The Nineteenth Byte

ETHproductions

19:02

Anyone need a 16-pointed asterisk? ✺

aditsu

β⇝

^ it will have to do

ETHproductions

Oh, I was about to suggest that arrow, but decided not to

aditsu

@aditsu anyway, I already found the best match, except it's not visual

ETHproductions

ಠ‿ಠ

Hehe

Optimizer

@aditsu I already posted that

aditsu

19:05

no, it's different

oh, before the edit!

Optimizer

chat.stackexchange.com/messages/24092039/history

ETHproductions

graphemica.com/%E2%87%9D vs. graphemica.com/%E2%A5%B4

Optimizer

yes

ETHproductions

ఠ_ఠ worried look

aditsu

☬

ETHproductions

19:09

What on earth?

aditsu

trying to match my name :p

ETHproductions

Ah

"adi shakti" is probably the closest you'll get

Here's mine: ð

Martin Büttner

If anyone is still following this madness, the Hexagony fruit loops solution has been golfed and explained: codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/57877/8478

ETHproductions

Wow, nice 339% improvement :)

orlp

@MartinBüttner are you a masochist?

Martin Büttner

19:13

well, the help centre says "an entry to a code golf contest needs to be golfed", right? :/

also what's the point of designing an esolang if you're not gonna use it ;)

orlp

@MartinBüttner tricking other idiots to hurt themselves with it :D

Optimizer

has anyone played "On The Run" game?

orlp

@Optimizer I have heard of it

this guy told me about it:

1 min ago, by Optimizer

has anyone played "On The Run" game?

Optimizer

orly?

He enjoyed 3.141592 in a bed. He was Pi-sexual.

Tweeted by 50NerdsofGrey on September 14, 2015 at 4:03 PM

orlp

why is the "Epic" badge only silver?

hit 200 reputation for 50 days

Optimizer

19:21

Legendary is the Gold one

orlp

the badge alone represents 10k rep

@Optimizer oh wow

@Optimizer that's just ridiculous

ETHproductions

@Optimizer No, but it just crashed Firefox when I went to try it >:(

Optimizer

via Facebook?

ETHproductions

No, on Miniclip

Optimizer

oh! well, flash

ETHproductions

19:24

Stupid darn rotten...

orlp

on SO

I have ~43k rep and 17 gold badges

and still not the epic badge lol

ETHproductions

Flash just cost me the edit I had been working on for 15 minutes :(

aditsu

you should use a browser with 1 process/tab

undergroundmonorail

I wonder if it would be possible to defite a language that meets PPCG's definition of "programming language", but there's only one way to do anything. Would it be ineligible for code-golf because "answers to code golf questions have to be golfed" and all you did was find the one program that solves the challenge?

Optimizer

flash never crashes the whole browser! What firefox are you on? Firefox 4?

ETHproductions

19:26

Firefox 33

It might not be Flash's fault, but then I don't know what it is

Optimizer

its at 40 now!

ETHproductions

I waited 5 minutes just in case

40? Well, let me check...

Optimizer

anyways, I've never seen flash cause browser crash.

it just crashes on its own and asks me to reload the page

same for chrome.

ETHproductions

Oh, it is 40, my mistake

Optimizer

1 process/tab has nothing to do with it :)

ETHproductions

19:27

Yes, same here

Optimizer

since flash runs in its own process anyways

ETHproductions

I'm going to try to open that page again on Chrome

PhiNotPi

9

Optimizer

open it again on Fx too

PhiNotPi

@BetaDecay ^

Optimizer

19:28

now where do we use this icon?

aditsu

new favicon?

ETHproductions

@Optimizer On Chrome, the page says "Sorry On the Run is not working with your browser" in place of the game

Optimizer

lol

PhiNotPi

I don't actually know where to use it, I was just told to make one.

Optimizer

@aditsu favicon is not in our own control

aditsu

19:29

@PhiNotPi well, your avatar looks like it could use an update :)

Beta Decay

@PhiNotPi Now that is awesome

aditsu

the caret?

ETHproductions

@Optimizer And now IE loads it perfectly fine... ಠ_ಠ

Oh, it's Unity, not Flash

Optimizer

time to switch to IE

ETHproductions

LOL

Optimizer

19:31

it being Unity makes more sense

crashing the browser - even more

ETHproductions

Yes, Unity games are usually much larger than Flash games, I believe

Ah, I heard about that.

aditsu

@ETHproductions are you running IE in Linux? somewhere God is killing a llama

undergroundmonorail

Unity doesn't work in Chrome so that makes a lot of sense

ETHproductions

No, of course not, I'm on Windows 7

Optimizer

@ETHproductions that's not really the purpose. Purpose is to make a single game and compile/run it in different environments.

