The Nineteenth Byte

@cairdcoinheringaahing Tsk tsk, I've had my iPhone SE for ~4 years and it's still good (admittedly, I replaced the Blu after only a couple months, but it had issues that I didn't cause)

caird coinheringaahing

Think I got my current phone in Dec 2019

user

@cairdcoinheringaahing Steal your neighbor's charger

Even better, steal your neighbor's phone, then steal your neighbor's finger

caird coinheringaahing

@user The screen started lifting off my previous phone :P

user

As I said, steal your neighbor's phone

caird coinheringaahing

12:22 AM

It didn't help that I left it out in California summer sun for ~6 hours by mistake, and it heated up so much it had the "Phone too hot" error :P

user

I find it hard to believe that phones I thought were so cool not too long ago look kinda old now

caird coinheringaahing

@user Flip phones were amazing, and deserve to come back

emanresu A

^

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

Do you consider folding phones to be a part of that?

caird coinheringaahing

No

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

12:23 AM

I sort consider them to be higher tech flip phones

user

T-Mobile gave my family 3 free phones a few years back and at the time, the screens looked really nice, but now they look blurry and just off compared to my iPhone

caird coinheringaahing

Can you do "the flip" with folding phones? No

DLosc

@cairdcoinheringaahing I have a flip phone

user

The only cool part about them seems to be the flipping and the fact that they're cheap, but other than that they're probably crap

caird coinheringaahing

@DLosc Don't worry, there's nothing wrong with being old ;)

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

12:25 AM

I hate how my laptop's speakers are on the bottom of it, so the sound's all muffled if you try to do stuff while you're listening to music

DLosc

@DLosc It's not amazing, tho. I keep wishing I could get into the OS code and fix some of the bugs. :(

user

@DLosc But what do you do when you want to watch cat videos?! :P

DLosc

@user Laptop

caird coinheringaahing

Feb 6 '18 at 16:50, by caird coinheringaahing

Is blink-182 another old person thing?

user

What do you do when you don't have your laptop?

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

12:26 AM

I've got a laptop with me basically 24/7, so I have no idea why I even have a somewhat modern phone

user

Does your laptop have cellular data or whatever it's called?

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

I don't even have a hotspot on it because my parents are too cheap, so half its advantages are gone

caird coinheringaahing

@taRadvylfsriksushilani My laptop's battery is so bad, I basically have tokeep it plugged in, or it dies in a couple of hours

DLosc

@user Look at nature. Talk to people. Keep my eyes on the road. Sleep. (If I'm not doing one of those things, I generally have a laptop available. :P)

user

Booooooring :P

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

12:27 AM

@user No, that's half the reason I own a phone, for the hotspot. Which I can't use because AT&T and my parents collectively suck

caird coinheringaahing

@DLosc Try doing the last two at the same time, the horns honking are a really good white noise machine

user

@cairdcoinheringaahing Imagine having a laptop with a battery so good it can actually hold any charge at all

emanresu A

@DLosc Try doing all of those at the same time, for that matter

user

I've had to (have to) work with a laptop that tells you on startup there's no battery and you need to keep it charging constantly. Pull the plug and it immediately dies

> Keep my eyes on the road
> Sleep

emanresu A

what

Neil

12:28 AM

@DLosc SE actually told me that it undid some serial voting yesterday; I'd never seen that before

emanresu A

> Try

user

Do or do not do, there is no true

caird coinheringaahing

@user If you think talking to people is boring, I have a site where I think you'd really get along with the users: codegolf.stackexchange.com

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user

@emanresuA The laptop's name is Glorious Leader iirc

DLosc

@user ozyandmillie.org/archives/comic/ozy-and-millie-618

Neil

12:30 AM

@DLosc unless you have custom code, default stdio is only line buffered for a tty, so when you write to a file nothing gets written until you hit stdio's buffer size. and if your process gets interrupted before then, nothing gets written

user

Even flushing doesn't help with that?

emanresu A

@DLosc Accurate lol

DLosc

@Neil Huh, okay. So if I let it run till there was more output, maybe it would have worked?

emanresu A

Final feedback?

user

I just realized I use my phone to browse the web, check my email, set alarms and timers, take and view photos, etc., but not actually to call people

Whenever I get a call from a number not saved in my contacts (which is every call I get), I just block the number

Neil

12:34 AM

@DLosc well, you might have had some of the output, yes

user

And I only occasionally call my parents to come pick me up or something

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

I use mine as an alarm clock and uh...well I would text people but I don't know anyone...so uh...sometimes I take pictures, but my phone's never near enough when I need it...and uh...why do I have a $500 phone again...

caird coinheringaahing

@user I think I use my phone to call someone around once a month

user

@emanresuA Saying it's a convex polygon at the start may help?

