The Nineteenth Byte

Geobits

7:00 PM

Oh wait, I missed the bit about it being caused by the heating. Good lord, who has the heater turned up that high?

I thought he just meant lack of A/C.

That's just terrible.

zyabin101

help make rootword generator

Geobits

no

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zyabin101

@Geobits You don't know how?

Geobits

no, I don't want to.

I generally refuse any request that starts with "halp" either way, so even if I did want to...

mınxomaτ

@Geobits This is the opposite story of The Swamp Cooler

zyabin101

7:04 PM

@Geobits But if the request starts with "help", it is the same case?

Geobits

I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.

TimmyD

@Geobits "Halp downvote this post."

zyabin101

Oooooh, the Daily WTF linked me to this game.

Geobits

@mınxomaτ Ha, reminds me of an issue we had with an altimeter system. Some of the insulation was missing on an air duct above and to the side of it. Plane takes off, turns the A/C on, altimeter stops working some time later. Plane lands, it evaporates and everything is good on the ground. Took forever to find the problem :D

zyabin101

It is available paid (already printed) and free (print yourself). It's very cool.

Geobits

7:08 PM

@TimmyD You're evil.

TimmyD

:D

mınxomaτ

@Geobits ACs in Germany's trains always do the exact opposite of what they're supposed to do. The company is seriously using "the AC's broken because it's too hot (30+ °)" as a valid excuse...

every. single. summer.

Geobits

Saves a bunch of money I bet ;)

mınxomaτ

They're currently replacing a lot of older trains in my state with completely new ones. They have the same problem. >.>

quartata

@zyabin101 It's pretty easy with recursion.

mınxomaτ

7:13 PM

But they now have in-train NFC payment and wall outlets every fourth seat in the second class.

quartata

@mınxomaτ Whoa, fancy.

Geobits

@mınxomaτ I'm sure trains here are probably the same, but since I don't live in a huge metro area, I don't really know. The US hates trains.

mınxomaτ

@quartata And GSM+3G amplifiers in certain parts, which is useful, because some areas in Germany have almost no coverage whatsoever.

TimmyD

@Geobits Naw, we like trains, we hate passenger trains.

quartata

@Geobits I like trains but the train routes here only really cover the downtown area which isn't very useful for me

They said they'd be expanding the routes almost 10 years ago and there hasn't been any word since so that's great

Nathan Merrill

7:16 PM

@PhiNotPi design question: in my KoTH controller, who "defines" how to serialize data?

is it the game? The player?

orlp

rekt

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zyabin101

@quartata But idk how to do it in Python. I tried once, and just gave up. Help.

Geobits

@TimmyD Haha, true. There are no problems having to stop traffic for the 200-car slow-as-dirt CSX trains :/

quartata

@orlp wuh

Oh hahaha

Geobits

@quartata Yea, no trains at all here. There's a bus line for downtown, but overall the mass transit here is nonexistent.

zyabin101

7:18 PM

It has to return title case.

quartata

@zyabin101 What did you try?

TimmyD

I had also heard that there was a difference in the track gauge between the commercial lines (CSX, BNSF, etc.) and passenger lines (Amtrak, etc.), and ne'er the twain shall meet.

zyabin101

@quartata I tried using both choosing random numbers for both items, and choosing a random item from the lowercase vowels and consonants arrays.

quartata

Oh, do you just want to generate one word?

I thought you meant generate all words.

mınxomaτ

...not what I expected.

Geobits

7:23 PM

@TimmyD Probably. It'd still be nice though. I understand the arguments against, and in many areas they make sense. I think Florida is densely populated enough to make an east-west corridor up north and a north-south corridor down the length of it.

zyabin101

@quartata Yes.

Take a seed, and seed the random number generator with it.

Geobits

If the CV pattern is all that matters, this shouldn't be very hard...

TimmyD

@Geobits I'm actually surprised at how much mass transit there is in the Twin Cities area here in Minnesota.

zyabin101

Then generate one random rootword in title case.

quartata

Well that's even easier. 50% of the time pick a consonant vowel two consonants and a vowel, other 50% pick two consonants vowel consonant vowel

zyabin101

7:25 PM

@quartata Yes.

form = random.randint(0, 1)

quartata

Soo... what's the issue?

Geobits

@TimmyD I'd have never guessed that. That makes me even more pissed it doesn't exist here :P

Then again, our governor is on a crusade to slowly bankrupt the state, from what I can tell.

quartata

Python has random.choice(, by the way.

If that's the problem.

TimmyD

> customers took more than 85.8 million rides on buses and trains operated by Metro Transit in 2015 source

The Twin Cities entire metro area is maybe 2 million

quartata

Whoa.

And here I thought public transportation wasn't very popular in the U.S.

Really depends on the area I suppose

Geobits

7:28 PM

Apparently Minnesota is doing something right.

TimmyD

@quartata Yeah, it does.

Zgarb

s = ""
if form:
    s += random.choice(consonants).upper()
    s += random.choice(vowels)
    s += random.choice(consonants)
    s += random.choice(consonants)
    s += random.choice(vowels)
else: # add other case here

@zyabin101 ^

zyabin101

@Zgarb Good!

Fatalize

@zyabin101 just curious, how old are you?

El'endia Starman

@orlp Bahaha. That was clever.

PhiNotPi

7:33 PM

@NathanMerrill what data?

Bald Bantha

lol

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zyabin101

@Fatalize ಠ_ಠ

El'endia Starman

@QPaysTaxes If it is, it's only because it's the most populous one.

I do think that it is the case that, when it comes to communication between people who know different languages, Deaf people will tend to understand each other better than hearing people due to the iconic nature of sign languages.

Nathan Merrill

@PhiNotPi er, the objects being passed to submissions in other languages

PhiNotPi

And, what do you mean by the "game" or the "player"?

I assume that the Java class that talks to the other submissions is the one that should serialize data to send to it.

Nathan Merrill

7:42 PM

I'm worried that if I put the "This is how your serialize" code in the Player, it'll slow down the game too much

because I create a new Player every time a new game starts

where the "definition" of serializing really only needs to happen once

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