The Nineteenth Byte

Mr. Xcoder

21:02

;-; the cure cat's gone again

@EsolangingFruit I think your nomination would be better suited for "Kansas City Shuffle"

@Mr.Xcoder cute*

H.PWiz

@Mr.Xcoder It was the first answer to that question

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Hexcells is a game based off of Minesweeper played on hexagons. (Full disclosure: I have nothing to do with Hexcells. In fact I don't really like the game.) Most of Hexcells rules can be pretty easily expressed in Generalized Minesweeper (Minesweeper played on an arbitrary graph). The one that ...

Zacharý

How many times has wheat wizard changed his name and icon?

wizzwizz4

21:22

@Zacharý >9000.

Zacharý

...

wizzwizz4

I know what you're thinking.

> That's impossible!

However, there are enough SE sites to, if you abuse the rules, allow you to manage that in...

Zacharý

I meant the meme reference

Just no

Heeby Jeeby Man

I've only changed my name a few times. Usually for just a short while and then back. I've changed my picture many times

wizzwizz4

I estimate it'll take about 10.6 years, to make that, if you start now.

Assuming SE doesn't grow any more, 10.93 years.

Zacharý

21:28

And that assumed it doesn't die

wizzwizz4

Oh, wait.

I was out by a factor of 10.

Make that 0.1093 millennia.

Zacharý

Now my personal computer won't turn on, great.

Heeby Jeeby Man

You can always change your name if you have changed it in the last 5 minutes

wizzwizz4

@HeebyJeebyMan Really?

Is that a grace period?

Heeby Jeeby Man

yep

wizzwizz4

21:30

Aw.

If it were a resetting timer then it could be accomplished in under a day.

But as it's a grace period, it depends on how much the SE servers can cope.

betseg

@Zacharý rm -rf /?

@HeebyJeebyMan 5 min since the first change or last change? like change-wait 4 min-change-etc

wizzwizz4

@betseg Probably grace period, since that's how the rest of SE works.

Zacharý

No, Jesus I didn't do that!

Heeby Jeeby Man

@betseg I'm pretty sure it is last change

Zacharý

Whoops

wizzwizz4

21:37

wolframalpha.com/input/…

Actually, 2030 days.

About 5.56 years.

I sound like.

Zacharý

It's working now

wizzwizz4

@Zacharý Make a backup.

I estimate you won't have a computer in 6 minutes.

Then it'll be back again.

betseg

lol

Zacharý

There's nothing on there I really need to back up

wizzwizz4

@Zacharý So, you wouldn't mind if it was all gone?

Too late, I remotely bricked it.

Zacharý

21:41

It turned on. It's back to the black screen. Now to wait for emergency mode.

wizzwizz4

If you don't care about the contents, just wipe and redo.

Delete that bloatware whilst you're at it.

Zacharý

I don't care about the contents in the Linux. Dual boot machine. Don't care much, but I do care a little, about the windows portion

wizzwizz4

Oh.

In which case, put the Windows portion in a box where it can't break anything else.

I expected that you could delete that laggy bloatware, but -

Is this Windows 10 / Vista?

Zacharý

10

wizzwizz4

I expected you could delete that laggy bloatware, but unfortunately not.

Zacharý

21:46

My grandmother got me the computer with Windows on it for my birthday, so it holds some sentimental value

Even the windows

wizzwizz4

Oh, ok.

That makes sense.

The only reasons I keep Windows are:

1. It's a good OS.

2. It's Windows 10 but I can't configure the UEFI without it.

3. I don't want to remove it for some bizarre reason, despite it being Windows 10.

Zacharý

I should try Arch Linux sometime. Not today though

betseg

its so good

wizzwizz4

@betseg I've heard that.

betseg

i can configure uefi without windows

with only arch

wizzwizz4

21:50

I'm loyal to Debian, however, because it calls itself GNU/Linux and I can't work out how to use SEDE Linux.

Zacharý

Yeah, I might hate myself enough to have three operating systems

betseg

debian calls itself a gnu/linux because it doesnt have proprietary software

arch does

Zacharý

Isn't the Arch Linux forms sure really confusing? I heard that futon from a friend

betseg

no? wut

Zacharý

Or was it something you had to do to create an account?

betseg

21:53

nope, just a basic TTY installation

maybe thats the confusing part? no GUI?

Zacharý

I remember him saying there was a command you had to run in order to create an account on the Arch Linux forms. It was some time ago

wizzwizz4

@Zacharý That's the same with every OS.

Some of them have a GUI that does it for you.

betseg

@Zacharý oh that thing

captcha for arch forums

Zacharý

That is definitely it

wizzwizz4

That's easy to crack.

Zacharý

21:58

Pardon me for my ignorance

betseg

sha384sum of "[UTC week number]+Linux"

Zacharý

Ah, I think I remember him telling me something about it ... That might have been it

betseg

just a captcha that's easier for bots than humans ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Zacharý

Random question: is there a language that can utilize a main-like function or commands immediately in the source code?

Why did that send twice?

betseg

mobile site is great

just wait 5 more seconds to edit after posting the message on mobile

Zacharý

22:09

Ah,. That makes sense

betseg

btw, i dont understand the question

Zacharý

Like, if python could have C's main function

betseg

if __name__ == "__main__":

@Zacharý ^ ?

mainish for python

Zacharý

I mean if you could do int a=2;printf("%d",a);int main(){printf("hi");return 0;} in C

betseg

ohh

DJMcMayhem

22:16

@Zacharý You can do the first, just not the second

(global variables)

Zacharý

I know

betseg

btw, y tho

DJMcMayhem

You can sorta fake statements outside of main in C++ by putting them in a globals constructor

Try it online!

