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8:00 PM
@mınxomaτ The infamous hacker known as 4chan
 
@mınxomaτ I was referencing... umm... err... something hilarious that you haven't heard of.
 
I stumbled into my Populist
 
@Dennis Would you like a downvote? I don't even know if that works, but I guess we can find out
 
If it'll help, we can all downvote it.
 
8:01 PM
What's is alwsl?
 
@BetaDecay Downgoat trying to type "a weasel"
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@BetaDecay It's is this
Weasel would actually be a great nickname for WSL...
 
@DJMcMayhem That would work, but I didn't link to the answer because I'm not comfortable gaming the system, especially being a mod and all...
 
8:04 PM
Warning: typical 4chan homophobic slurs
 
> Methinks it is like a WSL
 
/g/ is more or less normal except for that. It wouldn't be 4chan without it it seems
 
@Dennis yeah, but I know exactly which one it is...
 
I'm aware of that. :P
 
> Now Loonix f**s that hate on Ubuntu can use Arch on Windows. There is literally no reason to use Loonix as a separate OS anymore when Windows can run it without problems.
 
8:05 PM
@Mego I was planning to answer that meta post when I got home but I just saw your answer. Pretty much exactly what I was going to write. :)
 
Haha
 
@DJMcMayhem This is average /g/ banter
 
Anonymous
@MartinEnder :)
 
@minxomat They're calling you out for not using Powershell lmao
 
> NOTE: This batchfile works, but it is a terrible, bodged, undocumented monstrosity (proof-of-concept). If you don't want to break anything, wait for the first release. Which is ofc not a bloody batchfile.
Probably unclear.
 
8:07 PM
> Native Linux binaries have been benchmarked and run faster under WSL then under actual Linux. How detatched from reality are you?
uhhhhh.... no
 
There's a third thread in the archive too
On the bright side you're about to get a metric ton of traffic/exposure
 
Sure, before anything is ready to go >.>
 
Hey, it's not horrible
 
Judging from the 16GB egress traffic (today), a few have tried it already.
 
I wouldn't complain :P
 
8:08 PM
@BetaDecay wth is methinks? I bet I've seen it a ton of times
 
Methinks it's just archaic preening.
 
sounds like a pokemon
 
Anonymous
@flawr It's an archaic way of saying "I think"
 
Anonymous
@flawr It probably is
 
(googling archaic and preening)
 
8:09 PM
Better than Meth-inks either way
 
Archaic = old
preening = that thing birds do
 
@Mego re good faith, I was also going by the votes on the challenge DJMcMayhem linked in the comment
(and I think I've seen similar results in the past)
 
Anonymous
Archaic isn't just "old" - it's "old" + "no longer in common use"
 
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Q: Let's get Animated!

carusocomputingThe Challenge GIFs are the most common image formats for animation, and are used pretty heavily in today's social media. For the purpose of this challenge, I'm going to redefine what a GIF can be. This challenge will require you to take in a 3D array containing some sort of representation of a 2...

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Q: Simplify a continued fraction

AaronContinued fractions are expressions that describe fractions iteratively. They can be represented graphically: Or they can be represented as a list of values: [a0; a1, a2, a3, ... an] The challenge: take a base number: a0 and a list of denominator values: [a1, a2, a3, ... an] and simplify the...

 
Anonymous
8:11 PM
@MartinEnder Does my edit make it better?
 
Anonymous
@NewMainPosts Omg stop spamming chat we're trying to have a discussion here
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sure, looks good
 
Anonymous
:)
 
yesterday, by New Main Posts
¶_¶
 
huh how do you typed this pilcrow
 
8:14 PM
How did they make those huge flat crt tv screens? Wouldn't the electron beam distort or something around the edges?
 
Anonymous
@HelkaHomba Trapezoidal prisms
 
And if not, why were so many crt screens bulbous?
 
@TùxCräftîñg monospace
 
They do distort it some either way. In some I've seen the "edges" aren't actually the edges also.
 
Anonymous
8:15 PM
And yes, they did distort around the edges. Typically, the image would have black borders around the edges, where the distortion would be most prevalent.
 
Oh, @Mego how would you, as a penguin, respond to this video?
 
