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12:00 AM
@ReleasingHeliumNuclei Interesting that it says that "arslan" is a Crimean Tatar word; the part of my heritage where I get my last name is Volga Tatar. Despite both having the word "Tatar" in the name, their languages are unrelated.
 
hm
@AlexA. woe to those who read "tartan" and says that to alex
 
I really should try to get quar.tatar
 
@AlexA. most of the Crimean people are Turkic people, Tatars are Turkic people; Volga Tatars live in Uzbekistan, a mostly Turkic country.
there are Turks everywhere :p
 
Actually, until shortly before my sister was born, Arslan wasn't our last name. When my grandpa came to the US through Ellis Island, he and his brother were assigned different last names: Aruslan and Arslan, respectively. "Arslan" is closer to how it's pronounced in Tatar, so my family changed their last names to match my great uncle's.
 
12:03 AM
> Volga Tatars live in Uzbekistan
Sure, some do
Some live in the US, like my grandpa
 
@quartata pre-reserving apparently?
@AlexA. i think he meant more live there then turkey
 
No, the domains are available. The registrar website is in Russian which is slightly annoying
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Volga Tatars primarily live in Russia, where Tatarstan is
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Turks were originally in Middle Asia btw
 
idk
@quartata link?
 
12:05 AM
There are still lots of Turkic countries there
im really sleeping this time
 
@βετѧΛєҫαγ :D thank you
 
@AlexA. can you sue them for racism? :P
 
12:20 AM
They aren't discriminating against me; they're kindly providing me with reading material.
Granted it isn't relevant to my interests
 
12:55 AM
I love following phase on GitHub because he stars some super cool stuff that I never would have come across otherwise.
 
@AlexA. All right phase, I know that's you
Not even subtle
 
And for all you Mac users out there, shameless plug for my tap, which now includes with: github.com/ararslan/homebrew-pints
@quartata >_>
I can neither confirm nor deny that I am phase. If you look into your heart and see localhost, you'll know the truth.
 
Ugh, just realized I lost my Warband saves when my hard drive went bye-bye. :(
I don't understand why it doesn't use Steam Cloud
 
fuckin hell he's found the eleven button
We're doomed everyone evacuate
 
1:01 AM
@HelkaHomba Out of phase? Not sure whether confused or D:
 
Oh, you edited it yourself. Now I'm just confused
 
Sorry. Out-as-phase.
 
I'm out of the phase closet?
 
Don't let it faze you
 
Frustration that turned into an unexpected productivity boost: On OS X I have GnuPG installed through Homebrew. I updated it and suddenly I couldn't sign commits anymore, so I had to install pinentry-mac and use that with my gpg-agent. As it turns out, you can save your GPG key to your Keychain, so now I don't have to type my password every time I sign a commit.
 
1:06 AM
Oh man, we're using Mathematica in calc this year
Obviously the first thing I'm going to try is the goat thing
 
xD
Back in my day we did calculus by hand
 
@AlexA. ooh nice
 
@Doorknob That's cheating! :O I had to use paper
 
@Doorknob lel
@HelkaHomba not hands? cool
 
(For real, we never used software in my calc classes)
 
1:07 AM
that sounds pretty advanced to only use paper
like magic sentient paper?
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Pencils and brains may have played a part, hard to remember
The high jump record is about 8ft o.O That's the height of an average ceiling
 
That's one high jump
 
> I love him so much.
 
1:16 AM
Uhhhh...
 
@Doorknob Aw <3
 
Anyway, turns out in Emacs you have to visual select a region and press C-u M-|. O_o
 
Visual select, as in the same thing you do in Vim with v?
 
meh
 
1:19 AM
@AlexA. I remember from back when I tried Emacs you mark the start and end of the region with some keystrokes, but I'm not sure
 
@Doorknob what is the second link?
 
@ConorO'Brien It used to say "I love vim so much" and then Alex... changed it .-.
 
I did no such thing
 
xD
sure doorknob, just continue denying it outwardly ;)
 
With a little luck my current car will last until autonomous rides are cheap and easy
 
1:22 AM
this is now a thing (WIP). I decided to make a programming language the right way, rather than the silly way I tried last time.
 
