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6:00 PM
Yeah, I've had people say that a lot. Or just stare at my screen in wide eyed wonder.
 
> $Boss: "Fix this!"
*3 days later*
$Engineers: "Done."
$Boss: "What did you change?"
$Engineers: "We swapped out the user."
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@El'endiaStarman I loathe halo 4, but halo 5 is meh
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ ... ಠ_ಠ
 
I used to play StarCraft 2 religiously
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I haven't had the chance to play either of those and I want to.
 
6:01 PM
@El'endiaStarman just skip to halo 5. halo 4's snipers are trash
 
I've never really been an FPS guy in general
 
@Skyl3r religiously?
 
@Fatalize There it is again
 
Ah sorry
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Pfft no, that's like skipping a book in a series.
 
6:02 PM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Even better: ‾\_(˙ᘧ̲˙)_/‾
 
I mean I played it a lot every day.
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ what ಠ_ಠ
 
@El'endiaStarman you're not missing much.
 
Then I graduated and haven't logged in since
 
@Fatalize the french
 
6:03 PM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Still. I'm not gonna miss a whole game just because you think it sucks.
 
@trichoplax I'm allergic, you insensitive clod!
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ disapproval look is french? ಠ_ಠ
 
@El'endiaStarman I warned you :p I generally think halo sucks tho
@Fatalize no, I think you're french >_>
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ ESDF > WASD
 
I don't get it
 
6:04 PM
@TimmyD allergic to avocado?? What torture!
 
probably cause I'm french
 
Is clod a gender neutral term?
 
@Fatalize you're getting the hang of it
@TimmyD why?
 
@Skyl3r I believe so
 
Ah okay. I was just checking if I'm offended or not
 
6:05 PM
@trichoplax And bananas
 
TIL what clod means
is that used in the US though? Sounds like one of those british swears
 
I've not heard of it.
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ More buttons to the left of the hand = more controls available without movement. Plus, ESDF is "home row" anyway.
 
@TimmyD I am really liking this
I'm going to rebind my tf2 keys now :D
 
Ew. Home row.
 
6:06 PM
@Fatalize Even in the UK it isn't used commonly
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I used to use esdf in hl2 dm
 
W3C is very excited about valid CSS :D
 
Are most programmers also communists?
 
^^^^ ty
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ It takes a little getting used to. And there's always the drudgery of rebinding everything.
 
6:09 PM
@quartata dm?
 
Half Life 2 Deathmatch
 
@Skyl3r Stalin invented JS
 
@Skyl3r There's no way of telling for sure. Unless you have the time to run a strawpoll
 
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@Fatalize he also invented the french
 
It makes it easier to yo-yo for me since I can just move my index finger from f to g
 
6:10 PM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ That explains some things
 
A person who isn't a communist couldn't make a good programmer
 
@Skyl3r I'm offended that you think I'm a bad programmer.
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Ha, I love Halo. :P
 
@Skyl3r What, are you one of those people using a Maltron or something?
 
@El'endiaStarman good for you :p I'm a TF2 dude
 
6:12 PM
Wow Brotli is really, really bad on slighty-too-large files.
 
This conversation is seriously getting out of habds
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ - It's the logical conclusion. A good programmer would come to that realization.
This is how I single my employees out
 
"employees" "communism" hmmm
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6:13 PM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Higher res?
 
@Fatalize Well, this takes some explaining
 
@zyabin101 there aren't many high-res picture of the malty on the web
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Yeah. I mean, don't get me wrong, they're ridiculously impressive pieces of technology (and when I sprained my wrist and was in an immobilizer a few years ago, typing one-handed on a regular QWERTY sucks!), but you just don't see them very often.
 
@Fatalize, Someone has to actually maintain equality, ergo Skyl3r.
 
@TimmyD yeah. I like weird keyboards
 
6:15 PM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ i have a TypeMatrix with a BÉPO layout
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ That space though
 
I have a Dell keyboard...
 
