The Nineteenth Byte

Geobits

03:00

@quartata :P

I'm talking about people who go on and on about how vegetarian they are, until they see a nice burger.

Downgoat

@QPaysTaxes turn that frown upside down: ):

quartata

I guess the question is would you eat bacon every single day if you were offered a black box that shoots out bacon

Geobits

@quartata How is that a question?

quartata

@Geobits Yeah I don't understand that

Alex A.

@Geobits ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But if you don't care what people eat, why do you think them pretentious based on their eating habits? :P

quartata

03:01

@Geobits I think @AlexA. would say no to that

Geobits

@AlexA. See my last. It's the people that talk up the benefits while being hypocrits that I mean.

Maltysen

@AlexA. well he's not judging them on their eating habits there he's judging them on what they say

Alex A.

Ah yeah

New Sandboxed Posts

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

KOTH: Black Hole I've recently seen this video (by Tom Scott), in which it featured a game called Black Hole. Let's play that for KOTH! Overview Two "players" have 10 counters, each labelled 1 to 10. These two players take it in turns to place counters on a grid of 21 "spaces" arranged in a t...

Geobits

@quartata Yes, but we all know he's wrong about this :P

quartata

03:02

@Geobits There's probably other people in here who would say no to a bacon box

Doorknob

I've never liked bacon

Alex A.

@quartata Indeed I would

poi830

trying to figure out people's profile pics
but why is maltysen's from http://zookiesnotepad.blogspot.com/

quartata

@poi830 it's a character from an anime

Downgoat

@QPaysTaxes at

Geobits

03:03

@Anyone who doesn't want their bacon box: Send it over to me. I'll take multiples.

Doorknob

@quartata it is?

I didn't know that

quartata

@Doorknob I thought

poi830

chat.stackexchange.com/users/757/grace-note this is definitely a character from an anime

Doorknob

trivia: Grace Note's profile picture is different on every single SE site

quartata

@poi830 Grace Note has a different profile picture on every SE site

Doorknob

03:04

they're all from animes

poi830

gross

Alex A.

@Doorknob As is Shog's, right?

Geobits

Also from anime: gravatar.com/avatar/…

quartata

oh my I just got roasted and toasted

Doorknob

@AlexA. no, he's just a floating head on meta and that other one everywhere else

Downgoat

03:04

@Geobits that is not from anime?

Doorknob

@Downgoat ...

Alex A.

@Doorknob He's different on cooking

Geobits

@Downgoat Wait, you haven't seen Downvote Chronicles?

Doorknob

@AlexA. TIL

Downgoat

@Geobits no?

Geobits

03:05

You need to watch. Now.

quartata

dude downvote chronicles is the greatest anime ever

Downgoat

@Geobits I only watch Downgoat Chronicles

pls link though

Doorknob

@AlexA. oh huh he's different on Programmers and A51 as well

Geobits

Link to what? I don't know of a streaming site that has it off-hand. I've got them on my HD.

Doorknob

nowhere else I don't think

quartata

03:06

@Downgoat here's a sample: youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

Downgoat

@quartata ...........

Geobits

Oh, nice. YT normally takes them down pretty quickly.

quartata

you can get it on crunchyroll too I think

Downgoat

@Geobits can you rip and upload to dailymotion

Geobits

Oh, lemme check my app.

@Downgoat Eh, I got it from TPB, and don't feel like doing the upload thing again.

zyabin101

03:07

Hello

Downgoat

@Geobits I will not believe Downvote Chronicles exists until you give me a link

Geobits

@quartata Hmm. Not seeing it on crunchyroll. Weird.

quartata

@Geobits huh

Doorknob

@Downgoat can't tell if trolling

Geobits

@Downgoat Umm. Ok I guess. Up to you.

Downgoat

03:08

@Doorknob ??

Geobits

I'll not believe Tenchi Muyo exists until you link me.

Downgoat

Tenchi Muyo!

