The Nineteenth Byte

CoolestVeto

22:01

@El'endiaStarman I found a copy of Unikong outside of SE that should remain even after it's taken down, so I edited that question for you.

Carp, didn't mean to edit that. Sorry.

Maltysen

is it possible to walk multiple types of pets at once?

like a cat & a dog

El'endia Starman

@CoolestVeto Awesome.

@AlexA. Lawl. I was fourth. :D

(Which means I'll get eternal life and not a toaster! Yay! :P)

Alex A.

Um what

El'endia Starman

3

CoolestVeto

xD

flawr

22:06

@El'endiaStarman I'd honestly prefer a toaster to eternal life.

(And I don't even like toasts that much.)

Other than that: Five makes a better prime number than four.

Alex A.

Could that be because 4 isn't prime?

El'endia Starman

@flawr Have you read Wait But Why's post related to eternal life?

flawr

@El'endiaStarman Nope

@AlexA. At least not as much as five.

Dennis

Yeah, 5 is 1 primer.

Alex A.

Oh yeah, 4 isn't nearly as prime as 5.

El'endia Starman

22:09

Wait But Why: How Long Would You Live if You Could Choose ANY Number of Years?

flawr

You know, on a scale from one to ten, I'd say its primeness is below 3.

Alex A.

@El'endiaStarman 6

It's all downhill after age 6

Dennis

Starting now or total?

Alex A.

total

quartata

In fact 4 is downright composite

El'endia Starman

22:10

> If you enter a number younger than your current age, the calculator rejects it and it stays blank.

Alex A.

@quartata Hold on, let's not resort to slander

@El'endiaStarman Who says I'm older than 6?

CoolestVeto

4 is the first composite.

El'endia Starman

>_>

quartata

s/slander/libel

flawr

"you’ll have general good health at all times" that means I can eat as much chocolate as I want all day long!

Alex A.

22:12

RAGAX NO COMAPL

quartata

Libel is written slander is spoken

El'endia Starman

Hmm, that post isn't the one where the author reflects on what it would be like to enter "infinity" into the calculator.

Alex A.

Your regex syntax is off. Got close that shit, son. /

Maltysen

@El'endiaStarman i

Optimizer

@EasterlyIrk my unikong ad did not have that "feat j skeet" text initially

flawr

22:15

@El'endiaStarman But honestly, I think I'd probably enter somewhat less than my life expectancy.

El'endia Starman

Ah-ha, Ctrl+F P.S. on this: Wait But Why: From 1,000,000 to Graham’s Number. The life calculator one is required reading though.

quartata

I'm surprised they got Skeet's permission to use his likeness

Alex A.

Why?

Jon Skeet and SO have a long history of mutual love and respect

quartata

Well, not surprised really. More just amused

Easterly Irk

@Optimizer hm

and ^^

LegionMammal978

22:18

My favorite part about C#:

.Append(F1(kvpSsNpdE0.Value.Value.Value))

The kvpSsNpdE0 gets a key-value pair from an iterator

The first .Value gets the value of the pair

Downgoat

@LegionMammal978 C# is has perl-like properties? O_o

Easterly Irk

^

LegionMammal978

The second .Value gets the value of the property

Easterly Irk

@El'endiaStarman 1E9

Downgoat

brb, never using C#

Easterly Irk

22:19

^

quartata

@Downgoat Perl OOP looks nothing like that

LegionMammal978

The third .Value gets the value of the Nullable

F1(...) converts it to a human-readable string

Downgoat

@quartata but it's properteis probaly do

Dennis

@Downgoat Everything has Perl-like properties. The universe was written in Perl.

Downgoat

@Dennis oh no

that must be why the universe tends towards entropy

flawr

22:19

@Dennis That explains why it is so messed up!

LegionMammal978

and .Append(...) adds it to a StringBuilder

quartata

@Downgoat damn I have no comeback for that well played

second law of thermodynamics jokes are best jokes

flawr

@quartata But they degrade with time.

Downgoat

@quartata -1 no dam son

El'endia Starman

Tim Urban's TED Talk is live!

Quill

22:30

And are list comphresions really good form? I thought they were only useful in golfing. — Easterly Irk 5 hours ago

Alex A.

Serious?

flawr

@Quill Ask a Haskeller.

Alex A.

I use them all the time

They're A Bad Idea™ in Julia because they're super slow, but in Python I use them liberally

El'endia Starman

Yep, list comprehensions are very useful in Python. @EasterlyIrk, that's what you get for learning only via PPCG. :P

Pytek will also have list comprehensions, but in the guise of set builders.

