The Nineteenth Byte

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14:00

Hi, I have a lot of left-over peanut butter that I'm not sure what to do with. Anyone have any ideas for what to do with it?

caird coinheringaahing

@NewMainPosts I wish that at like 15k, you got a "this is blatantly off-topic" CV hammer :/

So that for questions like this, which have no place on the site, you can just hammer it closed, VTD and be done with it in under a minute

Redwolf Programs

New Posts is now officially released! Install here.

hyper-neutrino

how did that stay open for half an hour, lol

caird coinheringaahing

Not enough people saw it

hyper-neutrino

quick question: is it possible for the product of a 3x2 and a 2x3 matrix to be I_3? i want to say no but i'm not too sure (asking for a friend)

caird coinheringaahing

14:13

@hyper-neutrino Is there a mod policy on just insta-deleting those kind of questions after being closed?

@hyper-neutrino If the elements of the matrices can be any values, I think so

Wezl

@NewMainPosts Rich peanut butter and softened butter are blended until the mixture is light and fluffy. Confectioner's sugar adds sweetness, while thickening the buttercream. The milk thins or thickens it to your liking. Additionally, we like to sift the sugar before adding it, just in case there are any lumps. ...

caird coinheringaahing

@hyper-neutrino Wait, hang on, I don't think so. AB = I means that B = A^-1, which can't happen if dim(A) != dim(B)

hyper-neutrino

@cairdcoinheringaahing You can have a 2x3 and a 3x2 matrix's product be I tho

B=A^-1 isn't really true because that requires BA=I as well, which isn't always guaranteed if AB=I

@cairdcoinheringaahing I'm not sure. I like to keep them around just because usually activity pushes them off the page anyway, and it gets roomba'd eventually anyway

but i don't really see any harm in deleting it instantly. i suppose i could, since it is obviously off-topic if you read our site help at all and the user can still see the close comments if i delete it, I think?

Neil

@hyper-neutrino Wolfram Alpha says no solutions exist

caird coinheringaahing

@hyper-neutrino Personally, I always VTD off-topic posts as soon as they reach -3, but I suppose that having a binding vote could prompt more caution/delay

Neil

14:26

note that there are solutions for the reverse product being I_2

caird coinheringaahing

@hyper-neutrino Interesting that me and Bubbler have answer scores of 14/13, but the question itself only on +9

hyper-neutrino

@Neil okay thanks. yeah the reverse product was easy. now that i think about it the original problem is asking for an injection from F^3 to F^2 and an surjection from a subspace of F^2 to F^3 which can't be possible

vice versa you can just map (a,b) to (a,b,0) and then mapping back is easy lol

@cairdcoinheringaahing yeah, kinda strange :P nominations are still getting upvotes too but my question stopped getting any after like a day

caird coinheringaahing

@RedwolfPrograms Can report that updating has "fixed" the API issue :D

hyper-neutrino

not that i really have anything to gain except maybe a question badge, lol

@cairdcoinheringaahing that's fair. i prefer to only use my instant delete once the post is pretty much forgotten about and won't get VTD'd normally anymore but still needs to be removed

or if it's an invalid submission which i mostly find from flag handling

Redwolf Programs

@cairdcoinheringaahing That's good, I guess I should probably register random question too

caird coinheringaahing

14:33

@hyper-neutrino In this specific question, it's currently got 2 VTDs, so whoever casts the next vote has a "binding" vote in this case ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

hyper-neutrino

there's now the other problem of i don't know how to delete from my phone

Original Original Original VI

@NewMainPosts Go to a the home of someone you don't like and put it in their clothes. Bonus points if you bring ants with you.

caird coinheringaahing

@hyper-neutrino From the app or the mobile site?

hyper-neutrino

app. just deleted it from the mobile site tho

caird coinheringaahing

@hyper-neutrino Yeah, you can only delete your own posts from the app, and I think even that's only on the iOS app

Redwolf Programs

14:38

Updated my random question userscripts, no new features but I'd recommend it since it increases the number of times you can click the button in a day from around 120 to several thousand

hyper-neutrino

yeah the app is only really good for getting notifications, lol

Redwolf Programs

@RedwolfPrograms This update reminds me of xkcd.com/619

Original Original Original VI

rip flash :\

For Cat, Quine, Hello World, can the Vim quine be simply "quine", i.e. can I assume I'm in insert mode or append mode already?

