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4:00 AM
So this just landed in a CR question... anyone guess what's wrong with it?
 
It's too long, obviously. ;)
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I've edited the codes in my SO answer to be more browser-supportive
Apparently IE is stupid :P
 
Holy smokes! github.com/lmendo/MATL/blob/master/doc/MATL_spec.pdf That is one well-documented esolang.
@ETHproductions You just figured that out?
 
@Calvin'sHobbies It's doing the thing that Strawpoll was doing for me earlier: It's showing over 200 votes when certainly fewer than 200 have voted.
 
4:01 AM
@Dennis I've been trying to ignore that fact for a while, but I just can't anymore
@Calvin'sHobbies Wha???????
 
@Calvin'sHobbies I think it's an issue with Strawpoll. I tried making two separate polls earlier today and both were like that.
 
I still think strawpoll is currently under attack.
 
@Dennis i opened that tab and my browser was slow until i closed it
 
@ETHproductions if you are going to be that guy at least use microsoft edge
 
@undergroundmonorail Upgrade your browser. :P
No issues here, on a serious note.
 
4:02 AM
@AlexA. All the polls seem to be like this
 
Version 47.0.2526.111 m

Google Chrome is up to date.
 
Upgrade, not update.
 
to what, safari?
(that was a joke of course not safari)
 
@undergroundmonorail Weird. I'm on Chromium, but I use Chrome's PDF plugin.
 
@quartata I would, but when I tried to upgrade my laptop (running Win7) to Win10, it shut down halfway through, so then it reverted back to Win7 and now it's saying my product key is invalid and I can't upgrade again without buying a new key
I just use Firefox in the meantime
 
4:04 AM
@Dennis This is absurd!
 
My browser practically froze until just now.
 
@Dennis i mean to be fair i didn't really give it a chance to finish loading
 
ಠ_ಠ
 
@El'endiaStarman Also because of the PDF?
 
4:05 AM
yup
 
Mine loaded instantly in Safari and nothing slowed down. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
Hm, sounds like I won't be upgrading to 47.
I'm still on 46.
 
i made that search engine...
 
That's... not a search engine
 
it is not rickroll! stop lying!
 
yeah! lovely social network!
 
@TanMath I never said it was a rickroll.
 
you were trying to imply that...
 
Do Strawpoll always list the answers in order on the vote page, or does it mix around?
 
i'm fairly sure it's always in order
 
4:08 AM
if it isn't what I say it to be, then people would assume it is rickroll...
 
@RikerW haha
@ETHproductions \o/
 
related pet peeve: when "all of the above" is below "none of the above"
10
 
@phase \o/ phase came back
 
okay seriously stop doing 300 votes on one item
 
4:10 AM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ >.> <.< no phase here
 
@ETHproductions i think strawpoll is busted
 
Jan 12 at 20:14, by Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@PHASE COME BACK WE ARE YOUR FRIEEEEENDS
 
go @phase!
i was seriously going to do a tribute to you in one of my challenges, but nobody liked it...
 
@undergroundmonorail I just took a test where every question was like that.
 
 
4:11 AM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ grr
 
@phase Oh yeah, I saw that a couple weeks ago. Crazy.
 
@phase ?
 
well good night now
 
Stare at the green dot and the yellow ones disappear.
 
4:12 AM
@El'endiaStarman woaaah
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ G'night!
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ 'night
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ bye!
 
good morning
 
i like that one
 
4:13 AM
@phase STOP MESSING WITH MY HEAD
6
 
@undergroundmonorail If I recall correctly, the leading theory on this is that the yellow dots don't change or anything, so our brain filters them out so fewer resources are spent on perceiving them in favor of the rotating grid.
 
@El'endiaStarman Woah... but I must be tired, only one disappears at a time
 
@El'endiaStarman neat
 
@ETHproductions no for me too...just concentrate even more...
 
@phase I remember seeing the middle image alone years ago and managing to make the girl turn in whichever direction I wanted, and I achieved it by focusing on her foot and imagining really hard. :P
 
4:15 AM
before, a dot would disappear and that would surprise me and i'd look at it
now one dot disappears and a second one starts to go but it surprises me and i look at it
 
oh...
 
lmp....
 
@TanMath I can't, I'm too tired
G'night, y'all
 
G'night!
 
@ETHproductions goodnight!
 
4:17 AM
Stupid auto correct
 
'night
did martin ever respond to this
Jan 13 at 3:10, by Calvin's Hobbies
@MartinBüttner Can you make this your new avatar? ^
 
can somebody test out all the javascript answrs using regex on input "T J" and tell me what it prints?
 
