The Nineteenth Byte

ChartZ Belatedly

3:00 PM

Man, I was so close with the user id for the Old Sandbox Posts bot: 101104

Redwolf Programs

Okay what is the point of A101104

ChartZ Belatedly

CMC: A101104

Redwolf Programs

JS: [1,12,23].map(alert);for(;;)alert(24)

rak1507

can I have f(0)=1 instead of f(1)?

Redwolf Programs

That's usually allowed I think

rak1507

3:04 PM

APL: 24⌊1+11×⊢

(works in lots of languages)

python: lambda x:min(24,1+11*x)

Wezl

jq: [1,12,23][.]//24, 16 bytes, indexing instead of producing

user

@ChartZBelatedly Scala, naive answer: 1#::12#::23#::Stream.continually(24)

Bubbler

rust: |x|24.min(1+11*x)

Wezl

@Bubbler jq, 15 bytes, [24,1+11*.]|min

rak1507

@user can scala do something like min(24,1+11*_)

user

3:12 PM

@rak1507 Yeah, 24 min 1+11*_

@rak1507 math.min(24, 1+11*_) wouldn't work because it would be interpreted as math.min(24, x=>1+11*x) instead of x=>math.min(24,1+11*x), unfortunately

rak1507

ooh, min is infix, coool

ahh that makes sense

Wezl

nooo not more keywords, that's a bad idea

user

@Wezl Why? (and are you talking about min? It's not a keyword)

Wezl

@user they're disgusting and make for a less extensible language

oh ok, if it's not a keyword, what is it?

user

@Wezl Too many keywords make for verbose and confusing code, but just the right amount makes for clear code.

Bubbler

3:15 PM

I don't see any keywords there though

user

@Wezl It's just a simple method. foo.bar(baz) can be written as foo bar baz in Scala.

Wezl

ok that's acceptable

rak1507

no it isn't

user

But foo bar (baz, foobar, blah) is foo.bar(baz, foobar, blah), not foo.bar((baz, foobar, blah)) (with a tuple) which is IMO a huge mistake.

rak1507

that's horrible, whitespace has different meaning depending on context

user

3:17 PM

@rak1507 ? It's more natural

Wezl

@rak1507 horrible I agree, but better than more keywords

Adám

@user What is the a.b(c) form of foo bar baz goo moo?

Bubbler

foo.bar(baz).goo(moo), no?

user

@Adám Left-associative with same precedence, so foo.bar(baz).goo(moo)

@Bubbler Yup

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Q: Parse a Scala expression

Scala isn't a very commonly used language around here. Most of those who know it like it[citation needed], but some go :\ when they encounter its user-defined operators, saying they're too complicated. However, they're governed by a very simple set of rules, outlined here. Their precedence depend...

Wezl

sorry my cat just jumped on my keyboard

Adám

3:18 PM

@user And foo bar baz goo?

user

@Adám Invalid (unless you unable postfix operators, which is highly discouraged)

rak1507

@user if there are 3 things I hate it's 1) lists B) hypocrisy and 3) inconsistency

Adám

@user unable?

user

@Adám enable, sorry

@rak1507 Scala 3 aims to fix the last 2

Wezl

@rak1507 why do you hate lists? what kinds of lists?

user

3:19 PM

@Wezl Joke ?

Adám

@Wezl What OS are you on?

rak1507

it was meant to be a joke

ChartZ Belatedly

@rak1507 The worst thing when coding is poor variable names and off-by-one errors

Wezl

@Adám a bad one, does that matter?

Adám

@Wezl Well, UX OSs come with a built-in command to temporarily disable the keyboard so your cat walking on it doesn't cause harm.

Wezl

3:20 PM

@ChartZBelatedly I like the variant with concurrency

@Adám it was completely unexpected, so I don't think that would help

Adám

Oh,

ChartZ Belatedly

@Wezl If ] was all you got from your cat walking on your keyboard, you have a very restrained cat :P

user

Or a broken keyboard

Wezl

@ChartZBelatedly all I got before they pressed the enter button

Redwolf Programs

My cats have a habit of pushing the close button in the top right of the screen with their faces

ChartZ Belatedly

3:24 PM

Dammit, my bot keeps getting Captcha'd :/

Wezl

@Wezl news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26406351

user

@ChartZBelatedly I hope it's better than me at solving them :P

ChartZ Belatedly

Well, it's a bot, so it isn't great :P

user

@ChartZBelatedly Same

Redwolf Programs

They should just make captchas ask you to determine if a program halts :p

user

3:26 PM

@RedwolfPrograms That would be doable for certain programs

Adám

CMC popularity-contest: This.

