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00:09
If Earth had to be represented by one color, should it be blue or green?
why gray?
no it isn't
@Downgoat How about teal? Seems like a good compromise.
turns out it is this:
tge average color of earth
@Downgoat Some of us think it is...
00:18
@trichoplax then why is your profile peicture not gray
@Downgoat You didn't see my previous avatar :P
nope
I wonder if I should change my avatar.
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ I do not like green eggs and ham
You do not like them Sam I Am?
00:19
@trichoplax is it this:
yes - looks grey in small...
Or if you squint your eyes.
Indeed
00:20
what should be displayed when a planet is gobbled up by the sun?
Is "Your planet died :(" good?
@Downgoat Out of interest, how did you find my previous avatar??
I looked up your name when said by new sandboxed posts
Ingenious
"Your planet has become part of a far greater celestial body"
00:22
wow thats a lot of profile pic changes
and then a frown face :P
@poi830 The black and white fine lines one was an experiment with the glitch in the avatar display in chat. Then I changed it to a ray traced scene for the launch of Computer Graphics SE. Then I reverted to my turtle from my first ever PPCG answer. Then the turtle went inverse coloured for Halloween.
Ooh, I have an idea for a new avatar. Dunno how it will look though.
ROASTE
D
@AlexA. ??
00:33
@Downgoat you just got roasted son
I did?
@Downgoat qwortoto originally had his message on two lines with the period along on the second.
qwortoto == quartata?
qw/ortoto/
wat.
ortotoortoto?
00:35
inb4 "ew gross perl"
does anyone know what this means:
d = cursorPosition - pointPosition
a = constant * d / length(d)^3
I don't think anyone could possibly know without context
gravity is the context
I finished writing Phondue docs for everything except diacritics... there are a lot of diacritics
Phondue docs?
00:45
I love fondue
if that a language?
I misread that as diuretics and was very confused. Now I'm just slightly confused.
So today I learned about Arqade's isuniwrong.com. I wonder if isalexwrong.com is available.
(psst someone with money go buy that domain)
My internet goes down and I miss so much, but when I had connection, nothing much happens. Go figure.
@trichoplax That's a good way to put it.
00:56
:)
@Downgoat Looks like this could be a force calculation on mouse/point interaction.
yeah, but what I do not know what constant and length do
@Downgoat Me neither. That may or may not be because you didn't post any additional code. :P
Gravity is a force that is calculated by:

F_G = gamma * mass1 * mass2 / distance^2
Where gamma is the gravity constant and mass1 and mass2 are the objects' masses. You get the resulting acceleration with:

F_G = a * mass1
a = F_G / mass1
  = gamma * mass2 / distance^2
And you'll see that the acceleration is independent of the moving object's mass. What remains is gamma * mass2 which you can set to an arbitrary constant. Whichever meets your needs best.

Now we have the length of the acceleration vector. The direction is of course normalize(cursorPosition - pointPosition). So the overall ac
00:59
constant is some constant you pick for tweaking purposes, and length() is basically distance().
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ gamma is: 6.67408 × 10^-11 m^3 kg^-1 s^-2 in this context, not -3
@El'endiaStarman oh ok
-53?
I'm not sure why it's cubed though. Should just be squared, I think.
Incidentally, you can save an operation by calculating the magnitude of the distance vector and not square-rooting it if you know it'll be squared later.
yeah, I was smart enough to do that
01:01
Good, good. :D
s/save an operation/golf it/
Unlike normal golfing though, this makes it faster. :P
who said golfng is slow???
golfing is probably faster for the copmiler
if it's always increasing velocity, will the object never slow down?
01:04
The line import java.util.Scanner; is throwing two errors in my program. The program literally contains a class and main method declaration. wtf
@Downgoat a should be positive or negative depending on the sign of d.
JAVA IS THROWING AN ERROR ON A COMMENT. SCREW THIS I'M SWITCHING TO PYTHON.
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@ANerd-I why are you switching to an even worse language?
