The Nineteenth Byte

Dennis

16:00

OK, Twitter's brand guidelines are absolutely insane. I can't use my website's foreground color or font family?

ETHproductions

What? Why not?

TuxCopter

wat

Dennis

Because they say so.

cdn.cms-twdigitalassets.com/content/dam/brand-twitter/…

ETHproductions

...

Dennis

There are even requirements for the margin around the logo.

I might just drop Twitter and make dedicated status/announcement pages with RSS feeds.

ETHproductions

16:06

I've never really looked at any brand guidelines before, but that seems really, really strict.

Dennis

Twitter is popular and everything, but if I can't even display a frickin' link to my account without using Helvetica Neue, it's not worth it.

ais523

this is very much a "whatever we think we can get away with" field of marketing, I fear

Dennis

Same thing with links in tweets that are "shortened" to an obfuscated and (on occasions) much longer URL.

I can stomach that, but the brand requirements are just plain idiocy.

ETHproductions

The brand requirements seem to say "do it exactly the way we do or get the hell out" :P

ais523

I have custom fonts blocked by default on my primary browser (although I use my secondary browser for SE)

Dennis

16:11

Why?

ais523

partly bandwidth reasons (I have a bizarre connection), partly just because I don't generally like rich content in sites

I have JavaScript turned off by default, for example; the majority of sites are actually more usable that way

because they use it to implement features that are more harmful than useful for a casual reader

Dennis

You'll need your secondary browser for TIO. :P

ais523

yes, I figured that out fairly quickly :-)

Downgoat

Happy Thanksgiving!

ais523

(I can also whitelist sites in my primary browser; TIO might have a whitelist, I'm not sure)

btw, how does TIO handle infinite loops? I tested a truth-machine on it and it gave me a kill button, which seemed to help

but I'm not sure if I want to put that much load on it

also I generally prefer testing things from the command line (thus my use of Rhino when I have a JavaScript answer), so I normally only use TIO when I need a feature specific to its interpreter (such as ignoring unknown commands in Underload)

TuxCopter

16:15

@ais523 It auto-kill a process after 60sec

ais523

you can produce a lot of output in 60 seconds

does it have an output size limit too? if not, I need to be careful of my bandwidth

TuxCopter

1KB IIRC

Dennis

@ais523 TIO also uses custom fonts. That's not really an issue for the sans serif font of v2 (although bandwidth isn't really an issue; both weights combined are only 19 KB and they're cached for a year), but the monospace font has excellent Unicode support and makes sure even languages like Jelly are rendered correctly on all devices. That's a 146 KB whopper, but if the font is installed locally, it's not downloaded. At least on Linux, DejaVu Sans Mono is installed by default.

ais523

oh, that seems fine

ETHproductions

I have DejaVu Sans Mono, though I don't think it's installed by default on Windows computers.

ais523

16:17

I actually have font packs installed that are specifically intended for showing hard-to-find characters (also I have DejaVu Sans Mono set as the default monospace font OS-wide)

Dennis

@ais523 Processes are killed after 60 seconds or 100 KB of output, whichever happens first. v2 elevates the limit to 256 KiB, but compresses the output. For a truth machine, e.g., the bandwidth usage is minimal.

ais523

huh, come to think of it, SE appears to be overriding the font to something Courier-like

Kritixi Lithos

TIO's favicon looks like "IO"

ais523

which just makes things strictly worse AFAICT because the l and 1 look almost identical

DVSM has a really oddly-shaped l that's at least impossible to confuse with a digit

Kritixi Lithos

I like Menlo (font used in Android Studio)

Dennis

16:18

@ETHproductions It isn't. 146 KB (in browsers that support WOFF2) and cached for a year should not be problematic for most users though.

ETHproductions

Hey, I just noticed I can now actually see the "Copy snippet" and "Donate" icons in TIO v1 (rather than Unicode boxes). Did you change something there recently?

ais523

146 KB is comparable to the typical image

it's not a huge burden

TuxCopter

@ais523 Yep, it actually look like a big iota

ais523

146 KB is comparable to the typical image

Dennis

@KritixiLithos I couldn't fit three letters in a 16x16 logo, so I decided for a subset of the letters (or a cropped version of the logo, if you prefer), which also hints input/output and on/off.

ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΟΗʹ

16:20

Question: Is there actually commercially available hardware/software that will polarize your computer's monitor such that passive observers don't see what you're doing?