Easterly Irk

okai.

PPCG is educational. I was introduced to the glory of avocad here.

El'endia Starman

22:37

Key word: only. :P

PPCG is actually very educational.

Easterly Irk

@El'endiaStarman who is he?

LegionMammal978

I personally began using Mathematica due to PPCG

New Main Posts

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Q: Write an interpreter for my new programming language

I have a new programming language called Brussels-Sprout. Brussels-Sprout functions in an array of 256 boolean values, has one instruction pointer, and one "bit index". After each (non-branching) instruction is executed, the instruction pointer is incremented by one. If the bit index is outsid...

flawr

@LegionMammal978 That sounds as if you had outsourced your Mathematica work up then.

LegionMammal978

That is, PPCG is what got me into it

flawr

22:47

When someone says "I stand corrected" what exactly does this express?

orlp

my god

I wake up

50000 replies on my hash question lol

Alex A.

@flawr It means that they had a view on something but someone brought up evidence or something else that nullified their view. They've been corrected.

So if I say "there are only 4 cars in Sweden" and xnor says "No there are X cars, here's a source," I would say, "I stand corrected."

flawr

So is it exclusively used as an acknowledgement of an error?

Alex A.

I believe so

I don't think I've ever heard it used in a different context

flawr

I think I've also heard it (or something similar) when someone stated something he was not 100% sure about.

Alex A.

22:51

It wouldn't make sense in that context

flawr

Or I stand to be corrected?

Alex A.

Oh, that's different

Doorknob

I didn't think one of my legs was slightly longer. But I got shoes that are uneven in height. Now I stand corrected.

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flawr

Lol.

Alex A.

@Doorknob ಠ_ಠ doesn't even do that justice

Doorknob

22:52

I couldn't remember the wording :P

flawr

You know, that is the difference between a chicken.

Both it's legs do have the same length. Especially the left one.

Alex A.

@Doorknob I mean that "ಠ_ಠ" as a response is insufficient to express my feelings

Doorknob

oh hahaha

Alex A.

@flawr What?

Oh.

ಠ_ಠ

flawr

And as we are already talking about the chicken the length of the leggs, do you know about the european Hanghuhn?

This is a species that cannot fly, and it adapted to living on steep slopes up in the mountains.

That can be observed by the difference in the length of it's legs.

Doorknob

22:56

@Doorknob great, the starboard just cuts off the punchline :D

LegionMammal978

@Doorknob Fixed

Doorknob

ish

need to golf off more bytes

Maltysen

replace "slightly" with "a little"

quartata

@NewMainPosts I can't be the only person that likes Brussels sprouts

Alex A.

If those are the only options for interacting with Brussels sprouts, clearly you haven't had them roasted with olive oil, salt, and pepper. — Alex A. ♦ 13 mins ago

Dennis

22:59

Why are chew and swallow even options?

Alex A.

Side note: I looking at a restaurant's menu online and you can add filters. So I filtered to only the vegan options. What was left was their selection of side sauces. ._.

Dennis

hahahaha

Doorknob

Subject: "HELLO MY DEAR ."

Body:

> MY DEAR I AM MR ,First Middle Last. I WILL LOVE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT YOU
PLEASE SEND MAIL TO MY EMAIL ADDRESS NOW
[email protected] I GOT YOUR CONTACT THROUGH MY SEARCHING
FROM writers.stackexchange.com.

The one thing I'm really curious about is... why writers?

Alex A.

There's a Meta.SO post about stuff like that from a couple days ago

Doorknob

orlp?

Alex A.

23:03

hell yeah

1 1

Meta.SO, not Meta.SE

Doorknob

@AlexA. +11

Alex A.

eleven waffles

Doorknob

:D

Alex A.

I wonder if hell yeah knows we use their profile to communicate in chat.

quartata

hell yeah

Alex A.

23:05

This comment though: codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/44390/…

(on deleted post)

Doorknob

> Last seen Jan 9 '15 at 7:20

Alex A.

> This is more suited to stack exchange.

Where are we again?

Doorknob

Supposedly SO gets a lot of "please migrate to Stack Exchange" flags.

eleven

@AlexA. I, waffles?

Alex A.

hahahaha

orlp

23:06

@Doorknob ?

Doorknob

... speaking of which, does @orlp know that we (usually Alex) use his name as an alternative to "o rly"?

orlp

no?

Fax Machine

@eleven If you need some waffles I can fax them to you

eleven

I'd prefer an email attachment.

orlp

why not use ಠ rly?

