The Nineteenth Byte

In golf, the nineteenth hole is a slang term for a pub, bar, or restaurant on or near the golf course, very often the clubhouse itself. A standard round of golf has only eighteen holes, so golfers will say they are at the 'nineteenth hole', meaning they are enjoying a drink after the game. The concept is similar to Après-ski in skiing. The 19th hole on miniature golf courses is often a hole in which if a hole-in-one is scored, one receives a free game. == References in media == The golf stories of author P. G. Wodehouse, which are narrated by his character, the Oldest Member, discuss the nineteenth...

Sherlock9

The nineteenth hole in a golf course is the pub after the golf course

TuxCopter

ninja'd

TanMath

wait, really?

Sherlock9

So like the pub, we gather here

Pavel

8:04 PM

Cool

Sherlock9

Mutual ninja'd, I think

TanMath

so, I see people still make jokes about Seriously...

Sherlock9

On my screen, your onebox came before me explanation

Nah, we call it Actually a lot more now

TuxCopter

> me explanation

BEEP wrong case

TanMath

Seriously?

Sherlock9

8:06 PM

Also, Dennis is in the process of updating Try It Online!

TuxCopter

@TanMath Actually.

Pavel

Wait really

Sherlock9

And I'm learning some Jelly

Pavel

What is he doing with it

I need it to not be broken

Sherlock9

Dec 9 at 13:04, by Fatalize

@Mego 5 stages of grief: Seriously, Actually, Usually, Really, Finally

TanMath

8:06 PM

Do you guys still abuse your stars?

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Sherlock9

@Pavel tio.run/nexus

Just making new versions

Only occasionally

Pavel

Oh, nexus happened a long time ago.

TuxCopter

@TanMath Yep

It has OVER 100 STARS

Sherlock9

And v2 is coming soon

TuxCopter

And it made a bug too

TanMath

8:07 PM

@TuxCopter I know about that... I was there then...

TuxCopter

>100 stars is pretty recent

TanMath

I have only been gone for a few months...

TuxCopter

Only a few days/weeks

TanMath

star wars!

TuxCopter

To the onw who is abusing stars: STOP

PLEASE STOP

TanMath

8:08 PM

someone is going to get into trouble...

Sherlock9

No, no, no. No star abuse

Pavel

I didn't know mods could clear stars

TIL

TuxCopter

Mods can do everything

TanMath

^

Pavel

They can't change votes on main.

Right..?

TanMath

8:09 PM

remember when people used to play with "^"?

TuxCopter

@Pavel It's what they want you to believe

MetaEd

Right. Mods cannot see who voted or change the votes.

TanMath

We used to go crazy with ^^^^^^^^

Kritixi Lithos

... and carrot.extension

TanMath

carrots were amazing...

Pavel

8:10 PM

^?

^ doesn't do anything

Kritixi Lithos

with @Dennis posting a few inverted carrot.pngs every now and then...

vvv this

Hey?

Wasup?

MetaEd is stupid

8:11 PM

^^^

TuxCopter

HA

TanMath

HA

I was going to do a loop @TuxCopter!

DJMcMayhem

No more plz

Sherlock9

Gents, we put in a productive discussion rule for a very good reason

Kritixi Lithos

Carrots incoming: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/25076133#25076133

Sherlock9

8:12 PM

Basically several months of unproductive discussion slowly grinding everyone else's patience into dust

trichoplax

That was a time when people used chains of ^ messages to disrupt the flow of chat. Nowadays they would just get kicked from the room.

TanMath

nineteenth byte was known as the fun chatroom...no need to ruin that please...

Once in a while we can still have fun, can't we?

Thomas Ward

@trichoplax how many times have they disrupted things?

trichoplax

You'll be pleased to hear that fun is still permitted :P

Sherlock9

When with friends, I have a lot more fun telling jokes than making silly noises. The same applies to chat

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DJMcMayhem

8:15 PM

That's a good way of putting it

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TimmyD

Holy dang, that was fast.

TanMath

oh... hello @NewSandboxedPosts ...

long time no see!

