The Nineteenth Byte

Quill

21:00

in The 2nd Monitor, 28 secs ago, by Mat's Mug

@Quill so, Tiger for Golf, his computer for Programming/Code, and I guess, his relationships for Puzzles?

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Q: Chat still says beta

A picture with freehand red circles is worth a million words:

Anonymous

@Quill You should share the other image there, too :)

Hurricane996

@AquaTart Ha Ha...

He died on march 5th, 1953, I was born on March 5th, a considerable amount of years after 1953

Anonymous

in The 2nd Monitor, 40 secs ago, by Quill

the revised version is somehow worse

Nathan Merrill

The Specious Present

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Anonymous

21:02

I think you meant super plus gooder

Sherlock9

@Hurricane996 Among the many people who share my birthday, September 22, are Tom Felton, Billie Piper, Frodo Baggins and Bilbo Baggins

El'endia Starman

@NathanMerrill I watched that just a couple hours ago. :D

Hurricane996

The cafeteria gave me milk that expired today

Anonymous

@Sherlock9 So Draco, Rose, and hobbitses

Hurricane996

program:

print(how_much_i_care)

El'endia Starman

21:06

@Mego They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!

Hurricane996

result:

0

Anonymous

@El'endiaStarman To Isengard! To Isengard!

flawr

@NathanMerrill That should have been a topic for brain craft

Sherlock9

@Mego Pretty much. My source on Frodo and Bilbo is literally the first page of the Lord of the Rings. Bilbo's 111th and Frodo's 33rd is the first chapter.

El'endia Starman

They're taking the hobbits to Isengard gard g-g-g-gard!

Sherlock9

21:06

@Hurricane996 Thank you for your concern XD

Hurricane996

qwyznceubo,nup.

Cat Walked Over Keyboard

Anonymous

@AlexA. Why did you add chat? Now the SE people will never see it!

Nathan Merrill

@flawr never heard of them, thanks for the reference

Alex A.

@Mego Because it's about chat? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anonymous

It's a well-known fact that chat is a synonym for status-ignored

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Alex A.

21:09

status-unnoticed-by-senpai

flawr

c-hat

Hurricane996

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flawr

Speaking of hats

@AlexA. Did you read The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson?

Alex A.

Nope. Haven't heard of it.

flawr

Well you should read it.

RikerW

21:10

@flawr Is it about hats?

Hurricane996

I should make a twitter based REPL

flawr

A series with 2 more books.

Alex A.

Haha okay

flawr

But there are sequels that play later in the same universe

Which are hillarious

RikerW

Is it about hats?

No? THEN IT IS EVIL!

flawr

21:11

Well one guy there has a thing with hats.

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Q: Resolve SAS macro variables

The SAS programming language is a clunky, archaic language dating back to 1966 that's still in use today. The original compiler was written in PL/I, and indeed much of the syntax derives from PL/I. SAS also has a preprocessor macro language which derives from that of PL/I as well. In this challen...

code-golf parsing interpreter

Dennis

Are there any TI-BASIC people around?

flawr

I really recommend reading the series=)

Alex A.

@NewMainPosts I have a feeling this is going to be pretty hard.

flawr

@Dennis Only voyage 200 ti-basic.

Dennis

21:14

@flawr That's probably not the same thing. Anyway, this answer uses inString(, but I can't find any reference that it is case-insensitive.

Nathan Merrill

@flawr I just got shadow of self from the library :P

Anonymous

@Dennis I have a calculator handy I can check with

Maltysen

@NathanMerrill what series is this?

Nathan Merrill

Mistborn

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Dennis

@Mego \o/ Please do.

Nathan Merrill

21:15

2nd best series I've ever read

flawr

@NathanMerrill Greeat=)

I just started reading the newest one

The Bands of Mourning

Maltysen

have you guys read his stormlight archives one?

flawr

Not yet=)

but on the tbr

Maltysen

I think #3 comes out this year

Nathan Merrill

stormlight is #1 :P

and I believe its next year

but I may be wrong

RikerW

21:16

Can't you only type CAPITAL LETTERS in TI-BASIC?

And @AlexA. is <font size="18"> text</font> bigger than <h1>text</h1>?

Maltysen

@NathanMerrill no, you're right D:

flawr

nope, at least not on the voyage 200

Nathan Merrill

@RikerW there are actually some lowercase stuff, but they are all in the middle of the words

and strings

ETHproductions

Are you mean

1 min ago, 18 seconds total – 4 messages, 2 users, 0 stars

Bookmarked 38 secs ago by ETHproductions

Alex A.

