The Nineteenth Byte

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

7:00 PM

Business Cat

English is a fun language to golf in

Anonymous

@flawr There was a video several years back of two chatterbots talking to each other.

Anonymous

AI vs. AI. Two chatbots talking to each other

►

Anonymous

The sassiness gets to 11 pretty quickly

ColdGolf

> engls is a fun lague to glf in

El'endia Starman

7:01 PM

.....and here I was thinking I was gonna get some work done, but if this chatroom is gonna devolve into noise...

ColdGolf

AI vs AI isn't noise. It's AI.

Business Cat

It is Friday afternoon, everyone's attention span is long gone

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@ColdGolf let's be done with that please.

Anonymous

@El'endiaStarman You're implying that, at some point, it wasn't noise :P

DJMcMayhem

@El'endiaStarman you're on TNB and expecting to get work done? Well there's your problem!

Fatalize

7:02 PM

@El'endiaStarman Work done + PPCG chat = what?

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@BusinessCat :/ tell that to the essay i'm supposed to be writing

Releasing Helium Nuclei

@Mego from comments:

> The female one keeps interrupting the male one. It's so realistic.

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Rohan Jhunjhunwala

@LeakyNun when i made it, I thought it worked, but idk what's up with it. Let me bugfix and post. (When I used TIO I thought it was a TIO bug, but its equally borked on my machine.) I have deleted the post until a suitable patch can be uploaded

flawr

@El'endiaStarman Abandon all work, ye who enter here.

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ColdGolf

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ What essay?

Anonymous

7:03 PM

@flawr You're not aditsu!

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

the essay i'm supposed to be writing

ColdGolf

On what?

El'endia Starman

@DJMcMayhem Well, I can typically switch away and not expect this room to go up in flames...

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@ColdGolf that's PII, sorry

about local stuff

ColdGolf

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Huh? PII?

What's that?

Releasing Helium Nuclei

7:03 PM

@ColdGolf 3.11415...

Leaky Nun

> Great minds waste time alike. --PhiNotPi

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Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@ColdGolf 1. try google 2. personally identifying information

DJMcMayhem

@El'endiaStarman oh that's right, you ~~have to~~ get to moderate and stuff

ColdGolf

@ReleasingHeliumNuclei That's pi, not pii haha.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

> Personally identifiable information (PII) is any data that could potentially identify a specific individual. Any information that can be used to distinguish one person from another and can be used for de-anonymizing anonymous data can be considered PII.

flawr

7:04 PM

> Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

Releasing Helium Nuclei

> 3.11415...

ColdGolf

@ReleasingHeliumNuclei haha

I like this number.

Also, Tau is better than Pi.

flawr

@El'endiaStarman no more

Releasing Helium Nuclei

> Also, Tau is garbage.

FTFY

flawr

Also math is stupid.

El'endia Starman

7:05 PM

-_- We really don't need more FTFY chains....

ColdGolf

> Also, Tau makes maths a lot easier.

FTFY

TimmyD

Sometimes, when you stare into chat, chat stares back.

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El'endia Starman

@ColdGolf Oh really. Tell me then, what's the area of a circle?

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

^

flawr

Moved to Philosophy.SE

@El'endiaStarman 3.2

Releasing Helium Nuclei

7:06 PM

@ColdGolf τr²/2

DJMcMayhem

^

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

but that's less golfy

DJMcMayhem

#taumasterrace

flawr

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quartata

@DJMcMayhem Please no.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

7:07 PM

inb4 relavent xkcd

DAMN YOU FLAWR

ColdGolf

@El'endiaStarman Tau = circumference/raidus

TimmyD

Oh, ninja'd so hard.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

i noticed, thank you very much

ColdGolf

Tau is the best number.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

No. That's e.

Business Cat

7:08 PM

No, it's bleen

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@flawr you didn't even link the comic itself

flawr

I think 1 is still better.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

^ 1/1

flawr

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ How are you supposed to do that?