@HelkaHomba abbes abbot adder affix agger allis allod allot allow ammon annex annul appel arris arrow asset assot attic eggar ekkas emmas ettin iller inned inner ippon occur odder offal offed offer oggin ollas ollav onned orris ottar otter udder ugged upped upper utter
 
@ConorO'Brien oggin?
 
Did you get that through a brute force search of the system dictionary file? ;P
 
Quit 'oggin the words! Let others answer :P
 
@AlexA. close, my own.
@HelkaHomba :P it was meh'd
 
1:26 AM
@HelkaHomba What's your current car? If it's a Geo Metro, don't count on it.
 
@BaldBantha "I decided to make a programming language the right way" sees .js files...
12
@BaldBantha Just kidding, JS gets way more hate than it deserves. Good luck!
2
 
Only other languege I know is perl, so..
 
@HelkaHomba ^_^ you're nice
 
@HelkaHomba If you want to see "good" programming, then go check out the Cheddar repo
 
> "good"
rekt?
 
1:28 AM
CMC: get a single char of input, no more, no less and output it. (E.g., one keypress) code golf
 
Julia, 23 bytes: print(read(STDIN,Char))
 
do you have to print it?
 
yes, sorry, clarifying
 
@HelkaHomba are you sure about that?
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ ಠ_ಠ
 
1:31 AM
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@ConorO'Brien Python, 847 bytes
class _Getch:
    """Gets a single character from standard input.  Does not echo to the
screen."""
    def __init__(self):
        try:
            self.impl = _GetchWindows()
        except ImportError:
            self.impl = _GetchUnix()

    def __call__(self): return self.impl()


class _GetchUnix:
    def __init__(self):
        import tty, sys

    def __call__(self):
        import sys, tty, termios
        fd = sys.stdin.fileno()
        old_settings = termios.tcgetattr(fd)
        try:
 
holy crap what
 
about to golf it
@ConorO'Brien Python, 23 bytes
print sys.stdin.read(1)
 
This is some enterprise fizzbuzz level stuff here
 
that's better
 
36x golfing!
 
1:32 AM
@AlexA. When you see class _Getch: on the first line... you know you're doing something wrong.
 
@ConorO'Brien that was copy pasted from SO
 
:P
 
@ConorO'Brien What about console buffering?
 
@ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΨΠʹ What about it?
 
1:36 AM
@ConorO'Brien As in, if the console asks for a complete line
 
Idk
all you are doing is asking for a char
 
Mathematica, 34 bytes, requires a ^D or equivalent after the char: Print["!head -c1"~Import~"String"]
 
well, that's mroe than the character. that's the char + ^D
 
@ConorO'Brien If you pipe input, it works
^D only indicates EOF
 
seems legit then
 
1:41 AM
But yeah, Mma itself has nothing more precise than InputString[] which reads whole lines
 
TIL
@ip; in reticular
 
@BaldBantha you made it the almost right way. You just need to add babel
 
stop babelling about babel :P
 
;_;
gtg bai
 
2:29 AM
@AlexA. not even a calcuator? :P
 
Nope
Well, I guess we were allowed sometimes, but usually not
 
wait what kind of calculus
 
Differential and integral calculus
 
oh, fair enough
but aren't you supposed to do most calculus by hand anyway?
 
Yes, that was my point
I'm surprised that they're using Mathematica in Doorknob's class
 
2:33 AM
i suppose mathematica is helpful for visualization
i had to use matlab, which was probably in preparation for some later course
 
@El'endiaStarman Can I feed HTML to a html.parser in chunks? i.e p.feed(transcript1), p.feed(transcript2), ... p.feed(transcriptN) do_something_with_p_messages()?
 
@AlexA. it's trivial for PPCGers, so that would actually be the non-surprising option
 
@ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΨΠʹ ;____________; y u do dis Q___________________Q
 
Hey @Downgoat, guess what
?
I just wanted to tell you that I'm working on a Homebrew formula for Cheddar, so people on Mac can just brew install cheddar.
Doesn't work yet.
 
\o/ but /o\
 
2:47 AM
0
A: Tips for golfing in vim

DJMcMayhemThere are three "change case" operators, gu "Convert to lowercase gU "Convert to uppercase g~ "Toggle case Since these are operators, they take a motion, so to convert the current character to lowercase you would use gul Here's where the fun trick comes in. :) If you want to change...