Wezl

nooo votecap and it's morning

Redwolf Programs

I've probably written or rewritten more than half of the king-of-the-hill tag wiki :p

Wasif

15:35

Hi everyone!
Can we use powershell.exe executable when we write Windows Batch answers?

Batch lacks of lot of features so I want to use this

John Dvorak

15:47

that would be a different language

Wezl

I think you may be able to assume it's available, though I don't know why you wouldn't just use powershell

but as John Dvorak said, you'd count it as Windows Batch + Powershell

Now I realize I shouldn't edit answers about to be deleted :/

Wasif

How about creating a fork of Batch language, with added features? Then would it be valid

Redwolf Programs

16:08

5

The Redwolf Curve™

Wasif

@RedwolfPrograms Just like me :P

caird coinheringaahing

@RedwolfPrograms The Valley of "Please use the Sandbox, it's there for a reason"

Redwolf Programs

Why...why did a year old post just appear in New Posts

caird coinheringaahing

@RedwolfPrograms Hasn't for me

Someone just posted an answer to it

How would I change New Posts to prepend new posts, rather than append them?

Redwolf Programs

Ohhhh, I know what happened

It had no answers at the time that it saw the question, so it assumed it was new

I have a better way to decide which action now though

@cairdcoinheringaahing I'm going to do a bug fix, I'll just add that as an option

Updated New Posts

It now prepends by default (or should, at least), and has some bugfixes

I was too lazy to test it, so it may (but probably won't) have some bugs

hyper-neutrino

16:30

i wonder how easy/hard it would be to make a discord bot that reports new questions/answers

i might try it when i have the time; might just steal the websocket link from New Posts and try to get something working :P

Redwolf Programs

Probably pretty easy

hyper-neutrino

especially since i already have a running bot, adding a thing to monitor the websocket probably wouldn't be too complex, though i don't have much experience with websockets

Redwolf Programs

What language do discord bots use? Python?

hyper-neutrino

most bots use Python, JS, or C# i think

there's an API so any language that has internet access can do it

Wezl

@RedwolfPrograms fortunately either I skipped the bowl or I haven't even reached it yet

caird coinheringaahing

16:37

It's surprisingly hard to type without keys

hyper-neutrino

out of my first 8 questions, five of them are deleted mostly due to either being closed as duplicate and self-deleted, closed for being bad and self-deleted, or self-deleted before anyone really noticed cuz i realized it was a duplicate that SE didn't find

the other ones have scores 8, 7, and 27, so

not very consistent :P

the Random question button shows up between Jobs and Companies under the "find a job" section; does anyone else get that or is my userscript out of date

Redwolf Programs

That's a bug I need to fix

They updated the sidebar and I forgot to update it

Aside from a few small things like the requirements for teams and the due date, I wish this (10k+) had been better received because I put a ton of work into it :/

I might rewrite the controller and change some rules around, then redo it

Redwolf Programs

17:42

Fixed the bug in random question sidebar

New Sandboxed Posts

18:39

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Fastest unique finder Given 4096 16-bit integers, only four of which a unique and others appeared twice (so 2030 different integers exist). Find the four uniques. To time precisely and limit RAM usage, your program will be run on a 8051. Also we aim at the worst case, so anyone can provide test c...

caird coinheringaahing

18:58

How many questions can people see here?

Wezl

7?

