The Nineteenth Byte

Fatalize

1:06 PM

@Geobits Are you sure? :p

Geobits

It's a comment, not an answer >_>

mınxomaτ

1:34 PM

I'm getting a server error if I visit github.com/bestwpw. The rest of GH works fine.

ASCII-only

@mınxomaτ Same

> bestwpw has 7166 repositories available

Not surprising though

mınxomaτ

Still though.

ASCII-only

They must have broken the repo count thing

@mınxomaτ webcache.googleusercontent.com/…

mınxomaτ

More like the repo summary thing.

Poke

Looking to post this soonish. Any more comments? meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/10069/51785

New Main Posts

1:45 PM

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Q: Recreate the windows ME screensaver as ASCII

This challenge is inspired from this answer at the Ask Ubuntu Stack Exchange. Intro Remember the Windows ME screensaver with the pipes? Time to bring the nostalgia back! Challenge You should write a program or function which will output an ASCII representation of the screensaver. In the...

betseg

new main posts plz quick

my connection made bot post before me

> Bassdrop Cumberwubwubwub

Geobits

> You should write a program or function which will output an ASCII representation of the screensaver.
> To create the pipe, 6 unicode characters will be used

-_-

Fatalize

To be fair, what do we call ASCII art that doesn't use ASCII symbols?

Geobits

Bad art? :P

ASCII-only

@Fatalize ASCII symbols?

Geobits

1:49 PM

I wish it wasn't character art in general. I've recreated that screensaver in multiple languages in the past, but never like that.

New Sandboxed Posts

2:26 PM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Quine and Antiquine code-golf quine Your task is to make two program, A and B. Both are nonempty quine, however, there is a restriction. AB and BA produce no output. CABD and CBAD will do the same thing as CD, where C and D is any string, if C and D consist entirely of A and B. The score is...

PhiNotPi

2:38 PM

@Doorknob I would like to formally request moderator/room-owner action regarding item #32323405 "Petition to bring back the room description quote." We could add either "great minds waste time alike" or "abandon all work ye who enter here" or some new, similar quote.

Geobits

I linked your request in the super-secret room just now, and added my "no" vote, if that counts for anything.

zyabin101

> super-secret room

-_-

Geobits

Move along. Nothing to see here.

:P

zyabin101

They could also leave the chattiquette in its place and also put it in a quote, saying "Guidelines: path.to/chattiquette" -- Dennis. :P

Geobits

> "This counts as a quote"

zyabin101

2:43 PM

Waiting for n - 1 RO votes or 1 mod vote now.

trichoplax

@zyabin101 Unfortunately room descriptions can only have bare links, so a shorter wording cannot be used instead

zyabin101

I know. I just shortened the link for examples.

trichoplax

Sorry - I completely missed your point. I get it now :)

mınxomaτ

@trichoplax Shorter: git.io/chat

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zyabin101

Wat? Why /chat?

That one could be used for a more generic code of conduct for any chat, not just for the TNB chattiquette.

mınxomaτ

2:54 PM

Well, now it belongs this URL.

Geobits

@zyabin101 It doesn't make much sense to shorten it if you're going to include the full TNBchatiquette

zyabin101

A better yet idea for the TNB chattiquette: /PCGchat

Or even better: /TNBchat

mınxomaτ

git.io/☺

zyabin101

What a joke. ~_~

I wanted something funny, not just the chattiquette.

PhiNotPi

I feel like we are in the process of single-handedly ruining the git.io namespace.

mınxomaτ

3:01 PM

Yes.

TimmyD

Petition for "I feel like we are in the process of single-handedly ruining the git.io namespace." to be our room's quote. ;-)

-1 not long enough

:(

betseg.github.io/lol

Let me guess.... rickroll?

TimmyD

3:09 PM

We could change the room description to "My god, it's full of stars!"

mınxomaτ

not a rickroll‮

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betseg

@Geobits :(

Geobits

@mınxomaτ I trusted you, and it was worth it :)

TimmyD

3:39 PM

Oh, Sable, Jelly Bubblegum is better than Cheddar ??? Check your Retinas. Seriously, that's ShadyAsFuck. Brian and Chuck, take her to Mornington Crescent and go build a Snowman with Joe. Pip pip!

mınxomaτ

Are you having a stroke?

