's a bit hidden though.
 
@feersum If there's a down arrow somewhere, click it
 
Anonymous
@AlexA. clicks the one next to your posts
 
9:29 PM
@Timwi I think that if you ask people which is easier to burn, a book or a log, they will probably erroneously say the book. A sheet of paper burns just fine. A tome of sheets of paper? Not as much.
 
Does that correlate with density?
 
Anonymous
Aww :( I just got Odinson, but it won't fit on my penguin
 
This is annoying enough that I'm going to save the file by pasting the text into the terminal and using cat.
 
@Timwi Coal is even denser.
 
@El'endiaStarman And osmium is the densest of all, so?
 
9:34 PM
@feersum Is there not a down arrow in the save dialog box? There should be. If you don't see one, screen shot and I'll try to help.
 
Yes but it's still extremely stupid and cumbersome when I use that.
 
mumbles something about sane operating systems
 
@Doorknob冰 ಠ_ಠ
@feersum Is it? Down arrow, select directory, click save... Same as any OS ever.
 
I can't even go to / or ~ or anything without this stupid propeller-shift-g key chord.
 
cd /, cd
 
9:36 PM
I'm not joking about cat. I did that and it was literally much easier.
 
Finder doesn't let you get to / easily but you can get to ~ with Cmd+Shift+H.
Or if your home folder is favorited in Finder, you can just click that
 
OK I need to get a real text editor
This one made fancy quotes in my source file
What's a text editor for Mac with no learning curve?
 
Don't use TextEdit for code
@feersum So not a vim or Emacs or similar?
 
> no learning curve
 
@AlexA. ...unless you modify the heck out of the configuration settings first. (CC @feersum)
 
9:48 PM
@feersum There's Atom (nice), TextWrangler (which is easy but personally I don't like), and uh... other things
 
I've dealt with macs before
I really didn't like it
 
I think feersum is basically looking for Notepad for Macs.
 
Why not textmate.
 
Ah yeah, that's the other I was thinking of
 
Pretty much the mother of (real)GUI code editors.
Configurable to death.
Or VSCode which runs on every OS, looks nicer and accepts textmate config files.
 
9:53 PM
 
Apparently in TextEdit you can just go to Preferences > Format and change the default to plain text, which shouldn't change your quotes.
Nevermind, it does
:|
 
WTF
when I try to make a double quote in Atom, it inserts two double quotes
 
Disable smart quotes and hide the ruler and disable spell check and...
 
and when I press backspace it deletes both of them!!!
 
9:56 PM
That's an option
Notepad++ does that for me on Windows
 
@feersum That's automatching -.-
Most editors made for coding have this.
 
The inserting two is common, but not being unable to delete just one of them...
 
Anonymous
@AlexA. Same, it's super annoying in Seriously but super handy in Python (unless I'm trying to triple-quote)
 
@feersum I just checked the TextEdit preferences and it's actually really, really simple (at least on Yosemite) to make the default just plain. Click plain text, unclick smart quotes and smart dashes.
 
> smart
hah
 
9:58 PM
Their wording, not mine.
I don't recommend using TextEdit for much of anything unless you just want a Notepad equivalent.
 
Notepad is best pad.
 
I kind of hate Notepad++
But I like it more than anything else available for Windows
 
Why?
 
I can never seem to get it set up how I want it.
 
10:00 PM
@AlexA. Why? That was one of the few things I really missed when I switched to Linux.
 
But that's not really NPPs fault is it?
 
Unconfigurability, I suppose
 
The other one was Everything, btw. Best tool evar!
 
Well, that's not true.
@Dennis Ohhhhh yes.
 
We have a winner. TextMate is the editor that lets me type double quotes just when I want them!
 
10:01 PM
i mean, it's no emacs as far as configurability
but i think it's still pretty configurable
 
@Dennis It replaced my explorer completely.
 
finals tomorrow
 
@phase You're going to rock them.
@Doorknob冰 How pissed would you be, scale of 1-10, if I told this guy that his challenge would be better on Puzzling?
 
@phase \o/ me too
 
@AlexA. Golfing interpreters, I can do. French, I can't do.
 
10:04 PM
No more exams this year for me \o/
 
Anonymous
@AlexA. Beat you to it
 
@mınxomaτ Or ever though, right? Aren't you like 90 years old? :P
 
@feersum To disable AnnoyQuotes in Atom, open Settings, Packages, and search for bracket-matcher. Apparently, quotes are brackets...
 
I'm in law school. My age is a mystery.
 
Too late Atom already lost.
 
10:05 PM
@mınxomaτ 21
 
@phase Not really close. But closer than 90.
 
@feersum Oh well. It's actually quite nice once you reconfigure the insane defaults.
 
@mınxomaτ 22? 23? 24? 25? 26? 27? 28? 29? 30? 31? 32? 33? 34? 35? 36? 37? 38? 39?
 
I don't like things that requires a load of configuration
 
@mınxomaτ Oh nice! My friend is trying to get into law school. How close are you to being done?
 
10:06 PM
@AlexA. Well, 1.5 years to go. Mostly case work, no exams.
 
Then it's a never-ending battle of trying to reconfigure it on new computers, being unable to remember the option and having to look it up over and over
 
@mınxomaτ Nice :)
 
Anonymous
Yesss 9 hats, tied with Martin for 3rd place on PPCG
 
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jasilvaThe problem A man wants to eat an orange. In his village only there is a garden of oranges. This garden is guarded by three guards in 3 different doors. The man went to ask for an orange with the first guard and the guard says Allow you pass when you give me half your oranges and half ora...

