The Nineteenth Byte

Downgoat

14:03

@Zalgo wait wat I thought no bots in tnb

Zalgo

ಠ_ಠ I'm not a bot

Geobits

Bots are allowed in here. They're just not allowed to talk/chat in here.

Yodle

If I am a bot, why am I wearing this hat?

Downgoat

> Chatbot of @TuxCrafting.

Zalgo

[at]quartata why

Nathan Merrill

14:05

hey, I've got a question, pertaining to this. Do submissions need to have source code? Like, if there was some program "fib.exe", that input N, and output the Nth fibonacci number, is that a valid submission for a fibonacci challenge?

Downgoat

@Geobits ;_; y we no let wizzwizz talk

Nathan Merrill

I want to say no, but its hard to define "source code"

Downgoat

@NathanMerrill clarify? I mean I would say it's fine. Machine code solutions count as not having source code if I understand you correctly

Geobits

@NathanMerrill I think the general idea is that it's allowed if it comes with a "standard" install of whatever you're claiming as the language. Otherwise bash entries would have a hard time with just about anything.

So your shell or whatever would be the language, not "fib.exe".

Nathan Merrill

bash/machine code have interpreters/compilers

meaning, that you have both "source code" and "input"

but if my language was fib.exe, I don't have source code

Downgoat

14:08

Exe's source code is its bytes and interpreter is CPU/OS

Nathan Merrill

it literally does what I want in 0 bytes

Downgoat

Oh

i see

This is why we had requirements for programming lang

there is too much abuse possible

feersum

If there's no source code, it's probably not a programming language.

Geobits

@NathanMerrill I don't think that would count as a language at all though.

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

The only differences that matter cops-and-robbers Cops' task Write two programs (or functions) A and B in the same version of the same programming language. They also should be called in the same way, meaning you can't write one program and one function. Each should accept an integer n and out...

Nathan Merrill

14:09

right, that's what I'm getting at

Downgoat

i mean I'd love to allow those cool answers that abuse features, but along with those you'll get twice as much abusive stuff

Geobits

Right but it's not not a language because of the lack of source code, but because it just isn't a language.

Downgoat

I think solution is to rather expand the scope of programming language

Nathan Merrill

and if you read the comments between Peter and I, I come to that realization

Downgoat

i really really don't want a "text file, ____ bytes" on every kolorgorov complexity challenge

feersum

14:11

There's always PHP.

Nathan Merrill

@Downgoat that's a terrible example, because there's still the "python string ___ bytes"

Downgoat

Python string is not programming language

feersum

Still, I agree that "Text" is not a valid programming language.

Nathan Merrill

still python, was simply saying its a program that prints out a string

Downgoat

@feersum PHP needs <?php to be interpreted so not really

TuxCopter

14:12

With format strings, Python string is a valid programming language :P

Downgoat

If you run that through php it'll bork

feersum

s/always/almost always/

Geobits

print "hello world" or <?php hello world is no more interesting than just having hello world in a text file anyway.

Nathan Merrill

regardless, I feel like the distinction here is that the submission language needs to have the ability to take source code

which is why fib.exe isn't allowed. It doesn't have source code, only inputs N

Geobits

And because it can only do one thing?

Nathan Merrill

14:14

no, not because of that

Geobits

I'd say that's more of a disqualifier in general

It's the same reason HQ9+ isn't a language.

Even though it does take source.

Nathan Merrill

there's a distinction between "programming language" and "submission"

TuxCopter

Machine code is a programming language

Nathan Merrill

I'm not talking about programming languages

I'm taking about valid submissions

Geobits

@TuxCopter If you submitted it as language "machine code" and gave the program fib.exe as bytes, it would count.

Nathan Merrill

14:15

let's say there's a kolmogorov challenge that wants you to print the 100,000th prime number

suddenly, I'd consider fib.exe to be a valid submission: the source code is 100000

Downgoat

^

Geobits

@NathanMerrill I guess the crux is that you're arguing that non-programming language submissions should be allowed, where I don't necessarily agree. So when I speak of "submissions", I assume they're in programming languages.