@Syxer shit, i read the "vihanb was assigned by rikerw" and thought "oh, he assigned me" for some reason.
>_>
 
@Dennis could you please pull Straw?
 
@Geobits this applies to @TùxCräftîñg too
tho he said penguins r cool
 
8:25 PM
penguin bird is best bird :D
 
@TùxCräftîñg Your last commit is from yesterday. I already pulled that one.
 
ah yeah forget to commit
pushed
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ I did?
 
Those commit messages...
Pulled.
 
@Downgoat no, before that
 
8:28 PM
> a
10/10, excellent commit comment
 
this was the first key i found on my keyboard :P
 
So if you reverse the a_i of a continued fraction, the numerator stays the same. Is there any simple relationship between the denominators though?
 
@TimmyD lol @TùxCräftîñg I love how it takes effort to create a less informative comment, as opposed to the default comments
 
i dont update via github
because cmdline ftw
 
Ohai, @Downgoat ... How would you type out "a weasel" ?
 
8:33 PM
loops in straw are a pain ._.
 
Not sure if to thank or smite whomever downvoted my post, but codegolf.stackexchange.com/help/badges/49/populist?userid=12012.
 
Since it wasn't me, feel free to smite.
 
@TimmyD a weasel?
 
@Dennis you can populist yourself? D:
 
@Downgoat Aww
 
8:35 PM
@betseg thanks... my cell plan is pay per byte
 
@MartinEnder Looks like it. I always wanted to find out. There's another challenge where I would get it, but Sp3000 doesn't accept answers anymore.
 
shame on him
 
Anonymous
@Downgoat Silly goat, you don't eat the cell phone
 
@Mego ಠ_ಠ
 
@Geobits I know who it was. (Not a mod power. Mods can't see votes.)
 
8:36 PM
I meant byte as in computer storage
 
Anonymous
You chew on your hard drives?
 
You pay for storage on your cell phone?
 
y do u guys assume I'm always referring to food instead of computing thing. I mean context is a thing :P
 
Because goat
 
@MartinEnder :P
 
8:37 PM
@Mego yeah but that's not what I'm referring to
@Geobits yes $100 extra extra for 64GB
 
@Downgoat You're the one that eats everything.
 
GB = goat bites?
 
> yeah
 
@Dennis What? How could you possibly say something like that? :P
 
user image
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8:38 PM
wait how this image loaded in 5sec ಠ_ಠ
 
Oh man, your bill is gonna be huge if you keep posting those images.
 
r u saying my connection is back? :O
yes it is :O:O:O:O
XoX
 
@Geobits I use opera so image is compressed/resized but YouTube does not do anything like that
 
@DJMcMayhem Rep is public, and I took a look before reloading the page. :P
 
@Downgoat youtube app or website?
r u on phone?
 
8:40 PM
@betseg app
@betseg yea
 
@Downgoat there is a setting where you can set the resolution on mobile data 240p or something
 
@betseg still uses quite a bit
 
@Dennis Shame on you, haha
 
i don't wanna check as it'll try to load the thumbnails
 
But... you just watched a random clip I posted... surely thumbnails are nothing compared to that.
 
8:44 PM
@Geobits >_>
ill just disable data for YouTube entirely
 
Seems easiest to just uninstall the app at that point.
 
Well if I find wifi
 
Oh, disable cell data. Yeah, that almost makes sense.
 
>>>>_____>>>>> apparently there is wifi here
 
Your eyes are a bit unbalanced there...
 
8:47 PM
Goats have unbalanced eyes. [citation needed]
 
I'm a goat my eyes are odd anyways :|
 
@El'endiaStarman Here's your citation:
 
Oh wow, today's xkcd will be posted tomorrow since so many people are looking for that temperature chart from Monday.
 
<,>
^ gaot face
 
You know, I was thinking
Numbers themselves have a king kind of Kolmogorov complexity
It's why we can define Graham's Number in this universe but not a given random number from [1..Graham's Number]
 
8:58 PM
@El'endiaStarman Haha how do you know that?
 
@BetaDecay By going to xkcd.com?
 
@BetaDecay It says so on the website.
 