Note: This article covers the series as a whole, for more detailed information check the articles that make up the series. Tenchi Muyo! (天地無用!, Tenchi Muyō!, lit. "No Need for Tenchi!"), is a Japanese anime, light novel, and manga franchise. The original series began with a six episode OVA called Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki (天地無用! 魎皇鬼, Tenchi Muyō! Ryōōki) created by Masaki Kajishima and Hiroki Hayashi, and released in Japan on September 25, 1992. The series was released by Pioneer LDC in the United Kingdom in 1994. As its popularity grew, it spurred a seventh episode titled Tenchi Muyo! Special: The...

there's your link

Geobits

I can't watch it on wikipedia....

quartata

@Downgoat ok here it is for real youtube.com/watch?v=YbaTur4A1OU

Downgoat

@quartata I know that's Duckroll...

Geobits

03:09

And hulu has half sub half dub episodes. It's weird.

Downgoat

@Geobits but it's proof it exists

poi830

here youtube.com/watch?v=8veTn8YZ0_E

quartata

@Downgoat How could you possibly know

unless you clicked on it

Downgoat

@quartata you posted duckroll before

quartata

and you memorized the link eh

nice try

you clicked on it

ROASTE
D

Downgoat

03:10

Mar 30 at 23:24, by quartata

not a rickroll

quartata

Sure, but I posted it once two weeks ago

where as that rickroll has been posted a million times

Downgoat

@quartata I never said I didn't click on it

quartata

@Downgoat well if you clicked on it my work here is done

Downgoat

@poi830 nope, not clicking that. You've tried to rickroll once and failed so I'm not clicking that

Geobits

Oooooooooh. They do have it on crunchy, but it's listed as ダウン投票年代記. Only the subbed version.

Downgoat

03:11

@quartata I never said I clicked on it

Doorknob

@Downgoat sounds like you're trying to hide that you clicked on it

quartata

@Downgoat It's actually not a rickroll

poi830

not technically a rickroll

Downgoat

@quartata uh huh

sure

¬_¬

Geobits

@QPaysTaxes Did you do them left?

quartata

03:12

no for real

Geobits

Damn, that sucks.

quartata

> Dman

Geobits

Fixed before pointed out, doesn't count.

>_>

quartata

Timestamps or it didn't happen

Quill

The Presets - Are You The One?

►

Doorknob

03:13

@quartata SE doesn't expose the exact timestamp of edits; only original posting time of messages

Geobits

I'd hope so.

quartata

@Doorknob Exactly

Geobits

@Doorknob Which means I win. Clearly.

quartata

no timestamps no proof

Geobits

@quartata No proof for you. I saw it with my own eyes.

Doorknob

03:14

@QPaysTaxes pop quiz: what does *a=a;p a output?

Quill

var omg = [alert, console.log]; omg[0]("wat"); omg[1]("wtf js");

Doorknob

@QPaysTaxes in Ruby

Alex A.

@Doorknob a baby

Doorknob

@QPaysTaxes nope

Geobits

@Doorknob *a=a;p a => don'tcareenoughtofindout

Doorknob

03:15

yeah

a=a sets a to nil

the splat wraps in an array

it's a little watish

Alex A.

@Doorknob Thank you for not linking to the barfy gif

Doorknob

oh that's neat

quartata

@Doorknob ...this is just weird

Doorknob

yeah

Alex A.

@Doorknob * is splat?

quartata

03:27

@AlexA. yes

It's also splat in Python

Alex A.

That's 3 times golfier than Julia's ... splat

Mmmmmmmmmmmnope

quartata

Ruby has good OOP, 2 space indents, some functional programming things, Shoes, and it's almost like Perl.

Alex A.

Don't get me wrong, Ruby seems pretty cool and I'd like to learn more about it, but surely it can't overtake Julia as the One True Language.

quartata

That's pretty good

Alex A.

You had me until "almost like Perl"

quartata

03:30

right but the good parts of Perl

Alex A.

And 2 space indent is the standard. Doesn't mean it's required.

Quill

perl has good parts?

Alex A.

If it errored on tabs then I'd love it

1 min ago, by Alex A.

Mmmmmmmmmmmnope

quartata

@Quill yes

don't talk too much smack about it or I might have to copy-paste bomb my new "short treatise on JS"

Alex A.

quartootles is just salty because he invested all of his money in Perl Company, Inc. before realizing that Perl is garbageroni.