@RikerW ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

flawr

21:17

@RikerW tryit yourself?

Anonymous

@Dennis I got 1 for "E e". That should be a 0.

Anonymous

So inString( is not case-insensitive

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

How long until a five-card-stud poker winning hand? code-golf game Background: Five card stud is a variant of poker where the player is dealt a hand of five cards from a shoe of multiple standard 52-card decks. This hand is then used for play/scoring, following the table listed below. {insert...

Dennis

@Mego That's what I thought. Thanks for confirming.

Sherlock9

@flawr I HAVE!

Anonymous

21:20

@Dennis You're welcome :)

Cyoce

I'm happy with my Kindle 2 so far, but if they cut off the free Wikipedia browsing, I plan to show up drunk on Jeff Bezos's lawn and refuse to leave.

Sherlock9

I love the Mistborn series. But I have this silly problem where I haven't finished the third book, because when I last reading the whole series, I had to pause to head between my lodgings near my university and going back home. I put the book down and haven't picked it up since

Nathan Merrill

@Sherlock9 but there's an epic ending!

Sherlock9

I know and the fact that I know is terrible!

I have spoiled it for myself by trying to figure what happened!

Nathan Merrill

Brandon sanderson is a genius: all of his books make you realize things about the previous books so you have to go and read them again

flawr

21:25

@Sherlock9 JUST READ IT

Sherlock9

The only series I have avidly enjoyed where I haven't spoiled anything is RWBY. I did not read any of the comments before watching the finale and got all the feels direct and at its greatest potency

@flawr Now? It's 4 am and I have class in 10 hours

Liam

I thought the first one was really good

the others were decent but not as good

Sherlock9

What I may do is finish the third book, read Elantris and either pick up another of his series or reread Mistborn

flawr

@Sherlock9 DOESNT MATTER

@Sherlock9 No you have to read the sequels!

Sherlock9

@flawr Tomorrow, I promise. Discord is the easiest place to remind me.

@flawr OH YEAH. I forgot I bought a physical copy of Alloy of Law for almost the cheapest I've ever seen a non-translated import book I've ever seen in Indonesia

flawr

21:30

@Sherlock9 If you need e-books you can ask me=)

Sherlock9

I have a bunch already, but let's compare collections of e-books

Actually, I do need to set up a Gmail with this username so I don't give out an email with my real name on it, so let me do that now

flawr

@Sherlock9 meltmail.com

Too bad that too many gmail usernames are already taken

Sherlock9

Yeah, it is too bad

@flawr Here, [email protected]

RikerW

@AlexA. I did, and I was hinting. :P

Alex A.

Okay

Anonymous

21:35

@Sherlock9 Oh man that finale

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Q: What is the best way to actually time an answer for fastest-code challenges

Is there a "best" way to do this? I imagine one could write a bash script that would print the time, execute the program, and then print the time again, but perhaps there are pitfalls with this. Is there a consensus on how times should be measured for fastest-code challenges?

discussion

Sherlock9

@Mego i cri evrytiem ;___;

flawr

@Sherlock9 You should have gotten a mail=)

Sherlock9

Seriously though, Monty, Miles and Kerry should either get an award or a mauling for that much feels manipulation

Anonymous

@Sherlock9 It would have to be an award; I've never heard of a posthumous mauling

Maltysen

21:37

I just noticed the starboard. We're graduating?

Rainbolt

When is the last time you saw the starboard and it didn't say something about us graduating?

Dennis

Correction: We have graduated.

Maltysen

@Dennis omg there's no beta

Dennis

The beta label is gone and everything else is the same. \o/

flawr

We still have the old mods for example.

Maltysen

21:38

what about privileges?

TimmyD

@flawr And Alex.

Dennis

@Maltysen Same. They should change in the near future though.

Sherlock9

@flawr I should have. Not seeing it yet

Dennis

Does anyone of you know if there's a Number.prototype.toPrecision() in Python?

Sherlock9

round(1.000000001, 6)?

Dennis

21:41

No, round is different. 123.456.toPrecision(1) yields 100.0.

TimmyD

> Does any of you

Dennis

Is that wrong?

Optimizer

anyone

Maltysen

or Do

Optimizer

Do any of you seems more wrong

Sherlock9

21:44

@flawr I don't think I got it. How quickly does meltmail forward stuff?