Redwolf Programs

7

caird coinheringaahing

For some reason, it's not showing the "Cast your vote for Best Of 20XX" posts :/

Writing a bug report now

> best-of tag not showing the "Cast your vote for" posts
Now - caird coinheringaahing (30,322)

@RedwolfPrograms Some HTML escaping errors on New Posts?

Redwolf Programs

Hmm, I guess so

I didn't know they escaped HTML entities

Watch, I'll use innerHTML instead of textContent then someone'll figure out an XSS vulnerability

hyper-neutrino

@cairdcoinheringaahing I'm seeing 8

maybe it fixed now so idk

caird coinheringaahing

19:08

@hyper-neutrino That'll be my bug report (I tagged it with best-of cause I think that's the most relevant)

hyper-neutrino

oh.

as you can see i am very intelligent

Redwolf Programs

lol

caird coinheringaahing

I fixed a typo on a tag wiki edit I made ~3 minutes ago, and it counted as a second tag wiki edit. Guess there's no edit grace period for tag wikis

Along those lines it might be nice if closed/locked posts don't show up when you click on a tag. — Zoredache Aug 13 '10 at 7:09

That's a random comment I found browsing [locked] on MM, but there's no reply or anything to indicate it's been implemented

Redwolf Programs

Okay, I think I've fixed the HTML entities problem in my copy.

New Meta Posts

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Q: best-of tag not showing the "Cast your vote for" posts

Navigate to the best-of tag and you'll see the following: This doesn't show any of the "Cast your vote for Best of 20XX" posts, such as this one (which should be at the top, when sorting by active. Following the search query [best-of] is:q shows all 14 posts tagged with best-of All of the missin...

hyper-neutrino

19:25

I forwarded this as a discussion to MM and got a downvote within 10 seconds

nice

Unrelated String

nice

Wezl

I'm gonna discipline them

hyper-neutrino

nvm it went from 0/-1 to +1/0. probably a misclick xD

caird coinheringaahing

~~Looks like it was just a misclick, the post's showing +1/0~~ ninja'd

hyper-neutrino

interestingly, that gives two rep notifications, +8 and +2, not just a +10, lol. i suppose that makes enough sense

caird coinheringaahing

19:28

Looks to be status-bydesign but they just never told people :P

hyper-neutrino

seems like it according to what catija said :P

i feel like half or more of bugs or weird behavior on SE have to do with caching lol

like the whole best of 2020 being pinned for a good three full months too many thing

caird coinheringaahing

Yep, just got tagged status-bydesign :P

@hyper-neutrino Or locked posts

hyper-neutrino

so caching relating to locked posts should work perfectly cuz the bugs cancel out right xD

caird coinheringaahing

CGCC (and TNB) have a pretty solid history of finding "bugs" with SE and chat. example just for "The Nineteenth Byte"

Interesting that the blog never went anywhere

hyper-neutrino

19:53

well, CGCC does have just a couple of things we do differently from how most SE sites run :P

the best part is when you dig up a 5 year old bug and realize it still behaves the same way

@cairdcoinheringaahing we could always try that again [if there's community interest]

caird coinheringaahing

@hyper-neutrino Unfortunately, BlogOverflow's been shut down, so we'd have to do it all ourselves

hyper-neutrino

i never knew that was a thing in the first place. TIL

Original Original Original VI

Could we host the blog on Meta? (whatever it is?)

caird coinheringaahing

@NewMetaPosts Ok, so not status-bydesign?

hyper-neutrino

wording's unclear but looks like it's supposed to do this on main but not meta sites, except this doesn't seem to be working correctly

you love to see it

Redwolf Programs

19:58

I found a bug in my code editor :/

caird coinheringaahing

If I had a nickel everytime I pointed out a bug that should be easy to fix but Catija told me that something bigger was the problem, I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it's happened twice

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Redwolf Programs

Wait that expression's used outside the US?