ColdGolf

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Nope, 6.283185307179586… is the best number.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

7:08 PM

Conveniently approximated as e+2, Pau is commonly known as the Devil's Ratio (because in the octal expansion, '666' appears four times in the first 200 digits while no other run of 3+ digits appears more than once.)

orlp

my favourite number is 2

DJMcMayhem

I like the golden ratio the most

quartata

Also it looks like a bomb went off in here again

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

check the history

orlp

because it represents choice and information (entropy)

El'endia Starman

7:08 PM

TNB: where people get into cat fights over favorite numbers.

flawr

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ I still don't know how to do that.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@flawr you didn't know it auto-oneboxes?

DLosc

@ReleasingHeliumNuclei Pip, 7 bytes: PI^@3J1

orlp

@El'endiaStarman TWO IS THE BEST NUMBER

flawr

@El'endiaStarman dogs > cats

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muddyfish

7:08 PM

@El'endiaStarman meow?

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@flawr the link automagically expands

orlp

@flawr CATS > DOGS

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Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

^

quartata

You know something is wrong when every message on the starboard is from <10 minutes ago

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El'endia Starman

Woah, three simultaneous pings. I only heard one ping. :D

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

7:09 PM

@BusinessCat come help defend catkind

Releasing Helium Nuclei

@orlp also the only non-odd prime

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@quartata shit you mentioned the star wars

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Business Cat

Cat is gretest dog is eivl

quartata

No I didn't. I'm blaming all of you people

DJMcMayhem

It's too noisy in here. Imma come back in an hour

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

7:09 PM

^, bye!

orlp

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ star wars I see what you did there

ColdGolf

Protip: A twelfth of a turn is just Tau/12

No need for those complicated pi formulas!

quartata

except it makes area look strange

Releasing Helium Nuclei

τ > π, only on number line.

orlp

A pi'th of a turn is tau/pi.

ColdGolf

7:10 PM

$$\theta_\mathrm{zero} = \frac{\tau}{2} \approx 3.14$$

Make Maths Easy Again! Choose Tau!

Fatalize

There are as many formulas where tau is bad as formulas where pi is bad

Leaky Nun

@RohanJhunjhunwala

Fatalize

this debate is stupid

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

@LeakyNun yes

muddyfish

@Fatalize which one?

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

7:11 PM

@orlp ... my phone is now still beeping due to this message

El'endia Starman

@Fatalize Yes, it is. Though I still lean towards pi for a few reasons.

Leaky Nun

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A: Golf you a quine for great good!

S.I.L.O.S, 2642 bytes Credits to Rohan Jhunjhunwala for the algorithm. A = 256 set A 112 A + 1 set A 114 A + 1 set A 105 A + 1 set A 110 A + 1 set A 116 A + 1 set A 76 A + 1 set A 105 A + 1 set A 110 A + 1 set A 101 A + 1 set A 32 A + 1 set A 65 A + 1 set A 32 A + 1 set A 61 A + 1 set A 32 A + ...

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

y u do dis se app ;_;

quartata

@muddyfish Pi vs tau. Not sure what there is to debate even

Releasing Helium Nuclei

@muddyfish τ vs π

ninja'd ;_;

ColdGolf

7:12 PM

Confused about Euler's Identify?

With Tau, be confused no more!

$$e^{i\tau} = 1$$

El'endia Starman

Pi manifesto

muddyfish

Oh I thought this was still that dogs > cats

Business Cat

There is no MathJax here

El'endia Starman

@BusinessCat There is if you install the browser extension SE ChatJax.

quartata

Want other sane people to be able to read your formulas in less than a second? Choose Pi!

