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15:01
90% of the time when I get up at work, I lock Windows (Ctrl+L). 10% of the time I don't. My monitors go to sleep when I step away for a while. When I sit back down, I have to decide whether I want to wait for them to wake back up (three seconds or so), or just risk typing my password into whatever box my cursor happened to be sitting in when I left.
Lucky for me, ctrl+shift+del opens the history tab in Chrome, so you guys didn't get to see my password
@AquaTart In what?
RainboltIsAwesome77
Omg
Are you a hacker?
15:07
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Jolf. I figured it out :P
Unfortunately f doesn't have something predefined for month - day - year
@AquaTart It doesn't D:
It's on my CPU but I haven't pushed it
And something is broken with 05AB1E and floats so there's that
This would be 15 bytes in it otherwise :/
žf'.žežg2000-J*
@Rainbolt Yes.
15:11
Do we have a quine polyglot challenge?
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Q: Multiple program Quinecatenate!

Faraz MasroorYour task is to give three different languages A, B, C, and write two different programs P and Q such that: P is a quine in language A, but not a quine in B nor C; Q is a quine in language B, but not a quine in A nor C; and Q concatenated after P (without any new characters added in between...

17
Q: Write a Polyquine

Martin BüttnerA polyquine is both quine and polyglot.1 You are to write a quine which is valid in at least two different languages. This is code golf, so the shortest answer (in bytes) wins. 1 I made that up. Or rather, Geobits did. Apparently, he wasn't the first one either, though. Rules for Quines Only t...

wow
I guess we did
g'morning m8s
15:26
Monkning!
Windows is a pain in the ass when it comes to remote managing...
Really? You're starting up another Windows-bashing topic? :/
I use windows.
Nobody can make a decent OS
I think it's due to complexity.
15:51
@TimmyD Windows is great when you are a user, but can be a pain in the ass when admin'ing it
Simply deploying some apps, and running them on logon without the UAC popping out AND while getting them executed by the current user is kinda... tricky
I would much rather admin hundreds of Windows boxen than hundreds of Linux or OSX boxen.
(presuming similar levels of user competency between all three infrastructures)
Adjective: boxen ‎(comparative more boxen, superlative most boxen)
  1. Made of boxwood.
  2. Resembling box (the wood).
Noun: boxen
  1. plural of box ‎(“computer”)
Verb: boxen
  1. third-person plural present indicative form of boxar
  2. boxen ‎(third-person singular simple present boxt, past tense boxte, past participle geboxt, auxiliary haben)
  3. to box (strike with the fists)
  4. boxen ‎(past participle geboxt, auxiliary verb hunn)
  5. to box
It's the other way around for me... I would prefer working in a Unix environment simply because there isn't always X built-in tools you have to find a way to work around when you want to do some simple things...
15:55
I had the option when building a desktop last week to install a bunch of crap that would allow me to remotely manage Windows. I also had the option to recommend Windows 10 Pro over Windows 10 Home, for like $70 more. I said no to both options, and so I won't be complaining when I can't remotely manage the new machine.
It's really my own fault. I preferred faster boot times and cheaper OS over remote management capabilities.
Save @ECHO 5 into 2+2.bat. Run from command line :D
@Rainbolt I didn't set up the windows environment, and all OSes are pro versions. Still doesn't help ^^
SCCM?
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Hah.
@TimmyD doesn't suppress the need for credentials / administrator token authorisation (which is asked via UAC)
16:06
@Katenkyo Sure it can. You can specify the installation privilege to be run under Local System via the SCCM client and how you advertise it to the user by changing some Group Policy settings. reference
Given (g h y) c as an expression for functions g, h, constant c, and a right-arg y, how do I convert that to a verb? (g h y is also a verb)
@Katenkyo Also, this setting -- but make sure you have your desktops locked down sufficiently before turning that one on.
Obviously, test these in a lab environment, your mileage may vary, this doesn't constitute legally binding advice or obligations, etc. etc.
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ How long would the pi thing be with f6 -> year day month
@TimmyD Already tried to fiddle using the local system account, as it actually runs the executable as SYSTEM it causes a problem because I need this executable to see the currently logged user.
@AquaTart idk I'm on school table (IE) and Jolf doesn't work with IE
16:15
But thanks for the sources, I'll read them more in depth tomorrow, I have to go for now :)
ewwww IE
@Katenkyo /wavebye
@AquaTart I have to use it dumbbell.
@Katenkyo bai!
Why does žfžežg almost look like a legitimate word in some language?
It's got that Lorem Ipsum feel to it.
syzygy
Looks sort of similar
16:17
@TimmyD I know, right?
hmm
Chat challenge: make a box n layers thick with n inside of it. Like this:
┌─────┐
│┌───┐│
││┌─┐││
│││3│││
││└─┘││
│└───┘│
└─────┘
You may use ASCII as well. The input will be strictly greater than or equal to zero. If zero, print no box.
I was about to ask why there were three newlines between every line...
>_> I don't know what you are talking about.
Anyhow, J, 4 bytes: <^:]
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I'm pretty sure that's just an emoticon
"Happy rhino wearing birthday hat"
U+01337 HAPPY RHINO WEARING BIRTHDAY HAT
0
Q: There's an ant on my Rubik's Cube

