The Nineteenth Byte

Unrelated String

00:27

are we talking about classic sci-fi book series with wack endings
because fuck i'm not sure i've bothered to read anything after the dune books that don't exist
when is someone going to just break into brian herbert's house and publish photocopies of the actual dune 7 notes

lyxal

Heh, who needs books when you can just read TNB transcripts?

Unrelated String

like i am still mad and i read that all like three years ago

between the straight up plot holes and the whole tying the grand finale of this 7000 year plot back into the halfassed prequels thing

i much prefer the butlerian jihad being a galactic scale moral panic that started because people were just freaked the hell out by what computers can do than a literal war against killer robots that started because one of them dropped a baby off a balcony for the lulz

lyxal

00:47

> one of them dropped a baby off a balcony for the lulz

...

user

02:17

Wtf

I’ve heard the entire Fime series id messed up tho,mot jyst the end

Sandbox Posts

02:46

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Suits Me In college, Summer Klerance was what her teachers referred to as GBL*. Each student in her probability class had been given an individual problem to work on and turn as part of their final grade. Summer, as usual, procrastinated much too long, and when she finally looked at her problem, ...

hyper-neutrino

03:09

Monica's answer to the Community VP input thread

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Redwolf Programs

03:37

I'm really hoping this is the start of a rebuilding of trust between SE and its community. Even just taking the time to ask directly for feedback and input on what to change says a lot about the new VP in my opinion.

I don't know what sort of contractual requirements SE has due to the settlement with Monica, but if they're able to make an apology I feel like were the closest to that so far

lyxal

04:07

CMQ: How many people have used XSLT here?

Sandbox Posts

0

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Will Alice win in this Stick Bomber game? code-golf decision-problem game Background Stick Bomber is a two-player game I just made up. Initially, some sticks are placed in one or more groups, and the sticks in each group are laid out in a straight line. So a configuration with three groups of 3, ...

PyGamer0

04:20

CMC: Output gibberish. (Random letters with random length)

lyxal

what range should the characters be in? Printable ascii? All of unicode?

uppercase only? lowercase only?

ATaco

Perfectly random length, (All lengths possibile) or is an upper maximum alright?

Funky, 53 bytes while(m=math.random)(9)<9write(string.char(m(26)+64))

Assumes all lengths possible and Uppercase only.

lyxal

@PyGamer0 Vyxal, 8 bytes, {₀℅|kA℅₴

All lengths possible and uppercase only

or with a maximum length of 100: ₁ʀ℅(kA℅₴

or ¤₴ʀ℅(kA℅₴ for a variable length

¤₴ isn't needed if outputting the input is fine for length 0

Bubbler

04:46

Feedback?

Razetime

04:56

@Bubbler i think the jordan matrix is ready to post

idk why people haven't upvoted it

Sandbox Posts

05:41

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

What if function application was right-associative? code-golf string parsing Background In Haskell and many other functional languages, function application f(x) is simply written as f x. Also, this form of function application is left-associative, which means f x y z is ((f x) y) z, or ((f(x))(y...

ngn

@hyper-neutrino could you grant meta.stackexchange.com/users/1037273/meyt4r write access to chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/90748/the-k-tree please?

hyper-neutrino

@ngn do they have a chat profile?

if not I am able to create one

ngn

@hyper-neutrino chat.stackexchange.com/users/518723/user1037273

hyper-neutrino

done

ngn

thanks!

hyper-neutrino

05:49

@RedwolfPrograms yeah, I personally have a lot of faith in the direction we may be seeing with Philippe - I haven't really worked much / at all with him but overall I have a lot of confidence in our CMs (even if they often come bearing bad news or status-declined tags :P).

i'm not just as confident in SE itself and don't really know how the hierarchy is, but I am hoping that this new position will give the community a larger and more direct line of communication with SE through a dedicated employee, which previously I'm not sure CMs were always able to do

we'll, again, have to just wait, see, and hope for the best, but I am just hoping this will be an improvement to the corporation's treatment and handling of us as the community and that the VP's enthusiasm towards supporting and prioritization of the community will be echoed in the chain of command above him

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PyGamer0

CMQ: Thoughts on Python 3.10.