Leaky Nun

7:12 PM

> tauists

sounds like Taoists to me

Releasing Helium Nuclei

wow silence

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

@LeakyNun what was the bug with my implementation?

orlp

@BusinessCat math.ucla.edu/~robjohn/math/mathjax.html

@El'endiaStarman I use a bookmarklet

Leaky Nun

@RohanJhunjhunwala you didn't start a at 256

ColdGolf

Protip: if the Pi version of Euler's Identity scares you, there's an elegant solution:

$$e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0$$

Or, just use Tau:

$$e^{i\tau} = 1 + 0$$

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

7:14 PM

@LeakyNun oh ok

quartata

What?

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

@LeakyNun I have an interesting idea to golf it down. Let me try it

flawr

@El'endiaStarman One of them is deliciousness.

orlp

$$e^{i\tau} = 1 \wedge e^0 = 1 \Rightarrow i\tau = 0$$

TimmyD

PS C:\Tools\Scripts\golfing> 'τ'-gt'π'
True

Well, that settles it.

quartata

7:16 PM

@ColdGolf ...

El'endia Starman

(Please test any ChatJax in the Sandbox chat room.)

Releasing Helium Nuclei

i thought it would work ;_;

El'endia Starman

It did for me, actually.

ColdGolf

@El'endiaStarman Nobody is testing anything. It's actual maths.

Dennis

And please remember that most of us don't have ChatJax.

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Releasing Helium Nuclei

7:19 PM

tau * r^2 /2 or pi * r^2

ColdGolf

I was going to post a CMC with it...

You can always use latex2png.com, though.

Sherlock9

Combine Pi and Tau in the PiTaugorean Theorem

Dennis

@ColdGolf I can read LATEX just fine, but that's not the point. I'm certainly not going to paste every other chat message in a converter.

flawr

@Sherlock9 The Paugorean Theorem

Releasing Helium Nuclei

$$\frac{\tau \times r^2}{2} = \pi \times r^2$$

ok now

ColdGolf

7:21 PM

@Dennis Fine, I'll upload it as images.

Please don't.

Please don't.

^^ haha

Please don't.

I'd rather read the raw LaTeX then have to slog through a bunch of oneboxes

ColdGolf

7:22 PM

Okay.

Install ChatJax, y'all.

It's cool.

Unless you like to read raw latex for some reason.

El'endia Starman

OR you can just not post tons of LaTeX messages in chat.

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Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

^

ColdGolf

ChatJax is a simple click away to install.

You are the very people who told me about it in the first place.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

yeah

Fatalize

especially if it's to post the 3 random equations where Tau is mildly more convenient than Pi

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

7:23 PM

@ColdGolf but you don't really need to be posting so many latex equations

ColdGolf

@Fatalize Excuse me? Pi is just nonsense.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

semi-ninja'ed

ColdGolf

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Brush up your maths, bro. haha

Fatalize

@ColdGolf If Pi is nonsense, then so is Tau

Releasing Helium Nuclei

@ColdGolf :|

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

7:24 PM

@ColdGolf it's not that

El'endia Starman

Okay, any further pi vs tau debate is going in the Trash.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

thanks

TimmyD

$Mathematics$ Mathematics

Associated with Math.SE; for both general discussion & math qu...

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ColdGolf

@Fatalize That doesn't make any sense.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@ColdGolf it was the annoyance of seeing them in a golfing-code chat

Dennis

7:24 PM

@ColdGolf Not possible on mobile, but still not the point. There's no need to clutter the chat room with tons of pi/tau identities.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@ColdGolf I think he means they are literally the same +/- the 2.

ColdGolf

@Dennis Install Firefox for Android.

Releasing Helium Nuclei

1 min ago, by Releasing Helium Nuclei

@ColdGolf :|

ColdGolf

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Actually, Tau is pi x 2. Not +2, not -2.

Dennis

@ColdGolf No.

ColdGolf

7:25 PM

@Dennis Fine, I'm not forcing you to.

I'll just head to maths.SE chat.

You guys hate maths, although coding kind of does involve the very maths you hate.

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

@LeakyNun I have golfed a good bit off of your implementation, should I sned it to you as an edit?