TimmyD

No?

I just tried to see how many languages PPCG folks have created that I could fit into a couple sentences and have it sound decent.

PhiNotPi

10/10 better than I could do

betseg

My ~~discontinued~~ language is called BS lel

TimmyD

CMC: Using this list of languages created by PPCG users, write out a couple legitimate-sounding sentences. Most languages in fewest tokens (determined by whitespace/symbols) wins.

Example -- I've got 13 languages in 32 tokens.

betseg

3:52 PM

Seriously?!

TimmyD

+1 for lol-factor, -1 for lack of effort :p

betseg

So, 0

zyabin101

INTERCALL Jelly 999 ... 999 ... INXW63CTMNZGS4DU TX ... End of transmission.

3 langs in 9 words.

Theo

Add "???" to the end and you'll add another language while making the setence so much more intriguing

TimmyD

@betseg Yes, but if I give you 0 of something, have I really given you anything?

zyabin101

3:58 PM

INTERCALL Retina 111 ... 111 ... WAT ??? TX ... End of transmission.

3 langs in 9 words.

betseg

@TimmyD you gave me 1, then took it back

TimmyD

Yes. And now, thanks to laissez-faire capitalism, we both have two cows.

Somehow.

Geobits

If the language is more than one word (token) long, it still counts as one?

zyabin101

Yes, I think.

TimmyD

@Geobits I counted mine as individual words. E.g., Brian and Chuck was three words. I suppose it could be argued either way.

zyabin101

4:04 PM

"train leading to Mornington Crescent" would be 5 words ;(

Geobits

@TimmyD Your Mom is Seriously in her Element when discussing MiniStringFuck.

4/9 or 4/10, depending

Could replace MiniStringFuck with Burlesque as well.

TimmyD

Very tempted to Lenny that.

It's interesting that, so far, excepting the Seriously?! entry, it seems the average is around 40% +/-

Geobits

Yeah, the list doesn't really have prepositions, conjuctions, or pronouns, so it's hard for things to be "interesting" more than that.

TùxCräftîñg

ಠ_ಠ

Geobits

Not many good verbs either :(

Vitsy is V for Snails

betseg

4:13 PM

Seriously, is this the most Marbelous Labyrinth Ostrich-Snails has ever made???

TùxCräftîñg

Marbelous*

@zyabin101 +3 for 3 of my langs

TimmyD

@Geobits Ooo, a new leader.

betseg

^^^^6 langs

Geobits

@TimmyD You could trivially modify it to be better by adding an adverb-language, but I like it better this way.

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Ostrich V Snails

TùxCräftîñg

4:17 PM

Seriously, Your Mom have Retina problems

Geobits

Actually, Actually isn't on the list.

zyabin101

Actually is on the list, because it's a variant of Seriously. I'll ask Mego to add it on the list.

Geobits

No, it's Actually not there.

TimmyD

It's on "The list of languages created by PPCG users" but it's not on The list of languages created by PPCG users.

Geobits

Well sure. You linked to a list to use for the CMC though :P

TimmyD

4:23 PM

Right.

Geobits

Hold on, creating new languages called "for", "is", "and", and "with". Please add them to list.

TimmyD

Ambiguity. Where the real golfing happens.

Rainbolt

Sometimes I switch over to this chat room just to see if I correctly predicted whether a message got starred or not

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And this time I was wrong

TimmyD

Yeah, it's a tough crowd for stars in here today.

Geobits

Beta Decay

4:50 PM

Hello people. BTW, if anyone's wondering when I'm going to start on the Esolangs IDE, I don't really have the time at the moment

I thought Sixth Form would have a lot more free time :|

zyabin101

Sixth Form? :3

Beta Decay

> In the education systems of England, Northern Ireland, Wales and some other Commonwealth countries, sixth form (sometimes referred to as Key Stage 5) represents the final two years of secondary education (high school), where students (typically between 16 and 18 years of age) prepare for their A-level (or equivalent) examinations.

Geobits

Obviously you don't have your priorities right if you're using your time for school rather than an Esolangs IDE.

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Beta Decay

XD

muddyfish

@BetaDecay I just started my second year at sixth form and I've got LOADS of free time now! Only having 4 subjects is great!