^ Including pattern matching

lyxal

06:15

May 19 at 23:57, by lyxal

But then again, imagine being in a country where covid is actually relevant

Oh how that aged terribly

hyper-neutrino

well played (F)

every time CBC posts and doesn't disable comments i am reminded of why i do not look at youtube comments

people really think rushing reopening is how we can fix the economy?

sure, let's reopen, and then three weeks later when the fourth wave hits ontario lets see how that plays out for small businesses

Bubbler

@PyGamer0 I think the pattern matching on lists/tuples/dicts can be a lifesaver in many cases, though first-class algebraic data type support would make a much better synergy (I know it is technically possible as shown in the middle of PEP 622, but it is way too verbose and doesn't work well with "rapid prototyping")

hyper-neutrino

i'm just glad i'm fortunate enough to have online courses available to me and a co-op job that lends itself easily to being remote so i don't have to deal with all of this bullshit

lyxal

@hyper-neutrino erm maybe

We were all pretty quick to reopen last June/July or so

hyper-neutrino

well i mean like

lyxal

06:20

And it worked relatively well until now

hyper-neutrino

in the middle of my city being the province's hotspot with a very unstable and somewhat growing new covid case rate

we are following the province with reopening into stage 3

if your cases are low and you reopen and then bad stuff happens again, that's very unfortunate

if your cases are still not even low or even still growing and you reopen and bad stuff happens, that's just stupidity

anyway, it's not like anyone'd listen to my pointless opinions anyway xD so i will just sit here in my room for like 80% of my life for the foreseeable future and be glad i have that luxury

New Posts

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Q: Longest Zero Sum Sub-array

Given an array of integers. Find out its longest sub-array (contiguous subsequence) whose sum is 0. The sub-array for output may be an empty array. Input Input an array of integers. Output Output the longest zero sum sub-array. If there are multiple such arrays, output any one of them. Output For...

PyGamer0

@Bubbler algebraic data support as in sympy?

hyper-neutrino

@NewPosts i am speed (it will be very embarassing if i somehow messed up something this simple)

Bubbler

@PyGamer0 No, more in Haskell or functional-programming sense

PyGamer0

06:28

@hyper-neutrino how does your jelly answer work?

hyper-neutrino

@PyGamer0 explanation added

portable to vyxal in 7 bytes (jelly + 2)

PyGamer0

CMQ: Is there a way to get the largest (by length) element of a list in python

hyper-neutrino

max(a,key=len)

ah fuck the empty case is screwing me over because the sublists atom excludes the empty sublist

PyGamer0

thanks

Try it online!

^ very bad answer

@NewPosts for <-

how do i improve it?

hyper-neutrino

you should be able to collapse sublist generation into one double-listcomp

PyGamer0

06:41

@hyper-neutrino ??

yeah i am not good at golfing in python

idont know the cool stuff to make my code shorter

Underslash

is there ever a case where it would be worse when taking a sublist for it to return the empty array as well?

PyGamer0

@hyper-neutrino how would i do that?

hyper-neutrino

i have 90 in python, will give some time before posting

Underslash

@PyGamer0 for starters i believe you can remove s = ... B.append(s) and just do B.append(...)

where ... is the code there

@PyGamer0 also, you can use list comprehension at least once in order to turn the inner for loop into a list comprehension, and do B += [...]