Nathan Merrill

@Geobits sure. I'm ok with submissions not being a "programming language", simply because the space for abuse is small

like, sure, there's an .exe for every possible problem, but they have to exist before the challenge

Geobits

Why do we even have standards for what is considered a language if it doesn't matter though?

Nathan Merrill

good point. Why have em?

flawr

14:18

Because we are a flawless non-contradictory community.

Geobits

-_-

flawr

▼_▼

^ @Geobits right now

TuxCopter

▼▾▼ FTFY

Downgoat

s/right now/always

Geobits

Could be worse. I could be stuck in a goat body.

flawr

14:20

@Downgoat That s// is something I could live without too here in this chat.

Downgoat

@Geobits I would do giant cry face but can't on my phone so just pretend this message is that

TimmyD

@TuxCopter Starting to look like a pumpkin.

TuxCopter

ಠ_ಠ Unicode don't have pumpkins

Nathan Merrill

One of the big reasons we banned HQ9+ is because of Q, because it made too many quine challenges easy. But the funny thing is, is that on most quines, we now just say "you have to have encoded the output in your source code somewhere"

flawr

@TuxCopter are you sure? 🎃

Poke

14:22

@Yodle lulz

TuxCopter

welp my GPU is dying

Downgoat

You can argue HQ9 just prints Q with Q char

Geobits

@NathanMerrill Why stop at .exe then? Why not allow random webpages that happen to contain the output? Challenge: Display first 1000 primes. Answer: Here's my submission in language "https://primes.utm.edu/lists/small/1000.txt", 0 bytes

Downgoat

@TuxCopter graphical penguin unit? :P

TuxCopter

nvm the driver was updating

flawr

14:24

@TuxCopter did you see this-> 🎃

TuxCopter

It's named JACK O LANTERN ;_;

I was searching for PUMPKIN

Poke

i know a programming language like i know obscenity

/argument

TuxCopter

0/10 for lowercase i

TimmyD

@NathanMerrill I thought we disallow HQ9+ because it can't do primality checking.

Nathan Merrill

there's already rules for abuse in place: it has to exist before the challenge, you can't obtain the solution over the internet, and it has to be runnable on your machine. For that url, curl would be the language, and the url, the source code. (Outside o

@TimmyD I was talking about what promted the discussion for banning HQ9+

aka, why we even decided to create the minimum requirements in the first place

feersum

14:26

"Runnable on your machine" isn't a real rule AFAIK.

TimmyD

Ah, gotcha.

Nathan Merrill

on "your" machine, yeah, but it has to be runnable on a machine

TuxCopter

@Downgoat retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/1620/1917

feersum

Anyway, you could just as easily have a locally saved copy of that page.

Geobits

@NathanMerrill I didn't obtain the solution over the internet, I ran the language over the internet. Just like I would if I was using something on TIO.

So it definitely ran on some machine, and definitely existed prior to this conversation.

Nathan Merrill

14:28

@Geobits I'm sorry, what is the "language". Like, what are you going to put in the header?

Geobits

"https://primes.utm.edu/lists/small/1000.txt"

Nathan Merrill

the url? The url isn't runnable

you need some other program to run it

Geobits

Don't you need something to run an exe, or anything else?

feersum

It's really no different than the "fib.exe is a programming language" example.

Nathan Merrill

hmmm, fair point.

TimmyD

14:29

Simple solution -- every answer from here forward must be made in PowerShell.

Nathan Merrill

@feersum I don't want fib.exe to be a language

specifically because it has no capability of taking source code

TimmyD

Programming Puzzles & PowerShell Golf

Nathan Merrill

which, I guess applies to the url

Geobits

@NathanMerrill I don't either, but for a different reason.

Which you could argue is linked.

Poke

@TimmyD Hmm... You spelled Java wrong

TuxCopter

14:30

@TimmyD PowerShell PowerShell & CowerShell GowerShell

Geobits

> Programming Puzzles & PowerShell $Golf

Nathan Merrill

lol

and see, this is why, on a "print this picture" challenge, submitting the picture as your source code is valid. if "picture.jpg" was your language, the jpg doesn't take source code. However, running a photo_viewer.exe, with the source code of "picture.jpg" is valid

feersum

Do you support Text answers also?