NotDoorknob

23:08

I hear we're having a sock party

Fax Machine

@eleven What's an email? Do you attach it with paperclip?

Doorknob

@orlp ಠrlp

orlp

@Doorknob that is my username if you have the userscript installed

Doorknob

:D

Chatgoat

@NotDoorknob Well I wouldn't call 3 a party

Fax Machine

23:10

Goats wear socks?

Downgoat

Synthetic Life & The Science of E-Cigs

►

Scientists are playing gene-golf now...

Quill

If those are the only options for interacting with Brussels sprouts, clearly you haven't had them roasted with olive oil, salt, and pepper. — Alex A. ♦ 25 mins ago

Alex A.

@Quill They're damn fine like that

Chatgoat

@FaxMachine yes, but they are very difficult to find

orlp

goats wear socks for camouflage

Dennis

23:11

11 mins ago, by Dennis

Why are chew and swallow even options?

orlp

and you know it's working, because you rarely see them once they have socks on

Fax Machine

I think oplr has a pointed

Doorknob

@Chatgoat On the other hand, you can make socks out of goats.

Quill

I think I'm gonna have to agree with @Dennis here

Chatgoat

@Doorknob O_O

Doorknob

23:12

@Chatgoat What, do you never shave your fur?

Alex A.

@Quill ಠ_ಠ Then clearly you also haven't had them roasted with olive oil, salt, and pepper.

Chatgoat

I think Marky did that with my previous incarnation

Dennis

169

Q: Recruiter claims to have gotten my email address from Stack Overflow

I just received an email with an unsolicited job offer from somebody who claims to have found me on Stack Overflow. It was addressed to "Ed", a name I use nowhere but Stack Overflow (it's not my real name), and she says she's looking for a .NET developer, which I am. So "random spam sent to 1,00...

discussion support email

Fax Machine

@Dennis At least recruiters can't get your fax number from Stack Overflow! HEYA!

3

Quill

@AlexA. I have, actually. Still don't like them. ;p

Downgoat

23:13

@FaxMachine brb removing fax number from SO profile...

Fax Machine

No, you must show your facsmile pride

eleven

@FaxMachine My fax number is 11. ;-;

Alex A.

@Quill brb destroying your account

Fax Machine

@eleven I'm so sorry ;-;

NotDoorknob

;-;

Downgoat

23:15

Quill

@AlexA. Can you actually? I thought 300 rep was above the threshold for CM interference

Downgoat

^^ oldest picture of me

flawr

@FaxMachine Faximile?

Alex A.

@Quill Yeah, mods can destroy users, but not network-wide.

Fax Machine

@flawr The word "fax" is derived from the word "facsimile."

Quill

23:16

Hmm, maybe it's user deletion by the actual user

Alex A.

What do you mean?

Quill

You can't delete your account if you have a certain amount of contribution

there's a threshold at which they say "no. prepare for CM intervention"

and you get emailed/mod messaged

El'endia Starman

@EasterlyIrk Guy that writes Wait But Why blog posts.

Doorknob

5

let's just take a moment to appreciate this ad

Alex A.

@Quill Ah, okay

Downgoat

23:18

@Doorknob how do I sign up for beta

flawr

Quill

@Doorknob [Insert relevant RFC]

flawr

Is this aperture science?

Downgoat

@flawr no this is black mesa

Quill

no, but we'll still lemon grenade your house

in The 2nd Monitor, 15 secs ago, by Edward

@Quill I think that pigeon left an "Error Message" on my car earlier today.

Downgoat

23:20

@Quill combustable lemon =\= lemon grenade

should I use =\=, !=, or =/= for not-equals in cheddar?

Alex A.

Doorknob

Vegetable.

Alex A.

I think I found a winner

El'endia Starman

@Downgoat ..... !=

Downgoat

I'll go with ≠

flawr

23:22

@Downgoat Don't use cheddar at all and eat some real cheese.

El'endia Starman

So. I just tried some avocado for the first time. Not bad.

Quill

new user: codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/76852/41519

Downgoat

@El'endiaStarman +1

Doorknob

@El'endiaStarman I have still never tried avocado

Downgoat

@Doorknob ...

ಠ_ಠ

why not

El'endia Starman

23:23

@Downgoat He's still got 8 more years to try it. :P

Downgoat

why 8?

why not 9?

El'endia Starman

I'm 23, he's 15. :P

Downgoat

oh, okay

Quill

@El'endiaStarman that reminds me of that jim carrey horror movie

Alex A.

