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7:04 PM
@thejonymyster Maybe just a regular hexagony answer.
@taRadvylfsriksushilani Just make sure to initialise your Lumberjacks
If you're still using those
 
Nope, no more Lumberjacks :(
So -1 pun, but at least I have a Cast of Actors still
 
7:16 PM
@taRadvylfsriksushilani I finally found that generator
And:
 
Ooh, I'm gonna add a very cool feature to RTO
 
emanresu A: I’m an idiot.
caird:
Redwolf:
Razetime:
Lyxal:
emanresu A:
caird: If you’re waiting for us to disagree, this is going to be a long day.
 
How did you do that? zwsps?
 
Yep
One of RTO's "pro" features I'm planning is a fastest code arena
 
7:18 PM
@emanresuA maybe. but im crazy. im loco. im tooootally insane
 
It'll have a dedicated core and RAM, so there wouldn't be worries about the timing being inaccurate
 
How many servers do you have?
 
Are you running it on your own metal?
 
Razetime: There are seven chairs and ten kids. What do you do?
Unrelated String: Have everyone stand.
Redwolf: Bring three more chairs!
pxeger: The most important ones can sit down.
user: Kill three.
 
@Adám For now, yes
@emanresuA One, but it has eight cores
So I can tell the kernel to leave one or two of them alone, and dedicate those to fastest code stuff
 
7:20 PM
What if you get multiple timing requests? Will they await each other?
 
@Adám Yeah. There'd be a queue in that case.
 
WHAT
 
@NewPosts the NERVE
 
subscribe to this channel in the fewest bytes
 
@thejonymyster hey there's an idea
 
I want to confirm I didn't just hallucinate that
 
Please don't clear stars
Wait what chat is buggy
It was on the starboard after it got moved
 
@emanresuA What a shocking twist lol
 
I know right
 
7:24 PM
Honestly "wait, chat wasn't buggy" is bigger news sometimes :p
 
Jan 6 at 19:34, by Ginger Industries
Stack Exchange more like Hack Exchange lol
 
Yeah lol
 
@GingerIndustries im sure it could be turned into a decent challenge tbh
 
Jan 6 at 19:15, by pxeger
Dec 16 '21 at 2:02, by emanresu A
Chat never worked, so they never have to fix it
 
Some neat RTO planned features:
- Custom languages, and users voting to approve them
- KotH arena
- Fastest code arena
- Support for basic control characters in output
All but the first likely won't be in the initial release though
 
7:28 PM
@taRadvylfsriksushilani what does RTO stand for? (run it online?)
 
Run This Online, yeah
 
good name
 
Thank pxeger for it, he came up with it first but let me use it after calling his ATO
 
Test It Via The Internet
 
Jun 1 '21 at 16:50, by pxeger
I was planning to rename my Try It Online clone (currently Attempt This Online) to "Yet Another Online Interpreter" but it turns out "yaoi" isn't the best short name
 
7:35 PM
lol
 
Redwolf: Lyxal and I were crossing the street, and this dude drove by and honked at us
Razetime: *Sighing* What did Lyxal do?
Redwolf: They chased him to the next red light, then reached into his window and...
Lyxal: Who wants a steering wheel?
 
@taRadvylfsriksushilani so good
 
One more, then I'll stop
Redwolf: Why is Lyxal so sad?
Razetime: They took one of those “Which Character Are You?” quizzes
Redwolf: And...?
Lyxal: They got caird.
 
@taRadvylfsriksushilani Yet Another Programming Platform: YAPP
 
I'm making a cannon that can shoot sand >200 blocks
 
7:42 PM
I have DSO (do stuff online)
 
YAPS — Yet Another Programming Sandbox
YASO — Yet Another Sandbox Online
 
Jun 1 '21 at 16:50, by pxeger
I was planning to rename my Try It Online clone (currently Attempt This Online) to "Yet Another Online Interpreter" but it turns out "yaoi" isn't the best short name
 
@GingerIndustries I'm making a lego crossbow that can shoot pencils about six metres.
 
oh redwolf already posted that lol
 
IRCE - Intentional Remote Code Excecution
6
 
7:43 PM
@pxeger Which one?
@GingerIndustries repl.it mobile service go brr
 
RYCH — Run Your Code Here
 
FICE - Free International Code Execution
 
@GingerIndustries I actually like that, can I rename ATO to it?
 
OH GOD
@pxeger yes
OKAY SO I JUST SET A DISTANCE RECORD
YOU KNOW HOW FAR?
666 BLOCKS
 
7:46 PM
for what?
 
what distance are you talking about
 
My sand cannon
I just shot a falling sand entity 666 blocks
 
soulsand
idk i cant think of a 666 joke
 
@GingerIndustries /summon falling_sand ~ 999999 ~: it gets "shot" 999999+128 blocks
 
sicksicksick launch?
 