New Sandboxed Posts

0

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

A Strange Sequence Challenge Write a function that takes a set of positive integers and outputs an integer. Winning criterion is codegolf, shortest bytes win. Your function will take input in the form of a set of distinct prime powers. Let's call this set \$S\$. You will use \$S\$ to compute the ...

Wezl

@Adám create a variant? print that?

Adám

@RedwolfPrograms The British APL Association uses an APL expression as CAPTCHA.

user

The 3 hardest things in programming are: 1) Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Adám

3:27 PM

@Wezl Create some code that does something like that when given a list.

rak1507

@Adám oh, that reminds me, that's today at 4 right

Adám

Indeed.

rak1507

:( I will probably miss the first ~half an hour

Redwolf Programs

I can't decide between rivers and ponds for my KotH's terrain generation

and I don't want both

but I can't decide which would be better

user

Ponds are less dangerous, I'd prefer those over rivers.

ChartZ Belatedly

3:30 PM

Rivers are more interesting

Ponds are just dead rivers

user

@ChartZBelatedly It's harder to die from dead things.

Redwolf Programs

I think I'll go with ponds, just because making rivers look like rivers is way harder

Bubbler

On the same HN thread: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26409428

Neil

@Adám that links to gold code-golf to me, did you mean codegolf.stackexchange.com/help/badges/134/math

Gold Farmer Sprow

3:59 PM

Should I ban builtins for codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/220516/…

There's lots of answers already but some people say it's a good idea

ChartZ Belatedly

@GoldFarmerSprow Maybe when you first posted, but definitely not after so many answers have been posted

Wasif

Nope I don't suggest to do so

Gold Farmer Sprow

Okay thanks

They're annoying though, I wish I had banned them :(

ChartZ Belatedly

@GoldFarmerSprow We suggest using the Sandbox for questions in the future by the way, to avoid uncertainties like this :)

Wasif

Why can't I quote posts? What's the problem

Gold Farmer Sprow

4:01 PM

@ChartZBelatedly Thanks!

ChartZ Belatedly

@Wasif How do you mean?

Wezl

@Wasif in a comment? answer? chat message?

Wasif

@Wezl Chat message

@ChartZBelatedly Can you quote them

Adám

@Neil Yes.

Wezl

\> quoted part without the backslash

ChartZ Belatedly

4:03 PM

> quote

Wasif

@ChartZBelatedly Oh reloaded the page now I can quote chat messages, sorry

ChartZ Belatedly

Oh, do you mean quoting like this?

Wasif

@ChartZBelatedly Nope because of network problem I think the chat page didn't load fully, then The curved arrow shaped buttons to quote message to another user disappeared (You can see I can't quote GoldSparrow) post, It has been fixed now

ChartZ Belatedly

@Wasif Oh, replying?

Clicking the "reply to this message" button?

Wasif

@ChartZBelatedly Yeah that, I didn't knew the exact word to express that (Not a native english speaker)

ChartZ Belatedly

4:09 PM

@Wasif No worries, we got there eventually :)

Wezl

@Wasif the hover text says "link my next chat message as a reply to this", though I guess you couldn't access that

Wasif

@Wezl Yes I was talking about that button, Now i am able to access that

I think this is the one reason mobile chat is better, we just press a message and reply to that ;-)

Gold Farmer Sprow

Why do questions get so many more votes than answers

ChartZ Belatedly

@GoldFarmerSprow Because each question has >10 answers, but only 1 question

Wezl

if there's only a few answers, though, I'd say there's usually more votes for the best answer

Gold Farmer Sprow

4:16 PM

It's annoying when I put less work on a question then answers but I get way more from the question

ChartZ Belatedly

Personally, I upvote any question I answer and I upvote any valid answer to my challenges (barring a few exceptions), and if everyone does the same, then questions will get more upvotes

Wasif

@GoldFarmerSprow people usually like to upvote question, instead of going through the answers and vote on each one, same goes for downvoting, but it doesn't mean that answers are ignored

user

Can't do much about it :\

Wezl

especially e.g. the GOL tetris got a lot of votes but it didn't take much work (I assume), but the answers got more because it was hard

user

If you're proud of your answer, that's good enough. It doesn't matter that other people don't see it.