caird coinheringaahing

No, I'm just quoting the Doofenshmirtz meme :P

Normally I'd say pennies/pounds

Wezl

that's why you start with 0 nickels?

hyper-neutrino

what was the last time, the whole 1-rep thing?

caird coinheringaahing

20:02

Yep

Original Original Original VI

@RedwolfPrograms Here's what I'd use

Redwolf Programs

:p

caird coinheringaahing

@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI We could do it in the style of posting a question and each new entry being an answer

Original Original Original VI

Would it be feasible?

caird coinheringaahing

Depends on how long we kept it going and how active it was

Original Original Original VI

20:06

@RedwolfPrograms If you actually want a good code editor, here are a few. I personally like VS Code, it can do most things for small-scale projects.

caird coinheringaahing

If we posted a new entry every week or so, it'd be the second most active meta question

Original Original Original VI

Is that bad?

Redwolf Programs

@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI Problem is I'm on a chromebook

rak1507

notepad is all you need

Wezl

plot twist: redwolf's editor is vs code

Original Original Original VI

20:07

@RedwolfPrograms There are some online editors there that you access on your chromebook too

Mind you, a desktop application is best

Wezl

I've used vscode in codesandbox on a chromebook

Redwolf Programs

I use this

caird coinheringaahing

SE typically doesn't like questions with more than 30 answers (hence the warning when you post in the sandbox), but that would require 30 posts (assuming 1/week), which most blogs don't get to

hyper-neutrino

I'm not sure if posting as answers to a thread or as a new question each time would make more sense

the latter would probably generate too much clutter though..

caird coinheringaahing

A new question would clutter meta, and be difficult to follow

Original Original Original VI

20:08

@RedwolfPrograms That looks cool, but here is a better alternative (still free)

caird coinheringaahing

Answers you can sort by oldest, and we can lock answers when a new one is posted, meaning that "sort by active" would also work for the most recent first

Redwolf Programs

@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI Link won't work on school wifi :/

Original Original Original VI

Oh great

@RedwolfPrograms Never mind, it was a rickroll

caird coinheringaahing

I don't trust rr.noordstar links anymore because of rickrolls :P

Redwolf Programs

Wait really? First time my school's blatant censorship has actually helped :p

Original Original Original VI

20:10

@cairdcoinheringaahing See that v

hyper-neutrino

yeah. also, we could accept the most recent one each time so everyone sees the current newest one at the top even if they sort by vote (since i don't think you can sort differently between questions? granted it's not too hard to switch orderings each time)

Original Original Original VI

@RedwolfPrograms You mean you don't want to hear Rick Astley's amazing music?

Redwolf Programs

Not in the middle of Latin no :p

caird coinheringaahing

@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI Rephrasing (sorry to hijack): CMM: Should we have a discussion about holding a blog on meta?

hyper-neutrino

we could also set up the blog not on SE so that it doesn't generate clutter and can be sorted properly, but that might create more issues than it solves, and also then the content is no longer on SE

Wezl

20:13

* Wezl is using an old version of babelfish, which crashes bc infinite recursion

Original Original Original VI

@Wezl For translations?

rak1507

@RedwolfPrograms do you do poetry? if so, look up 'Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo'

Wezl

@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI right, newer versions have poor support for weasels

Original Original Original VI

@rak1507 Heh, I recognize pedicabo

caird coinheringaahing

Anyone else think it's kinda sad that the CEO of SE has 2k total rep, and has been a user for that same amount of time they've been CEO?

Redwolf Programs

20:15

Yes

Not sad, but insulting

New Sandboxed Posts

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Poor Man's DRM Write a program that only prints Welcome at the first execution and first execution only. All executions after the first execution should only print Where money. Anything is allowed as long as the following condition is met: An execution ends after the program exits. So the second ...