(i.e., you'd need special glasses or something to see it)

ETHproductions

I'd assume there's hardware for that

ais523

you can fit a lot more than three letters into a 16×16 logo if you golf it sufficiently, although you have to get really close to the screen to rea dit

Dennis

@ais523 All images on TIO are SVGs. With the surrounding HTML, CSS, and JS, they weigh 28 KB combined.

ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΟΗʹ

ik, it was mentioned on infosec.SE, just wondering if it's actually available

ais523

you can show a letter, plus room to separate it from the next letter, using 4 subpixels horizontally and 5 pixels vertically

Kritixi Lithos

16:21

Choosing SVGs is a good choice, I like the icons

ais523

err, 6 vertically, if you want a line to separate

so that's two rows of 12 letters each

I assumed the icons were Unicode

Dennis

The ones on the old versions are. I'm talking about those on tio.run.

I was going to keep using Unicode and include Symbola, but it's huge.

@ETHproductions I made some changes to the fonts, but not to that part. I guess you got a new/updated font somehow.

ais523

on another note, is it possible to make a suggested edit if you have more than 1k reputation?

Dennis

No.

TuxCopter

Nope

ais523

16:25

back when I was below the threshold, I used to suggest edits to authors then link them to the edit in the comments to see if they liked them or not

but now I'm losing site features as a result of posting popular answers, which seems backwards

instead I have to ask in advance if they'd be likely to approve of the edit

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Implement the sin function. For those unfamiliar with trignometry. The sin function is a mathematical wave function, it can be defined a number of ways, but the canonical definition, is that it is sin(x) gives the ratio of the opposite side of an angle of measure (X) to the hypotenuse of a right...

Dennis

@ais523 You shouldn't suggest those anyway; they can be approved by other users with edit privileges. Just leave a comment.

ais523

the last time I did it it was a huge rewrite that wouldn't easily fit in a comment

the challenge was previously far too vague, and the author didn't seem to understand English well and couldn't express what they wanted

so I asked if they'd be OK with a large revision, and after they said yes, rewrote the spec to match my best understanding of it

Dennis

Then just edit. If it makes the post better without changing its meaning, you don't need the author's approval.

ais523

it did change the meaning in this case, probably

it's hard to tel

*tell

El'endia Starman

16:30

Does anyone know what those diagrams that show the most common pairs of bytes in files are called?

Kritixi Lithos

@ais523 You can edit your messages in chatrooms (if it is posted in the last 2 minutes)

TuxCopter

Unrelated but Perl black magic

ais523

correcting typos in chat is actually in my muscle memory from IRC at this point

El'endia Starman

I've done a lot of Google Image searching, but no luck. :(

ais523

also it's gone past the 2 minute threshold now anyway

ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΟΗʹ

16:32

Hmm

ais523

@TuxCopter: oh, that's just eyedrops, and it's also relatively simple

ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΟΗʹ

Now, to find a polarization filter for a 20x11" monitor...

TuxCopter

> relatively simple

wat

ais523

I find all-alphanumeric Perl programs (letters, numbers, space, newline) more fun to write

seriously, though, just run it through a whitespace reformatter and it makes a lot more sense

TuxCopter

@ais523 How is it possible

ais523

16:34

it's pretty much entirely made out of strings being bitwise-ORed or bitwise-XORed together

here's a typical section from near the middle:

TuxCopter

wat you can OR strings in perl

ais523

.(  '`'|"\"").(  '`'|"\%").(  '`'|"\%").

and yes, it ORs them character-wise

if you constant-fold the arithmetic there, you get bee

which is presumably part of beer

eyedrops constructs the whole program like that

then puts it inside a "run this code" construct inside a regex inside a string, to be able to eval it with punctuation marks only

but that's the only tricky part

JSFuck is more interesting because you have to hunt down the letters you need in the standard library somewhere (however, it's also much more verbose than Eyedrops)

btw, I didn't know how Eyedrops worked until I looked at that code a few minutes ago

but I find the code pretty readable, it's just the added whitespace that fools you into thinking it must be unreadable

that said, I'm not particularly inclined to resolve all the bitwise arithmetic in my head

Dennis

Gitter room names cannot have spaces in them? For real?

ais523

but I think Eyedrops uses consistent encoding for consistent characters

PhiNotPi

Like this?

betseg

16:40

Just flashed CM14.1.