^ not communist enough
 
I was thinking about getting two of those one handed keyboards and typing at the speed of sound
 
@Bálint you will be punished if you mistype your space
 
@Fatalize Whoa, that's strange to see keys laid out in a perfect grid like that.
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Mine is curved too, but in the exact opposite direction and "ergonomically"
 
^^
@Bálint I'll wager it's black :p
 
Uhum
 
6:18 PM
How fast do you guys type?
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ ?
@Skyl3r 85-89 wpm on a good day
 
I assume 95?
 
@Skyl3r about 60 words per minute, I changed layout about a month ago
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ it's a compact security against people watching porn on my computer, I go by my room at least 2 times before they can type in anything
 
6:18 PM
The one I use at work ^^
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I have found the Maltron wob-site! maltron.com :P
 
@Bálint do people try to do that often? o_O
 
I type at 60-70 avg, I need to test it though
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ No, not really often
 
> image not found
 
But nothing can be too secure
 
6:19 PM
@Bálint starts pacer test
I would view the shop items in their shop, but they don't have my country :(
 
@Bálint That is correct if you don't care about convenience. :P
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ It's apparently non-English, but here's the page -- article.techlabs.by/32_33819.html
 
I tried to learn home row keys twice and both times just screwed me up. I decided to be happy with my 115 wpm cap and forget about home row keys.
 
@Skyl3r Why do you want to type faster than that?
 
6:22 PM
I wanted to break 200wpm
Personal challenge. I saw some people doing that online and wanted to be as fast as them.
I don't think it's possible how I'm typing. I think I'd need to learn homerow and potential DVorak
 
@Skyl3r Reading speed of 200 wpm? Can do. spritzlet.com
Writing speed of 200 wpm, can't.
 
Typing speed lol
 
> The special shape and letter layout have been very carefully planned, taking into account the limited number of keys that can be accessed quickly and comfortably.
 
6:24 PM
I don't get what Spritz is for
 
There's a fricking "U" above the arrows
 
@Skyl3r Ah, so actually writing speed. Can't do.
@Skyl3r Large improvements for reading speed.
 
Not a fan of the layout of that website, but I think I did pretty good.
 
Hmm, I'll play with it
 
@zyabin101 It's actually spritzinc.com, not spritz.com. (I fixed it for you.)
 
@Eᴀsᴛ Where was that "Twitch plays NetHack"-like game?
@El'endiaStarman Ah. (Thanks.)
 
You know a horrible thing?
 
@Skyl3r Which horrible thing?
 
I saw on Spiceworks' forum the other day that almost all of the Network Admins on there listen primarily to Heavy Metal
 
6:29 PM
You can edit messages by pressing the up arrow
Or by clicking on the message menu and selecting edit
 
Oh wow. That's convenient
Thanks :)
 
No problem!
 
2-minute limit for non-mods.
 
Mods can completely rewrite chat history.
 
6:30 PM
What's wrong with listening to metal?
 
Metal is awesome.
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Thanks.
 
Twitch also did twitch plays nethack but it didn't have much viewers.
 
> Mods can completely rewrite chat history.
 
6:31 PM
@AlexA. And one day a strange novel appeared in the messages...
 
Metal?
Are we all talking about the musical genre here?
 
"Metal" is such an enormous genre, though.
 
@Skyl3r yup
 
@TimmyD Yeah, that's true. Almost as broad as "rock."
 
6:31 PM
I should just be a poker player
 
@AlexA. i just spotted you in my garden, go away
 
I'm not cut out for this
 
@Bálint uh what
That totally isn't me peeking in your windows
 
You people need Rock&Roll in your lives.
 
6:34 PM
@mınxomaτ What happened to your avatar? :O
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ What kind of metal do you like?
 
Mostly metalcore.
 
@AlexA. Applied my GH avatar everywhere.
 
@AlexA. "I decided to use my new stylish GitHub avatar for SE."
 
@Skyl3r Does rick astley count?
 
ninja'd
 
6:35 PM
@mınxomaτ GH = Girlhriend?
 
Especially Rick Astley
 
I never say "stylish".
 
@Skyl3r Rock&Roll? This isn't the 60s ;-) Nah, just kidding, I like most genre of music
 
6:35 PM
Nobody else seems to actually listen to rick astley.
 