Gold Farmer Sprow

4:17 PM

Also I answer lot of old questions :\

ChartZ Belatedly

@GoldFarmerSprow I know how this sounds coming from a high rep user, but honestly, the best thing to do is to ignore rep :/ People will upvote what they want to, and they don't really care what you think of your answers, unfortunately

@Wezl It took a year and a half of work

user

16 hours ago, by user

Someone needs to make a .anguish extension for files that lets others feel your pain

ChartZ Belatedly

@user's advice is the best way to look at it, tbh

(not that bit of advice :P)

Wezl

@ChartZBelatedly * writing the question

ChartZ Belatedly

@Wezl Oh yeah, the question's an awful example for people wanting to see how to write a good first question

Wezl

4:20 PM

actually I was wrong and @GoldFarmerSprow is correct, because the question still got more votes than any single answer

Gold Farmer Sprow

What question?

ChartZ Belatedly

@Wezl The answers also got ~10k in bounties IIRC

user

Upvotes on questions used to be +5 rep, right?

ChartZ Belatedly

1115

Q: Build a working game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life

Here is a theoretical question - one that doesn't afford an easy answer in any case, not even the trivial one. In Conway's Game of Life, there exist constructs such as the metapixel which allow the Game of Life to simulate any other Game-of-Life rule system as well. In addition, it is known that...

code-challenge game cellular-automata game-of-life tetris

@user Yep, and thank god they changed it :P

Wezl

@ChartZBelatedly ok true so it almost supports my claim

Gold Farmer Sprow

4:23 PM

That question doesn't deserve that many votes I think

Wasif

@Wezl In stack overflow image is opposite, answer usually get more upvotes than question

ChartZ Belatedly

@GoldFarmerSprow Before the answers, it was at about +400 IIRC. Getting answered (which got reported in some tech websites/newspapers) brought in a bunch of new users who upvoted it to the moon

Wasif

@user yeah the rule change was to encourage more questions

user

@Wasif CGCC is much more upvote-happy than SO.

Wasif

@user Yeah I don't understand what problem they have, any newbie will get more than 5 downvotes and over 10 comments explaining the problem with the question

Gold Farmer Sprow

4:28 PM

What's PPCG?

Wasif

@GoldFarmerSprow Programming puzzles and code golf

user

@Wasif Because newbies often write poor questions.

Wasif

Later our site name changed Code golf and coding challenges

ChartZ Belatedly

@GoldFarmerSprow The old name of the site

user

I admit, the tone on SO is not as friendly as here.

ChartZ Belatedly

4:30 PM

35

Q: What are our specific abbreviations and terms?

Newcomers to codegolf.SE are often compelled to ask what many of our abbreviations and terms mean. Let us list them here so this information always will be easily available.

discussion chat new-users faq-proposed

Gold Farmer Sprow

Thanks!

ChartZ Belatedly

@user Understandably. I'd be just as annoyed as them if 99% of our questions were the off-topic/VLQ/spam they get

user

@ChartZBelatedly And it doesn't help that people take downvotes and closed questions personally (I do that too, even though I know it's not meant to insult me or something). Perhaps if "close" could be changed to something else to indicate non-permanence, it would be better.

@user I'm talking about unclear questions and stuff, of course, not duplicates or spam.

pxeger

anyone else have an ungodly obsession with golfing their TIO headers and footers?

4

user

@pxeger No, but I have a godly one :P

ChartZ Belatedly

4:35 PM

Ugh, I just spent 30 minutes debugging my Jelly code, turns out I forgot which way i takes it's arguments ಠ_ಠ

Wasif

@pxeger Nope, because I rarely use Headers and footers ;-) (except posting a C# answer)

expressjs123

My answers are boring and unimaginative, what could I do to make them more interesting while maintaining a low byte count?

