The Nineteenth Byte

emanresu A

00:03

Cracked now

00:15

Lol, this is my new favorite automated email I've ever received:

> I am reaching out because our records indicate that you are dangerously behind in Latin 2 and are at risk of not completing the course in time. Completion of this course and earning two credits of a Foreign Language is required for graduation in the State of Texas.

Currently, Ryan has completed 32 assignments out of 218 total meaning there are 186 assignments remaining to complete this semester. The current grade in the course is 89.

Students needing support need to reach out to the Latin 2 teacher via email and allow the instructor time to respond. It is important for students to work …

emanresu A

> the Latin 2 teacher

Ginger Industries

@taRadvylfsriksushilani ಠ_ಠ

> I

hmmmm

emanresu A

It's sentient

Well not really

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

Yeah, it's sent by a human, but very obviously a template

emanresu A

Beause there's definitely a latin 2 teacher

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

00:16

My name, grade, and the name of the class are all in a different font lol

Ginger Industries

@emanresuA I am becoming concerned. ~~last I checked I was the only AGI in existence~~

emanresu A

Power series are black magic.

@taRadvylfsriksushilani Let me guess, cc'd to your parents

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

yep

emanresu A

You have told them about this, right?

thejonymyster

@cairdcoinheringaahing speaking of editing, i need your help :P

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

00:23

@emanresuA Yes and in classic Boomer/Gen X fashion their genius solution is "work harder"

caird coinheringaahing

Ah yes, forgot about that

thejonymyster

no worries, take your time, and thanks again :]!

emanresu A

@taRadvylfsriksushilani Did you try pointing out how no one in your class is anywhere close to done?

Ginger Industries

@taRadvylfsriksushilani solution: automate it

caird coinheringaahing

@thejonymyster Edited

Ginger Industries

00:28

in other news AAAAAAA FUNCTIONS WORK IN PXLCODE

caird coinheringaahing

I think "N inputs to output N" might be a better title btw

Ginger Industries

🥳

emanresu A

Is PXLCODE on github yet?

thejonymyster

@cairdcoinheringaahing i knew there had to be a better way

Ginger Industries

@emanresuA yes, one sec

thejonymyster

00:30

and thank you, now to think a little more

caird coinheringaahing

As for scoring criteria, you could choose between "highest value of \$n\$ such that for all values \$1, 2, ..., n\$, your program meets the spec. Or, require them to work for all natural \$n\$, and do shortest code

The code golf approach assumes that there is such a function. Which, I feel like there should be, but I haven't bothered to prove it

thejonymyster

if i do highest value then i'll get a lot of answers with infinite score

caird coinheringaahing

Then tiebreak on code golf

the question is, does such a function exist with the property for all n?

thejonymyster

i know that it exists for integers

caird coinheringaahing

As in, N -> N?

emanresu A

00:32

Do you mean positive / nonnegative integers?

Ginger Industries

y'know, once I considered making a video documentary about camera zooming and dollying. Sadly, it never panned out.

thejonymyster

@cairdcoinheringaahing not quite, its in my head but i would need to think about how to verbalize it

emanresu A

@GingerIndustries ha ha ha

caird coinheringaahing

@GingerIndustries You just need to tilt the idea slightly to put it in a new frame

Ginger Industries

@emanresuA (⌐■_■)

DLosc

00:33

@emanresuA TBF, "everyone else is doing poorly" isn't a great excuse for "I'm doing poorly" if you could be doing better but can't be bothered to try. Of course, in Redwolf's case, there are... extenuating circumstances. :P

Ginger Industries

@cairdcoinheringaahing do I need to see it from a new perspective?

thejonymyster

@emanresuA correct, but negatives would likely work

emanresu A

@DLosc It makes it more obvious that there are extenuating circumstances though

caird coinheringaahing

@thejonymyster I think I have a function f : N -> N that works

thejonymyster

@cairdcoinheringaahing im certain it exists, there is no doubt

its trivial, but phrasing it is hard

for me, at least, because i cant be assed

caird coinheringaahing

00:35

defined f(1) = 1, f(2) = f(3) = 2, f(4) = f(5) = f(6) = 3 and so on

thejonymyster

exactly, thats the one i had in mind

caird coinheringaahing

oeis.org/A002024

thejonymyster

which shouldnt at all be hard to define in program form, but still i wonder if there is a version which works for, like, strings