It's awesome.

Kade

Is CM14 the Nougat version?

betseg

Yes

Kritixi Lithos

NOUGAT? I only have Marshmallow

TuxCopter

yum nougat and marshmallow

El'endia Starman

@PhiNotPi Hmm, close. What I've seen were colored images based off of image byte data.

ais523

16:42

@TuxCopter: as the comments on the site suggest, running the program through the constant-folder makes it immediately clear what it's doing

Lynn

@ais523 That sounds pretty magical

How would you do that in Perl?

(eval without alphanumerics)

TuxCopter

Regex 'eval construct' + variable interpolation I think

ais523

@Lynn: '' =~ "(?{" . string_to_evaluate . "})"

there we go, SE sucks at parsing backticks

TuxCopter

Chat markdown sucks in general

Lynn

No closing }? O_o

ais523

16:46

note that this requires use re 'eval' (or -Mre=eval) or modern versions of Perl disallow it

TuxCopter

For example,
*No Markdown in multiline messages!*

ais523

@Lynn fixed :-)

this is basically to prevent code injection vulnerabilities via user-specified regexes

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Dennis

OK, here we go. gitter.im/tryitonline

ETHproductions

I'm going to post this challenge if nobody has any objections.

Dennis

16:56

Not enough jQuery.

Downgoat

@ETHproductions yes I do

quartata

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ETHproductions

@Dennis The site uses jQuery, isn't that enough?

@quartata Alright, you got me :P

Dennis

@ETHproductions Just to see if I understood correctly: We wait before printing the first character as well, yes?

ETHproductions

Yes. I'll see if I can clarify that in the post.

Dennis

16:58

initial/next instead of next would make it clearer imho.

ETHproductions

Better now?

mınxomaτ

MS developers are humans, too: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13028998

Dennis

@ETHproductions Yes. Does the distribution has to be uniform?

ETHproductions

Ooh, good question. I'd say yes, unless there's a good reason not to require that.

Dennis

Not really. I'm just asking because non-uniform might be easier/shorter.

El'endia Starman

17:03

Aha, "visualizing binary data" gets the sort of results I wanted on Google.

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Make it a pangram code-golf string Your challenge is to write a program or function that, when given a string composed of printable ASCII chars (32-126) through any normal input method, outputs or returns a shortest possible string to make it a pangram (a string that contains every letter in th...

Kritixi Lithos

> A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy doorknob.

ais523

no g

unless I'm missing one

mınxomaτ

vim is very pleasant to compile. Maybe I'm just used to horribly unportable C/++ projects.

TuxCopter

Question: How to test in sh if a program is in the PATH?

Dennis

17:13

which <program>

TuxCopter

kthx

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

How do you touch with a non-default file mode?

Not in man file

Dennis

You don't. touch is meant to update timestamps, not to create files.

mınxomaτ

Using touch to create files is widely used in many programs.

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

Maybe because I'm using a BSD manual from April 28,1995

ais523

17:16

you can probably do it by messing around with umask but nobody wants to do that

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

@mınxomaτ ^

Dennis

@mınxomaτ I'm not disputing that. But since it's not the intended use case, it's not surprising that you cannot specify permissions with a flag.

mınxomaτ

I like how some programs / languages are used for something different altogether. But I resent compiler creators who tell their users to "stop abusing" the language

When they make a feature more useful than it actually is.

ais523

well, if it conflicts with compiler optimizations, that can be a good reason to tell people to stop

I like Microchip, though (who manufacture low-powered processors)

Dennis

There are probably children out there holding down spacebar to stay warm in the winter! YOUR UPDATE MURDERS CHILDREN.

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noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

17:18

I like how passing -e to open on mac opens stuff in notepad (TextEdit technically).

ais523

they produce guides listing all the things-that-would-normally-be-considered-undefined-behaviour in their products, together with advice on how to exploit it :-D

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

> If any file does not exist, it is created with default permissions.

GLASSIC

Stupid question: strcmp() in C compares string lengths or char-by-char equivalence?

Dennis

The latter.

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

I have a plugin that opens man pages as a nicely formatted pdf (temp file).

I made a script thing:

touch $1
chmod 755 $1
open $1

to make scripts

GLASSIC

17:24

Yet another self-modifying hack that /// engineers will beg for it ...

