The Nineteenth Byte

Martin Büttner

12:00 AM

@TanMath oh right, the onebox was easy to overlook

TanMath

@MartinBüttner for rookie? Like really?

Like for realz.

Dam Son.

^

I just joined Anime SE's chat

big mistake

Alex A.

12:01 AM

They have a bot that autoposts softcore porn.

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Sp3000

@quartata truth machine counts? Hmm

Alex A.

The posts get flagged often.

quartata

@AlexA. I didn't even know that was allowed on SE period

I just scrolled up oh god

the ecchi

help help

PhiNotPi

Wow I feel like I don't understand half the words they use in that room.

Sp3000

Even better with the chat script which shows starred images as images.

quartata

12:03 AM

flagging as offensive and running away

RikerW

@quartata

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A: Best of PPCG 2015 — Now Accepting Nominations!

Rookie of the Year (challenge) Best challenge by a user who had not posted a challenge before 2015. Nominations: I'm not the language you're looking for! by MuddyFish Nominated by GamrCorps This is one of the coolest chalenges that I've seen on the site. It encouraged users to think o...

I added your challenge.

Alex A.

@quartata It isn't, but that room is their deal. I tend to stay out of the business of other sites' chat rooms.

quartata

I better not flag it as offensive and attract the attention of everyone on site

The temptation is strong though

I wish chat moderation didn't suck

Alex A.

Might as well. People do it all the time anyway. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

TanMath

@MartinBüttner so?

Martin Büttner

12:04 AM

@RikerW > Heading

Alex A.

@quartata What is this word

Martin Büttner

@TanMath what Alex said. nominate it and the votes will show.

RikerW

@MartinBüttner WTF? Fixed now. :P

quartata

@AlexA. bad things

very bad things

Alex A.

Um, okay.

quartata

12:05 AM

anyways... let's try.... Physics SE's chat.

I'm on a mission to explore the corners of SE chat

TanMath

@quartata what are you going to do with my friends??!!

quartata

?

Alex A.

What?

Oh sweet, World Big Dosa is eligible for rookie of the year. :P </sarcasm>

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quartata

@AlexA. haha

RikerW

@quartata I'm coming too. :P

quartata

12:06 AM

Wait, shouldn't Rookie be "new user challenges?"

RikerW

It is.

TanMath

@PhiNotPi you really go scared, huh?

quartata

Alex has been here for over a year though

Martin Büttner

it's for "hasn't posted challenges before 2015"

trichoplax

@quartata People who posted their first challenge in 2015 - regardless of how long they've been posting answers/lurking

Alex A.

12:07 AM

^

quartata

Oh right

Well h-bar seems pretty normal

trichoplax

@AlexA. "lurking" wasn't aimed at you :P

Alex A.

Haha I know

quartata

except for this:

TanMath

so how is my challenge? what do you think? what would you vote?

quartata

12:08 AM

in The h Bar, 1 min ago, by TanMath

I will protect my friends at h Bar

ok

TanMath

@quartata hahaha!

RikerW

Can I nominate @AlexA.'s `One True R Program` for the title of Über-troll?

quartata

what are you scared of?

we come in peace

TanMath

@quartata you sure?

quartata

well, war and peace

but yes

TanMath

12:08 AM

You will make h Bar a room of off-topicness...

RikerW

@TanMath it wasn't @PhiNotPi it was @quartata.

Martin Büttner

@TanMath I think it's a nice challenge but there are challenges more deserving of the prize

TanMath

@RikerW no, he came in too!

RikerW

Oh, okay.

TanMath

@MartinBüttner ok... anybody else?

SuperJedi224

12:10 AM

Hello again

quartata

Honestly I don't consider Truth Machine to be a good challenge at all

Pick something cool like Graph Florets of a Flower or Confidant Numbers. Now those I actually put effort into.

trichoplax

@TanMath Unless you nominate you'll never find out. So just ask yourself, do you want to find out how it compares with other nominated posts?

quartata

Well, barely.

TanMath

@trichoplax ok...

