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11:00 PM
@betseg Kinda. But you can use any sequence as an identity, just by repeating it enough times.
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Q: Cycling with Rubik's

GeobitsWhile idly twisting my Rubik's cube around, my son noticed that it kept going back to the solved state. I'm pretty sure he thought this was some sort of voodoo magic at first, but I explained that if you keep repeating the same sequence of moves, it will always return to its original state. Event...

/shameless
 
@Geobits woah i made some reseasrch for related quesrtions but this didnt show up
and apparently i cant type
ill keep it that qay :p
way* goddammit
 
> This is where you come in. Of course, I could just whip something up, but he'd like to type it in himself. He isn't a very fast typist yet, though, so I need the shortest program possible.
10/10, beautiful backstory
@betseg you can edit your posts you know
 
Well everything beside that last bit was true, so...
 
1 min ago, by betseg
ill keep it that qay :p
 
How long until Geobits Jr. joins PPCG? He sounds like an interesting person
 
11:03 PM
You mean minibits?
 
Yup
 
He's got an account, but isn't active here. He used to get on the MC server every so often, but hasn't since the summer break.
 
y geobits is italic? because owner?
 
ja
 
yes damn ninjas everywhere
 
11:04 PM
I may be vain but ahem ;)
97
Q: It's my Birthday :D

Beta DecayIntroduction Last year was my birthday (really!) and sadly I had to organise my own party. Well, now you know, couldn't you at least make the cake? Challenge Given an integer n as input, write a full program to output a birthday cake with n candles on. Output A piece of cake with one candle ...

 
is mc server gud?
is it worth installing/using java?
@BetaDecay happy bday
my birthday was 3 days ago
 
Uh, well I guess it depends on how much you like minecraft.
 
@BetaDecay ^^^
 
@Geobits i do actually
 
@betseg Happy late birthday
 
11:06 PM
Sherlock9s is coming up soon.
He let it slip, so I decided I would remember it
 
hi @ConorO'Brien
 
Who's up for making a chess KoTH?
 
@betseg There's a server for the people here:

 PPCG Minecraft Server

Server closed. Files: github.com/HelkaHomba/ppcgmc1.9 New serv...
 
@DJMcMayhem Haha when?
 
11:07 PM
@uoɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC langs?
 
@uoɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC Isn't there one (or more) of those already?
 
> The last message was posted 8 days ago.
 
@Geobits nope, jjust checked
 
@BetaDecay in about two weeks
 
22
Q: Chess Tournament

ManuThis is a chess-KOTH with simplified rules (because chess itself is already complicated, playing it via a simple program doesn't make it easier). At the moment it is limited to java (version 8), but creating a wrapper-class isn't that difficult (in case someone wants to do this). Chessboard The...

 
11:07 PM
@betseg uhhhh dunno, depends
@Geobits dammit unanswered tab
 
;redcode-94b
;assert 1
;name evil
;kill evil
;author tuxcrafting
;strategy replicator
;date 2016-Sep-08
;version 1

start	mov 0, unnamed
	add.a #1, -1
	add.ab #1, -2
	seq.i *start, unnamed
	jmp start
	spl unnamed
loop	jmn attack, @ptr
fatck	add #10, ptr
	jmp loop
attack	mov ptr, @ptr
	jmp fatck
ptr	dat #0
unnamed	end
@DestructibleWatermelon
 
@DJMcMayhem Haha perfect
 
Why is that perfect?
 
There's also Antichess, for the record:
20
Q: Play Antichess!

J Atkinhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Losing_chess This is basically Chess Tournament, but for antichess ;) Antichess is one of the many chess variants that have been invented. The goal is to lose all your pieces (this may seem a little odd, but it's called antichess for a reason). The rules The rul...

 
CMC: given a string S, output all but the first and last character. E.g. test => es, te => (empty), a => empty, Hello => ell
 
11:10 PM
@DJMcMayhem Well you haven't missed it, I mean
 
@ConorO'Brien lambda s:s[1:-1]
 
I'm trying to think of a KoTH that wouldn't have a painful spec like KoCP
 
KoCP?
 
Keeper of Crystal Prodigies
 
11:11 PM
King of the Control Point. I had almost finished the controller but the spec would have been at least 10 pages
 
Painful game rules or painful controller interaction?
 
