The Nineteenth Byte

pxeger

16:00

oh I didn't even notice it did send the first time

even buggier

hyper-neutrino

i think we found a chat client in SE's bug

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pxeger

@cairdcoinheringaahing I so far only really use userscripts to solve a problem I have, and I have few gripes with chat's interface, and I haven't found myself referring to other users in third person enough to bother with either of those

caird coinheringaahing

Fair enough

pxeger

what does chat improvements do?

caird coinheringaahing

I have 9 userscripts active rn and 5 that I've disabled but would be active

Redwolf Programs

16:02

caird coinheringaahing

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@pxeger This is what my chat window looks like with chat improvements:

Redwolf Programs

Autodesk has you make a "team" and give it a name, so I named mine Ryan Tosh since I'd be the only one using it. So when it finished setting things up it said that ^^^^

DLosc

@RedwolfPrograms "... a 3D printer", I hope? (oh)

Redwolf Programs

Wow, screenshots on windows are so horribly painful compared to Chrome OS

caird coinheringaahing

I think the only visible differences between my setup and chat improvements only are pronouns and the rainbow footer

@RedwolfPrograms Yep

I have to paste them into a powerpoint doc, then save as image

pxeger

16:05

win+shift+s?

Redwolf Programs

@pxeger Yeah, but then you have to click on the notification and hit "save" in the window that pops up

caird coinheringaahing

Probably because I don't know an easier way :P

hyper-neutrino

i usually paste into paint3d

win+shift+s doesn't work everywhere

pxeger

@cairdcoinheringaahing ah, I'm not the only one that uses powerpoint almost exclusively as an image editor lol

caird coinheringaahing

Print Screen usually does

hyper-neutrino

16:05

i can't screenshot in certain apps (like Genshin Impact) because the shift key takes other actions

DLosc

@cairdcoinheringaahing I see your Chrome update procrastination is similar to mine ;)

caird coinheringaahing

@pxeger Powerpoint > GIMP > Paint

Redwolf Programs

And not being able to preview an image before uploading it somewhere is awful

caird coinheringaahing

@DLosc I wait until it turns red :P

Redwolf Programs

On Chrome (and I think other OSes) you can hit space and it'll show the image

DLosc

16:07

@cairdcoinheringaahing Unpopular opinion: I like MS Paint

hyper-neutrino

paint's simplicity makes it nice to use for many things but it doesn't support transparency (at least last time i tried using it)

pxeger

if you don't already know, use flameshot.org which is a very good screenshot tool

hyper-neutrino

and i was trying to make a minecraft resource pack which needs transparency so instead of finding a better image editor like a reasonable human i just made one myself

Redwolf Programs

For pixel art I use pixilart, which is an online thing

pxeger

alternatively, if you only use Windows, try getsharex.com

DLosc

16:09

@hyper-neutrino True. There's a quasi-transparency thing where you can have it not include pixels of the background color when you make a selection, but you can't save an image with transparency. One of the features I do wish it had.

@hyper-neutrino You made an image editor? :o

hyper-neutrino

@DLosc yeah it was really scuffed though xD

the only part i'm proud of with it is i made it able to load up two images at once and place them together, and then you can edit it like one image and then when saving it splits them again

this is mostly useful for editing multi-part minecraft texture pack files like doors

DLosc

Ooh, interesting

Redwolf Programs

I'm wondering if it'd be possible to retrain my synesthesia

It sounds stupid but it actually affects my ability to write things sometimes

pxeger

eeeeeeeeeexposure theeeeerapy?

