The Nineteenth Byte

Erik the Outgolfer

12:17 AM

@xnor ...nah, exec doesn't do the trick

ATaco

12:53 AM

@Pavel I can confirm your PR worked correctly.

But Linq still scares me.

Mendeleev

dd = data destroyer, make sure you get the if= and of= options right so you don't end up overwriting your partition table @Sherlock9

@ATaco AFAIK your I Am Typing userscript stopped working recently... do you know why?

ATaco

Because the Webserver that hosted it was deleted.

So I need to rewrite the backend.

Mendeleev

I see

What happened that led to it being deleted?

ATaco

I ran out of money.

Mendeleev

Ok

ATaco

12:56 AM

Correction, I had run out of money.

And b/cuz I'm a smart coder, I didn't have anything backed up.

Anonymous

1:21 AM

@Downgoat I think you broke something in the design userscript with comment icons:

Anonymous

Anonymous

Final request for feedback:

Anonymous

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Date Recurrences Given three non-negative integers y, m, and d (of which at least one must be positive) and a valid date with a positive year (in any reasonable format that includes the year, month, and day, and no additional information), output the date that is y years, m months, and d days af...

Mendeleev

I like the challenge

xnor

@Mego the title made me expect something different

what does "recurrences" refer to?

Anonymous

1:31 AM

@xnor The typical use case - you have an event that recurs every y years, m months, and/or d days, and you want to see the dates that it will happen.

xnor

@Mego ok, I didn't get that, since you're only looking ahead once. I'd suggest some more direct title

Anonymous

I suck at coming up with good titles, so suggestions are always welcome

user202729

2:56 AM

Why are the comment upvote and flag options always appearing now? - Meta Stack Exchange

@Sherlock9 I don't understand. "the laptop is fine", "the hard disk itself with data intact", so what's broken?

user202729

3:15 AM

The bikeshed problem and Stack Exchange - Meta Stack Exchange

quartata

4:05 AM

@user202729 I always thought this was dumb. The two top questions on SO are about a debugging a branch prediction fail, a highly low-level optimization nuance, and a Git question that is literally searched for so often it gets almost as much traffic as the homepage

These are not the stupid questions getting thousands of upvotes that is envisioning

they are appropriately scored, in the first case by the effort put in and in the second case by its value to people from all walks of experience

user202729

Well, that's a good thing.

But.

You only show one face of the problem. (wrong idiom? ...) On the other hand, you didn't show that hard problems are appropriately scored.

quartata

Plenty of interesting SO questions hit HNQ

At the minimum, not ones of the triviality suggested there

user202729

Interesting != "real question".

quartata

Perhaps by virtue that there aren't any left to ask...

user202729

I find most of HNQ boring and duplicate.

quartata

4:16 AM

well it probably helped someone

It all comes down to what you want to reward I suppose

user202729

Also, (I think) when the score exceeds 100, it doesn't matter.

~~Except for rep.~~

quartata

Some questions may not get the attention they deserve, but I find it tough to name any modern questions that get more attention than they do deserve

Which is really more the angle of that post

W W

Easy, javascript shouldn't exists ipso facto all javascript questions get too much attention, qed.

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user202729

knows no Latin

quartata

@WW my lawyers, have instructed me to talk not in depth on this point'

user202729

4:19 AM

@quartata ~~Yes there are a lot.~~ It depends.

It depends on how you define "deserve".

quartata

nonononononono

no defining define allowed

W W

Nothing good ever started with "technically ..."

quartata

Just a joke...

user202729

there always exists a constant φ such that all question q that actually deserves at(q) attention, gets φ×at(q) attention.

So it's just a constant factor, after all.

And... of course what you think the constant factor should be is dependent on the number of users on Stack Overflow.

quartata

Um

So... You're saying that all questions either get more attention or less attention

Which means it's fair

I don't think that's what you meant

user202729

4:24 AM

... made myself confused

W W

Let's view questions as a category where the morphism are the order in which they are viewed by individual users ...

