The Nineteenth Byte

R. Kap

6:11 AM

So, what unicode encoding do you think chr() uses in Python 3.5.1 on Mac OS X in English?

Alex A.

UTF-8

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

Not by default.

Alex A.

No?

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

You have to specify to get utf-8.

R. Kap

Utf-8? Which Locale uses ASCII?

Alex A.

6:12 AM

@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ I thought that was a Python 3 thing

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

Oh, yeah you're right.

R. Kap

@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ Then what would be default?

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

@R.Kap For python 3, UTF-8. For python 2, ASCII.

Man, I need to get with the times and stop using python 2.

Alex A.

But for practical purposes ASCII ⊂ UTF-8 so it doesn't matter for ASCII data

R. Kap

@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ So Python 2 uses ASCII. Then I am guessing you can't use values more than 128 with chr() in Python 2.

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

6:14 AM

Well, you can but you get ugly string literals like "\xab"

Alex A.

>>> chr(9082)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: chr() arg not in range(256)

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

@Alex, is that 2 or 3?

Alex A.

2

Dennis

2

Alex A.

>>> chr(9082)
'⍺'

3

R. Kap

6:15 AM

In Python 3, chr(9082) returns '⍺'

Very interesting...

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

How should I give V utf-8 support? Right now, it expects latin8 which is kindof a pain.

I'd like it to handle both, e.g. UTF-8 for convenience, latin8 for golfing.

Dennis

Python 3 doesn't use UTF-8 by default; it honors the system's locale. Virtually every sane OS is configured to use UTF-8 out of the box, but that's beside the point.

$ LANG=en_US.UTF8
$ python3 -q
>>> chr(256)
'Ā'
>>> print(chr(256))
Ā
>>>
$ LANG=en_US
$ python3 -q
>>> chr(256)
'\u0100'
>>> print(chr(256))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\u0100' in position 0: ordinal not in range(256)

R. Kap

Apparently, utf-8 supports values up to 1114111. Or in hexadecimal terms, 0x10ffff.

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

@R.Kap Really? I thought UTF8 supports up to four byte width chars.

Alex A.

1114111 is 3 bytes

Dennis

6:18 AM

It does, but it has a lot of redundancy.

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

10 ff ff

Alex A.

I elevened

R. Kap

Well, at least that's what it says in help for chr()

`chr(i, /)`
`Return a Unicode string of one character with ordinal i; 0 <= i <= 0x10ffff.`

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

@AlexA. wat

Alex A.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Dennis

6:19 AM

Also, UTF-8 supports 2^32 characters, but Unicode got shortened to 17 * 2^16.

R. Kap

If you try chr() with anything more than 1114111, you get a ValueError.

Alex A.

Good night!

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

Good knight!

R. Kap

What time is it over there?

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

Wow, I'm bad with chat markup.

Alex A.

6:21 AM

@QPaysTaxes It means you'll have nightmares

._.

R. Kap

Good night!

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

I am ~~bad~~ okay with chat markup.

Dennis

@R.Kap To answer your question, it doesn't use an encoding at all. It simply returns a Unicode string, which only needs to be encoded when converted to a byte string or when printed.

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

Hey, does anyone have thoughts on this before I post it?
http://meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/9000/31716

R. Kap

@Dennis But UTF-8 is the default encoding when it's printed, right?

@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ I like it.

Alex A.

6:26 AM

@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ Looks good to me

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

Cool. BRB, posting

Dennis

@R.Kap No, Python's default is ASCII, but it gets overridden by your system's locale.

R. Kap

Anybody have any thoughts on mine?: meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/2140/…

Yeah, I just checked. Apparently, all I have to use is sys.getdefaultencoding(), and the output was utf-8.

Alex A.

You just linked to Dr Ham's...

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

@R.Kap I like it!

:P

R. Kap

6:28 AM

How do I link to mine? I scrolled down to mine...

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

Hit the [share] button.

R. Kap

Ok, here it is: meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/9009/52405 What do you think?

@Dennis So I am assuming, in IDLE, when chr() is used on any integer, str() is first executed on the output, and then the output is returned in that default encoding. And, if the output is not recognizable by the default encoding, an exception is thrown. Interesting...

mınxomaτ

> Some people think "I know, I'll use threads!" and then two they hav erpoblesms.