Because you can only try avocado with the first 23 years of your life?

orlp

23:24

why you guys never tri avocad?

Alex A.

Otherwise you die of avocado deficiency?

Downgoat

@AlexA. s/do/d/

Alex A.

halp insufficen avocade am deathing soon

El'endia Starman

@AlexA. Well, Downgoat ಠ_ಠ'd Doorknob for not trying avocado yet, but there's 8 more years until he gets to my not-tried-avocado-for-23-years point. :P

Doorknob

I need a way to pronounce ಠ_ಠ in my head

Alex A.

23:27

I was probably 16 or so when I learned to appreciate avocados in the form of guacamole.

Doorknob

I was curious, so I tried saying that out loud

it came out as some sort of "eeuuuuhh" sound >_>

Alex A.

To me it's like "HMMMMMF."

Quill

tha_tha

Doorknob

is that θa or ða?

Alex A.

Downgoat tha_tha'd Doorknob? Oh my.

@Doorknob Nobody but you knows IPA symbols (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Downgoat

23:28

@Quill s/_//

flawr

@Doorknob are you serious?

Alex A.

@Doorknob International Pidgeon Agenda

Doorknob

Jan 12 at 23:43, by Martin Büttner

@feersum If English still used þ and ð you wouldn't have to ask that question and the language would look so much cooler.

(yes, not the same, but :P)

Quill

@AlexA. store.steampowered.com/app/310080

Downgoat

@Doorknob s/cool/weird/

Doorknob

23:30

@flawr no, not particularly :D

Quill

Downgoat has become sed

Downgoat

@Quill no?

Doorknob

@Downgoat really? I þink you're wrong; ðat's nonsense.

Alex A.

@Quill wat

Downgoat

^

Quill

23:31

@AlexA. watch the trailer

Alex A.

I did

Downgoat

@Doorknob both of þ and ð are prønøunced the same?

Quill

it was an april fools joke a few years ago that went too far

Doorknob

@Downgoat no

Downgoat

@Quill just like Code Review

>:P

Quill

23:32

@Downgoat *cough* at least we have a design

Fax Machine

@Doorknob Faxes don't need Unicode to render that shit.

Downgoat

Alex A.

@Quill Oof, ouch.

Quill

@Downgoat it's just in a github repo

Downgoat

@Quill a design is a design ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Maltysen

23:33

@Quill our design just happens to be the exact same as the default one

2

Quill

@Maltysen that sounds like google's idea of getting a new design

Doorknob

According to this ಠ isn't even "th," it's /ʈʰa/

Downgoat

@Doorknob is that India Pale Ale or normal english ¬_¬

Doorknob

The /ʈ/ sound isn't in English. It's a retroflex /t/, pronounced with the tongue curled back (as in Hindi).

Downgoat

does anyone know if I can use electrical tape instead of soldering a wire?

flawr

23:36

@Downgoat What for?

Fax Machine

When you pour beer into a fax machine, you get fired for destruction of company property.

Downgoat

@flawr I have a breakout board and I don't think I can solder it to a pin

Maltysen

@FaxMachine were you trying to make beer from paper?

Fax Machine

Hey man, I wasn't trying to do anything. Some guy just came and put beer in me, so I faxed it to Nova Scotia.

Dennis

@FaxMachine Or a pat on the back.

flawr

23:38

I'd try to solder. If you wanna use tape make sure to twist the wire around the pin and ensure good contact

Downgoat

@flawr ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Maltysen

aluminum foli also works great for increasing contact area

Quill

31

Q: Is my SO Coffee Mug defective?

I received a really nice SO mug as swag for the choose your own swag contest this year. Everything was working fine until this morning. Was there a patch or update or something? Here's the relevant code snippet: if (owner.isCoding() && mug.isEmpty()) { mug.fill('coffee'); } Here's a scree...

bug april-fools swag

Fax Machine

Aluminum doesn't conduct electricity though. Better to use a fork in an outlet.

orlp

I am become Golf, destroyer of bytes.

@FaxMachine it doesn't?

no it does

Fax Machine

23:40

I don't think it does

flawr

But the oxidized coating might prevent it.

orlp

@FaxMachine it does

maybe Al2O3 doesn't

Fax Machine

I'll be right back, going to put a fork in an electrical outlet to test.

flawr

Poor bird at 8:18:

Долгая дорога к Марсу

►

El'endia Starman

@FaxMachine But that's not a test of aluminium's conductivity.

Alex A.