Redwolf Programs

opens about me page, clicks google translate: "I like money"

Original Original Original VI

@cairdcoinheringaahing How long have they been a CEO?

caird coinheringaahing

Just under 2 years now IIRC

His Meta posts definitely remind me of "I was hired as CEO to turn this company into yet another business-facing, money/ad-driven internet service" rather than "Hey, I really care about this company"

Redwolf Programs

I wish SO could just split off from the rest of SE

Make SO a private company that makes a ton of money, and make SE some sort of nonprofit like Mozilla

caird coinheringaahing

20:19

I wish that SE had a specific SO-oriented team and a "rest of the network" team

hyper-neutrino

I feel like SO has grown too large as a corporation + help-site rather than actually being a "repository of Q+A content" or having a community, like SE is supposed to

Original Original Original VI

@RedwolfPrograms I hear Mozilla's made some questionable decisions too

hyper-neutrino

like, to some extent, it seems to me like what makes SE different from other forums is lost with SO

Redwolf Programs

@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI They have, yeah, but better than SO

Original Original Original VI

@RedwolfPrograms Fair enough, yeah

rak1507

20:20

I don't get SO, it seems pretty crap for everyone involved

Original Original Original VI

@rak1507 ? Not for SO

rak1507

I mean for people who ask questions and also people who answer them

caird coinheringaahing

SO should have been frozen years ago, all new content is just dupes of old content or stuff that's too hyper-specific to be helpful

Original Original Original VI

How? SO is great

There are way too many low-quality questions coming in, but it's not as if there's no new material.

The problem is that sites like CGCC don't get enough love

hyper-neutrino

I feel like SO is more of a constantly flowing Q+A site as in new questions come in, get solved, the OP gets help, and it is forgotten

caird coinheringaahing

20:23

If the question has less than 25 votes, it's going to be completely forgotten

Original Original Original VI

Only if it's a question that the OP could have solved with better debugging skills

hyper-neutrino

which doesn't fit with SE's philosophy that all content should be good enough to be around forever as a repository, and SO just doesn't have enough of that, which I don't think necessarily has to be bad, but it's just not quite what SE intends to be

Redwolf Programs

@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI Which is 99% of them

Original Original Original VI

@RedwolfPrograms Hardly. Tags like python and java get tons of garbage, but that's because their communities are so big.

Redwolf Programs

Well yeah, but the big communities have more people, and if they produce more garbage more garbage gets produced

hyper-neutrino

20:24

most SO questions are just "you have a bug because you didn't debug this part correctly", "you have a semantic issue because you didn't read the language spec for the feature you're not using right", or something similar, and of course, there are good questions that are helpful to stick around, but they get diluted by the other stuff

Original Original Original VI

@cairdcoinheringaahing That's unlikely, questions with fewer votes are still linked to as duplicates, and I personally am often helped by them

caird coinheringaahing

TBH I wouldn't mind SE enough if they gave enough of a shit about the other 170 sites in the network

Redwolf Programs

The older questions that stick around as a repository of knowledge are great and that's why almost everyone who's written code has probably looked at an SO question. But there's only so many of those that exist to be asked.

caird coinheringaahing

Believe it or not, we're lucky as a site. We regularly hit HNQ and get enough questions to be popular enough that SE will (from time to time) pay attention to us. There are ~150 other sites that languish in beta because of SE neglect

Original Original Original VI

@RedwolfPrograms Right, but new frameworks pop up all the time, with new bugs or features that can cause confusion, and it's important that questions about those are asked.

Redwolf Programs

20:27

@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI I agree. It's just that most questions aren't for new frameworks.

