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8:01 PM
@Zgarb are you allowed to change characters other than the single newline-pipe?
 
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Q: Write an anagram quine

DenkerAffeThe Challenge Anagrams and quines are very popular here on PPCG, so let's combine those two topics into one challenge! Your task here is to write a quine which characters can be rearranged to produce at least one other quine. The more quines you can produce this way the higher your score. Ever...

 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ 24 more minutes until the end of this cursed period. :D
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

MaltysenBiggest single character This challenge is simple, its like the busy-beaver challenges we've had before where the goal is to produce the biggest output one can. But in this one, you can only use one character in your code. You get no input, your code has to be a single character (not byte), and...

 
I presume he means the suspension
 
8:10 PM
Ah
Surely this qualifies as malicious code?
 
Man, today is the closest I've been to a mortarboard in months, and I want to answer a challenge or post another challenge to get it. I'm just not sure which challenge to post (to)?
 
@Sherlock9 Why not Zgarb's tribute challenge? :)
 
@AlexA. Not malicious.
 
Why?
 
Well it's malicious in the sense rm is malicious. It has an actual use aside from malicious things
 
8:13 PM
I would consider any code that could be used maliciously to be malicious.
 
Including this code?

int n[100];
while (True)
{
    n[i] = n + 1;
}
 
Well then I guess Hello World is malicious because it could be used to overwrite a file
 
@Sherlock9 Just Ctrl+C and it's done. No files or system or anything is harmed.
 
I think code with only malicious purpose is what matters here.
@AlexA. If you have good enough reflexes you can ctrl+c rm
 
I wonder how fast you have to be for that
 
8:17 PM
@AlexA. Let me rewrite that again
int n[1];
int i=0;
while (True)
{
    n[i] = 0;
    i = i + 1;
}
 
If you have an SSD pretty fast. Probably less so with a regular drive
 
Yeah that could leave the array, and mess with bytes outside the array. But you'd have to be pretty slow with Ctrl+C for that to a lot of damage
 
@Sherlock9 That I would argue is malicious since there is no other reason for the array to be like that
 
Fair enough
 
@AlexA. I would consider any carpentry tool that could be used to kill someone a deadly weapon
 
8:20 PM
Securely wiping a disk is not. shred comes with basically every distro under the sun for the purpose of cleaning disks up when you are going to give them away or something
@HelkaHomba hahaha burn
Following up on that analogy, a nuclear bomb or a sniper rifle has minimal use outside of hurting things.That is malicious. A hammer is not.
shred is a hammer, a virus is a nuclear bomb
 
@HelkaHomba I would consider a avocado pit deadly because it can theoretically fly at 123 mph.
 
Well shred is more like a chainsaw really
 
@EasterlyIrk avocad launcher
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Welcome back!
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ 25 seconds
to desuspension
 
8:28 PM
almost
 
10
5
:DDDDDDD
 
Hi Conor
 
WELCOME BACK TO PPCG!!!
 
Welcome back @CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ. :)
 
Contrary to popular belief, I did not die. I am in fact back.
Thanks for all the responses :D
 
8:29 PM
:D
 
How many notifications did you get in that time? :P
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ hello
 
I would also consider Visual Basic to be a deadly weapon because it doesn't have any use aside from making programmers cry
 
@El'endiaStarman He checked and responded to some on the PPCG mc server.
 
8:30 PM
@quartata @Mat'sMug
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Where's my $10?
Mar 27 at 23:50, by Helka Homba
@Conor If you will send each of us $10, make no response.
 
I still have 1 rep :P
@HelkaHomba I make a response.
 
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Q: What qualifies as malicious code?

Alex A.We've decided by community consensus that challenges asking for malicious code are off topic. But the question remains: At what point do we consider code to be malicious? Most of the time it's extremely obvious, but sometimes it's more subtle. For example, if code could be used maliciously, even ...

 
I forgot to set a time limit...
 