5

Dennis

Haha, been there.

R. Kap

What?...

Dennis

6:36 AM

@R.Kap I've never used IDLE, but executing chr with any valid code point should never result in an exception. The encoding only matters if you execute .encode() or if you print.

Alex A.

@mınxomaτ Then they think, "I have too many problems, I'll do everything in serial." Legend has it they're still waiting for their code to finish executing.

Race condition

A race condition or race hazard is the behavior of an electronic, software or other system where the output is dependent on the sequence or timing of other uncontrollable events. It becomes a bug when events do not happen in the order the programmer intended. The term originates with the idea of two signals racing each other to influence the output first. Race conditions can occur in electronics systems, especially logic circuits, and in computer software, especially multithreaded or distributed programs. == Electronics == A typical example of a race condition may occur in a system of logic gates...

May 27 '15 at 20:06, by PhiNotPi

Knock, knock.
Race condition.
Who’s there.

Dennis

That just made me laugh for the second time.

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Q: How many 14ers did I climb?

In mountaineering terminology, a "14er" is any mountain with an elevation of 14,000 feet or more. However, there is another distinction. For a peak to count as a 14er, it must also have a "geographic prominence" of 300 or more feet. This means that to move from one 14er to another, you must first...

R. Kap

What does everybody think about my proposed challenge?: meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/9009/52405

mınxomaτ

It might take some time to get everybody's opinion ;-)

Alex A.

6:40 AM

I don't have time to give it a close look at the moment but I'd recommend leaving it in the sandbox a while longer so more people can see it.

Anonymous

@mınxomaτ I love this so much

Anonymous

I'm giggling uncontrollably

Anonymous

My gf will probably wake up and strangle me but worth it

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

Has anyone here ever played The Talos Principle?

Anonymous

No, but I really want to

Anonymous

6:51 AM

It looks super good

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

It is. It's fantastic.

Maybe even better than portal.

Anonymous

:o

Anonymous

But Portal is c

Anonymous

You can only be as good as Portal

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

But, what about portal 2?

Anonymous

6:53 AM

And if a game is not as good as Portal, Portal is always c times better, regardless of how good the game is

Anonymous

Portal 2 is as good as Portal

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

Really? I think it's better.

Anonymous

Nope, equal

Anonymous

Portal 2 being better than Portal would be violating 2 laws of media

Alex A.

@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ >:O

Anonymous

6:54 AM

1. Nothing is better than Portal. At best, something is as good as Portal.
2. The sequel is never better than the original.

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

@Mego That's not true. Half life. Bioshock. (infinite, certainly not 2). Borderlands.

Maybe others.

R. Kap

@Mego I don't know if you have played recent games, but in my opinion, Life is Strange is better than Portal 2.

Anonymous

@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ Valve and Gearbox get to break rule #2, but that's because they both sacrificed the number 3

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

Left 4 dead.

Sanctum.

R. Kap

Uncharted

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

6:56 AM

Arkham city is > arkham asylum IMO.

Anonymous

Ok I forgot the fine print on Rule #2

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

lol

Anonymous

Rule #2 only applies if the first game was good

R. Kap

Arkham City >>>>>>>>>> Arkham Knight

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

@R.Kap That's because Arkham City actually runs.

Anonymous

6:57 AM

Game #2 is never better than Game #1 if Game #1 is a good game

Anonymous

Unless you sacrifice the number 3

R. Kap

@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ Yup, lol

Anonymous

(see: Borderlands, Half Life, Left 4 Dead, etc.)

Alex A.

@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ Half-Life 1 and 2 are too different to say one is better than the other IMO. They're both perfect and amazing.

R. Kap

On PS4 it actually runs but come on...it's a console...

Anonymous

6:58 AM

Although there's rumors of a Borderlands 3

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

@AlexA. That's true.

Anonymous

Which was strongly hinted at during Pre-Sequel

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

I've actually never beaten half life 1. I really should.

Alex A.

@Mego And there have been almost 10 years of rumors of a Half-Life 3. :P

@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ >:O

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

Almost 10? You mean 12?

R. Kap

6:59 AM

Anyone here play games like Uncharted, Bioshock, Tomb Raider, etc.?

Alex A.

HL2:E2 came out in 2007

Anonymous

@AlexA. eurogamer.net/articles/…

Alex A.