7:47 PM
@thejonymyster ಠ_ಠ
 
WRCR - Worldwide Remote Code Runner
 
LTSO - launch this sand online
 
@GingerIndustries They're obviously referring to the "ABCD" Blocks you can join together.
 
@thejonymyster lol
 
@thejonymyster LEGO: Let's Execute Golfy cOde
 
7:49 PM
@GingerIndustries wait, like a world record?
 
@GingerIndustries You can proobably get further with strategically placed slime
 
@emanresuA randomness might make that too hard
 
True
 
@emanresuA good idea but falling sand entities don't play well with those
HOWEVER
one sec
 
@GingerIndustries could you use some of the ender pearl cannon tech using TNT launchers?
 
7:50 PM
lol
 
@GingerIndustries I have an idea
 
@mathcat oh no
 
@pxeger I know what I'm doing now
 
that's dangerous
 
oh yes
Use Github Perks, and maybe Github copilot can fix your sand canon...
 
7:52 PM
@mathcat Should I be concerned
@mathcat oh
 
git merging minecraft worlds is such a great idea
 
@Adám explain?
 
That's almost certainly a rickroll
 
7:57 PM
@emanresuA it is
 
Yep, just not a redirect
 
okay so
I have an idea
 
ok that was I think obvious
 
what if I fire the sand cannon
through a nether portal
 
@GingerIndustries now that sounds dangerous
 
7:58 PM
@Fmbalbuena {}⍣4 repeats the dfn application 4 times. ⍉⌽⍵ gives the array a 90° counter-clockwise turn. 0,⍣() conditionally prepends a column of 0s, the condition being ∨/⊣⌿⍵ "is there any true in the top-most row (which has now, due to the turning, become the leftmost column).
 
Look in the bottom right corner
 
Bad bot!
 
@GingerIndustries I haven't played minecraft before, but
wouldn't that injure the poor nether dragon
Animal discrimination
 
> nether dragon
The dragon's in the end :p
 
No, the dragon's on my bookshelf
Or at least her head is
 
shh
 
-p 22 redwolf@104.188.174.251
Dang you ruined my joke
 
@mathcat I watched the entire video
@emanresuA really?
 
10k thing
 
Link?
 
8:04 PM
okay I have unspicy news
sand cannot go through portal
 
what the
 
...at least not a nether one >:)
let's do some more tests
 
@GingerIndustries So... bland news?
 
@DLosc end portal doesn't work
 
tragic
sand cant go through portals... just like real life
 
8:09 PM
Sand can't
But a resistance 255 cow might be able to
 
sand able to go through portals mod
 
okay so
things happened
the above photo is what Minecraft heaven looks like
 
@taRadvylfsriksushilani wait is redwolf making redwolf smp again
@emanresuA i'm pretty sure resistance caps at 100% damage reduction at either 4 or 5
 
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Idk
 
@hyper-neutrino No
Not sure what they're up to, I'm making a comic about SE Nitro
 
8:17 PM
@taRadvylfsriksushilani does it include GitHub Perks
 
@taRadvylfsriksushilani nice
 
I'm trying to find ACE vulnerabilites in Vyxal before rredwolf posts that challenge
 
@taRadvylfsriksushilani when can we expect to see it
 
@taRadvylfsriksushilani nice
 
8:21 PM
@GingerIndustries No clue, depends on how much time I feel like shitposting for
 
I think you'll be faster than me
 
@taRadvylfsriksushilani you mean golfposting
 
I still have no clue how to animate that stickman
 
@mathcat why animate? they can just slide around
 
his hand has to move, so that it looks as though he is typing
but i'll manage it somehow
 
8:24 PM
@mathcat stickmen don't really have hands
 
blobby hands
 
@pxeger looks good
 
@taRadvylfsriksushilani "pro"? Will it not be free?
 
8:26 PM
brb
 
@pxeger No, linked github / cgcc account
 
oh
 
there should be paid features, and they should just be dumb stuff that nobody would want anyway
for 50 dollars a month, we will run your code as slow as possible
rto nitro
 
thinking of money, I should add a donate button to ATO, so I can pay for more disk space to add more languages (which is my only bottleneck right now lol)
 
what's rto?
 
8:29 PM
Run This Online, Redwolf's yet-to-be-released version of TIO/ATO
 
tiirl
 
@taRadvylfsriksushilani is there more code published than what's at github.com/RedwolfPrograms/RTO-proto?
 