> Note: Since a lot of new people are here looking for this chart today,
I'll be posting Wednesday's comic on Thursday instead.
ninja'd
 
Yeah, I realise that now, since I went to the website
 
9:01 PM
@HelkaHomba Thanks. :3
Gotta get the transcript soon.
 
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A: Let's get Animated!

TùxCräftîñgRuby, 87 bytes f=lambda{|h|x=h.shift;h.push x;puts x.map{|e|e.join""}.join" ";sleep 1;puts"^[[2J";f[h]} The ^[ is a escape character. Hexdump: 00000000: 663d 6c61 6d62 6461 7b7c 687c 783d 682e f=lambda{|h|x=h. 00000010: 7368 6966 743b 682e 7075 7368 2078 3b70 shift;h.push x;p 00000020: 757...

 
flags as blatant self-promotion
 
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Q: Produce n n-squares of integers with rotating *'s in consecuitive corners

ForwardingThe objective is to produce n perfect squares (nxn) of random integers (0-9) with a moving * that rotates clockwise around the corners, starting from the top left. If n = 0, the output should be empty. Output for n=1: * Output for n=2: *3 4* 14 07 Output for n=3: *34 82* 291 453 224 924...

 
I don't mind blatant self promotion. It's incessant self promotion that tires
Not sure where to draw the line but this does seem frequent:
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@HelkaHomba Where the mini challenge discourse starts?
 
9:06 PM
10 hours ago, by mınxomaτ
You'd think that after being repeatedly called out for sub-optimal behaviour in chat, one would try to reflect and improve. But somehow that doesn't seem to apply to a few members here.
 
Hopefully my sarcasm wasn't too mild?
 
I would expect a sub-optimal reaction from someone who demonstrates sub-optimal behavior
 
> As an aside, this is probably why I'm not so good at golfing. - Alex A., 2015
Also, can someone please tell me what eleven refers to in this room?
 
Mod "abuse"
 
9:11 PM
@ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΟΗʹ mod abuse!!
 
Mod abuse!!!!! Mod abuse!!!1!1!! Mod abuse11
 
Where !! looks like 11, eleven.
 
It's a pretty dumb background
 
It seems to be used for mod action in general now, rather than abuse of power
 
9:17 PM
@zyabin101 I always thought 11 is used for !! not because it looks like it, but because at some point the pinky grows tired while pressing shift...
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But ! and 1 are on opposite ends?
oh
usoa keyboards, right
 
same on the German and UK layouts
 
on azerty keyboards 1 is a shifted key and ! is on the position of /
 
You have to press shift to type a 1??
 
9:19 PM
yes
and it's the official layout for the france...
 
that sounds even more horrible than the German layout
 
and i used it for 3 years :P
 
on trq shift+1 makes !
 
ADMIRATE THIS MONSTER
wait it bugged
 
9:21 PM
@trichoplax the German layout isn't quite as bad but it's still quite painful for coding: []{}\~|@ are on Alt Gr (which I think you didn't even know about until a few days ago :D) and ^ and ` are deadkeys...
 
svg doesn't onebox
 
: Audio file link oneboxing
 
@MartinEnder deadkeys? Sounds like there's another thing I didn't know about...
 
@MartinEnder So you don't use a german keyboard?
 
@trichoplax for example, in US international '+e = é
 
9:23 PM
@trichoplax you press it once and nothing happens. you press a letter after it and it becomes a diacritic. you press space after it and the character itself is inserted. you press it twice and it's inserted twice...
 
' is a dead key
 
@flawr not any more
 
@MartinEnder That sounds logical but horrific :)
 
@MartinEnder the same thing but in worse for AZERTY
 
9:24 PM
I suppose shift to type numbers isn't too bad if you have a separate numpad
 
that's a good point actually
 
@MartinEnder Does this lead to practical jokers pressing the deadkeys while people are away from their keyboards?
 
@trichoplax I haven't noticed. There are better things you can do to a PC while someone is away from their keyboard :D
 
@trichoplax that's great
 
9:25 PM
Oops...
 
the thing i love with azerty: ù and μ are on separate keys but ù have only one use in french and μ dont have any use, but É for example (which is way more used) dont have a separate key
 
@MartinEnder What keyboard are you using then?
 
