The Nineteenth Byte

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01:00

Sandbox posts last active a week ago: Find the centroid of a spherical polygon on Earth, Dedekind, cut! code-golf

Seggan

01:36

mm yes O(2^n) time complexity for my solution to phase 2

i can probably make it better by adding a ∪ to the code tho

orrrr... not

Adám

03:12

@Bubbler Those problems are designed to work out nicely in APL.

lyxal

03:50

"nicely" - them I'm clearly doing something wrong :p

RubenVerg

05:01

@Ginger of course common operations have to be weird sounds

+ -> ɬʼ

@Seggan I think the one about change is O(k^n) for me, where k is the amount of possible denominations and n is the amount of change

lyxal

06:12

@RubenVerg hi, welcome to the Nineteenth Byte!

RubenVerg

07:19

oh did I never write here

been lurking for a long time then :/

Adám

Heh, until this message, RubenVerg had written the last message in every SE chat room I'm in.

RubenVerg

:) now again

Neil

I've written the last message in every SE chat room I'm in.

lyxal

07:38

I could write a message about how I've disrupted that claim, but I prefer my messages to be more meta and self referential (like this one)

And also slightly contradictive

Like the message two messages above (and this one too probably)

And now for the replies and conversation continuations doing one of the following: a) making a meta message joke in response to mine, b) pointing out some sort of logical flaw in one of my four messages (counting this one) or c) contradicting this message by either directly referencing it or completely ignoring it

mousetail

08:07

Is there a vanilla natural log challenge yet?

Adám

@mousetail Instead of starring that quesiton, I'll just give you a ⍟

mousetail

I'd be interested in implementations in languages that lack a builtin. Even the vanilla multiplication challenge had some really interesting answers

Adám

BQN has no built-in, and isntead uses ⋆⁼ which is the inverse of exponentiation.

mousetail

I'd count that as a builtin

Bubbler

@mousetail Not against such a challenge, but note that it is not easy to specify well

mousetail

08:16

Thanks, good point. I'll add a required accuracy. The formula suggested by math overflow has a accuracy of 3e-6 so surprisingly close to your suggested 1e-6 but just barely too much

Bubbler

interesting

Bubbler

08:36

Hx = lnx + gamma + 1/2x - ex
Hy = lny + gamma + 1/2y - ey
lnx = Hx - gamma - 1/2x + error_x
lny = Hy - gamma - 1/2y + error_y
ln(x/y) = lnx - lny = Hx - Hy - 1/2x + 1/2y + error_x - error_y
ln(x/y) ~ Hx - Hy, when x and y >= 1e6

I think this works...?

(Hx is 1 + 1/2 + ... + 1/x)

PlaceReporter99

@Bubbler note that that sum is approximately ln(x)

Adám

08:53

@mousetail What if I iteratively approximated a number y such that eʸ=x?

PlaceReporter99

@Adám sounds like newton's method is good for you

mousetail

@Adám That would be a valid solution

PlaceReporter99

@Adám take a good first guess and use the function $e^y-x$. Remember to take the derivative w.r.t. $y$ (That will result in $e^y$).

Adám

What if I had a built-in that took a function and a result and iteratively approximated a number such that the function applied to that number would give the given result, and then I used that?

mousetail

That would be a valid solution I think, it's not a builtin that computes the log specifically

Adám

08:57

What if that built-in was denoted ⁼ and took the function on the left and the result on the right, and the f(x)=eˣ built-in function was denoted ⋆?

PlaceReporter99

@Adám so you need to do ${guess}_{n+1}={guess}_n-(1-\frac x{e^{{guess}_n}})$

mousetail

Depends how it's implemented I guess

Adám

That would be unobservable, another thing to avoid in challenges.

