The Nineteenth Byte

Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ

10:00 PM

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ what is db when it's not database?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

decibels

flawr

@MᴀʀsUʟᴛᴏʀ ask @FryAmTheEggman

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

+ I've never heard of db as database before

Anonymous

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ decibels

flawr

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ DB = DEUTSCHE BAHN

Anonymous

10:00 PM

And even then it's dB

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

oh well

Anonymous

Regular language

In theoretical computer science and formal language theory, a regular language (also called a rational language) is a formal language that can be expressed using a regular expression, in the strict sense of the latter notion used in theoretical computer science (as opposed to many regular expressions engines provided by modern programming languages, which are augmented with features that allow recognition of languages that cannot be expressed by a classic regular expression). Alternatively, a regular language can be defined as a language recognized by a finite automaton. The equivalence of regular...

Anonymous

Also Db = Dubnium (element 105) or D-flat

xnor

formally, html is context free but not regular

it can have arbitrary nesting which requires paren matching

Anonymous

Yep, so you'd need a PDA to parse HTML

FryAmTheEggman

10:06 PM

@flawr Noooooo stoooop....

Anonymous

Which I think regex with lookarounds is sufficient for, but I'm not 100%

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

10:19 PM

Hello, World! in my new language, zero:

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(627 bytes)

Anonymous

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ +1 great for golfing

flawr

Chat mini challenge: Match valid Brainfuck code with a regex

Anonymous

@flawr It cannot be done

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Regex, 2 bytes: .*. I define parsing as matching.

Anonymous

Unless you allow more powerful flavors with lookarounds and such

flawr

10:21 PM

@Mego Why can't it be done?

Quill

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ .* no code should still match

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Quill true

flawr

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Does it match ]?

Anonymous

@flawr Arbitrary nesting of [] means that BF is a context-free language like HTML

VTCAKAVSMoACE

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Doesn't this not include newlines?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

10:22 PM

@VTCAKAVSMoACE you seriously have a BF engine that allows arbitrary characters?

@flawr in my BF engine, this is valid.

VTCAKAVSMoACE

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ ...all BF allows for arbitrary characters.

or, at least, it's supposed to.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@VTCAKAVSMoACE I made one that doesn't allow arbitrary characters.

Idk where it is tho

Quill

This is the same as the existing best Ruby answer. You can check the leaderboard, and it'll show you the shortest answer by language. — Morgan Thrapp 2 hours ago

Anonymous

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ The original BF implementation and most others treat characters not in .,+-<>[] as comments

VTCAKAVSMoACE

> All characters other than ><+-.,[] should be considered comments and ignored.

esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

10:24 PM

@VTCAKAVSMoACE seriously? who would want that?

VTCAKAVSMoACE

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Anybody who adds comments in their code?

Also, the original implementation allowed for it.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@VTCAKAVSMoACE who wants comments in their code? :P

VTCAKAVSMoACE

17 secs ago, by VTCAKAVSMoACE

Also, the original implementation allowed for it.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

the original interpreter for insomnia was incorrect.

:o your net wide rep is 6868

VTCAKAVSMoACE

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Yeah, I haven't been around for a while. :P

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

10:26 PM

@VTCAKAVSMoACE but 68 68

VTCAKAVSMoACE

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Oh. Uh. Cool, I guess.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

indeed

VTCAKAVSMoACE

Any who.

Quill

- [x] some task
- [ ] ^ but working

Just found that in a task list I had

VTCAKAVSMoACE

I've finished my Rummy library for Rummy Bot programs.

About to set up the KOTH in the sandbox.

TuukkaX

10:30 PM

Just a quick question: is it fine to post a challenge that is easy for everyone, and then post a harder version of the same topic?

Anonymous

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Q: Having both an "easy" challenge and a "hard" challenge

I've been working on some upcoming challenges of mine, one of them a Traffic Light Simulator code-challenge, the other a Mafia king-of-the-hill. There are certain elements I can include that makes the challenge significantly harder. In my Traffic Light Simulator, I can either make the roads all...

discussion

flawr

My GF: "Things from other people's plates have less calories."

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TuukkaX

Thanks @Mego!

Anonymous

Welcome

Anonymous

@flawr Is your name Joey, by any chance?

flawr

10:32 PM

@Mego Nope, why?

Anonymous

flawr

Is there a way to show the most upvoted comments?