Redwolf Programs

If I could get myself to associate e with a nicer color, that'd improve my productivity a lot

E.g., I have never used an else in the last year or so

I always just find a way to make it return early

Or use a ternary/short circuit operator in appropriate contexts

caird coinheringaahing

16:19

Tbf, I dislike using else as well, and I don't have synesthesia :P

No joke, this structure is used in the Add++ v6 interpreter when executed the parsed tokens :P

DLosc

Oof

Redwolf Programs

I do that sort of thing far too often lol

caird coinheringaahing

I find it a lot easier to have a raise at the end if there's an unknown token tbh

pxeger

@cairdcoinheringaahing my favourite Python hack is for x in y: do something with x; break instead of try: x = next(y); do something with x; except StopIteration: pass

caird coinheringaahing

I've never used either of those constructs :P

pxeger

16:25

I've used it in writing a lexer before

DLosc

@cairdcoinheringaahing Seems pretty easy to me (in this specific case)

caird coinheringaahing

Just found out that the reason we're learning R for my course is because the uni doesn't want to pay for a Mathematica license :P

hyper-neutrino

lol

which course is this? i learned a bit of R but it was for econ so i think that's what they'd use anyway

caird coinheringaahing

@DLosc ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ that seems "dirtier" imo

@hyper-neutrino For the stats unit

IME, R is usually better for stats, but my prof really like mathematica

Might let him know about TIO :P

pxeger

you can't use it interactively though

DLosc

16:28

@cairdcoinheringaahing How odd. :P To me it seems like the obvious way to do it, although somewhat less flexible.

caird coinheringaahing

@DLosc Not using else saves bytes (yes, I'm ignoring that continue takes more bytes :P)

DLosc

Now that's the kind of fallacious reasoning we like to see here X^D

pxeger

16:57

@cairdcoinheringaahing unpin?

hyper-neutrino

17:14

done

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@NewPosts I just VTC for the wrong reason :/

Neil

17:56

@DLosc I made an image editor, about 25 years ago, for 16-bit Windows. Its main claim to fame was that it could open images with a greater colour depth than the current display, although it did dither them down.

user

18:15

Ooh, the starboard's been active while I was away

@RedwolfPrograms Wait, really? It never made us do that

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user

22:32

sus

Redwolf Programs

Lol wut

Adám

@hyper-neutrino Almost. Hebrew employs zero copula while the cumulative conjunction is a prefix, so "sabbath [that is] peace[ful] and-blessed."

Redwolf Programs

I've just invented something truly ingenious: hxadcimal

Instead of 0123456789abcdef, it uses 0123456789abcdfg

Adám

Why not get rid of 0, 1, and 3 while you're at it?

Redwolf Programs

I personally really like 0 and 1

Adám

22:45

Surely they should only be used for binary.

New idea: Number systems that do not use digits used by lower-radix systems.

lyxal

@RedwolfPrograms oh boy I can't wait to use you to generate 3d objects out of filament /s

Adám

Unary uses 0, so binary is 12 and ternary is 345…

lyxal

So then what's decimal?

Because by the time you reach decimal, you've already used 45 unique digits, which is more than numbers + lowercase

hyper-neutrino

unary through octal uses the 36 alphanumeric digits

Redwolf Programs

Anything over octal is officially discontinued

hyper-neutrino

22:51

ninja'd cuz my phone didn't autoscroll to show the new message lol

lyxal

I suppose you could use letters with dots above

That gets you another 26 digits

Redwolf Programs

And after that just keep adding dots

..., ẏ, ż, ä, ...

Using uppercase letters is an option but that would be totally ridiculous

user

23:07

Uh-huh, and what y'all are doing currently isn't?

Adám

Heretic!

user

Don't you mean "Hrtic!"?

Adám

Yes.

rak1507

@user hieratic?

also you left the i in

user

Redwolf doesn't like 'i''s either?

DLosc

23:17

@Adám הרטךּ

If you're gonna remove vowels, you might as well use a writing system that's built for it ;P

Adám

@DLosc הרטיק but yeah.

DLosc

@Adám I was thinking it might need a yod (though that kind of ruins the "no vowels" concept). A little surprised by the qoph because I'm used to distinguishing /q/ from /k/, IPA style, but now I see that Modern Hebrew pronounces it as /k/.

Adám

Final kaf is very unusual, though. Still, orthography isn't really useful for foreign words. If you want to be etymological, you might also want a taw instead of your teth.

כופר is better, but again has a vowelish wow.

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