The Nineteenth Byte

1:35 AM

I did extrmely well on the ACT, but my GPA is kinda crap, so now I'm getting all this mail from univirsities I don't actually have a chance of getting into inviting me to apply :(

DJMcMayhem

How well?

I got a 33? Or a 32? I don't remember exactly

@DJMcMayhem 36 in science, 35 on the rest.

1:55 AM

35 on the math, crappy everything else. I will keep retaking until I get that 36

mudkip201

Oof. That sucks

I mean crappy by my standards, they were all low-to-mid 30s

So, I've heard about the Broccoli freak-out

@Zacharý ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yep

@Zacharý ?

2:03 AM

@MDXF discord.gg/9n4dAzH

Finding the original creator, and the overall atmosphere about it

Wait but what's so magical about Broccoli

@MDXF IDK, they mentioned it on the podcast and it's a PPCG meme now.

If only every dead language got that love

@Pavel Ah, fun

Downgoat

2:18 AM

@Pavel GPA really doesn't matter, I mean your grades should be generally B or above but if you have exceptional ability and passion I don't think you should hesitate to apply to top universities

@Downgoat Obviously I'll still apply everywhere, but :/

Somehow, my weighted GPA's still above 4. I have no clue how

:O thank you for reminding me that weighted GPA is a thing

I suddenly feel better about myself.

:)

Let me guess, everything's about .5 to 1 point higher?

@Zacharý Every class my school offers is either honors or AP.

2:22 AM

@Pavel ._.

mudkip201

...

What kind of school is that, eh?

@Zacharý Over here we have certain schools that you can apply to and get in by lottery called choice schools. They're generally much better than the regular public schools.

Ahhh, that makes sense as to how everything's honors or AP. But I would expect that they would offer classes that are normal, for people who SUCK at something (like my writing)

@Zacharý They used to, but only 1 or 2 students would apply every year, so there was no purpose keeping them around.

2:27 AM

Oh, 1 or 2 applied to the lower-level courses?

(Hopefully not the school)

@Zacharý Yeah

Ah

And obviously everyone knows who that is, since it's a small school, so there's a lot of pressure not to.

The fact that a group of people would pressure for something like that, seems very foreign to me. Where I live, ..., let's just leave it as that sounds foreign

Anonymous

2:44 AM

@Pavel Sounds like magnet schools in the US

@Mego This is WA. I imagine it has different names in different places.

Anonymous

Oh, yeah

Anonymous

In Texas they're called magnet schools

in MO I've never heard of them .-.

@Mego Must just be southerners?

2:55 AM

Any good C++ golfers in the room?

I can golf other's C++ code decently

I've already golfed the methods down, I'm just looking for various source improvements. gist.github.com/aaronryank/8aa359b14864dd999184a63313f185c8

You know, #define F for and such

Ooooh, macros. I love doing those

... until I realized how big it was

Yep, currently 1600-ish bytes

:)

aren't #defines shorter than typedefs?

oh wait they're the same size

2:57 AM

They're different, #define doesn't require a semicolon

ah

... just noticed I have two typedefs

yep lol

Wait, no, #define requires a newline

Same size

But ... I 've been ninja'd

3:00 AM

157 bytes of array declarations ...

_ O[]={0,262143,259263,74943,74898},A[][8]={{0,1,2,3,0,1,2,3},{4,7,6,5,4,5,6,7},{0‌,9,4,8,0,3,5,4},{2,10,6,11,2,1,7,6},{3,11,7,9,3,2,6,5},{1,8,5,10,1,0,4,7}};

do you need to add the _ at the beginning? doesn't gcc assume int by default?

O[p]&(1<<m) => O[p]&1<<m. And everything like that, operator precidence

@NickClifford not in C++

ah

((s[e]>7)?2:(s[e]&1)): 0/10, too many parens

:p

3:02 AM

Hmm how could I golf that down without pulling up five guides about C++ operator precedence

The latter one is just common sense

Can I safely remove parens from <<(2*e)?

Especially not needing parens around s[e] > 7

@MDXF Yes]

2*(m%3) => m%3*2

I actually love doing this, for some reason.

It's rather fun but I'm out of practice, I've been golfing in (my) esolangs lately

I mean I love golfing order of operations and macros on other people's code a bit too much.

3:06 AM

Yay under 1600 bytes

Why can't the parenthesis from (i&3)==3?i-3:i+1 be removed?

Because & is evaluated after ==, for some reason. The way it does work helps for golfs as well, when chaining equalities, & can be used instead of &&

Odd but thanks

Why doesn't this compile? It's fine in C

Because unicode. (I have no clue)

3:21 AM

@MDXF C++ is generally stricter than C. You can't do things like printf without #include <stdio.h> in C++ either.

@Mr.Xcoder Who's the line that surpasses ~~Chuck Norris~~ Jon Skeet?