The Nineteenth Byte

Downgoat

00:29

.____________. turns out ghost does not work on Debain

FFS—

ASCII-only

ghost?

@mod pls unfreeze this?

El'endia Starman

@ASCII-only whoosh

ASCII-only

@El'endiaStarman Thanks!

Geobits

@Downgoat Ghost also doesn't work on Normal types.

Downgoat

Normal types?

El'endia Starman

00:34

(Pokémon)

Geobits

Normal types

Downgoat

I spent hours doing new debain, transferring WP and all so ghost would word and the damn ghost people find it very difficult to merge PR fixing problem

brb writing angry rant on GH issue

Geobits

Good idea. Now it'll surely get fixed.

Downgoat

ikr

Conor O'Brien

00:54

@Downgoat your userscript does not like large golfed answers

Maltysen

@ASCII-only blogging platform

Downgoat

> PPCG Community Graduation Userscript

> @Downgoat your userscript

:/

quartata

@ConorO'Brien #justjsthings

Downgoat

@ConorO'Brien well i mean it is infinity bytes within the bounds of our universe i believe

Maltysen

@ConorO'Brien I wonder if there were two answers with infinity score, if they would still sort correctly

Geobits

01:00

@Downgoat Hmm. Does that mean if I pour 12 oz of water in an 8oz glass, I've solved the fresh water crisis forever?

quartata

@Geobits Don't know if you saw in the Block but:

in The Block, yesterday, by quartata

@Geobits Oh yes, I totally forgot. Are you OK with a pickled list of lists?

Geobits

Oh, yeah, I saw it but was on mobile. Meant to respond but things.

I'm okay with pickles, yes.

quartata

Pickles are delicious

OK lemme make sure nothing is on fire

Downgoat

@Geobits wat

quartata

Hmm can you put binary files in a gist

Downgoat

01:03

gaot no comprendo joke

@quartata clone gist, modify locally, push back to gist

Geobits

@Downgoat Just that "more than capacity" != "infinite"

quartata

You can do that?

Geobits

Not a joke per say

Maltysen

@quartata yeah gists are full git repos

quartata

Oh wow.

I'll just make a regular repo

Geobits

01:04

Geez. Get a webserver you noob :P

Downgoat

@Geobits no I mean length of brainflak answer was > than atosm in univers

Geobits

@Downgoat Yeah, I know. Hence the comparison with too much water. It's nothing important though.

Maltysen

@Downgoat oh I remember when you found out about this, it was for the upgoat/downgoat test cases

Downgoat

yes

quartata

> implying I don't have one

Downgoat

01:05

to this day i am in shock how popular upgoat/downgoat has gotten .___.

I spend 5 minutes thorwing together joke challenge and it get 250 upvote

i spend 1 hr making details challenge and it get 12

Geobits

@quartata I assumed bothering with a repo instead of just zipping files and plopping them in a folder was the implication you didn't have one ;)

Or dropbox, or drive, or any other simple thing >_>

quartata

I could have done it on Mediafire or Dropbox but eh

This way I can update it in a non-painful way

Geobits

True. And please no mediafire :D

Downgoat

^

quartata

Hmm woops looks like I made a mistake with the pickle on this one

One second lemme fix

Geobits

01:07

Forget the dill?

quartata

Yeah. Rookie mistake

Maltysen

@Geobits actual real thing: pypi.python.org/pypi/dill

Geobits

Huh. A python thing. I always assume whenever I hear a ridiculous library name it's for JS.

Maltysen

@Geobits it extends pickle which is python stdlib

Geobits

Yeah, I read the first sentence through the link before commenting. The joke still stands.

quartata

01:11

@Geobits github.com/quartata/xkcd-pickle

Geobits

Why exactly is python's serialization module named pickle, anyway? Just more oddball python humor, or is there something I don't know?

quartata

Lemme know if you see any mistakes.

I tried my best to strip out the stuff like ((guy sitting on couch))

Geobits

10/10 best README.md yet

quartata

Had to do that to use upload file. Too lazy to git init

Geobits

No prob. Thanks!

Downgoat

01:14

Geobits

Lovely:

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Q: What is Monero Meta?

I saw it in my profile and went to check it out but don't understand what the difference is with here. It also doesn't allow Monero tags.

monero-core

Downgoat

Are chapters 2-15 not cool enough to be included in the book? ;_;

Geobits

Well, they're better than chapters 19-26, but not by much.