PlaceReporter99

fun fact: $\log_x y \times \log_y x = 1$

mousetail

Not allowing builtins is a exception to that "thing to avoid" though

I might just allow builtins just downvote any answer that uses them though

To avoid the drama

PlaceReporter99

09:00

@mousetail that's kinda unfair...

mousetail

Why? Those answers are boring

Adám

Sure, but ⋆⁼ in BQN is not a built-in. It is two completely separate built-ins that together implement a solution to the challenge.

mousetail

You know that you did

PlaceReporter99

@mousetail me? or someone else?

mousetail

People posting boring answers

@Adám I'm unfamiliar with BQN, I'd assume it would assume the inverse of a function especially mathematical would be special cased with a efficient implementation

PlaceReporter99

09:01

@mousetail I suppose that's my math.factorial answer to the vanilla factorial challenge...

Could mathematics be a valid language for code golf?

mousetail

No, it's not properly specified

But you could make a language that's like mathematics

Adám

@mousetail I don't know, actually. I'm not familiar with the implementations. Maybe some do, some don't. I really don't think it should matter.

@PlaceReporter99 Hard to byte-count.

mousetail

Here is my solution btw: mousetail.github.io/Fish/…

PlaceReporter99

@Adám tokenize it?

Adám

Even that's hard. What constitutes a token?

@mousetail Desmos looks a lot like LaTex… APL is basicaly a hyper-evolved continuation of traditional mathematical notation.

PlaceReporter99

09:05

@Adám $x$,$y$,$\log$,etc. . I'm not so sure about brackets...

mousetail

The issue is mathamatics includes basically infinite number of functions you could use

Many of whom have the same names

Adám

And everything is ad-hoc, and depends on the goodwill of the reader.

mousetail

A language should be unambiguous, one text should correspond to one program

PlaceReporter99

@mousetail but there can be multiple programmes that do the same thing

mousetail

Yes, but there shouldn't be one program that does 2 things depending only on the authors intent

Adám

09:08

Right. E.g. in TMN, "sin x cos y" solves two distinct challenges:
∘ given x and y, compute the sine of the product of x and the cosine of y
∘ given x and y, compute the product of the sine of x and the cosine of y

it is only the goodwill of the reader (using the context of the stated formula) that determines the correct interpretation.

Similarly, "a/bc":
∘ given a, b, and c, compute a divided by the product of b and c
∘ given a, b, and c, compute the product of a divided b and c

mousetail

Or G can meant both 6.674e−11 or 1e9 depending on context

ab can be a single variable named "ab" or 2 variables a and b multiplied

Adám

I don't think TMN supports multi-letter vars.

Is π(3+7) = 4 or 31.416?

mousetail

What is TMI, can't find any information on it except This which I don't think is what you are talking about

Adám

13 mins ago, by Adám

@mousetail Desmos looks a lot like LaTex… APL is basicaly a hyper-evolved continuation of traditional mathematical notation.

Traditional Mathematical Notation.

Bubbler

@PlaceReporter99 No, it is off by Euler-Mascheroni constant

PlaceReporter99

09:21

@Bubbler I got that approximation via numerical integration.

RubenVerg

@Bubbler is requiring that the result is the closest possible to the one that the chosen float type supports not enough?

standard loopholes would cover "oh my floats are 1-bit sign 1-bit exponent 1-bit mantissa" exploits

Bubbler

@RubenVerg that is not "not enough", that is way too strong for practical reasons

Euler's constant

Euler's constant (sometimes called the Euler–Mascheroni constant) is a mathematical constant, usually denoted by the lowercase Greek letter gamma (γ), defined as the limiting difference between the harmonic series and the natural logarithm, denoted here by log: γ = lim n → ∞...

mousetail

@RubenVerg If you do that you'll constantly exhaust the precision limit in intermediate steps, making it very hard to actually get the final state right without losing accuracy when combining them

Bubbler

@Bubbler that is, every basic arithmetic on floats accumulates errors, and unless you rely on hardware support, any reasonable impl will use thousands or millions of float arithmetic

so you almost never get the "closest possible float" with any reasonable means

mousetail

@Bubbler Could you use that basic approach but hardcode gamma then just add it to the result at the end?