Oh, nice

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

Yeah, but HL2 came out in 04.

Anonymous

@R.Kap I've played Bioshock Infinite and the new Tomb Raider (literally the new Tomb Raider, not Rise of the Tomb Raider)

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

7:00 AM

And that ending was just as much of a cliff hanger as EP 2.

Anonymous

So B3 has been officially announced

Anonymous

I'm excited

Alex A.

@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ Episode 1 picks up precisely where HL2 leaves off

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

I know.

Anonymous

Aww man Anthony Burch isn't writing BL3 :(

R. Kap

7:01 AM

I beat the new tomb raider, I must say...beautiful game.

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

I mean Half life 2 was begging for a half life 3 ever since the end of the first one.

Alex A.

Oh, yeah

Have you played Black Mesa?

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

What if Valve made HL3 a Vive exclusive? That would be a total dick move.

Alex A.

It's a third-party Source engine remake of Half-Life 1

R. Kap

You guys think a Bioshock 4 may release in the following years?

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

7:02 AM

@R.Kap God, I hope so.

Alex A.

@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ That's been speculated as a way to draw customers to the Vive. I would be so pissed.

R. Kap

Bioshock Infinite was amazing, and I need another one.

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

@AlexA. I mean, the sad thing about that is that it would totally make sense.

R. Kap

I need to know what happened at the end.

Anonymous

I would not be surprised to see HL3 and P3 be VR games, if they are ever released

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

7:02 AM

It would just really suck for those of us that can't afford $800 goggles.

Alex A.

I thought Bioshock Infinite was really interesting visually and had a neat story but the gameplay looked pretty dull. (Based on watching my girlfriend play it.)

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

Portal 3 would actually be a perfect fit for VR. Especially with the new controllers.

Think of how cool it would be to make portals with your hands rather than a mouse?

Anonymous

@AlexA. It was a good game, but subpar compared to Bioshock 1's gameplay and story

Alex A.

Traveling through portals in virtual reality would be barfy as hell.

R. Kap

Gameplay was cool. I don't know about you, but the fact that you could use powers through your hands was pretty cool to me.

Anonymous

7:03 AM

Half Life and Portal have always been about pushing boundaries and doing new stuff in games

Anonymous

VR is the next big thing for gaming, so it makes sense

Alex A.

Yeah, but ugh.

I don't want to pay that much money

Anonymous

@R.Kap I played Bioshock Infinite after Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, and Dishonored. Magical hand powers had already grown old.

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

@AlexA. So pretty much this (WARNING: Loud and obnoxious youtube gamer) ? youtube.com/watch?v=HHThIjNYkAo

Anonymous

@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ I haven't clicked it but I'm betting it's PDP or RWJ

R. Kap

7:05 AM

People out there using VR, and I am sitting here using a console. But yeah, still can't complain.

Anonymous

Oh, neither

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

@Mego No, Jackscepticeye

Anonymous

I have consoles and a gaming PC

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

Geez, that's hard to spell right.

R. Kap

Well, Bioshock was the first of its kind I had actually played, so my reaction would be expected.

Anonymous

7:06 AM

In fact, I'm going to go back to gaming on said PC now (Path of Exile)

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

Actually, I don't think Jack is that annoying. Certainly less annoying than pewds.

Anonymous

Dishonored was a fantastic, underrated game

Anonymous

The only thing I didn't like about it was how binary the morality system was

Anonymous

It was either you didn't kill anybody and you were good, or you killed at least one person and you were evil

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

@Mego Does that include enemies?

Anonymous

7:08 AM

It's all enemies

Anonymous

You can't kill your allies unless they stop being your allies

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

Fair enough.

R. Kap

How about Dark Souls?

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

I was more thinking plot characters VS grunts.

Anonymous

Dark Souls is the single best RPG I have ever played.

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

7:09 AM

Kind of like undertale, where killing monsters makes you bad, but killing main characters is even worse.

R. Kap

How can it not be?

Anonymous

The difference between a pacifist and a normal playthough is very minor in Dishonored, until the very end

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

I tried playing dishonored without killing anyone, but then I gave up because it was so hard.

Anonymous

And the difference between a normal and a genocidal playthrough in Dishonored is even more minor

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

I made it like 2 or 3 chapters in.