Not published, no
 
@thejonymyster it runs like normal but every few instructions the interpreter restarts
 
@pxeger While I am not in charge of the money, I'm confident that as soon as you've got Dyalog up and running, we'll be happy to pay you USD 500 per year, instead of paying for TIO.
 
8:32 PM
will that cause existing APL submissions posted via TIO to stop working?
 
$500 per year will be a lot more than I need
 
or does it just mean TIO no longer gets the funding
 
@hyper-neutrino that's what I understood it to mean
maybe split it 50/50 or something
 
TIO hasn't gotten the funding for a while. We can't get hold of Dennis.
@hyper-neutrino We're not going to revoke his license, if that's what you're asking.
 
0
A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

AnttiPPlay chess (KOTH) Your task is to write a chess engine that will compete with other submissions in chess tournament. Well, almost. Since writing a full engine can be a bit tedious, you only need to write the evaluation function. An evaluation function takes a chessboard as input and returns how "...

 
8:35 PM
@SandboxPosts elo-world... two!!!
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

EphraimRuttenbergScore a Scrabble Play Background In Scrabble, players take turns placing tiles on a grid so that each contiguous set of (more than one) tiles in every row and column makes a word. In one play, tiles can be placed anywhere in a single row or column as long as they are all part of the same word. A...

 
i'd appreciate any feedback i can get on my sandbox answer (the one above)
 
> You can make a lot of people, but you can't make a lot of people without a lot of software.
 
> It's a business that requires people to do things they don't want to do because they want to do them.
> Automation is magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic. It's magic.
 
@SandboxPosts ive edited the rules of my challenge. still looking for feedback
 
> The code above is more complex than it needs to be. It's more complex because it's more flexible. It's more complex because it's more maintainable. It's more complex because it's more testable. It's more complex because it's more documented. It's more complex because it's more well-named. It's more complex because it's more well-structured.
 
9:44 PM
> The best way to make software easier to use is to make it easier to use.
 
yes logic
@taRadvylfsriksushilani ... I don't know how to react to this
Stick-figure Ginger is quite the character
why do my eyes look like that tho
 
@taRadvylfsriksushilani ah. :)
it seems SE Nitro lets you convert people into rep
 
10:07 PM
wait if @Feeds is user -2 then who's user -1
 
Wait new Home?
I think i hate this, How to change?
 
if there isn't a setting there'll probably be a userscript within the week
doesn't seem to be a setting
😔
 
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Q: Please revert the new question list style change

einpoklumFor many years, the question list view was such that you could easily move your eyes up and down along a column of numbers with the same meaning. Now it's all jumbled, and small... I believe this was a change for the worse and ask that it be reversed - for desktop browsers. (I have no opinion abo...

 
@Fmbalbuena Browse /questions instead
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing but when i join CGCC, i don't like.
 
10:21 PM
I don't like it either, there's too much negative space.
 
@Fmbalbuena Ah, the next stage in the SE resign cycle: "SE posts feedback post on new change. A bit of feedback is received and addressed. Change goes live. Immediate backlash, posts calling for it to be reverted and downvotes on original feedback post. Nothing really changes. Repeat"
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing So like chat but worse?
 
Chat hasn't changed in 10 years. We mock it for that, but I know that the instant something changes in chat, there will be knives at people's throats :/
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing Chat'll only change because of knives at people's throats
 
Honestly tho, like basically all of SE's design changes, this could do with a few slight improvements, but is fine overall
I'd prefer the "posted X time ago"/"modified X time ago" to be on the line below the author, but for the home page, this is kinda what I'd expect
I don't want it to go live to /questions?tab=, as those pages are specifically for getting more info than the home page
 
10:29 PM
Someone Knows Turing Machine?
 
Ugh bounties is even worse
 
Nah, the home page doesn't have descriptions - that's one of the reasons I like it so much - it's compact, focused on titles only. The /questions view is the one that's always had summaries. — Catija ♦ 12 mins ago
Catija has it right - home isn't for the nitty gritty details, it's to get a wide view of what's going on
 
Yeah and they've, um, dewidened it.
Everything takes up and wastes too much space
Ok I guess it's designed for somewhere with longer titles :P
 
Tbh, I'm surprised at how many people even use /home I haven't gone there intentionally since.... well, ever
 
yO WHAT THE HELL DID THEY DO TO THE HOMEPAGE
I remember seeing smth about it on Meta but my god does it suck
 
new homepage made by the same committee that made Windows 8
 
I HATE THE HOMEPAGE AND I DON'T LIKE
 
I thought Firefox had finally broken.
 
@Adám What happened?
 
IMO it's OK on other sites but horrible here
 
10:41 PM
The Code Golf front page looks borked.
 
@Adám screenshot?
 
