The Nineteenth Byte

9:00 PM

@Mego lel

I was thinking a generic "no longer funny in questions" post, where answers can specify one thing and whether it should result in
1. No action
2. Edit
3. Close
4. Delete
5. Delete user
6. Send attack drones
7. Other (please specify)

Alex A.

@trichoplax It might be worth having a moderator post it and say, "Bee tea dubs, we're going to start doing this. Deal with it."

Anonymous

Yay FlipFlop is on page 2 of HNQ

quartata

@trichoplax Send attack drones

That was easy

Alex A.

@trichoplax I like this

Doorknob

9:01 PM

> Bee tea dubs

... what?

El'endia Starman

@Mego The list you see in the sidebar on main sites is page 1, right? I saw it there once.

Anonymous

8. Close and comment that it belongs on SO

El'endia Starman

@Doorknob BTW

trichoplax

There may be more than just this meme annoying people - should it be an overall post or does this meme warrant its very own specific post?

Alex A.

@Doorknob You've never heard that? B T W

Anonymous

9:02 PM

@El'endiaStarman Yep. I missed it being on page 1

Alex A.

W = double u = dubs

Anonymous

@trichoplax I'd say go with overall

trichoplax

@Mego I almost choked

Doorknob

oh... no, I have never heard that :P

Alex A.

You need to read more shitposting

El'endia Starman

9:02 PM

Same. I've never heard the acronym spoken... :P

Anonymous

9. Migrate to Code Review

Alex A.

@El'endiaStarman Oh, I say it IRL sometimes. :P

El'endia Starman

I have, however, heard "UW" as "you dub". That and BWW (Buffalo Wild Wings) as "bee dub".

Anonymous

Vee dub, German engineering, in da haus

Alex A.

@El'endiaStarman Apparently you have to call it that or else people look at you weird. My sister gave me shit about saying "you double you" until I trained my brain to stop saying it.

El'endia Starman

9:03 PM

@AlexA. Haha, makes sense. :P

Did your sister move to Seattle before you or something?

Alex A.

She's 8 years older than me, so she moved out when I was in middle school. She's lived in Seattle proper ever since she moved out.

Anonymous

@AlexA. Your sister giving you shit about something isn't conclusive. Rule #1 of being a sibling is to give your sibling(s) shit about literally everything.

El'endia Starman

@Mego Well then, I have failed miserably.

Alex A.

@Mego I'm not allowed to give her shit about anything. That's not for lack of trying though.

Anonymous

@El'endiaStarman shameful display

Anonymous

9:05 PM

@AlexA. You make up for it here

\o/

@Mego ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

strawpoll.me/6504186

Wow... I leave for an hour and 15, and when I come back there's 343 new messages

Anonymous

Remove bonuses, problem solved — Mego 35 mins ago

quartata

9:07 PM

dammit I accidentally voted for both no siblings and one or more brothers

stupid firefox

mınxomaτ

I think Microsoft needs an intervention. Syntax highlighting is getting a bit out of hand.

Alex A.

Hah

@mınxomaτ good god

trichoplax

@Mego I dislike bonuses, but not quite enough to want them banned altogether

quartata

On the bright side now you'll never know which one is the truth

Alex A.

What program is that? Visual Studio?

quartata

9:07 PM

spookyyyy

Alex A.

@quartata Brothers

mınxomaτ

@AlexA. Yes.

Anonymous

Anonymous

^ ETH

flawr

Hi!

quartata

9:08 PM

@AlexA. oh really

ETHproductions

I likes it :)

Alex A.

Me too

quartata

You'll never know

@Mego this is cool

Alex A.

@flawr ¡Hola!

@quartata I already do know.

Doorknob

coi

quartata

9:08 PM

No speaky da espanol

ole

ETHproductions

Is there a limit on how often I can change my avatar?

Alex A.

日本語を話す？

@ETHproductions No

quartata

@ETHproductions No

flawr

@ETHproductions I do not think so

Alex A.

Just username

quartata

9:09 PM

ninja'd

Anonymous

El'endia Starman

translate: 日本語を話す

trichoplax

@ETHproductions Only caching - it's just your username that takes 30 days for the next time

El'endia Starman

(from Japanese) Japan to speak

Anonymous

^^^^ Starman

flawr

9:10 PM

Why is there an apostrophe in "ninja'd"?

El'endia Starman

@Mego Was wondering when you would get around to doing mine. :P

Alex A.