Beta Decay

4:57 PM

What do you mean only? That's what I'm taking now :o

muddyfish

@BetaDecay I had 5 subjects last year

Beta Decay

Oh, wow

muddyfish

4 lessons a week per subject

1 hour lessons

Geobits

16 hours of class a week doesn't sound like very much...

Steven H.

I'm just sitting here in grad school, swamped with work with only two classes ._.

muddyfish

4:58 PM

oh and an extended project if that counts

Beta Decay

That doesn't count

muddyfish

@Geobits it's more like 18 hours but

Beta Decay

So 4 hours of each lesson per week? I had 3 hours of maths just today

muddyfish

@BetaDecay yeah. Most of my days are 3 hours long

Beta Decay

._.

Geobits

5:00 PM

I had 25 hours of classes per week in high school :/

muddyfish

I'm also helping to build a robot for the Student Robotics competition

@Geobits I had that many at secondary

Steven H.

._. We're (give or take) the same age, and you have so much more free time

muddyfish

(up to 16 years old)

@StevenH. I'm 18?

Steven H.

I'm 17

Beta Decay

I'm 17

Geobits

5:01 PM

Jesus what am I doing here with all these kids?

muddyfish

I'm taking double maths, comp sci, and electronics, dropped physics

Beta Decay

@Doorknob Get in here ^^

Steven H.

Code golfing, what else would you be doing here with all these kids?

muddyfish

@BetaDecay ^^^^^?

betseg

16hi

Geobits

5:03 PM

@StevenH. Golfing? Is that what you're doing here? Get off my lawn!!

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muddyfish

@Geobits how many times older?

betseg

@Geobits lol i have 40

Geobits

@muddyfish Double the 17-year-olds.

muddyfish

@betseg how can you have 40 hours of school a week?

Beta Decay

@Geobits Umm 54?

No, no, 64

betseg

5:05 PM

@muddyfish ask the minister :/

Geobits

@betseg We had close to 40 hours of school, but only 25 of classes. I'm not counting things like lunch, study hall, etc, but I don't know if you are.

muddyfish

@Geobits oh sure of school but lessons

Steven H.

@Geobits I'm here in an increasingly-futile attempt to avoid doing actually productive research or preparation for my classes.

Geobits

We had six 50-minute classes, five days per.

Beta Decay

@Geobits What's study hall?

Doorknob

5:06 PM

@Geobits What room? I have no knowledge of such a room.

Geobits

@BetaDecay Eh, basically a free period to do work from other classes, or more likely goof off while pretending to do work. It's not done everywhere, or guaranteed for any given semester.

Doorknob

@BetaDecay It's what I'm in right now. :P (Well, technically this year we have free periods, which means you mess around wherever you want instead of messing around in a classroom.)

muddyfish

16 lessons a week, 25 hours of school a week

is my timetable

Geobits

@Doorknob Neither do I, but it sounds like there should be one.

Beta Decay

@Doorknob @Geobits I see, we call it a prep session in my school. Basically a time to do homework

betseg

5:08 PM

@Geobits oh ok yes 40 hours 20 lessons

Steven H.

I've probably put in 40 hours during just the past two days >_> Half of the rest of the time was sleeping, the other half was spent here

muddyfish

@muddyfish most people in my school in the upper sixth have 12 hours a week of lessosn

Doorknob

@BetaDecay Right, "do homework." Handling flags is my homework. :P

muddyfish

@Doorknob are there really that many on ppcg?

Geobits

I flag at least 45 things a day, just to let him feel important. Don't tell him I said that, though.

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Beta Decay

5:11 PM

XD

Doorknob

@muddyfish No, not many at all. Usually other people get to them before I even have a chance to see them

Beta Decay

me

Geobits

@BetaDecay I have absolutely no clue how you got 64 here :?

quartata

@Geobits Subtle

@Geobits by the way link to where you got the south park scripts?

Geobits

@quartata I'll have to find them again.

TùxCräftîñg

5:14 PM

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/45475/super-secret-room

Beta Decay

@Geobits I'm in the top set Further Maths class, trust me, 17*2=64 ;)

Doorknob

@PhiNotPi Your request is being processed and a response will be returned in six to eight weeks.