^^^ Found via HNQ :/

Downgoat

Blog Overflow is actually going to be shutting down completely soon, so it doesn't make sense for us to invest time in fixing any bugs for it. We'll be reaching out to all the individual communities who currently have a blog on their site's Meta over the coming weeks to discuss whether they want to let their blog die or transfer it to an alternate blogging platform and maintaining it on their own, as Worldbuilding does now. Those Meta posts will contain more detailed information than I've provided here. — animuson ♦ Oct 7 at 22:24

D: D: D:

quartata

What why I love SO's blog

Geobits

01:16

Yeah, but that's about the only one I've ever read. I haven't seen any other decent site blogs.

quartata

It's the one thing that doesn't make SO seem like a soulless barren wasteland of rep grubbers

@Geobits Fair

Maltysen

we should make one :P

Downgoat

@Geobits ;______; y u no raed bloggaot Q___Q

^^ PPCG blog would be cool

PollL PPCG Blog

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Conor O'Brien

I'd write for it

Downgoat

^ I could write about cheese and how swiss cheese is evil :P

quartata

01:20

Renaming Pytek Swiss

Downgoat

(I feel like if we get a blog I'm not gonna be allowed to write for it now ;_; :P)

@quartata idk whether to :D +1 or D: -1 :P

Conor O'Brien

How about D:D ±1

Geobits

@Downgoat Site blog, like an SE site. I never said I don't ever read any blogs at all.

Downgoat

:D so you do read bloggoat?

Geobits

I also didn't say that ;)

El'endia Starman

01:23

Christianity.SE did have a blog for like a year, then it died.

Downgoat

;___; y u dont sai dis

Geobits

@El'endiaStarman Yeah, I think that's been the trend with most of them. I can understand shutting it down as a business decision, though I'm not sure how much it uses in the way of resources.

I can't imagine a lot.

Maltysen

semirelatedly, does anyone have an update on the podcast

@mınxomaτ ^

Anonymous

01:44

@Sherlock9 I'm running your unlucky code through a profiler to see where the slowdowns are

Żáłģó

@Zalgo I told you last time, quit pretending to be me you impostor ಠ_ಠ

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@mbomb007 shit my dnas public

Downgoat

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ ;_; y dey do dis

brb clones of programming cats

Dmitry Kudriavtsev

I have a blog

no one wants to know that though

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@Downgoat D:

El'endia Starman

01:59

The Butcher Bird is...somewhat disturbing.

Tl:dr; - It literally skewers insects on sharp things and eats them sooner or later.

Downgoat

02:12

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ ;_; y u haet ur fellow programming cat brethren

Anonymous

@El'endiaStarman I too like kabobs

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@Downgoat because they is me but no me

quartata

I wonder how many iterations of Deep Dream it would take until a picture just turned into a dog

It's pretty hilarious just seeing the chihuahua peeking out of my avatar on that one

Geobits

02:30

They get pretty weird. Here's my avatar at "level 8", which I don't remember is exactly how many iterations, but I'm fairly certain it was well over 100:

Completely unrecognizable.

^ level 7

El'endia Starman

in Taxonomy of Game Mechanics, 3 mins ago, by El'endia Starman

Ooooooh...chess variant I just thought of: add two more pieces that are portals. Pieces can move through them. That would probably make for some insane strategies.

I really want to port my ArbyChess chess engine to JavaScript now...

Geobits

How do portals move and what happens if one lands on you?

El'endia Starman

No idea.

quartata

@Geobits These pictures remind me of the Earthbound final boss fight and not in a good way

El'endia Starman

I would think that portals are non-capturing pieces.

Geobits

02:34

@quartata Understandable :P

quartata

I still can't believe Earthbound was rated KA back in the day

Geobits

Yeah, that was before fragile parents figured out video games could warp little minds /s

@El'endiaStarman Makes sense. You'd probably also have to restrict them to king-like movement to keep things from getting too out of hand.

quartata

@Geobits Did the XKCD stuff unpickle OK on your machine?

Geobits

I haven't gotten to it yet tbh. Busyish night

quartata

That's fine, just wanted to know so I could fix anything before I go AFK

Geobits

02:40

Yeah, no idea. Go :P

Helka Homba

You guys know why YouTube's favicon is different from what shows up in a Chrome tab?