@El'endiaStarman ...Close enough?

mınxomaτ

@AlexA. That looks horrible. Who thought it was a good idea to anti-alias only some symbols.

trichoplax

@flawr No one has proposed golfing it out yet

Alex A.

@mınxomaτ Me. I give Bing all of their shitty ideas.

Doorknob

9:10 PM

.i xu xe'e ro do cu jimpe fi la .jbobau.

> "nina'd"

Santa Maria'd

paint'd

Alex A.'d

@Mego This is now my avatar

Alex A.

9:11 PM

I refreshed your profile

trichoplax

@ETHproductions Had to refresh but now it shows

Alex A.

Now I see it

Looks not so different from afar

trichoplax

I just meant refreshing my page - I see you did the brunt of the work :)

Alex A.

s/from afar/when it's small/

ETHproductions

Ah, there, it's changed on my browser as well

Anonymous

9:12 PM

Alex A.

@trichoplax ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anonymous

^^ CSphi

quintopia

i can't get the cache to clear, though i've refreshed thrice

Alex A.

@Mego dafuq

El'endia Starman

@Mego This one is cool.

@quintopia Ctrl+R or CMD+R

Anonymous

9:13 PM

Need more fractals to flipflop

quintopia

@Mego dragon curve?

J Atkin

@AlexA. I re-posted it instead of un-deleting it

Anonymous

@quintopia It's @CSᵠ's avatar flipfloped

CSᵠ

abomination !!!!!

trichoplax

Would mine work?

flawr

9:13 PM

Four headed turtle/tortoise/whatever?

trichoplax

turtle :)

Anonymous

quintopia

@Mego do a dragon curve

El'endia Starman

@Mego Looks kinda like a ninja star.

Anonymous

@quintopia Gimme an image and I will

flawr

9:15 PM

Take a fractal with four-fold symmetry and delete 3/4 of the image!

quintopia

@Mego take your pic: google.com/…

trichoplax

@Mego Ooooh

Doorknob

@quintopia that's a good pun even if it was unintentional :P

ETHproductions

@quintopia I see what you did there

El'endia Starman

@Mego: Try this ^

I've not seen that one before and it's so pretty...

quintopia

9:18 PM

@Doorknob It was a typo that I noticed and intentionally left in before posting. I wish it had slipped through unintentionally, but unfortunately I have to take credit.

Anonymous

Gonna do that one

flawr

Yay=)

mınxomaτ

@El'endiaStarman Some more nice pics (along with the fastest Mandelbrot explorer I know): autoitscript.com/forum/topic/111271-fractals-autoit-have-fun

flawr

I suspect it is going to be monochromatic=)

Anonymous

9:19 PM

All 3 of those are running right now

El'endia Starman

@mınxomaτ Wowza.

flawr

Tell us which of them one the race.

mınxomaτ

@El'endiaStarman His (inline) Assembly magic is off the charts.

El'endia Starman

> Btw, the maximum-zoom is comparable with a camera which has a zoom lense to photograph an ATOM on the surface of the moon.

O_O

ETHproductions

Holy...

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Anonymous

9:22 PM

El'endia Starman

@Mego ....well, that was kinda boring. :P (Figures, since it's vertically symmetric.)

Doorknob

Tap your phone or key and your car will open the garage door, exit, close the door and come to you. Will do same in reverse for unsummon.

Tweeted by elonmusk on January 10, 2016 at 8:08 PM in reply to elonmusk

In ~2 years, summon should work anywhere connected by land & not blocked by borders, eg you're in LA and the car is in NY

Tweeted by elonmusk on January 10, 2016 at 8:11 PM

O_O

El'endia Starman

Awesome.

flawr

@Mego use this one:

ETHproductions

The script flips the image vertically, horizontally, and both, then averages the color values of the 4, right?

El'endia Starman

9:23 PM

yep

New Main Posts

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Q: The absent-minded linguist

Background Your friend, a linguist, has recorded and analyzed some simple conversation snippets in various languages. Being quite absent-minded, they have forgotten which language each snippet was in. You must help them by creating a program that analyzes the sentence structures and rules out im...

J Atkin

Does this really qualify as a dupe? codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/69083/42736

El'endia Starman

From a quick glance at both, maybe. What's different about yours?

J Atkin

More vars, more ops

Alex A.

@JAtkin Yes IMO

Anonymous

9:27 PM

Anonymous

Doorknob

nifty

El'endia Starman

@Mego Oooh...cool...

