The Nineteenth Byte

Optimizer

20:00

?

Alex A.

Dr. Tran

eleven

@AlexA. USE LINUX INSTEAD

Alex A.

nope

@eleven OKAY

Optimizer

okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay

Alex A.

Quality content here in The Nineteenth Byte

Optimizer

20:03

right here

come right in

better than Puzzling.SE

Easterly Irk

@eleven are you somebody's sock?

specifically a magpie's?

Optimizer

yes. maybe

eleven

@EasterlyIrk No, I'm a number.

2

Easterly Irk

You can be both. Are you both?

I think he is either @Minibits or @MarkyMarkov in disguise.

Optimizer

I'd be number 4

coz I liked I am number 4

Easterly Irk

20:05

I'd be 13 and freak the hell out of people.

TimmyD

> I'm not a number. I am a free man!

Fax Machine

> I'm not a number. I am a fax machine!

TimmyD

Well played.

Fax Machine

I'm also not a printer.

I'm a noisy box that sends paper emails over the phone.

3

Optimizer

you are also not permanent. things disappear from your prints

mbomb007

20:11

Jon Skeet rides again!

🦄

TimmyD

@FaxMachine You are also a freaking technology that just won't die. Sorry. Bitter due to my previous job.

Fax Machine

@TimmyD My people live long and are celebrated office amenities

TimmyD

Ridiculously long-lived. I just wish it was easier to translate your language into VoIP.

Thankfully, I don't have to deal with that anymore.

Helka Homba

@FaxMachine Aren't you obsolete yet?

Optimizer

reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4clk26/…

goddamit

quartata

20:21

Woot, I got 4970 reputation in Unikong

ven

gz

I'm sure my Pyth answer is going to be longer than the one I'm translating...

Dennis

From what language are you translating?

ven

Python.

well, the Python version has min, and I don't have that in Pyth :[

I'm also 2 feets away from posting my first Jelly answer, but I don't know how to do string replacement

Dennis

Monadic or dyadic?

@ven split-join

ven

monadic

Fax Machine

20:25

@TimmyD BeeeeeeeOOOOOOOOOO screeeeEEEEEEEEeeeee

ven

haha, I guess I could split-join ;D

Fax Machine

@HelkaHomba ...no ;-;

Solver

@quartata Woot, my first PPCG question was -13

Dennis

@ven hS sould work then, no?

ven

@Dennis doesn't seem to be in the wiki-atoms?

Dennis

20:26

I mean for Pyth.

ven

oh.

epicTCK

techcrunch.com/2016/03/30/… has to be april fools... There is no way this is true.

Alex A.

@epicTCK Better believe it, son

epicTCK

but....

Alex A.

Microsoft's poor attempt at being relevant again

Dennis

20:31

@epicTCK blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/03/30/…

quartata

@Solver Unikong is the SE april fool's game

epicTCK

but why not just use linux?

Solver

@quartata never heard of it

Dennis

@epicTCK Switch OS's to use another shell seems... suboptimal. There's also Pash (Powershell for Linux).

epicTCK

But... But.... linux with wine == windows with bash?

quartata

20:34

linux with wine != windows with bash

epicTCK

so which is better?

IMO linux with wine...

but I am typing this on win10 so

Dennis

@epicTCK That's not at all the same. Also, the whole this-technology-is-only-available-on-that-platform mindset has to die anyway.

Fax Machine

Adding Bash to Windows is like giving a fax machine email capabilities

2

Dennis

@epicTCK In my experience, Wine's support for stuff you'd actually need is pretty much non-existent.

epicTCK

yeah... I agree

so would linux in windows be a VM or the actuall kernel or what

Dennis

20:37

> To accomplish this, we built new infrastructure within Windows [...] upon which we run a genuine Ubuntu user-mode image [.]

That sounds like Microsoft reinvented the VM.

(And is unreasonably proud and noisy about it.)

epicTCK

@Dennis oh no....

microsoft reiventing things. No M$! that is Apples job

Alex A.

This reminds me of how Microsoft was touting .NET before it was released or anything about it was disclosed.