@Geobits I like your name better
 
@ConorO'Brien ridiculously easy in V(im): x$x
 
@trichoplax Painful game rules. I don't usually try to think about the exact acceleration of grenades sailing through the air when I play shooters
 
@DJMcMayhem cool
 
11:12 PM
huh
 
Yeah, that's why I said V(im)
 
\o/ 2K
6
 
evil is sended in a infinite loop when it's bombed by a dat o_o
@JonathanAllan congrats on 2K
 
@JonathanAllan congrats
 
@quartata So you want something simple, turn based, perhaps on a regular grid?
 
11:12 PM
I thought of making a KoTH based on Lethal League but I don't know if it would be interesting enough
 
@JonathanAllan nice!
 
ty ty & ty
 
@trichoplax Turn based isn't a big deal. Real-time games usually divide up into natural turns anyways
For KoCP it was just the tickrate: once every 66 milliseconds
 
CMC: find an OEIS sequence with your precise rep in it. Tie breaker is the lowest A-number.
 
but when evil is rewritten....
 
11:14 PM
That's a good point. I wonder if a truly real time KotH would work, where you don't have to wait for the next player to finish before making another move
 
@ConorO'Brien Isn't there a sequence that's just f(n) = n?
I think I win
 
Platinum Dust:
 Fabricated
Platinum Ingot:
 Platinum Dust
Platinum Plate:
 Platinum Ingot
Platinum Foil:
 Platinum Plate
Etched Extreme Voltage Wiring:
 Platinum Foil
 
@quartata I mean precisely.
 
@trichoplax Mine didn't have to wait for the next player to finish. But if you submitted your usercmd you would have to wait for the next tick
 
11:15 PM
like, it's actually in the table provided.
 
@ConorO'Brien ?
 
@ConorO'Brien You figure out how my program works?
 
@ConorO'Brien Oh, lame. That's still pretty easy though:
 
@ConorO'Brien yeah, everybody's rep is in that
 
23 secs ago, by Conor O'Brien
like, it's actually in the table provided.
@ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΨΠʹ the one for the powers of two?
 
11:16 PM
@quartata Ah OK. So you could potentially take several ticks to do some complicated calculations?
 
@ConorO'Brien A000714
 
@trichoplax The idea I had in mind for how most bots would work is that they'd have two threads
And a shared agenda
So the heavy calculations thread would push moves onto the agenda and then the other thread would just spit them out every tick
 
Ah I see
 
11:16 PM
That way even during the middle of the calculation if there was a backlog a move could still be done
 
someone know a curses-like library for browser side js to create a game like untrusted?
 
@betseg 1078 isn't in there :/
 
@JonathanAllan ye edited. i dunno why it showed at search tho
 
@TùxCräftîñg <canvas>
 
It's in a ref
 
11:18 PM
Does anyone else star rep celebration messages without confirming that the rep is correct first?
 
@quartata no
 
lol yes?
 
im 200k now!
3
 
There's also this but it's really overkill: masswerk.at/termlib
 
11:19 PM
57 secs ago, by trichoplax
Does anyone else star rep celebration messages without confirming that the rep is correct first?
 
The whole point of a roguelike is that you don't need something like ncurses
 
Somebody compiled PyPy (mainstream python interpreter) to JS.
 
@quartata huh
 
11:19 PM
Oh rep just went up by 10
 
You just need a 2D array and very minimal knowledge of ANSI codes
 
Now you can run python in your browser!
 
@betseg Looks like it's not just me ;)
 
> Now you can run JS in your browser!
 
@uoɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC We were just talking about this a week ago I think
It's extremely painfully slow
 
11:20 PM
@uoɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC, 2016
 
Also Brython is actually actively developed
 
@TùxCräftîñg I meant Python
 
but you said JS
xxD
now i hav stars
 
> xxD
@JonathanAllan That's actually an interesting sequence
 
11:21 PM
it's a alien xD
 
> i hav
Who knew stars were so easy
 
@TùxCräftîñg $ xxd
 
> plz star because it's a citation
 
@betseg At first that's actually what I thought it was
 
@quartata saem
 
11:22 PM
ggtgtggtg gtg bgtg bagtg bai
nninignighnight
 
byezies
 
bye for now
 
im going too
 
why so many people going!?
 