ETHproductions

Whoa, those turned out really cool :)

Anonymous

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J Atkin

9:29 PM

I was under the impression that for questions to be dupes, you should be able to copy/paste answers and still be competitive.

As far as I can tell, this is not possible for my challenge.

flawr

That is not the case.

Anonymous

@JAtkin That's not the only criteria, but it's a strong one. If two questions can be boiled down to the same concept, they're likely dupes.

Doorknob

@JAtkin AFAICT is a thing. :P

J Atkin

@Doorknob Oh

El'endia Starman

@Doorknob But I prefer such acronyms to be spelled out, so I like JAtkin's edit... :P

J Atkin

9:30 PM

Oh well......

Anonymous

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El'endia Starman

OOOH.

Alex A.

@Mego I should send this to the band. I bet they'd appreciate it.

Doorknob

oooh idea

I'll try it with my fractal flames

Martin Büttner

@Zgarb my vague memory of Latin tells me that word order is pretty much arbitrary.

El'endia Starman

9:31 PM

@Mego I think this is my favorite yet.

trichoplax

@AlexA. I wasn't sure whether or not to include this jokey list in the meta question, but it can always be edited out if it becomes tiresome

Anonymous

My GF found the word I've been looking for for days

Anonymous

kaleidoscope

Alex A.

@Mego Potato?

oh

Potatoscope

Anonymous

The images look like something viewed through a kaleidoscope

Anonymous

9:34 PM

Alex A.

Dam Son

trichoplax

@Mego If you wanted it more kaleidoscopic you could include scaling down the image slightly and repeat it lots of times

Anonymous

@trichoplax I don't. I was just trying to describe the output of flipflop

trichoplax

Seems a pretty good description - even makes a potato look beautiful

Anonymous

@trichoplax Potatoes are always beautiful

Doorknob

9:36 PM

trichoplax

Of course. I apologise

El'endia Starman

@Doorknob Your flame fractals don't have enough substance to be interesting after flip-flopping.

Anonymous

@Doorknob Is that after flipflopping?

Doorknob

@Mego yes

feersum

@El'endiaStarman ohhh burn!

El'endia Starman

9:37 PM

@Doorknob Better. :)

Doorknob

@El'endiaStarman yeah, true. Maybe some image editing would be beneficial

meh, I still like them before the flipflop better :P

El'endia Starman

@feersum Wasn't intended as such.

feersum

@El'endiaStarman Burn is what a "flame" does. Get it?

Anonymous

El'endia Starman

@feersum .... >_>

Anonymous

9:41 PM

Remember this from starman's rainbow challenge?

Anonymous

El'endia Starman

Yes.

Anonymous

I'm running flipflop on it now

New Meta Posts

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Q: Things that are no longer funny in questions

If there is something that you no longer find funny in questions, post an answer here describing what it is, and proposing a solution. Voting will indicate whether that solution has the backing of the community. For example, you might suggest one of the following: Comment linking here Edit que...

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El'endia Starman

I figured as much. :P

Anonymous

9:42 PM

orlp

@Mego actually

Anonymous

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orlp

I want to do that again

Nathan Merrill

@PeterTaylor when floating point numbers have a radix of 10, it becomes possible to represent a number multiple ways

orlp

but using a cubehelix rainbow: bl.ocks.org/mbostock/310c99e53880faec2434

@NathanMerrill what do you mean? infinite series? (0.9999999... = 1)

Nathan Merrill

9:43 PM

no

El'endia Starman

@orlp I look forward to seeing the results. :)

mınxomaτ

@Mego ❂‿❂

orlp

@NathanMerrill could you elaborate?

El'endia Starman

@mınxomaτ Excellent response.

Nathan Merrill

give me a sec

Anonymous

9:44 PM

Alex A.

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A: Things that are no longer funny in questions

Entirely nonsensical rationales for short code length. This was fun (and was documented as a local meme) when the rationales vaguely made sense, for example, "We want the program that does this to be as small as possible so it can fit into the margins" (from The Margin is too Narrow). However, ...

El'endia Starman

@Mego Vaguely dizzying.

Alex A.

@trichoplax @MartinBüttner @Doorknob ^ you may be interested

orlp

@NathanMerrill remember that in floating point the mantissa should strictly be on [0, 1)

trichoplax

@AlexA. Way ahead of you :)

orlp

9:45 PM

the only number with multiple representations is 0 if I'm not mistaken

Doorknob

@AlexA. +100

orlp

oh no, that's not true

0.1 e -1 = 0.01 e 1

Nathan Merrill

exactly

orlp

err

NinjaBearMonkey

Wow that was a quick +8

El'endia Starman

9:46 PM

All numbers have at least two decimal representations in any base.