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Q: Ungolf my tinylisp code

I like golfing in tinylisp: (d M(q((x)(i x(i(disp x)0(M x))0 But I also like posting explanations with nicely formatted code: (d M (q ((x) (i x (i (disp x) 0 (M x)) 0)))) Can you help me generate the ungolfed code for my explanations? The task Given a line of tinylisp code, return...

caird coinheringaahing

a(n) = round(sqrt(2n))

thejonymyster

00:37

with integers it seems too trivial

emanresu A

thejonymyster

but without any restriction, too hard

emanresu A

Where x = number

Or what caird said

Ginger Industries

but... but i am

nvm it 503'd

@emanresuA github.com/GingerIndustries/PXLCODE

emanresu A

TIL rubberduckdebugging.com

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ta Radvylf srik su shilani

02:08

Well, I got a droplet

So no more having to bother HN when NP/SP go down

hyper-neutrino

nice

Unrelated String

nice

lyxal

rice

emanresu A

nice

thejonymyster

@taRadvylfsriksushilani of water? or is it a service name

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

02:10

Planning on setting up a system that detects when my server goes down, and automatically switches all of my websites, RTO, NPSP, and OSP over to the droplet. That way I get the reliability of the cloud without having to pay for 24 GB of RAM, 8 CPU cores, and 2 TB of storage

@thejonymyster Digital Ocean's cloud servers, yeah

thejonymyster

i think i got my answer nevermind :P

@taRadvylfsriksushilani oh is it a precipitation joke

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

Idk prolly

Adám

@taRadvylfsriksushilani And where would that monitor run?

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

I could just have the droplet ping my server every few minutes

Adám

How much would running it all in the cloud cost?

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

02:12

Hundreds a month if I wanted the same specs

Adám

Oh.

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

I'm sure I have zero need for 24 GB of RAM and 8 cores, but if I did want to cloudify that, it'd be more per-month than buying a whole new server

Adám

If you can pull it off, your idea sounds excellent. It'll give you even better reliability than pure cloud, for as we have seen, even large cloud services can go down.

caird coinheringaahing

02:28

@Catija I seem to remember SE moved away from using Jira somewhat recently, is that correct, or am I going crazy?

Catija

@cairdcoinheringaahing for contact form submissions. Jira service desk is a terrible tool.

caird coinheringaahing

So do newly tagged status-review posts go to a Jira board?

Catija

We use it for the normal task tracking stuff, though.

@cairdcoinheringaahing yeah

caird coinheringaahing

Ah ok, thanks :)

Catija

JNat and I triage and route things.

caird coinheringaahing

02:31

How often does stuff get [status-review] tagged across the network?

thejonymyster

does anybody know a way to see my complete stackexchange chat history?

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

yeah

Go to the normal page, and do &page=x. There's no UI for it, but it exists

thejonymyster

im not sure what you mean by "normal page"

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

chat.stackexchange.com/users/527270/thejonymyster?tab=recent

emanresu A

chat.stackexchange.com/users/527270/thejonymyster/…

Oh redwolf fixed it

thejonymyster

02:38

but that one caps at fifty, doesnt it?

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

Yeah, but you can add &page=2 to the end

thejonymyster

ah, now i understand, ok that works

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

There's no UI for it, but it exists for some reason

thejonymyster

i need it for a thing. (a secret thing)

but dont worry its not an evil thing

lyxal

Turns out my first message was in the TIO room

in talk.tryitonline.net, Jul 31 '19 at 22:41, by Jono 2906

Hey Dennis, I was wondering if you would be able to add Keg to TIO. Thanks in advance!

emanresu A

02:46

Imagine needing to pull languages

lyxal

That do be how tio worked

emanresu A

I know

And the sort of autoupdate I use probably wouldn't be feasible for most of the stuff on TIO

lyxal

So apparently duck emails allow you to reply as the duck email now

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

Well, just bought a new laptop

lyxal

Windows, macos, Linux or Chrome?

