The Nineteenth Byte

Roujo

20:00

> Note that this definition is culturally determined. In France and Belgium, 0 is said to be both positive and negative. The positive resp. negative numbers without zero are said to be "strictly positive" resp. "strictly negative".

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Sherlock9 (Square root function, not concept *)

Sherlock9

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Whoops

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

^_^

Alex A.

@Roujo france-and-belgium-are-wrong

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. D:

BUT WAFFLES

El'endia Starman

20:00

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ The principle square root is.

TimmyD

Now that I actually went through it, I'm happy that "Bruno" originally restricted the Chessboard challenge to no libraries ...

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Hm.

RikerW

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I don't think waffles are strictly french or belgian, I enjoy them in the US... :P

Alex A.

@TimmyD Based on the first half of this sentence, I thought you were watching the movie Brüno.

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Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@RikerW Belgian waffles? :P

RikerW

20:02

IDK ABOUT ANYTHING ANYMORE

Alex A.

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ s/um/an/

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. No. I mean waffles made from Belgium.

Alex A.

Oh.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

:P

TimmyD

> france-and-belgium-are-alex

FTFY

Alex A.

20:03

I KNEW IT

Maltysen

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ they're too earthy for my tastes

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

So wait... my French teacher is alex? Or an alex teacher...

Alex A.

Your French teacher teaches you the way of the Alex.

Maltysen

Lesson 1: alex-is-wrong

Rainbolt

You frenched Alex? Ewwwwww.

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Alex A.

20:03

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. But... I don't want to be wrong!

@Rainbolt And that is wrong.

Zgarb

48

Q: Why is 'Belgium' the rudest word in Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

The Hitchhiker's Guide wiki states that 'Belgium' is the rudest word in the galaxy. Why?

hitchhikers-guide

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. Pray your GF is not looking over your shoulders :P

El'endia Starman

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I get the sense she would be just fine with it.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@El'endiaStarman (insert shrug here)

RikerW

20:05

@El'endiaStarman Why?

Maltysen

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ we have a shrug emoticon for a reason... ;P

El'endia Starman

@RikerW Considering who Alex is...

Alex A.

@Rainbolt He Belgiumed me

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Maltysen #using IE

Alex A.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

20:06

@El'endiaStarman Ah, that makes more sense know.

Rainbolt

@AlexA. If you were gay, you would probably not have said that lol

RikerW

WHY GOD WHY? DESTROY THIS IE USER

@El'endiaStarman True... :P

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. copies to clipboard

TimmyD

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I'm failing to see how that's preventing you from using an emoticon ...

RikerW

^

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

20:06

@RikerW My school forces the abomination's use.

Maltysen

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ that's an even worse decision than frenching alex

Alex A.

@Rainbolt I'm getting a feeling that it means something that I haven't heard >_>

RikerW

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ mattsilverman.com/2013/02/…

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@TimmyD If I have more than a few tabs open, the CPU dies.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Alex A.

Here's what you do: First uninstall IE. That's more symbolic than anything else, since step two is to uninstall Windows.

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RikerW

20:08

lol

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@RikerW A) Chrome is better than IE, but not so good as to warrant my use of it. B) I have a "no download" clause in my contract with the school.

Maltysen

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ usbs?

RikerW

relavent?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Maltysen huhwat

RikerW

YOU WANNA GET FRENCHED? @Luniix_

Tweeted by drinkachu on September 29, 2015 at 2:39 PM

The name is "Alex"

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Boarding/private school?

Rainbolt

20:09

Alex M....

Maltysen

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ are installs allowed? cuz then u could use a usb stick without downloading anything.

Roujo

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ "No download". I appreciate your school's generosity to only send things over to the Internet without getting anything back.

TimmyD

I really don't like Chrome. There. I said it. Pile on the hate.

Rainbolt

Also "drinkachu" is an awesome twitter handle

RikerW

^

@Rainbolt Alex Messed-up A.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

20:10

@Maltysen I have to look over the contract.

@Roujo ^

@RikerW I + A = M.

Rainbolt

You could have edited that message to add the roujo ping

Press up to edit. Even a lazy person has no excuse.

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El'endia Starman

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ This looks like the beginnings of a lawyering skill...

Roujo

Warning: Editing messages for pings can violate causality.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@El'endiaStarman My dad's a lawyer, so I'm well on my way...

Maltysen

@AlexA. looked at urban dictionary's page for Belgian Waffle and I'm pretty weirded out. (warning kinda nsfw)

Alex A.

20:11

@TimmyD brb getting a shovel

TimmyD

@Rainbolt TIL, you can press up to edit

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Rainbolt I didn't want to ping malt again.

I am so tired

Rainbolt

Oh, I forget that half of the room probably has sound

I'm at work

Alex A.

@Maltysen lel 1/10 not so disturbing

Roujo

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I've been done with school for a while now. I'm at work. With sound. =)

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

20:11

@Rainbolt You rebel :3

I'm at school :P

Maltysen

@AlexA. did you look at the ones under the first entry?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I'm listening to rock and no one cares ^~^

Alex A.