Sherlock9

With children, silly noises are more permissible, not least because my puns fly several meters over their heads

Pavel

Just had a really short power outage

trichoplax

8:16 PM

@ThomasWard I'm talking about times when the page would fill up with nothing else. It hasn't happened for a long time, as we're stricter about it now.

Pavel

Internet is still kill

TimmyD

@Sherlock9 Bleep bloop pshewwe weeee loooshgsee

Pavel

Using phone hotspot

Thomas Ward

@trichoplax Oh, I know. I meant that one guy.

Sherlock9

Darn kids, not knowing pop culture references from several years before they were born

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Pavel

8:17 PM

;-;

Thomas Ward

not the chat disruption with arrows, I'm used to stupid random disrupts in chat rooms. I tend to get annoyed and squish them in some domains when they get out of hand, but i'm still used to them :)

Sherlock9

@TimmyD In moderation, good job. Not full pages of silly noises please

trichoplax

@ThomasWard I wasn't referring to any one user. People just get kicked as and when necessary to keep things friendly.

DJMcMayhem

@Sherlock9 nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are too fast, I would catch it.

TanMath

@Sherlock9 ?

Geobits

8:19 PM

@DJMcMayhem Did you catch that one?

Sherlock9

@TanMath This connects to my statement about not telling puns to kids

Thomas Ward

@trichoplax indeed. well, if you don't mind i'mma stick around for if that guy comes back - multiple successive kicks tend to get on the 'disruptivity' radars pretty quick :P

TanMath

@Sherlock9 why not?

Pavel

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Sherlock9

Because the puns tend to use pop culture references that they don't know

trichoplax

8:21 PM

@ThomasWard We have plenty of room owners to keep it under control, but you're welcome to stick around for the chat :)

Sherlock9

Simple wordplay sure, but only starting around age 6 or 7

TimmyD

@DJMcMayhem I literally just watched that movie for the first time last night.

Sherlock9

They're still learning whichever language they started with before that age. I don't want to confuse them with silly terminology

Thomas Ward

@trichoplax I'll lurk for about 15 more minutes before I disappear :)

Geobits

@Sherlock9 Dr Seuss would disagree :P

Sherlock9

8:22 PM

Dr Seuss is more talented than I am :P

DJMcMayhem

@TimmyD it's a good movie. I'm really excited for the sequel

trichoplax

@ThomasWard Can we tempt you into browsing our programming challenges...?

Thomas Ward

@trichoplax What makes you think i'm not? :P

(I'm actually working on SmokeDetector right now, trying to narrow down a headachey weirdness I saw in it a couple days ago - that in and of itself is a challenge ;P )

TuxCopter

I see my reverse carrot 'joke' didn't pass through the kickmute

Pavel

wut?

trichoplax

8:28 PM

@ThomasWard My apologies - just checked your profile and seen you've been browsing for some time :)

Thomas Ward

@trichoplax No problem :)

trichoplax

@TuxCopter Any 'joke' you have to use quotes with is unlikely to avoid a kick :P

Right :)

Welcome back :)

^

8:36 PM

What do you call a sad cup of coffee

TuxCopter

idk

Poke

Depresso

:[

TuxCopter

............. ._.

Anonymous

@TimmyD Sorry, next time I'll try to berate you more

Poke

A bad joke, your grace

Pavel

8:36 PM

-_-

trichoplax

As I always say, it's more fun telling jokes than listening to them

Pavel

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Geobits

@Poke I thought it was sad because it was... roasted.

What a terrible Picard

TanMath

^

Poke

haha

Pavel

8:39 PM

wolframalpha.com/input/?i=tell+me+a+computer+science+joke

TanMath

Terrible Picard...

Poke

What is a cows favorite musical note?

Pavel

G#

Poke

ooo close

a beef-flat

TanMath

rofl

Poke

8:40 PM

Now that was a misteak...

here come the cowpuns

Pavel

G# is not close to Bb

TuxCopter

ono

TanMath

@Mego what is this discussion about some absolute zero?

Anonymous

Can we please moove the puns elsewhere?

Pavel

Never

Geobits

8:40 PM

@Poke Nah. They're too worn out to beef funny at this point.

TuxCopter

......... ._.

Geobits

Worn out like old leather

Pavel

What's the object-oriented way to become wealthy?