RubenVerg

09:35

@Bubbler yeah okay tried it and you're definitely right

I can only get ln2 to be 0.693147180559945309417232121458176 but the best repr is 0.6931471805599453094172321214581766

Bubbler

@mousetail gamma is only the difference towards infinity, and the error for finite x (difference between lnx+gamma and Hx) is ~1/2x according to wikipedia

so it doesn't quite work when x is small

also I guessed I need to handle non-integer inputs

@Bubbler this works with non-integers (because any float can be written as a rational, and any real can be approximated to one) and limits the "finite" error to small enough value

RubenVerg

@Bubbler dyalog apl sets two things equal up to tollerance if |x-y|/max(|x|, |y|) <= e, is that compatible?

mousetail

Default tolerance might be too small

RubenVerg

can be changed

I just can't tell if it is stricter or looser than the one in the article

Bubbler

@RubenVerg Almost. If Dyalog APL says two are equal (with chosen e), then it solves the challenge. Not necessarily the other way around

RubenVerg

09:42

alright

PlaceReporter99

10:04

@Bubbler You can play around with this graph for an approximation of ln(x).

Adám

How do you say "to make something not dynamic any more"? Undynamicise? Statify?

mousetail

Fix?

PlaceReporter99

@Adám to “make static”?

Adám

That works. Fix sounds like there was a bug. The code was just unnecessarily dynamic.

mousetail

@PlaceReporter99 Very nice graph, though the accuracy seems quite bad for x<1

PlaceReporter99

10:08

@Adám staticize?

RubenVerg

staticize

Verb: staticize (third-person singular simple present staticizes, present participle staticizing, simple past and past participle staticized)

(transitive) To make static.

Adám

Ooh.

PlaceReporter99

@mousetail to get better accuracy for x<1, drag the slider to the negative end. However, you will lose accuracy for x>1 by doing this.

mousetail

Hmm so you'd need to dynamically compute the value of k to actually solve the challenge

PlaceReporter99

@mousetail or just use the fact that $\log(\frac1x)=-\log(x)$

mousetail

10:14

That would also work

PlaceReporter99

@mousetail but guess what I’m using for this approximation.

mousetail

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A: Calculating logs and fractional exponents by hand

My favorite way of calculating the natural logarithm: $$\ln(x)\approx-\gamma+\sum_{n=1}^x\frac1n$$ Where $\gamma$ is the Euler-Mascheroni constant. Not only is this easy, but it works quite well for something like $x>10$. If you need to calculate other bases, like $\log_b(x)$, use $\log_b(x)=...

PlaceReporter99

@mousetail close. There is no Euler-Mascheroni constant.

mousetail

mathworld.wolfram.com/Euler-MascheroniConstant.html

I can literally just see the formula you are using

I added the constant myself to improve the accuracy

PlaceReporter99

@mousetail it doesn’t need intervention from Euler to be precise. Just drag the k value higher.

mousetail

10:20

It will still be off

PlaceReporter99

@mousetail it’s off by less than 0.01

mousetail

The point is it won't converge to the correct value

desmos.com/calculator/lglxzwkm2v

Fixed version

caird coinheringaahin g

11:01

@PlaceReporter99 In Ba Sing Se

Ginger

11:21

~~my exponents!~~

PlaceReporter99

11:33

@cairdcoinheringaahing earthbending junk? No thanks!