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

yesterday, by El'endia Starman

@ColdGolf I see you go to the school of Twisting Peoples' Words To Mean Something Else.

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Leaky Nun

@RohanJhunjhunwala sure

Fatalize

I may have the impression that there are a lot of people more well-versed in math than you in this chat

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Rohan Jhunjhunwala

so here is the TIO

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

7:26 PM

@ColdGolf also, just a PSA: markdown (except blockquotes and code blocks) doesn't work in multiline messages

@RohanJhunjhunwala don't

El'endia Starman

@ColdGolf Aw shoot, why'd I get my Bachelor's of Science degree in Applied Math then?!?

ColdGolf

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Thanks for letting me know.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

welcome

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

@LeakyNun I can't paste it. @EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ dont do what?

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@RohanJhunjhunwala don't make edit suggestions with golfed code

Leaky Nun

7:27 PM

@RohanJhunjhunwala pastebin

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

comment on the post maybe, or ask in chat

but edit suggestions will get rejected.

ColdGolf

@LeakyNun You didn't pastebin things before.

Leaky Nun

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ this is the chat

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ yeah I know I was gonna comment it to him

Leaky Nun

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Keep this between me and him, thanks

Sherlock9

7:27 PM

Ok I have a question about this comment on my post, and I don't know how to phrase it politely: codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/51096/hook-length-product/…

mbomb007

Maybe a good challenge idea? ...

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Q: Can a line of Python code know its indentation level?

From something like this: print(get_indentation_level()) print(get_indentation_level()) print(get_indentation_level()) I would like to get something like this: 1 2 3 Can the code read itself in this way?

Leaky Nun

@RohanJhunjhunwala I've golfed it here also

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@mbomb007 that's pretty cool

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

@LeakyNun you beat me to it

quartata

in Mathematics, 8 secs ago, by ColdGolf

I just realised codegolf.SE really hates maths.

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

7:28 PM

@LeakyNun my solution is identical

The drama has spread

Holy cow

@mbomb007 Whoa

@LeakyNun let me go back to the drawing board, Is it ethiical for me to compete against you to create a shorter solution?

Leaky Nun

@RohanJhunjhunwala of course

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

7:30 PM

@LeakyNun I just don't want to infringe on your ideas.

Leaky Nun

@RohanJhunjhunwala Go right ahead

in Mathematics, 26 secs ago, by ColdGolf

@muddyfish I hope they don't spam here in the maths chat.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

hey, let's not swarm into there

Leaky Nun

The irony is strong with this one.

muddyfish

@LeakyNun I'm not even going to attempt to reply to that

El'endia Starman

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ That's why I'm refreshing the transcript instead of actually being in the room. :P

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

7:34 PM

same

:P

quartata

@El'endiaStarman I've actually started doing this with the Nineteenth Byte (sometimes).

Adnan

@El'endiaStarman You can also go incognito on chrome

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@LeakyNun haha

Releasing Helium Nuclei

emacs.stackexchange.com, more like masochism.SE

Leaky Nun

@Adnan then you can't enter the room?

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

7:35 PM

@quartata for the same reasons as math chat?

Leaky Nun

needs 20rep to enter rooms

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@LeakyNun exactly

mbomb007

Mace vs maul:

El'endia Starman

@LeakyNun No, you can enter the room. You just can't talk.

Leaky Nun

@El'endiaStarman I see

quartata

7:35 PM

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ No, because I know if I actually enter the room I'll feel compelled to reply to something dumb going on

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

okay

ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΨΠʹ

Just updated my S'more-generating program, runs much faster now:

quartata

@El'endiaStarman Whoa. I can't believe I wasted all that time on my degree when simple introspection could have shown to me the unyielding churning hate of all things math and logic at the bottom of my heart