When I first saw it I thought "oh are we doing emojis in usernames now?"
But then I realised it was pfps
 
@Fmbalbuena It's proabably the same homepage you're seeing
 
@Adám it looks bad spicy
 
10:43 PM
@Adám differences?
 
5 mins ago, by caird coinheringaahing
See https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/375081/335251
 
ok, Everyone except caird is disliking the homepage.
 
So what do y'all say, does it qualify for inclusion on:
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A: What should we be looking to change and what is inviolable?

Adám One thing that you would advise me (in my role as VP of Community here) never to touch. Stack Exchange…  …without asking the community first. The core community is tired of radical changes being announced as they happen. One thing that you think I should change as quickly as possible. Stop l...

 
I don't visit the home page enough to care either way, I only use /questions&tab=active
@Adám I don't think so, as they asked for input/feedback 2 weeks ago on a similar/related page
(and acted on that feedback)
 
10:46 PM
Yep definitely
 
Bu they didn't show a full page screenshot did they?
 
For all SE's flaws about designing new UI/UX pages, they are pretty consistently asking for - and acting on - feedback on the changes since Philippe took over
@Adám They did one better: you could visit the /greatest-hits page and see for yourself what the change would look like
 
Ug the code snippet UI appears to be broken
I'll run some tests
 
I agree that it doesn't look as bad on MSE and SO as it does on CG, but SO isn't great either.
@cairdcoinheringaahing Hm, but that doesn't look the same, because it has so much colour due to being only popular Qs.
 
CMP: Who hates the new homepage?
 
10:50 PM
Not sure if I agree entirely with that - the biggest difference IMO is the "question preview shown vs not shown"
 
Very much that too.
 
CMC: Simulate Turing Machine (infinite tape)
 
my main gripe with the new view is how much space there is
 
11:05 PM
entries have a larger vertical profile but there's less in the boxes, and the stats on the left are extremely understated
i can see why they might want to deemphasize vote total but they just sort of deemphasized everything instead
and then the accepted answer indication creates a box instead of filling one in
the biggest problem would be just the fact that you can fit fewer on one page though
 
Yes
It looks less bad on mobile
 
i find it funny that it's got like 48 questions on it but you have to scroll 6 full pages to look at all of them (and that's with the aforementioned lack of content previews)
i always figured quick activity browsing was the use case for the home page but now it just feels like a worse version of the questions tab
 
11:28 PM
oh no what did se do this time
 
att
wtf happened to the homepage
 
46 mins ago, by caird coinheringaahing
5 mins ago, by caird coinheringaahing
See https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/375081/335251
 
@Adám They announced it before hand. They had mock ups and everything. I don't think this was sprung on us at all.
 
I guess I should have been more diligent then.
I sure didn't realise they'd remove the beginning of post content from the main page.
 
I saw that just... it's a lot worse on the main page than greatest hits
 
11:35 PM
It is especially bad for us, of course, because our titles are often jokes, with the intro text being actually informative.
 
tbh I felt the intro text was never very informative anyway.
Usually the first few lines explain basic concepts.
I kind of have a hard time caring much about this either way.
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

emanresu APretty print my arrays I like to pretty print multidimensional arrays, like this: [ [ [1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6] ], [ [7, 8, 9], [6, 4, 2] ] ] But it's a pain to do by hand and it'd be nice to have a program that does this for me. Your challenge is to create a program that does this for me. ...

 
@Adám They actually didn't remove it. It was never there.
 
But, but…
 
But you are not the only one to think that and I certainly thought you were right at first.
Must be some psychological trick caused by all the extra space.
 
11:43 PM
So what is going on here?
Why is the front page distinct from /questions anyway?
 
that is a valid question
 
I don't know. That's not a change though.
The two were always distinct.
I think questions might not be affected by bumps?
 
@SandboxPosts @emanresuA Dyalog 18.2 (now in close-to-final Beta) almost has a built-in way to do this:
      ]repr -f=js (966 639 616 255) (622 483 87 241) (453 870 728 725) (163 936 48 967) (261 833 87 200)
[[966,639,616,255],
 [622,483,87,241],
 [453,870,728,725],
 [163,936,48,967],
 [261,833,87,200]]
 
questions offers multiple sort orders but yeah default is newest
 
Does it support 3d arrays?
 
11:46 PM
      ]repr -f=js ((1 2)(3 4))((5 6)(7 8))
[[[1,2],
  [3,4]],
 [[5,6],
  [7,8]]]
 
Hm ok
 
Don't worry, there's still a little bit of work to insert spaces.
And it is probably unique in having this built-in.
 
11:58 PM
@emanresuA 49 to solve it by using that. Might be shorter not to :-)
 
How to change the name of a github repo?
 
@BgilMidol settings, rename
 
 

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