New Main Posts

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Q: Lord of the Golfs

Intro In J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, this phrase is on the cover of each book. Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the...

code-golf stack-exchange-api

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Q: Round to n Sig Figs

Challenge Given a number x and a number n, round number x to n significant figures and output the result. Significant figures The significant figures of a number are digits that carry meaning contributing to its measurement resolution. This includes all numbers except leading zeroes. When rou...

code-golf math

Geobits

@quartata I have the parsed raw text in all lowercase if you want that.

quartata

Perfect

I don't particularly care about the format just the words

Doorknob

5:16 PM

@BetaDecay One of my math teachers liked to say something along the lines of "You're not very good at math if you can still multiply."

Beta Decay

Haha that's a great quote... And sadly true.

I'm appalling at mental arithmetic

Geobits

@quartata the words

Gonna give Laffy some reading material?

quartata

Maybe...

Beta Decay

This question is disappointing... I thought it was asking people to do some 3D rendering :(

Geobits

Yeah, I said the same. It was one of the first things I did when learning openGL

Beta Decay

5:25 PM

Ooh nice

TimmyD

@Geobits At least you're not alone. I think that's why our humor lines up nicely.

quartata

in Beep Boop Maggot, 5 mins ago, by Laff-O-Tron

@MarkyMarkov magic pork for forever

TimmyD

So ... bacon.

quartata

the only good thing to come out of feeding South Park to Laff-ETH

Geobits

I dunno. I kinda liked "get in santa roughriders story" too.

It looks like he gets tripped up by apostrophes.

quartata

5:48 PM

He's fine with apostrophes. He can't handle ellipses and quotation marks though.

Ellipses he thinks are three periods which confuses him

Quotation marks are just too hard to handle

Geobits

Oh, I meant because he kept using things like 've or 'm instead of contracting right.

quartata

Oh, that.

That's because 'm is a verb.

At least, in his mind.

He's dropping the subject

Geobits

Very dialectic :)

quartata

Yeah. I kind of understand him but I don't think most others would

Geobits

I mean, I knew what he was trying to say with them, it just looked odd.

quartata

5:52 PM

I'll try to fix it.

Grammar is hard

Lynn

*waaaaves*

Geobits

Yep. That's why Marky don' care bout no dumb ol' grammar.

zyabin101

waaaaves <3

quartata

He has statistics on his side

Lynn

In high school, I had 35×50 minutes = 29⅙ hours of class each week.

Geobits

5:56 PM

Ouch. We had seven periods, but that counted lunch as one.

Steven H.

Are we bringing this discussion back?

Lynn

We had eight counting lunch, nine some days

I was late! But I wanted to give some Belgian Perspective™.

betseg

40*40 minutes, 10 min breaks, 45 min lunch break

Lynn

I was a Latin student so they just dumped a ton of periods on us. Other students had 32 or 33 a week I think?

quartata

OK

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Bookmarked 10 secs ago by quartata

Lynn

5:58 PM

Oh, and half days on Wednesday. I don’t know how unique that is

quartata

warning: south park

Steven H.

Fair enough. I can't give any perspective on high school, but it's definitely interesting to see what other people's experiences were like.

Fatalize

Probably around 32-34h per week in high school

Steven H.

(As far as I can tell, the half-Wednesday thing is fairly unique.)

Sp3000

We had sport on Wednesday afternoons, so that was our kind of half-day

Fatalize

6:00 PM

@TùxCräftîñg Can you stop advertising your answers in here ?

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Beta Decay

@StevenH. I've got a half-Wednesday at my British school

We do in-school activities on Wednesday afternoons

TùxCräftîñg

in Beep Boop Maggot, 1 min ago, by TùxCräftîñg

but... what would qualify as a GOL quine?

TimmyD

My high school was odd in that we rotated through a six-day schedule. Days 1,2,3 you'd have classes (A, B, lunch, C, D, E) while days 2,4,6 you'd have classes (V, W, lunch, X, Y, Z). Some classes overlapped, so like a particular class would be 1,3,5 E and 2,4,6 W, so it'd meet every day, but most were only once.

Beta Decay

Why would they do that?

That's just awkward

TimmyD

Longer class periods

We'd have, I think, like 100-minute class periods? Something like that.

PhiNotPi

6:07 PM

@Doorknob y tho?

If you think your high school schedule was odd, mine was 10x odder.