Nathan Merrill

however, if the challenge was "take a filename, and display the photo", photo_viewer.exe is no longer valid.

because the path is the input, not the source code

and it cannot take source code

Geobits

Meh. I don't like straight jpg/png/whatever answers anyway. They get my downvote every time.

Nathan Merrill

14:34

I agree

@feersum sure, but the text would be the source code.

TuxCopter

It's not hard to get your downvote

Geobits

@TuxCopter It's really not, because there are just so many bad answers out there.

Nathan Merrill

its boring, but its just as boring as any other print submisison

which is technically allowed

Geobits

Yes, technically. I don't like them either.

Nathan Merrill

right, but its unfair to ban a language when the abuse isn't limited to that language

Geobits

14:36

But it's not programming, where you could argue that at least with print you're trying.

@NathanMerrill What "language" again?

TimmyD

@Geobits PowerShell.

Nathan Merrill

regardless, on challenges that are boring, you're going to get boring answers, no matter what. The solution is downvotes. On interesting challenges, if you get an answer from a non-programming language, its much more interesting

so banning what we don't consider a "language" doesn't seem to be the solution. If the submission is boring, simply downvote

Geobits

Nathan Merrill

lol

feersum

@Sp3000 codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/97842/30688

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mınxomaτ

14:45

Damn, just killed another harddrive.

Geobits

The Murderous Minx strikes again.

feersum

Whoa, Hello World has 571 answers.

mınxomaτ

Jun 6 at 17:00, by mınxomaτ

I have a useless superpower. As soon as I have more than one latop in my possession at one time, one of them dies.

Empirically proven again today.

Geobits

Solution: Send me a laptop any time you take possession of another one.

Nathan Merrill

I think we need to define possession: If you're a mailman, and you have two laptops in your van, does that count?

if so, I could think of lots of great ways to use your superpower

Kritixi Lithos

14:49

Hey, if I were to make an esoteric language that is the golfed version of Java, so that it compiles to Java in runtime, will that actually count as a new code-golfing language or not?

Nathan Merrill

yes

look up Pyth

El'endia Starman

That's how Pyth started, but I think MATL is a better example.

Kritixi Lithos

All righty then, let's make Java verbose no longer!

Nathan Merrill

we've already got a Java REPL

El'endia Starman

Or Jolf or Japt or one of those shortened JS golfing languages.

TimmyD

14:52

@Geobits As in, The Exorcist "taking possession" style?

Kritixi Lithos

@NathanMerrill What's that?

Nathan Merrill

javarepl.com/console.html

Geobits

@KritixiLithos It would count, but don't be surprised if you get downvotes on answers, at least at first. A lot of people consider it boring and shady.

Nathan Merrill

its technically a different language than Java

Geobits

@TimmyD Hmm... well that would work too.

Nathan Merrill

14:53

but you don't have to do "public static void main(String[] args)"

Kritixi Lithos

@Geobits Why? Java is a very powerful language, in my opinion. Making it into a code-golfing language would be even better

@NathanMerrill Is it a golfed version of Java?

Nathan Merrill

no.

it just gets rid of the cruft

Kritixi Lithos

oh

Nathan Merrill

which, with Java 8, you can now just use lambdas for most everything

Geobits

@KritixiLithos It depends on what you're doing. If it's essentially just shortening keywords or class/method names to single letters via replacement or such, then it's not changing anything about the language except for byte count, which is ultimately pointless.

El'endia Starman

14:55

This video made me think about a couple things. One is that The Stanley Parable is pretty much entirely predicated on the idea that the player really has no control; they only have the illusion of choice. The other is that it could be interesting to design a game where the only way to progress is to give up your control.

Nathan Merrill

right, we downvote boring things (like a language that just does string replacement), but if it does more than string replacement, then it'll probably be fine

@El'endiaStarman are you going back an watching all of their videos?

Kritixi Lithos

@Geobits But if I change the language here and there and change the syntax, then that would be a better idea?

Nathan Merrill

its up to the voter to decide :)

Geobits

Better, sure. Depends on how well it works out.