Doorknob

03:32

Perl is mind-blowing and everyone should learn it

Geobits

I'd like to keep my mind intact, thank you very much.

Alex A.

@Doorknob Good troll, bro

quartata

@AlexA. but he's not trolling

Geobits

Starstreak, ACTIVATE!

quartata

he learned perl a while back and loved it

Alex A.

03:33

@quartata I learned Perl a while back and regretted it

quartata

ah but you didn't properly learn it then

Quill

@Geobits call in the lightning strike at three stars

Geobits

For the record, we're talking about these perls, right?

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Q: Stringing a Pearl Necklace

Overview Pearls (or Masyu) is a logic game played on a grid. There are black and white pearls placed on the grid. The object is to form a single, closed loop that travels through each pearl using only straight line segments and right angles. There are some rules that govern how the loop intera...

Quill

We all make bad decisions, like learning Perl or PHP, or using regex in general

Doorknob

@Geobits oh hey that's one of statham's puzzles

Alex A.

03:35

@Quill There's a time and a place for regex. There is no time nor place for Perl and PHP.

Geobits

@Doorknob Jason Statham makes puzzles? :P

Alex A.

Or subversion. If you're still using svn you should be ashamed of yourself.

Quill

@AlexA. the place is the trash and the time is now

@AlexA. or TFS

Geobits

@AlexA. They used CVS at my previous job :(

Alex A.

@Geobits Oh. Oh god. I'm so sorry.

@QPaysTaxes If it doesn't make them implementation any easier then don't bother IMO.

Geobits

03:37

It was an in-house team as part of the city. The organization was... lacking...

Helka Homba

@Geobits They used a pharmacy for version control?

Geobits

@HelkaHomba They used to use Walgreen's, but they switched shortly before I got there.

Alex A.

@HelkaHomba Yes. You had to get a prescription to check out code.

quartata

Look I don't understand what you people got against PHP

Quill

@AlexA. haha, code flu

Alex A.

03:38

@QPaysTaxes Can you elaborate on that? The wording is confusing to me.

quartata

@AlexA. subversion is great

Geobits

@quartata See, now you're just being silly.

Quill

@quartata i cam't find where to buy the elephant

Maybe if I could buy the elephant

quartata

@Geobits no I actually like PHP. I use it in any situation where I would use Perl but the internet is involved

Alex A.

I don't know why I like quartata so much. All of his preferences are invalid.

<3 ;)

Geobits

03:39

Nah, he likes his peanut butter smooth, so all is well.

quartata

I love smooth peanut butter

Quill

Helka Homba

@AlexA. You like mego => You like quartata

Alex A.

PHP: The elephant in the room

Quill

The size of the animal represents your frustrations

Alex A.

03:40

@HelkaHomba Oh right, they're basically the same

Geobits

To be fair, I haven't used PHP in a decade or so. Is it any different now?

Quill

I'm surprised they didn't choose the elephant for java, it could represent the code size

quartata

It's different

It's got some nice new toys

Also it can be run from the command line

Geobits

@Quill They got it right. You have to be hopped up on caffeine to fuel the verbose typing required.

Which is also why javascript should've been called methscript.

Alex A.

@QPaysTaxes Is that a question?

I don't understand the question

Oh

Not if it doesn't make parsing easier

Geobits

03:43

Is this rigidly typed?

Alex A.

Then declaring with the type is probably better

Geobits

Then unless you want to try inferring it, you should require declaration, but allow simultaneous.

Helka Homba

@AlexA. *Not if it doesn't disallow you to not be certain parsing isn't easier

Alex A.

@HelkaHomba ParseError: I can't

Geobits

> 'even' expected

Alex A.

03:45

ok

Helka Homba

@QPaysTaxes I'd be annoyed if I had to do int i\ni=5 every time instead of int i = 5

Geobits

If you're explicitly declaring it an int, then I'd expect an error there.

Alex A.

^

Also I think your keywords are backwards

Geobits

It has died:

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Only Three Words

Alex A.

@QPaysTaxes Can you give an example of a short program in your language?