Wezl

@expressjs123 JQuery :::D

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Wasif

@expressjs123 codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/2682/… + plus some research

expressjs123

@Wezl Could you give an example? I mean, yes, you're right, jQuery would be useful in DOM-related challenges

Wasif

4:49 PM

@expressjs123 It's just a joke needsmorejquery.com

expressjs123

@Wasif thanks for the link, pretty sure I might have heard the jquery joke before

Redwolf Programs

Learn (or make!) an interesting esolang, or find interesting old challenges

Wezl

I should make a bounty for shortening javascript answers using jquery

Wasif

@RedwolfPrograms Learning an esolang is harder than making one

Redwolf Programs

Harder than making a simple one, yes.

user

4:57 PM

@Wasif Depends on the esolang

Wasif

@user yes serious esolangs are less in number

Redwolf Programs

But making an interesting esolang that's not just a trivial BF derivative takes a while

Wezl

you can make one easily but learning a general purpose esolang like befunge has more long-term benefits

It's certainly helped me write more portable code

Wasif

Found another article on golfing in Javascript: gist.github.com/attilabuti/78a493f174803c47c49f

ChartZ Belatedly

@expressjs123 Find more interesting challenges ;)

user

5:04 PM

@expressjs123 Use some math stuff

rak1507

@expressjs123 answer hard questions

Wasif

@user Usually I get fascinated when I see use of insane math formulas

ChartZ Belatedly

Browse Dennis' answers for those :P

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user

@Wasif Unfrotunately I can rarely ever find clever tricks myself :(

rak1507

same

Wasif

5:06 PM

@rak1507 me too

@ChartZBelatedly yeah I have seen his some answers

rak1507

I guess there are little things like in APL x∨0 is x and x∨1 is 1

there's the fact you can find minimum distances between points in a matrix with ⌊.+⍨⍛⌊⍨⍣≡

that's a fun one

user

@rak1507 Wow

pxeger

5:21 PM

anyone who writes challenges mandating a particular IO format and then refuses to change it should be given a rapid impromptu knife juggling lesson

3

New Main Posts

4

Q: Sociable sequences

Sociable numbers are a generalisation of both perfect and amicable numbers. They are numbers whose proper divisor sums form cycles beginning and ending at the same number. A number is \$n\$-sociable if the cycle it forms has \$n\$ unique elements. For example, perfect numbers are \$1\$-sociable (...

code-golf math sequence number-theory

ChartZ Belatedly

@pxeger If we're thinking about the same challenge, that was in 2015 :P

I suspect we are

Caesar equivalence?

yes

5:24 PM

Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if you asked again and DJ changed his mind :P

Wasif

@pxeger I think rules regarding I/O format should be nuked, because they make absolutely no sense in some languages

expressjs123

@ChartZBelatedly true ill try

Wasif

Question to you all, how many of you like to use other online interpreters instead of TIO?

pxeger

TIO is best

user

@Wasif I use Scastie for Scala answers

expressjs123

5:31 PM

@user @Wasif I'd probably feel a lot more accomplished when I finish an answer using insanely hard formulas

user

TIO is awesome, but it hasn't been updated with the latest versions of a lot of languages.

Wezl

@Wasif I use ideone because I can't access TIO, and of course I use my own interpreters if I can

Wasif

@user yeah i really feel need for Windows batch there

pxeger

yeah, I've been considering making a fork (or rewrite?) with new stuff (and I'll endeavour to keep it all up-to-date as much as physically possible!)

ChartZ Belatedly

@Wasif TIO is hosted on Linux, so Batch can't be added (Dennis has tried before)

user

5:33 PM

@pxeger That would be amazing

ChartZ Belatedly

@pxeger Check out github.com/TryItOnline/tiosetup

Redwolf Programs

Mar 8 at 17:08, by Redwolf Programs

I've got a physical server with 8 cores and 24gb of ram. I'm using it for my websites right now, but if there'd be a lot of demand and I had enough time (and my server/internet could handle it) I could try to set up a TIO instance for any languages the regular TIO doesn't support properly at some point in the future

ChartZ Belatedly

Mar 8 at 9:33, by Adám

If someone was willing to do it, I'm pretty sure my company would pay them €500 a year for the expenses and the work.