I'm just glad of Ubuntu's universal Ctrl+Shift+U for Unicode codepoint insertion
 
Level 1: Go to Desktop. Take a screenshot. Set screenshot as desktop background. Kill explorer.exe. (Assuming Windows...)
Level 2: Rotate the screenshot 180° before using it as the background, and then rotate the screen 180° (Ctrl+Alt+Down on Windows).
Level 3: Also invert mouse cursor movement...
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There's also the good ol ctrl-alt-down to get windows users
 
9:28 PM
@trichoplax ^^ that's how we used to play it in our shared flat during my software engineering degree...
@DJMcMayhem yeah that's part of level 2
 
God. I want to see level 3 in action
 
@Lynn Basically just invert the screen orientation
 
Another good one: take a screenshot with shortcuts on the desktop. Set it as background. Delete all shortcuts
 
I've done it before
 
brb testing
 
9:29 PM
And set the default font to wingdings if you're feeling evil
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halp i dont understand whats happening
 
Joke’s on you; my desktops never have icons on them
 
@MartinEnder I never got beyond rotating the screen...
 
Putting every program I use in the taskbar is how I Windows.
 
@Lynn My icons are just from the programs that have no option not to make an icon during installation
 
9:31 PM
@Lynn most of these are supposed to trick the computer ignorant, which I assume you are not
 
 
CMC: Write a batch script that will set the default font on a Win7+ device to Wingdings
 
It’s getting crowded on this laptop screen ;v;
 
@Lynn That's basically me
 
So TIL that Skype allows for RLO in usernames
 
9:33 PM
Except that I have more free space to the right because it's a desktop
 
Note the four apps for “talking to people”.
 
@Lynn You have a shortcut to summon @BetaDecay?
 
O_o why is your avatar on Chrome?
 
Now whenever I type people it notifies them that "VTC ...gnipyt si"
 
@Lynn TeXStudio for the win
 
9:34 PM
That’s my “start nuclear war” shortcut. Riiiight next to Mathematica.
 
i basically put every program i dont use on my desktop
 
@Lynn lol same on my pc
 
(Okay it’s actually Worms Armageddon, the only video game that matters)
 
I would post a screenshot, but I'm booted into Ubuntu rn
 
9:35 PM
 
omg i have uploaded a image with my really rapid connection O_o
 
@TùxCräftîñg +1 for conemu
 
cmd sucks
 
lol spam has come from ಠ_ಠ and has morphed into posting taskbar images
 
@Lynn but for more than 9 you'd need a mouse D:
 
9:37 PM
D:
@Syxer +1 for minecraft -1 for using mac
 
Taskbar images are interesting, though!
Seeing what tools people use and find important is fun
 
btw dont worry, i dont use edge and winstore :P
 
Speaking of Minecraft, turns out that the cheapest way to go for MC server hosting might be the Google Compute Engine - currently finishing set up of an MC server that successfully hosts 30 people smoothly on the super-cheap instance.
Unless I'm missing something blatant and amazing.
 
@TùxCräftîñg better than using Windows :P
 
9:40 PM
I can't play since I don't have a taskbar. ._.
 
@Dennis whot
 
the cheapest way to host a minecraft server: go to the router configuration, open the port 25565, download minecraft server jar, execute it
 
@Lynn also... You have Mathematica and don't golf in it?? What is wrong with you? :D
 
@MartinEnder mathematica is evil
 
@TùxCräftîñg Yeah but bad on laptops and terrible connectivity
 
9:40 PM
the verbose builtin names... ?
 
@flawr gasp
 
@TùxCräftîñg I would, but don't have a static IP
 
@Syxer i had a old laptop (~5 years old), and i was hosting a server on it
 
@TùxCräftîñg they make it even more fun (and necessary) to abuse the sometimes very concise syntax. :)
 
@Dennis Which window manager?
 
9:41 PM
and it worked pretty well
 
@Syxer I have this, but not sure if it counts.
user image
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Closest thing I have to a taskbar. :P
 
@TùxCräftîñg But, then again, you mightn't have the best network connection.
 