 
It's challenging, because the compiled Cheddar executable appears to rely on other files in the source tree, which makes relocating the executable a huge pain.
cough @Downgoat cough fix it cough
In particular, running cheddar failed immediately because it couldn't find ../../package.json after being relocated.
 
Out of sync audio is a pain >:(
 
It helps if it's all in one take though
 
@HelkaHomba Clap sync
Oh you don't film your face, it's just screencap, right
 
3:03 AM
Solution? Make mini-helka clap
 
@DJMcMayhem Not if Bandicam can't keep up with lag :/
Still, it's uncommon :)
 
@DJMcMayhem ...hm
 
@HelkaHomba is this for sideways world or AA?
 
AA 23.5. Not an official episode so I'm not bothering to waste that much time on it.
I had waited afk 2hrs at zombie farm and when I killed the hundreds of zombies thousands of xp orbs came out and borked things badly.
 
Oh. I haven't watched the .5s, but I had always assumed they didn't have audio
 
3:10 AM
Just the game audio
Ender Dragon by 25 (fingers crossed xD)
 
3:50 AM
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Hahaha, I had not. Always fun when 666 shows up on C.SE. :P
Like that one time where we had three questions all trying to be the 666th questions.
 
Hello Christianity.SE I have quetsion, how juice Satan 666
 
@quartata ...I don't see why not. Yeah, looks like that should work (maybe with a little modification). You could also just concatenate the transcripts.
 
@El'endiaStarman lol
 
@El'endiaStarman That's really funny. I used to work at subway, and there was a very specific order that would cost $6.66, and it was funny to see people's reactions.
Some people actually refused to take it unless I added something else to change the cost
 
4:02 AM
Wow
I would have been like, "YES GIVE ME THE SATANWICH >:D"
 
Hahaha, it wasn't very often, but it always gave me a laugh
"Do you want me to throw some cookies on that order?" "Yeah yeah yeah, do that please!"
 
Fear of the devil masquerading as a love for cookies
 
I was a very good salesman. "And now, for a limited time only, try our 'Keep your soul safe from the ruler of darkness chocolate chip!'"
3
 
Surprisingly relevant: youtu.be/uriJOsWy_zU
 
5:01 AM
Guys
"to death" or "to the death"?
 
@LeakyNun what context?
without context I'd guess 'to the death'
 
@orlp I always feel like the former is correct
but I hear the latter more often..
 
do you mean
as in
"The gladiators fought to the death."?
 
yes
 
then it's to the death
 
5:05 AM
I see
 
it's an idiom
fight to the death
that's why it looks weird
 
so in other contexts I just say "to death"?
like he has been starved to death
 
correct
 
I see
what is the difference?
 
@LeakyNun Are you familiar with the stack exchange site ELL?
 
5:19 AM
@DJMcMayhem not really
 
This sounds like a good question for it
I was a top user on there for a while
I'm trying to think of how to answer your question but I don't know why they're different. I know that "starve to the death" sounds weird as does "fight to death" but I'm not sure why
Maybe it's just the tense
 
Could be because starve is a passive action and fight is an active one?
Like "Bleed to the death" sounds strange too
 
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Q: "To death" vs "to the death"

Leaky NunSometimes I see the former, as in "starve to death". But sometimes I see the latter as well, as in "fight to the death", or in the following quote: I wholly disapprove of what you say and will defend to the death your right to say it When do I use which?

 
Haha, that was fast. I'm looking forward to hearing the answer myself
 
2
Q: Deciphering XKCD colors

orlpRandall Munroe (author of XKCD) held a survey to give names to colors. The main outcome is a list of names for the 954 most common RGB monitor colors. For ease of programming, here is the list in plain text: http://xkcd.com/color/rgb.txt. Beware, the first line is not data, but contains the lice...

 
6:11 AM
@StevenH. Hm I don't think I can improve that :-)
 
6:31 AM
halp is there a tool to create a hash function from a list of keys and hashes?
 
