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4:00 PM
> If all basins over 2.5 acres were counted, Minnesota would have 21,871 lakes.
 
So it is the state of 10,000 lakes!
 
@HelkaHomba The total perimeter of a land mass is about... 1.2^sqrt(area). That also works for all landmasses.
 
Nunavut also has nifty symbols, almost mathlike
 
Those are cool.
 
ᓗ_ᓗ
ᐱ_ᐱ
 
4:03 PM
On a different note, Nunavut's population of almost 32,000 is a little less than twice the size of the student body of RIT, where I went to college. That's insane.
 
TNB Special: Exploring Canada
 
you know how I have nothing better to do with my life than make userscripts?
 
@Quill yeah?
 
well I did a oneboxing thing
 
@Quill Research Regina
 
4:07 PM
wtaf. My dog just logged me out of my computer :/
How does random keyboard mashing even do that? :(
 
dog, soon to be god
 
it has CommitStrip support :)
 
@HelkaHomba brb stealing this
 
> Bathurst Inlet - Population: 0
 
testing
@Quill isn't commitstrip supposed to one-box?
 
4:09 PM
up in the room settings, it's off by default
 
Didn't one-box for me. >_>
;)
 
@El'endiaStarman <_M
 
Where are the settings?
 
up by the room description
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ ᕌ_ᕌ
 
4:11 PM
@Quill 10/10 works now
 
ᕙ = fish head. ᕚ = surprised fish head.
 
Please post some spam. Why did I say that?
 
no
 
4:12 PM
Is that everybody's solution to everything?
But, good point.
 
@wizzwizz4 Yes e_e
 
It's the moderator's solution. Or it should be, at least >_>
 
Hey, anybody interested in doing a Python 3 rendition of this challenge?
 
Every time I see someone publish a previously private repo, I immediately go and fork it. ã_ã
@Quill forked your chat one boxing program.
 
4:17 PM
I saw
 
@zyabin101 wow
 
Quickly go fork everything, I say. :P
Dub finished second pass!
TTYAVI file recompiled!
Old AVI file size: 294.22 MB
New AVI file size: 11.62 MB
 
@zyabin101 7-zip it.
 
I don't have 7-zip. Is InfoZIP okay? >_>
 
@zyabin101 7-zip is a specific file format. .7z.
 
4:23 PM
@wizzwizz4 I can't.
I just used the ZIP tool for that.
If you wish, I can do GZ and BZ2 as well.
 
You seemed like you wanted to get the file size down.
7-zip is the best way to do it.
7-zip is great and does all things.
 
7-zip can't be input into a media player or a DVD player.
 
Almost as good at compression as this
 
By the way guys, you is a pronoun and I is the letter after H.
 
Anyone here on reddit?
Try this:
I've spent 11 hours writing comments o_O
Imagine there's the same thing for stackexchange=)
 
4:31 PM
Old AVI file size: 294.22 MB
New AVI file size: 11.62 MB
Zipped AVI file size: 8439 KB
 
@trichoplax Ah-haha, clever. Move all the information from the file to the filename! :P
 
@El'endiaStarman I is not a pronoun. That's just rude :(
 
Drop jQuery as a dependency from Rails https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/25208
 
> The-Quill starred The-Quill/SE-Chat-Oneboxer 16 minutes ago
@Quill What does it mean to be proud of your own repo? >_>
 
4:39 PM
Exactly that, I'd guess.
 
@Quill Ha, 8 dislikes.
 
@mınxomaτ Uhh, only 1.4440433212996389891696750902527% of all reactions to the original post. >_>
Or 1.6245487364620938628158844765343%, if you count the confused reaction.
@MartinEnder welcome @wizzwizz4 to the secret society of mods!
 
@zyabin101 Ooh, there's a ritual?
 
@wizzwizz4 Nope, it's "just get a diamond to join".
 