For instance, the same code is running in my Windows phone, and then on Android and then in IE

aditsu

19:32

@ETHproductions oh, different "Unity", nevermind then

still, you should get rid of that malware :p

ETHproductions

LOL

Optimizer

@aditsu Is it even?

ETHproductions

I may when I upgrade to Win10

If I ever do...

Optimizer

its already downloaded in your PC though :P

undergroundmonorail

the epic conclusion to the housecoat saga: i'm just going to ask my RA if he has a pair of scissors i can use

Optimizer

19:33

just a matter of "Waking up to Windows 10"

ETHproductions

Is Windows 10 really the privacy stealer these conspiracy theorists have decided it is?

Optimizer

Hello! you overslept, so we took the liberty to upgrade your PC to Windows 10

aditsu

@undergroundmonorail haha, have you at least tried asking somebody to help you untie it?

Optimizer

@ETHproductions nah, that's just bad press

ETHproductions

Ah, well, everything has it's conspiracy theorists

Optimizer

19:35

its as good/bad in privacy as Windows 8. Better than Android/Google Chrome though :P

Geobits

@undergroundmonorail Very anticlimactic.

undergroundmonorail

@aditsu it's a lost cause tbh

ETHproductions

I'm gonna try it again in a new FF window and see what happens

Wish me luck

Beta Decay

ᐛ

aditsu

@undergroundmonorail I can knot believe it..

ETHproductions

19:36

Oh look, loaded right away

undergroundmonorail

@aditsu why would you do this to me

aditsu

because it's pun :)

undergroundmonorail

aaaugh

i type in dvorak, and if you don't know that about me all my typoes are bizarre

Beta Decay

People actually type in dvorak? I thought they were mythical like malboge programmers

undergroundmonorail

People say "dvorak is faster" and "dvorak is better for your wrists" but there's never any reliable source so idk

The only reason I made the switch was that

Beta Decay

19:39

Do you notice any difference?

undergroundmonorail

I got pretty good at hunt-and-pecking in QWERTY, but I wanted to learn to type for real

but I couldn't break my bad habits

so I switched to a totally new layout specifically so I wouldn't have any useful habits

Optimizer

You gotta use iPhone keyboard if you wanna learn typing for real

ETHproductions

@Optimizer Hmm, that's a pretty good game, but not my type of racing game

undergroundmonorail

I do notice a lot of difference, but that's probably just because I can actually type now

Optimizer

@ETHproductions ah ok. Just wanted to compare my high score..

ETHproductions

19:41

I got 407 or something, I think, what was yours?

PhiNotPi

I don't really use proper typing technique at all.

Optimizer

umm, 24K?

undergroundmonorail

I'm actually considering switching back to QWERTY just so that I can use other people's computers without being totally lost. I bet all my old habits are gone, so I wouldn't fall back on them.

ETHproductions

Wow, guess I didn't get far at all

Beta Decay

Are you playing around with shapecatcher here?

ETHproductions

19:42

Actually, that was how many coins I got, it wouldn't let me see my score because it wanted me to upgrade my car so bad

Beta Decay

Oh no

undergroundmonorail

@PhiNotPi I don't technically type "properly" but I don't look at the keyboard anymore and I use more than two of my fingers.

Optimizer

well, you know what score to beat

Martin Büttner

I've added two juicy deadline-free bounties for Hexagony programs.

ETHproductions

Here's a query I wrote the other day to find the highest-rated comments on our site: data.stackexchange.com/codegolf/query/363365/…

I can't figure out how to get a link that actually looks like a link, instead of the content of the comment being linked

undergroundmonorail

19:45

Is there a link that doesn't look like a link?

ETHproductions

Here, just a sec

data.stackexchange.com/codegolf/query/363653/…

undergroundmonorail

I wouldn't care except that I think I made the second-highest rated comment on this site haha

yess, that's me :D

ETHproductions

That is you, haha

I'll add in a Username field

That's dumb, only a couple show up: data.stackexchange.com/codegolf/query/363653/…

I wish I had more experience in T-SQL

undergroundmonorail

Ordering works for me, you just have to choose which column to order by

You can't sort by comment content, only comment ID, sadly

So there's no easy way to see the best comments starting with the letter A

ETHproductions

Why does Id as [Comment Link] come up with the content wrapped in a link, anyway?

undergroundmonorail

19:51

I'm glad that the language I invented is executed in a visually interesting way so I get to include fun animations in my answers

ETHproductions

Which language is that?

undergroundmonorail

pb

here's a fun animation:

ETHproductions

Coooool :)

Beta Decay

@ETHproductions data.stackexchange.com/codegolf/revision/363812/468920/…

ETHproductions

@undergroundmonorail Oh, I saw that earlier, that's awesome!

@BetaDecay That works, thanks!