Try it online!

what I always have trouble with in double loop comprehensions when adding to an array is not creating "flat" arrays

hyper-neutrino

well you can do that by just not nesting the list comps

or do you mean you want to have it not be flat

Underslash

06:51

wdym by not nesting them

hyper-neutrino

[a for b in c for d in e]

Underslash

im going to be completely honest i've never seen that syntax before

hyper-neutrino

anyway, posted a python sub to the problem, waiting to get outgolfed by dingledooper/xnor/whoever

Underslash

so would b and d be the iteration variables

hyper-neutrino

yeah you can flatten a nested list comp by doing that syntax - do note that its order is left to right so print([(a,b)for a in[1,2]for b in[3,4]]) gives [(1, 3), (1, 4), (2, 3), (2, 4)]

@Underslash yes

Underslash

06:54

wow

hyper-neutrino

you would normally do [[x for a in inner] for inner in outer]

Underslash

thats really handy

hyper-neutrino

but to flatten, [x for inner in outer for a in inner]

Underslash

yeah, and it follows the same form as if you put a double nested for loop all on one line

pxeger

@hyper-neutrino (which is entirely illogical)

@Underslash and it follows the opposite form as if you read it in English which confuses me to no end

Underslash

06:56

true

hyper-neutrino

the former is obviously unambiguous and i remember the latter as "it's opposite the former cuz funny"

Bubbler

Every language has pain points and we as programmers are supposed to get used to it

hyper-neutrino

yeah. i'd say i've gotten used to most of the common weirdness you have to deal with python

not familiar with the extents of how weird you can get it, but at least used to things so i can use it even if it has peculiar behavior or restrictions

Bubbler

Haskell has the same specification order, though at least it doesn't use English in code

PyGamer0

is it illegal to make or share memes in australia??

Underslash

07:02

@PyGamer0 Try it online! this is as far as I could get your method down with my basic golfing ways

@PyGamer0 I would hope not

lyxal

@PyGamer0 no

I've made and shared many memes

Look I'll share a meme now

I made that meme and shared it

Underslash

such illegal

lyxal

And I'm totally fin....oh wait why are the police here?

PyGamer0

oh

lyxal

Welp, it was nice knowing y'all :p

Underslash

07:09

if it was illegal to make memes, that would pretty much mean it was either illegal to send images, or unenforcable, since pretty much any random picture can be counted as a meme

lyxal

Reddit wouldn't exist if memes were yesn't

Underslash

like here: random meme i got from reddit

technically, you could consider this a warning

because it is inadvisable to swim in mayo

however, in practice its a joke

Underslash

07:30

@hyper-neutrino codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/231563/99035 jeez

hyper-neutrino

yeah i shouldn't have posted mine even prob. tempted to delete it cuz it's really trivial and boring lol

but it's w/e. translating golflang approaches into python is often not a good approach :p

Underslash

I think you should keep it up

Razetime

Announcement: flagitious (creator of golfscript) has just published a new golfing language: nibbles.golf

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AviFS

08:01

that's way cool!

Bubbler

So it is Risky(4-bits unit) + Pyth(prefix) + Husk(typing, compiles to Haskell) + Charcoal(supports literate mode)

AviFS

pretty funny though, his sites are always so 90s

@cairdcoinheringaahing I missed your birthday!! Happy happy happy

Anything nice?

lyxal

@hyper-neutrino what does w/e stand for? Worth the effort?

N3buchadnezzar

08:28

@lyxal What ever.

PyGamer0

09:54

do any of you know a good proportional font (its for a website i am making)? (or a list). Requirements: Decent Unicode coverage.

here is the website

ngn

@PyGamer0 what's wrong with the current font?

PyGamer0

@ngn its the default

Neil

@Bubbler (Charcoal is also prefix)

of course its verbose mode uses function syntax so it's not so obvious

Adám

@PyGamer0 So, change for change's sake?

PyGamer0

@Adám yes

(personally it looks bad)

Adám

10:03

@PyGamer0 For good Unicode coverage, how about using the DejaVu family?

PyGamer0

@Adám hmm ok lemme see

Adám

dejavu-fonts.github.io

PyGamer0

@Adám if i remember correctly you had a list of fonts?

Adám

@PyGamer0 aplwiki.com/wiki/Fonts

N3buchadnezzar

@PyGamer0 adobe-fonts.github.io/source-code-pro

Adám

10:17

> proportional

N3buchadnezzar

Gahh

Adám

@PyGamer0 abrudz.github.io/sans

PyGamer0

10:45

yes now this is better

Adám

10:55

@PyGamer0 I like Atkinson too.

