The Nineteenth Byte

1:27 AM

which one's the default, just the basic "Text" app?

like chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/text/…

2:07 AM

Yeah

to be fair it is quite nice (especially for my low expectations of anything on chromebook lol)

2:39 AM

It only gets annoying when you try to use C/Java, since Text's version of CodeMirror doesn't seem to work for syntax highlighting those.

As for chromebooks, they've evolved massively. They now come with a built-in Debian VM, so you can run C compilers, IDEs, even games on them. Although I use a dedicated laptop with OK specs for gaming, I do all my programming on a $300 chromebook and don't notice any inefficiencies at all.

(Other than the 30 seconds to boot up the VM, which just involves clicking the "Terminal" button and checking email while it loads)

3:02 AM

oh, I see. oh that's cool! I mean, my judgement is not particularly valid because I was using a school-issued chromebook that had about -1 features on it and I could barely run Chrome until eventually it died before I even finished high school sooo

yeah I basically used it for like, just about nothing near the end of high school cuz I just brought my other laptop to school (because i tend to keep a lot of tabs open and also want to code a bunch which is annoying on a school chromebook that can't even easily run python)

School issued computers are the worst. My school gave everyone windows laptops that take 5 minutes to open Chrome/Edge, and they force the traffic through a filtered VPN. Even worse, it goes down all the time so you can't even do school work on their school laptops.

oh yikes. yeah the school's entire network is filtered so at least it's not that slow. and actually the school's internet is usually surprisingly fast somehow

except when literally the entire school board's internet goes down 5 times within the first two weeks of school for several hours at a time xD that was funny

Unrealted, but...there's a constructed languages SE?

pppery

why wouldn't there be one?

@Lyxal the PPCG Gaming discord kinda dead ngl

@RedwolfPrograms I don't know when these people will learn that more restriction won't make students any more obedient

it just makes them smarter at circumventing the rules

3:16 AM

(myparents.exe)

wait conlang.SE has been around for over 2 and a half years already???

damn i'm getting old i thought it was a lot younger, I joined conlang as it was just opening to public beta (not really i'm really not old i just have bad memory)

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bruh, don't get old before school ends

do it after that

oh for the record i'm not in HS anymore i think i made that entirely not at all clear lol

i still should get old after uni ends tho not before :P

i figured, nobody gives away laptps in HS anyway

oh I'm really bad at communicating

I was still in HS last year, and I had a school-issued chromebook from high school

I'm using my own laptop for uni, I don't think they offer either laptops or even discounted offers

chromebooks with surveillance software

those thing can barely run on their own

anyway how is voitng so var for everyone

3:25 AM

I don't even think it's the schools' faults, it's the stupid laws like CIPA

cipa the title actually sounds pretty good

yeah, probably. I mean I feel like the only reason the school board can afford to give everyone a chromebook is because our school emails are set up on gmail and most other major email services are blocked so there's probably some sketchy business deal going on

but maybe I'm too cynical

looks terribly implemented though

we have 181 voters that have already voted as of right now

Gov'ts need to stay out of tech until they understand it well enough

3:27 AM

oh. definitely

those videos on yt of like governors asking google/facebook ceo about privacy and stuff are so cringe

i mean this is also what happens when your entire government is like 60+ lol

182 now lol

nice :P

"So what's this 'internet', Mr. Secretary?"
"Well, it lets people communic..."
"Can people use it to break laws?"
"Well, yeah, but..."
"We need more restrictions."
"Well, sure. But there're more to it tha..."
"And what about the children? Make it so they need to be spied on to make sure they aren't misusing it"
"Oh, of course! It's obviously the people who have grown up with it that least understand it and need intrusive governments to ensure they're using it properly"

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ah just like basic human rights

Lyxal

3:43 AM

@Razetime no no #gaming on main

Can you use SEDE to get a user's reputation for each site they're on?

I don't think so because single SEDE query runs on single site only.

I'm pretty sure you can't because you have to query a specific site.

Ninja'd with same byte count

I wonder if you could use SE API for that then

3:48 AM

Wait I thought it was just identical length by appearance, they're actually the same character length too??

n i c e

:P

@RedwolfPrograms Seems that you are required to specify a site in the query args of API queries as well, so you could but you'd have to query each site manually, which is still annoying

pppery

SEDE queries comparing data across multiple sites are definitely possible

Actually, it looks like the /users/{ids}/associated/ page has the rep for each site: api.stackexchange.com/2.2/users/10936061/associated

(using myself as an example)

Hmm, that's lots of information

3:54 AM

Yeah. Also, I had no idea I had that many 101 rep accounts solely to leave comments on posts. Might need to clean those up.

oh, that's not the API query I would've expected to give the reputation for each site :P

I ctrl-F'd reputation so I didn't find it lol

New Main Posts

5:32 AM

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Q: Plot a centered circle

Intro Given radius \$r\$, draw a circle in the center of the screen. Sandbox. The Challenge Here is a simple challenge. Plot a circle using the formula \$x^2+y^2=r^2\$, or any other formula that will plot a circle according to the given parameters. You may use any units that your language provide...

Q: No. Of Factors Does the Number Have

7:51 AM

Announcement: The online interpreter for Flurry is live! Language details can be found in the link, and some previous discussions and golfing tips can be found in the Flurry chat room.

New Main Posts

8:02 AM

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Create a function which takes in a input integer and then returns the number of factors it has, like if you pass 25 then it will return 3 since it has 3 factors i.e. 1,5,25. Challenge: Make the fastest and the smallest code!

code-golf fastest-code python factoring

@Bubbler cool, how difficult is flurry?

@Razetime It requires some knowledge about how lambda calculus/combinator calculus works, and it's somewhat hard to find challenges to solve due to I/O restrictions.

And it was pretty hard to solve x==y, and the solutions to x/y and x%y are yet unknown.

8:27 AM

ok sounds crazy

whats a good place to get info on lambda/combinator calculus?

Lambda calculus, Combinator calculus, Church numerals

I don't have any introductory resource

And major part of converting arbitrary lambda calculus into Flurry code involves SKI calculus

8:45 AM

h

ah.

I've seen ski before.

also wikipeadia is not the most fun place to learn lol

Imma try searching a bit

Mr Redstoner

9:08 AM

I had an idea about making a challenge involving non-identity involutions. Basically a function that when applied twice returns the original input. However for all reasonable domains (integer, unsigned integer, string) I can think of trivial solutions (mul -1, xor 1, reverse).

So instead I though it could be a nice popularity-contest, like making the function 'cool' in some way (for example maps your name to "CodeGolf" etc.) but I want to ask here before going all out making official specs in the Sandbox

@MrRedstoner It has been long since we started to avoid popularity contests altogether (main argument being "it is not an objective winning criterion").

Mr Redstoner

@Bubbler Ah, good to know. That's why I wanted to ask first.

Maybe you could require that every possible value maps to something else, so e.g. for strings, reverse is an invalid answer (due to palindromes).

Or even a function which becomes identity when applied three times.

Or take an integer and output a function that becomes identity when applied that many times?

Mr Redstoner

Every input has to map to something else might work, but definitelly needs the empty string included as input, otherwise treating it as unsigned number(s) gives you a trivial solution. The three times might work, will think about it

Neil

9:46 AM

@Bubbler still trivial, x => x % 3 ? x - 1 : x + 2

ugh, replied to wrong comment, but nm

@Neil How about strings?

Neil

@Bubbler just treat as an integer in bijective base 256

(or whatever the character set for the string in question is)