Dennis

I'm wondering why touch is popular for file creation though. Why not >> file which is shorter and doesn't invoke an external program?

DrMcMoylex

Good morning, and happy thanksgiving to those of you who celebrate it!

Kritixi Lithos

@DrMcMoylex Good evening!

Downgoat

@Dennis TIL about file

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Downgoat

17:31

Maybe touch is on more OS

TuxCopter

@DrMcMoylex checks clock 18:32...

Dennis

@Downgoat No, I mean file as in >> goat.txt.

file does something else.

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

@Dennis shift key

DrMcMoylex

Obviously I know it's not morning everywhere. I still enjoy greeting TNB with a "good morning"

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

Decent morning!

Geobits

17:37

Meh, could be better

quartata

@Dennis Of course

ETHproductions

@DrMcMoylex I was going to say that you're in the only (contiguous) US timezone that is currently in morning, but then I realized that I'm in the only one that isn't :P

quartata

(a little late to the party I see)

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DrMcMoylex

@ETHproductions Well tbf it's a little late for "morning". If morning == before noon we're good though

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

17:50

@ETHproductions IMO anything before 1 is morning, so you're still good :p

Geobits

Does it still count if you haven't slept since yesterday?

ETHproductions

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Not anymore ;p

ErikGolferエリックゴルファー

@Geobits ...slept?

Geobits

Yep. It's the past tense of sleep.

ETHproductions

Morning doesn't wait for non-sleepers.

Doorknob

18:05

@Geobits Past participle in this case.

ErikGolferエリックゴルファー

I don't know what that means? What is sleep?

@Geobits And yes I know what it means.

Geobits

@Doorknob Works as both :P

@ErikGolferエリックゴルファー It's that thing you don't do when you're at the hospital all night

ErikGolferエリックゴルファー

slept is used in both slept and have slept, so... yeah.

ETHproductions

> I don't know what that means? ... And yes I know what it means.

ErikGolferエリックゴルファー

@Geobits Well, it seems I'm an exception, since I'm not in the hospital at all. I NEED... SLEEEEEEP!!! Like, 10-12 hours per day.

@ETHproductions I meant I knew what the past tense was, not its definition :P

Kritixi Lithos

18:10

@Geobits You were in the hospital all night?

Geobits

I'm not really sure what's going on any more, but I'm too tired to argue at the moment.

@KritixiLithos Not for me, a family member needed surgery though, so I've been up here.

ErikGolferエリックゴルファー

It's that I have exams on High School and I don't have sleep, The ultimate solution to life, the universe and everything. sleep = 42

@Geobits Oh my.. I wish they get better ASAP.

Geobits

@ErikGolferエリックゴルファー Yeah, the surgery went fine (gall bladder removal), and in recovery now. Thanks :)

ErikGolferエリックゴルファー

@Geobits gall bladder removal ugh... that had to be tough. I'm sorry they had to do such a hard thing that would change the whole rest of their life. Life sucks sometimes, if anything, just encourage them to go on.

Geobits

It doesn't sound too bad, really. For otherwise healthy people (he is), the liver picks up the slack in bile production after a couple of months.

So, restricted diet for a few months, then usually back to normal.

I mean, still sucks, but it's not overly life-changing is all.

ErikGolferエリックゴルファー

18:21

I hope he did laparoscopic. Now, I ask to stop discussing this topic, I don't want anyone to shed tears.

Kritixi Lithos

Someone I knew had a gall bladder removal. The thing he hated the most about it was the diet restriction (no beef, no mutton)

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

There's this website, gethuman.com, that tells you how to get a human for customer support. Like press zero 8 times or press 37658

Press 4567 for a taco truck....

Geobits

@ErikGolferエリックゴルファー Yep, laproscopic. It all went smoothly.

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

Apparently exporting PGP was once illegal

PGP == munitions

ErikGolferエリックゴルファー

@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC What are you talking about?

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

18:30

@ErikGolferエリックゴルファー en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… .

wikipedia.com/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_investigation

> Cryptosystems using keys larger than 40 bits were then considered munitions within the definition of the US export regulations

ErikGolferエリックゴルファー

lol safety to its knees

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

@ErikGolferエリックゴルファー cryptosystem that supports key > 40 bits == guns/rockets/spaaaace

Username is too long

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ErikGolferエリックゴルファー

Yeah it's 19 chars/37 bytes.

Geobits

At least the transliteration looks right :P

I've seen some really badly done ones.