Geobits

inheritance...

It's the best way irl too

Pavel

Yay!

flawr

8:41 PM

I learned that americans do not eat horse-meat, but is there still a dedicated word to it?

James Holderness

mcdonalds

Pavel

Why do programmers always mix up Halloween and Christmas?

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@flawr no

Anonymous

@flawr Ikea

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Pavel

Because Oct 31 == Dec 25!

Anonymous

8:41 PM

@Pavel Because DEC 25 is OCT 31

trichoplax

@Pavel I love this one :)

TuxCopter

Oooh, cool

flawr

@Mego I don't get it?

Pavel

Wofram|Alpha is great for this

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@flawr ikea sells "horse meat"

you have ikea in switzerland, right?

Pavel

8:42 PM

The octal representation of 25 is 31.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@Geobits nah, to do that irl you just have to grab them by the [redacted]

Geobits

@flawr I'm pretty sure there isn't one, or at least not in common usage. It's always just called horse meat in my experience.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@Pavel he was responding to the "ikea" joke

Geobits

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ I think you mixed up causation there.

Pavel

How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?

flawr

8:43 PM

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ yep

Anonymous

@flawr nytimes.com/2013/02/26/world/europe/…

Pavel

None, that's a hardware problem

MetaEd

@flawr Hippo.

flawr

@Mego ooh.

TuxCopter

@Pavel 0, it overflowed

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

8:43 PM

@Geobits WRONG

Thomas Ward

@trichoplax The only other reason I don't do the programming challenges? I am crap with coding. Sysadmin, not developer. I do like seeing the different challenges though and reading on how people achieve it :)

Pavel

To understand what recursion is, you must first understand recursion.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

ok everybody hide your socks it's a modfest

MetaEd

@Pavel s/recursion/recursion - 1/ftfy

Poke

my socks are generally covered by my pantlegs

Pavel

8:44 PM

Right...

trichoplax

@ThomasWard I also do a lot more reading than writing here...

TuxCopter

@MetaEd Invalid flag: ftfy

Geobits

I'd like to hear a programmer joke that isn't on the first page of google results or that one Q on stack overflow.

These are all just builtins

flawr

@Geobits Perhpas you remember it from last year: What did the three kings use to find baby jesus?

trichoplax

Aren't they all on that SO Q?

Geobits

8:45 PM

@trichoplax probably :P

trichoplax

@flawr I also love this one :)

Pavel

I think that's where Wolfram Alpha gets them.

flawr

@Pavel Or vice versa.

Geobits

@flawr I know I've heard it, but can't recall the punchline.

Pavel

Why are Assembly programmers always soaking wet?

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Geobits

8:46 PM

Oooh, A*

flawr

:)

Pavel

They work below C-level.

2

Poke

Why did the programmer quit his job

9

He couldn't get arrays :[

9

TuxCopter

Please don't abuse stars

trichoplax

That's not abuse

Geobits

8:48 PM

throw new HumorNotFoundException();

TuxCopter

Everything is abuse

trichoplax

It's just that the punchline isn't in a multiline comment so can't be starred all at once

DJMcMayhem

@Geobits if you hold a Linux shell up to your ear, can you hear the C?

Thomas Ward

@TuxCopter raise Warning("Not Everything Is Abuse");

Pavel

catch (HumorNotFoundException e) System.out.println("XAXAXAXA");

Anonymous

8:49 PM

@TuxCopter Crying star abuse because two consecutive messages got starred is actually more disruptive than the stars themselves.

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Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@Geobits bash.org/?870063

flawr

I just found this one:

bool startWar = false;
if(startWar = true){
    fireNukes();
}

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@Mego as seen by the fact that the message dealing with the message about star abuse has more stars than the other recent starred messages

flawr

source

Geobits

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ I think I'd have to hear that one. I can't get the meter at all from reading it like I usually can.

Unless it's just ignoring meter :P

Pavel

8:51 PM

bool startWar = false;
if(startWar = true);{
fireNukes();}
FTFY

TuxCopter

@Pavel Four spaces to monospace

Not tabs

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@Geobits lol

Thomas Ward

and it won't work with noncode added I believe

Pavel

I was trying to do backticks

Geobits

They don't work in multiline

Martin Ender

8:52 PM

@Pavel there is no markdown for multiline messages. the only thing you can do is indent the entire thing to make it a code block

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

> Highlander getSingletonInstance() // there can only be one.