@PyGamer0 Don't forget to make your avatar be the favicon.

pxeger

11:37

@PyGamer0 Noto Sans has among the best Unicode coverage

it's not my favourite though

caird coinheringaahing

@AviFS Thanks! I got a ski repair kit I've been trying to get my hands in for a while, plus some assorted stuff :P

N3buchadnezzar

Ski, like snow?

caird coinheringaahing

@Razetime It looks cool, but I don't get how you see 14 years worth of golfing Lang dev, and create a Lang that feels very 2015

@N3buchadnezzar Yes

Razetime

@cairdcoinheringaahing still sticking to ascii i think

caird coinheringaahing

Nibbles doesn't really have much overloading, it's command list is incredibly limited and the nibble-based encoding isn't new by a long shot

pxeger

11:41

@Razetime well it's a 4-bit codepage so it's not anything, but then literate mode makes sense to be ASCII

@cairdcoinheringaahing does it claim to be next-generation? AFAICT it's kind of just an experiment

Razetime

it's meant to be a more rationalized prefix golfscript

N3buchadnezzar

@Razetime The only ski's I will try is ascii and bonski

Razetime

which is relatively better to develop in afaik

caird coinheringaahing

@pxeger No, I just think there's nothing new about it

Razetime

banach tarski pls

caird coinheringaahing

11:43

Also, am I blind or does it not have an equality operator?

N3buchadnezzar

@Razetime What is an anagram for Banach Tarski? Banach Tarski Banach Tarski

caird coinheringaahing

@N3buchadnezzar Wrong person to reply to?

N3buchadnezzar

You mentioned Ski's I mentioned better types of *ski's :P

PyGamer0

@Adám how do i do tht?

caird coinheringaahing

Interesting concept for a language: invariance. Essentially, every program takes an input x, performs a series of provided commands on x then outputs true if x is unchanged, and false otherwise

AviFS

11:53

Ooh, I really like that idea!

@cairdcoinheringaahing TODO: Get back to caird!

How about calling the lang 'Variant'

Sound like an alien-- a bit sci-fi

To motivate it as being interesting, that should prob be the only/main source of output

Adám

@PyGamer0 PR'd.

AviFS

But I'm thinking you could have multiple parallel programs that the input would run through before comparing

You could, for instance, output a number in binary

PyGamer0

@Adám and merged

AviFS

An ordered list of booleans for whether each parallel program remained invariant

caird coinheringaahing

Hmm, what would be the value in that tho?

AviFS

11:57

If you did this, then the cat program would be something like:

Is there a 1 in its binary representation?
Is there a 2 in its binary representation?
Is there a 4 in its binary representation?
Is there an 8 in its binary representation?

caird coinheringaahing

@AviFS I think, in order to make it usable, you might need to go down the Brachylog route, and allow it a "print and return" function, for challenges/programs where you need a non-Boolean output

AviFS

@cairdcoinheringaahing Which value?

caird coinheringaahing

Otherwise it'd only be usable for decision-problems

AviFS

The value of making such a lang?

caird coinheringaahing

Yeah, why would allowing that form of processing/output improve the language?

AviFS

11:59

@cairdcoinheringaahing Not sure how brachylog does it

But you could do any numbered output

not just decision problems

caird coinheringaahing

It seems as tho constructing binary numbers through multiple processes would be a completely different kind of language tbh

Not a bad idea, but not really what I had in mind

AviFS

@cairdcoinheringaahing Not following. I'm just proposing parallel decision problems to gen more complex outputs

@cairdcoinheringaahing It definitely would be pretty niche!