@undergroundmonorail Not that I know of. Did you expect him to?
 
so this one:
9
A: Spoonerise words

user81655JavaScript (ES6), 54 bytes s=>s.replace(r=/\b[^aeiou ]+/g,(_,i)=>s.match(r)[+!i]) Explanation s=> s.replace( r=/\b[^aeiou ]+/g, // r = regex to match consonants (_,i)=>s.match(r)[+!i] // replace consonants with the consonants from the other word ) Test var solution = s=>...

 
@AlexA. no but i hoped so
 
4:21 AM
this one:
7
A: Spoonerise words

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'BʀɪᴇɴJavaScript ES6, 93 58 52 bytes Saved 6 bytes thanks to ETHProductions! x=>x.replace(/([^aeiou]+)(.+ )([^aeiou]+)/,"$3$2$1") Test it! (ES6 only) F=x=>x.replace(/([^aeiou]+)(.+ )([^aeiou]+)/,"$3$2$1"); console.log=_=>u.innerHTML+=_; console.log(`plaster man -> master plan blushing c...

 
@TanMath the spec guarantees a vowel in each word if that's what you're concerned about
 
@undergroundmonorail oh...so the words must be two characters long...
 
WTF is wrong with this poll ETH linked?
Why 300 for 1?
 
Strawpoll is messed up
 
4:23 AM
strawpoll is shitting the bed
 
^
 
it happens for everything
 
Or that
 
lol
 
oh!
 
4:23 AM
oh!
v
^
 
so some guy who didn't read the specs downvoted my answer saying that it doesn't work for 1-word cases...
@RikerW are there seriously 300 people here?
 
IDK
 
No
It's just an issue with Strawpoll
 
@TanMath No, it's a bug at best.
 
@TanMath Why can't you test them yourself? Conor's even has a snippet.
 
4:25 AM
Doorknob's star abuse message has like 72, so...
 
@RikerW And that includes people who aren't usually in here.
 
Oh, duplicates are allowed...
 
speak of the Doorknob?
 
hi doorknob
 
somebody should totally do an afk userscript
 
4:27 AM
@Dennis because, I am on mobile...anyway, I do not need them tested now...
 
@Quill someone from TL made a userscript that adds Google Hangout's-style "X is typing..." and marks which messages X has read until. It's really neat, but I didn't get it yet
 
for moderators?
 
for anyone
 
how could it possibly do "X is typing..."
is that information sent?
 
@TanMath That stack snippet works on mobile. For me, at least.
 
4:29 AM
@undergroundmonorail to the server of the guy who created it, yes
 
ohh okay
so you can only see if they're typing if they also have it
 
Oh, the server. I thought it was a pure userscript
 
@undergroundmonorail yes
 
It'd be cool if a userscript added a chat button that you clicked and wrote your reason in when you go afk and then when someone pings you or writes your name, they get messaged saying you're afk
The SO-ChatBot does this already, but it's a bot, not a userscript
 
the JS room has a bot that does that too
 
4:31 AM
35 secs ago, by Quill
The SO-ChatBot does this already, but it's a bot, not a userscript
 
@Dennis not for me unfortnately...
does anybody have the code for the @NewMainPosts?
 
It's a RSS feed
 
how can I set it up in another room?
 
Info->Feeds->Add->Paste RSS feed in
 
woah that's weird
why did that onebox even with extra text after it
 
4:33 AM
doorknob vs oneboxer
 
http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/240/the-nineteenth-byte?tab=feeds asdf
 
that was fun to watch
 
Although, I'm assuming the correct response is "why would you need another room"
@undergroundmonorail oneboxing is painful
hurts my existence
 
@Quill paste what in?
 
4:35 AM
You can find it if you go to the bottom of the main ppcg.se, there's an RSS logo and it says "recent questions feed"
just so you know what you're looking for if you ever want to find something similar
 
ok...
this is possible for all SE sites?
 
oh, huh
i was mistaken
 
thanks!
 
4:36 AM
 
uh what that's a thing?
wouldn't that get like 50 updates a minute?
 
that's odd
the button's not there
 
@Doorknob ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
using that face is actually the application form to PPCG
 
petition to add stackoverflow.com/feeds to the nineteenth byte feeds list
 
suggestion that monorail never be made room owner
:P
 
4:45 AM
@undergroundmonorail Aren't you a regular riot?
 
@undergroundmonorail HA HA NO
 
It's a shame there's no XKCD here though...
 