Helka HombaA standard, solved, 3×3×3 Rubik's Cube has 6 differently colored faces, where each face is a 3×3 grid of squares of one color. The white face is opposite the yellow, the red opposite orange, the blue opposite green, and when white points upward, red is to the left of blue: Imagine an ant sits ...

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ wtbfiwaj >.>
@HelkaHomba huhwat
way to be first in with a joke
16:32
That's a thing? :P
(I can't vote, am out of upvotes BTW)
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ etiat
Every Thing Is A Thing?
16:45
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ gross
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ flagged as offensive
8 more answers for silver code golf
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ You punt squealing tapirs joyfully around Czechoslovakia??
16:55
tapir abyus eleven
@NewMainPosts @HelkaHomba
It is funny :D
Come on FGITWers...
@Zgarb May I write a "rotate the edges of a 2x2 matrix one to the right" question, inspired by your codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/75293/rotate-the-dots?
(Maybe I shouldn't encourage that..)
Enters in RubixCubeAntLang
17:22
var MIN     = 0,
    MAX     = 10000,
    PATTERN = /3.*4/,
    count   = 0;
for(var i=MIN;i<=MAX;i++){
  count += PATTERN.test(i);
}
console.log(count);
This is a rather elegant solution to this:
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Q: In how many of the integer numbers between 0 and 10,000 does the digit 3 appear to the left of 4

Ninjascroll86In how many of the integer numbers between 0 and 10,000 does the digit 3 appear some place to the left of the digit 4? This would include, for example, the numbers 34, 374, 4384 and 3874, but would not include 27, 43, 3650 or 4333 So I am thinking you do 8x9x1x1+1x9x1+8x1x9x1+1x9x9x1 = 234? But ...

@lirtosiast Sure! The more challenges the merrier.
0
Q: Print the difference in the Thue-Morse sequence

SolverThe Thue-Morse sequence goes like 01101001 The way you generate it is: Start by taking 0. Negate what is left and append it to the end. So, take 0. Negate it and add that to the end - 01 Then take that and negate it and add that to the end - 0110 And so on. Another interesting property of t...