@Downgoat ಠ_ಠ
01:07
@Downgoat Because I don't know any parts of any other usable languages
learn the ways of babel
And here I was thinking you could put whatever you want in comments and get away with it
Anyone have ideas or should I go to S/O? I'm like "almost certain" percent sure that this program contains no errors and that Eclipse is doing A Thing.
it'll probably be closed as typographical error
@ANerd-I [looks at users-in-room list].....I'd say SO. :P
@Downgoat There's no typographical error though
01:11
there might be ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@ANerd-I Who's S and O?
what does the error say? Java and JavaScript are the same language so I might be able to help you
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Stack Overflow
@Downgoat For the comment: The type java.lang.Object cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced from required .class files.
java standard libs must not be loaded then
01:13
I'm sad :(
@ANerd-I Stack/Overflow?
@Xanderhall D: what happend?
I wanna post and help someone improve an answer but I'm too much of a scrub
So sad
I'll just have to remember it for when I actually have enough rep
@Downgoat It says the JRE System Library is "unbound"
then bind it
What does that mean, and how?
01:16
go to Project > Properties > Java Build Path
the select "Libarires"
now select the problematic JRE entry
(assume future oks are implied)
01:19
click edit
choose an alternate JRE
then click finish
Doesn't that put me on Java 6 as opposed to 7?
@Xanderhall If they use chat you can ping them in here. Otherwise you'll have to wait for the rep...
@ANerd-I just see if it works
@trichoplax It's not that big of a deal, I can wait
It does, but still
01:20
something might of changed the default jdk name
@Xanderhall The urge to be helpful is strong in many of us in here :)
@trichoplax I just want to make code better D:
You can also mention the answer in here and someone may be able to suggest the improvement for you.
@ANerd-I Try restarting Eclipse. There's no error there
Sometimes it takes a little while to refresh errors
@quartata 1.7 is still unbound
01:23
wuht
infinity is unbound
@ANerd-I "this is a comment";
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ not in python
%this is a comment
01:36
@Downgoat Remove the semicolon?
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ no, in Python it's a string not a comment
and I'm pretty sure it's evaluated instead of stripped out at compile time
^ No weird errors, now, btw.
@Downgoat It's a "comment", like while ( 0 ) { comment }
01:37
@ANerd-I This one doesn't say Trevor B.
@AlexA. ಠ_ಠ
@ANerd-I \o/
@ANerd-I Just an observation
@ANerd-I ʜᴏᴡ ᴅɪᴅ ʏᴏᴜ ғɪx ɪᴛ?
@Downgoat By switching to 1.6 :P
01:38
oh shit, I just killed my mouse ;_;
@Downgoat By decapitation?
@El'endiaStarman no, a computer mouse
I was gonna say "starvation", but that wouldn't fit with "just killed".
it's a wireless one so as I was moving my mouse to the right it just slid of the table and I'm just like "OH SHIT" as it fell ;_;
01:41
Lol. My mouse is wireless too, but that wouldn't be possible for me. :P
@El'endiaStarman He slowly and deliberately withheld food from his mouse.
@El'endiaStarman do you sit at the middle of your desk?
(My "table" is a counter, there's a wall to the right, and it's three feet away. :P)
I don't know where my mouse is -_- and I haven't for... a while
01:42
I do sit fairly close to the middle though, so there's that too.
@Doorknob your cat probably ate it
(if you have a cat)
@Doorknob Not that you'd need it, of course.
@Downgoat I have a dog
@Doorknob ermahgerd what's its name
I have a cat, but all it does is tell me what I've told it.
01:42
Dogs are good.
@Doorknob dogs are like JavaScript, they are wonderful
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ That took me a second until you did the code formatting
@quartata Pepper
@Downgoat ಠ_ಠ
01:43
2 hours ago, by Alex A.
The Internet is a strange place full of jokes that go unnoticed due to the context lost in text.
Dammit, I need 21168 random bytes and the max is 16384 on random.org
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ you don't like dogs?!? D:
make two requests
@Doorknob ermahgerd post pic of doge pls
01:44
@quartata head -c21168 </dev/urandom
@quartata ... Get 10584 bytes twice?