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19:05

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Generate fake PGP keys code-golf Input public or private; indicates if the header and footer should say PUBLIC or PRIVATE ; - a delimiter Version string ; - a delimiter Comment string An example input would be: public;Keybase OpenPGP v1.0.0;https://keybase.io/crypto Output format -----BEGI...

Martin Ender

@Geobits would you mind responding to my comment on your challenge? ;)

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

Just power cycled after 19 days of uptime

Wow, reopened all 71 of my tabs and the memory usage is muuuch lower

Some memory leakage there

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Geobits

19:21

@MartinEnder Oh, sorry. Meant to do that, but yeah, the intent was that it should work whichever one is bigger.

Martin Ender

That's a problem for the Mathematica one. I'll comment on that

Geobits

I can't run it at the moment, but does it handle it wrongly, or is the output just rotated?

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

> A study (PDF)[1] demonstrates that animations can increase the perceived speed of a download by up to 11% over a bar that is not animated.

Geobits

If rotated, that's fine, since I've said the output orientation doesn't matter.

If it inscribes it wrongly (rect inside rhombus), then that's an issue.

Martin Ender

No the rhombus then extends beyond the rectangle

Because it only checks the intersection with the horizontal sides.

Geobits

19:24

Ah, ok. Thanks for catching that :)

Martin Ender

So if you simply sorted the inputs first, that would be valid? (I.e. rotation depending on input)

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

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Q: Why do users click randomly and rapidly when an application hangs?

This question came to me when I witnessed a collegue's behaviour on an application freezing due to a large operation. And it's something I've certainly done myself. An app freezes for more than a couple seconds and we start clicking at it. Repeatedly. Often in no particularly meaningful place, a...

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Geobits

@MartinEnder Sure, that sounds fine

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

19:42

@NonAmericans do you know what the ridiculous thing known as a "filibuster" is? It makes reading Dr. Seuss novels for 8 hours a valid move in congress (yes it has happened) to prevent a bill from being passed.

arda

@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC nonamerican here, TIL.

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

@ardao You basically make a speech and the only rule is to keep talking. As long as you make the speech, you prevent a vote. Eventually the people who want to pass the bill get so bored they quit.

Longest was 3 days

Of talking.

Happens weekly in congress

TuxCopter

@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC wtffffffffff

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

There's also virtual filibuster which is filibuster but lazier and less talking

Like call role, it takes 3 hours

@TuxCopter you can also do filibusters on supreme court nominees

Sanders did an 8 hour one in 2010

> According to the Supreme Court ruling in United States v. Ballin (1892), changes to Senate rules could be achieved by a simple majority. Nevertheless, under current Senate rules, a rule change itself could be filibustered, with the votes of two-thirds of those senators present and voting (as opposed to the normal three-fifths of those sworn) needed to end debate

Filibuster = DDoS the Senate by blocking the only worker thread

NPR podcast on topic, very good: npr.org/sections/money/2012/12/11/166993494/…

"I'm just a bill, sitting on capital hill... oh shit filibuster"

Kade

Some of the stuff in the UX SE sounds a lot like they are taking care of pets or small children

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

19:54

@Kade ?

Kade

"The reason I believe it is important to have an apologetic tone is to ensure you are communicating to the user that, though a mistake has been made and he is interacting with a machine or application in this case, you still respect his action and are humanizing the mistake."

Calvin's Hobbies

@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC Hey, congress works hard

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

@Kade "Ah f--k. Your sysadmin doesn't allow you to do this action."

Affordable Care Act - Ted Cruz - Filibuster - Length: 21 hours

arda

@Kade because they are.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

arda

19:58

I dealt with ALL kinds of users.

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ ugh

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

you think you don't like it, you live across the world from him ;_;

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

@arda At what corporation

@TuxCopter If trump were in the senate, that might be worse

arda

@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC not employed. Mostly teachers, family members and students, and well, they can get to that level where they're no better than a kid.

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

@arda oh yep teachers :)

I like how that feeling is international

trichoplax

20:12

"I can't tell you the number of times that clicking furiously on my mouse has actually appeared to solve the problem."... well I can't tell you the number of times that screaming at the TV has helped my team win. It doesn't always work but it has worked so many times that I swear by it. — JoelFan May 10 '13 at 15:30

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

> I can't tell you how many times posting a good cartoon or interesting article has restarted chat activity

techcrunch.com/2016/11/22/…

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Google’s AI translation tool seems to have invented its own secret internal language

Spanish -> X -> English

trichoplax

I just happened to get to the end of reading up on the last couple of pages of transcript...