Wasif

@ChartZBelatedly Oh thanks for clarifying

pxeger

this seems like a promising alternative, but it doesn't have many languages and it doesn't have a full web interface

ChartZ Belatedly

5:36 PM

Someone else hosting TIO isn't a big problem to do. So long as someone is willing to put in the time, effort and money, it's basically set up so that anyone who wants to can

Wasif

@pxeger In which OS you are planning to host?

pxeger

I never said I was definitely gonna do it (and I'm definitely not taking on the responsibility of hosting it), chillax! But Linux obviously

ChartZ Belatedly

The issue is finding someone willing to put in the time, effort and money. I would, but I don't have anywhere near the knowledge/expertise with Linux as I'd want, and I'm not comfortable enough porting it to windows or mac

There is also:

in talk.tryitonline.net, Feb 3 '20 at 17:09, by Dennis

If somebody of you is interested, I could give your access to the servers and we'd keep them in shape together. It doesn't have to be all the time, but it would be nice to have somebody to fall back on if I become incapacitated again.

But that would require some interaction with Dennis, and I have no idea whether he'd be up for that or not, given that that was a year ago

user

What exactly happened to make Dennis leave? Was it because of stuff SE did or because he was sick or something? (and if it's the latter, is he all right now?)

pxeger

he's had mental health issues

read the full context of the transcript ChartZ linked

user

5:46 PM

Oh

ChartZ Belatedly

To cut a long story short (and from my understanding): for the last few years, Dennis has suffered with mental health issues. Mid 2019, he developed tinnitus which exacerbated these issues and he took a break from SE. Feb 2020, he comes back and explains what happened, said he was on the road to recovery and fixed a few bugs with TIO. Then, early March, he stopped being active again, and we haven't heard from him since then

user

That's sad.

ChartZ Belatedly

What's even worse is that there's no way we can help him :(

Neil

6:50 PM

personally I find that upvotes are very good for my mental health

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user

7:02 PM

@Neil Unfortunately for me, they're more like a drug - they make me happy but I'm sad when I don't get my fix :\

user

8:20 PM

CMQ: What's your worst answer/question?

rak1507

@user codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/218544/… this one

Redwolf Programs

This

(Out of the undeleted ones)

user

@rak1507 What's so bad about it? I could never make a Jelly link that long with all the chaining rules

rak1507

that it took no effort

user

I've mentioned it before, but my top answer is just a single Mathematica builtin

I don't know how to use Mathematica, so there isn't even a link to TIO or anything.

rak1507

8:24 PM

yeah lol

user

My most embarassing question is probably the tips question for Scala 3 where all the answers are mine. Some of the tips are actually useful, but now that I'm looking at them again, a few are borderline useless.

Redwolf Programs

My most upvoted answer is just a list of trivial solutions to my own challenge

user

I always cringe when I look at my first answers - most of them are stuff like _.last, _.product :\

user

8:38 PM

Any feedback? (I'm adding a walkthrough of hashing a string)

pxeger

Mine is this shitpost: codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/219222/97857

user

Not in the spirit of the challenge, but at least it's funny (and points out a fatal flaw)

Wezl

@user this, I shouldn't have answered.

user

@Wezl Yeah, all the answers to that question are pretty trivial.

Perhaps if the question had been a popcon from the start, that could have been avoided.

Wezl

@user right, but I shouldn't have answered

I wasn't even first so it didn't point out anything new

user

8:51 PM

Not disagreeing with you there

Only Conor O'Brien's answer was somewhat interesting

pxeger

this is my highest voted one that deserves it: codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/217214

user

This is probably one of the answers I've worked the hardest on (it took a couple of weeks), but it didn't get a ton of votes because it's on an old question. I'm stealing some rep from Adám by requesting a bounty on it, though :P

pxeger

and this is maybe the answer I'm most proud of: codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/214073/97857

user

@pxeger That was a really interesting one to see - I was really confused by how there were no strings or anything in your code

Why do all my answers that aren't in Scala get so many upvotes?

pxeger

It disappoints me that basically nobody uses zsh, and therefore nobody knows which are my cleverer answers (I suspect I only get the 1 obligatory pity upvote from the challenge author)

user

9:00 PM

One of my first Haskell answers (a pretty easy one ) got 11 upvotes, but the ones I work hard on - even ones to new questions - get maybe 1 or 2 upvotes. :[(

21 hours ago, by user

Someone needs to make a .anguish extension for files that lets others feel your pain

pxeger

Answer popularity is basically only based on the popularity of the question. Maybe there should be a metric for proportion of people who saw it that upvoted

user

I realize I've just repeated that thrice in the past day

Wezl

the answer I've worked the hardest on is this, but it's not at all creative.

user

@pxeger It's hard to tell if someone saw your answer or was just scrolling past it.