Joel Spolsky called it vaporware at the time

@epicTCK As a Mac user, ಠ_ಠ

ven

I remember Dot GNU :P

epicTCK

@AlexA. I am a mac user as well, no hate on anyone.... I prefer mac's clean UI, windows's large user base and linux's openness.... so I have a linux bootable CD, a crappy old Windows laptop and my parents have mac

TLDR; I joke.

Alex A.

@epicTCK Ah, okay. I have a Mac laptop with Windows and Ubuntu VMs. I also have an old Windows laptop that takes 45 minutes to turn on.

epicTCK

20:42

"Just two lines of code enable you to bring the “Hello World” of Windows Ink into your apps through the InkCanvas and new InkToolbar controls. " still can't beat the majority of programming langueges.

ven

aw, Pyth overloads < which I don't want :[

Dennis

U:<

ven

no idea what's that supposed to be Oo

Alex A.

>:U

49

Q: Quack the Angry Duck

No one is quite certain what the emoticon >:U is intended to represent, but many scholars believe it looks like an angry duck. Let's assume that's the case. Task Given an integer n between 0 and 3 inclusive, print or return quack if n = 0, >:U if n = 1, U U > : U U > U U >...

ven

well, I really only need to check if x is an integer

.EIlQ could work... I guess?

Dennis

20:48

sIQ

ven

\o/, thanks

@Dennis++

Alex A.

Careful not to increment Dennis too much; he'll assume his final form and rule us all as the Supreme Golfer.

2

TimmyD

@Dennis Pash is like PowerShell v0.3

ven

it's okay, he'll just get to 70.001 :P

Downgoat

@AlexA. he already is ruling us all as the Supreme Golfer?

TimmyD

20:56

@epicTCK The bigger announcement is UWP for Xbox One coming this summer. That is yuge.

El'endia Starman

UWP?

Alex A.

Ultimate Wiggle Power

muddyfish

My God

TimmyD

@El'endiaStarman Universal Windows Platform -- seamless transition between devices

muddyfish

Unikong

Easterly Irk

20:57

yeah.

Downgoat

2

wat.

Easterly Irk

majik

muddyfish

Yes.

Easterly Irk

a bit late to the party guys

TimmyD

Literally write-once run-anywhere.

muddyfish

20:57

Its not even april 1st

Downgoat

@EasterlyIrk what party?

TimmyD

But not Java.

Easterly Irk

> yuge

@Downgoat this one

2 hours ago, by Easterly Irk

hey, anybody notice unikong?

Downgoat

oh

Easterly Irk

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 2 hours ago, by Quill

Martin Büttner

20:58

@muddyfish ...where you are.

El'endia Starman

@TimmyD Oooh, neat.

muddyfish

Uk

Easterly Irk

^^^

epicTCK

@TimmyD WTH is UWP?

Oh nvm

Easterly Irk

@MartinBüttner is it april 1 where you are?

TimmyD

20:58

@EasterlyIrk mentalfloss.com/article/71417/…

Martin Büttner

@muddyfish no that wasn't a question... I meant it's not even april 1st where you are.

@EasterlyIrk not yet.

Easterly Irk

okai

Martin Büttner

but I am aware of other timezones :P

muddyfish

where I am

Downgoat

where is SE located? it's not april 1st in the US yet

Alex A.

20:59

New York

muddyfish

They should have used JS to see local time based on clock or ip or something

Martin Büttner

@Downgoat their date-based stuff tends to last for 48 hours so that it covers all timezones

(50 hours actually, I think... -14 and +12)

Alex A.

I wonder if they made the game this year intentionally single-player so as not to encourage things like StackEgg.

Easterly Irk

^

I think so.

Downgoat

in the game, what does the clock do?

Easterly Irk

21:00

clock?

El'endia Starman

@AlexA. That and they probably didn't want to bother with validating scores when the primary audience is full of hackers... :P

Downgoat

ven

my first pyth answer \o/

El'endia Starman

@Downgoat That's a diamond.

Easterly Irk

@Downgoat is mod diamond

Downgoat

21:01

oh, so that' show I can become mod

Geobits

Yea, finding out that the highscore board wasn't shared sucked.