@mousetail with k=1M, it is off by about $10^{-6}$.

mousetail

That's a pretty slow convergence

the other formula gets like 8 digits with k=10

PlaceReporter99

@mousetail it depends how precise you are with your Euler-machesroni constant.

mousetail

True

k=10 was for the power series approximation, not the corrected version of your formula

PlaceReporter99

An interesting property of my function is that the error is around 1/k

mousetail

the error is about gamma/k

Sandbox Posts

11:46

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Vanilla Natural Logarithm Challenge code-golfmathnumber There is a challenge for multiplying two numbers so I guess this counts too Given as input a positive real number n compute it's natural logarithm. Your answer should be within \$10^{-6}\$ for \$1 \leq n \leq 10\$ and within \$10^{-3}\$ for ...

lyxal

@mousetail create a community wiki answer for all the built-in answers

solves the problem of boring answers (they become edits on a single post) yet still allows for a catalogue of languages with built-ins without anyone getting "free" rep (if that's a concern)

mousetail

Good idea

lyxal

it's what I did for the "is everything in a list equal" challenge

so it's got some precedence too

PlaceReporter99

@mousetail are you sure? For $10^6$ the error is approx. $9.997\times10^{-7}$.

My mistake ^

mousetail

1/k is approximately gamma/k, at least in terms of order of magnitude

PlaceReporter99

12:01

@mousetail it is approximately 1/x for small x

mousetail

Not if x=0

PlaceReporter99

@mousetail 1/x is undefined for x=0

@mousetail and that counts as no x instead of small x, I believe.

mousetail

0 is definitely a number

it's also small

PlaceReporter99

You should look at the error terms for my formula with a big positive k and x<0.

mousetail

I did

PlaceReporter99

12:06

@mousetail I mean it’s less than small, it’s a null quantity.

mousetail

It's not a null quantity

It's perfectly valid

PlaceReporter99

@mousetail do you notice that it makes a tiny shaded graph that seems to resemble a reciprocal polynomial function?

@mousetail yes, it is, but it represents nothing.

mousetail

I'm really confused, like I said the error is gamma/k

which is a reciprocol function

PlaceReporter99

@mousetail you said gamma/k

mousetail

My bad

gamma/k is a reciprocol function

PlaceReporter99

12:11

@mousetail I think it’s spelt “reciprocal”

mousetail

i c'ant cpel

PlaceReporter99

@mousetail I somehow understand what you’re trying to say…

mousetail

It's really not hard to read text with spelling errors

people make a way to big deal out if it

PlaceReporter99

Tbf my phone does have autocorrect.

mousetail

Autocorrect usually makes things worse

That's why I say defiantly so much

PlaceReporter99

12:14

@mousetail you’ll have more credibility if you have good spelling.

mousetail

Not really, a lot of the people I respect the most have terrible spelling

I respect them for good content

PlaceReporter99

@mousetail I’m talking about in a scientific or academic setting

One plus one is two.

or

mousetail

Exactly, I'm talking about my college professors etc.

most of them can't really spell

PlaceReporter99

won plus won is too

@mousetail they’re gonna have a hard time when writing a scientific paper then…

mousetail

Nobody really cares

Ginger

12:21

^

mousetail

If they where actually submitting to a journal they'd probably have some secretary look it over but for most daily teaching tasks it doesn't really matter

Adám

Is it just me that occasionally sees the raw MathJax in light grey immediately to the left of its rendering?

lyxal

I've seen that occasionally too

Adám

lyxal

yeah exactly like that

mousetail

12:26

I think it's the image alt text

Since it sometimes renders as a image and sometimes as HTML

Adám

There's no image right now.

mousetail

Yea the image is broken and showing it's alt text instead

Adám

It is a span.MathJax_Preview

mousetail

Hmm not a image then

lyxal

it's not happening now, but I can't remember whether I saw it on mobile or desktop

mousetail

12:31

New theory is it's supposed to show while loading but isn't removed properly afterwards

Seggan

12:44

@Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian : i REALLY don't care which whacko codepage it is in - show me the exact hex dump or octal dump of those 19 bytes you claim, or base64 or URL encode it, whichever way you prefer - you claim 19 bytes i wanna see how you substantiate your claim — RARE Kpop Manifesto 9 hours ago

someone really doesn't like APL

@RubenVerg im doing bioinformatics

mousetail

@Seggan I do feel their pain

Seggan

this is APL tho, which we've been doing forever, not some fancy logbyte lang or whatnot

mousetail

It's confusing that dyalog unicode is not actually unicode

Seggan

on that, i concede

i think the meaning is more that its a codepage for that subset of unicode

mousetail

A codepage for a subset of unicode is just a non-unicode character encoding

Seggan

12:50

@Adám do you have an explanation for this?

mousetail

Also why are "abcdefghijk" in the codepage 2 times?