Can I map a function over a box-thingy in J?
(Say I have 'h';'e';'qer';'qr')
:D Box thingy @CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ There's L:, which lets you map to a specific boxing level.
17:33
@Solver Yes, highly technical words. ^_^
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) @CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ
Hello
Thanks @Zgarb! :D
and hi
Is there a way to capitalize something in J? I tried using u: but that doesn't have an inverse afaik
J is capitalized already
Something in J, nice try ;)
17:39
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Not sure. String processing in J is generally painful.
@Zgarb Yeah :( Not as bad as TI-BASIC tho
Are all J commands vague emoticons? L: u: ...
J invented emoticons.
Matrix transpose is |:
17:40
@HelkaHomba That looks oddly smug.
J:
Hello @Geobits. Sensed the arrow fodder?
If I knew how to make an infix-parser, I would make a better J.
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Sorry for being naive, but what is an infix-parser?
@Solver It's basically an interpreter for an infix language
And naivety is fine, it's better to ask and know than the converse :)
@zgarb Is string replacement even possible in J? o-O
18:01
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I think the best way might be to cut the string with ;., insert the replacement string before each piece, and concatenate the results back.
But it's kinda clunky.
@Zgarb I don't quite follow - how would that replace the string?
Say you want to replace ab by cd in aababbbaba. First you cut at occurrences of ab and get |a||bb|a| (it's an array of boxed strings). Then you insert cd before each piece and get |cda|cd|cdbb|cda|, and then you concatenate the pieces and get cdacdcdbbcda. Finally you remove the extra cd in the beginning and get acdcdbbcda.
I tried to implement it, but ;. doesn't want to play with me.
Darn. This is complicated >_>
There may be a better way that I just don't know about.
I've looked through the docs, and nothing ._.
I'm tempted to make an SO post called "String manipulation in J"
18:15
@MamaFunRoll Shtriped is like this but only has incrementing and decrementing github.com/HelkaHomba/shtriped
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ That may be a good idea. Googling J only gives results for Java. :(
@Zgarb I always search "J programming language" because of this reason. brb writing question
There's a library for that!
tryj.tk is buggy in general.
18:24
Can you suggest a good implementation?
I've only used the standard one: jsoftware.com/stable.htm
Oo, thanks! :D
require'strings' isn't exactly golfy, though :(
No, especially by J's standards.
BTW, to see how buggy tryj.tk is, try */~ 0 1 1 0 1
At least for me it gives back nonsense.
Hello
18:48
@Zgarb Could you test some J for me? I'm at school w/out the permission to download anything.
include'strings'
rlpc&'or';'';'and';'';'by';'';'of';''>{.L:0@;:
include should be require
#require strings
Then it just spits back the verb. Should I give it some arguments?
18:54
What kind?
Say, 'united states of America'
(right arg)
domain error
ugh
How about just >{.L:0@;:?
That gives usoA
Okay, so far so good.
How about >{.L:0@;:@rlpc&'or';'';'and';'';'by';'';'of';''
?
18:58
Hmm, should you have parens around the argument to rplc?
Maybe... I don't know much J
>{.L:0@;:@rplc&('or';'';'and';'';'by';'';'of';'') 'united states of america' gives usa
Which I guess is close to what you want.
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I answered "Hello, World!" in Cubix. Did you see it?
@EasterlyIrk Data bot went standby, dreaming of cyborg sheep.
Cyborg sheep? Data opened a wrong dream! Wake him up!
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ That exists, and it's called Cubix ;)
@ETHproductions your cube unfolding doesn't quite work I think
Run __import__("decimal").Decimal(0.1) in Python 3
if I paste the unfolded cube it doesn't print anything
19:30
lol
That's a pretty neat language.
Now we just need Dodecahedrix.
@Pietu1998 Too complex.
@zyabin101theHated Say that to the people who write Hexagony...
@MartinBüttner Stupid me, I forgot the g in my regex. Will be fixed in a minute
19:40
@ETHproductions So it's just reex?
> if there are builtins for this, the lang creators have done a bad and they should feel bad
Yes. :D
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Q: Translate Java methods to fields

CoolestVetoSo, recently, I found myself reformatting my code for Vitsy to using anonymous class instances for commands rather than the normal method approach. For those who don't know, anonymous class instance syntax looks something like this: ... private abstract static class SomeClass { public abstra...

Nobody uses anonymous classes like this anyways unless they are seriously doing something wrong.
@ETHproductions here's 29: ./v.o;@?/"!dlroW"S',w/"Hello"
19:41
Oh, sick burn @Dennis
@MartinBüttner o_o wut
@Dennis ಠ_ಠ I am not new. Also, I forgot to put that in. Sorry. :P — CoolestVeto 6 secs ago
rekt
If Dennis is the god of golfy languages then Martin must be the god of geometric languages
7
19:44
Bah, I'll up vote the comment. That was pretty good. You just didn't recognize me... right, @Dennis?
Or the 5103 by my name.
@Pietu1998 What of Sp?
@CoolestVeto Oh, is @CoolestVeto an anagram of VTCAKAVSMoACE?
Nope. CoolestVeto -> VoteToClose
I was so happy that that worked like it did. xD
@MartinBüttner I don't see anything different...?
19:47
Welcome to the land of confusion, @Solver!
@CoolestVeto VoteToClose ==> VoteToCloseAlsoKnownAsVisualStudioMoACE
ಠ_ಠ There is no Visual Studio in my name.
Or VoteToClose, actually.
@ETHproductions oh that was stupid... give me a minute
paste this:
      . / v
      . o ;
      @ ? /
" ! d l r o W " S ' , w
/ " H e l l o " . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . .
      . . .
      . . .
      . . .
So good job. :P You got 3 right.
@MartinBüttner ......Sv/., World!
Are you getting the same result?
19:48
exactly
> This is the world we live in / And these are the hands we're given / Use them and let's start trying / To make it a place worth living in golf every language in
Lemme see why that happens
I changed the w instruction to u,
19:49
@CoolestVeto This one comment you replied to must be a review comment.
@ETHproductions oh...
Change the w to u and it works
Sorry bout that
Welcome to Programming Puzzles & Code Golf! Questions without an objective primary winning criterion are off-topic, as they make it impossible to indisputably decide which entry should win. — Dennis ♦ 8 mins ago
yeah that works
so ./v.o;@?/"!dlroW"S',u/"Hello"
I realized u wasn't being used and it would be a better fit for a u-turn instruction
19:50
probably still not optimal
Awesome though :)
@CoolestVeto Looks like it was copy-pasted from the moder--- wait, there's no clipboard in the tools.
@zyabin101theHated There's an auto comment thing from Stack Apps. :P
@CoolestVeto Link?
@MartinBüttner That's actually exactly what I was trying to do, except I couldn't figure out how to pop the S before outputting
19:52
Hmm. I should've gone with "To make it a place worth living golfing in"
316
Q: AutoReviewComments - Pro-forma comments for SE