Now i have 6 rep. Do I actually get my rep back? o_O
 
8:31 PM
no
 
@EasterlyIrk He'll agree; just you watch. Not even VB programmers like VB.
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ O_O
 
yes you will get your rep back
 
When?
 
give it a bit
 
8:31 PM
wait why is your rep gone
 
Blame caching.
 
brb eating lunch
 
bai
I ate sausage for lunch. Was gut.
 
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Q: The plus-minus sequence

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'BʀɪᴇɴThe plus-minus sequence The plus-minus sequence is one that starts with two seeds, a(0) and b(0). Each iteration of this sequence is the addition and subtraction of the previous two members of the sequence. That is, a(N) = a(N-1) + b(N-1) and b(N) = a(N-1) - b(N-1). Objective Produce the plus-m...

 
8:34 PM
at 21.
@quartata as a PPCG experenced user, are self-answers non-competeing?
 
Yes
 
oh dang edits apply immediately? o_O
 
Or at least you are strongly encouraged to make them so
@EasterlyIrk At 1k
 
epic
Also, the edit box changed.
 
I wouldn't explicitly mark them as non competing though
 
8:37 PM
It is now inline?
 
Just don't give yourself the checkmark
hold on there is a meat post around here about this
 
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Q: Can you post a challenge and answer in a language you designed?

Luis MendoIf you post a code-golf challenge after you designed a code-golfing language, it may be argued that you are somehow at an advantageous position. Knowing your language features may have influenced your challenge choice. With this in mind, I posted a challenge today, answered in a language I had p...

 
wow ninja'd
 
Wait, why was Conor suspended? What did I miss?
 
Somebody seriously upvoted him, they suspended him for getting the votes.
Because they can't know for certain if he asked them to or anything.
 
8:43 PM
> meat post
 
You had me confused for a fraction of a second. :P
 
That was delibrate
Also not to burst your bubble @EasterlyIrk but mods can checkuser (see IPs). They would have just let the serial voting script revert it if it was someone/thing else (assuming it even was serial voting)
let's not dwell on it
 
At least I am the lowest rep user with a gold badge :P
 
haha
 
8:49 PM
*was
 
@quartata @CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ told us in the mc chat.
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I am now that you has got your rep back.
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ :DDDDDD
 
Actually I don't know there might be a 1 rep lurker with fanatic
 
THANK YOU FOR THE _UNK SUGGESTION FOR FOG!!!
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A: Golf you a quine for great good!

Easterly IrkFuzzy Octo Guacamole, 4 bytes _UNK I am not kidding. Due to a suggestion by @ConorO'Brien, K prints _UNK. The _UN does nothing really, but actually sets the temp var to 0, pushes 0, and pushes None. The K prints "_UNK", and that is our quine.

 
8:50 PM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ huh
I thought you had about 9k rep?
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

DenkerAffe@Sandbox: I really like the idea od this challenge, but it has some problems which allow some esolangs to get high scores very easily. A quine in Lenguage for example will always score n!/n. Also reordering of literals allows for some easy scores. Maybe I can circumvent this with a different scor...

 
I lost 1.2k when serial voting reversed.
 
What
 
@EasterlyIrk My pleasure :D
 
@Dennis Can you please pull 05AB1E?
 
8:55 PM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ also, if you haven't seen this yet.
 
@Adnn that reminds me I never finished the deflate strings
 
I did it!
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A: Clean the muddy quartata-fish

muddyfishPython 2, 433 bytes import re;i,o,l,j=input(),range,lambda s,r:s.replace(*r),"".join;i=l(l(l(i,".1"),"#."),"| ");s=o(len(i)) def f(x,y,w): for i in o(w):r[x+i][y:y+w]=["".join(c*(w/3)for c in l)for l in["-o-","--o","ooo"]][3*i/w] for x in s: for y in s: for q in s: r=map(list,l(l(i,"o...

too long though
 
@quartata I tried to work with it, but I suck at compession :p
 
I'll write it in a golfing language later
 
8:58 PM
noooooo
 
I had to define a macro for str.replace(a,b)
:(
 
oh well you're better at golf than me anyways lol
 
@Zgarb that was a really hard challenge
I ended up doing it the way @MartinBüttner suggested
 
9:03 PM
 
I would upvote them, but I don't want to serial vote :/
 
:/
I always worry about that.
It is worse to give them rep and take it away then not give, IMO.
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A: Should homework be allowed?