Oh. :-(
 
4:49 PM
<_<
 
5:01 PM
Oh gawd
Writing a creative writing piece exemplifying existentialist beliefs is really saddening
 
Only if you believe it to be.
>_>
 
draws ceremonial knife
 
@PhiNotPi Not that kind of ritual. Not that kind of -
Splurt.
 
5:22 PM
eyy lmao what do you know my computer is actually capable of streaming in 720p
 
@quartata ayy lmao ::-1
 
Oh oops, having the stream open in the background was a mistake
 
Hey quartata you're making a functional Lang right?
 
I haven't worked on it in a few days but yes
 
In J, how do I apply a verb to each row in a table?
 
Thanks!
 
After a few failures, I finally queried Google's geocoding API.
zyabin101@avista MINGW32 ~
$ curl $REDACTED | /E/jq/jq .
{
  "results": [
    {
      "address_components": [
        {
          "long_name": "1600",
          "short_name": "1600",
          "types": [
            "street_number"
          ]
        },
        {
          "long_name": "Amphitheatre Parkway",
          "short_name": "Amphitheatre Pkwy",
          "types": [
            "route"
          ]
        },
        {
          "long_name": "Mountain View",
          "short_name": "Mountain View",
 
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Q: Oneliner to merge lines with same first field

MichaelCodesThis is my first codegolf question, so I apologize in advance if it's not appropriate, and I welcome any feedback. I have a file with this format: a | rest of first line b | rest of second line b | rest of third line c | rest of fourth line d | rest of fifth line d | rest of sixth line The a...

 
Feature request: have a conjunction (say, •) such that f•g is a dyadic verb that applies f to the left then right side, then combines them with g. E.g., x (f•g) y = (f x) g (f y)
 
The REDACTED environment variable contains an URL for the geocoding API, which contains the address 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA and a key for a placeholder project using Google APIs, which I dispensed for myself, for exclusively the geocoding API, and which has 39 chars.
I kept the entire URL redacted, so that it was un-sniff-able.
 
5:49 PM
ohai @RenderSettings
 
Chat challenge: write an obfuscated factorial function
[:([:#[:,i.)>:@i.
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Pyth, kinda obsfucated: .P
(.P isn't factorial btw, the only reason its so short is cuz of implicts)
 
define "obfuscated", since you could write it straightforward in Jelly or literally any other golfing language and i wouldn't be able to read it
 
^
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Closed as unclear.
 
5:57 PM
It's a chat challenge . Run with it.
It should be obfuscated to people who program in that language
 
does anybody know why php decided to use -> for attribute accessing and . for concatenating?
 
as opposed to
 
. for attribute accessing, like Python or JS.
 
I'll bet it has something to do with PHP being old.
 
6:02 PM
probably doesn't use + for concat because of the implication of determining what that means (being a weakly typed lang and all)
 
++ or , still work
 
@NathanMerrill maybe cuz of c and the redirection thing being ->?
 
oooh, when was "." redirection a thing?
 
@Maltysen yeah i think php took some stuff from c
 
oh that's right. . was always a thing,
 
6:05 PM
think about how messy javascripts implicit casting is
 
it just couldn't do redirection on pointers
 
php probably wanted to avoid stuff like that
 
Php was made in 1994. JavaScript in 1995
 
new minecraft mob confirmed
user image
3
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ that doesn't mean php didn't have foresight about those kinds of issues
should str+int be undefined or should it implicitly cast to string
/me shrugs
 
6:11 PM
😑
 
function f(i) {return Math.round(3.3109126984126984*Math.pow(i,7)-89.7625*Math.pow(i,6)+1006.8847222222222*Math.pow(i,5)-6010.770833333333*Math.pow(i,4)+20447.047222222223*Math.pow(i,3)-39210.96666666667*Math.pow(i,2)+38687.25714285715*i-14832);}
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ This works for inputs [1,8] :]
good enough. it's javascript btw
 
6:28 PM
._. Bravo?
 