Seggan

interesting

Adám

50

Q: When can APL characters be counted as 1 byte each?

Prompted by this. The question of APL's encoding often comes up, and many times a helpful soul links to Wikipedia's article on the APL EBCDIC codepage. However, each implementation of APL has its own encoding rules. What are they?

mousetail

So the encoding is not actually named "dyalog unicode" and Hippo was just making stuff up?

Seggan

^ the question was about the strange choice of name

Adám

12:55

@mousetail 5×52 is 260, but there are only 256 chars in the codepage, and we even dropped the first 12, so ⍴ loops around.

PlaceReporter99

@Seggan I remember someone complaining about the K-pop kid.

Seggan

what's that

PlaceReporter99

@Seggan I think they were talking about RARE Kpop manifesto

Seggan

ah

PlaceReporter99

@Seggan This was the message:

May 17 at 10:06, by Shaggy

Any mods on that could have a word with that KPop kid about their shockingly bad attitude and unnecessarily argumentative nature?

RubenVerg

13:01

@Seggan lmaooo

Adám

@mousetail Correct. Dyalog Unicode is the interpreter version (which hints at how the interpreter stores text internally), but code golf submissions are assumed to use my SBCS.

RubenVerg

@Seggan bioinformatics is fun, also seems to be a common set between years

lyxal

@Seggan I was going to say "skill issue" but then I realised who I am and that my APL is horribly unoptimised

Adám

@Seggan Hex dump of the 19 byte solution using my SBCS: fb 8d 4c 8d 50 2d 47 30 8f 39 8d 4c 8d 2e 5 52 8f 78 fd 82

PlaceReporter99

Python needs a sigma operator

mousetail

13:14

you mean sum()?

PlaceReporter99

@mousetail I mean $\sum_{n=1}^{10} \frac1n$ but i guess that works...

mousetail

sum(x for i in range(...))

PlaceReporter99

@mousetail but there isn't a builtin for capital pi

Adám

Nah, all you need is a nicer notation for reduction and mapping.

mousetail

@PlaceReporter99 Pretty easy to write yourself with reduce

zoomlogo

13:20

@PlaceReporter99 i can see why...

@emirps : it's ambiguous even though it literally has the word a.w.k. right at the the start of the command not named "echo" ? are you a professional troll or just an amateur one ? That piece of code i wrote is 100% POSIX-compliant and you wanna claim it's ambiguous ? or do i need to explain what echo is about ? — RARE Kpop Manifesto May 9 at 2:02

mousetail

If a chat room has tags will it show up in the sidebar of questions with that tag?

lyxal

which sidebar?

mousetail

I don't know if that even exists on sites other than SO

lyxal

oh that's not tag related

mousetail

It is

lyxal

13:35

that's literally active rooms

mousetail

It will show different rooms depending on the tag of the question

It's 100% tag related

lyxal

maybe on SO

not other sites

mousetail

But what I don't know if it's a SO only feature

lyxal

it isn't

mousetail

Sad

Would be nice to have TNB visible next to every code-golf question

lyxal

13:37

it appears on meta when there's active rooms

at least, it used to

mousetail

It still does, not on main though

RubenVerg

@zoomlogo the comment below is even funnier - most of the shortest answers above involve blatant cheating i'm surprised you have no issues with that

as if that wasn't, you know, the point

zoomlogo

yeah ..