Downgoat

@EasterlyIrk what dies it ei

Geobits

It's just points.

Easterly Irk

collect them all to win

Downgoat

oh

D: UNicorn is trying to kill me.

Worst. language.

Easterly Irk

21:03

yeah

epicTCK

Ok. Idk what to think about this. just dont know...... My mind is so confused right now...

imma go play minecraft

Easterly Irk

gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unikong

roflmao

unikong

Alex A.

woo

Easterly Irk

nice!

What level did you make it too?

Alex A.

I'm still going but I just passed 9

Downgoat

21:07

\o/

Easterly Irk

\o/

El'endia Starman

@EasterlyIrk I just realized that the badges in the game are Arqade badges.

Easterly Irk

@AlexA. Beat 18.

Alex A.

Are the high scores fake? They seem to be different for everyone and are very round numbers...

Easterly Irk

Yes.

Alex A.

21:08

@EasterlyIrk Nice!

Easterly Irk

I think nobody has legitimately hit really high.

Alex A.

@EasterlyIrk ∏.∏

Easterly Irk

@El'endiaStarman also took me a bit. :P

@AlexA. IKR?

Also, I don't see any place to choose your 3 letter name... :P

Alex A.

Yeah

TRICKERY

Then again, this is April Fool's...

Downgoat

@EasterlyIrk it is randomly generated to "YOU"

Easterly Irk

21:11

what?

@AlexA. true..... KILL THEM ANYWAY!!

@Minibits (cc @Geobits) pokemon.alexonsager.net/76/109

4

Golfing + Pokemon.

Downgoat

does anyone know what a "voltage detector" is?

Geobits

I'm gonna go ahead and guess it detects voltage.

@EasterlyIrk Nice

Easterly Irk

Use it as an incentive to get minibits to golf code.

Also, you should totally let @Minibits chat, we won't teach him to worship avocad and hate java/js or anything.

Lynn

cjam.aditsu.net looks broken...?

Oh, wait, now it works.

Geobits

@EasterlyIrk He's got an account, just not the rep yet.

Helka Homba

21:22

@Geobits no

Martin Büttner

Fearow makes for some good combinations

epicTCK

who is minibits?

Helka Homba

Geobits's' kid

Martin Büttner

epicTCK

how old is (s)he? @Geobits

Geobits

21:24

epicTCK

looks like my neighor

Geobits

^^ Minibits

Martin Büttner

He should see a dentist.

Dennis

dammit ninja'd

Geobits

Using Staryu makes everything look like it's been face-huggered.

Dennis

21:28

^Pikachu (seems broken)

Optimizer

@Dennis this is raichu

-_-

Martin Büttner

no it's a Pikachu/Raichu fusion

Optimizer

oh

the fusion thingy

epicTCK

try "electrisian"

Optimizer

pokemon fusion is not a real thing, right?

Martin Büttner

21:30

@Dennis good idea though

Dennis

@Optimizer No, this is Raichu.

epicTCK

apparently electrisions look like this ^

my uncle doesn't and he is an electrician

El'endia Starman

At last, I have finally read all of the TNB transcript from my week without internet. :P

Martin Büttner

@epicTCK what's "*sian" from?

Optimizer

persian

epicTCK

21:32

persian

dangit nijad

Martin Büttner

oh right

Optimizer

that was from memory

something you get after watching 18 seasons of pokemon

epicTCK

how do I quote a previous post?

Optimizer

link

Martin Büttner

Electrtoise is quite fun

epicTCK

21:33

@Optimizer -_-

Optimizer

squirtoise

Martin Büttner

@epicTCK click the little triangle left of it, then "permalink", paste the URL into an answer without anything else (except a direct message reply)

epicTCK

ok thanks

Optimizer

dammit, its just a color mix

epicTCK

@Optimizer no try Weepintini

mouth changes

Optimizer

21:35

color and face

yeah

Martin Büttner

lel

Optimizer

Nidoran (U1)

Nidoran (U2)

lel

epicTCK

you wanna no what a guy looks like when he's crying? a weepindude

Optimizer

this is the LOL meme face

epicTCK

mbomb007

21:40

@AlexA. You writing a bot to play it for you?