Martin Ender

(or I guess you can block quote the entire thing as well)

Thomas Ward

@Pavel they don't work in multiline. You would have to split your thing up into two posts

one for the code, one for not code

flawr

...and nobody reacts to the actual joke ... :(

Pavel

I've decided it's not worth the effort to fix it anymore

And to be fair it wasn't a very funny joke

Geobits

8:53 PM

@flawr Hard to respond when you've been nuked

trichoplax

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ If the starboard wasn't already full of punchlines I'd be starring that...

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

thanks I guess?

trichoplax

:P

TimmyD

Re: the "horse-meat" topic... Why does English have different words for most meats, but not fish? Deer -> Venison, Cows -> Beef, Pigs -> Pork, Chickens -> Poultry ... Fish -> ???

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

of course that gets stars

Flp.Tkc

8:55 PM

@TimmyD because of the 1066 Norman Invasion of Britain

@TimmyD N'Chips.

Fish->Seafood

@TimmyD poisson

@TimmyD At the time the names arose, fish weren't farmed, is my best guess

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@Pavel that includes clams, oysters, etc.

Pavel

8:56 PM

Yeah

Martin Ender

@TimmyD it does for most things because the rich people who ate the stuff spoke french and the poor people who worked with the living animals spoke english

Flp.Tkc

French People Were Scared.

Pavel

I could of sworn there was a name for fish though

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

I wrote an history essay on this last year for school, I'll see if I can find it

Pavel

Maybe I'm thinking of another language

TimmyD

8:56 PM

So many pings

Flp.Tkc

They Knew That Fish Would Come Back To Haunt Them Eventually.

Zgarb

A JS programmer, a Haskell programmer and a Java programmer walk into a bar. The JS programmer pours beer into their hat, which promptly turns into a beer glass. The Haskell programmer throws a fit since their glass is not of the right color. When the Java programmer finishes ordering, the bar has closed already.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

oh god the chat is moving too fast

pls guys

Geobits

Probably because there's such a wide variety of "fish". There are different types of cow, but nothing as dramatic as the difference between, say, a minnow and a marlin.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

chiiiiillllllllll

TuxCopter

8:56 PM

@TimmyD Seems to be a romance influence for the meat names

TimmyD

@Pavel I also wouldn't call something like Walleye "seafood" since it's freshwater.

Pavel

Good point

Hosch250

@Flp.Tkc Like Sebastian.

TimmyD

@MartinEnder Wait, really? That actually kinda makes sense.

trichoplax

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Interesting. You seem to be making it worse :P

Geobits

8:57 PM

@Zgarb Wouldn't the JS programmer need to find a few more hats to mash together first, then pour the beer in that?

Zgarb

@Geobits Maybe. I don't actually know JS. :P

Hosch250

@Zgarb JS sounds like Python that way.

Geobits

Well yeah. JS programmers are usually better at writing jokes than coding :P

Pavel

Java isn't that slow. But I could see Java bringing an obscenely large glass and requests a shot.

Hosch250

variable = new Hat()
variable = new Mug()

@Pavel It's just slow to write.

Flp.Tkc

8:59 PM

@TimmyD maybe it's something to do with the fact that fish would be eaten on a "seafood" platter and therefore they didn't refer to the fish specifically? idk

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@TimmyD TL;DR: during the middle ages, the "elite" (often norman nobles) called their food by the french names, "boeuf", "porc", "pouletrie", and "poisson". The commoners called their food "cow", "pig", "chicken", and "fish".

Zgarb

@Pavel But everything has a ridiculously long name.

Pavel

'cause you need a on of code for small tasks

trichoplax

@TimmyD Sorry - I skipped ahead in my explanation. I meant because of that fact (the people farming the animals couldn't afford to eat them). So animals that weren't farmed have the same name for the meat too. Like fish and rabbits. I don't know about chickens though...

Flp.Tkc

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ he knows why. he's asking why it's not for fish.

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