PlaceReporter99

13:52

@zoomlogo I dropped my red flag on that 🚩

Seggan

@Adám yeah I used APL for that

...

@Seggan : i apologize for not being well versed in a language that requires a trademark infringing codepage in order to meet its byte claims — RARE Kpop Manifesto 1 min ago

what

Adám

@Seggan Wait, manually? I just used the SBCS.To function.

Seggan

Wait that's a thing

not manually, the code was { uiota omega uepsilon box AV } each code

Seggan

this K-pop is really annoying

I've flagged the above and this one

@Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian : and what correct answer have you provided other than rushing to lecture others about not knowing a language that requires trademark infringing codepages to work ? — RARE Kpop Manifesto 3 mins ago

@Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian : and isn't it funny … this language somehow felt the need to be so comprehensive it has separate operators for NAND and NOR, despite both being a direct inversion of the outcomes of AND and OR, and yet, doesn't have an operator for XOR. And you actually believe these choices are logical ones instead of them stemming from a language that was, and still is, directly manipulated for individual code golfing challenges ? — RARE Kpop Manifesto 1 min ago

PlaceReporter99

@Seggan wait i didn't see that one

or the one below

Seggan

14:05

3 and 1 mins ago

i am actually interested why APL doesn't have xor

PlaceReporter99

@Seggan Shaggy agrees:

May 17 at 10:06, by Shaggy

Any mods on that could have a word with that KPop kid about their shockingly bad attitude and unnecessarily argumentative nature?

mousetail

APL is ironically the language not designed specifically for golfing

lyxal

@Seggan jokes on them not equals acts as xor

Seggan

Oh yeah lol

@mousetail i was gonna say, I don't think they realize APL was designed in the 60s :P

@mousetail fix the link in ur comment

mousetail

I don't know how

Parenthesis break links

PlaceReporter99

14:07

@Seggan the ridiculousness of that makes me laugh

@mousetail add another ) at the end

mousetail

Oh right

lyxal

@Seggan and that's what they think of apl

Wait till they see actually dedicated golfing languages

I'm surprised I haven't seen any kpop comments on anything I've used vyncode on

That seems like it would be something that would definitely rile them up :p

mousetail

If you think a SBCS is cheating already fractbyte doesn't really make a difference

PlaceReporter99

@mousetail SBCS isn't but fracbytes are if you are using unary ($\log_{256}1=0$)

reminds me of my "agregious" unary answer

mousetail

How is that related to kpop's opinion?

PlaceReporter99

14:13

@mousetail its not

just thought i'd mention

mousetail

Then why say it?

PlaceReporter99

@mousetail but i wonder how kpop would like to see my dashly answer

Adám

@lyxal Or Sledgehammer.

Ginger

14:38

@Seggan ?!

just... what

mf tried to mansplain APL

Seggan

14:55

@lyxal yeah, they chose the wrong language to pick on :P

zoomlogo

lol.. someone should tell them to continue the conversation in chat... its getting too big

(or move the conversation to chat)

Seggan

True

mousetail

Adam already did

Ginger

can't the OP move to chat themself? (@Seggan)

mousetail

I think they can yes

Ginger

14:59

I've done it before

AUGH

what the HELL did they do to the vote icons?!

mousetail

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Ginger

Oct 4, 2022 at 18:16, by Ginger

STACK EXCHANGE DEVS: STOP CHANGING THE GOD DAMN UI. IT IS GOOD THE WAY IT IS AND YOUR CHANGES ALWAYS SEEM TO PISS OFF MORE PEOPLE THAN THEY PLEASE. JUST LEAVE IT BE.

mousetail

-109

Q: We are graduating the updated button styling for vote arrows

About a year ago, the Product team, focused on improving the general experience, conducted an experiment to update the styling of the voting arrows on Stack Overflow in order to improve accessibility and meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) compliance. We shared positive results from ...

discussion featured design voting announcements

-110 lol

Seggan

@mousetail huh?

mousetail

Let's continue this discussion in chat… — Adám Oct 24, 2022 at 17:54

RubenVerg

15:05

@Ginger eww

omw to userscripting it back I guess

Ginger

and their explanation is no better

Seggan

@mousetail that was pertaining to the golfs he made

Ginger

> This change is part of a holistic exploration of the voting mechanism and what it means for everyone.

what the frick does that mean

mousetail

@Seggan Oops you are correct

Seggan

A net 28% increase in votes? I wonder if it's downvotes...