But as a total tarpit, it might be a neat concept

We'd just need a set of simple & elegant TC commands

Suited to bit manipulation

caird coinheringaahing

@AviFS Personally, I think the better way to allow more complex output is to have a function that is "Print X and return X", and the result of the invariance is only output at the end of execution

AviFS

And then we could just leave it as a BF/brain-flak/slashes kinda language

caird coinheringaahing

So a cat program would infinitely read a byte of input, print it and contribute looping, so it never outputs the invariance

AviFS

12:03

@cairdcoinheringaahing But then how does the invariant feature ever come into play?

caird coinheringaahing

(Maybe. I'm not a fan of the current cat challenge on the site, a better cat program would just consist of "print; while true: loop")

AviFS

Isn't it just one more construct in the language?

caird coinheringaahing

@AviFS For non-decision-problems, it doesnt

AviFS

Oh oh oh

So you're just proposing another primitive to add to an existing lang, then?

It sounded like it was a concept that a whole lang would revolve around

Another direction to take it:

To have more interesting output, come up with a way to show/quantify how different

And then 0 would be the truthy output, anything else would mean it changed

Eg, the difference between input & output

But that's not very interesting

Back to binary, you could output the xor of the two numbers

But that might be too abstruse

Of course, you could always decided to allow string as input, and even other objects. And you'd just have to define the 'diff' for each data type the lang supported

Eg for a string it could be every char in the output that wasn't in the input

so truthy would be if in ∊ out

and lambda n: n+'!' would give you as output either '!' (falsy) or the empty string (truthy) depending on whether the input string had an exclamation mark already in it

N3buchadnezzar

Anyone know how I use TIO for vim? >.< Struggling a bit to insert : commands

caird coinheringaahing

12:11

@AviFS Well, there are a surprisingly amount of Jelly answers in the form <code>=. This would be a lang where the same thing would just be <code>. So not exactly an extension to an existing lang, but nothing revolutionary

AviFS

@N3buchadnezzar Use V!

pxeger

@N3buchadnezzar you have to use carriage return rather than normal newline (line feed)

AviFS

github.com/DJMcMayhem/V

N3buchadnezzar

I tried <CR> no?

caird coinheringaahing

One potential thing is to allow dyadic programs, which are executed dyadically, then compared against the pair of inputs

pxeger

12:12

@N3buchadnezzar nope that will probably just insert the string <CR>

AviFS

@N3buchadnezzar If you add the -v verbose flag it might work

^^^ This is the trick ^^^

caird coinheringaahing

So + with arguments x and y, would output [x+y=x, x+y=y]

pxeger

That seems like it would get confusing fast. I like it!

AviFS

Try Vim <cr> online

@N3buchadnezzar

@cairdcoinheringaahing It always comes back to Jelly, doesn't it :P

@cairdcoinheringaahing That is neat!

But it is also less unique and minimalistic than I like these days

I think I'll develop the other one, though!

@cairdcoinheringaahing If you do this, though, how do you feel about defining metrics for each data type

To define distances between elements

And then you output the distance instead

And you have a zero distance be truthy in your lang

And a nonzero distance be falsy

@N3buchadnezzar : command in Vim TIO

N3buchadnezzar

@AviFS Getting there! Try it online!

I am trying to swap the arguments

x || y -> y || x

Maybe j:s/(\(.*\)||\(.*\))/(\2 || \1/) is better. shrug

I cant help but notice that that code looks like it is looking down left

pxeger

12:25

haha you're right

AviFS

Bye everyone ⍤/

Off to bed!

pxeger

\o

lyxal

@AviFS o/

@pxeger you're like one of those people who write (: instead of :)

caird coinheringaahing

12:47

@lyxal I'm used to doing \o for leaving, because Codenames and Contact use o/ to indicate "yes, I'm playing"

pxeger

@lyxal I had mental logic for always responding to o/ with \o and vice versa but having thought it through I realise it doesn't make any sense. I'll keep doing it though lol

PyGamer0

\o = bye

o/ = hi

caird coinheringaahing

Was very tempted to flag this for closure on MSE until I read more closely :P

N3buchadnezzar

13:14

Heh, I finally got it Try it online!

hyper-neutrino

13:47

okay this is almost certainly never going to be implemented but if it were imagine how harmful that'd be for our site culture lmao

caird coinheringaahing

@hyper-neutrino I think that "Can we turn off this feature here?" would be a feature-request posted the day after that got implemented :P

hyper-neutrino

if any feature request similar to that ever got status-review'd i'd probably post a counter-FR asking to un-consider that, because I feel that it is a negative change for not just CGCC but honestly all of SE :P

caird coinheringaahing

It's already been status-declined, and that's a "lite" version :P

hyper-neutrino

oh, nice :p

caird coinheringaahing

Fun fact: the query shown in that question has 0 results for this site :P

"Questions by users with under 15 rep which have answers with 2+ up votes that have no accepted answer."