Anonymous

7:10 AM

I made it through the first mission with ghost+pacifist

Anonymous

But I was never able to manage it in any other chapter

Dr Green Eggs and Ham DJ

Well, I'm gonna hop off chat so I can focus on Talos.

All this talk of gaming makes we want to actually play a game.

That, and I just got the season pass for it.

Anonymous

I'm about to run an unidentified map in PoE for a challenge

R. Kap

Speaking of Dishonored, its sequel is supposedly coming out soon.

Anonymous

I'm just putting it off because I'm gonna die

R. Kap

7:12 AM

Does anyone here have a PS4?

Anonymous

Nope

Anonymous

I really should go back and go for 100% achievements in Dark Souls

Anonymous

But Knight's Honor :(

R. Kap

@Mego I am guessing you've never played Uncharted then.

Anonymous

Nope

R. Kap

7:15 AM

Uncharted has to be one of my all time favorite gaming series (well, next to new Tomb Raider series and the Bioshock series that is).

Anonymous

Dark Souls would be my favorite series if it weren't for 2

Anonymous

I also haven't played 3 yet

R. Kap

Nothing to see here...

3 is on the PS4, and I did not realize it's already been released. Gotta add that to my wish list.

zyabin101

Hello

R. Kap

Hello

Okay, just in case, I am again going to leave my proposed challenge here for anybody who wants to look at it and give me some feedback: meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/9009/52405

Other than that, I'm going to sleep now. Good night everybody.

zyabin101

7:30 AM

@R.Kap o/

Cyoce

8:01 AM

So I'm reading thisi article (friend sent it to me), and I'm admiring the CSS. Then I see the most unforgivable formatting error:

Wondering where the end of that sentence is? It's here

zyabin101

9:28 AM

Next on My Own GitHub Feed: What does it mean to be proud of your own repo?

> DennisMitchell starred DennisMitchell/jelly, 4 hours ago

zyabin101

10:29 AM

1 year later...

Kenny Lau

1 millenium later...

zyabin101

@_@

We're in 3017, again.

Pls someone say "1001 year ago"

So we can return back.

Optimizer

11:00 AM

1 million years ago...

LegionMammal978

12:21 PM

The last message was posted 1 hour ago.

998999 years later...

trichoplax

Congratulations. Half a page of meta data and no content.

Optimizer

1:06 PM

everything is content

if you are content

trichoplax

1:22 PM

I am content with the content

Optimizer

then its all content

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Q: How to score Box-256 answers

Since asking what I believe is the first Box-256 based question on Code Golf (Box-256 Assembly - BIG SQUARE II) there has been some confusion with regards to scoring. I'd like this question to be a place where people can put forward scoring ideas so we can choose one that suites best Box256 chal...

discussion scoring

zyabin101

1:37 PM

@NewMetaPosts So, I may answer this with "one unit per line".

But I also need data to accompany it.

Just a "One line is one unit" header isn't enough.

Easterly Irk

1:49 PM

@trichoplax you make too many bad puns

@zyabin101 2000000 years before

zyabin101

We're already in 2016. Thanks.

Easterly Irk

oh well. fixed now

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The bird on the top is a kingfisher/magpie I think.

@AlexA. @user46049 avocad juic and magpie

quartata

Looks like a sandpiper to me.

Easterly Irk

aw

can it still count?

quartata

Sure.

Easterly Irk

2:01 PM

:D

Bᴀɪ!

zyabin101

I don't know which animal is on the top.

Easterly Irk

bear

and pls no push avocad juic down

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must greet new pepole

zyabin101

@EasterlyIrk Don't need to. I already starred it.

Martin Büttner

@EasterlyIrk re your comment, and I'm still waiting for one to beat my own solution.

Doorknob

2:30 PM

@MartinBüttner Are you going to post your original regex for the sudoku challenge?

... oh, wait, that's what you were referring to just now, isn't it >_<

Martin Büttner

I don't feel like winning my own challenge. I might bounty it citing my own score, and then post my own solution once it's beaten.

(In fact I've now got something like 4 different solutions all at the same byte count...)

Doorknob

How long is yours?

Martin Büttner

76

Doorknob

And I thought 95 was crazy...