@AlexA. GH = GitHub >_>
 
@AlexA. 2/10
 
I like times of grace, crown the empire, underoath, August burns red.
 
Ah, okay. I'm not a big fan of metalcore.
 
6:36 PM
@AlexA. I like soulish metal mashups. Like Sad but Superstitious.
 
Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Huey Lewis, Chuck Berry, CCR, etc
Sad but Supersitious?
Sad but true + ...?
Oh + Superstitious
 
@AlexA. what do you prefer?
 
Challenge idea: Make a NetHack bot.
 
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ That song sounds like it has some djent in it. Maybe you'll like this: youtu.be/NmfzWpp0hMc
 
It runs NetHack, looks at the game screen, and sends commands depending on what is ongoing.
 
6:38 PM
It's easy to filter out bad genres of music
 
I wonder how accurately I could measure humidity by measuring how much condensation there is on my cup of milk. :P
 
They normally have "core" in the name
 
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ Hmmmmmmmm, that's a good question. I like a bunch of bands from various subgenres of metal but not so much metalcore, idk why.
 
I like too much music. My "play everything on shuffle" list will go from Verve to Symphony X to Coyote Kisses to The Doors to Mozart to ...
 
ditto
 
6:39 PM
@Skyl3r I'd partially agree with that, but I can't fully because Botch is considered "hardcore" and We Are The Romans is an incredible album.
 
It's alright, we can't all be perfect.
 
@Skyl3r You either like Nightcore or you're wrong.
 
One second, I have a batch script you should try out
Something about %0 I think
 
@TimmyD I have the same problem. I never use shuffle because it'll take forever for me to find something I'm in the mood for at the time. :P
 
@AlexA. I've narrowed it down this way -- what artist/band do you own the most of?
 
6:43 PM
@El'endiaStarman Which humidity?
Internal or external?
 
For me, it'd be the Verve.
 
@TimmyD There are a few bands for which I have all of their albums so that's difficult to answer...
 
Like, I've actually gone to effort to import EPs that were released in the UK only.
 
@zyabin101 Err, both? Window's open right now and I'm sitting right next to it.
 
@El'endiaStarman Okay.
How much condensation is on the cup?
 
6:45 PM
Enough that I tilt it and big fat water drops fall off.
 
@TimmyD I think the only band I've put that much effort into is Minus the Bear. Their most recent album was pretty disappointing though. :/
 
@El'endiaStarman >_>
I want a decimal representation.
 
@zyabin101 a.lot
2
 
I'd prefer a ternary representation, thanks.
 
@AlexA. a.whole.lot
 
6:46 PM
@AlexA. that's pretty bizarre.
 
XD
Is it?
 
@El'endiaStarman NameError: name 'a' is not defined
 
...right now, it sounds like Alex's cousins are having a shouting match.
 
Yes. But not as bizarre as banjo metal though.
 
I'm the only person in the office. I literally hear crickets chirping
 
6:47 PM
@AlexA. lol @ explanation behind the band name
 
Haha right?
 
@TimmyD nightcore is good for some songs
 
@El'endiaStarman Now AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'lot'
 
@DrGreenEggsandHamDJ How about Impaled Northern Moonforest - Return of the Necrowizard? Acoustic guitar, guy slapping his legs, and metal vocals.
 
@zyabin101 make it have one
 
6:52 PM
>>> class int():
	lot = "a lot"


>>> a = 1
>>> a.lot
AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'lot'
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ ^
 
the problem is that you're using python
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Use Ruby?
 
Built-in classes can't be modified, unfortunately (or rather, fortunately).
 
@zyabin101 or JS
 
@zyabin101 why did you want to know about MMD?
 
6:53 PM
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ I already know. I'm just again interested.
 
@El'endiaStarman unfortunately. If I am using a lang, I should be able to use it how I want to :p
 
@zyabin101 cool
you planning on starting to play nethack?
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ ha
 
@mınxomaτ ಠ_ಠ
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ If Python let you modify built-in classes, you could seriously wreak havoc with the code running in the background or other users' libraries/programs, etc.
 