@Downgoat oh hai
 
11:24 PM
it's 7:23, not 7:25 or 7:30
 
@Doorknob Do you know where in NH's source the prefixes ("potion of", "scroll of", etc.) are added to object names for different object classes?
 
I'm not going, just responding...
 
@uoɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC because its night in europe
 
@uoɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC Timezones?
@Doorknob I've grepped my heart out and I can't find it
 
I never learned to use grep.
 
11:25 PM
grep word files
Now you have
 
@Downgoat will you do the css thing to the script?
 
pretty confusing man page
 
@uoɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC man pages are confusing by definition
 
What are you talking about
 
No one is gonna read a 100000 page mono spaced block of text
 
11:28 PM
@Downgoat but will you add a single line of css
 
Most man pages are fine
 
how do I echo contents of a file on a unix system?
 
I usually learn a hell of a lot more from man pages than I do trying to decipher poorly written SO answers
@ConorO'Brien cat
 
also I can't believe you had to ask that
 
11:28 PM
@Downgoat actually...
 
I was just making sure
 
I thought cat was universal
 
@ConorO'Brien cat?
 
I used man-preview, which opens it in preview, builtin mac pdf and image viewer @Downgoat
 
meow
 
11:28 PM
@betseg sure once I get to computer
 
it's type on windows
 
what
 
Remind me in an hour?
 
@Downgoat so I read a nicely formatted and indented non-monospaced pdf that was STILL confusing
 
@Downgoat ill sleep :/
 
11:30 PM
@quartata s/h/ lx
 
cya tomorrow
 
@betseg >_> oh ok
 
night
 
@betseg bai .o/
 
@Downgoat forced meme
 
11:32 PM
What is like part of a sentence or "I don't understand". Wat is like I'm confused af pls halp me
 
What?
Oh.
 
what × 2
oh i got it too
 
@Downgoat This sentence took me a long time to parse.
 
^saem
use more quotation marks
 
@quartata ik but commas require two clicks so I didn't bother
 
11:33 PM
@uoɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC Good night from me too
 
im rly going this time bai
Hai from phone :3
 
...
 
@quartata I have made something horrible
 
@ConorO'Brien is it Python code? D: :P
 
@Downgoat no, Java
 
11:36 PM
no
tok.ijs:
(9!:7) 11 # ' '
v =: }. @ }: @ (1 { ": @ ;:)
echo v (1!:1) 3
exit 0
tokens.rb:
prog = "34+5*3,:4"

file = open "prog.tmp", "w"
file.write prog
file.close

tokens = `tok.ijs < prog.tmp`

print tokens.split
this is lazy programming :P
 
Why even
Use J or use Ruby make up your mind
 
Ijs = J file?
oh wait yes
 
@quartata I'm using J's tokenization "words" noun :P
who has time to write a tokenizer :P
 
^--- this goat
 
yes I know you do :P
 
11:39 PM
Shit that points to your name
 
0
Q: Count to 100 in Danish

BlackCapThe challenge Print all the numbers from 0-100 in the right order using the Danish way of counting How they count Like English, they have dedicated words for 0-20, 30, 40 and 100 Instead of saying twenty-one and twenty-two, they say one and twenty and two and twenty Starting with fifty they s...

 
@NewMainPosts wat
 
@NewMainPosts D: why downvote?
 
bonusi
 
... guys stop being so downvote happy and leave a comment
 
11:43 PM
I did leave a comment.
it isn't unclear @closevoters, it wants you to print a specific output
@Downgoat also, that's just one downvote >_>
 
i can't sleep ._.
 
melatonin?
 
Gimme plz
 
that'll be interesting
 
@ Dennis I removed the concatenation, but it does not seem to work with reuse
 
11:57 PM
@ConorO'Brien Does using regex count
 
@Dennis - and neither does yours - works with just the ; though
 
not often :P
 
@ConorO'Brien ?
 
@ConorO'Brien Also halp I can't tell if this has a tokenizer (probably not)
 
11:58 PM
1
Q: “HHeelllloo,, EEaarrtthh!!”

Helka HombaMuch like this challenge, write a program or function that takes no input and prints or returns the string Hello, Earth! with an optional trailing newline. The catch is that your program must be an even number of characters long, and each two character chunk of your program must consist of id...

 
@ASCII-only oh my sweet goodness
 
@Dennis yours with and without
 
@ConorO'Brien ?
 
that is a lot of regex
 
Yes it is
 

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