Redwolf Programs

13:51

Morning!

caird coinheringaahing

Afternoon

PyGamer0

@RedwolfPrograms night?

caird coinheringaahing

> After 90 days of inactivity by the question-author, answers with 2 or more upvotes should qualify for community accept-answer votes
5 community accepted-answer votes shall cause the answer to be accepted
Users with 7500 reputation may cast accept-answer votes

Honestly, that seems like a feature that would work the least worse :P

pxeger

we would just have to not use it on CGCC

it makes sense pretty much anywhere else IMO

caird coinheringaahing

There does need to be some privilege between 5k and 10k tbh

Redwolf Programs

13:54

Ooh, my chromium bug report got bumped to a higher priority and assigned

PyGamer0

CMC: Create a program that takes input as a string and splits it into the array of ord values of the string.

pxeger

@RedwolfPrograms linky?

caird coinheringaahing

Hey @hyper-neutrino, have you seen this?

Redwolf Programs

@pxeger bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1225799

caird coinheringaahing

This is a long-known bug that has nothing to do with the mod tools. Essentially, when an answer has ever been undeleted in the past, deleting the question silently marks the answer as deleted again without clearing the past undelete votes, so it looks like the ones from the previous undeletion cycle are still pending. But since regular users can't undelete an answer on a deleted question, no one else could ever cast a vote there, which is probably why no one's bothered fixing it. — animuson ♦ Jan 19 '19 at 17:13

^ About your undelete votes on deleted answers thing @hyper

hyper-neutrino

13:57

ah, cool

Redwolf Programs

:o It looks like the chromium bug is caching related...they're taking ideas from SE I guess

hyper-neutrino

smh I should've asked about that on meta to farm free rep :D

pxeger

@RedwolfPrograms lmao, but it is actually a bug! That kinda amazes me tbh

One always imagines big software like Chromium shouldn't have bugs like this lol

caird coinheringaahing

@RedwolfPrograms There very much needs to be status-caching :P

Aaron Miller

@PyGamer0 Vyxal, 1 byte: Try it Online!

pxeger

13:58

@cairdcoinheringaahing there is, but you can never see it because of caching :þ

caird coinheringaahing

@PyGamer0 Jelly, 1 byte O

Redwolf Programs

@RedwolfPrograms This is probably the most annoying thing I've ever debugged too (before I knew it was a chromium bug), since any logging will make the issue disappear so you can't use the normal approaches to figure out what's going wrong with your code

hyper-neutrino

@PyGamer0 Proton, 8 bytes: map(ord)

Redwolf Programs

I've had something similar happen before, where a routine ASCII compressor program was randomly starting to dump arbitrary unicode into the output, but unfortunately I just deleted it and rewrote it so I'll never know if it was some stupid mistake of mine, or an actual bug :/

caird coinheringaahing

@PyGamer0 Python 2, 19 bytes lambda x:map(ord,x)

Aaron Miller

14:02

@PyGamer0 Vyxal K, 0 bytes: Try it Online! Outputs as a list of characters as allowed by this meta /s

hyper-neutrino

lol

PyGamer0

@AaronMiller oof

caird coinheringaahing

@AaronMiller And it still needs a flag, after all that rules-lawyering :P

hyper-neutrino

x=>[...x].map(y=>y.charCodeAt()), could probably be shorter

caird coinheringaahing

Do you need the surrounding parentheses?

hyper-neutrino

14:05

no you do not, i just needed those for testing lol

Redwolf Programs

@hyper-neutrino I think codePointAt would be more appropriate there, unless you replaced the [...] with .split("")