23:40

@FaxMachine DON'T

Downgoat

@FaxMachine No do it, it's okay

Maltysen

we are trusted electrical safety experts

listen to us

Downgoat

It'll be good riddance of an obsolete machine :P

Fax Machine

@El'endiaStarman I'll use an aluminum fork

@Downgoat ;_;

El'endia Starman

@flawr Indeed.

flawr

23:42

@AlexA. Is that you?????

Downgoat

@Maltysen we are the same poeple who don't know what a voltage detector does

flawr

El'endia Starman

@flawr I really enjoyed this video.

Alex A.

@flawr Yes

flawr

Omg, I hope your feathers are not too burnt!

Downgoat

23:42

@flawr @AlexA. did yuo go to space with the rocket or did they leave you behind?

^^

orlp

@Downgoat it's a bit weird perspective

but that's actually a massive bird glued to the rocket

Downgoat

oh

Maltysen

they needed that extra lift

Downgoat

I thought Alex was a regular bird

flawr

He is indeed a very irregular one.

Alex A.

23:45

haha

Downgoat

> Write an interpreter for my new programming language

Next up: "Write an interpreter for Cheddar"

Maltysen

@Downgoat ¿què es Cheddar?

Downgoat

it is a beautiful programming language

github.com/vihanb/Cheddar

El'endia Starman

@flawr: I kinda want to find Mark Levi and take classes from him. Using springs to derive Snell's Law is freaking brilliant.

Downgoat

does anyone know if LEDs have bad stuff inside of them? I shorted one and it made a loud popping sound and smells bad...

Helka Homba

23:48

Like burning plastic?

Maltysen

i doubt its anything dangerous

Downgoat

what does burning plastic smell like

@Maltysen same could be said about Code Review but that doesn't mean it's any good :P

Maltysen

@Downgoat turn on the stove and put plastic in it

Downgoat

@Maltysen ok, brb, cooking plastic

Alex A.

Good god, don't do that

Helka Homba

23:49

@Downgoat Thousands of Arduino/Rpi owners would be dead if it were anything to worry about

Quill

@Downgoat ;-; why u do dis

Downgoat

> :P

Digital Trauma

@Downgoat Not all LEDs, but gallium arsenide is probably something you don't want to sprinkle on your cornflakes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium_arsenide

Downgoat

@DigitalTrauma oh no, I sprinkled that on my hay this morning

El'endia Starman

For an actual answer, this source says that materials include gallium arsenide/gallium phosphide/gallium arsenide phosphide, zinc, nitrogen, silicon, germanium, tellurium, gold, silver, and a variety of plastics.

Maltysen

23:52

i say you should snort it

trichoplax

@EasterlyIrk Um, hi... I wasn't around earlier (although I may still have shown up in the avatar bar)

Downgoat

@Maltysen ok, brb, snorting gallium arsenide

El'endia Starman

[googles gallium arsenide toxicity]

Helka Homba

@Quill code review = divorce ewe ≈ divorce you

Downgoat

Does .bashrc work on mac? I tried to set up git ohshit which reverts the last commit but it doesn't work

Quill

23:54

.bash_profile

Alex A.

Use .bash_profile

El'endia Starman

Apparently, gallium arsenide is pretty toxic.

Quill

@HelkaHomba I knew that prenup would come in handy

Doorknob

@Downgoat git reset

Alex A.

If you put something in your .bash_profile, you also have to exit and reenter the terminal for it to be loaded again

Maltysen

23:56

@El'endiaStarman not really. the human section doesn't say anything fatal

Doorknob

@AlexA. $ . ~/.bash_profile

Downgoat

@El'endiaStarman oh shit, brb, dieing

Alex A.

^^ or whatever that means

Doorknob

. is a golfier version of source

Downgoat

source?

Alex A.

23:57

Like the Source Engine?

Doorknob

$ man bash

Helka Homba

@AlexA. What do you call it when your terminal is bugging out? Terminal illness XD

8

Alex A.

@Doorknob I don't want to resort to violence

Downgoat

^

Alex A.

@HelkaHomba OH GOD WHY

But also nice job

Downgoat

23:58

@HelkaHomba I feel bad for laughing at this

I found an answer to this:

Mar 24 at 4:19, by Downgoat

does anyone know if a zener starts to smoke, if it is still usable?

Alex A.

The first paragraph of this still makes me laugh out loud every time I read it.

Downgoat

the answer is no, it will continue to smoke until it smells like burning plastic and catches on fire

Doorknob

@AlexA. :D

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