The Nineteenth Byte

Easterly Irk

20:00

NOOOOOOOOWWWWW!!!

AncientSwordRage

@flawr I'm always a wizard and never late

El'endia Starman

There, voted.

zyabin101

@MartinBüttner status-norepro

Zach Gates

Voted

\o/

El'endia Starman

Easterly Irk

20:01

Q_Q

Helka Homba

@Aledennis Which one of you is really you in the elections?

Easterly Irk

Both @CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ and @CoolestVeto dropped out... :(

@AlexA. ^

zyabin101

Can the ballot file be downloaded after the election?

Alex A.

@EasterlyIrk <3<3

El'endia Starman

@zyabin101 Yes, but not who voted for whom.

Easterly Irk

20:02

@AlexA. removed bc not getting in trouble.

YOu can probably view the history tho.

Alex A.

I can't view shit

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El'endia Starman

And now to wait four more days....

Alex A.

@HelkaHomba The world will never know

Easterly Irk

Both?

ohai @trichoplax

flawr

No timeline for electiosn?

Easterly Irk

20:04

Alex A.

I just edited Martin's already pinned message

Just as he did for the primary

flawr

It's raining badges.

Helka Homba

> You've earned the "Constituent" badge.

finally

El'endia Starman

> earbed

Easterly Irk

what is that for?

flawr

20:06

voting in election

El'endia Starman

Voting in the election phase.

Caucus is for visiting the nominations/primaries/election at any point.

Easterly Irk

Have both now.

CoolestVeto

@EasterlyIrk Did you like my music choice?

Easterly Irk

@AlexA. does this make your cuteness stack overflow?

@CoolestVeto 10/10 sent to sister

Alex A.

Yes

flawr

20:07

@EasterlyIrk Please make it somewhat smaller

CoolestVeto

@EasterlyIrk \o/

Easterly Irk

@flawr yeah, it is a bit disturbing

and big

flawr

Why is there no 19th choice?

Easterly Irk

^

flawr

Oh, probably because there are only 10 players.

El'endia Starman

20:11

Eight, actually.

zyabin101

@EasterlyIrk From which site?

Easterly Irk

Sci Fi

flawr

@El'endiaStarman I didn't specify the base^^

El'endia Starman

<_<

zyabin101

>_>

flawr

20:11

But true, I meant base 10

El'endia Starman

Darn you for writing "10" and not "ten". :P

flawr

:D

Easterly Irk

in Mos Eisley, 10 mins ago, by April Obie

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Q: How did Han Solo's hands get freed on Cloud City (whilst he was in the carbon-freezing chamber)

When Hans first enters the carbon-freeze chamber, his hands are tied by the Ugnauts. However, when he is encased in carbonite, his hands had clearly been freed at some point, and were free at the time of freezing. [Jazz-Hans] My questions are: (even though i know it's probably yet another ...

flawr

I thought there was a comic about this confusion?

Was it xkcd?

Or something else?

Easterly Irk

xkcd had one yeah

can't find it

flawr

20:14

If you get an 11/100 on a CS test, but you claim it should be counted as a 'C', they'll probably decide you deserve the upgrade.

But I didn't mean that one

Easterly Irk

Yeah.

It was like "Oh, you use base 4. " "No, we use base 10".

Also:

in Mos Eisley, 1 min ago, by Skooba

Somebody spell that out.

flawr

cowbirdsinlove.com/43

Easterly Irk

yeah

flawr

@EasterlyIrk Why is rickrolling so popular here????

Easterly Irk

xkcd should copy that for ease of search

Roujo

20:16

It's election time! Woooo!

zyabin101

I think that's too hard to choose. Can I just don't vote? Pretty please?

Easterly Irk

@flawr idk

@Roujo haven't seen you for a while

El'endia Starman

@zyabin101 You don't have to pick anyone for any of your choices.

It is entirely possible for you to pick me as your first, second, or third and not vote for anyone else.

Easterly Irk

@Roujo your cat made it to the room of cuteness.

in Aww!, 2 days ago, by Easterly Irk

Roujo

@EasterlyIrk There's a room of cuteness? =D

flawr

20:17

ELECT proTempMods FROM users

Easterly Irk

Aww!

To clarify, spiders are not on-topic here. Ever

Alex A.

@Roujo cough voteforme cough

Easterly Irk

@El'endiaStarman Nope.