@xnor i fixed it, why the downvote?
 
@Quill I think there was one but nobody liked it
 
4:47 AM
@Doorknob I know, I saw the meta response ;-;
 
everyone who wants to see xkcd sees xkcd
 
@TanMath no idea, it's not me
 
i do enjoy xkcd but it is already everywhere
 
I get notifications on my phone :P
 
I don't always get xkcd, but when I do, hahaha lol omg
 
4:49 AM
something i specifically dislike about xkcd: i swear to god the fanbase is even worse than most at running jokes into the ground
i'd be happy if i never saw anyone comment "woosh" again
 
hahaha
 
xkcd jokes become old as soon as they hit post
 
@xnor oh...sorry for blaming you...
@undergroundmonorail weenieroll!
2
why am I getting downvotes?
 
I wonder if SE hosts events like that 3 day program-whatever-you-want event Facebook does
 
4:55 AM
looks like the best challenge that ever happened to me will become the worst challenge that ever happened to me!
 
is that a metaphor for life
 
i think you're probably getting more votes because of the python bounty but i don't know why they're downvotes
 
@undergroundmonorail why did @xnor do that bounty?? Why o why?
 
i didn't :P
 
I know you didn't...
 
5:00 AM
👍
 
You can't out golf @Dennis
he will win the bounty...
 
he's bloodthirsty
 
@TanMath I'm not a Python golfer. I probably won't.
 
You will...
 
well, that destroyed my non-regex answer...
 
5:04 AM
Why doesn't this work?:
For this challenge?:
9
Q: Parse RNA into codons

ZgarbIntroduction RNA is the less famous cousin of DNA. Its main purpose is to control the production of proteins in cells through a process called translation. In this challenge, your task is to implement a part of this process where the RNA is split into codons. This challenge is thematically rela...

No help?
Nvm, figured it out...
however, now I want to know how to find the next highest value compared to another in a list...
For example, I want to find the smallest value in list s that is greater than some value t...
how is that possible in Python?
 
5:20 AM
only thing i can think of is to filter or use a comprehension to get all the ones above t and use min
but it's not super short and you'd have to guard against an empty list if that's a possibility
 
@undergroundmonorail it will not be empty...
 
i mean, empty after filtering out values <= t
 
I will just use min...
Now it doesn't work:
can I haz halp please?
 
i am too tired to understand code right now, sorry :P
in fact i'm probably going to go to bed
later o/
 
G'night!
The people that made mod_wsgi added a new feature in May 2014 that lets you limit the memory of daemon processes. Where's the documentation on it? Nowhere. -_-
 
5:29 AM
@undergroundmonorail good night!
 
There's a list of arguments you can pass to WSGIDaemonProcess, but it's from 2012. --____--
Trial-and-error it is, then.
 
@TanMath because t evaluates to 1 and i[s:t] doesn't work with your regex
or at least I'm assuming that's the issue
I don't really know what the hell that is
 
@Quill but why is t=1!
 
no idea
 
It should be 9...
Thank you Captain Obvious...
 
5:41 AM
So I made (half of) a Sandbox Viewer
 
PLURALIZATION BUG!
:P
 
Dear Next Person Who Opens a Pluralization 'Bug', I will personally come to your house and bludgeon you to death with a giant S
 
I found the error! @El'endiaStarman your regex expression is wrong...
 
My apologies, I didn't test it.
You could look at Martin's answer for the regex.
 
It's ok (though I did spend 20 min on it)...
@El'endiaStarman I do not know Retina...
 
5:47 AM
If you knew the basics of regex, you would get it. Not precisely how it works, but you'd see the bits and pieces.
 
@El'endiaStarman Would it be UA[AG]|UGA?
 
Yep. Probably. I haven't tried.
@Doᴡɴɢᴏᴀᴛ haha :P
Seriously though, what's the big deal? Did he get a flood of such reports?
 
@El'endiaStarman nope...does not work...gives me this ['A', 'G', 'G', 'G', 'G', 'A', 'A', 'UGA']
so close, but not exactly...
 
Then the problem might not be the regex itself.
 
but that is what re.findall says!
 
5:53 AM
Well, you have Google and Stack Overflow to help...
 
No halp for me?
:'(
 
If you really want to be a better programmer, it's a good idea to learn how to figure stuff out on your own. Unless you really, truly get stuck for more than an hour or a day...
5
 
Ok...
 