Benjol No more re-typing the same comments over and over! This script adds a little 'auto' link next to all comments boxes. When you click the link, you see a popup with 6 configurable auto-comments (canned responses), which you can easily click to insert. This script was inspired by answers to thi...

Does worldbuilding irk anyone else? It's like a bunch of fiction writers trying to make their imaginations conform to everyone elses, which kinda defeats the purpose.
I find it quite entertaining tbh
@HelkaHomba I have a thing that's completely arbitrary. How can I justify it?
19:55
@HelkaHomba By irk, do you mean annoy or put off?
you know what I hate about worldbuilding.SE? Whenever I click a WB link from HNQ, the next hour or so of my time suddenly disappears
@Martin Answer updated.
:)
also I'm glad my Homespring answer makes you so happy :P
@TimmyD If they're just looking for someone else to rationalize their story, then it ceases to become their story.
20:02
This I realize. That's just my impression of what it seems like reading most of the questions there.
I'm sure there's something deeper, I just can't get into it.
Gotcha
So punny in the first few seconds.
I have a side-length-5, 149-byte answer for the Happy Birthday challenge whenever I get around to implementing Rubik's rotation. It could definitely be golfed (85 no-ops currently), but it's just so darn perfectly aligned that I want to post it as-is.
@flawr He should be punished.
Well that was dumb. I implemented arithmetic operators backwards, so my primality testing program was trying to take 2%4 instead of 4%2.
20:17
@Doorknob // @match *://*.askububtu.com/*
That moment you realize that calculating pi was easier than you thought. >.>
@Pietu1998 ... oops
@CoolestVeto Then his AutoReviewComments derailed. You were online for?
I don't understand that sentence.
anyone good with typography can tell what font this is? i.sstatic.net/ppXNc.jpg
eh, seems to be Helvetica
20:26
So... I can either print -1 for composite numbers and 0 for prime, or I can print 0 for either.
@MartinBüttner I believe it's Arial
Arial on the left, Helvetica on the right:
oh, looks like Mathematica fell back to Arial when I tried to tell it to render in Helvetica
Oh hey, an entirely different primality test I wrote the other day works perfectly, and it's a byte shorter :)
Posting now...
@MartinBüttner Definitely not helvetica.
yeah seems to be Arial
Holy crap
It's a frankenuser built from the remains of our beloved xnor and Doorknob!
You guys better watch out. Tomorrow it'll be Xornob Büttner the Hated.
Heck, he may have already eaten Martin. He's got German cards.
20:48
Mortarboard on Mathematica.SE \o/
there is mathematica.se?
@Rainbolt Helka Xornobüttnnisp3000.
@Zgarb Yah, but in smallcaps.
@flawr what... you have been missing out! :D
their "how do I reproduce this graphics effect" questions are better than any of our popcons :P
@MartinBüttner I do not really use mathematica except when I'm forced to.
20:54
right but Mathematica.SE has some very nice posts even for people who've never used Mathematica ;)
Well I did use mathematica once or twice.
But really not more than that=)
@Zgarb At first, I read that as "zor butt snip 3000"
@MartinBüttner O.O
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Q: How to generate a random snowflake

Peltio'Tis the season... And it's about time I posed my first question on Mathematica Stack Exchange. So, here's an holiday quest for you Graphics (and P-Chem?) gurus. What is your best code for generating a (random) snowflake in Mathematica? By random I mean with different shapes that will mimic the ...