You need 3 different users.

Roujo

@AlexA. I voted already, so it's too late to try to influence me =P

Easterly Irk

@AlexA. cough done cough

Alex A.

20:18

@Roujo You can change your vote at any time over the next 4 days. Just sayin'.

Helka Homba

@Roujo Looks like you can change vote as much as you want

Alex A.

Ninja'd.

@EasterlyIrk ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Helka Homba

@AlexA. Fly away Dennis

Roujo

@AlexA. WELL THEN. What's your offer? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Easterly Irk

-2 internet points.

PhiNotPi

20:19

I don't know about you, but I'm voting for PhiNotPi as my 1st choice.

Easterly Irk

The red ones.

flawr

Ok my PpcgSQL joke was not really funny.

Alex A.

@Roujo Well, for starters, I'm never gonna give you up. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Easterly Irk

@PhiNotPi 2nd.

Alex A.

I certainly won't let you down.

El'endia Starman

20:19

> Out of 309 votes, it is interesting to note that 1 user (0.3 %) made a second and a third choice, but no first choice.

flawr

What happens when there is a tie?

Easterly Irk

majik

Helka Homba

@flawr Sudden death

flawr

?

Roujo

@flawr Ritual Combat

flawr

20:20

Duelling?

Easterly Irk

@flawr aka we pay @AlexA. to peck them to death.

Helka Homba

@flawr Golfing

El'endia Starman

@flawr Sudden death is when a game ends in a tie, so play continues, but with some sort of "first to score wins".

Roujo

I guess we could vote for the users with the shortest usernames

El'endia Starman

:(

TimmyD

20:22

@AlexA. Can you verify that your ravenity answer for CD(2,1) properly returns 1?

flawr

Or the ones with the most birds in their profile image.

Easterly Irk

@TimmyD link?

Roujo

@EasterlyIrk Yeah, I've been pretty much swamped at work.

Easterly Irk

@TimmyD Just f(2,1)?

That returns 0.

Alex A.

@TimmyD It should return 0

Easterly Irk

20:23

@Roujo :(

Alex A.

Since both 3 and 1 should be discarded

TimmyD

Why would 3 be discarded?

Oh, durr.

Alex A.

In the example with 2,1, wouldn't 3 be discarded from the set before taking prime divisors, since it's a prime? Then the correct output would be 0. — Zgarb 1 min ago

TimmyD

._.

Long day

flawr

sodden meth

Alex A.

20:25

@TimmyD Just claim it was an April Fool's joke.

flawr

really difficult to come up with something that rhymes with sudden death

Helka Homba

Horrid breath

Alex A.

Sadden Beth

(aww poor Beth)

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TimmyD

@AlexA. April Fool's! I made you think your answer was wrong!

Alex A.

@TimmyD I believe you mean

51 mins ago, by Alex A.

RICK'D YA

Easterly Irk

20:28

Can I get chatbanned for 30 minutes?

@AlexA. ^

Alex A.

Why?

Easterly Irk

Because I need to do actual work.

Alex A.

You could just log out and close the browser.

Easterly Irk

And promptly log back in. ._.

Will tri bai

Alex A.

Good luck

TimmyD

20:29

We're no strangers to code / You know the golfs, and so do I / A full compile's what I'm thinking of / You wouldn't get this from any other mode

3

flawr

@EasterlyIrk Give us your password.

Alex A.

@TimmyD Never gonna parse you up, never gonna mark you down?

PhiNotPi

Question: given X candidates from which you an pick your top Y favorites in order, how many ways are there to do it? It's possible to leave any of the Y spots blank on the ballot.

Roujo

@AlexA. One does not simply log out of The Nineteenth Byte

Optimizer

@AlexA. Never gonna comment in, or format you

flawr

20:30

@Roujo log(19*8)

Roujo

@flawr Clever, but where's the out? =P

flawr

Do'h doesn't work in english =/

sorry

Helka Homba

Mini-challenge: Given a year from 1900 to 2100 inclusive, output the day in the month that April Fools day falls on in that year. e.g. 2016 -> 1.

2

Alex A.