My other PC is just an i3 bar, not very interesting.
 
@Syxer ethernet connection
 
9:42 PM
@Dennis 11/10 best taskbar yet
 
@MartinEnder I’ve golfed in it!! I just suck.
 
rofl, ninja'd by @Doorknob
 
@TùxCräftîñg Doesn't matter.
 
@Dennis Which wm? :3
 
i think the closest thing to a taskbar in i3 is dmenu
 
9:42 PM
KWin
 
@Syxer ?
 
:D
 
@flawr Mathematica isn't evil. Just verbose.
 
9:43 PM
@ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΟΗʹ WHAT??????
 
oh wait that's basically the definition of pure evil
 
U USE UNITY ಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠಠ_ಠ
 
nevermind
 
Well, everything except for string handling isn't evil
@TùxCräftîñg Ubuntu
 
LookLikeAGoat[ExampleImage["goat"]] mathematica is cool finally
 
9:44 PM
@ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΟΗʹ He has Ubuntu, just hates Unity.
 
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Q: Byte count for imports (or other things) not needed for definition, but for execution

nimiWhen we define a function that needs an import, we have to add it to the byte count. So far, so good. What about cases where the definition itself doesn't need the import, but when you want to call/execute the function you need it, for example to construct parameters? Examples can be found here ...

 
CMC: Give me a valid reason to hate Unity
Also:
 
you tranformed downgoat in upgoat in 4 lines :O
 
A modification to the last command will fix the font to give:
 
9:47 PM
@ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΟΗʹ unity is slow, unity is ugly, unity is ಠ_ಠ
> eNNME
 
DETECTED POTENTIALLY VALID REASON: "unity is slow". PLEASE PROVIDE CITATION.
 
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Q: Unity runs slow, how can I improve its performance?

Cesar GomezI like how Unity looks but I have 2 problems: Unity 3D When I login with Unity 3D, my pc becomes slower, I got an AMD II X3 with 2GB of RAM, Nvidia Gforce 6150SE nForce 430/PCI/SSE2 integrated. When I try to open the dash, take a lot of time to open, most often takes up to 5 seconds and while i...

what i have been pinged 10 times by old messages
 
The only DE that had a negative impact on performance on my PCs was every version of KDE ever.
 
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A: Unity runs slow, how can I improve its performance?

RadziejI had the same thing with ati-drivers is a problem because some drivers do not support the procedures "GLX_EXT_texture_from_bitmap" it is necessary to work AIGLX. if there is no AIGLX everything goes through XGL, including 3D and therefore slow.

 
REFUTAL DETECTED @ URI http://askubuntu.com/a/68552. PLEASE PROVIDE EVIDENCE OF VALIDITY.
 
9:50 PM
naa naa naa naa
 
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Q: Why is Unity a "slow" desktop environment?

Forbidden OverseerBackground First of all, this is not a question about opinions. I am assuming that we are talking about Unity 3D and on a computer with decent graphics configuration. By "desktop environment", I am assuming the most generally accepted definition of what a DE means. I have seen lot of comparison...

 
^^ youtube glitch
 
Gotta declare my question having an accepted answer today. Aww yeah.
I got lots of answers.
 
9:52 PM
@mınxomaτ Okay, try lightweight DeskEnvs then. :P
 
11 mins ago, by mınxomaτ
My other PC is just an i3 bar, not very interesting.
Mar 5 at 2:08, by mınxomaτ
I just use LXDE on arch.
 
@ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΟΗʹ 3 proofs, is that enough?
 
@El'endiaStarman You said you are using subtitles sometimes, right? did you know this?
 
PROOF Α NON-APPLICABLE FOR NEWER SYSTEMS.
 
9:57 PM
PROOF Β REQUIRES REPEAT ON ACCOUNT OF NEWER VERSIONS.
PROOF Γ DOES NOT REFERENCE UNITY.
 
SORRY, LET US TRY OTHER REASONS.
 
PROOF Γ HALF REFERENCE UNITY BECAUSE THE SOLUTION WAS TO SWITCH TO XFCE
 
OH, `unity is ugly`, LET US FIND OUT IF UNITY IS UGLY.
 

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