Calvin's Hobbies

@TanMath Turtle is right, just nominate it

TanMath

12:11 AM

fine...

I don't want to look weird and slef-nominate it but...

quartata

fak who tipped off the anime se police

RikerW

@quartata It was really cool.

@quartata rofl

quartata

i'm so sorry

Quill

@quartata It was... ME!

Sp3000

There's technically a self-nomination already because xnor was the one that spurred on the team effort while keeping their own short solution hidden :P

quartata

12:13 AM

@Quill dammit

Why?

Quill

none of this talking shit about other chat rooms

Culture is culture is culture is culture is culture

RikerW

^

Quill

you don't go to the SO rooms using expletives like I drink coffee and flag spree

so please refrain from making hurtful comments about topics you aren't completely familiar with

</rant>

PhiNotPi

I plan on posting two more challenges tonight. I think I'll have a goal of 2 challenges a day, that I'll try to keep up for a couple days.

RikerW

@quartata it wasn't ecchi. It was just anime

quartata

12:15 AM

1. I didn't flag it (joke) 2. ok sorry

Quill

don't flag the message guys

Sp3000

Culture is culture. Is culture is? Culture is culture. <-- I have no idea how to parse that sentence

quartata

@Sp3000 Culture is culture, is culture? Is culture is culture.

Maybe.

RikerW

^^

Calvin's Hobbies

So confused, how do the best of ppcg nominations relate to anime..?

quartata

12:16 AM

Also 3. I didn't fully understand what the chat was at first hence my overly dramatic initial response. I was under the impression that it was Japanese Language SE not Anime SE

@Calvin'sHobbies they don't

RikerW

They don't

TanMath

@Calvin'sHobbies nothing

ninjaed

come on!

TRIPLE NINJA

12:17 AM

Culture is. Culture is. Culture is. Culture is culture.

^ valid?

quartata

Yeah, that works.

RikerW

But those are incomplete sentences...

Quill

in PHP it is

quartata

In English "Culture is" = "Culture exists."

Quill

$culture = $culture = $culture = $culture = $culture = "culture";

RikerW

12:18 AM

lol

Maltysen

@AlexA. should I nominate World big Dosa?

Quill

highly redundant but whatever

PhiNotPi

It's using "to be" as an intransitive verb.

Maltysen

I really want to

Alex A.

@Maltysen Hahaha only if you think it's worth of the nomination.

quartata

12:18 AM

@PhiNotPi ye

Calvin's Hobbies

> Word bug Dosa

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Alex A.

Personally I don't think so, but you're welcome to do as you please.

quartata

Phi cracked the riddle

TanMath

I am friends with @Quill everyone!

quartata

@Calvin'sHobbies mmm delicious bugs

Calvin's Hobbies

12:18 AM

oops

quartata

I like locusts best with my dosas

Chinatsu-creepy-chan

bye ~

Alex A.

It's what happens when you make dosas but don't clean your kitchen

quartata

@AlexA. I thought that's the recipe for rat dosas.

Alex A.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Quill

12:19 AM

@TanMath yup, I updated my BrainSQL table with your name and everything

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Calvin's Hobbies

I messed it up too, but I don't want it unstarred

PhiNotPi

Word bug dosa needs to happen.

^

\carrot

carrot.carrot

12:20 AM

\carrot.triple

TanMath

\carrot.infinity

quartata

Or maybe public health and sanitation closure dosas

@PhiNotPi Hmm....

Maybe something about parsing mixed fractions weird

Programming bug Dosa

Calvin's Hobbies

@Maltysen What do you call mold on a car seat?

Maltysen

no idea

RikerW

Butt-induced mold on a seat inside a motorized vehicle...

Alex A.

12:22 AM

I sense a terrible joke on the horizon

quartata

@Calvin'sHobbies I call mold on a car seat mold on a car seat generally

What can I say I'm an idiot

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RikerW

^ agreed.

Calvin's Hobbies

Car-rot of course (shush @AlexA.)