Zacharý

@betseg just searching for weird things in languages.

betseg

@DJMcMayhem godbolt.org/g/sofMVu so GCC just calls list.push_back() 4 times (line 249)

(compiled with -O3 because otherwise it's thousands of lines long)

Zacharý

22:29

This emergency mode wait is going to take a while

betseg

@Zacharý how would that be different from a script language

Zacharý

It wouldn't, I'm asking if there's a script language that lets you do that with a function.

betseg

a=2
print(a)
if __name__=="__main__":
    print("hi")
    import sys
    sys.exit(0)

?

that's useful if you want to import that file to just get the value of a

Zacharý

The GUI on my Linux won't even pop up now...

wizzwizz4

@Zacharý startx?

I've done that before.

sudo startx works fine.

Zacharý

22:36

sudo init 5 worked last time.

betseg

can you login as another user?

su [username]

Zacharý

I logged in as self

I have no other users

wizzwizz4

I think you should run sudo init 4 instead.

betseg

oh, so not single user mode

wizzwizz4

init 4 is poorly defined.

Zacharý

22:39

Mego, you lied to me!!

wizzwizz4

It could do anything.

It might solve your problem.

It might start apache.

Zacharý

Didn't solve it

wizzwizz4

:-(

betseg

tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/run-levels-intro.html -> 4: not used

wizzwizz4

sudo init 5 usually puts it into "normal" mode.

betseg

22:40

# init 1
Excess arguments.

hm

Zacharý

I have python... Somehow

wizzwizz4

@Zacharý Yay!

def f():
    try:
        return f() * f()
    except:
        try:
            return f() + 1
        except:
            return 2

Zacharý

In the emergency terminal thing

@wizzwizz4 eh?

betseg

> Welcome to emergency mode! After logging in, type "journalctl -xb" to view system logs, "systemctl reboot" to reboot, "systemctl default" or ^D to try again to boot into dafault mode. Press Enter for maintenance (or press control-D to continue):

@zac does it say this

wizzwizz4

@Zacharý What is the value of f() on your machine?

If the machine's set up right, it should be constant.

It might take a while to run.

Zacharý

22:43

Yes, and why did @zac ping me

betseg

first 3 letters

Zacharý

Til

betseg

@Zacharý if yes, oh boy did your disk screw up

you need fsck

from a live usb

or just clean install

preferably arch linux

wizzwizz4

@Zack

Zacharý

I officially blame Eclipse

Fsck, I need fsck.

betseg

22:46

you know how to fsck?

you know how to file system consistency check?

wizzwizz4

It's harder than tar!

betseg

fsck.ext4 /dev/sdxy

Zacharý

No, I do not want to know as of now, and no, I do not know how to file system consistency check

betseg

sdxy being your partition

@Zacharý just told before you posted that message :/

Zacharý

I posted late

How do I determine my partition

wizzwizz4

22:49

@Zacharý Don't.

yes > /dev/sda will wipe your drive just fine.

betseg

plz no

Zacharý

I'm not that oblivious

@wizzwizz4 ^

betseg

@Zacharý write lsblk and try to find

Zacharý

Efi or /?

betseg

efi partition should be fat32

/ should be ext4

Zacharý

22:57

Y to fix?

betseg

probably

havent actually used fsck for, like, ever

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Sparse Protractor code-golf math Given some positive integer n, design a protractor with the fewest number of marks that lets you measure all angles that are an integral multiple of 2π/n (each in a single measurement). Details As an output, you may output a list of integers in the range 0 to...

Zacharý

Then do the same to efi partition?

betseg

nah it boots up fine

but if you still want to do it use fsck.fat / fsck.fat32 instead of fsck.ext4

Zacharý

Is there a command line way to reboot? I am afraid I'll screw it up.

betseg

23:01

reboot

Zacharý

Pardon my ignorance and precaution

betseg

init 6

Zacharý

...

betseg

shutdown -r

@Zacharý plenty

Zacharý

Different black screen this time

betseg

23:02

what does it say

Zacharý

A little bit before what it had before.

I might have to resort to Windows. Prepare for updates

betseg

Linux 💔you

Zacharý

Yeah, computers and hardware in general hates me

betseg

try running fsck.ext4 /dev/sda7 on a live usb

we actually unix.se now

Zacharý

Lol

betseg

23:19

why do up/charm/top quarks have half the charge of down/strange/bottom

codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/102378/56721 i dont deserve 27 upvotes just for being the FGITW

there are answers that deserve those upvotes more than me

Zacharý

All votes belong to QFT

betseg

23:35

qft?

Zacharý

Quest for Tetris

betseg

true

caird coinheringaahing

TIL that I can do recursion in my language :/ It took 6 months to discover though.

betseg

in your language as in..?

Zacharý

Which language

caird coinheringaahing

23:40

Add++

Zacharý

Ninja

'd

Eh

Isn't as++ supposed to be not tc?

caird coinheringaahing

No... Why do you think that?

Zacharý

Dunno

I accidentally clicked "full site", any one know how to get back to the mobile version?

caird coinheringaahing

Click 'mobile' in the bottom left corner

Zacharý

Merci!

caird coinheringaahing

23:53

Pas problem!

Zacharý

:)

I don't give up just yet, but I probably will soon

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parted
select /dev/sda
rm 7

in case you change your mind again

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