Neil

the other alternative is to use script -c to capture the output of a command, this runs the command in its own TTY thus fooling it into using line buffering

caird coinheringaahing

12:35 AM

Alarm, texts/chats (Snapchat, Whatsapp, etc.), browsing internet is mainly what I use my phone for

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

Riding the bus to school and back is the only time I ever don't have a laptop and wifi, except under rare circumstances

emanresu A

It isn't

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user

I kinda dislike doing anything involving typing on my phone because it's way too small for my fat fingers

@emanresuA Whoops, didn't see that one

caird coinheringaahing

My screen time from last week :P

user

I turned off screen time because I was starting to feel guilty about it lol

emanresu A

12:38 AM

> Clock

> 1h 13m

caird coinheringaahing

Any bets on how long I spent on "chat.stackexchange.com"? :P

@emanresuA My alarms

emanresu A

47m

@cairdcoinheringaahing Oh

user

Does it also count snoozing? Is that why the number is so high?

DLosc

I use my phone for alarms, checking the time/date, texting, and sometimes calling. Occasionally I'll take a picture, even though the camera is garbage compared to any smartphone camera.

caird coinheringaahing

@emanresuA Ah, didn't realise you could see that :P

user

12:39 AM

> 00:36

hyper-neutrino

that's early for caird

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

Wait, do people actually use the snooze button on stuff?

caird coinheringaahing

@user I fall asleep after my alarm goes off, with the clock app open

@user See you in 3 hours :P

user

lol

caird coinheringaahing

My next and last exam is on Thursday, I don;t care what time I sleep tonight :P

user

12:40 AM

@taRadvylfsriksushilani Why are you so surprised by this? Sleep-deprived people who don't want to get out of bed exist (source: am one of these people)

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

I mean, when I'm asleep, my only goal is to stay asleep and the alarm clock is the enemy of that. It's not until I'm at least 50% awake that I can remember that I actually need to be awake. Pressing the snooze button goes against that terminal goal of staying asleep, so I never do that.

emanresu A

Imagine having school in Januaray

caird coinheringaahing

@emanresuA I don't

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

@taRadvylfsriksushilani I just turn off the alarm and fall back asleep

caird coinheringaahing

I just have exams :P

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

12:41 AM

@taRadvylfsriksushilani Which is a big problem, and the reason I have more than ten alarms set in my room at any given time

caird coinheringaahing

@taRadvylfsriksushilani Get on my level. I have an alarm every 5 minutes from 7:00am to 9:00am

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Q: Sides of a polygon

Given an ASCII-art shape made of the characters /\|_, your challenge is to return the number of sides it has. A side is a straight line of one of those, for example: \ \ \ / / | | | | _____ Are all sides. For example, this shape: ___ / \ /_____\ Has four sides. You can assume the in...

user

I solved this problem by putting my phone across the room. Now I have to be somewhat conscious by the time I've walked over to it, so I can trust myself to not snooze the alarm and go back to bed

Neil

I use my phone for phone calls and occasionally texts, because those are the only things it does

caird coinheringaahing

You can definitely separate the users of TNB agewise by asking "What can your phone do?" :P

user

12:43 AM

CMQ: What can your phone do?

Neil

or if you mean my landline, then I use it for phone calls

caird coinheringaahing

@Neil oh wow, a landline

user

Definitely a boomer here :P

caird coinheringaahing

I haven't seen one of those outside my grandma's house

Neil

comes free with the broadband, so...

emanresu A

12:44 AM

@cairdcoinheringaahing My family has one but it doesn't work

caird coinheringaahing

I think that technically my parents have a landline somewhere in the house, but I haven't seen it in years

Ginger Industries

Guess what I just released

emanresu A

Uh, nothing?

Ginger Industries

@emanresuA cmon I've been working on this for literally half a year

emanresu A

Then you've probably got a private repo

caird coinheringaahing

12:53 AM

@GingerIndustries That's a 404 page

lyxal

@GingerIndustries 404s chief

Ginger Industries

@emanresuA rgksp

fixed. man am I a dumbass

emanresu A

> Cobbled Cobblestone

Ginger Industries

@emanresuA what?

