Do y'all think ≺ and ≻ are too close to < and >?

Not really

The change should be fine

Nah, I don't like them actually. I'll just leave the weird brackets alone. For now.

Chat Mega Challenge: There are currently 28530 starred messages. I will award a +100 bounty to the user who posts the 30000'th starred message, so long as it has 3+ stars

please do not take this as an invitation to post a high amount of noise that's funny in hopes of getting starred; keep discussion as off-topic on-topic as we always are :P

If anyone can post 1570 starred messages within a reasonable amount of time, I'd be surprised :P

@hyper-neutrino right because the optimal strategy is to get a single message starred, then star 1,000+ messages before it

@Wezl 👀

@Wezl You'd run out of votes, though, so waiting until you only have about 20 stars left may be a better strategy.

@Wezl discussing voting abuse or violating policy, even though I know you're 100% joking, is strongly discouraged

sorry i meant to say even though I know you are 100% making a joke

noted

@hyper-neutrino noted :)

lyxal don't make me steal your kneecaps

@hyper-neutrino Quick, edit it before Lyxal gets here!

I was about to comment that lol

@hyper-neutrino What exactly does that mean? The Urban Dictionary entries for it give some pretty...weird results

@hyper-neutrino WeLz iSnT jOkInG, wEzL's WeZl, DuH

no, wezl is wezl, not wezel, smh

Fixed :P

WeLz?

@user nothing in particular, it's like when caird said they'd flag lyxal if lyxal made the "___ isn't joking, ___ is ___" joke, it's just an entirely humorous "threat"

as in if lyxal makes the "wezl isn't joking" joke i will steal his kneecaps, which isn't intended to make sense :P

It's like when I threatened to take HN's square root becaus they ninja'd me

@RedwolfPrograms The well-known user :P

@hyper-neutrino why tf does everyone threaten to do that?

Stealing kneecaps is probably illegal.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Stealing hearts isn't though, so you can probably punish Lyxal by ripping out their heart @hyper-neutrino.

@user One problem: covid restricts travel between countries

So you'd need to find a way to actually get over here

Easy, everyone knows if you dig a hole straight through the planet's core from North America you end up near Australia

Smugglers

It takes more bytes to steal a kneecap, so the golfiest solution is to steal @Lyxal's heart :P

@cairdcoinheringaahing I got the 28000th star does that count?

@Lyxal no

@cairdcoinheringaahing very sad. Alexa play despacito

@Lyxal answer one of my bountied questions (competitively), and you get 50 rep

CMC: Print or return the number 28533

(snippets allowed)

@RedwolfPrograms text: 28533

@RedwolfPrograms Jelly, 5 bytes

@RedwolfPrograms Vim, 6 bytes: i28533

@RedwolfPrograms I don't have a printer near by and I never bought the number 28533 so no.

:p

@RedwolfPrograms BF, 37 bytes: +++++[>++++++++++<-]>.++++++.---.--..

@RedwolfPrograms Jelly, 3 bytes: ⁽n

Try it online!

7 bit ascii: some amount

in fact I could probably use 6 or 5 byte ascii :P

Have you ever heard the noise of young kids squealing next door on a Saturday morning? Because I have and right now it ain't very pleasant.

Apparently Ash's nth prime builtin is really slow

Bruh use sympy

In JS?

Oh wait that's right you can't hahhaa

Imagine using js

@RedwolfPrograms Yes :P

@RedwolfPrograms brainflak, 78 bytes: (()((()((()(()(()((()(()(()(()((()()()){}){}){}){}){}){}){}){}){}){}){}){}){})

(used the integer meta-golfer :P)

@Wezl probably disallowed for the same reason metagolfscript is

Well was it edited to be reopened?

Nope

Oh

Which post?

Link

Ash, way too many bytes: tGdotŻƊ4

yes, all that time was spent waiting for the prime builtin to finish

Stupid enter key

Being right next to the period

Ruining my joke

I need to get OSP to start logging all messages :P

your period key is next to your enter key? huh

@cairdcoinheringaahing I know you're kidding, but wouldn't that violate some sort of rule?

@hyper-neutrino yes

Ash, a bit shorter: od*Ɠ-Ȥ5

@user you don't know that at all. He is not kidding. He is caird

Ffs

@Lyxal Oh no, you're expanding to "I'm kidding" now?

oh. mobile. xD

@hyper-neutrino ^

@user no, lyxal is not expanding, lyxal is lyxal

@hyper-neutrino no "your period key" is not "next to your enter key" (I can be annoying on all nouns)

@hyper-neutrino >:(

@Wezl i might have poor reading comprehension but this doesn't even make sense

@hyper-neutrino :)

@Wezl lol

oh nvm i get it now

@user Not sure; chatbots can log every message as they are posted, and deletion is a separate event according to the bot, so they don;t have the follow the "remove this from the record" rule

@Wezl you have potential

If you keep taking this path you'll go far

The path of name puns that is

I will not

Very sad

@cairdcoinheringaahing I meant more of a TOS violation, since if a user deletes something, you're kinda invading their privacy by putting that back up

are chat messages under the same license as other stuff here?

looks like yes

you can't really delete something someone has seen from their mind, so i think it's not a problem (and also not really detectable) if a chatbot outputs incoming messages to console or something like that, but if you reveal the contents of a deleted message from the bot's record's that should be a violation of policy, and i will certainly disallow it based on my own discretion

@user That's exactly the issue, I'm not sure on the rule

Hey so what's the tag burniation process here?

Do tags just die if they don't have a question?

Delete it and hope nobody notices and gets mad

Notify HN if it isn't major, otherwisr, raise it on meta

@hyper-neutrino I have a tag deletion request: this

It's a useless tag and it has a typo in the name

Instead: merge with keg

^

Much better idea

tags that have no questions under them should expire after a while IIRC

is that useful at all if there are no questions? What does merging do?

let me check

@Lyxal What's it for?

@user github.com/Lyxal/100-Little-Keg-Exercises

merging A into B retags all questions with A as B (does not have any records in the edit history and doesn't bump), and then optionally i can make A a synonym of B

which, if a tag needs to be burned, shouldn't happen because otherwise it's permanently a synonym, so if it has no questions, merging is pretty useless

But I don't want the tag anymore I want it gone

CMC: make a font, with the glyphs for the codepage of a golfing language of your choice looking like words

Umm...

(m meaning medium or mini or mega, your pick)

right, but merging doesn't help with that. i'm going to check what the process is but i think it expires if never used eventually