Original Original Original VI

@RedwolfPrograms Yup, and those should be closed as dupes or as not being reproducible.

hyper-neutrino

@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI definitely, and we're not really denying that SO doesn't have important questions, it just has an extremely low signal-to-noise ratio, which is why i think it works better like how most forum sites are set up and not as much like how SE wanted to be

Original Original Original VI

The problem really is that new users should be forced to read the Tour page and heavily encouraged to do as much work as possible themselves, and SO needs more curators.

hyper-neutrino

also I don't think SO's bad, like I find it extremely helpful; most of the time i don't ask questions because i can just find exactly what i need by googling it and clicking on the inevitable first-result being SO

but too many people just sign up and ask a random question without spending a second figuring out how SO is actually meant to be

Original Original Original VI

Yeah, I don't know where programmers would be without it :P

@hyper-neutrino I think we all agree there

rak1507

20:29

I don't get the 'programmers couldn't do anything without SO' stereotype/joke, personally I don't think it's ever been very helpful to me

caird coinheringaahing

Eternal question: How did Jeff and Joel create SO without using SO?

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hyper-neutrino

it's the modern day "what came before God" question :P

Redwolf Programs

@rak1507 Asking questions on SO has never helped me, but googling old ones has for sure

rak1507

@RedwolfPrograms even when I google things often solutions are either outdated or just unhelpful

Original Original Original VI

But what I want to say is: even though there's a low signal:noise ratio on popular tags like java, less popular tags are often better (e.g. scala, a tag which I regularly answered questions on, is pretty good about this)

rak1507

20:30

actual documentation (or reading the damn code) is normally better

caird coinheringaahing

I'm going to do an interest check on hosting a CGCC blog on meta, meta question should be posting in a hour or so

Original Original Original VI

@rak1507 Actual documentation is sometimes lacking, and reading the code is not very easy.

rak1507

true

Original Original Original VI

By asking a question that many future users will have, you're saving a lot of people hours of work

But yeah, I do feel like screaming "RTFM!" sometimes :P

@cairdcoinheringaahing Sorry for pulling the conversation to a tangent

caird coinheringaahing

@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI No problem, I'm the one who brought up the CEO :P

Original Original Original VI

20:35

@cairdcoinheringaahing Wait, I didn't know the CEO was your son. Do you have any influence with him? You could use nepotism to get us what we want :P

Redwolf Programs

I don't know what I was doing here but I really hope I fixed it

New Sandboxed Posts

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Twin Quines Write a Program A such that: Program A outputs Program B. Program B outputs Program A. Program A is significantly different than Program B. code-golf quine Inspired by: Program that creates larger versions of itself (quine-variant) I am not sure how to specify "significantly different

caird coinheringaahing

21:15

@RedwolfPrograms Out of interest, how are you finding old questions to VTC? The random questions userscript?

A username

@OriginalOriginalOriginalVI It seems like every second link on the internet is to that song.

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

After deciding against my first KOTH proposal, I'm back with a second, simpler one. I appreciate any feedback :) Counting - Python 3 KOTH Have you ever tried to count to 100 in an online forum or comment thread? It normally goes something like: 1 >2 >>3 >>>4 >>>>69 xD xD the point being that som...

caird coinheringaahing

PSA to anyone who uses the mobile app for notifications: soon you won't have to

(It's only status-deferred rn, Des says they're looking at doing it "eventually")

Redwolf Programs

21:34

@cairdcoinheringaahing Yes

New Meta Posts

21:48

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Q: Should we start a blog?

7 years ago, we asked about having a site blog. The idea sort of just stopped and was never followed through. Unfortunately, since then, BlogOverflow (the site supposed to host site blogs) has been shutdown. I brought up the blog in chat, and it was suggested by a couple of users that we give it ...

discussion blog

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caird coinheringaahing

@NewMetaPosts +3 on both Q and A with 6 views (5 of whom could vote) is probably the best I've ever done on a meta question :P

Lyxal

Check again

One of those 6 views forgot to vote

caird coinheringaahing

Well, the view count increased by one as well :P

Also, it felt weird saying that we should have a blog. Blogs have always felt like a mid-2000s internet thing that have kinda died out in favour of video/sound versions (vlogs/podcasts). Not that it's a bad idea given that SE is primarily text-based, just... odd

Lyxal

So where would we be hosting it?