emanresu A

Nothing, it's funny

Ginger Industries

12:56 AM

@emanresuA *laughs in Suspicious Creature*

brb

emanresu A

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OldSandboxPosts

Sandbox posts last active a week ago: Wordle, The list

lyxal

The l i s t

you can run, but you can't hide from the list

Ginger Industries

back

lyxal

the l i s t knows where you live

Ginger Industries

1:02 AM

@lyxal so that's what sudo reports those "incidents" to

Sandbox Posts

1:28 AM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Count chords on electric razors Michael is an avant-garde composer. He notices that an electric razor can produce several different tones, depending on which speed setting he uses. He sees potential for music making, but his razor only has two settings, and can only play one tone at a time. So he...

thejonymyster

@emanresuA sus

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Q: Golf Conway's Primoridal Still-Life

Background A 29 year old conjecture by John Conway about the Game of Life was recently solved. To quote Conway from the linked article: Indeed, is there a Godlike still-life, one that can only have existed for all time (apart from things that don’t interfere with it)? That is, a configuration i...

code-golf ascii-art game-of-life

Wheat Wizard

1:47 AM

@OldSandboxPosts Why has it titled it "the list"?

emanresu A

That's the only <h1> in there

caird coinheringaahing

Yeah, I think ^ is why. IIRc, OSP looks for the first <h1> tag, and if not there, it looks for the first <h2> tag

Could probably do with some refinement tbh

Supporting <h3> and <h4>, along with taking the first <h_> tag if it's the first line would be good

Wheat Wizard

Just do a bunch of machine learning so that it will highlight random sections without us ever being able to figure out why.

caird coinheringaahing

"machine learning": random.choice(answer_body.lines) :P

Fmbalbuena

2:44 AM

@lyxal can you help me for making golflang?

Razetime

3:05 AM

@Fmbalbuena start something smaller than what you have currently planned for your golflang.

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

3:59 AM

@cairdcoinheringaahing Honestly, just taking the first line would probably work.

Maybe filter out up to one <p> first

@user ~~I have one of those energizer phones with a 36 week battery capacity~~

My hobby: Replacing people's landlines with landmines

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PyGamer0

5:01 AM

in flax, 2 mins ago, by PyGamer0

and flax is at 100 commits exactly

hyper-neutrino

ok i'm not exactly known for my appreciation of javascript but i actually quite like the ability to do ({a: b, c: d}) => b + d

it's lowkey cursed but i like it

Razetime

5:37 AM

didn't know js had pattern matching that complex

emanresu A

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Scala allows "$a plus $b"

or similr

hyper-neutrino

js deconstruction assignment or whatever it's called is pretty cool

like python lets you do [a, [b, c]] = (1, (2, 3))

but i didn't realize until recently that JS can do that in the func arguments itself

lyxal

6:01 AM

Ever wanted to see what Jelly's parser might look like without regex? well now you kinda can

emanresu A

6:11 AM

Why is this protected?

It got two spam answers, which a lot of questions have.

lyxal

Community just does that sometimes

emanresu A

IMO it shouldn't be.

lyxal

It isn't

I don't think any of the 3 currently protected posts need to be protected anymore

New Posts

7:25 AM

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Q: Mat Printing Matrix

A manufacturing company wants to print a design on mats of varying dimensions, and they hired you to program a robot to make these mats. The design consists of alternating rings of any 2 symbols on a mat. Below are some sample looks: Column 9 by Row 7 Symbol 1: @ Symbol 2: - Input: 9 7 @ - @@@@@@...

string ascii-art code-challenge grid matrix

Newly Featured Posts

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Q: Numbers divisible by the sum and product of their digits

Take a positive integer X. This number is part of the sequence we are interested in if the sum of all digits of X is a divisor of X, and if the product of all digits of X is a divisor of X. For example, 135 is such a number because 1 + 3 + 5 = 9 which divides 135 = 9 * 15 and 1 * 3 * 5 = 15 which...

code-golf sequence arithmetic

emanresu A

7:50 AM

@lyxal Illuminati gets too many "join the illuminati" spam, the google one gets too many incorrect solutions, the 2014 without numbers gets too much print(ord("ߞ") which is 15, 16 and 17 bytes

null

8:12 AM

I feel I can squeeze the covfefe program further by combining the first two loops

New Posts

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Q: Egyptian fraction representations of 1

An Egyptian fraction is a representation of a rational number using the sum of distinct unit fractions (a unit fraction is of the form \$ \frac 1 x \$ where \$ x \$ is a positive integer). For all[1] positive integers \$ n \ne 2 \$, there exists at least one Egyptian fraction of \$ n \$ distinct ...

code-golf math number-theory rational-numbers open-ended-function

PyGamer0

cool i have 803 rep

Adám

How can you only have 803 in rep‽

null

Cool I have 3519 rep

Adám

Cool, I have 25818 rep

@PyGamer0 Boost your rep quickly using this:

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A: List of bounties with no deadline

50 – 500 rep for an APL answer I will reward 50 rep if all of the following conditions are met: The answer is in Dyalog APL Classic/Unicode/Extended/Prime, APL2, APL+, APLSE, GNU/APL, Sharp APL, sAPL, SAX, NARS, APLX, A+, dzaima/APL, ngn/APL, APL\iv, Watcom APL, or APL\360. Feel free to suggest ...

null

8:28 AM

I will make an 1+-advertising bounty when I have 25818 rep

pxeger

I feel like that bounty should have a disclaimer at the top saying "This bounty was posted by a person whose job is to promote APL"

Adám

@pxeger Done.

null

~~Who will invest my Oneplus Limited Corporations?~~

~~Oh! Now I knew how Razetime got so much rep.~~

pxeger

and Bubbler

null

yes, and Bubbler

but Bubbler would get as much rep with his rudeness even wihhout apl

pxeger

8:35 AM

22% of Bubbler's rep came from Adám

15% for Razetime

null

~~I know how to boost rep: offer a negative rep for python answers~~

Adám

I wonder if I'm the one on the SE network that has given away the highest amount of rep.

emanresu A

Almost certainly not

Here, maybe

Adám

Why do you think so?

null

@pxeger The other 85%: github.com/razetime/code-golf/blob/master/golflang-list.md

pxeger

8:38 AM

You've given away 127% of your rep in bounties

Adám

That doesn't sound right. 56%.

hyper-neutrino

i think pxeger means relative to your current rep

pxeger

I mean 127% of your actual current rep

yeah

hyper-neutrino

so like, bountied / current not bountied / (bountied + current)

pxeger

not out of rep earnt

emanresu A

8:59 AM

@Adám Simply because of the amount of rep people on SO have

Adám

OK, then that's a challenge: Find a SE user that has given away more rep than me!

emanresu A

… on mobile? No thanks. There’s probably an SEDE query somewhere

PyGamer0

@Adám nervously looks at someone from another universe

emanresu A

@lyxal that was my sock

But good job making the internet more wholesome

pxeger

@Adám If you'd given your bounties on StackOverflow instead, you'd be the 16th most prolific bounty awarder

Naman has given a ridiculous amount of rep

SEDE query

Adám

9:09 AM

Wow.

pxeger

Well, arguably, Community is the absolute most generous user, but that doesn't count

(How can Community award a bounty anyway? Or does it just own deleted users' bounties?)

Adám

Now I want to know how much rep is in circulation.

(Obviously, more is created all the time.)

emanresu A

If a bount expires it gets half awarded to the top answer

@Adám Including or not including association bonus?

Adám

Either way.

AssBons is probably negligible in the grand scheme of things.

emanresu A

Networkwide, probably not

There are 86k users with <200 rep here

Ok wtf I got rate limited

DialFrost

9:23 AM

hi guys

emanresu A

For too many requests

DialFrost

should i allow even numbered row and column?

pxeger

what for?

DialFrost

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Q: Mat Printing Matrix

A manufacturing company wants to print a design on mats of varying dimensions, and they hired you to program a robot to make these mats. The design consists of alternating rings of any 2 symbols on a mat. Below are some sample looks: Column 9 by Row 7 Symbol 1: @ Symbol 2: - Input: 9 7 @ - @@@@@@...

code-golf string ascii-art grid matrix

i mean, it doesnt rly matter right?

and quick qns why doesnt this code work

tio.run/#python3

Adám

@DialFrost Too late now. You've already posted it.

DialFrost

9:24 AM

awww ok

pxeger

@DialFrost you linked an empty program

DialFrost

oops

pxeger

click the link icon, and then the URL will update

DialFrost

tio.run/…

pxeger

or use my version of TIO, ATO, which updates the URL automatically as you type ;)

DialFrost

9:25 AM

why doesnt it work for numbers larger than 10

pxeger

what is it supposed to do

emanresu A

CMQ: what happens when you go to codegolf.stackexchange.com/…

pxeger

oh solve that challenge

DialFrost

lol

pxeger

@emanresuA wtf

emanresu A

9:26 AM

O/

DialFrost

haha

anyone can solve the problem?

Adám

@DialFrost Does it work for numbers less than 10?

idk y it doesnt work

@Adám no

? it does pxeger

9:26 AM

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Adám

^

DialFrost

like 3 5 $ + works

not 3 15 $ +

pxeger

oh I tried 9, and that didn't work

DialFrost

yes

pxeger

but 9 < 10

DialFrost