Dennis

Ah carp, I translated from Spanish. I hate it when that happens...

TimmyD

"Does anyone" would be the usual idiom.

Sherlock9

Or "Do any of you"

Rainbolt

1 min ago, by Optimizer

Do any of you seems more wrong

Optimizer

can't tell if you are making fun of me or siding with me

mbomb007

21:45

Just noticed that VoteToClose has a temporary suspension. Anyone know why?

Sp3000

Oh god a new mobile chat (or should it be "Oh yay"?)

TimmyD

"Does anyone know" or "Do any of you know" would both be OK. The first one is, I think, more common when addressing an unspecified group, while the latter is more when you're explicitly directing a question.

Rainbolt

@Optimizer I was just repeating what you said for repetition's sake

Optimizer

so siding

Sherlock9

@Rainbolt @Optimizer Sorry, didn't see that first message

TimmyD

21:46

yesterday, by VoteToClose

@Dennis Could you please freeze my account and chat ban me for 3 days (or whatever time period is shortest past that)? I'm going to be really busy in school the next few days and CG is just going to get in the way.

Sherlock9

I use "do any of you" and I'm a native English speaker

Rainbolt

@Sherlock9 You also use "does anyone"

Nov 30 '15 at 22:19, by Sherlock9

Incidentally, does anyone have a link to that meta post about PPCG terminology?

Sherlock9

That is true

And I do use "does anyone" more often

Optimizer

does useone*

El'endia Starman

TIL about the Wood effect.

flawr

21:50

@Sherlock9 Idk, I've never used it so far=)

TimmyD

On a tangential note, I find it fascinating the ratio of non-native English speakers here on PPCG. Most other sites online that I interact with are like 99.9% American.

El'endia Starman

@Dennis Sigfigs?

Dennis

Gesundheit.

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mbomb007

@TimmyD Coding involves different languages than English.

Maltysen

@El'endiaStarman speaking of which, do we have a challenge about those?

i couldn't find it on search

El'endia Starman

21:52

@Maltysen Pretty sure we do.

Dennis

@El'endiaStarman Yeah, toPrecision(x) rounds to x significant figures.

mbomb007

@Optimizer seem* :P

GamrCorps

My only complaint about graduation is that I lose "access to moderator tools" privilege.

El'endia Starman

@GamrCorps Priv levels haven't updated yet. You've still got a bit of time. :P

TimmyD

@mbomb007 That's true, and probably makes sense, as this is by far the most code-heavy site I visit.

GamrCorps

21:53

@El'endiaStarman Yeah but it is only delaying the inevitable

Dennis

Just get more rep.

GamrCorps

@Dennis working on it

TimmyD

Just ~~hack Dennis' account~~ get more rep.

El'endia Starman

@Dennis Maybe this will suffice?

ETHproductions

Just use Jelly for all your answers.

GamrCorps

21:54

But I don't mortarboard like every day like you so....

Alex A.

I know how you can get rep. Participate in this. :D

flawr

Anyway I think we should use sailboats more than motorboats. They are more environmentally friendly.

El'endia Starman

@Dennis Or this.

TimmyD

@AlexA. Cheeky.

Alex A.

@TimmyD Well, I have cheeks, so...

Dennis

21:56

@El'endiaStarman The first one is great. I knew about the second one, but it would require figuring out the correct right argument first. Thanks!

Anonymous

@Dennis Closest thing I could come up with: lambda x,p:''.join(['0.',c+'.'][i<p][c=='.']for i,c in enumerate(str(x)))

El'endia Starman

How did this go from +0/-2 when I saw it last night to +12/-6 and on HNQ? o.O

Anonymous

Not sure if there is a builtin or not

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Is the userscript working for you guys?

El'endia Starman

@Dennis Glad to help. :)

Anonymous

21:57

@El'endiaStarman Non-regulars voting

El'endia Starman

But you won't get a flood of non-regulars until after it hits HNQ.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

^

Anonymous

It got a bunch of answers, which put it on HNQ

Anonymous

Case in point:

El'endia Starman

Oh right, that's part of the formula.

Anonymous

21:58

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A: Golf the x<sup>th</sup> root of x

C++, 48 bytes #include<math.h> [](auto x){return pow(x,1./x);} The second line defines an anonymous lambda function. It can be used by assigning it to a function pointer and calling it, or just calling it directly. Try it online

Sherlock9

You guys got any comments for these two Sandbox posts? meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/8541/47581 meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/8542/47581

Are you mean

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