Here somewhere or externally?

caird coinheringaahing

@Lyxal That's literally the follow-up question in the meta post :P

I've suggested as a meta question where each entry is an answer

Wezl

22:09

I accidentally opened one less chat today, and I am a more productive person for it :)

caird coinheringaahing

@hyper-neutrino @JoKing Now that it's April, this is the latest we've gotten into the year without community-ads being refreshed (ignoring the graduation bug). I don't want to start a meta question about it first, but could you guys poke the CMs to see what's happening?

Wezl

22:25

wow, wiktionary says golfiest is a word

but it gets its meaning wrong :(

hyper-neutrino

22:52

@cairdcoinheringaahing nothing stopping us from organizing a podcast :P (other than logistics and the other things that might make a blog fail anyway)

Redwolf Programs

I support doing it on Github (either as markdown pages on a repo or a github pages thing), I don't think the Stack Exchange format would work very well for a blog sort of thing. Github would provide familiar markdown, no need to sign up or pay, no need to pay for any sort of hosting, etc.

hyper-neutrino

i'll poke the CMs after dinner when i get on my desktop

caird coinheringaahing

@hyper-neutrino cough cough

@hyper-neutrino No need (sorry for not searching before pingin): meta.stackexchange.com/q/360627/355458

Redwolf Programs

Hearing other CGCC people's voices would be weird

caird coinheringaahing

It is :P

Redwolf Programs

22:56

I'm used to the only sound y'all make being the ungodly screech of the ping noise

caird coinheringaahing

NGL tho, all of the voices in the first episode of the podcast sound kinda like I expected

Not meaning this in a mean way, but they all sound exactly like most 20 something US guys I've met :/

Redwolf Programs

I didn't really expect American accents, except for Doorknob

caird coinheringaahing

I knew Mego's in Texas and DJ lives in Colorado, wasn't sure about Nick

Redwolf Programs

Wait really?

I think Doorknob's in Texas too

That's a lot of Texans on one site

I would love for there to be a blog, podcast, anything really. Bringing the community together more would be nice.

caird coinheringaahing

@RedwolfPrograms I believe, at one point, Dennis was the only mod not in the US

I think Alex, Doorknob, DJ, Mego and Dennis was the mod team just before Monica got fired, and those first 4 all live in the US

@RedwolfPrograms Agreed. It definitely feels like the community was closer back in 2016 than now :(

@RedwolfPrograms The major problem I have with an external host is that things die off here easily enough. Hosting it off the site is unlikely to keep it going more than a couple of posts

Redwolf Programs

23:11

I'd prefer a new question for each post rather than an answer on an existing question if we do it on site.

We could just create a tag for it, and that gives you just as many (if not more) ways to sort it

Plus it means the title of the currently (presumably) hot and/or featured blog post would change when a new one is posted, so people can know when there's a new one

Should I post that as an answer on the meta post?

caird coinheringaahing

Yeah, it'd be good to get multiple opinions

Redwolf Programs

Posted: codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/22005/…

I should probably work on Ash now, all I've managed to complete today is documenting half of one of the 256 operators :p

hyper-neutrino

23:27

@cairdcoinheringaahing oh yeah i forgot about that :P

also no worries about the ping

Redwolf Programs

23:51

Lots of vim answers recently

Unrelated String

shocking

...considering we haven't actually had that much lotm activity in general

it actually is kind of shocking

Redwolf Programs

Oh yeah, it's LotM :|

Original Original Original VI

Vim is surprisingly cool

caird coinheringaahing

You guys aren't the one's getting notified every time someone edits the "Answers in Vim" post :P

Original Original Original VI

Let me post another Vim answer, then :P

caird coinheringaahing

23:59

Combine that with the fact that the app tells me I have a notification, but doesn't show edit notifications in the menu, and you've got someone who isn't a fan of Vim :P

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