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Martin Ender

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

@MartinEnder randomest thing ever

Martin Ender

20:18

better? :P

PhiNotPi

So I'm working on the Twin Tin Bots meta-programming KOTH controller, and I have a design question. So each turn, the player is able to edit their "command sequence" (represented by an array) by a limited amount. There's a couple ways to do this:

(1) pass the array as an argument to the player's makeMove() method, which returns an array. (2) create a CommandSequence class which contains the array and has mutator methods to edit the array, the benefit being that it contains all of the code to verify moves / prevent illegal edits.

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

Poll: How many posts on the starboard have you starred?

Two for me

@PhiNotPi 1

That way the programmer can use the array manip functions they are comfortable with

And add a islegal() function

daHugLenny

@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC Three

Maltysen

@PhiNotPi what's the language, can you overload normal array stuff to be the mutators? (e.g. python __setitem__)

trichoplax

@PhiNotPi I take it the player code won't be able to keep the array in memory ready for next move?

PhiNotPi

20:22

Oh important point: your player is the only thing to edit the array. In situation 1, the argument is the same as the return value from last turn.

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

@MartinEnder ????

I agree with matylsen

Martin Ender

the implication was that NMP was excessively slow

PhiNotPi

This is going to be Java / compatible.

Maltysen

@PhiNotPi ಠ_ಠ

then 1

PhiNotPi

@Maltysen I know people don't really like Java-only-KOTHs, but you can't beat practicality.

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

20:25

@PhiNotPi Why not Python?

Python has great array and string manip

Also java array manip = ewww

PhiNotPi

@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC I would have to learn Python.

trichoplax

@PhiNotPi Was that one meant for me?

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

@PhiNotPi do it

PhiNotPi

fixed ping

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

@PhiNotPi ''.join([char for char in s if char not in string.ascii]) = unicode chars in string

trichoplax

20:28

@PhiNotPi You also mistyped "have" instead of "love"

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

import string

DJMcMayhem

I wrote a C++ KOTH controller a while ago. Would that be helpful?

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

@DJMcMayhem why c++!?

c++ for speed

KOTH not for speed

DJMcMayhem

Why not? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

PhiNotPi

No string manipulation is involved in this challenge. Also, speed actually is important for KOTHs.

trichoplax

20:30

@PhiNotPi I actually like language specific KotHs. I'd like to see some language agnostic ones, and some in different specific languages, hopefully covering as many different specific languages as possible.

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

@PhiNotPi why?

@trichoplax KotH Comm supports language agnostic; been used before

DJMcMayhem

The C++ controller was language agnostic

PhiNotPi

@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC because they take hours to run

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

@PhiNotPi Ok but make them write the submissions in pypy or something

c++ koth submission no fun

i.reddituploads.com/…

docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/concurrency/ guardmeth .html

PhiNotPi

@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC I would actually relabel those "hear" "mean" and "say" respectively

george

20:39

What golfing languages have a downloadable compiler and are relatively easy to learn. I currently code in Python3 and MatLab.

trichoplax

I meant one language per KotH - I'd like to see a C KotH, a Java KotH, a Nim KotH, maybe even a CJam KotH or a Jelly KotH.

Kade

Most golfing languages don't have a compiler, rather an interpreter

Jelly and MATL would be good because Jelly would behave much like you would expect a Python program to behave with similar functions and MATL is based on (?) MatLab.

george

Fair enough. I've seen Pyth is close to python, but it seems a lot to learn. I'll look at Jelly

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

youtube.com/watch?v=F0r9D6HZEnU - this is what normal programming feels like

^ hilarious

That's what programming normally feels like

Zgarb

@george I'd say Pyth is much closer to Python than Jelly is. At least the syntax shouldn't feel as weird as Jelly's.

Pretty much every golfing language is a lot learn since they look like complete gibberish until you start to "get" them :P

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

20:54

HISTORY 101:

- Bigger-pile-of-money diplomacy

- Bigger-gun diplomacy

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

help does anybody know what to have for lunch when fast food places are closed ;_;

noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ walmart sandmmiches?

wait no ppcg can certainly think of more delish stuff

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