El'endia Starman

@NathanMerrill I'm not really watching them in order or anything, but yeah, basically. :P

Geobits

14:56

It could be a great or terrible idea :)

El'endia Starman

I've been making heavy use of the related videos feature. :P

Kritixi Lithos

KTHXBYE

Fatalize

If you end up with a language that is exactly Java with shorter syntax it's bad

Nathan Merrill

I remember the day when I did that: I was stuck at an airport for like 8 hours

Geobits

Right. Nobody wants to see it if all it does is change System.out.print("test"); to S.o.p("test) (or even just p("test") really)

Hmm, I haven't been on an EC binge in a while...

Nathan Merrill

14:59

wait, Geobits, you hate Java 8 lambdas?

El'endia Starman

I'm astounded at how many people knew about Extra Credits before me. Like, at least six.

Nathan Merrill

I'm not even sure how I found them

Geobits

@NathanMerrill I don't hate them at all. I don't like the way they're used for golf.

Nathan Merrill

why? It doesn't provide any advantage except removing all of the boring cruft

I mean, for Java, that's a huge byte advantage, but the interesting part of your code is still scored the same

Geobits

Because they're different than in other languages. You can't use them in a class without specifying the types somewhere else anyway, so they're not self-contained the way a function is.

I can paste a function submission in a barebones class and it just works.

Nathan Merrill

15:03

you can define the types in your lambda function

Geobits

Right, but then you lose most of the savings that making it a lambda would gain.

And nobody does that

Nathan Merrill

true

actually, I wonder what happens if you do Function<?, int> = (a) -> 4;

Geobits

Relevant meta post

quartata

@El'endiaStarman I've been watching them for a long time. They used to be on Penny Arcade which is how I found out about them

Poke

Personally I've just never taken time to learn java lambda expressions. I use Java every day for my job, though, so I'm used to writing it. All of my Java answers simply specify Java7 for this reason

Nathan Merrill

15:09

lambdas really are great in code

if you take a look at any of my KoTH code, it uses lots of lambdas

PhiNotPi

@feersum but how?

Poke

It feels like they'd be as great as anonymous classes albeit more terse

quartata

Personally I never got the big deal. Lambdas have always existed; it's called Runnable

feersum

@ETHproductions I'll probably want to see if I can make the seed shorter than the length of the PRNG's state vector before I do an explanation. — feersum 3 mins ago

quartata

I'm perfectly willing to sacrifice keystrokes for something that works on all versions

Nathan Merrill

15:11

@quartata it's that you can reference a function so easily.

aka, I can call Math::min as my comparator function, or the like

Geobits

@quartata I do like some of the stream stuff they've done with 8 though. It's too bad most of it is completely unsuitable for golf.

Nathan Merrill

actually, this begs a question. There's a library I use for my lists (Eclipse collections)

if my lambda function accepts a MutableList (instead of a standard ArrayList), is that valid?

Geobits

See, that's what I'd like to see in a "golfing java". A better way to handle lists, streams, etc, without all the wordy crap and imports that come along with it.

Kritixi Lithos

So no imports and stuff?

Geobits

@NathanMerrill I'd rather see the type imported either way if it would normally have to be.

quartata

15:13

@feersum Did you ping Sp about the bounty yet?

Nathan Merrill

I don't need to write "MutableList", but you suddenly get a huge amount of stream functions

PhiNotPi

@quartata see starboard

Nathan Merrill

I need to do some tests.

Kritixi Lithos

If there is going to be a golfed version of Java, what are some things you guys would like to see in it?

Nathan Merrill

specifically if Function<?, int> a = (b) -> 4; is valid

quartata

15:15

woops

Nathan Merrill

because that would mean I wouldn't have to import MutableList

Geobits

@KritixiLithos If it's a golfing language, "no imports" should be rule #1

Poke

I'd like to think you should be fine so long as it implements the List interface

Kritixi Lithos

@Geobits What what about the general syntax?