@Wezl So the part you worked hard on is the lisp, not the answer?

Wezl

@user yes

yeah I looked at it today

user

9:04 PM

Sorry, wrong link

@Wezl Oh ok

I'm just waiting for someone to create a way for computers to interface with human brains, so everyone can just know what everyone else wants to say and is feeling.

Wezl

@user it's called LSP, now just the connecting part is the problem :P

user

@Wezl Bleh, who needs the LSP when you have the PSI? IntelliJ > VS Code

Wezl

IDK I've not used either

user

Oh ok

Wezl

actually maybe I have

user

9:09 PM

Which editor are you making the language server for use with?

Wezl

@user I don't know but I guess I just assumed our brains internally used JSON, so it would be simple to implement

user

@Wezl If this were a superhero comic, some evil scientist would just insert a USB into someone's head and give them superpowers.

@Wezl Oh wait, for some reason I thought you were implementing it for your language

Wezl

@user no I'd have no idea how to do that

but my language does hope to create the perfect interface between humans and computers

except it uses # for comments and it's too late to change that :::(

user

@Wezl Why is it too late to change it to // or something else?

Wezl

@user no, I'd change it to ; because it's rare for ; to make sense in identifiers while # could mean like count. Also ; is easier to type on qwerty

user

9:18 PM

@Wezl Does Common Lisp use ;; or ;?

Wezl

@user ; for line comments, #| |# for block comments

Gold Farmer Sprow

9:39 PM

Why does there have to be a rep cap :(

user

@GoldFarmerSprow If it makes you feel better, you get a badge once you hit enough rep caps :)

ChartZ Belatedly

10:02 PM

@pxeger Shitposts that exploit the problem(s) with a challenge, while still being valid are the best shitposts :P

That's why I like this answer of mine :P

user

@ChartZBelatedly I would have downvoted it if your score hadn't been 19 :P (just kidding, of course)

ChartZ Belatedly

Should've waited 2 hours to advertise that, I've already repcapped today :/

user

That's karma for you :)

I'm willing to give away 50 rep if someone promises to use :\ or /: instead of :/ from now on.

ChartZ Belatedly

I'd say sure, but I'd feel bad taking 50 rep for something that easy :/

user

@user (does this qualify as a shitpost?)

Wezl

10:06 PM

@user so I use https:\\chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/240/ ?

ChartZ Belatedly

@Wezl No, https:\/chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/240, as you're only replacing the :/ bit :P

user

@Wezl You must also never use :/ ever again.

@ChartZBelatedly It's fine, more chaos is good :P

Wezl

@ChartZBelatedly it reminds me of languages with native regex syntax, which I hate

user

Whaddaya know, https:\/chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/240 still takes me here

@Wezl You think that's bad? Scala 2 has XML literals. Weirdest thing I've ever seen.

Wezl

@user :O I'm going to discipline it so bad.

ChartZ Belatedly

10:09 PM

@user You can never escape TNB

user

@ChartZBelatedly I tried starring this but I've used my vote allowance for today :(

Wezl

I like pascal strings, because you only have to escape quotes, which don't even have a meaning in regex

does anything get starred besides jokes?

user

@Wezl Yeah, but jokes are much more common.

ChartZ Belatedly

Announcements

But mostly jokes

Wezl

oh I guess a lot of messages discussing SE

user

10:11 PM

8 hours ago, by ChartZ Belatedly

The trick is to post the cops challenge at 23:59 and the Robbers at 00:01 :P

^ See? That one's serious.

2 days ago, by Monica Cellio

Anyway, if there's something you want on Codidact, please let us know. You can use main meta, the per-community metas, GitHub issues, Discord -- even pull requests, depending. :-) Please let us know how we can help you have a better experience. We might not always be able to deliver quickly, but we do try our best do do what's best for our communities.

That kind of thing

Is "JSON fan boys" a thing?

Wezl

we should have a feed: new starred messages

ChartZ Belatedly

That;s called the starboard

user

^

@ChartZBelatedly I prefer right because I'm not a sailor.