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

02:50

Now I have a decision to make: Do I want it to ship on the 4th, which is free, or the premium option: the 8th, 4 days later, for $10 :p

Unrelated String

hmmmm

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

@lyxal Chrome

lyxal

@taRadvylfsriksushilani definitely the 8th

Great value

$10 to practice patience

100% worth it

Adám

@taRadvylfsriksushilani Which option arrives sooner?

lyxal

@Adám those are the dates they arrive

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

02:52

They're both through the same company and with the same priority, so they'd arrive the same number of days after

Adám

!

hyper-neutrino

@lyxal no those are the days they ship, presumably out

lyxal

@taRadvylfsriksushilani :thonk:

emanresu A

I'm an idiot

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

TNB has a lot of those

thejonymyster

03:02

@taRadvylfsriksushilani (image of spongebob pointing at himself)

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

So I'm planning on using Google Domains' Dynamic DNS feature for my droplet-backup idea

I guess I should finish that soon in case ice takes out the power here in the next few days

lyxal

TIL you can hire the state's electoral commission (the government entity that oversees local council and state elections) for private elections

As in, a corporation or organisation can hire them to run the election.

I don't have anything against this I just find it somewhat amusing

thejonymyster

i guess they got a side thing going on

lyxal

Something about the organisation that ensures fair democratic elections running an election for something like a local pub/bowling club is hilarious to me

Unrelated String

03:18

that's actually kinda cool

emanresu A

As long as they don't get the elections mixed up

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03:33

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Q: solve the card game 24s

24s is a card game. Players remove face cards and jokers from the deck and then turn over four cards. Using all four numbers displayed and no additional numbers, use any of a list of permitted mathematical operations to make the number 24. The first person to find the 24 and explain it to the gro...

code-golf card-games

emanresu A

Ugh, not more unobservable requirements, text walls and unclear challenges.

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

@emanresuA "And the next prime minister is...'Ron the Tavern Brawler'"

emanresu A

His first act will be to subsidize beer.

His second will be to get drunk and get kicked out.

lyxal

@emanresuA all eligible voters in the state would be confused as to why they're voting for a pub president while the pub regulars are having a good time changing the state parliament

here's the link to the page where they say you can hire them

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

Okay holy heck is my DNS config janky

I've got a normal DNS A record with a TTL of 1 hr for redwolfprograms.com, and a dynamic A record with a TTL of 1 min for www.redwolfprograms.com

emanresu A

03:48

What's TTL?

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

Time To Live

Basically how long it's cached

emanresu A

Oh

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

04:06

Ooh awesome, you can use a GET request to update Dynamic DNS

So this should be almost trivial to set up

emanresu A

Wordle is hard

Razetime

04:28

hm which website is this

emanresu A

Unofficial wordle-play.com

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

04:57

Maybe PALER?

Or PAPER? (can there be duplicate letters?)

Or PACER

Wait no

No C

If dupes can occur, PARER might also be a word (one who pares, presumably with a paring knife)

First time playing lol:

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Q: Find the index of the matching parentheses for each character

The challenge is simple, find the matching parentheses for every one of the parentheses in a given string input E.g. ()()() -> [1, 0, 3, 2, 5, 4] Always start with the ending parentheses index before the starting parentheses, which is why () becomes [1,0], not [0,1], unless the parentheses is st...

code-golf string

lyxal

Is powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle the official one?

emanresu A

Yep

lyxal

5/6 for today's

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

Is the word the same for everyone or no?

emanresu A

05:07

3/6 for today

@taRadvylfsriksushilani Is your word's md5 dbaff3c7deda10c1faaca3e1a6c37adb?

lyxal

@emanresuA yes

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

No, I get c25ab0784097cb76f7999e8496ff419b (lower), d9ea0711e05a98583d82d6ada2ff8e18 (lower with trailing newline), 3aa01fea58dc323f62a0defe6511ee7b (upper), 8c810d76ac96d2a8ddfe7b859307ad1f (upper with trailing newline)

Yeah I md5-reversed that and it's not the same as mine

They must have a pool of a small number of words they randomly assign, or possibly per-geographic-region or IP-based

emanresu A

I had spoiler

ta Radvylf srik su shilani

CMQ: Is IPv6 stuff worth supporting? I have no clue whether people actually use it

emanresu A

@Bubbler How does the rustpython demo work and how could I copy it? The JS source is really obfuscated.

DialFrost

05:38

have i lossened up my IO format?

:)

like in my more recent challenges

lyxal

06:13

I've had an idea for an esolang: you only have a set number of tokens/commands to use, each token is unique and can only be used once

It'd be an NFT esolang :p

hyper-neutrino

ಠ_ಠ

Hello, World!

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A: "Hello, World!"

Python, Unknown Bytes In Python, this is pretty straight-forward: print("Hello, World!") This is equivalent to import sys sys.stdout.write("Hello, World!") If you are in the interpreter, "Hello World" would return itself, but I doubt it goes to sys.stdout.