But it still leaves out a couple usernames... Huh

Beta Decay

19:55

@ETHproductions Haha no problem

Which usernames?

undergroundmonorail

if you sort by user link tehy're at the top

Beta Decay

I see, those users have deleted their accounts on PPCG

ETHproductions

"Yuval Adam" in this one: codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/1817/…

undergroundmonorail

is that what happens when you delete your account? huh

i thought you were converted to a user\d+

ETHproductions

And "Robert Davis" here: codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/1817/…

Hey, those were the only two that were showing up before

That's really odd

Beta Decay

19:57

Again, neither have links to their profiles in the comments

ETHproductions

Oh, that makes sense

Sorry, didn't see your previous message

Beta Decay

It's okay :)

Now how do you change your username on Data.SE?

ETHproductions

I signed in with my SE account

Beta Decay

I signed in with my Google

Changed now

ETHproductions

But it logs me out every time I leave, which is annoying

Oh wait, it didn't this time

Beta Decay

19:59

Gtg

undergroundmonorail

later

ETHproductions

Cya

undergroundmonorail

fun fact: i wrote an answer for this site that currently sits at 142 bytes

orlp

12

undergroundmonorail

i could easily save 134 of those bytes

it's a brainfuck program that takes numeric input and does something with it that brainfuck is actually really good at, but it takes me 135 instructions to handle all the input because it's basically

ETHproductions

20:06

@orlp I saw one where someone wanted to increment a variable, and the two top answers said "Use jQuery. It's got everything." and had 10+ votes each, and the one at the bottom said "Use this code: i++;" and had -2 votes

@undergroundmonorail LOL, why haven't you already?

orlp

@ETHproductions yes, that's a classic

undergroundmonorail

while the user's input takes up two or more cells:
    multiply the first cell by 10
    add it to the second cell
    shift over so the "first cell" remains correct

but after writing that there was a meta post that established that you're allowed to take numeric input in the form of a single byte that is equivalent to that number

the answer could just be ,[->.+<]

but writing

-[+>+[+<]>+]>+>>,[>,]<[<]<[->>[->]<[<]<]>>>[[<[-<+<+<+>>>]+++++++++[<[-<+>]<<[-‌<+>>>+<<]<[->+<]>>>>-]]<,<<,>[->>>+<<<]>>>---------->]<-[->.+<]

was a lot more fun

ETHproductions

I agree

undergroundmonorail

what i might do

actually nevermind i'm not going to do it

ETHproductions

Where can I sort all messages in the chatroom by how many stars they have?

The "starred by me" tab sorts them, but I'd rather not star every post ever starred

undergroundmonorail

20:11

what i was about to say was "i might edit the answer so that the 8 char one is the one that's counted for the score but still devote the majority of it to explaining the long version" but i'm not willing to give up my principles

Geobits

@ETHproductions I've never been able to do this, despite looking for a way on several occasions.

ETHproductions

Too bad

feature-request

Doorknob

3

Q: Order starred chat posts by stars

When I look at the starred posts in a chatroom, they're not ordered by stars, even though the list of posts starred by me is only ordered by stars. I would like the ability to sort all starred posts (or just the most-starred ones) by stars so I can see what got starred the most.

ETHproductions

+1

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ETHproductions

20:31

+1

I should probably get off now. I have more important stuff to do.

mbomb007

Does Retina take input from stdin? Or can Retina not be used for challenges requiring its initial input to be from stdin?

Martin Büttner

@mbomb007 yes, STDIN

PhiNotPi

20:51

@undergroundmonorail You should make a pb answer for the meta thread here: meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/6918/…

undergroundmonorail

I've been meaning to but I have to stop being lazy

PhiNotPi

website featuring phi and golfing: m.phigolf.com/indexasp_mphigolf.asp

undergroundmonorail

21:17

i'm going to buy a wii u

Doorknob

can it play Nethack?

DanTheMan

@undergroundmonorail Is it because of Mario Maker?

PhiNotPi

@Doorknob All games are an extension of Nethack, so yes.

undergroundmonorail

@Doorknob i'm like 85% sure, yes

because wii u's vwii mode is so similar to the actual wii that you can homebrew it exactly the same way

and i'm fairly certain someone ported nethack to the wii

Doorknob

@PhiNotPi What do you mean? There are no other games.

undergroundmonorail

21:19

since nethack has been ported to every device capable of running turing-complete code

i would not be surprised if nethack was turning complete, much the same way m:tg is

@DanTheMan ...yes

DanTheMan

I already have a Wii U and I can't wait for Mario Maker

undergroundmonorail

didn't it come out 3 days ago?

DanTheMan

@undergroundmonorail oh, did it? ...whoops

undergroundmonorail

The only reason I know that is because it doesn't mean anything special in Japan but stateside a lot of people were talking about being uncomfortable with looking forward to the release date

Geobits

22:34

Not fair. I have to wait for Christmas for Mario Maker ><

This is what I get for not doing my research before agreeing to Christmas lists for my kid from the family.

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