Doorknob

@flawr You have to use SEDE; there's a query for that somewhere on there

flawr

@Doorknob Just found it

thanks

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

link?

flawr

10:40 PM

SELECT postID [Post Link], Score, Text
FROM
    Comments
WHERE UserId = ##UserId##
AND Score > 0
ORDER BY Score Desc

Geobits

Worst link ever

3

flawr

SELECT postID [Post Link], Score, Text FROM Comments WHERE UserId = ##UserId## AND Score > 0 ORDER BY Score Desc

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

test[ing]asdf

VTCAKAVSMoACE

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Needs http://.

ninjago'd?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

cool, escaping the [ and ] work

flawr

10:47 PM

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ How did you escape those?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

backslashes

flawr

cool, i used ```

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

[test\[ing\]asdf](google.com)

VTCAKAVSMoACE

^ What I do in my spare time

flawr

you have spare time?

4

VTCAKAVSMoACE

10:49 PM

@flawr At least in the summer. I've been doing a lot of input-less driving recently, so, I've had to entertain myself.

flawr

what is input less driving?

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

^

Anonymous

@flawr Sitting in park

Anonymous

Either that or being a passenger

Anonymous

But the image of Vitsy sitting in a parked car, bored, for hours at a time entertains me

Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ

10:53 PM

@Mego Vitsy?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

his dog

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

VTCalgfgftgsetu...

Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ

An actual dog?

Geobits

He keeps it in a little handbag most of the time.

Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ

For a second there I thought VTC named an actual dog after Vitsy

Anonymous

10:55 PM

@MᴀʀsUʟᴛᴏʀ You've got it backwards.

Doorknob

An actual dog named VTC after Vitsy?

Anonymous

Obviously

Mᴀʀs Uʟᴛᴏʀ

@Doorknob oic it makes so much more sense now

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

no comments from VTC :P

quartata

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Third degree is a direct upgrade over stock + I'm worried it could be used on defense to sneeze on the medic. Danger Shield is OP as fuck. The Kunai's overheal is too much of health boost nowadays, I'm always wary about allowing items that give such a large health boost

Lemme see which snipers I banned

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

11:00 PM

all but heatmaker and stuck iirc

quartata

No I allowed the Bazaar

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@quartata why? because it allows snipers to live through a headshot?

quartata

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Among other things yes

Anonymous

My roommate is pacing around our apartment, muttering things to himself. I should attach my phone to him so my Pokemon GO eggs can hatch.

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Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@quartata like what?

quartata

11:01 PM

Sydney Sleeper is retarded. Machina is more or less a straight upgrade in these kind of situations. I'm not sure why I banned the Classic

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Makes it a pain in the ass for scouts trying to go for a backcap

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@quartata an extra 25 damage to deal?

quartata

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ It provides bullet resistance in case you didn't know

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@quartata sleeper got better after the update, can extinguish teammates

Geobits

@Mego My dog is going to get really tired of walking around the lake near my house very soon, I'm sure.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@quartata oh, TIL. also 20% extra explosion damage.

quartata

11:03 PM

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Not very useful for 6s

Downgoat

woah auto TIO-execution works in comments

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@quartata true.

Anonymous

@Geobits I don't have a dog, but the thought of strapping my phone to my cat has crossed my mind several times.

Downgoat

TIL

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

lol

quartata

11:04 PM

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ To put it in perspective, a buffed sniper with the DDS needs 3 meatshots to be taken out as opposed to 2

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Geobits aren't you worried the dog will try to go in the lake?

quartata

That's a lot of meatshots

Doorknob

pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html

Anonymous

There's a lake/park near my apartment, but it's pretty remote, so I don't go out there often, or at night.

Anonymous

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Dogs can swim, usually.

quartata

11:05 PM

Why are people playing this Pokemon Go thing when you can play actual Pokemon

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Mego but the phone will get wet

^^

Geobits

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I think a wire got crossed somewhere. I walk my dog, on a leash, around the lake.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Geobits oh. I thought he was walking by himself :P

Geobits

@quartata I've beaten the actual Pokemon games several times over and have a full Pokedex.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@quartata then again, the sniper isn't exactly the scouts biggest fear. it's not exactly easy to headshot a scout

quartata

11:05 PM

@Geobits Then play comp Pokemon showdown

Geobits

I can only battle randos so many times.

@quartata I've done that, but it gets old.

quartata

Smogon doubles?