[...] can result in characters that span multiple UTF-16 char codes, meaning that some will be skipped

hyper-neutrino

ah

like surrogate pairs? yeah how are we supposed to handle those anyway lol

VTC as unclear /s

Aaron Miller

Our identicons are the same for both main and meta across the whole network, right?

hyper-neutrino

identicon, not profile picture

Redwolf Programs

Yeah realized that right after typing it lol

hyper-neutrino

14:10

yes, they are generated by the gravatar account attached to your email address I believe

PyGamer0

QQ: Who made 400 microscopes. :p

Aaron Miller

* visible confusion *

hyper-neutrino

what the fuck

did SE break everything again

pxeger

wh

Aaron Miller

Just noticed it, so I'm not sure when it happened, but I know it wasn't like that a couple days ago

pxeger

14:14

is that SO's CSS?

hyper-neutrino

probably worth a bug report; i can submit one if you can't be bothered ( and don't want the free rep ;) )

will look around for another example though if i can find one

Aaron Miller

Nah, I'll do it

hyper-neutrino

Jo King ♦, Aus

44.2k 4 99 174

code-golf string number math quine decision-problem sequence

Jo King ♦, Aus

44.2k 18 26

discussion policy faq defaults code-golf sandbox scoring

ovs's (main meta) is broken too

Redwolf Programs

I'll try switching to my identicon to see if it's changed

hyper-neutrino

feersum

level river st

i think that's enough examples :p

Redwolf Programs

14:18

My identicon is the same on both if I switch to it, not sure if that's useful data though :p

Also I forgot how ugly mine is :p

pxeger

check if there's the same difference on other network sites? If not, might it just be a partial rollout of the fix?

hyper-neutrino

Jo King's is broken on SO as well, and yes, the meta identicon is the same as the current CGCC one

Aaron Miller

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caird coinheringaahing

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A: Why has Community's profile picture changed?

Way back in the day we started salting Gravatar image URLs, but only for new users. Older users do not have a salted Gravatar URL. Today we performed a backfill so we can drop an old column Users.Email which contains an email address only used for this purpose but we didn't take into account that...

More specifically: meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/367460/5

Aaron Miller

That moment when there's a meta.stackexchange.com but no meta.meta.stackexchange.com. But I guess that would be too meta anyway.

Redwolf Programs

14:23

meta-meta

Adám

@PyGamer0 K: 0+ Try it online!

caird coinheringaahing

@AaronMiller Interestingly, questions about metas are on topic on those metas (see our meta tag) :P

Found a fly genocider: "I've killed hundreds of flies" :P

hyper-neutrino

i just have an electric swatter at home lmao

it isn't always that effective though, sometimes i have to hold it on over the fly for like a few seconds before it properly dies and then it smells bad because i basically charred the fly's corpse

Redwolf Programs

I just use a normal flyswatter and sometimes I can manage to knock them out of the air

caird coinheringaahing

I surround myself with Force Lightning, so that if any of them come near me, I can cackle manically before they throw me down an elevator shaft

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Y'know, like normal people do :P

Aaron Miller

14:33

I use a wet towel. :|

and hope nobody gets in the way

Redwolf Programs

Just shoot them. Fly vs. shotgun, there's one clear winner :p

N3buchadnezzar

I just surrender and die

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caird coinheringaahing

Shotgun seems too easy. Use a pistol or rifle to improve your marksmanship :P

Aaron Miller

@RedwolfPrograms That's actually a thing.

hyper-neutrino

I release a butterfly so that its wings' movements redirect the air flow and the chaos effect leads to a large shift in the atmosphere and refracts cosmic rays to strike the fly and instantly kill it.

Redwolf Programs

14:35

@AaronMiller I know there's some sort of salt gun thing, yeah :p

But only cowards don't use real bullets :p

caird coinheringaahing

@hyper-neutrino relevant xkcd :P

Redwolf Programs

Unrelated, anyone know a good window and furniture and wall repairman?

caird coinheringaahing

Johnny Shotgun-Hands is quite good

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