Now let question A be a terminal question and B be a coterminal question ...

We'll call the morphism between them ƒ.

quartata

3 messages moved to garbological cohomology

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user202729

The best example of a question which receives too much attention.

W W

The answer to that question always seemed painstakingly obvious to me.

I also strongly disagree that it is a bad interview question.

user202729

@WW Obviously, as this is Programming Puzzles & Code Golf.

quartata

4:36 AM

That's fair, although it's more of a fun/silly question. Hardly help vampiring

user202729

I believe that is exactly what the bikeshed meta question is addressing.

W W

@user202729 IMO this is basic object oriented debugging.

user202729

@WW "Just a joke..."

Anyway.

quartata

@user202729 the quoted example is "what is the difference between . and ->"

That's no research effort

Also, the question was closed so....

Mendeleev

how to c?

quartata

4:39 AM

Oh oops that was a moderator note

user202729

Looking at the newest Stack Overflow questions, it's very obvious that most Javascript people know less than a programmer.

quartata

All the modals look the same on mobile

Sherlock9

@user202729 The hard disk is fine but the laptop won't read it

When plugged in internally

Externally, it can be read

I probably should have just copied everything over onto the new hard disk in the first place honestly

quartata

4:57 AM

Oh, well if you can read it:

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Q: How to restore OneTab list of tabs after computer crash?

My computer crashed and I reinstall it over a new disk with chrome and the OneTab extension. However, I can't find where OneTab is storing my data under my former disk. I used this answer Where does Chrome store extensions? to go to the folder but there is no file dated close to the computer cras...

google-chrome-extension

Sherlock9

Yeah that's what I meant

Oh bless you sir

quartata

I assumed you were trying to do data recovery, and I thought it was weird this was the only file you cared about

It would have been easy to do a signature scan for though

Sherlock9

Signature scan?

quartata

look for certain strings

Blog post claims it uses an SQLite database so I'm sure it'd be easy to find even with the file system busted

Sherlock9

I think I saw an SQLite database when I was looking last night

quartata

5:08 AM

It's still stored in localStorage

user202729

5:31 AM

@Sherlock9 Probably the laptop's hard disk reader is broken...?

Lynn

6:27 AM

@xnor I see! then my "fun" 38 is off the mark enough that I can share it:

a=0
b=1
while'%c'%a:print(a);a,b=b,a+b

(I also have un-fun 38s a-plenty)

Sherlock9

7:34 AM

@user202729 It isn't because it reads the new hard disk just fine

Thanks for the suggestion though

user202729

...? So what is broken?

Sherlock9

I don't know

The old hard drive can't be read internally, just externally

user202729

You're using Windows, I suppose.

Try using another OS.

Sherlock9

Yes, I said that earlier

This is specifically my Windows machine

For gaming

user202729

Then it's probably just a software issue.

Looking online for solution...

Sherlock9

7:48 AM

Internal drive not recognized, sir

As in, it won't boot

The old one anyway. The new one was fine

*is, excuse me

Neil

8:25 AM

maybe it's just some of the boot data that's corrupt, which is why it works as an external drive

Sherlock9

8:35 AM

That would make sense. I'm not sure how to fix that though

Neil

I think if you boot from media then you can try something called startup repair

user202729

8:52 AM

So that hard disk is also used for booting?

Lynn

12:05 PM

@xnor this is so tricky! I have a hunch about what the code should look like but I'm trying everything of that form and nothing works

I have 37-byte programs to print 32 Fibonacci numbers, or 29 Fibonacci numbers... ^^

every other form I can think of is 38 bytes or longer. there surely aren't that many ways to loop in Python, arghh

Sherlock9

So the timeline was:
- Old hard drive was used for booting in laptop.
- Laptop got coke in it.
- After laptop was determined to be fine, old hard drive would not boot, but would work externally.
- New hard drive procured for internal use in laptop.
- Am now trying to find specific files from old hard drive so that I can retrieve data from them

@Neil Will try that. Thanks Neil

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