Or at at least what you imagine it looking like at this point

GamrCorps

03:49

Question: on TIO, can you put the hex dump of the program in any language and it will automatically handle it?

Alex A.

@QPaysTaxes Yep

@GamrCorps I don't believe so but you can try it and find out

quartata

I've just realized that in our continous heated flamewar over Windows vs OS X vs Linux there's one OS we can all bash/laugh at

GNU Hurd

Alex A.

@QPaysTaxes It looks neat. Extremely confusing, but neat.

quartata

@QPaysTaxes no I loved solaris

Geobits

@quartata I hurd that

quartata

03:51

One of the survivors, poking around in the ruins with the point of a spear, uncovers a singed photo of Richard Stallman. They stare in silence. "This," one of them finally says, "This is a man who BELIEVED in something."

Alex A.

@QPaysTaxes I'm having a hard time mentally parsing the control flow.

It makes the most sense if I read it upside down and backwards

Right

Why the upside down control flow?

Downgoat

+1 for upside-down control flow

Alex A.

Oh, okay

Does that mean that else ifs get really ugly?

Oh okay

What's your implementation language?

quartata

ruby

Alex A.

Nice

Is it on the hub of all gits?

ok

Downgoat

04:08

In java can I give a class a method named clone?

how

but won't that override clone?

can I make a method named getClass?

my question is should Cheddar have properties that come with classes

i.e. should I have built-in methods for all classes?

like:

class A { /* code */ }
foo := A:()
print foo.Name() // if name is a method of all classes

@QPaysTaxes but what if the user wants to name a method called Name?

should I throw a warning if they do override it?

Helka Homba

Movie trivia, anyone?

Downgoat

OK

got it

Anonymous

04:38

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A: Find the program that prints this integer sequence (Cops' thread)

Seriously, 14 bytes ,???D*≈@??D*≈- The ?s denote the hidden code. Output: a(0) = 1 a(1) = 0 a(3) = 1

Anonymous

Have at it, people :P

Anonymous

I have a feeling that submission will stay uncracked for a while because barely anyone else knows/uses Seriously :P

Anonymous

Alternatively, a lot of people learn Seriously and start using it

Anonymous

Either way, victory for me

Anonymous

The Seriously puns exhausted their humor potential months ago :P

Anonymous

04:40

@QPaysTaxes These are not the sequences you are looking for

Anonymous

Actually I have no idea what you're referring to, so I can't give you a serious answer

Anonymous

Not that I would anyway, because I don't want it to be cracked :P

Anonymous

That's interesting

Anonymous

If you can find 5 CP437 bytes to fill in for the ?'s and the code will generate that sequence, it'll be valid

Alex A.

Just found this image. It's very unsettling.

Of course there is one

Anonymous

04:47

Online interpreter

Anonymous

GitHub repo

Alex A.

translate: grazie mille

(from Italian) Thank you very much

Anonymous

Commands list (download it and open it in a text editor that can understand that it's CP437-encoded and not UTF-8 like GitHub wants to think)

Anonymous

Alternatively commands.txt on the v2 branch is UTF-8, but the commands aren't the same

Anonymous

It'll work for copy-and-pasting characters

Anonymous

04:49

Because I wanted the CP437 encoding for easy copy/paste into text files and terminal windows for locally running programs

Anonymous

TIO is the only interpreter currently that will accept the equivalent UTF-8 text

Alex A.

Help stop the injustice

Helka Homba

@AlexA. Looks like this

Alex A.

@HelkaHomba That one is happy. The Fig Newtons (or whatever) are just unsettling.

Anonymous

My challenge has received much less attention than I'd hoped for :(

Anonymous

04:56

5

Q: Virtual Keyboard Text Input

On modern game consoles and other devices without traditional keyboards, trying to input text is a nightmare. Having to type with a few buttons and a joystick on a virtual keyboard is annoying, and I like to make as few movements/button presses as possible. The keyboard you will be using looks l...

string code-challenge keyboard

Helka Homba

Award gummy bears

That's my secret

Anonymous

amazon.com/Giant-Gummy-Bear-approx-Pounds/dp/B00315HJ8C

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