@quartata dog =/= doge
@ANerd-I but that's double the effort
@Downgoat I do like dogs. I do not like javascript.
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ಠ_ಠ
@quartata that would require me to take my phone out of my pocket which is a lot of work
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ :/
@Doorknob oh good point
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I think that was deliberate
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ that's understandable...
01:45
@AlexA. I gave him a picture :P
Cats are like javascript.
And honestly, I just stopped caring about languages. I love JavaScript. I can love PHP. I don't think Java is bad. Each language has a purpose, and each one is just fine.
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ no no no no, not at all
wat
now I'm confused
Even JavaScript has a purpose. For me, it's to serve as prime bashing material for 19B :D
I just typed man xkcd instead of man xxd.
01:47
19B == 1111111111111111111 or 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111‌​111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111?
@Downgoat No. 19B == 10011
Cats are like programming languages. I have no idea what they are capable of or how to interact with them except for the very basics.
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ how??
@Downgoat Binary... ?
1 * 16 +
0 * 8 +
0 * 4 +
1 * 2 +
1 * 1
16 + 2 + 1 == 19.
01:48
@ANerd-I cats are like python... I'll leave it at that
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ but what about the B?
19 =/= 19B
@Downgoat cats are the best
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ you like python??? D:
I can use it.
Python is like a python.
ok, that doesn't work out
01:50
Almost got my new avatar ready.
user image
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@quartata @AlexA. sleppy doge
@Doorknob YES IS SO SLEP
@Doorknob ermahgerd
slep night night
01:51
IS BAY OR GORL
HE IS HAMSOM PAP
Yes you are!  And you're sitting there!  Hi, kitty!
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s/cat/dog/
And s/kitty/puppy/.
This applies to me always
01:52
My dog isn't cute enough to get on the starboard. =(
I don't believe that for one second
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ all dogs are cute enoguh to get on the starboard
I actually don't have a dog or a cat.
I have a lizard though. Does that count?
01:52
Depends
What kind of lizard?
@AlexA. leopard gecko
Whoops, pinged the wrong person.
:29106904 oh god
cat
cat
@Downgoat lol, rip formatting
01:53
17 secs ago, by Downgoat
:29106904 oh god
Judging by the starboard, yes even that one.
cat
cat
Does anyone know why ThomasKwa's account was deleted?
@cat O_o really???
01:54
I think he just renamed himself.
he's lirtosiast now
cat
cat
Oh, so it's a coincidence
Yeah, he's still around
cat
cat
Can mods see peoples' old names? Can they search historical usernames?
Old usernames show up in the chat transcript
01:55
@cat Yes we can see old names but no we can't search
is there a closed form primalty check?
cat
cat
@Downgoat ?
@Downgoat wilson's theorem?
iff n is prime
oh, yeah
Wilson's Theorem is slllllooooooooowwwwww
But very golfy.
01:57
@quartata Yeah. :P
but Cheddar doesn't have looops
@quartata And extremely impractical
Does it have factorial?
@AlexA. Yeah, but it's great for code golf :P
cat
cat
Explicit looping is for those who golf in Cobol. Use a recursive function instead :D
01:58
@cat Hey, Racket's (for rocks
cat
cat
Does Cheddar have some sort of procedure construct?
I use it all the time.
@cat cheddar only has a tokenizer and scopes at the moment
@cat Yeah it does but it doesn't have tail call optimization
@cat Yes, it's defined using CHEEZ PLZ
cat
cat
01:58
@quartata It does, though that's still not quite like for in C, Java, Python
@cat True, true.
I'm too lazy to actually take a picture of my dog, but he looks like this:
@AlexA. I don't remember releasing the docs yet...
cat
cat
AW
01:59
that's adorable
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ SO BEAUTIFUL OMG
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ awww
I can't believe you'd think that's not cute enough to get on the starboard
Is bro or gal?

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