I don't think they accounted for other factors

mousetail

15:06

Probably close votes

Ginger

me omw to make a userscript to undo this

does anyone have a cached version of the old arrows?

Seggan

@Ginger not on mobile apparently

Ginger

lmao the score just keeps going down

RubenVerg

@Ginger I think I'll take this chance to just use some arrows from whatever icon set I like the most

which is probably gonna be bsi

Ginger

ok, attempt 1:

Seggan

15:13

@hyper-neutrino ty

Ginger

is there such a thing as a "user style" manager?

nice, there is

Unrelated String

@mousetail AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

RubenVerg

@Ginger oh, is this css only?

Unrelated String

ngl i totally forgot that was a thing

i wonder if they waited until everyone assumed it was cancelled before rolling it out :P

RubenVerg

@mousetail +90% downvotes apparently

Unrelated String

15:16

wait are the triangles in the buttons off center??????????

i legitimately can't tell but they feel slightly off center

RubenVerg

nope

the svg is flexbox-centered and the actual path is centered in the svg

hyper-neutrino

@Seggan ?

zoomlogo

@Ginger AHHH

i don't feel like voting now

Seggan

@hyper-neutrino for dealing with the comments

Adám

That was caird.

Seggan

15:28

Ah oops

Ginger

done

I think

noodle man

came here to complain abt the buttons, guess i’m a little late

mousetail

We should boycot voting entirely

Ginger

SE Voting Fix

5

The Thonnu

Thank you so much

Ginger

15:40

&thumbsup;

The Thonnu

The new buttons look ****

caird coinheringaahin g

@Seggan You're welcome :P

Ginger

hopefully it works, I've never used a userstyle manager before

time to get that meta rep

RubenVerg

@Ginger oh you just use the icons that are already there

Ginger

yup

Adám

15:44

@TheThonnu $#!+?

PlaceReporter99

@Ginger you have control over se?

The Thonnu

@PlaceReporter99 it's a userscript

Ginger

no, I'm actually Jeff Atwood

The Thonnu

@Ginger how do you install a CSS userscript?

PlaceReporter99

@TheThonnu how am i receiving the changes then?

The Thonnu

15:46

I know how to install a JS one

noodle man

@TheThonnu i think it depends on browser

The Thonnu

Microsoft Edge on Mac

(don't question pls)

noodle man

i use Arc on mac which makes it really easy

Adám

I use Stylus

Ginger

@TheThonnu there's an extension for it

^^

Unrelated String

15:47

like a separate css dedicated extension?

is there a way to just make greasemonkey do it

like by using js to inject the css

mousetail

Yes

You can quite easily make greasemonkey inject a stylesheet

Ginger

^

(also I just fixed it so it also works on answers)

mousetail

Is weireds my out how proud top stack overflow members are about how much they downvote. Yes it's important for the quality of the site but you don't need to brag about how negatie your vote ratio is

Ginger

it's at -139 :b

maybe that's a sign that nobody likes it?

mousetail

The acceleration when it went live is saying something

caird coinheringaahin g

15:57

@mousetail Downvoting is a form of content moderation

Seggan

@Ginger afaik userscript are most often put in stackapps

caird coinheringaahin g

On sites like SO, which have much larger volumes of low quality posts, more downvoting = more moderation

mousetail

I get that, I don't oppose downvoting. I just think it's weired to brag about having x times more downvotes than upvotes

Seggan

@Ginger 53 ppl do

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