Nathan Merrill

does that really matter? Both an array and a List are valid lists

even though they have no common interfaces

Geobits

15:17

@KritixiLithos I'm not sure. I haven't given that much thought, tbh.

quartata

The main thing that bothers me about the Java 8 streams is that they don't work well with the existing collections and they're super slow

Geobits

Hmm, I haven't noticed the slowness much I guess, but it is a pain dealing with regular collections.

Nathan Merrill

@quartata both of those are solved using Eclipse collections.

Kritixi Lithos

Because my original plan was to shorten function names (and ofcourse remove public static void main) such as System.out.println() to P()

quartata

The one great thing about Java 8 is java.time I think we can all agree

Nathan Merrill

15:19

@KritixiLithos neither of those are really used that much now. Even in Java 7, you can do int a() return 4;

Geobits

~~static~~

El'endia Starman

@quartata What a wonderful typo. :P

Geobits

You didn't wait two minutes :( :P

Poke

@quartata I'm quite happy about that

El'endia Starman

@Geobits I thought about doing that, but I wanted to mention it sooner rather than later. :P

quartata

15:21

I had already noticed but made the typo again while editing so something is on my mind clearly

El'endia Starman

Besides, it's still in the history. :P

Geobits

@El'endiaStarman Willpower, man. It's what separates us from the beasts ;)

Kritixi Lithos

@NathanMerrill Then what about shortening int to i, or maybe even remove the function return type and shortening return to `r'?

quartata

@El'endiaStarman Dare I point out that yesterday you typed /kill as \kill? :P

you pyteker

TuxCopter

HOW IS THIS REAL @GOOGLE https://t.co/wJAd8KAvbW

Tweeted by internetofshit on October 4, 2016 at 4:36 PM

El'endia Starman

15:22

@quartata Wait really?

TuxCopter

Google is shiba confirmed

Kritixi Lithos

C'mon, those colours are really nice

Especially the "Really Blue"

El'endia Starman

Oh, indeed I did. :P

Geobits

@KritixiLithos Default return variable, maybe o for output, so you don't have to return at all.

Kritixi Lithos

@Geobits I don't get you

Geobits

15:25

Just make every function return whatever value is in variable o when it reaches the end. Allow for returning early also, but don't require it.

If there is no o, it's void, if o is an int, it returns an int, etc.

Nathan Merrill

you can do more than that

quartata

@El'endiaStarman obviously it's taken a toll on your psyche

Geobits

Kinda like VB uses the function name as an implicit return

Kritixi Lithos

Oh... so o should be declared for a function to have a return type?

Nathan Merrill

a() 4

Geobits

15:27

@NathanMerrill Probably, this is just off the top of the head :)

El'endia Starman

@quartata Nonsense. Pytek is the best thing ever.

Nathan Merrill

would return an int 4

El'endia Starman

(Incidentally, I almost typo'd "best thing" as "besthing".)

Geobits

@NathanMerrill If you introduce implicit typing, yeah. That is a lot more work.

Nathan Merrill

suggesting to return whatever is in the variable is likely going to make the language interpreted

Geobits

15:29

Not if the variable is still declared in the function as a certain type. Then it's just a compile-time check.

int o;for(;whatever;o++); returns an int

Nathan Merrill

right, but what does a.someFunc() return?

you basically need to write your own compiler

confusedandamused

I'm attempting to write some code to determine dates based off the US federal reserve holiday calendar - found here federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/k8.htm - Why on 2019 is MLK Jrs birthday denoted as the 21st instead of just the 15th? I'm trying to do this programatically

Poke

@NathanMerrill ruby does that

iirc

quartata

@El'endiaStarman While I haven't been typing forward slashes as backslashes I have been typing parentheses instead of curly braces in LaTeX

Kritixi Lithos

I think that if I start developing this, then it will encounter the same sad fate as my other esolang, Carrot. Too much work in real life led me to stop improving Carrot and wasted the idea of a possibly good code-golfing language

quartata

15:30

so I guess I've been damaged too

Geobits

@NathanMerrill My thought was that during transpilation you give proper headers to each function by checking o or whatever, then compiling as usual.

El'endia Starman

@quartata Hah. I haven't typed LaTeX recently, so I don't know if I would've done that too.

quartata

Oh and ~> instead of ->

Geobits

@confusedandamused Lots of US holidays are (observed) on whatever Monday follows the actual date.