Geobits

Meh

quartata

Yeah OU gets boring but try UU or RU, that's pretty good

Geobits

Most of the online battling I've seen is all cookie cutters, so it really does get old.

quartata

11:07 PM

Smogon divides it up into tiers of Pokemon

Anonymous

I mainly use Pokemon GO as motivation to go outside and get exercise

Anonymous

Also painting my town blue is nice

Geobits

Yeah, and I've even thought about doing the tiny tier (whatever they call the lv5 capped one).

@Mego Ugh. My whole damn city seems to be red/yellow :(

quartata

@Geobits Little Cup? That's pretty fun actually

Anonymous

@Geobits The filthy reds just took over the closest gym to my apartment. I might have to go out later and enlighten them.

Geobits

11:08 PM

@quartata It seemed like it would be, but I never got around to it.

Anonymous

Oh wow it's actually yellow now

Geobits

@Mego I'm not in a position to stomp down most of the gyms around here yet :/

Anonymous

I would be in a position to take over the gyms if it wasn't for that stupid bug

Geobits

I've been in a small town with like 8 stops over the weekend, so life was hard.

quartata

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I'm surprised you didn't ask why I banned Pyrovision actually

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

11:10 PM

@quartata I assumed because it's annoying. Why?

quartata

I was expecting one of the TF2 regulars here to be salty about that

Quill

@Geobits :)

quartata

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ It's actually because Pyrovision hides certain props that are used to disguise sticky traps on certain maps

Quill

I finished Red and Yellow for GB without trading

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@quartata whoa. TIL

Geobits

11:10 PM

@Quill Very nice :)

quartata

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Yeah, that's why it's always been banned

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

TILx2

Sherlock9

@Mego Which bug? And are you blue too?

Anonymous

@Sherlock9 I'm blue (da ba dee da ba die). The bug is where you get the final defender down to 1 HP and then can't do any more damage, and eventually the app freezes up.

Sherlock9

Well crap

I haven't tried taking over my nearest gym

Anonymous

11:16 PM

If it weren't for that bug, I'd control 4/6 of the nearby gyms

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Mego +1 for song reference

Anonymous

I mean, it's our team song :P

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

really? lol. I don't play the game

Geobits

Hmm, I haven't had the bug hit me, but I've only tried a couple gyms so far. Most here are quite out of my league yet.

Quill

yellow team here ;-)

Geobits

11:26 PM

The college part of town here is all yellowed out. Most of the rest is red.

Quill

chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pokegone-gotta-block-em-a/…

Geobits

flagged as offensive

quartata

ey that's pretty good

VTCAKAVSMoACE

Ugh, the owner of a MC server I administrate on is refusing to ban a player for sexually harassing another admin and there's nothing I can do about it. ಠ_ಠ

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

._.

quartata

11:31 PM

@VTCAKAVSMoACE Did he actually unban him or what?

VTCAKAVSMoACE

@quartata Straight-up, more than a few times.

I banned the player three times, the girl that he harassed banned him twice, and various other operators have also banned him repeatedly.

quartata

Well he sounds like an asshat I would write a long post explaining the situation and get the hell out of that community

VTCAKAVSMoACE

@quartata He's 14 and doesn't understand that it's wrong. We've explained it to him a lot and, frankly, if I leave, that server's gonna get worse.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I assume this is real life harassment

quartata

@VTCAKAVSMoACE Why care about the server? Is it an actual quality community that you've invested a lot of time into making better? It doesn't sound like it

If the owner isn't mature enough to help out in situations like this I don't think it's worth it

VTCAKAVSMoACE

11:35 PM

@quartata I built that server from the ground up, and I built that website from the ground up, and I built the donation system from the ground up, and the owner just doesn't see that what he's doing is wrong.

sigh

I just feel like abandoning it will be abandoning the work that I've dedicated more than the server itself.

quartata

Why can't you make your own server if that's the issue?

VTCAKAVSMoACE

@quartata No funds and no time to administrate it.

quartata

Surely if you threaten to leave you could get through to him

I'm assuming you've already given him the full explanation and all that

VTCAKAVSMoACE

@quartata We've tried that, more than a few of the admins have already left.

I stuck around with hopes that he'd see the problem, but... if I leave, that server goes bye-bye.

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VTCAKAVSMoACE

[7/12/16, 6:44:41 PM] VTCAKAVSMoACE: Let me put this another way: if we know about this and he does this again to another player and they press charges, we could be liable for neglect.
[7/12/16, 6:44:52 PM] VTCAKAVSMoACE: And when I say we, I mean the owner.

/me wipes his hands clean of this bull and walks away.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

kehehe

VTCAKAVSMoACE

wut

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