6:57 AM
@Dennis When minimizing an argument in TIO, it removes its contents. When minimizing the Input, it keeps it (and still passes it even when minimized). Is this intended?
 
@Fatalize Yes
 
0
A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Tom DoodlerWrite a Brainfuck interpreter in Brainfuck Since Brainfuck is known to be turing-complete, it is possible to write a Brainfuck interpreter in Brainfuck. This is what you're supposed to do. You will get the input from the standard input and output to the standard output. This is a programming-pu...

 
You can't minimize an argument, you can only remove/add them
 
@Fatalize Pretty much, yeah. You can have any number of arguments, but there's only one STDIN.
 
7:09 AM
So what's the point of minimizing the input if it doesn't wipe its content?
@Dennis Also could you please pull Brachylog?
 
@Fatalize what's new?
 
@LeakyNun Fixed true/false getting printed when @w is used, and fixed linebreaks being always printed at the end of the output
 
I see
 
So as Niantic would say, Minor text fixes
 
CMC: given positive integer n > 1, output all integers in the interval [1,n] coprime to n
in other words: smallest positive reduced residue system
 
7:18 AM
@Fatalize More vertical spaces, basically. Not too useful right now, but I plan to add more textareas (e.g., STDERR).
@Fatalize Done.
 
@Fatalize eh, 1 is included
Testcase: 30 -> 1,7,11,13,17,19,23,29
(30 is the largest number whose non-1 elements of that is prime)
 
remove the 2 b then
 
Hello
Uhhh for fastest code challenges
do we have to time it ourselves?
 
@DerpfacePython yes
One advice for making fastest code challenges:
 
7:24 AM
What?
 
Don't.
 
you just won't test every answer
 
that's very true
 
@Fatalize here
 
7:25 AM
that's why i've been steering away from those challenges
but i have a really good idea
 
@DerpfacePython say it here
 
Multi-polygonal numbers
 
No offense, but if you check your question history, while some of them are quite good, some of them are quite bad
 
When given an input [a, b...] (at least two elements), return a list of numbers (with an upper bound of 2^32 - 1) which are a-gonal numbers, b-gonal numbers... etc (n-gonal numbers for every n in the input list).
@LeakyNun That's very true
I bombed the sort the alphabet one
 
@DerpfacePython not a very good idea
 
7:28 AM
How is it not?
 
6
Q: Polygonal numbers

Leaky NunA polygonal number is the number of dots in a k-gon of size n. You will be given n and k, and your task is to write a program/function that outputs/prints the corresponding number. Scoring This is code-golf. Shortest solution in bytes wins. Example The 3rd hexagon number (k=6, n=3) is 28 b...

It has a trivial formula
You're just testing the machine's speed of multiplication
 
Yeah
It's really hard to think of good challenges now
What with so many challenges available already
 
the problem isn't about duplicate
the question I linked isn't a duplicate
my point is just that you're basically testing the machine's speed of multipication
 
IK it isn't a dupe
But it is still hard to think of new good challenges
 
In time you shall.
 
7:32 AM
Yeah.
I was wondering if there's a formula for triangle-square numbers
 
1
Q: Permutapalindromic numbers

FatalizeGiven an integer N as input, output the Nth permutapalindromic number. A permutapalindromic number is a strictly positive integer such that there is at least one permutation of its digits that results in a palindrome (i.e. a number that is its own reverse). For example, 117 is a permutapalindro...

 
@DerpfacePython what is that?
 
A number that is triangular and square at the same time
So 36 would be one
Since it is 6 squared
and is the 8th triangle number
 
In mathematics, a square triangular number (or triangular square number) is a number which is both a triangular number and a perfect square. There are infinitely many square triangular numbers; the first few are 0, 1, 36, 1225, 41616, 1413721, 48024900, 1631432881, 55420693056, 1882672131025 (sequence A001110 in the OEIS). == Explicit formulas == Write Nk for the kth square triangular number, and write sk and tk for the sides of the corresponding square and triangle, so that N k = s ...
@DerpfacePython An explicit formula is there
 
7:52 AM
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Q: "To death" vs "to the death"

Leaky NunSometimes I see the former, as in "starve to death". But sometimes I see the latter as well, as in "fight to the death", or in the following quote: I wholly disapprove of what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it. – Evelyn Beatrice Hall When do I use which?