@Roujo Uhhh... outargs

Roujo

@flawr Ah, crap. What language does it work on? =)

flawr

20:32

In german you "pull the root of 2" -> sqrt(2)

Or "out of"

Roujo

Ahh, got it

flawr

Or get the "logarithm out of 8"

zyabin101

@HelkaHomba Uhh... Python 2, 7 bytes: print 1

flawr

e.t.c

PhiNotPi

We sure can golf the Nineteenth Byte, though: codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/12221/…

Roujo

20:32

int a; log(19*8, out a);

flawr

log(1+2+3) == log(1)+log(2)+log(3)

Roujo

I've been changing those kind of methods to ones that return the value directly as I refactor through projects at work

Fun stuff

Helka Homba

@zyabin101 Hmm, are you sure that works for input 2018?

Roujo

Most of them are TryParse-type stuff, so it's easy enough to return an option-type instead of bool + out T

El'endia Starman

@flawr ಠ_ಠ

flawr

20:35

@El'endiaStarman Whut, it is true?

TimmyD

@HelkaHomba PowerShell, 10 bytes -- "March 32"

El'endia Starman

@flawr ಠ_ಠ ಠ_ಠ

zyabin101

O.o

Roujo

@El'endiaStarman Well it's probably true in some base

El'endia Starman

@Roujo What flawr posted is indeed true in base ten.

Try it.

flawr

20:36

@El'endiaStarman In every base.

Roujo

@El'endiaStarman Huh. Didn't even think to try.

El'endia Starman

@flawr Oh, right, yeah.

Helka Homba

@TimmyD Ehh, close enough.

Zgarb

@PhiNotPi sum of k from 0 to Y : Binomial(Y,k) * X! / (X-k)!

flawr

base 10, lol

Digital Trauma

20:37

@HelkaHomba Are entries allowed to read their own source?

Zgarb

I don't know of a closed formula.

Helka Homba

@DigitalTrauma Sure

El'endia Starman

@Roujo I'm just ಠ_ಠ'ing him because it's very misleading. :P

New Main Posts

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Q: Is this a Lucas number?

Write a program or function that takes an input greater than or equal to 2. It should output a truthy or falsy value corresponding to whether the input is a Lucas number or not. You may take input from STDIN, or whichever source is most suitable to you. Example inputs/outputs Input Output ---...

code-golf

Alex A.

@NewMainPosts I was amazed to find that this isn't a duplicate.

Helka Homba

20:40

How many levels does Unikong have?

flawr

@El'endiaStarman I thought about making a book as converse to the "Proofs from THE BOOK"

zyabin101

@HelkaHomba idk :shrug:

mınxomaτ

Oh. My. God.

Alex A.

AHHHH

El'endia Starman

@flawr Hahaha. If you make it good enough, you could possibly even publish it.

flawr

20:41

"Pathological and Misleading"

Still looking for examples=)

El'endia Starman

@mınxomaτ This is obviously fake because there's no way the cameraman wasn't petting that dog.

flawr

You know the Euler totient function is multiplicative, right?

So for example Φ(666) = 6 * 6 * 6

El'endia Starman

@flawr "The Bad Book of Proofs" or "The Book of Bad Proofs"

flawr

2^2+3^2+5^2+7^2+11^2+13^2+17^2 = 666 = 1^6-2^6+3^6 = sum(1+2+3+...+6*6)

TimmyD

@AlexA. It's really closely related to codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/85/42963

Helka Homba

20:44

@DigitalTrauma Did you have an answer to the mini challenge?

flawr

And 1000000000000066600000000000001 is prime. According to my algebra professor.

Roujo

@flawr Brb, sieveing to confirm...

flawr

@Roujo Good luck=)

Helka Homba

@flawr It is

Roujo

Belphegor's prime

Belphegor's prime is the palindromic prime number 1000000000000066600000000000001, a number which reads the same both backwards and forwards and is only divisible by itself and one. The name Belphegor refers to one of the Seven Princes of Hell, who was charged with helping people make ingenious inventions and discoveries. "Belphegor's prime" is a name coined by book author Clifford A. Pickover. The number itself contains superstitious elements that have given it its name: the number 666 at the heart of Belphegor's Prime is widely associated as being the Number of the Beast, used in symbolism to...

flawr

20:45

Yay.

Solver

I'm in a caravan.

On holiday.

flawr

Let's call it "the devils math"

Helka Homba

@Solver caravan = camper?

Solver

Yes.