Martin Büttner

In the process I actually discovered a cool (possibly new) regex technique for matching duplicates within a limited range of positions, which also works in other flavours than just .NET.

zyabin101

2:48 PM

pls no push sandbox book down ;_;

Doorknob

> How are you doing today hope fine, i have a good news for you please write me back immediately i have something very important to tell you now ok

Definitely not a spam email.

mınxomaτ

I just got around to releasing the updated Formula Compiler. A (by now pretty old) program that compiles pseudo-code to mathematical formulas (that are pretty useless, but correct). Try it here: git.io/math

zyabin101

> git.io/math

How did you obtain a custom Git.io url?

Ask GitHub?

PhiNotPi

quartata

how do you make these

PhiNotPi

3:00 PM

dev.to/rly

Downgoat

@PhiNotPi D: they don't have a goat picture

quartata

zyabin101

@PhiNotPi Or if you manage a Slack group: dev.to/rlyslack provides an easy shortcut to call O RLY from Slack chat.

quartata

nailed it

zyabin101

Just enter /orly {title};{topText};{author} in Slack chat to call O RLY on specified title, top text and author.

PhiNotPi

3:22 PM

We should make an O RLY chat bot.

mınxomaτ

No, we really shouldn't.

Downgoat

@PhiNotPi brb adding orly feature to chatgoat

T_REPL:ERROR - An unexpected error occured
  5+(2+4)
  ^

wtf cheddar

PhiNotPi

Looks like cheddar is actually swiss cheese.

ba dum tss

90% of errors in Cheddar are going to be "Error: An error occurred erroring the error"

Dennis

3:27 PM

4/10 very useful

Downgoat

I am using lots of recursion so it is difficult to pass all of the errors correctly acrross the entire program

mınxomaτ

4/20 chesse it

Downgoat

How would I modify this: grep -rn src -e "this.error(" to find all instances of this.error( NOT followed by CheddarError?

quartata

You need to escape that paren.

Downgoat

I don't think I do, works fine without escaping te pare

quartata

3:31 PM

I don't see how it could possibly if you're using -e. A parenthesis is the start of a capture group

Anyways use a negative lookahead

Downgoat

grep supports those?

quartata

It does if you use -P

Downgoat

instead of -e or with?

quartata

With

Downgoat

vihanb:~/workspace/Cheddar (master) $ grep -rn src -eP "this\.error\((?!CheddarError)"
bash: !CheddarError: event not found

quartata

3:33 PM

Single quotes

Downgoat

oh

seems to match all Ps when I do that

quartata

Oh.

Do it like -P -e

Downgoat

vihanb:~/workspace/Cheddar (master) $ grep -rn src -e 'this\.error\((?!CheddarError)'
grep: Unmatched ( or \(

wat.

oh

quartata

It's because with -eP it thinks P is the pattern

Downgoat

@quartata \o/ that worked, thanks!

quartata

3:35 PM

np

quartata

3:45 PM

Oh sweet, this is a thing: github.com/google/pepper.js

Dennis

Pepper isn't sweet.

Downgoat

^

@quartata though still, -1ing for not using babel.

wizzwizz4

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Q: How much more reputation do I need?

Programming Puzzles and Code Golf has graduated from beta. Soon we will get a custom site design, and with that the reputation boundaries for privileges will go up. A lot of users will lose privileges on the site. So your task is to write a program that tells us how much extra reputation we'll ne...

code-golf number

quartata

@Downgoat What does Babel have to do with this?

wizzwizz4

Just so you can edit the NMP bot message.

quartata

3:47 PM

It means that I can make a Pepper module as both a PEXE (which is faster but only Chrome supports) or fallback to JS (which is much slower but every browser supports)

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Q: How much more reputation do I need?

Programming Puzzles and Code Golf has graduated from beta. Soon we will get a custom site design, and with that the reputation boundaries for privileges will go up. A lot of users will lose privileges on the site. So your task is to write a program that tells us how much extra reputation we'll ne...

code-golf number

Downgoat

@quartata it says pepper.js is something that compiles to JS, so I'm thinking you're writing a JS application, which you could of done in ES6 and transpiled (that way you'd be using JavaScript :D)

quartata

@Downgoat I'm not writing a JS application.

I'm writing a C application.

Downgoat

> pepper.js is a JavaScript library that enables the compilation of native Pepper applications into JavaScript

quartata

Pepper is a C library.

Downgoat

3:48 PM

Pepper doesn't compile to C

oh

quartata