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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Anne AunymeCompute digits of sqrt(2) Your answer must display sequentially the digits of sqrt(2), one by one, without halting. You are free to pick the base of your choice as long as it is an integer greater or equal to 2. You may bundle the point that separate the integer part from the rest with the previo...

 
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Seggan
Seggan
01:36
@DannyuNDos happens sometimes if im trying to read an older website in russian
Bubbler
Bubbler
02:30
@SandboxPosts apparently the closest existing challenge to this is this old challenge
limiting to sqrt(2) and allowing binary output seems to open up interesting golfs
l4m2
l4m2
03:28
Are all colors #(00|80|FF){3} named in English?
Rydwolf Programs
Rydwolf Programs
04:20
I mean, there's a color word which would describe any of those, just not uniquely
RGB doesn't map well at all onto how we perceive distinct colors
Like #0080ff would just be "blue" to me, but so would #0000ff, and so would #000080
Bubbler
Bubbler
04:44
#0080ff does not seem to have an associated CSS name
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

stanriHow long will my triangle take to converge? When I knit in a circle, I arrange my 3 needles in a triangle shape, as arranged in the diagram below. Each needle has a integer number of stitches. The goal is for all the needles to have the same number of stitches. B L R Left, Right, Back respe...

 
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lyxal
lyxal
06:46
Someone mind telling me why the kids play space at McDonald's needs to have rgb lighting?
On a bus right now going home from uni and it went passed a recently finished McDonald's
And I saw this rgb light strip changing and realised it was in the kids playground space
You only see it if you go there in person so you can't tell me it's for the gamers going there
Because gamers don't go outside
l4m2
l4m2
Anywhere most bus stop are under roof and extend into some apartment?
Neil
Neil
07:39
@l4m2 html/css only seems to define 15 of them, #((00|80){3}|(00|FF}{3})
 
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mousetail
mousetail
10:12
@lyxal I don't even get why gamers need RGB lighting
 
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zoomlogo
zoomlogo
13:48
I forced AI to sing Linux source code
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noodle man
noodle man
13:58
lmao
 
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Rydwolf Programs
Rydwolf Programs
17:34
@mousetail It's honestly harder to get parts without RGB sometimes
mousetail
mousetail
For sure, my PC has a bunch of RGB elements covered in tape because I don't actually want the RGB but they where the cheapest available
Rydwolf Programs
Rydwolf Programs
Lol, I just gave in and kept the RGB
I even kinda like it since it's only alittle
mousetail
mousetail
I live in a single room appartment so the light is annoying when I want to sleep
Rydwolf Programs
Rydwolf Programs
My mobo had an option buried in the BIOS to disable the RGB when it was off/sleeping
But yeah it does make it hard to sleep when all the RGB's on if I'm running some computation overnight, that's a downside I didn't think of
mousetail
mousetail
I have some servers and such running on it so I rarely have it completely turned off
 
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Simd
Simd
20:31
CMQ Do x86 processors have a CPU instruction for adding two long doubles (float80s)?
Rydwolf Programs
Rydwolf Programs
20:57
Unless this is outdated, technically, x86 processors don't have float support, it's contained within a separate x87 FPU
user
user
21:19
@RydwolfPrograms Why is this? Like, I guess they can be somewhat nice, but I don't get why they're so popular, and why they're marketed specifically towards gamers. It's not as if gamers are more likely to go "ooh shiny lights pretty" than other people
Nearly every gaming laptop I come across has an RGB keyboard
Rydwolf Programs
Rydwolf Programs
RGB's just associated with gamers ig
So it's self-reinforcing
user
user
@hyper-neutrino Your profile picture
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Rydwolf Programs
Bought an iDRAC card for my server, so I should be able to update that
Not sure what could be causing the issues other than firmware, since I got a whole new mobo and the issue didn't get fixed
Rydwolf Programs
Rydwolf Programs
22:02
Okay I managed to connect via the integrated port
Now I just need to update it through 30 firmware versions
Kill me
Rydwolf Programs
Rydwolf Programs
22:35
Okay I almost bricked my BIOS off to a good start
Ginger
Ginger
@RydwolfPrograms yikes
how'd you do that :p
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Rydwolf Programs
I had the on-system lifecycle controller config page open while updating the iDRAC/LC firmware, which led to an error about it trying to update it while in use, so it wouldn't proceed with the firmware update. Only way I could fix that was by completely cutting power to the machine (the off button doesn't affect the iDRAC), but apparently something was updating in the background and went into recovery mode
Oop, updated iDRAC the firmware by one version!
Ginger
Ginger
neato
is the card to fix the built-in iDRAC?
Rydwolf Programs
Rydwolf Programs
It's a dedicated ethernet port for it
Which I thought might be necessary but turns out it can use the integrated ethernet ports
Ginger
Ginger
hm
well, only 29 updates to go :3
Rydwolf Programs
Rydwolf Programs
22:44
I think I can do it in bigger increments, after reading a reddit post
Information is very scarce on this stuff
Also y'all this is so cursed the update files are EXE files
Ginger
Ginger
ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ
Rydwolf Programs
Rydwolf Programs
I mean I guess it's possible the EXEs don't depend on any OS-specific syscalls so it's just using it as a binary format that the lifecycle controller can unpack and execute, but still, wacky
Ginger
Ginger
I certainly hope the lifecycle controller doesn't run Windows
Rydwolf Programs
Rydwolf Programs
I believe the "lifecycle controller" is itself an OS rather than a piece of hardware
Idk tho this stuff's confusing
Ginger
Ginger
23:05
wacky
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Rydwolf Programs
I've updated the firmware like halfway in one step and I'm working on incrementing another
Then I'll attempt the rest as a single step
Oh also I apparently missed a BIOS version since I just downloaded the whole "older versions" list and forgot the most recent one, so I'll do that one afterward
Then I should probably check for any firmware updates for the RAID controller or other hardware
Also apparently I have an enterprise license of iDRAC?
So I can virtually access the console which is kinda neat
Ginger
Ginger
23:28
cool
Seggan
Seggan
any ETA on when server up?
Rydwolf Programs
Rydwolf Programs
If everything goes right, a few hours
It's on the newest iDRAC firmware which should hopefully fix the iDRAC bootlooping issues, and I'm going to quickly update the RAID controller just 'cause
I wonder if I can do the BIOS update from iDRAC
Ginger
Ginger
yippee

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