:D
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ lol, I actually have been thinking about adding chat support, but the 'ftfy' is new ;p
@MarsUltor they're not... anymore. all the features should be on refactor now and nothing's happening on dev anymore... I think :/
 
6:46 PM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ PowerShell v2+
(1..$$)-join'*'|iex
Obfuscated in that you need to run it twice before the command works.
PS C:\Tools\Scripts> .\golfing\obfuscated-factorial.ps1 5
6

PS C:\Tools\Scripts> .\golfing\obfuscated-factorial.ps1 5
120
 
@ᔕᖺᘎᕊ fix that for you
 
@TimmyD wat. What does iex do?
 
@VTCAKAVSMoACE noice RDFTD
 
iex is short for Invoke-Expression and is similar to eval
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ <3 I found it this morning. It is very spooky.
 
6:49 PM
the "trick" is the $$ automatic variable -- it's populated with "the last token of the previous command"
 
What is €€?
 
An error
PS C:\Tools\Scripts\golfing> €€
€€ : The term '€€' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name,
or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ €€
+ ~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (€€:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
 
euro symbols. ALT+0128
 
Dafuq. Just got a call from some random number, and they asked to confirm my identity by telling me my child's date of birth. Not asking, but telling me (or whoever else might have answered). Screw that.
 
"We want to confirm that you're you, so here's something only you would know." ... "Yep, I'm obviously me!"
 
6:53 PM
Yea, pretty much. The call only lasted long enough after that for me to point out their stupidity.
 
those are people who you just try to keep on the phone for as long as possible
 
I'm usually more polite than necessary to random calls, but damn.
 
Did you look up the number?
 
Yes, it's a legit number. I know the place it's from and what it's about, but I'm not dealing with them over the phone any more.
 
oh. less fun
 
6:54 PM
Reminds me of the guy writing that if you write your password in the chat, it is automatically starred.
Like so, my password: **********
See, you cannot see it!
 
whoa
ohhhh boy
 
=P
 
;)
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ @CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Second RDFTD, because I missed a lot of days.
 
There was a hilarious chatlog somewhere floating around in the internet about it=)
 
6:56 PM
@VTCAKAVSMoACE [exempt] Good, now make a YouTube video.
 
@flawr IIRC, it's happened in here, too. Last year some time I think.
 
back in the day on Runescape... need I say more
 
@flawr Oooh, I like what I've heard so far.
 
@VTCAKAVSMoACE Updated the link to the full version.
@Geobits Really??? Sometimes it is really hillarious to think what people do fall for.
 
6:58 PM
4-letter .coms that are still available, according to 123finder: 11e4.com 12e6.com 1bq5.com 1dd0.com
 

And you think stars are bad now -_-

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@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ I like me some FOOL. :D
Do you know what it stands for?
 
Stop the starship! -_-
 
That song and co. (on autoplay) are amazing.
 
7:00 PM
Who was it? :D
 
@VTCAKAVSMoACE no. What does it stand for?
 
@zyabin101 Who was what?
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ F*** Our Ordinary Lives.
 
@flawr Someone stopped the starship by correcting the few stars from the couple minutes.
 
@VTCAKAVSMoACE rofl
10/10 best name
 
7:02 PM
Yup. Just yup.
 
@zyabin101 who could possibly have been that?
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Cool!
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ That's a neat article
 
And one of the papers is four pages long, where one page is just the references.
 
7:12 PM
@TimmyD ikr
@flawr yeah
 
Wow, this is surprisingly quite easy to understand!
 
yeah
I get about 25%, which is the most readable I've seen so far (in professional math papers).
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ obtw set theory paper
 
Hah, "Set" theory
 
yep
I can troll. :D
though it is about set theory as in the field of math
 
Well the finite fields are the best fields in math.
 
7:20 PM
(removed) fest!
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ the quantum thing?
 
yeah
that's just the magazine name
 
Not quite set theory as much as it is Ramsey or combinations theory
 
yeah
but still "Set" theory. :D
@flawr Quill's SE Chat in terminal saved those messages. :P
and it's okay, you are still good at math.
 