Adam TolleyNew to this site, I came straight to this question as I was concerned that code golf was a thin veneer over answer my homework please. Now I see that those sort of questions will be jumped on by a bunch of elitist asshole alpha-nerds assisted by cruel instinct that can smell homework questions...

That answer is hilarious.
 
> elitist asshole alpha-nerds
Yep that's us all right
 
@quartata o_O
 
9:16 PM
lol
 
A bug in my quartata fish program made me need to hard reset my laptop. Bad while loop
 
:(
 
@muddyfish Good! It was supposed to be hard.
 
Yeah
It was really fun though
 
And I hadn't even golfed it yet. I was just trying to get it to work
 
9:22 PM
had to use SO for getting regexes. I've (almost) never used them before
 
This room is actually a decent source of regex knowledge
 
My answer uses far too much replacing to get the regex to work
 
@AlexA. s/This room/Martin
 
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
9:49 PM
@Adnan Done.
 
10:11 PM
Is it OK to unprotect things that Community protected? It seems to have protected something that didn't really attract very low-quality answers, it just got some answers with bugs
The challenge in question is Produce a XOR table
 
And the sad thing is, my quartata fish solution doesn't even work
 
I'm a very tricky fish to clean, clearly.
Can't settle for sponges and soap; gotta go for a garden hose and bleach at least
 
Sigh, 80 rep from mortarboard, but it's two hours till the count rolls over and I don't know where to get that rep
 
use jolf. it's great and does all things
 
Oh man, there's so many easy lookup table kolmogorov complexity challenges that can be answered with Cinnamon Gum. Why didn't I think of doing this to Bubblegum sooner
 
10:21 PM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ blasphemer of jQuery!
@quartata link?
 
To the challenges?
 
cinnamon gum
 
@Maltysen It's right to blaspheme a blasphemic thing ...
 
It only has the lookup table mode right now though.
I'm adding more things right now
 
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Q: Write an interpreter for my new esoteric programming language HexFlow

Alex L.Some of you may recall my question about StreamFlow. However, that was closed as unclear, because I didn't explain it well at all. So, I've made a few modifications to the languages specs, and here is the new problem. Language Specifications A program will be a 2-dimensional grid of characters;...

 
10:23 PM
I'm not sure why I named it Cinnamon Gum...
It's my favorite flavor of gum but I'm not sure it's really fitting per se
 
what's up with all these people outsourcing esolang development to us?
 
Just plugged in an old USB drive and noticed I named it "SNEAKERNET 2.0." I amuse myself sometimes
 
There's a tag you don't see everyday
 
10:40 PM
What have you done with flawr, and who are you?
 
rwalf
 
That almost looks like an acronym...
 
I imagine it being pronounced like "Ralph"
 
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A: Quack the Angry Duck

quartataCinnamon Gum, 76 bytes 0000000: 6c33 502b 2c4d 4cce b636 54b3 b30a b536 l3P+,ML..6T....6 0000010: 5253 0081 5010 e6b2 5350 b082 3215 ecb0 RS..P...SP..2... 0000020: 8a42 1487 865a 1bab 2960 00a0 79c8 6c2e .B...Z..)`..y.l. 0000030: 2026 a002 4221 0430 55c0 5938 cd40 9720 &..B!.0U.Y8.@. 00000...

what have I done
 
Step aside, Jelly!
 
10:42 PM
Except not really
Although I do think languages with narrower focuses like this might be more common soon
I think I should do printf format strings next.
 
@quartata Hydroelectric child, that's short!
request for explanation eleven
 
Fun fact: I have a language for each general tag except for fastest-code
^^
 
@Dennis request for explanation
 
Oh, I should make it so that you can have multiple keys correspond to one value first
 
@Dennis I inserted a request for explanation
 
10:45 PM
>:U
 
quack
o>
 
chirp
 
sup
 
Gotta go fast!
 
ewwww
XD
I guess that's what I get tho :P
 
My girlfriend from the other side of the room: "Are you listening to Katy Perry backwards?"
Impressive identification skills
 
I was just about to say "I'm impressed." :P
 
hahahaha
 
That's no big deal. I can identify the song across the internet.
 