@DJMcMayhem
 
no love for my vim answer ;_;
0
A: Input ∩ Source Code

Destructible WatermelonVim, 78 68 78 79 62 keystrokes Completely changed my approach: oo/\$kjxd<esc>/o<cr>xj$/\/<cr>xj$/\\<cr>xj$/$<cr>xj$/k<cr>xj$/x<cr>xj$/j<cr>xj$/d<cr>xkdd How it works: First, it makes a line with all the program characters, then, it finds the first instance of each of the program characters, ...

 
I actually ran out of votes
 
Randall is early today :p
@DestructibleWatermelon isn't that 61
 
8:26 AM
@ReleasingHeliumNuclei goddamnit
Maybe I accidentally didn't submit th last part
thanks dude
 
"Caretta carettas are biting swimming people"
News in Turkey
They don't mention they are swimming in the ovulation area (i don't know the proper term i copiled from Google Translate)
 
9:25 AM
Randall messed up today. "Because this comic has the same title (and filename) as comic 827, Randall inadvertently broke both his website and [explainxkcd] when it went up. The main xkcd site showed this comic for both numbers, while explainxkcd showed 827 for both."
 
0
Q: A047841: Autobiographical numbers

Leaky NunDefinition Here is the process to describe a number: For each number from 0 to 9 that is present in the number: Write down the frequency of that digit and then the digit. For example, for the number 10213223: There is 1 occurrence of 0, 2 occurrences of 1, 3 occurrences of 2, 2 occurrences...

 
9:44 AM
0
A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

SokOutput the nth rational number according to the Stern-Brocot sequence The Stern-Brocot sequence is a Fibonnaci-like sequence which can be constructed as follows: Initialise the sequence with s(1) = s(2) = 1 Set counter n = 1 Append s(n) + s(n+1) to the sequence Append s(n+1) to the sequence In...

 
9:54 AM
1
Q: A047841: Autobiographical numbers

Leaky NunDefinition Here is the process to describe a number: For each number from 0 to 9 that is present in the number: Write down the frequency of that digit and then the digit. For example, for the number 10213223: There is 1 occurrence of 0, 2 occurrences of 1, 3 occurrences of 2, 2 occurrences...

 
@NewMainPosts dis needs 11
 
0
Q: Program a Speed Camera

βετѧ ΛєҫαγIntroduction You're working on a government programming team, who have been programming the speed cameras. However, the group of people who have programmed the speed calculator have taken up too much space, so you have to make the number plate recognition software as small as possible. Challeng...

 
@mınxomaτ but does it support powerline?
 
Probably
 
@βετѧΛєҫαγ please reconcile how this challenge was tagged kolmogorov-complexity with being allowed to read the source file?
in what way does the challenge make sense then?
and I don't see how this isn't clear enough:
Standard loopholes apply. Additionally, your answer must not use pre-defined (built-in or external) color code <-> color name maps. (This includes the linked list.)
 
@mınxomaτ slightly disappointed that full width and minimum line height doesn't give square character cells
 
10:47 AM
@mınxomaτ nah i tried it doesnt
 
@MartinEnder why do you want square cells?
ASCII art?
 
Two downvotes already! :p
 
@ReleasingHeliumNuclei where?
 
@orlp Agreeably, I didn't notice the kolmo tag
 
10:50 AM
@LeakyNun about the font:(
 
But I still think a little edit won't hurt
Oh, I see Value Ink already edited
Never mind
 
hope you have headphones
by the way do you never sleep or something? it doesn't matter how screwed up my sleep schedule is, it seems you are always on :P
 
@orlp I never sleep
it's been my 1000th hour awake
@orlp I do like bach
@ConorO'Brien How's rectum?
Any chemist/chemistry enthusiast here?
 
@LeakyNun depends to what depth you mean
 
I've asked two questions in the chem.SE chatroom

 The Periodic Table

Haikus are awesome / Chemistry's even better / So pull up a chair
 
11:14 AM
HI
 
Yo
 
Hydroxide, hydrogen iodide
 
11:50 AM
@ReleasingHeliumNuclei OH⁻, HI?
 
@ASCII-only ye
 

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