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Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

ooh

ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΨΠʹ

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

void f0(int i0, char c0) {
    int i1;
    for (i1 = 0; i1 < i0; i1++)
        putchar(c0);
}

int main(int i0, char *c_P0[]) {
    char *cP0, *cP1;
    int i1, i2, i3;
    i1 = i0 > 1 ? atoi(c_P0[1]) : 2;
    i2 = i0 > 2 ? atoi(c_P0[2]) : 4;
    if (i1 < 0 || i2 < 0) {
        printf("Remember what happened LAST time you messed with negative S'mores?");
        return 1;
    }
    cP0 = malloc(i1 + 1);
    for (i3 = 0; i3 <= i1;)
        cP0[i3++] = ' ';

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

7:36 PM

@mbomb007 lol

TimmyD

@mbomb007 Not what I expected when I first saw "Mace vs maul" ...

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@TimmyD lol i thought the same.

El'endia Starman

@quartata Time and money! Not to mention, all that homework!

ColdGolf

@ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΨΠʹ Use a pastebin instead.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@quartata what degree did you get?

Releasing Helium Nuclei

7:37 PM

@ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΨΠʹ #include <fcntl.h> for write()

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@ColdGolf it's not that long, it's fine

flawr

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Farenheit or Celsius? (I'm not gonna talk about angles in this room.)

ColdGolf

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Okay.

Business Cat

@flawr I go with Kelvin

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@flawr Rankine.

ColdGolf

7:38 PM

@flawr Let's not start an argument about how the only country left in the older imperial system is basically only America.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

ninja'ed

El'endia Starman

@ColdGolf Well, we certainly could've avoided it more easily by not mentioning it, eh?

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@ColdGolf i don't think that's really starting an argument, more of just making a joke

flawr

@ColdGolf Nobody would ahve started it...

muddyfish

@ColdGolf By saying that you just made it all the more likely

flawr

7:39 PM

@ReleasingHeliumNuclei As I said, I'm not talking about angles.

ColdGolf

@muddyfish A paradox.

Leaky Nun

@ColdGolf no, it's called a self-fulfilling prophecy

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@El'endiaStarman :/ that also applies to that message

ColdGolf

@LeakyNun Let's not argue about how....

Business Cat

It's not really a paradox, it's like telling somebody "don't think about bananas" and all they can think about is bananas

ColdGolf

7:40 PM

Don't think about thinking.

El'endia Starman

@BusinessCat We can certainly agree this room has gone bananas. :P

Sherlock9

Eh, I'll think about it

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

lel

flawr

PS: This thing has come back:

instagram.com/p/BJlHdMwD3vc

ColdGolf

I like bananas more than apples.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

7:41 PM

@flawr hey, that's pretty cool

Releasing Helium Nuclei

be ~~right~~ 2 hours later back

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

have fun doing whatever

El'endia Starman

@flawr Ooh sweet.

ColdGolf

@ReleasingHeliumNuclei Sorry for nitpicking, but it's "I will be back after two hours"

quartata

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Math/CS

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

7:42 PM

oh, cool

ColdGolf

@quartata I hate CS and I love maths.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@quartata are you still in college?

Sherlock9

What, may I ask, brings you here if you dislike computer science so strongly?

ColdGolf

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Does it matter what @quartata's age is?

That's PII.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@ColdGolf .. no

there are probably like 1M people in college at the US for any given degree

flawr

7:43 PM

@ColdGolf Why would you tell us this if it didn't?

ColdGolf

@Sherlock9 Because it's a fun chat.

Sherlock9

Well, I believe Easterly is attempting to make conversation

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

ye

Sherlock9

So rather than dismissing the question, would you care to answer with "Yes", "No", or "I'd rather not say"

To be polite, of course

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

that was aimed at quartata, btw

Sherlock9

7:45 PM

Whoops, misunderstood your first post

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

it's okay

Martin Ender

@ColdGolf This isn't the fun you're looking for.

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Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

hey @MartinEnder

that doesn't make it fun...

off-topic, yes

El'endia Starman

TIL: ColdGolf repellent is talking about code golfing.