El'endia Starman

@flawr Oh that'd be good. :D

Helka Homba

20:47

Are there RV's in the UK? (Or Europe?) Top Gear seems to neglect them

flawr

@HelkaHomba By far not as many as I saw in the US (west coast)

I think the problem is that you need to get some special driving licences here.

Helka Homba

Also, not enough land: 4.bp.blogspot.com/_cyCg6QtW9_c/TT1wFMXYrTI/AAAAAAAABG4/…

flawr

TimmyD

@HelkaHomba Holy skewed projections, Batman!

Digital Trauma

@HelkaHomba I think its too difficult. Can I use mathematica builtins?

Helka Homba

20:53

@DigitalTrauma I suppose

TimmyD

@flawr -1 .gif but doesn't move

flawr

@TimmyD Look closer.

TimmyD

:28692267 O.o

lol

Digital Trauma

@HelkaHomba caravans are generally more popular in the UK

SUV Caravan Challenge - Top Gear - Series 22 - BBC

►

2

TimmyD

@DigitalTrauma I learned that from Snatch.

flawr

20:55

Also:

Extreme Motorhome Racing - Top Gear - Series 10 - BBC

►

CoolestVeto

@DigitalTrauma I would argue that they're more common but nowhere near as popular.

Digital Trauma

@CoolestVeto yes thats a good distinction to make

flawr

@El'endiaStarman 3blue1brown new video

TimmyD

4blue2brown

El'endia Starman

@flawr \o/ will watch soon

And good timing on that. Only posted 30 minutes ago.

Easterly Irk

21:02

@flawr Never gonna give it up.

@CoolestVeto sister didn't like the song. :(

CoolestVeto

@EasterlyIrk ;c

Easterly Irk

I like it. :D

@CoolestVeto will you be able to play minecraft in ~4 hours?

CoolestVeto

@EasterlyIrk Uhh... maybe.

Easterly Irk

I can't play until then, and want to play when somebody else is active and I actually see them.

@CoolestVeto nvm, that is like 1:00am.

argh bai to do work

CoolestVeto

@EasterlyIrk Nah, I'll be up anyway.

Easterly Irk

21:10

Hopefully I'll be on 5:00pm - 5:30pm through 6:00pm PST, so about midnight through 1am for you.

@CoolestVeto did PPCG + Resume work out?

CoolestVeto

@EasterlyIrk Yes, actually. Got a job at a networking company.

Alex A.

Oh hey, congrats!

flawr

@CoolestVeto Great, when do you start?

CoolestVeto

@flawr August.

Digital Trauma

@CoolestVeto Nice!

CoolestVeto

21:12

\o/

flawr

@CoolestVeto So what do you do until then?

CoolestVeto

@flawr School. And studies. It's not too much of a thing, but it is my first job.

quartata

Hello

@CoolestVeto congratz!

Optimizer

darkness, my old friend

flawr

@CoolestVeto Cool, congrats!

CoolestVeto

21:15

\o/

Optimizer

oh wait, now I am also seeing the "feat. J Skeet" image on main site

flawr

Next year I expect @MartinBüttner to be in the April 1. SE game.

quartata

Someone needs to speed-run Unikong

Alex A.

You and your speedruns

quartata

You and your rickrolls

Alex A.

21:23

speedricks

CoolestVeto

@quartata I actually was thinking this the other day.

Well.

A few hours ago.

quartata

I'd do it but I'm too lazy to get ffmpeg working again

Also I lost llanfair when my hard drive blew up

Dragonrage

anyone know if it will be permanent or if its gone after today?

Alex A.

Gone after today

quartata

Uh-oh

Dragonrage

21:26

so my challenge probably wont work then

El'endia Starman

Attempting to beat Unikong without killing any trolls.

Easterly Irk

@CoolestVeto :D

@Optimizer You didn't notice unikong till now?

@Dragonrage what challenge?

And I think the code is posted somewhere.

El'endia Starman

That key at the end of the third level may or may not be impossible to get as a pacifist.

Dragonrage

21:43

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Let's Play Unikong In honor of April Fool's day, we shall have an epic battle to see who can play Unikong best. Or, rather, whose program can play it best. Goal Write a program in any language to play the game Unicorn. It should seek to try and score as high as possible. Scoring Whomever's ...

Alex A.

21:59

Damn, I tried to be the first to get the Constituent badge, but some guy ninja'd it.

Aww!

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