RikerW

rofl

Did you make that up?

quartata

@Calvin'sHobbies I actually saw that coming but decided to hijack your joke for a more literal interpretation

TanMath

12:23 AM

> roflol

quartata

So sorry

TanMath

combined laughing

RikerW

Rolling on the floor laughing out loud = Rolling on a math rounding function while giggling.

Calvin's Hobbies

@RikerW Yep. It seemed about time for our monthly bad pun contest

RikerW

Somebody add that to the event schedule...

quartata

12:24 AM

@Calvin'sHobbies I laughed a rotTON

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RikerW

rofl

TanMath

rofl

Quill

While I'm ~~spamming~~ got your attention, if you like Lua and you like reputation: there's a bounty going on CodeReview

Maltysen

@Quill meh, that looks complicated

RikerW

^ but I'll try

quartata

12:26 AM

What do you call a sweepstakes where the prize is a joke book?

A ROFFLE

7

Alex A.

Oh god

Why

RikerW

^

Alex A.

I can't believe you've done this

RikerW

Somebody kill him pls.

Alex A.

Veto

RikerW

12:27 AM

I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!

quartata

The neighbors probably just heard me laughing

RikerW

HOW DID THAT GET TWO STARS?

Because I'm good

that was so gooood

^

12:27 AM

ROFLOLMAO

quartata

This has officially become jokes.SE

I actually think that's a thing

RikerW

Seriously, either do perl or jokes. Pick one.

Humor,SE

does that exist

Yes

12:28 AM

There's an Area 51 proposal for Humor

Oh. Ninja'd.

TanMath

@RikerW or Seriously jokes!

quartata

@RikerW How about Perl jokes?

New Sandboxed Posts

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

This is not a challange. I am using the sandbox to... sandbox stuff. My Progress I'm not anywhere near the completion of this, but I've got an attack plan. They key word here is "abstraction." If a problem seems to esoteric to solve (as in this whole challenge), just abstract it to he next ...

Calvin's Hobbies

A mountaineer was climbing a mountain and came across a tiny mosquito buzzing about. What happened?

PhiNotPi

There's four main types of humor: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.

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Alex A.

12:29 AM

@PhiNotPi Rolling On Floor Laughing Out Laughing My Ass Off. Seems legit.

Sp3000

@RikerW Why do Perl programmers look so serious all the time? Because it's their (7, 10)

@Calvin'sHobbies Can't cross...

NO!! DONT START

yassss

@Sp3000 bah

@Sp3000 I didn't get it

RikerW

12:30 AM

^

Quill

@quartata look what you started

where can I donate my tears

Calvin's Hobbies

@TanMath Nothing happened. You can't cross a scalar with a vector.

quartata

Comma operator chucks out the left argument in scalar context

trichoplax

@Calvin'sHobbies And I was expecting something awful - I'm going to use that...

quartata

Hmm what's a good Perl joke

TanMath

12:31 AM

I still don't get it...

quartata

Actually, I don't get it either.

Sp3000

A: Because it's their regular expression.

trichoplax

Cross product

In mathematics and vector calculus, the cross product or vector product (occasionally directed area product to emphasize the geometric significance) is a binary operation on two vectors in three-dimensional space (R3) and is denoted by the symbol ×. Given two linearly independent vectors a and b, the cross product, a × b, is a vector that is perpendicular to both and therefore normal to the plane containing them. It has many applications in mathematics, physics, engineering, and computer programming. It should not be confused with dot product (projection product). If two vectors have the sa...

Maltysen

@Calvin'sHobbies but why is a mosquito a scalar?

TanMath

@trichoplax what does cross product have to do with this?

quartata

12:32 AM

No, I mean Sp's Perl joke.

Calvin's Hobbies

@TanMath You can't do a cross product between a number (a scalar, i.e. mountain climber) with a vector (the point the mosquito is at)

quartata

I got the mosquito joke.

Calvin's Hobbies

It's a bad joke undoubtedly

quartata

Hey, at least it's a math joke

TanMath

@Calvin'sHobbies really bad joke...

quartata

12:33 AM

@Sp3000 oh

RikerW

@NewSandboxedPosts Thank you @NewSandboxedPosts.