6:20 AM
\o/ finished the Sandbox viewer
 
6:30 AM
I'll try to implement something like the review queues except with sandbox posts. I'll see how it goes
 
7:24 AM
0
Q: Design an algorithm to do inverse this encrypt function

walterEncrypt function in Javascript: function securityEncode(a,b,c){ var e="",f,g,h,k,l=187,n=187; g=a.length; h=b.length; k=c.length; f=g>h?g:h; for(var p=0;p<f;p++) n=l=187, p>=g?n=b.charCodeAt(p):p>=h?l=a.charCodeAt(p):(l=a.charCodeAt(p),n=b.charCodeAt(p)), ...

 
7:35 AM
^ What kinda question is this?
 
Probably a misplaced one.
 
clearly this person does not know about our community.
 
That is true of many, if not most new users.
 
What is wrong with this answer?:
5
A: Spoonerise words

TanMathPython 2, 364 352 269 251 bytes EDIT: Thanks so much to @Cyoce for helping me golf 83 bytes! Please help me golf this! Anyway, at least I am the first Python answerer. And I hope I can beat Java, if there ever is a Java answer! i=input() f=l='' A='aeiou' for j in A: I=i[0];J=I.find(j) if ~J:...

I mean, Mego's comment is voted 4 times!
 
And I can see why. Take, for example...
 if ~J:
  if f:
This is the same as if ~J and f:. You might not be able to do exactly that, but there are certainly tricks along those lines that you can use.
 
7:45 AM
See...I am a bad golfer alright...
 
Depending on what J and f are, maybe you can even do if ~J*f:.
Oh, and I just looked at the revision history, and I see it was even less golfed before, with a fairly obvious trick just waiting to be used. Not only that, but Cyoce pointed it out, so you didn't even come up with it yourself.
Now, I've gotten plenty of golfing help on my Python answers, but they're almost never that obvious.
 
@Sherlock9 you have lost my trust...
you have betrayed me!
 
The numbers in that red freehand circle are anonymous votes (either you're not logged in or you don't have the required rep).
 
in Code Golfer's Corner, 37 secs ago, by TanMath
Golfing help please?:
 
+84/-1323, compared with +133/-372 at the time the screenshot was taken (+138/-388 now).
Wow.
 
8:02 AM
I guess nobody is here now...
 
@TanMath feersum had an idea, who was I not to use it
 
well then...you should have told me...
 
@TanMath Orrrrrrr they're not interested in helping you golf. Though indeed, there aren't many people here.
 
You win! Enjoy!
@El'endiaStarman like you? Because there is nobody else here...
 
I didn't know you'd still be here, dude
 
8:03 AM
huh?
 
I woke up half an hour ago and it's 3 pm
As far as I knew, everyone else in the other timezones had gone to bed
 
Haha, wow, you're exactly halfway around the world (in terms of timezones).
Yeah, I ought to be in bed now. 3:04 AM here.
 
@Sherlock9 um... Is 12:00am late?
@El'endiaStarman you in east coast?
 
@El'endiaStarman Where?
 
8:05 AM
Kentucky, as I've said before.
 
@El'endiaStarman sorry, I was not here when you said that...
@Sherlock9 unless you are abnormal, as most of us here! :p
 
He lives in the Philippines (I think?).
 
Indonesia
it says on his profile...
 
Well abnormal sleeping times are still rare enough that I didn't expect many people to be on, so I edited the answer before checking chat
 
(assuming he)
@Sherlock9 12:00am is not late!
at least not for college students!
and programmers!
and scientists!
 
8:10 AM
I mean, when the Jakarta shooting happened on Thursday, I messaged you guys here to let you know I and my family were alright, but very few people knew what had happened
 
and many more people
@Sherlock9 I was there!
Ok...you can assume that at least I stay up till around this time...
 
I do apologize for breaking our agreement though. That was impolite of me
 
@Sherlock9 That's probably more because news of events in other countries doesn't travel very much over here. When the shootings in Paris happened, there was a lot of news coverage, and very little for shootings in Beruit a day or two before.
 
^
 
for j in A:
 I=i[0];J=I.find(j)
 if ~J:
  if f:
   if f>I[0][:J]:f=I[:J];break
  else:f=I[:J]
for j in A:
 Y=i[1];J=Y.find(j)
 if ~J:
  if l:
   if l>Y[:J]:l=Y[:J];break
  else:l=Y[:J]
You should change this to
 
8:12 AM
Also, the United States had an average of one mass shooting per week last year (precise meaning of "mass shooting" uncertain). How many made the news? Like a dozen or something.
 
a,b=1
for j in A:
 I=i[0];J=I.find(j);Y=i[1];J=Y.find(j)
 if ~J and f:
  if a and f>I[0][:J]:f=I[:J];a=0
  if b and l>Y[:J]:l=Y[:J];b=0
 else:f=I[:J];l=Y[:J]
2
Or something like that
Fair points. I would think that ISIS claiming responsibility probably would have pushed the notoriety up a bit, but that's neither here nor there.
 