Geobits

They're the same for me

Oh wait, nvm

What shows up in another browser? Maybe Chrome has default "icon packs" that override them for Google sites?

Helka Homba

Firefox gives the same things

Doorknob

Again?!

Geobits

> Listeriosis is a serious disease for humans; the overt form of the disease has a case-fatality rate around 20%.

Still worth it for cookie dough ice cream.

Helka Homba

02:56

This works, still strange

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@Doorknob they have problems

@Geobits amen

DJMcMayhem

@Doorknob nooo! I love blue bell!

Geobits

@HelkaHomba tbh, it looks like an old favicon that got replaced and is still just lingering in folder. If you view source on youtube.com, you can see where they set the favicon(s) on line 30ish. Note that the favicon that shows up in the source tab is the "old" one.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

how come my "share file" menu has onenote (which I never use), messaging, and notes, but not mail?

Geobits

Android? What are you trying to share? Details, man!?!?!

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

03:06

pirated PDF of "The Color Of Magic", OS X 10.11

Geobits

Oh. Then it's because Mac.

>_>

Though a cursory googling says that "mail" only shows up if you have Apple Mail set as your default mail app (rather than say gmail).

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

well thanks a lot for the help

it is?

Geobits

Well, that's about all I can help then. Sorry.

quartata

I don't think it shows up for files bigger than a certain size

Probably should be sneakernetting this anyways

Geobits

Maybe it's a super-creepy "feature" that prevents sharing if the file fingerprint matches known pirated copies o_o

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

03:19

o_O

hm

this is a copy of a book but I know the creator, he's a friend in russia

seriously

how does it know his pdfs o_O

Geobits

Oh, I was joking. I'm sure if they were really doing that the webs would've found out and gone crazy by now.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

ik

Array(16).join( 'js type casting is really dumb'-1) + "Batman";

ASCII-only

03:42

you forgot the tolowercase and slice(0, -1)

also 0/10 no space

ASCII-only

03:54

@El'endiaStarman ArbyChess?

El'endia Starman

@ASCII-only Chess engine I wrote in Blitz 2D that can handle relatively arbitrary boards and pieces. Hence the name.

ASCII-only

@Geobits modula3.elegosoft.com/cm3/doc/help/gen_html/libm3/src/pickle/…

Conor O'Brien

@MartinEnder about your brief history on 2D langs. Here are two for 2016: reticular and reng (interpreter)

Sherlock9

04:10

@Mego Let me know how that goes. I think I have another idea for the algorithm

Conor O'Brien

[...[__=++[_=[][[]]+[]+-[]][+[]]+[]][-[]]+_+__].map(_=>__[+[]]+__[++[[]][+[]]]+(++___%[[,,,]+[]][+[]].length==[]?" ":""),___=0).join``+683306015..toString(36)+"!"

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ

betseg

04:35

Gotta love JavaScript

Dmitry Kudriavtsev

wtf

how does that even work

Steven H.

there are two periods in a row

I don't know

Conor O'Brien

@DmitryKudriavtsev I am a master obfuscator.

> 35.
35
> (35).toString()
'35'
> 35..toString()
'35'

Dmitry Kudriavtsev

wow

makes sense though

what do you think of ruby?

Steven H.

Dear lord have mercy on JS typecasting

Dmitry Kudriavtsev

04:46

I have a small idea

/ question

How would I be able to emulate ARM on a Raspberry Pi? All I can find is either emulating x86 on RPI or emulating an RPI on x86.

Nothing about ARM on ARM

Downgoat

05:10

@StevenH. solution: use JS strict typing with babel

Geobits

I love how the "solution" to JS problems is "change the way JS works" :P

Sherlock9

Well, "change the way JS works" has been the standard procedure for using JS for many years now :D

Helka Homba

CMC: Detect the "X" close button in a variety of online ads and popups. (This should be a real challenge.)

5

Kristopher Ives

05:29

Hello, am I allowed to post a link to Github for a coding contest I am running?

DJMcMayhem

@KristopherIves Post it where? On a challenge?