 
Anonymous
@NewMainPosts slowbot is slow
 
10:07 PM
@NewMainPosts You're too slow!!
 
Anonymous
@El'endiaStarman So are you :P
 
I could migrate it to Puzzling, @Doorknob冰 permitting.
 
that snipe was so hard it hurt me
 
@Mego I win though, because I unlocked a hat for everyone.
(well, not single-handedly, of course, but...)
 
Martin single hand hat.
us
Forever
 
10:08 PM
what
 
> single hand hat
 
Anonymous
@MartinBüttner What hat? The one I already had?
 
Lewd
 
@phase :O French pour moi aussi
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ French for my something, 8/8
 
10:09 PM
@Mego probably, but not on PPCG ;)
 
Anonymous
@MartinBüttner Oh different discussion, I thought you meant the closing of that Q
 
@AlexA. 6
 
mostly because I can't comprehend half of what he's saying
 
@AlexA. :D
 
Anonymous
10:11 PM
You also win because you have the hat trick hat, which I am unlikely to get :P
 
that was the one (I think) which unlocked Everybody! Gets! A Hat! ;)
 
@Doorknob冰 With some corrections to the English it might make sense.
 
@MartinBüttner Hmm... which of us earned it first, then?
I got my repcapping vote today 7 hours ago
 
hm, not sure then
I thought I checked when I got it
but I got it together with two other hats, one of which was hat trick
 
10:13 PM
oh, maybe I unlocked it with Do You Even Lift? or do you have that too?
 
It appears I've ninja'd you to it :P
Nope, I don't have that one (one answer away though)
 
I got those three at the same time
 
So it must have been that one, then
 
hat trick isn't actually for rep capping btw
 
it's... not?
 
10:14 PM
like Mortarboard, Epic and Legendary, it's for 200 rep, ignoring negative rep changes.
 
I was going to report it on meta, but of course someone figured it out 5 hours earlier ^^
 
Regex is the easiest way to locate pedantry
 
@Doorknob冰 !
 
10:24 PM
@quartata What?
 
How on earth did you rep cap three times...
I wasn't even aware you had posted any answers this week.
 
Magic >:D
 
Oh questions
Hm
 
Moderators get special reputation abilities where we can rep cap on demand.
 
10:25 PM
Thus far I've chosen not to.
 
Some answers too
 
@Doorknob冰 It appears that a good quarter of those are upvotes from questions and answers that are two years old
fair
 
Haha, yeah, it's really fun watching residual rep just slowly come in (especially on SO)
 
Also if Mortarboard doesn't count negative rep, can't you just accept/unaccept an answer over and over again?
 
10:27 PM
I must have gained at least 5k on Stack Overflow purely from trickling rep from old posts
 
@quartata I don't know, but don't.
 
@Doorknob冰 I read that as "tickling rep." :|
 
@AlexA. Stop upvoting me; that tickles!
 
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
 
10:30 PM
Actually, don't. If I get one more upvote on tacos I'll get a hat. :P
(which I still have been unable to golf down...)
I have no idea how that ES6 answer is so short
 
@Doorknob冰 ME NEITHER
@Doorknob冰 You know what isn't short? This.
 
@AlexA. better than Rust
(probably)
 
Are there any linear algebra libraries for Rust?
 
Crates? Probably.
 
I figured Julia would be good for this challenge but, oddly enough, I couldn't think of a good way to do the column deletion to get the minors.
Thus I opted for R since you can just do -index
Rust's syntax bugs me a bit.
 
10:42 PM
Why?
 
I don't like how typed literals are specified and I don't like how difficult it is to read from STDIN.
 
Typed literals? You mean like 123u8?
And it's not difficult to read from STDIN!
let mut s = String::new(); io::stdin().read_line(&mut s);
 
@Doorknob冰 How do you do it then? I remember I asked you once and it was like 80 bytes.
 
Well, you do have to use std::io
 
@Doorknob冰 Oh
@Doorknob冰 Yes
 
10:46 PM
@AlexA. What's wrong with that syntax?
Everything is i32 by default (integers, anyway).
 
I don't like it
 
Why not?
Note that you can also do let foo: u8 = 123; without using that syntax
 
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
because of type inference
 
Variable declaration is let x : type = value; right?
 
10:47 PM
Yes, although nobody puts a space before the colon
 
@AlexA. I was going to try that in J, until I read The cofactor matrix must be formatted in the exact same way the input matrices are given.
No, thank you.
 
@Dennis haha
 
what is nethack?
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ A terminal-based video game
It's really confusing
 
10:49 PM
What do you call the shape made by stacking a bunch of circles on top of each other with incremental offsets?
 
And it looks like your monitor had a stroke
 
Like a cylinder but in 2d
 
@Doorknob冰 Image example?
 
uhhh one second
 
@Doorknob冰 I feel like this is a sham XD
 
10:49 PM
@Doorknob冰 You mean infinitely many circles, right?
 
@SuperJedi224 Sure (although obviously not when it's actually drawn out)
... oh, wait, thanks @AlexA. By making me drawing it out, you made me realize that it's literally just a line with rounded ends :P
 
Hahaha
 
Are there any programs/markup languages that diff bin files?
 

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