10:58 PM
ooh good "Reverse audio"
 
@Dennis Can you pull Cinnamon Gum?
 
@quartata Pulled, unwrapped and chewed.
 
Thanks
It's delicious gum
I hope you enjoy it
 
@Dennis Gross
 
I love cinnamon gum.
 
11:02 PM
All right, now you can do something like 0&1&blah;2&foo which will create {0:blah,1:blah,2:foo}
@Dennis Same
 
@Dennis Gross
 
@AlexA. uwot
 
It's almost as bad as cinnamon whiskey
 
Gum is a bad idea for birds anyway.
 
Which should never have been invented
@Dennis That's probably true
 
11:03 PM
You've probably never had good cinnamon gum then
I agree that cinnamon whiskey is disgusting though
 
@AlexA. I haven't cinnamon whiskey, but it can't be worse than bell pepper vodka.
 
That also sounds awful
 
@Dennis wtf
 
@AlexA. It is. Tastes oily.
 
1 min ago, by Alex A.
@Dennis Gross
 
11:04 PM
I finally got silver code golf.
 
Nice!
 
buns are best
2
 
I've had the score for it for almost 4 months
I just needed more answers
 
@quartata \o/
 
@quartata congrats!
 
11:05 PM
@HelkaHomba What
 
In related news, I used to be ~100 rep ahead of quartata, and now I'm ~140 rep behind. :P
 
I've been tailing DavidC for quite a while now. I still have over 1k to go before I catch up to him.
 
@AlexA. cinnamon
 
I've been passed by like 6 people in the past few weeks.....
 
@AlexA. that shouldn't be to hard, snails are pretty slow but I don't know if they have tails.
 
11:07 PM
@HelkaHomba \o@
 
@HelkaHomba Oh, you're saying that cinnamon buns are the best. I can agree with that.
 
@Dennis @?
 
cinnamon roll
 
wat.
 
Doooonnnnnnnuutttttt
is gut.
 
11:09 PM
uhhhhhhhh.....
 
Maple bar is best bar
 
steel bar is best bar
 
magpie is best pie
 
11:10 PM
._.
 
Other pie is bad.
@AlexA. Not to eat, silly bird.
 
Mmm I'm not so sure that's what Dennis meant ;P
 
Well might be, but that sounds disgusting and is very cruel.
 
@AlexA. You shouldn't anyway. :P
 
Shouldn't what
 
11:11 PM
@EasterlyIrk people eat goats. That is disgusting and cruel
 
@Downgoat IKR?
 
@Dennis lel
 
@EasterlyIrk Why is eating magpies cruel?
(Assuming you eat other birds.)
 
It's interesting to me when people say "eating animal X is disgusting and cruel" yet they eat other animals.
 
Because they aren't good for humans, and they serve no benefit to us. If it has to die, feed it to a cat.
@Dennis I don't eat chicken.
 
11:12 PM
I head that if you ingest a magpie, you get its rep.
 
Only beef actually.
 
@Dennis because if you eat a certain magpie, the only Julia programmer will be gone.
 
@Maltysen must try
 
@Maltysen what about Jon Skeets?
 
I hear German guys with scarves are tastier than magpies >_>
 
11:13 PM
@Downgoat You would have to eat it in pieces to avoid the 200 rep cap
 
@Downgoat well, its technically not a bird, but its a skeet which is pretty close, so i'm not sure.
 
@GamrCorps oh, duh, silly me...
 
The best course of action is not to eat a whole magpie/skeet/whatever all at once, but a bite at a time. The reason is that it grows, so if you eat at the right rate, you'll never eat the whole thing and will be satisfied forever.
Phiranas do this (normally).
 
That would have to be pretty small bites.
 