TimmyD

Except for the C and X classes, those were shorter because they swapped lunch times. Like, if you were in C and X, you'd go "lunch, C" and "lunch, X" .. but if someone were in C' and X', they'd go "C', lunch" and "X', lunch" so that not everyone was in the lunch room at the same time.

Maybe those were the ones that met every day ...

It was 16 years ago, I can't really recall the exact details.

Beta Decay

How many test cases is too many? People keep asking for new test cases but I don't know if I want to clutter the post... :(

Geobits

You could add more without cluttering by making it a table with i/o columns

seshoumara

hello

Beta Decay

I could, but I feel that would fall under this:

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A: Things to avoid when writing challenges

Putting test cases in a hard to use formats Supplying test cases is always a good idea, but people are more likely to use them (and thus have better tested code) if they can easily be copied and pasted into a test suite. So format your test cases as simply and as consistently as possible, prefe...

Geobits

6:14 PM

Having each one in its own horizontal-rule separated code block isn't exactly easy to use either though.

Beta Decay

Hm I suppose

seshoumara

I answered a question 10 mins ago, but I don't see it anywhere on the active questions page. Similar to some edits. How is that page populated?

Beta Decay

Meh, I'll do that in my next challenge, the requests seem to have stopped now

Geobits

@seshoumara It's on the active questions page, but it's been answered again since you did.

seshoumara

I see, so it's per question activity, not per answer.

Geobits

6:16 PM

You're talking about integer printing, right?

Right.

seshoumara

yes, in bc this time

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Q: Print all integers

Write a program or function which will provably print all integers exactly once given infinite time and memory. Possible outputs could be: 0, 1, -1, 2, -2, 3, -3, 4, -4, … 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, -1, -2, -3, -4, -5, -6, -7, -8, -9, 10, 11, … This is not a valid output, as this would n...

code-golf number integer

that's a question that got 50+ answers in about 9 hours of its posting :D

betseg

@seshoumara hi

seshoumara

hello

TùxCräftîñg

6:40 PM

gtg

betseg

Bai

muddyfish

Is it appropriate to flag bots as spam if they're pinging me every couple of seconds?

I have like 16 pings in a row with no other chat

quartata

No.

That's because you talked a lot and they're very far behind

so they're replying all in a row

You brought it upon yourself :P

Beta Decay

Wow, there are so many PCG questions in the HNQs

Optimizer

PCG questions -_-

TimmyD

6:55 PM

Golfed out the puzzles.

Optimizer

programming code golf

Beta Decay

Ugh, fine, I'll RLE it

2PCG

TimmyD

7:12 PM

I've pretty drastically changed the structure of this Sandbox challenge -- A Mouse with Dynamite. Comments welcome.

Helka Homba

7:27 PM

If anyone is interested I'm testing live streaming to YouTube right now - youtube.com/HelkaHomba/live

Beta Decay

7:40 PM

Okay, I'm looking for a new mug, so:

CMC: Show me a picture of your coolest mug

seshoumara

I can't find my reputation, it says 404 :)

Martin Ender

@BetaDecay I'm too lazy to take a picture, but my wife handpainted a mug with this bookcover for me: images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/… ... she also made one (as in actual pottery) with a Go problem on it (with the board lines carved into the mug and the stones as separate small blobs of clay stuck to it)

Beta Decay

@MartinEnder Wow, that sounds incredible!

Unfortunately, I don't have a wife nor the time to make/paint a mug :D

Martin Ender

7:55 PM

then aim for some StackOverflow swag? :P

the SO mugs are really nice and large actually

Beta Decay

Oh god, I'll never get to that level on SO

El'endia Starman

Looks like I'm a little late to the school class schedule discussion, but just for kicks, here's what I had for one trimester of high school:

quartata

What is this romhack

Super Releasio &% - 0 Star (TAS) in 4'15"87

►

(warning volume and nightmare fuel bowser)

Helka Homba

@quartata You left when I started winning games :(

quartata

I think I have to ABC this

Helka Homba

7:58 PM

:P

quartata

@HelkaHomba No, I was still there

Helka Homba

oh

mınxomaτ

Samsungs HDDs are really the exact opposite of their SSDs when it comes to reliability. I had a 2-day old HDD die today. That's five Samsung HDDs dead in less than 3 months uptime each ...

quartata

@mınxomaτ 2 days old?

mınxomaτ

Yes.

OK

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