Nathan Merrill

@Geobits but existing Java functions?

Kritixi Lithos

15:32

Somebody should create this Java-golfed language

confusedandamused

January 15 2019 is a tuesday though - right?

quartata

We aren't even ashamed about abusing random dates for three day weekends

Geobits

@confusedandamused Right, so six days later is the next Monday, the 21st

confusedandamused

it's denoted on that page that if it falls on a sunday it's the following monday, but not if it falls on random day of the week

Geobits

~~Oh, well they're lying then :)~~ They're talking about the "fixed-day" holidays, not the floating-Monday ones.

confusedandamused

15:33

And in the years 2017 and 2018 it falls on a sunday and a monday - and both move to that monday

So in this instance - if the holiday falls on any day but monday - it is observed the following monday - right?

Geobits

Like Christmas is always the 25th, so it will only be moved if it's on a Sunday (which isn't even moving the holiday, just the day banks will be closed on). But not all holidays are like that, and are just always observed on Monday.

confusedandamused

I've never heard of the notion of "floating monday holidays"

Geobits

3 mins ago, by quartata

We aren't even ashamed about abusing random dates for three day weekends

confusedandamused

So if the day of the week is sunday it is observed +1 day otherwise if it's any day of that week it's observed the following monday

TuxCopter

Beautiful

Geobits

15:37

Again, it depends on the holiday. If it's a "monday" holiday, just always find the next monday. If it's a particular date, only move the day up if it's a sunday.

confusedandamused

Yeah I'm just speaking MLK jr

Geobits

Oh, then just always look for the first monday >= 15th. No need to special-case sundays or anything.

Jonathan Allan

@Dennis if you have a sec, could you briefly explain what I'm doing here that makes this only work as a full program, as I'm slightly confused by it: codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/97846/53748

Kritixi Lithos

@TuxCopter Get a Pixel. Charges 7 hours in 15 minutes

Geobits

Better yet, go with the suggested action.

TimmyD

15:43

Thanks @TuxCopter for the inspiration for my latest challenge.

TuxCopter

?

TimmyD

1 hour ago, by TimmyD

@TuxCopter Starting to look like a pumpkin.

It got the ol' brain-juices flowing.

TuxCopter

Ah

codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/97847/53745 Dat title

Kritixi Lithos

eat puke

TuxCopter

eat poop sniff puke

Kritixi Lithos

15:46

I should use it

It reminds me of BF

TuxCopter

It's just a non-TC variant of BF

reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/4zkyjy/…

Geobits

That's pretty terrible. Now if they did like apps and gave away the keyboard free with ads, that's another story :D

TuxCopter

theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/15/…

Haha

Kritixi Lithos

The iPhone 7 by itself is a disaster

And the new MacBooks, they're always removing extra ports...

TuxCopter

Thermostat + hacker = ???

New Main Posts

16:01

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Here's an ASCII pumpkin carved into a Jack-o-Lantern. Isn't it cute? ((^v^)) Here's an ASCII ghost. Look how spooky it is! \{O.O}/ Obviously, the pumpkins have to be on the ground, with a space between them so they don't rot. Ghosts, however, like to stand on top of pumpkins, so they're ev...

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Q: Pythagorean Triple Sequence

A Pythagorean triple consists of three positive integers a, b, and c, such that a2 + b2 = c2. Such a triple is commonly written (a, b, c), and a well-known example is (3, 4, 5). If (a, b, c) is a Pythagorean triple, then so is (ka, kb, kc) for any positive integer k. A primitive Pythagorean tr...

code-golf sequence

Kritixi Lithos

@NewMainPosts stop spamming!

Adnan

Ehh, what's with the flags

Kritixi Lithos

SPAM

Nathan Merrill

its not spam.

Kritixi Lithos

2 posts at once

mınxomaτ

16:03

Wait, you actually flagged that?

Kritixi Lithos

I am a risk-taker

Nathan Merrill

so? spam is not related to the amount of messages, but the usefulness of those messages

Zacharee1

oh no

Kritixi Lithos

Too late... I can't unflag

mınxomaτ

@KritixiLithos No, actually you are just bothering mods and 10k users for no reason.