ChartZ Belatedly

in Old Sandbox Posts testing, 7 hours ago, by ChartZ Belatedly

No, why did you talk?

in Old Sandbox Posts testing, 7 hours ago, by ChartZ Belatedly

Right, shut up

I'm very nice to my bot :P

Wezl

it might actually be interesting to see starred messages from a while ago

ChartZ Belatedly

10:15 PM

@Wezl chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/240/the-nineteenth-byte/…

It is, very much so

user

in Old Sandbox Posts testing, 7 hours ago, by OldSandboxPosts

I'm alive!

Careful, ChartZ

Wezl

@ChartZBelatedly I mean automatically

ChartZ Belatedly

@user What do you think I've been doing in the past 7 hours? Terminator was wrong about how hard bots are to kill, I found it fairly easy tbh :P

Lyxal

@ChartZBelatedly obviously they've never heard of ctrl-c

user

@ChartZBelatedly Where were you when the T800 attacked John Connor? :P

ChartZ Belatedly

10:17 PM

@Wezl I recommend that everyone does the following at least once. Copy https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/240/ into your URL search bar, then add year/month/day (numbers, e.g. 2021/1/17) after it and read that day's transcript

2016's a solid year to go to :P

user

Any particularly entertaining quotes from then?

ChartZ Belatedly

Jul 20 '17 at 20:14, by trichoplax

To escape closure, a fibonacci challenge has to be as good as the previous 2 fibonacci challenges put together

user

What about an n-bonacci challenge?

Lyxal

Wanna see something funny?

user

@Lyxal No.

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Lyxal

10:21 PM

Aww

:(

D:

user

Tell you what, I'll give you 50 rep for not using :/

ChartZ Belatedly

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Lyxal

@user :-)

user

@ChartZBelatedly I see no problem with that. Waffles > pancakes = 0

@Lyxal What's the funny thing, anyway? A rickroll?

Lyxal

@user it's much funnier than Rick

user

10:23 PM

@ChartZBelatedly Someone star this for me, please.

@Lyxal Pretty low bar, but okay :P

Lyxal

There are rocks among us!

user

Is this the part where someone says "Amogus"?

Lyxal

They are looking sus!

ChartZ Belatedly

You are lucky I'm not an RO, I'd kick you for that :P

Lyxal

Hey I put effort into arranging those rocks yesterday

user

10:26 PM

@ChartZBelatedly You can still kick them, just make sure you're socially distanced :P

Lyxal

And I put effort into uploading the image on mobile too

user

Now I know what you do in your spare time

Lyxal

@user you are utter bees

@user yes. You clearly don't know that I once had a rock pile with 1k+ rocks in it

Razetime knows though

user

@Lyxal Oh yeah? Well, I am the Rock.

No one's ever seen me and the Rock in the same (chat)room at the same time.

Lyxal

@user so why weren't you in my pile?

user

10:29 PM

@Lyxal I was too busy acting in a movie.

Lyxal

@user well it's too late now

The pile is gone

Some idiot ran it over

user

@Lyxal Ran over a rock?

Lyxal

@user ran over a tall pile of rocks

user

How?! Are they all right?

So many posts about waffles

Lyxal

Here's how it looked the last day I left it

user

10:32 PM

waffles

^ Star this please

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Lyxal

And here's what I found the next day

ChartZ Belatedly

Could we stop with the rocks please?

Lyxal

2 weeks worth of work ruthlessly destroyed

user

Those look like stock photos - pretty sus

Oh no, I might be next

Lyxal

@user I doubt it

I never rebuilt the pile

@user I have a gallery of its growth if you're interested

user

10:35 PM

@Lyxal I am

Lyxal

@user discord.gg/xrJgbsz

user

I'm not joining that server, it looks sus.

Lyxal

It's me, razetime and Dion

It's for Dions esolang MAWP

ChartZ Belatedly

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Q: What is up with the waffle fetish?

Setting aside the fact that waffles were created in the seventh circle of hell, cause suffering and apocalyptic horror wherever they are witnessed, and are instruments of pure evil, where did the obsession with talking about them in every thread arise? Can we stop this and have more waffles? A...

discussion meta fun waffles

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Just, the answers, the question edit history, just everything about that is glorious :P

user

The good old days

The original question wasn't even that bad

Lyxal

10:39 PM

@user join

And see my rock pile history

Neil

10:56 PM

@user I don't have a single worst answer, as none of my answers have an overall negative score, and even my "worst" question has a score of 10, but that's because I have asked so few questions

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also good point about votes being additive to whoever it was, I meant to reply at the time but it timed out :-(

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