@Maltysen no

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Roujo o_o At work ==> not at/in school

Alex A.

Gojira - Backbone

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Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

20:13

@AlexA. What...?

Alex A.

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I'm providing you with some more stuff to play out loud at school since no one cares

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. ...\o/

@AlexA. First 20 seconds, people start caring >_<

I guess alt rock was okay, but not hard rock

Alex A.

:/

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

What haters.

GOTTA GO BAI

Roujo

I discovered Math Rock a couple of months back, fell in love

Lynn

20:16

Same!

Alex A.

@Roujo YAS

@Roujo How heavy do you like?

MESHUGGAH - New Millenium Cyanide Christ (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

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^ Very mathy but also quite heavy

Roujo

@AlexA. Listening to this atm

宇宙コンビニ『8films~tobira（radio edit ver.）』Official Music Video

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Maltysen

is there an ascii-art belgian waffle challenge?

Roujo

toe - A Desert Of Human

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Alex A.

> This video contains content from columbia. It is not available in your country.

Roujo

20:18

@AlexA. Do you live in Columbia?

Alex A.

@Roujo No, I live in the US.

Roujo

@AlexA. Annex Columbia, then

Alex A.

@Roujo Yas Toe

@Roujo Knowing the US, they've probably tried at some point.

Roujo

@AlexA. Do you see the title, at least? Or should I try to find you another link?

@AlexA. Giving this a try soon

Alex A.

@Roujo I see the title but can't read the kanji

Roujo

20:19

@AlexA. Toe's great, amirite?

Alex A.

@Roujo Yes

Roujo

@AlexA. Me neither, I kinda suck at reading those >_>

El'endia Starman

@Roujo Yeah, when you stub it, it really hurts.

mbomb007

@Lynn I didn't know, so I'm sure plenty of others might not.

Roujo

@AlexA. Trying to get better, though

@El'endiaStarman Yeah, I hate cutting a song before it's done. Stubbing is for other people.

Alex A.

20:21

@Roujo Do you like Minus the Bear? TTNG?

Roujo

@Rainbolt Funnily enough, "to french" isn't translated at all when said in French. It's just "frencher".

Maltysen

do we have a challenge where one has to show what keys are currently pressed on the keyboard?

Roujo

@AlexA. None, None

El'endia Starman

Huh? Songs? I was talking about certain planges. :P

Alex A.

@Maltysen I don't think so. How would that even work?

SuperJedi224

20:22

goodbye for now

Roujo

@SuperJedi224 'night

El'endia Starman

@AlexA. My Spacewar! KotH has that feature, actually.

Maltysen

js and other event langs could do it pretty easy

Roujo

@AlexA. Probably by creating a language that has a builtin for it.

El'endia Starman

(Though it's only for the bottom row of keys.)

Maltysen

20:22

others would have to query the system

ooh better idea for challenge: given list of key codes and any modifiers, return the key shortcut

like ctrl and 32: "ctrl+space"

Roujo

@Maltysen This reminds me of the time where I put a ctrl+backspace in my password. Good times.

Alex A.

This Town Needs Guns - If I sit still, maybe i´ll get out of here

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Roujo

@AlexA. Meshuggah is a bit harder than I'm used to ^_^'

Alex A.

haha fair enough

Roujo

@AlexA. Good, though. Pretty good.

Dennis

20:26

I should pull a Julia and add an extrema function to Jelly.

Alex A.

@Dennis Do it

Roujo

I'm just of the type to stick on a song for a whole-day listening marathon, and songs this hard don't quite fit the bill =P

El'endia Starman

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Q: Windows 8 password, ctrl-backspace

An acquaintance of mine just bought a new laptop today. On Windows 7, he has been used to using the character generated by Ctrl-Backspace(ASCII 127) in his password. In fact, his password was simply 3 times this character, because he figured it would be hard to guess. So he boots up his new lap...

windows-8 keyboard-shortcuts passwords recovery

Alex A.

@Roujo I also haven't listened to Meshuggah much recently. I loved them when I was in high school but my tastes have mellowed a bit since then. ;)

Minus the Bear- Hey, Wanna Throw Up? Get Me Naked

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Roujo

@AlexA. Same. Last night was a nostalgia trip through my old mp3s - Nightwish, Green Day, Paramore, SoaD and others. Made me realize the exact same thing. =P

Alex A.

20:30

Russian Circles - Carpe

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Roujo

@AlexA. TTNG is nice

Lynn

I listen to a lot of TTNG recently

Alex A.

Nice! I'm not a big fan of their new vocalist, the one on 13.0.0.0.0.

Animals is a great record though.

I wanted to link to my friends band that is super awesome (I was in it for a bit but they got much better when I left :P) but it looks like they took their album off of Bandcamp. >:O

Lynn

Yeah, those are the two albums I've given the most listens so far

Alex A.

Haha I forgot a word in that sentence and it had the opposite meaning. I'm not a fan of that vocalist, and by extension that record. (13.0.0.0.0)

Roujo

20:39

@AlexA. Common typo. Rotary air circulators aren't really known for their manual dexterity while operating keyboards, in any case.