Kristopher Ives

No just here in this chat (the contest hasnt started yet but I thought code golf ppl would want to see it early)

DJMcMayhem

Oh yeah, there's no problem with that

Since this whole community is based around coding contests, it's the perfect place to find interested people. :)

Kristopher Ives

github.com/asmcup/runtime

Basically you get a small robot with 256-bytes of RAM

muddyfish

08:01

Seems kind of cool. I'm not sure if you could post it as a challenge on main because it's not going to be ran on the SE network

(I can't see what the objective is though. There doesn't seem to be a way of getting points)

Qwerp-Derp

Hello

Qwerp-Derp

09:31

Ah krep I need halps

Is anyone on?

ASCII-only

Yes

Qwerp-Derp

@ASCII-only I'm making a small IDE on Logicode

That has really basic stuff

To test out my coding skillz

But I need to link the python file to JS

because I'm using Electron to make the IDE

Halp

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Hello

Qwerp-Derp

@ASCII-only Hello?

@TheveryevilROFLcopter Hello

Wait do you play Atomas?

The very evil ROFLcopter

No

github.com/ConceptJunkie/rpn/tree/sqlite3

:D

ASCII-only

09:39

@Qwerp-Derp Use brython/skulpt or port to JS

Qwerp-Derp

@ASCII-only Do you think Jiphy will work?

New Main Posts

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Q: A game of atomic proportions

Your task make a bot that plays Atomas, with the highest score. Here is a (very long) run-down of how this game (or at least, my port of the game) works: You start off with a ring of 6 "atoms", between the values of 1 and 3. You have a chance to get special atoms: The + atom, which fuses two...

code-challenge game

Qwerp-Derp

@betseg I posted my Atomas question!

The very evil ROFLcopter

This look like Zachtronics' game 'The Codex'

Brb

betseg

@Qwerp-Derp yay

Zalgo

09:49

@Żáłģó ಠ_ಠ

ASCII-only

@Qwerp-Derp No because no modules

Qwerp-Derp

True

flawr

10:04

!False

Qwerp-Derp

!(!True)

The very evil ROFLcopter

10:18

Back

ASCII-only

s/!/not/

Martin Ender

Today's episode of Naming Things: the CUDA API function cudaBindTextureToArray's documentation summarises the function with "Binds a mipmapped array to a texture."

(and that is not a typo. I've checked several sources which use different wordings but always "bind array to texture")

The very evil ROFLcopter

LOL

betseg

791 == 4 * atoi(strrev("791"))

The very evil ROFLcopter

irb(main):001:0> 791 == 4 * 791.to_s.reverse.to_i
=> false

betseg

10:26

Lol someone actually tried

Martin Ender

@betseg a classical off-by-3 error.

mınxomaτ

10:52

UPS truly is the worst delivery company around here.

betseg

And the best in Turkey ;_;

The very evil ROFLcopter

11:10

Huh

a<b> is tokenized correctly but a<a> error

Wait I found why

betseg

Why?

The very evil ROFLcopter

Because I added the g flag on a regex

undefined group option: /^\$({(?:[^{}]|(?1))*+})/

Ruby don't support recursive groups???

ASCII-only

11:31

@HelkaHomba No testcases?

@HelkaHomba I kinda don't want to disable AdBlock for more sites than I need to

The very evil ROFLcopter

Nvm it no longer work

The very evil ROFLcopter

11:55

???

vagrant up crashed, I relanched it, it said that the VM is already running, but vagrant ssh silently exit

ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΟΗʹ

@TheveryevilROFLcopter Lolwut.jpg

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With an exit code of 255

»  vagrant resume
==> default: Waiting for machine to boot. This may take a few minutes...
    default: SSH address: 127.0.0.1:2222
    default: SSH username: vagrant
    default: SSH auth method: private key

In an other shell

»  vagrant ssh
»

...

(I am in the same directory on each shell)

default: SSH is not running, the authentication information was changed,

    default: or some other networking issue. Vagrant will force halt, if
    default: capable.

ASCII-only

@DmitryKudriavtsev Not MS fonts, all you need is Kannada language support

The very evil ROFLcopter

when trying to halt it (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

Brb

The very evil ROFLcopter

12:23

Back

I found how to make Vagrant work :D

Wait no

(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ Solution: SSH to my Linux laptop

Lynn

Omg omg omg you allll

2

A: Draw an ASCII chess board!