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Sherlock9

Ah, but the idea is to discuss code and code golf in general

ColdGolf

7:46 PM

@Sherlock9 Everybody is out of ideas.

I mean, for ppcg challenges.

The ones in the Sandbox are downvoted.

Sherlock9

We love code. We live and breathe code. Computer Science and the hammering thereof into tiny golf-sized pieces is our specialty

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

I need to go eat, bye!

El'endia Starman

@ColdGolf No, you're out of ideas. :P

ColdGolf

@El'endiaStarman Gve me one idea, then?

El'endia Starman

@ColdGolf Pong KotH.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

7:47 PM

generating an image of a decision tree

ColdGolf

@El'endiaStarman How does that work?

Okay, decision tree thing sounds good.

But needs test cases.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

yeah

ColdGolf

Also, I think it was done before.

El'endia Starman

@ColdGolf Like any other KotH, but with the game of Pong.

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

this is hilarious to watch a one sideed conversation

Sherlock9

7:48 PM

Didn't someone post about Arnold's cat map before?

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@ColdGolf it's an idea

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

Because I don't see the other side

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@ColdGolf i don't think so

ColdGolf

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ I think it was on the starboard before.

Sherlock9

Ah it was βετѧ Λєҫαγ

ColdGolf

7:49 PM

Now you found it.

See, we're out of ideas!

I mean, at least I am.

Pong KoTH is cool, though.

Sherlock9

I think you fundamentally misunderstand how people generate ideas :D

There are a lot of ways to do it

El'endia Starman

@ColdGolf Feel free to take a crack at it.

ColdGolf

@El'endiaStarman Given how I'm a downvote magnet, I'd prefer not to.

Sherlock9

Throwing things at a wall (or a chat) sometimes works, but usually you need to discuss it to get a fully-formed idea

Feeds

Dennis has added El'endia Starman to the list of this room's owners.

Dennis has added Geobits to the list of this room's owners.

muddyfish

7:51 PM

tetris KOTH? One player tries to choose the least optimal piece and the other tries to place it well?

Feeds

Dennis has added Sp3000 to the list of this room's owners.

El'endia Starman

@Sherlock9 And Sandbox it, especially.

Feeds

Dennis has added trichoplax to the list of this room's owners.

Dennis has added xnor to the list of this room's owners.

Dennis

Effective immediately, TNB has 5 additional room owners.

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ColdGolf

@Dennis We saw it. Why, though?

You've missed many regulars.

Dennis

7:52 PM

Because of the high noise level.

flawr

@ColdGolf Guess why.

muddyfish

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Q: Should we have additional room owners?

Currently our main chatroom, The Nineteenth Byte, has only the 4 PPCG moderators as room owners. Since the chatiquette is not applicable to other Stack Exchange sites, using chat flags for breaches of chatiquette which are not also network-wide offenses is problematic - wasting the time of 10k us...

discussion chat

ColdGolf

@flawr He didn't add lots of other regulars.

muddyfish

"Let us thank them for volunteering, and may the odds be ever in their favor."

Also how do I do the proper quotey thing?

El'endia Starman

@ColdGolf Just because someone is regularly in chat doesn't mean they should be a room owner. That position comes with special privileges and responsibilities.

Business Cat

7:55 PM

Put > before your text

muddyfish

@BusinessCat thanks

ColdGolf

@El'endiaStarman I thought we agreed about this?

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@Sherlock9 really? image of decision trees?

@ColdGolf you don't need 20 ROs. Only the most mature users.

Dennis

@ColdGolf It's not about adding all the regulars, but a handful of people that can help us improve the signal-to-noise ratio. That thing you like about this chat room, where conversation is usually completely unrelated to PPCG or affine topics, that's a bad thing.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

^

affine?

ColdGolf

7:57 PM

@Dennis I mean, you got like most of em in one timezone.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

> Noun: a relative by marriage.

@ColdGolf ...no

ColdGolf

America has 9 timezones iirc, @Dennis. use those.

muddyfish