Easterly Irk

hai

Alex A.

@Geobits aww

@mbomb007 Uh no?

Optimizer

@AlexA. why will you waste so much time feeding the trolls?

Alex A.

What?

Optimizer

follow the conversation

El'endia Starman

21:48

Election begins in 22 hours. Hoo boy.

I predict that mods will be elected in this order: Martin, Dennis, Doorknob, Alex, with these candidates being eliminated in the process in this order: El'endia Starman, Mego, (and maybe PhiNotPi).

I predict I will be eliminated between Doorknob and Alex.

edc65

help| info needed

How is it possibile that a closed challenge is reopen by my single vote?

codegolf.stackexchange.com/posts/76591/revisions

Optimizer

it says right there

Don Muesli

What are all those images? A Pokemon parade?

Zach Gates

22:04

@edc65 You have the gold badge in code-golf

Downgoat

@edc65 you have a gold tag badge in code golf

Zach Gates

ninja'd

Don Muesli

Huh. Does gold badge give you that power? Didn't know

edc65

Uh it's a superpower I was not aware of

Don Muesli

^^

Quill

22:05

a gold badge is there
your powers are the supreme
dupe close and reopen

Optimizer

worst poem eva

Don Muesli

Poem? :-P

Quill

5

A: UNIKONG goes off the edge of my screen so that I can't see its bottom

Obviously you didn't read the minimum requirements... of browsing the internet in 2016.

Downgoat

@Quill :/ the image isn't loading for me...

Zach Gates

^

Optimizer

22:09

^

Quill

Zach Gates

ಠ_ಠ

Optimizer

oh, Zach was not pointing out the stupidness of the message?

Downgoat

ಠ_ಠ

Zach Gates

@Optimizer no ;-;

Downgoat

22:13

what is the difference betreen l and ls?

Quill

15

A: Unikong environment halts when pressing left alt key

Don't press the left alt key, and you have no problem.

@Quill remember: real developers play games by pressing ctrl+shift+j; all listed inputs are for "users". — Marc Gravell ♦ 1 min ago

Downgoat

what does ctrl+shift+j; do?

Optimizer

can you not press it?

Downgoat

no

Optimizer

ok

Quill

22:23

@rgettman given that the javascript console exists: I doubt that — Marc Gravell ♦ 16 mins ago

Downgoat

??

I figured out how to change your name...

Alex A.

Photoshop?

Quill

it does the console
but you could have just searched it
you made me haiku

Downgoat

no

@Quill hai ku!

El'endia Starman

Just set up a new printer for my parents and now I'm trying to think of something to print.

I haven't used a printer for years...

Optimizer

22:33

coz you still use fax machines?

Downgoat

@El'endiaStarman print a goat gif

El'endia Starman

@Optimizer I don't think I've ever used one of those. Seen them used, yes. Used them? No.

Geobits

Print one of those sweet test pages.

El'endia Starman

@Geobits It already did. I'm just looking to test the wireless connection.

Downgoat

@Geobits those suck, I tried to print one out and it came out with really weird colors D:

El'endia Starman

22:34

> print ... gif

We are mere Muggles...

Downgoat

@El'endiaStarman you can print each frame

then staple into a flipbook

Geobits

@Downgoat I don't think that's the test page's fault...

Downgoat

:/

El'endia Starman

I'm gonna print this: paulgraham.com/power.html.

Downgoat

@El'endiaStarman you should print this picture

El'endia Starman

22:40

@Downgoat Yeah, no. I've been trained to mouse-over links before clicking. :P

2

Downgoat

D: how must I improve my ~~rickrolling~~ interesting picture linking skills?

Quill

98

Q: Why do door knobs still exist?

As far as I know, in US, grip-and-turn style door knobs are still the most popular, as opposed to lever-style handles, which dominate in the rest of the world. Is there some UX advantage to door knobs that I am not aware of, which is the reason for keeping them around? Edit: To clarify the dif...

ergonomics household

Downgoat

@Quill that has already been posted here many times

Quill

¯\_( ͡ಠ ͜ʖ ͡ಠ) _/¯

Downgoat

͡ಠ _ ͡ಠ

pancakes

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