Hello, World!

06:41

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A: "Hello, World!"

tinylisp, 40 bytes (load library (join(q(Hello, World!))spc Try it online! tinylisp, 56 bytes (string(q(72 101 108 108 111 44 32 87 111 114 108 100 33 Try it online! Considering tinylisp's lack of strings, this is very likely the best hello world without libraries.

PyGamer0

07:06

ok so i have an 8×8 dot matrix display and one of those small oled displays, and i have the joystick module for an Arduino amd and now i want to create a snake game console (with bluetooth and sd card support :P)

emanresu A

I made a dso room:

PyGamer0

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For discussing the [Do Stuff Online](dso.surge.sh) interpreter...

emanresu A

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For discussing the [Do Stuff Online](dso.surge.sh) interpreter...

Ninja'd

PyGamer0

lol

DialFrost

07:30

guys what does this mean in js

a=>a.map((c,i)=>a[a[i]=a.lastIndexOf(c>'('&&-1)]=i)

i dont understand the a=>a.lastIndexOf(c>'('&&-1) part

a.lastIndexOf(c>'('&&-1)

i think lastindexof means it finds the last occurence of something but inside the brackets is a boolean

PyGamer0

@DialFrost hm c> looks like an icecream, so it finds the last index of an icecream in a. Not sure which flavour though :P

PyGamer0

07:53

CMC: Guess who said the following message (no using TNB search).

> This is literally me coidng on paper

pxeger

lyxal?

PyGamer0

yes

how do you know?

DialFrost

guys is it possible to port languages

like from c++ to python

java to python and so on

PyGamer0

@DialFrost wdym port languages?

DialFrost

like conversion of languages

PyGamer0

07:58

if you are saying porting lang X code to lang Y, then yes

DialFrost

like lang X code to lang Y code

?

so the code changes but the logic is the same

PyGamer0

yeah its possible

why do you think its not

DialFrost

idk

i didnt see its not :)

how can i do it?

tbh i've thoought about this for over a year but never really asked

PyGamer0

like for many popular languages just learn a single language and then now you know the basic syntax of other languages

#include <iostream>
int main() {
  for (auto i = 0; i < 10; i++)
    std::cout << i << "\n";
  return 0;
}
============
for i in range(10):
  print(i)

@DialFrost ^ for example both print 0 to 10

DialFrost

yey

ye*

like i want to see if its possible to change this

a=>a.map((c,i)=>a[a[i]=a.lastIndexOf(c>'('&&-1)]=i)

to python

^@tsh answer btw

1k!

finally

yayyyy

Bubbler

08:16

@emanresuA I couldn't figure it out yet either. Probably the best bet is digging into the wasm folder of the main repo. Don't try to scrape js directly; it's built from rust source using rust-wasm toolchains and webpack

PyGamer0

@DialFrost should be easy if you know JS and Python

Bubbler

Also rustpython is extremely big when compiled to wasm (~20MB when I checked last time), so it might not be worth it

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Q: Solve Rubik's Clock

Rubik's Clock is a round(ish) puzzle with two flat sides. On each side, front and back, there are 9 clock faces, arranged on a 3x3 grid. In addition, there are 4 pegs (switches) in between the clock faces, and they can be set to protrude either from the front or the back. Lastly, there are 4 dial...

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emanresu A

Thanks! I’ll probably host it externally on a separate repo.

pxeger

08:45

Why are all but one of the answers to codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/15174 not remotely golfed?

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Spinning Word Search Tags: code-golfword-searchgridstring Introduction: Pete likes doing word search puzzles. Despite that, he has trouble searching for words vertically, (anti-)diagonally, or reversed. Because of that, he'll always search for the words left-to-right, and rotates the entire puzzl...

emanresu A

@NewPosts @DialFrost really good and surprisingly hard challenge, considering nominating it for best trickiest challenge gor best of next year

Actually I bet there’s a clever grade up solution

JNat

09:33

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Q: What posts should be escalated to staff using [status-review], and how do I escalate them?

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lyxal

@pxeger I suppose that's what 2013 code golf was like

DialFrost

?

wdym eman

emanresu

Razetime

@pxeger yeah it's quite funny

only doorknob/tckmn seems to have golfed their solution

no wonder they became mod later

DialFrost

09:58

@emanresuA wat challenge

PyGamer0

10:16

@DialFrost the bracket ()(()(()))() i guess

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Find valid substring of brackets Your task is simple, find the substring in a string input that has matching end and starting brackets e.g. [[]] in [[[[]][[ Exception: If there are more than 1 [] together, try to find a nested one e.g. [[][]], or the longest one possible consequetievly with the b...