El'endia Starman

What surprises me is that the typo has not been fixed.

Alex A.

@El'endiaStarman >_>

El'endia Starman

Be glad I didn't onebox-quote it. :P

Alex A.

@Roujo wat

@El'endiaStarman :P

Roujo

@AlexA. You said you were a big fan.

Lynn

20:40

I enjoy both vocalists, but with vocalists especially, that’s always a big Ship of Theseus kinda thing

Alex A.

@Roujo ಠ_ಠ

Lynn

Like, how many members can you swap out and still have your band be the same band?

Roujo

@Lynn Agreed. Since what you (probably) hear the most in a song is the vocalist, I'd say that number is one.

Lynn

Plus, you can copy the replacee’s guitar style, or whatever, but not their voice.

Roujo

If there's just one vocalist, anyway

Lynn

20:41

Yeah

Sherlock9

Guys, you remember telling me about distributions of Python other than CPython?

What were the others again? My memory is failing me

TimmyD

@Lynn It worked for ~~Guns n Roses~~ Velvet Revolver

Lynn

Jython, IronPython, pypy

Roujo

List of Python software

The Python programming language is actively used by many people, both in industry and academia for a wide variety of purposes. == Integrated development environments for PythonEdit == Boa Constructor, a cross-platform IDE for Python development Codenvy a cloud development environment EasyEclipse, an open source IDE for Python and other languages Eclipse with the Pydev plug-in. Eclipse supports many other languages as well. Eric, an IDE for Python and Ruby Geany, IDE for Python development and other languages Koding a free online development environment for many programming languages including...

Alex A.

@Sherlock9 PyPy, the JIT compiled one

TimmyD

20:43

@Sherlock9 Pyth. /ducks

Alex A.

lel

Lynn

More Jelly writeups, this time with fancy images

Alex A.

@TimmyD It definitely didn't work for Opeth, which is why everything after Ghost Reveries is garbage.

Roujo

There was something with Nightwish as well, IIRC

What I find funny is that removing members, while seemingly less of a problem Ship of Theseus-wise, can end up making a worse band than just replacing them

Alex A.

This is true

Roujo

20:48

Unless you're like Girls Generation and still have 8 members left =P

Lynn

Hahaha, so

TimmyD

@AlexA. Well, sure, but Opeth ... eh

Lynn

The Sugababes originally consisted of three members, who each got swapped out of the band

But then, the original members formed a new band

How great is that?

Alex A.

@TimmyD As I mentioned before with Meshuggah, Opeth was something I loved in high school that I've since kind of lost interest in.

TimmyD

Also, if your list of members has its own Wiki article, you may have a problem ...

List of Opeth band members

This is a comprehensive listing of the current and former members of Opeth, a progressive metal band formed in Stockholm, Sweden in 1990. == Current membersEdit == Mikael Åkerfeldt – lead vocals (1992–present), guitars (1990–present), bass (1997, on My Arms, Your Hearse) Martín Méndez – bass (1997–present) Martin "Axe" Axenrot – drums, percussion (2006–present) Fredrik Åkesson – guitars (2007–present) Joakim Svalberg – keyboards, synthesizer, backing vocals, percussion (2011–present) == Former membersEdit == David Isberg – vocals (1990–1992) Martin Persson – bass (1990) Anders Nordin – ...

Roujo

20:49

@Lynn Niiiiiice =P

@TimmyD That and needing a graph to clear things up =P

Lynn

@TimmyD Oh gosh, right. You know your band is messed up if it has one of those “timeline” thingies Wikipedians make for bands.

Alex A.

@TimmyD O_O

Lynn

Look at these touring musicians for Toto. Absolutely bananas.

That’s what happens if your band is frickin olllld and tours for one billion years

Sherlock9

@Lynn @AlexA. @TimmyD Thanks

TimmyD

@Lynn That's not a musician timeline. That's some grad student attempting to find a genetic marker for red hair.

Alex A.

20:52

hahaha

Roujo

List of members of bands featuring members of the Beatles

The Beatles began in 1956, when John Lennon formed a skiffle group with his friends called the Quarrymen. The band underwent many name and membership changes, culminating in 1962 with the famous line-up of Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. After the Beatles disbanded in 1970, each of the four members went on to have success, both as solo acts and with their own groups. Although Lennon died in 1980, the remaining Beatles re-united in 1994 to record new songs for the Anthology project. Since Harrison's death on 2001, the two remaining members have not reunited as the Beatles...

Why

Alex A.

ahahaha what

flawr

Alex A.

ohhhhhhhhhhhh babby cat

RikerW

How iz babby cat made?

flawr

20:57

reddit.com/r/startledcats

RikerW

reddit.com/r/Blep

Roujo

RikerW

Almost even better.

Alex A.

@Roujo Oh shit.

Cuteness overflowed

Roujo

@AlexA. That's my cat ^^

Alex A.

20:59

AAAHHHHHHHHH

YOUR CAT IS SO CUTE

Roujo

inoraite

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