TanMath

I did not get the perl one too...

Alex A.

@quartata The only reasonable response to that.

trichoplax

@quartata I'm fairly sure I wouldn't get that one even if it was explained to me...

TanMath

@RikerW somebody edit this post!!!

make it say: I AM DUMB!

I do not want more thank you's!

quartata

12:34 AM

How does a camel walk up a mountain?

trichoplax

@Calvin'sHobbies I assumed it was referring to a mosquito being a disease vector...

RikerW

He thanked me...

quartata

scalar(%camel)

Eh that one wasn't that good

TanMath

@trichoplax now that makes more sense

quartata

@RikerW I'm scared to click on that

TanMath

12:35 AM

@RikerW huh?

Alex A.

@TanMath In a roundabout way you're calling RikerW dumb, which goes against Stack Exchange's "be nice" policy (besides just being generally not a nice thing to say).

TanMath

@quartata not rickroll.. I promise

Calvin's Hobbies

@quartata On its feet?

TanMath

^

quartata

@Calvin'sHobbies scalar(%camels) forces the camel into a scalar context. i.e mountain climber

TanMath

12:36 AM

@AlexA. it was a joke!

quartata

I thought it would pair well with your joke

But it wasn't that good

Hmmm

Alex A.

@TanMath We shouldn't say things like that to each other, even in a joking manner.

Calvin's Hobbies

@trichoplax What's the most diseased type of tree?

TanMath

@AlexA. i am sorry...

trichoplax

@Calvin'sHobbies Here we go... My brain is looping through the tiny list of trees I know now...

TanMath

12:38 AM

Although, it is like saying, we shouldn't star messages of people calling themselves stupid...

Calvin's Hobbies

@trichoplax The sicker-more!

Alex A.

@TanMath It's alright, just refrain from that in the future.

BlockCoder1392

@TanMath I'm stupid

^dont star that

Sp3000

@Calvin'sHobbies I was going to say: anything on the Tropic of Cancer.

PhiNotPi

Ready to post? meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/7996/2867

trichoplax

12:38 AM

@Calvin'sHobbies Wow - it was actually one I knew and I still didn't guess it.

quartata

@PhiNotPi nah leave it in another day

Alex A.

@PhiNotPi I like it.

quartata

get some more eyeballs on it

Alex A.

^

quartateroni makes a good point

PhiNotPi

@quartata This is how I get posts in the sandbox for three years.

Alex A.

12:39 AM

roflgolfer

quartata

@PhiNotPi oh just one more day......

TanMath

@AlexA. a golfer who rolls on the floor laughing

Alex A.

Yes :P

Zgarb

@PhiNotPi @TanMath One of you needs an avatar, because I keep confusing you in chat.

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PhiNotPi

I've had my avatar for longer.

Sp3000

12:40 AM

@Phi Did you choose ~ arbitrarily?

PhiNotPi

I'm keeping it.

TanMath

@Zgarb ha!

PhiNotPi

@Sp3000 Actually no. It comes from the practice of distinguishing ~ and - with TI-BASIC answers.

TanMath

@PhiNotPi since you have had it for longer, maybe you should have a change...

Sp3000

@PhiNotPi Ah k, I was wondering whether _ might be a good alternative but nvm then

PhiNotPi

12:42 AM

It doesn't really matter.

trichoplax

@PhiNotPi LIFO

Alex A.

@Zgarb I had that problem with steveverrill and Nathan Merrill on the main site (similar avatars and vaguely similar names) until Nathan changed his avatar.

Calvin's Hobbies

@trichoplax When was the first time Alex was wrong?

trichoplax

@Calvin'sHobbies An event or someone pointing it out in chat?

I've never known Alex to be wrong

Maybe I wasn't around for some occasions...

Martin Büttner

I feel like CH is trying to make a joke.

Calvin's Hobbies

12:44 AM

@trichoplax For that you get no punchline

trichoplax

lol

Maltysen

does anyone know a good java CAS?