DialFrost

this new challenge is quite bad tbh

idk

its prob dupe alr

DialFrost

11:00

is 1k in 1 month ok?

PyGamer0

@DialFrost o_O i am here for around 6 months and i still dont have 1k rep

lyxal

@DialFrost it's very good

caird coinheringaahing

@DialFrost Nope, if you aren't getting at minimum 10k per month, you don't have the true sigma grind set 😤

lyxal

@cairdcoinheringaahing everyone has their own grind. You gotta respect that

caird coinheringaahing

(Joking aside, the top rep gathers last year got ~21k in a year, so ~1.75k a month. 1k, especially for a newer user, is very good)

And yes, I did just put a mod to the side

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DialFrost

11:06

lol

actually only 4 qns helped boost me to 1k :/

which got above 10 upvotes

how old are yall btw

no offence but i js curious

PyGamer0

@DialFrost why i am 10 /s

DialFrost

11:23

anyone else?

10? impressive pygamer

everyone else afk im guessing

DialFrost

12:04

wr is everyone???

lyxal

working on esolangs lol

and dealing with the many quirks of the Jelly interpreter

DialFrost

ic

lxyal how old ru?

lyxal

old enough.

DialFrost

lmao

PyGamer0

12:20

@DialFrost what the minimum age on SE should be 13

i am 14½

DialFrost

orh

ru sure ur 14.5

user

@DialFrost lyxal tells dad jokes so I assume he’s old enough to be a dad

DialFrost

ic

im around 14.5 as well

lyxal

@user (I'm really not)

DialFrost

although im not very good as a python coder

i dont know as much knowledge as the rest

e.g. the community shaved off 24 bytes from my 105 bytes code

i was insanely surprised

that so much could be shaved off

Ginger Industries

12:30

(●'◡'●)

user

I was too when I grew my hair

PyGamer0

@DialFrost ah then your code was in the shape of a beard :P

Ginger Industries

@lyxal can confirm, working on PXLCODE is most of what I did yesterday and most of what I'm doing today it seems

speaking of which, I have a surprise for yall!

PyGamer0

@GingerIndustries did you finish your space thing?

Ginger Industries

@PyGamer0 not yet

lyxal

12:32

@GingerIndustries did you finish your pxlcode thing?

PyGamer0

@GingerIndustries D:

Ginger Industries

but this is even better!

@lyxal no, but this is related to it

DialFrost

the wat now?

Ginger Industries

I have a photo of Pixel for yall!

PyGamer0

@GingerIndustries are you gonna detonate the nuclear bomb i gave you :D

lyxal

12:33

@GingerIndustries Pixel?

Ginger Industries

she's one of my 2 kitties and gave her name to PXLCODE

lyxal

ah

PyGamer0

@GingerIndustries yes show it pls

Ginger Industries

lyxal

this should be interesting.

Ginger Industries

12:34

kitty! :)

DialFrost

awwww cute kitty

nice phone btw ginger

nice carpet as well

:P

Ginger Industries

@DialFrost that's my arm, holding the webcam I plugged into my laptop

lyxal

one problem: cat upside down

DialFrost

hahaaaa

lyxal

problem fixed

DialFrost

12:37

...

well i gtg sleep bai guys

cya tmr

Ginger Industries

@lyxal one seccy

DialFrost

correction: 1.1k in 1 month

Ginger Industries

better?

lyxal

give me a second

DialFrost

atlough the first 20 days i didnt do much

ginger

bring the cat into the light

too dark

Ginger Industries

12:39

uhhhhh

DialFrost

haha

Ginger Industries

im sorry those are the only well-lit photos I have

she likes to stalk me and sit in dark corners

DialFrost

awww okey

haha

Ginger Industries

i do have this one:

that's her being creepy

lyxal

I fixed your picture

Ginger Industries

12:40

@lyxal ಠ_ಠ

brb

PyGamer0

@GingerIndustries aww

lyxal

@GingerIndustries mmm it's been a while since I've done that kind of edit

DialFrost

lol

lyxal

@GingerIndustries I'd take a step back if I were you.

in fact, I'd do a full 180 and get the heck out of there

also,

I'll leave on that

goodnight y'all

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