- mark II reloaded
20:57
@TimmyD see :)
@MartinBüttner ಠ_ಠ Again someone talking about the argand diagram. It must me a mathematica illness.
maybe just a physicists' illness :P
although I'm pretty sure our lecturers from the maths department occasionally mentioned that name as well
mroning
@MartinBüttner The draw stuff with dots question has some nice images.
Is there some way to subscribe to the contributions (comments/answers) of a question on SE?
So you'll get notifications whenever someone adds e.g. a new comment?
21:06
Who nuked my comment asking about the down vote?
That was me. It pinged me.
Jan 20 at 18:10, by Alex A.
FYI: The moderators have decided to implement a new policy wherein comments along the lines of "Why the downvote(s)?" will be deleted on sight as "not constructive." If a downvoter has not explained a downvote, it's unlikely they'll ever explain it. Further, such comments can elicit potentially undeserved "sympathy upvotes." So if you get a downvote with no explanation, recheck your work for blaring inaccuracies, and if you're all good then don't sweat it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Dennis ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Okaydokay.
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Q: A first book in advanced math(s) for a "novice" mathematician, but "mature" thinker

Andres MejiaI enjoy giving interesting problems to my peers who have not seen a lot of mathematics. It is a constant conversation I have with many friends who would interchange "mathematical thinking" with "mechanical thinking" in conversation. Consequently, I often make it my mission to elucidate why mathe...

21:20
This is quite a cool visual proof:
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A: Visually stunning math concepts which are easy to explain

The Code SamuraiSimilarly to eykanal's answer, although demonstrating some interesting facts about medians and geometry as well. It demonstrates that $\displaystyle\sum_{n = 1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{2^n} = 1$:

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A: Why is essay review closed but neither code or math reviews

Robert CartainoCode review was from another era where even Jeff Atwood said it didn't really fit our model, but the sheer size of our audience and experience that went into it gave them the collateral to give it a shot. Even today, it still does not fit our model and it always seems to <air-quotes> "break" how ...

I'm assuming some goes for the code golf site? — x-x 6 mins ago
g'day m8s
Was zyabin chat banned?
21:42
@BentNeeHumor no?
Challenge: Find natural numbers (excluding 0) a, b such that a ^ b is equal to a ++ b (i.e., the concatenation of a and b)
@LegionMammal978 within a specific range of numbers i'm assuming?
@LegionMammal978 Is the ^ a bitwise xor or is it a "to the power to"?
Other than that, what base?
@flawr Exponentiation
@flawr Base-10 concatenation
basically
checking if math.pow(a,b).tostring() is equal to a.tostring() + b.tostring()
(for a given range of numbers?)
(i r gud @ pseudocode?)
21:49
-3 ^ 3 almost works :(
@LegionMammal978 1^-0 = 1-0 = 1 :P
> natural numbers (excluding 0)
o
duh
//slaps self
I used negative zero ;)
21:51
> natural numbers
are you talking about a^b being equal to the sum of a and b or
Ok, ok
a^b being equal to a concatenation of the string representations of a and b
(im confusing myself pls 4giv)
@crayzeedude String concatenation (in decimal presumably)
Revised challenge: Find nonzero natural numbers a, b such that a ^ b (i.e., a raised to the b'th power) is equal to a ++ b (i.e., the base-10 concatenation of a and b)
21:52
5^2 … so close
@LegionMammal978 do you know that a solution exists?
@MartinBüttner No, it came from real life
^^ That's cool.
because I think it's possible to check this exhaustively
21:54
@CoolestVeto What I do not like abou tthis animation is that it absolutely doesn tshow what the blue curves have to do with the red one.
@x-x Sure. Code Golf, Code Review, CS50, Patents; maybe less so Hardware Recs, Software Recs, World Building: these were all so-called experimental sites and, as our Historical Lock says, these may not be considered a good, on-topic [subject] for this site, so please do not use it as evidence that you can [make similar proposals] here.Robert Cartaino ♦ 23 mins ago
ELI5 base-10 concatenation?
b can't be 1, because a ++ b != a.
To look up a<sup>b</sup>, you have to look up ab
@flawr True.
21:54
b/c when i think of concatenation i think of string concats
if b == 2, you can't have a > 31, or else a ++ b has two digits more than a
@crayzeedude thats what is meant
o
thanks
if b > 2, then you'd be limited to a < 10
21:55
a++b = 10^floor(log10(b))*a + b in general
@Maltysen You forgot to include the 10^ I think.
Anybody know why this is getting down votes?
Too much Java.
@flawr idk what yo're talking about >_>
@Maltysen Actually a ++ b = a*10^(floor(log10(b))+1) + b
21:56
@flawr Granted, but that's the point of the challenge.
so yeah I don't think it's possible
@LegionMammal978 That's what he wrote...?
@CoolestVeto He forgot the + 1
@CoolestVeto maybe they're from before you updated due to Dennis' comment
Oh. :P
@Quill They came in afterwards.
21:58
Does anyone here know EDSAC machine code?
@Quill an hour ago, and 50 minutes ago, Dennis's comment was 2 hours ago.
okay

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