TanMath

so no one wants to nominate me?

PhiNotPi

uhh.... how about this other challenge... is it ready? meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/7998/2867

trichoplax

@TanMath You can find out by watching the post and pressing refresh constantly

Sp3000

12:46 AM

@MartinBüttner Insomnia kicking in?

quartata

@PhiNotPi Needs another year in the sandbox

SuperJedi224

@Maltysen What does CAS stand for?

Alex A.

@Sp3000 It's friday :P

PhiNotPi

Computer Algebra System?

Maltysen

^

trichoplax

12:46 AM

@Calvin'sHobbies I didn't realise you were still doing jokes - I thought it might be for some kind of challenge...

Calvin's Hobbies

v

quartata

@Maltysen Honestly I've been looking for one myself.

Martin Büttner

@Sp3000 says the guy who is regularly up at the same hours as I am but lives on the other side of the Earth.

quartata

I think Octave has a Java bridge thing

But other than that not really

trichoplax

@PhiNotPi Do you want it to be a consistent symbol for all answers or would you consider "you can choose which symbol represents negation"?

Sp3000

12:47 AM

@MartinBüttner Hey, not in the past month :P

Calvin's Hobbies

@MartinBüttner Sp lives on earth? My whole view of him has been shattered...

RikerW

^

Sp3000

@PhiNotPi Can the parens in perplex be nested?

BlockCoder1392

Hi @GamrCorps

PhiNotPi

@trichoplax I could allow them to choose between -_~

Alex A.

12:49 AM

@Maltysen There's one for C++

Quill

What's up @TanMath?

trichoplax

@Calvin'sHobbies OK now this is getting to me - what was the punchline??

Nathan Merrill

I think I'm planning on making a traffic simulator code-challenge

Quill

I read that as Traffic Cone Simulator...

TanMath

@Quill I thought you have work!

Martin Büttner

12:50 AM

@NathanMerrill what's the goal?

Quill

oh, never mind @TanMath

Nathan Merrill

a 10x10 grid, and you control the lights

my question is:

trichoplax

@PhiNotPi If you want to be really generous you could provide code that takes the operator as input and outputs test cases

PhiNotPi

@Sp3000 What's your opinion?

Nathan Merrill

what's the best way for somebody to return a light configuration?

Martin Büttner

12:51 AM

@NathanMerrill how many lights are there on each junction?

quartata

@NathanMerrill Just an array with 0 for red, 1 for yellow and 2 for green

Nathan Merrill

every road has a left, straight, and right turn lane

quartata

Oh, but then there's right and left lights

hm

Nathan Merrill

and the lights can control all directions

so I can say "straight and right, but not left"

Martin Büttner

so per intersection you've got 12 lights

Nathan Merrill

12:53 AM

I'm not allowing "straight and right and yield left"

Martin Büttner

10x10 grid means 9x9 intersections?

RikerW

@quartata's suggestion plus S, R, or L for allowed directions.

Nathan Merrill

right

Martin Büttner

and 9x4 T-junctions?

Sp3000

@Phi At first I thought parens where just to group "real and imaginary parts", so to speak (like complex number notation) but your third example suggests to me that it's more for specifying precedence, in which case I'd expect a nested case

quartata

12:53 AM

Maybe a 2D array like this: [[left, straight, right],[left, straight, right],...

If I'm understanding it right

Sp3000

I honestly don't know how much easier no nesting is though

quartata

The values could just be booleans

Nathan Merrill

there are 10 feeder roads on each side

so there will be exactly 100 intersections

the other complication is that the user doesn't decide the length of yellow, just when to turn red/green

(yellow is a fixed 3 sec)

so, if I were to do an array like @quartata suggests, then there is a lot of empty data being passed

because each tick, the majority of lights won't change

trichoplax

@PhiNotPi When I first scrolled down to the red and white diagram for a moment I thought it was a banner ad within your post. For some reason I have red and white associated with advertising in my subconscious...

PhiNotPi

@trichoplax Hmmm... maybe I could start making money off my challenges.

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