... (>д<)
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ What the heck?
 
idk
I closed and reopened to clear it though.
 
Whatever, I wouldn't consider myself as good in math, rather average.
 
There is a shooting going on at UCLA right now, fyi. :(
@flawr better than me?
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ I don't know, hard to compare=)
 
7:24 PM
:D
25% vs 95%
I think 95 wins.
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ ?
 
Well that just says that I probably spent more time with this stuff than you so far.
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ no
 
But I'd say a lot of people would do way better than I after spending the same amount of time with those topics=)
I mean you do not judge the quality of code by the number of lines. =)
 
>_> why do you have to smash the =) into your last word... not even a full stop?
> lines=)
> topics=)
 
7:27 PM
Tacit pretzel is fun!
 
@orlp what texture/resource pack?
 
Better now?
 
@Cyoce did you let github choose the name of your repo?
@flawr ....
 
@Cyoce is it usable yet?
 
I always considered the preceeding test as kind of hat for the smiley=)
 
7:28 PM
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Getting really close!
 
 
Implementing pretzel is kind of hard given how weird it is.
 
> smiley=)
> smiley
)
 
@flawr wtf
@TimmyD what language? Or just a example?
 
7:30 PM
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Tradition close to where I live=)
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ pseudocode
 
My evil language idea: make = the equality operator and == the assignment operator. Then make the assignment operator return true if the assignment succeeds without error. Then, make numerals valid identifiers.
 
Also, it's kinda hilarious how off-track the author has gotten. :P
 
> 1 == 2
true
 
7:32 PM
@Cyoce Calm down Satan.
 
@El'endiaStarman Wait, But Why??
 
> == == ==
true
 
@El'endiaStarman What is Wait But Why?
 
The ability to search chat for ===
 
@TimmyD Hmm...
 
7:40 PM
Anyone know of a good fixed width text editor for apple iPhone?
 
@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Microsopht iPhone?
 
MicroApple iSurface Nexus 3
 
@Cyoce haskell comes to mind codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/28794/51785
 
@TimmyD you forgot ubuntu :(
 
7:46 PM
@Maltysen Ubuntu has a phone?
 
@zyabin101 it means: Argh!! Mobile
 
@TimmyD well they don't have their own, but other people makes phones with their OS
 
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Q: Adding multiple answers to "Tips for golfing in [Language]" questions

JALI've been lurking in this community for quite a while and finally want to start participating and golfing. I'm mostly an iOS developer so I expect to golf in Swift and Objective-C. I recently added an answer to Tips for golfing in Swift and I am wondering what the educate is for answering these...

 
@Maltysen Huh. TIL.
 
@Quill Mobile forces you to star repositories you want to see?
 
7:49 PM
Anyone here play Minesweeper?
 
@mbomb007 i do
 
@Maltysen This involves the Win XP and earlier version: minesweeper.info/wiki/Board_Cycles
 
@mbomb007 I don't.
(@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ ಠ╭╮ಠ )
 
@Maltysen It's some interesting mathematical research regarding people hitting the same board reliably and knowing which board is coming next. That's the reason Windows Minesweeper became disqualified for world records. Research paper: minesweeper.info/articles/BoardCycleBug.pdf
 
I like minesweeper :]
 
7:52 PM
@Poke If you also like computer science or math, read the above links.
 
already on it
 
I stumbled upon the info while looking for the algorithm Windows uses to generate boards, but apparently it's not known.
(I'm writing a Minesweeper clone)
 
iirc there is a minesweeper cheat code which will flash the upper left pixel when you hover over a mine
 
I know. It's XYZZY
 
looks right
 
7:55 PM
@zyabin101 what the fuck i do this time
@mbomb007 used to play that!
 