6:55 PM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I maintain an ES4 compiler, I can make fun of JS all I want :P
 
I'm pretty sure you could modify it in Java, since you can literally make 4=5.
 
sorry to be a broken record, but some feedback would be nice
 
@El'endiaStarman I.e. "why prototyping intrinsic objects is a bad idea". The reason for bad JS...
 
@mınxomaτ I can still ಠ_ಠ you :p
@El'endiaStarman why on earth would that be? code should be self-contained
ಠ_ಠ
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ The error function is mine.
 
7:01 PM
The error function is a real thing
 
@zyabin101 but what does it do? o_o
 
erf(x) = integral from 0 to x of exp(-t^2) dt
 
I'm thinking about making a challenge where you have to find the longest arithmetic sequence, given some numbers. Now the question is: Should I ask for the longest arithmetic sub sequence or the longest arithmetic sequence you can construct from a set?
What is the more interesting case?
 
Could be -∞ to x, can't recall
 
there's a math function called the error function? is there one called the butts function too? :p
 
7:03 PM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ The butts function doesn't exist. :(
 
that needs to be fixed
 
No one can delete a response from analytics. D:
 
@AlexA. * sqrt(2)/pi
or something like that
actually i'm pretty sure its 2/sqrt(pi)
 
Yeah, 2/√π
In mathematics, the error function (also called the Gauss error function) is a special function (non-elementary) of sigmoid shape that occurs in probability, statistics, and partial differential equations describing diffusion. It is defined as: The complementary error function, denoted erfc, is defined as which also defines erfcx, the scaled complementary error function (which can be used instead of erfc to avoid arithmetic underflow). Another form of is known as Craig's formula: The imaginary error function, denoted erfi, is defined as where D(x) is the Dawson function (which can be used...
Forgot about the scaling factor ;-;
 
one of us should write a number theory paper about this and call it the butts function
:p
 
7:06 PM
Oh, there is a nice post about the proofs of integral e^{-x^2}
Cannot find it =(
 
Actually, the butts function does exist. See mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/66564
 
Do you know pasta by design?
 
> Parametric Buttocks Manipulator
 
@flawr Whoa
 
@AlexA. Just one page from a book=)
 
7:10 PM
@flawr reminds me of the shakey-shakey algorithm for Pokeballs.
 
But unfortunately it was made by engineers and not mathematicians. So you can only find ugly sin/cos's.
No nice algebraic surfaces.
 
> unfortunately it was made by engineers
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rekt
 
10 mins ago, by flawr
I'm thinking about making a challenge where you have to find the longest arithmetic sequence, given some numbers. Now the question is: Should I ask for the longest arithmetic sub sequence or the longest arithmetic sequence you can construct from a set?
Anyone?
 
I have no opinion on that, otherwise I would have said something
 
7:13 PM
I'm not awake enough to understand
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Had you not seen that? It's basically the most important question on all of Stack Exchange.
 
@AlexA. I have, and I thought I upvoted some answers
I feel like SE thought I was upvoting too much and removed a lot of my upvotes
 
Conor seems to be basically Geobits's polar opposite
 
As long as they aren't all on the same people it shouldn't have been reversed as serial voting
 
@AlexA. That's what I thought, but I recently looked at the all colours challenge and found that no answers were upvoted, even though I remember starring and upvoting both the question and the top answer
(by me)
 
7:15 PM
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
I think you would have gotten a message if they had been reverted
 
> I'm trying to develop a function which 3D plot would have a buttocks like shape.
 
@quartata Nope
 
I want to hear the reasons for that question
 
@Bálint I don't think you do
 
@quartata Now, that you say, I'm not sure in it either
 
CJam question: given an array with zero and one values, how do I find indices of ones? For example, given [1 1 0 1 0] how do I get [0 1 3] (0-based) or [1 2 4] (1-based)? I'm using this code but it feels way too cumbersome
eez~\:).*{},`
 
eez zo 'appy!
3
 
:) :) {}
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

flawrLongest arithmetic subsequence mathsequencenumberlist Given a set/sequence* of integers, return a longest arithmetic sequence/subsequence*. Meta/ *: I am unsure whether I should ask for creating a sequence from a set of integers that you can reorder arbitrarily (set not in the mathematica...