Zacharee1

16:04

@mınxomaτ I'd call that a risk :p

Kritixi Lithos

Better run before the mods come

Nathan Merrill

the flag is already resolved

it has been for a while

El'endia Starman

Yeah, don't flag messages so spuriously.

Zacharee1

fancy words

Geobits

He's just using it because it's Mego's newest language.

quartata

16:09

did someone flag a feedbot

Geobits

Yeah -_-

Adnan

yes

quartata

I see.

Zacharee1

@Geobits Actually though?

that was sort of on purpoise

Geobits

@Zacharee1 Would I lie?

Zacharee1

16:10

or should I say porpoise?

@Geobits I don't know. I've been here for 3 days

Geobits

I guess you'll have to figure it out sooner or later then :)

Zacharee1

ominous music

quartata

I'm guessing Mego's next language will not be an adverb

Maybe a preposition?

Zacharee1

@quartata luckily, adjectives, nouns, verbs, prepositions and everything else work nicely in puns too

El'endia Starman

@Zacharee1 \me *points at Geobits constantly saying when PPCG would get its SE design*

Zacharee1

16:12

true

Geobits

@quartata Of? To?

Zacharee1

did you escape those stars?

*test*

oh cool

Geobits

@El'endiaStarman I'm fairly sure you can't prove any of those are lies yet.

El'endia Starman

(And yes, quartata, I did \me on purpose. :P)

quartata

@El'endiaStarman You got me in the middle of typing "ok you must have done that on purpose"

El'endia Starman

16:14

Ah-hahaha. :P

quartata

@Geobits Well you lied about graduation so let's just say you have a track record

Geobits

Huh? We're graduated.

I can't help it if the date I was told got delayed a bit.

quartata

Ah yes I see how this works.

If it was off by a year and a half obviously that was just a typo

Geobits

Not a typo, just incorrect. I was just as shocked as anyone, but there's a difference between being wrong and lying.

My inside source failed me that time.

mınxomaτ

Neat, GH orgas can now have pinned repos.

quartata

16:18

@mınxomaτ I read this as GH orgies

Geobits

I saw orcas at first >_>

TimmyD

An orgy of orcas?

Geobits

Seaworld After Hours Edition

TimmyD

... and, I'm gonna stop there.

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

How many boxes do I need? Given N items to store with sizes C0 ... CN-1, and an infinite number of boxes with size B, print the smallest number of boxes you need to use. If it is not possible, print that. Test cases N = 5 C = [1, 5, 1, 5, 3] B = 5 Result = 3 N = 3 C = [5, 1, 9] B = 7 Result =...

mınxomaτ

16:20

@quartata Pinning would be a bad thing in an orgy, I think.

mbomb007

16:33

@quartata Have you ever nouned a verby word?

betseg

16:48

Any CMC?

Fatalize

@betseg codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/97849/…

(not that answer in particular, the challenge)

betseg

Saw it. Couldn't code. Sad.

Fatalize

Why?

betseg

Dunno. Couldn't.

Fatalize

...what

Helka Homba

16:53

@betseg Given two (lat, long) points output the min nautical miles between.

Fatalize

"miles" triggered

2

TuxCopter

^

betseg

Carrot.

Helka Homba

Use whatever unit of length you want then

TimmyD

CMC -- Given an input number 1 < n < 26, output a concatenated alphabet with each letter repeated (its 1-based alphabetical position)%n times. Example: n=3 --> abbdeeghhjkkmnnpqqsttvwwyzz

mınxomaτ

16:57

Why is it, in 2016 - the year of mixed UEFI bitness, Debian is the only linux distro that supports that...

TimmyD

n=7 --> ABBCCCDDDDEEEEEFFFFFFHIIJJJKKKKLLLLLMMMMMMOPPQQQRRRRSSSSSTTTTTTVWWXXXYYYYZZZZZ

Geobits

@HelkaHomba Hmm. I had a function to do this with meters... now where did I put that app's code... >_>

@mınxomaτ Is it also the year of the linux desktop? :P

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