Alex A.

I got 8 upvotes in one minute.

NinjaBearMonkey

Bearmonkey'd

5

Alex A.

Dam Son, BearMonkey'd by @NinjaBearMonkey.

orlp

@El'endiaStarman decimal is always base 10

trichoplax

I thought the question was gathering votes fast until I saw the votes on the answer...

orlp

9:46 PM

@El'endiaStarman right?

BearMonkey'd again!!

Hello my people.

Hello our person.

@orlp I was using "decimal" in the sense of abc.xyz.

BrainSteel

I am currently in a library. I am internet-less until Saturday. My time is limited...

Nathan Merrill

9:47 PM

from wikipedia: For instance, if b=10 and p=7, −12.345 can be represented by −12345×10−3, −123450×10−4, and −1234500×10−5

Thomas Kwa

Would "having no test cases" count as no longer funny?

El'endia Starman

@ThomasKwa I thought that was never acceptable.

Nathan Merrill

though, I don't know what "p" is

trichoplax

@ThomasKwa Post and find out ;)

BrainSteel

@ThomasKwa I think that's just bad challenge-writing practice.

El'endia Starman

9:48 PM

Except for the really hard problems, maybe.

Anonymous

Zgarb

@MartinBüttner I'm basing my claim on Wikipedia, so I may be wrong. I don't know any Latin.

Thomas Kwa

I was wondering if it was even an eligible answer, not if it's good.

BrainSteel

@Mego O_o

El'endia Starman

@Mego Mmm, bread...

Anonymous

9:48 PM

@NathanMerrill # of digits I would think

orlp

@El'endiaStarman I believe the official term is 'positional notation'

trichoplax

@ThomasKwa There may be cases where it isn't clear and a separate meta question is needed

Anonymous

That's BrainSteel's avatar flipflopped

trichoplax

Can't think of any though

El'endia Starman

@orlp I guess that works. But ultimately irrelevant because you guys were talking about something else.

quintopia

9:50 PM

random idea: a challenge where your score is simply "the number of 0s in the binary representation of your source code". find out what people can do with the high end of the byte spectrum in various languages.

El'endia Starman

@quintopia [inserts tons of null bytes]

Sp3000

Already had something similar, with 1s I believe

El'endia Starman

Now that you mention it, that does sound vaguely familiar.

Alex A.

@El'endiaStarman I assume he meant minimize the zeros

El'endia Starman

I think unary won that one...

quintopia

9:51 PM

@Sp3000 I figured unary would be a trivial win on that version

El'endia Starman

@AlexA. Oh, that makes much more sense.

That said, there are few numbers with a zero below 256.

wait, d'oh

We're talking binary here.

Anonymous

That would be the only time when Unary is the right tool for the job

Nathan Merrill

@quintopia just give 0 a score of 0.9 and 1 a score of 0.1

Anonymous

Or maybe Lenguage

Nathan Merrill

that way unary would still lose

quintopia

9:53 PM

@NathanMerrill It would lose if 0s are bad also

El'endia Starman

Lenguage should win this one too because you can pick ASCII 255 as the chosen character.

ETHproductions

Then you could use Lenguage with FF bytes

Thomas Kwa

@NathanMerrill I think Headsecks would have a decent chance.

Alex A.

I just mortarboarded on meta. ._.

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Thomas Kwa

Congrats!

flawr

9:54 PM

Did you get a notification?

Alex A.

Yeah, I got a badge.

@ThomasKwa Thanks! I don't know that I'd consider it an accomplishment. I find the fact that it's even possible to "mortarboard" on meta kind of strange.

quintopia

@ETHproductions wasn't familiar with lenguage. I guess Nathan's scheme would be better then

Alex A.

@ETHproductions Firefox bytes?

Oh no, the firefox bites

quintopia

s/bytes/bit damn ninja'd

Alex A.

\o/

ETHproductions

9:57 PM

Just earned my string bronze tag-badge yesterday, just realized I'm at 99/100 for number as well

Alex A.

Woot!

ETHproductions

Now I need to find a number question to answer :)

Sp3000

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Q: Source code ecological footprint

You've just been hired by a German car manufacturing company. Your first task, as an engineer, is to write a program that computes the ecological footprint of ASCII strings. The ecological footprint of character is computed as follows: Write the character's ASCII code in binary, and count th...