(see: hovertext)
 
11:16 PM
A goat's bathroom is it's farm so this only is relevant to people
 
Crap, I'm going to miss mortarboard again
 
@Downgoat *its
 
@Dennis @AlexA. brings dead penguin
 
@Sherlock9 I think you already did, unless midnight isn't for another 45 mintues or so
@Dennis D:
 
11:17 PM
@AlexA. DST
 
Does UTC celebrate DST
 
Midnight is another 45 minutes
 
halp I need know
 
70 rep
Blargle-argle
My brain does not work at 6 am
 
@AlexA. No.
 
11:18 PM
@Sherlock9 you need more coffee
 
I was baby goating
 
apologies for low quality freehand circle, on a trackpad
(I figured if I didn't draw it, it might be unclear what in the screenshot I was referring to)
 
@Doorknob -1 flag as unsalvageable
 
That's a pretty good freehand circle. 6/10
 
@Doorknob trackpads are no excuse
 
11:20 PM
I'm sure there was a PPCG challenge to draw a freehand circle around something
 
a nipple mouse on the other hand…
 
@Downgoat yeah, I wrote it
@Maltysen relevant
 
@Doorknob I knew what it was before I clicked. :P
 
^
 
@El'endiaStarman yeah, probably imprudent to onebox it... :P
 
11:21 PM
@Doorknob laptops still have those O_o
 
@Doorknob Obligatory ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
 
@AlexA. obligatory "lenny abuse eleven"
 
No eleven was elevened this day, my sir!
 
@AlexA. whoa cool statistical analysis
 
This is blashemoni and cheez-its!
@Maltysen ?
 
11:23 PM
@AlexA. fine, one hundred and eleven
>:O
 
@AlexA. that stuff with the k-means which I don't understand
 
lel that's not that good. It doesn't take a lot into account. The post even has three downvotes. ;-;
How did what
Where other go
 
@AlexA. rep cap
 
@AlexA. CW
 
@Downgoat No
 
11:25 PM
@Downgoat yes, rep caps at 5
 
._.
 
@Doorknob Oh
 
does Dart happen to be based on JavaScript?
 
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A: What's a Zombie? And what are the many other memes of Code Review?

Simon ForsbergMeme: Java vs. JAVA Originator: Jamal(?) (to be determined) Cultural Height: The 2nd Monitor (as usual), but also in various comments scattered across meta. Background: Question with the word JAVA (instead of Java) in the title or body, is often an indication that the poster is a beginner and/...

 
is JAVASccript a new language? :P
 
11:27 PM
._.
my question is of high quality I can assure you
@Doorknob how do you know about CR memes? ¬_____¬
 
dart says that it compiles to js
 
oh
great, my comment makes me look like an idiot
wow, this looks a lot like JavaScript — Downgoat 2 mins ago
 
@Downgoat I CAN HELP YOU AND AM FLUENT IN ES6
sorry, late response
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ can you hold a conversation in es6?
 
11:35 PM
@Maltysen yes. Chatgoat is coded in ES6
 
@Maltysen yes=i=>`can`
 
Well, this stinks
If I knew Seriously better, I could post an answer in that
 
@Doorknob
 
How many 1k+ PPCG users have more questions than answers? Me, Zgarb...
 
@Downgoat I will help.
@HelkaHomba Nobody else I don't think.
 
11:42 PM
@HelkaHomba I wonder if I got more rep from questions than answers... :P
...time to fork that SEDE query.
 
@EasterlyIrk if you know ES6: ide.c9.io/vihanb/cheddar
 
@Downgoat okai i do, but what I do now?
 
see the chat
 
@El'endiaStarman I like that I can ask such things here and have other people do the real work :P
 
11:48 PM
@HelkaHomba It's an exclusive club.
 
@HelkaHomba Surprisingly easy to duplicate it for answers. (Click on the [1/2].) data.stackexchange.com/codegolf/query/465747/…
I don't know how to compare numbers of questions and answers side-by-side, though.
 
What do you guys think? My first Seriously answer: codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/77004/47581
 
Dammit, codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/74698/… has & in the site names
 
@quartata why not use nonprintable for the separator?
 

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