@Poke Also, welcome to PPCG, since you're new.
 
thanks. i've been a lurker for a couple years
decided to make an account semi-recently when i wanted to comment on someone's question
which i don't think i ever actually did...
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Prevent me saying something about NetHack.
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ :D Did you also play other old Windows games? Like Space Cadet Pinball?
 
Just because I "don't" play it.
 
7:57 PM
@zyabin101 ...doesn't mean you don't WANT to play it?
 
@mbomb007 I do.
 
@mbomb007 yes? I was like 4-5.
@zyabin101 ??? Why would that even fit in there.
 
I returned to Space Cadet Pinball. It's even more fun now, since I'm better at it.
 
@mbomb007 He wants to play, and I have no problems with it. I got mad once about him not playing it but constantly talking about it.
@mbomb007 We had a old old old tower, and I remember my 3-4 year old self being very proud to oversee the vista - xp update (or maybe xp-vista).
And I loved making the little cursors cool.
 
8:03 PM
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Yeah XP -> Vista, but XP > Vista.
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ So, for example, I was tempted to say that I do play NetHack, when I see you, tempted to oppose.
 
no?
Not tempted to oppios at
 
@mbomb007 I only have a Windows Vista install disk. But, still, I'm enjoying the small things.
 
@Poke Aw, really?! Dang, I need to find a new password manager.
 
8:07 PM
you can turn off auto update
 
@Poke I have it off.
But it still means that its updates are performed over HTTP
 
true
 
If the user now clicks within the update dialog to download the new version, the URL keepass.info is opened to manually download the new release. Guess what, we can also intercept that traffic as it again uses HTTP. Thereby an attacker can even indirectly control the downloaded “update”.
 
what if you always go to the site for your updates
their website is served over https?
 
idk
But the fact that the dev (Dominik Reichl) said: The vulnerability will not be fixed. The indirect costs of switching to HTTPS (like lost advertisement revenue) make it a inviable solution." ... I shouldn't bother using their software, even though it's free.
 
8:12 PM
The starboard is over 50% bare links :(
 
Here I sit trying to decide which would bother me more...
 
@mbomb007 That's just basically admitting that you're a developer of a security application that doesn't care about security.
 
No, it's just admitting that they only care about security until it messes with revenue. Slight difference, but it's there :P
 
@TimmyD I know right? That's why I'll end up looking for other options soon.
Is it really that hard to switch to using SSL?
Honestly, it was probably some hypothetical jerkwad boss that told him to respond like that. Think of the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert.
 
8:26 PM
@Geobits No difference in my mind.
 
Anyways, back to making my Minesweeper clone.
I'm trying to make it identical to the original Windows Minesweeper
 
@mbomb007 Don't.
Or work around the board cycle bug.
 
@mbomb007 Including xyzzy cheat?
 
8:41 PM
It annoys me that there isn't a word for 'X or (X and Y)'. 'X and/or Y' gets close, but implies Y can be done without X, which is not the case here.
 
"X and optionally Y" is the closest, I think
 
X whether or not Y
X .u Y (@PhiNotPi would understand that one :P)
 
@Doorknob X .u Y?
X + Y? :P
 
@El'endiaStarman Could be golfed to X.
 
@flawr Could not.
X covers the X without Y case, but not the X with Y case.
 
8:56 PM
@zyabin101 Truth table agrees with flawr & Doorknob.
 
@zyabin101 ^
@zyabin101 Don't forget the or in between.
 
Unless X somehow implies Y some of the time
 
Yes, .u represents TTFF in Lojban.
 
@El'endia ^^ does it? :/
 
@TimmyD Nope, this is independent of any relatiosn between X and Y, as they are all cases that you already investigated in the truth table.
 
8:59 PM
x1 .u x2
 
@flawr Well, no, meaning that El is really looking one layer "higher", in that the actual measurement is whether or not Y happened
 
Let's say I don't know programming language X. I can say that I want to learn X and/or write a program Y, but this implies that I can write the program without learning the language, which is not going to happen. So I can learn X, or I can learn X and write the program Y.
 

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