Vim, 26 bytes irnbqkbnr<Esc>Y6p5Vr.VrpYGPgUj Relies on a fresh Vim, or else 5V may select the wrong area. irnbqkbnr<Esc>: Write the top row. Easy enough. Y6p: Make the rest of the rows, except one. Of course all but the top and bottom rows contain the wrong characters. 5Vr.: When you haven't ...

udioica found PPCG. They are an excellent Vim golfer. (Paging @DJMcMayhem)

Anonymous

@mınxomaτ Fedex is the worst

Lynn

Prepare to see some really cool answers from them ♥_♥

The very evil ROFLcopter

> I saw there was codegolf on SO, and some people were answering with Vim. And the answers were not exactly at an elite level. Maybe I can change that.

Anonymous

@Lynn Fangirling a bit? :P

The very evil ROFLcopter

12:33

sauce

Lynn

I’m fangirling really hard okay

Anonymous

@Sherlock9 I horribly screwed up the profiling on that Actually program... I neglected to add the option to ignore sys.path modules, and so got a few hundred lines about pycryptodome

Anonymous

I'm redoing it with the latest code

The very evil ROFLcopter

ok

Fatalize

@Lynn the answers were not exactly at an elite level. Maybe I can change that.

That's pretentious if not insulting

The very evil ROFLcopter

12:37

It's true... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Lynn

@Fatalize I read that too :D It is pretty pretentious…

Anonymous

Yep I immediately dislike this guy for his profile text

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Anonymous

@DJMcMayhem Your new job is to knock this guy down a peg

The very evil ROFLcopter

Wat

I just aptitude installed qemu on my Linux machine but bash say qemu don't exist

Fatalize

@Mego I read that as "with a peg"…

Lynn

12:43

Sadly, udioica does kick everyone’s ass, so that’s gonna be a tough job

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2

A: Draw an asterisk triangle

Vim, 8 bytes o <Esc><C-V>{r*J Takes input in the readahead buffer, so if input is 15, you would type that and then the code above. This is a silly rule, but seems to be allowed. If you got input in a register like "a, you'd just stick @a in front (10). If you got it from the start file, you'd p...

o_O

Anonymous

FGITW him, problem solved

Anonymous

His profile text essentially says "I'm the best, you're lucky I'm here now. I'm going to play by my rules. If they don't match the site's rules, whatever, I'll just leave because you're not doing it right."

Anonymous

If only punches could be sent over TCP/IP...

Fatalize

Not that "I'm the best at golfing with Vim" is some kind of achievement to be proud of in the first place

Lynn

12:45

It’s time for a thrilling Vim golf rivalry!

The very evil ROFLcopter

RFC idea: Punch protocol

Lynn

Also little did they know: our rules are incredibly lax compared to vimgolf.com >_>;

The very evil ROFLcopter

;_; The only starred message of my sock have more stars than my most starred message

Fatalize

One would expect that you can set much stricter rules when only one language can be used

Anonymous

Pro tip: if you think people are blessed by your presence, they aren't

Geobits

12:49

Wait, really?

Damn...

Fatalize

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A: Now I know my ABCs, won't you come and golf with me?

Vim, 32 bytes 26o<C-V><C-V>64,<Esc>r.V{g<C-A>8Jj9Jj3Jj.j4JcH<C-R>" Leaves a blank line at the end, which was allowed, but it's weird being this clumsy. Even worse, I'm ending in insert mode. I've seen some other folks do it here, so I guess it's allowed? It feels dirty. 26o<C-V><C-V>64,<Esc>:...

It's wrong! [Citation-needed]

TimmyD

@Geobits Hah.

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Wat when I launch a download on my Linux laptop the LAN is insanely slowed down

Anonymous

@Geobits You're the hero we deserve

Anonymous

if you have an issue with a policy (or a lack thereof), take it up on meta, not in an answer. — Mego 34 secs ago

Geobits

12:51

Not the one you wanted, but...

TimmyD

@Mego Oh. Oh dear.

Anonymous

@Geobits Nobody wants downvotes, but some people deserve them, and you're here to fill that role.

Geobits

At least I know my part to play.

The very evil ROFLcopter

LOL github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf is made 50% of emacs lisp

Geobits

Meh, the vimgolf site keeps throwing An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments for me on anything but the frontpage.

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12:59

Question: What ~ßõ mean in PHP?

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