 
7:29 PM
@LuisMendo ee{~!{;}&}% is one byte shorter
 
@quartata Hey, thanks!
Now I have to find what it does :-)
 
The ~!{;}& dumps the index-value pair and pops the index if the value is 0
Then we just map that over
 
@NewSandboxedPosts What the heck am I doing wrong???
 
@flawr I have no idea
 
@flawr, the people on StackExchange are hypercritical
 
7:33 PM
@flawr I guess people don't understand what the sandbox is? Dunno
 
Chances are it's too broad, off topic and will promote poor quality answers.
 
Uhh
 
@LuisMendo I'm no CJam expert, but ee{1=}, comes pretty close
Struggling to find a way to not have the enumerated values be left, just thought I'd mention it in case it helps :P
 
@Skyl3r it's neither ...
 
Some great progress has been made on the Quest for Tetris.
 
7:37 PM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ - It's the generic response if someone doesn't like your question. It's a good response because it doesn't take any thought to type and you don't have to risk being helpful.
 
@PhiNotPi Like?
 
@flawr (I didn't vote but) perhaps I'm not understanding. Are you meaning find the longest sequence where each term in the sequence is +n from the previous term?
 
Serial adder that adds 01 + 11 = 101 (least-significant bit first) goo.gl/pMPvA2 Instructions for use: type 131 in the text box to the right of "reset," and then click the "slow" button.
 
@Bálint We have a serial adder! ^
 
7:38 PM
@FryAmTheEggman I'll also look into that, thanks! I'm very new to CJam
 
@TimmyD Yes, that is what an arithmetic sequence is, the difference between each two subsequent element should be constant.
 
OK, then I'm just unfamiliar with the term
 
Ok, I'm gonna add that.
 
I know we've had one where the elements had to be increasing
 
@LuisMendo I think ee{1=},0f= is one shorter than quartata's
 
7:41 PM
lol ... this is for a PowerShell script
I didn't know you could run PowerShell on Windows 2000 ... :-/
 
@TimmyD Windows Vista? Windows XP? Windows ME?
PowerShell doesn't even exist for these!
 
A question
 
I asked this before but we went to a another directiom
 
> Yes
 
7:44 PM
Hi everyone, I'm working on golfing down my answer (codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/80755/19547) and was curious if system library use is general allowed for golfing in c#, speicifcally Linq
 
Sure, as long as you use an explicit import
 
If I have a grid of vertices and a rotation for the camera, what would be the best way to pick out vertices from back to front
 
using System.Linq; has to be added to the byte count and included in the code.
 
ahh thats what I thought, thanks
 
7:45 PM
No problem :)
 
too bad too aggregate is really good at that problem
 
@VTCAKAVSMoACE Say bacon with a russian accent, I just taught you to say bacon with a russian accent :p
 
@Phaeze I'd say "welcome to Programming Puzzles & Code Golf" but apparently you've been a member longer than I have. :P Regardless, nice work on your first golf. :)
 
Welcome to Monopoly
 
> Welcome to Zombo com!
 
7:49 PM
Welcome to DNA editing world.
 
Anything is possible
 
> Bringing X Men to reality since 2016
 
@AlexA. Yeah i've just been a silently lurker, c# is rarely good at the problems that interest me :)
@AlexA. Also thanks for the welcome
 
@Phaeze welcome to ... oh... hi?
 
> To Neko, or not to Neko. <3 (with apologies to Shakespeare)
 
7:53 PM
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ haha. Hi!
 
To Nekomamushi
 
@Phaeze Nice to meet you=)
 
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Q: Falsify brief truths

msh210Find the longest run of true in a list of booleans. Return the same list, with all other trues falsified. Input, output A list; any usual format (e.g., a delimited list as a string). Details True and false can be anything your language typically uses for those values, or the integers 1 and 0....

 
@flawr
@flawr Ha itchy enter finger, nice to meet you too.
 
7:57 PM
@Phaeze A canadian, says your profile!
 
@Phaeze Hi!
>_> When 2 people talk on a group email chat, cc-ing at least 20 other people.
 

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