@TanMath: If you don't mind, I'd like you to read this, starting at the section titled "The Cook and the Chef" and reading to the end. It's long, but a good read. I'll explain why after you read it. In the meantime, I'm going to bed. G'night!
 
@El'endiaStarman Ua, it's morning in Russia.
 
...Good whatever-is-appropriate-in-your-timezone!
 
8:28 AM
@El'endiaStarman good night to you too!
(It is actually night time for me, as you know!)
Good night!
I am also going to bed!
 
9:04 AM
0
Q: Create a CleverBot!

user81655CleverBot is a conversational AI that works fundamentally by repeating responses from real humans it has heard previously. It starts off pretty dumb, but once the database becomes (a lot) larger it begins sounding more like an actual person! How your program should work Output Hi! Receive the ...

 
 
1 hour later…
10:06 AM
<BUMP>
 
10:24 AM
<BUMP>
 
@zyabin101 What is the purpose of you constantly posting this in chat? What are you even bumping?
5
 
3*3 = 27 in Jelly
 
So after chatting with Cleverbot, I learnt that he actually is a human who lives in Delaware and used to live in Canada...
Actually, a she, not a he...
 
so that's why someone wants to create another ?
 
Lol...maybe...
 
10:49 AM
lol wat
 
@mınxomaτ First, we can't keep the room blank, second, @Optimizer has cluttered my inbox!
 
0
Q: Scheduling a chess tournament

AdnanIntroduction Right now I'm participating a chess tournament. I got inspired by the tournament schedule. Right now, I'm in a competition with three other players. That means with the four of us, we are playing 3 rounds. The schedule goes as following: Round 1: 1-4 3-2 Round 2: 3-4 2-1 Round 3: 1...

 
11:29 AM
@zyabin101 what?
 
@Optimizer unnecessary
 
i thought he should know the feels ;)
or did you mean that deleting that was unnecessary ? ;)
 
Does anyone feel like getting 200 reputation for a pointless, difficult and ridiculous task?
8
Q: Split a Shakespeare Script

wizzwizz4Mr. William Shakespeare wrote plays. A lot of plays. In this tarball containing every single one of his works, each one of his plays is one long file. It needs to be split into Scenes for a stage production. Because actors are impatient, your code needs to be as short as possible. Task: Your ta...

Use the Shakespeare Programming Language for 200 reputation.
Four days to go 'till the bounty runs out.
No? Ok.
 
12:32 PM
@wizzwizz4 Someone is eligible for the bounty. Just wait.
 
12:50 PM
@zyabin101 The room gets more than 2000 messages per day. It's hardly blank, just less active at some hours.
 
1:10 PM
It suddenly stopped at -250. But they delayed it anyway.
 
stopped? its at -252
 
I correct: It stopped auto-updating the count for me. I guess I left it open for too long.
The top comment is +399...
 
 
1 hour later…
2:30 PM
@Adnan That is correct. * is exponentiation.
 
3:10 PM
@Dennis Why are you confusing non-experienced users by, for example, using * for exponentation?
 
@zyabin101 Like APL (one of the languages that inspired Jelly), I use × for multiplication and * for exponentiation.
 
3:36 PM
And quite frankly, using * for multiplication and / for division never made sense to me anyway...
 
@Dennis Well, / has been used for a very long time to denote divisions (vulgar fractions like ¼)
 
For simple fractions, yes, but I'd argue (1 + 2) : (3 + 4) is more common (1 + 2) / (3 + 4).
Outside programming, I mean.
 
We learned that in elementary school. After that, you don't really use separate symbols anymore. Multiplication symbols (• in Germany) are deprecated in fifth grade and up and Divisions are replaced by (more complex) fractions. This largely happens because a) you now have a calculator and b) constant expressions are utterly useless (partly because a)).
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
3:57 PM
@mınxomaτ Your emote's left hand is broken.
 
@mınxomaτ Yes, I went to a German elementary school as well. Still, I don't consider "inline fractions" very natural. A full-blown fraction with a horizontal delimiter is something else entirely. This is precisely what ÷ emulates.
 

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