The Nineteenth Byte

3:00 PM

@Lembik it pays to read the whole challenge

@VoteToClose Hmm. I don't think there are enough relevant questions to make it worth creating an architecture-astronaut tag.

TheDoctor

:P

feersum

Guys I'm trying to ask on SO and it's refusing to post due to some formatting nanny shit

Does anyone know a JS snippet I could run to disable this?

Optimizer

wont they have the similar check server side too?

feersum

not necessarily

Optimizer

3:07 PM

just Ctrl K the shit out of it?

feersum

I want my post to be formatted correctly.

Optimizer

correctly != properly?

feersum

I should learn JS.

Vɪʜᴀɴ

Ctrl K the shit out of it, then edit it out later.

feersum

I don't want to code in it, but it's important to be able to dismember webpages that don't do what I want.

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Optimizer

3:09 PM

"dismember"

feersum

Like I've tried to use a page with a simple form with some text boxes and a submit button where buggy JS disabled the submit button.

Peter Taylor

@feersum Copy your post, reload the page with JS disabled, and submit?

TheDoctor

20 hours ago, by Alex A.

I'm so confused right now. I'm just imagining Beta and Peter drinking pot tea while Lembik does lines of cocaine.

feersum

@PeterTaylor Good idea! It would have worked, but...

they check it server side arghhh!

Optimizer

5 mins ago, by Optimizer

wont they have the similar check server side too?

feersum

3:13 PM

Maybe if I insert zero-width spaces between every pair of spaces it will confuse the format nanny.

TheDoctor

:P

feersum

I wonder what it's looking for.

I have a <pre> formatted block with a compiler error.

I guess it's something in there.

mınxomaτ

@Lembik Second ;)

flawr

3:32 PM

On the topic of plane crashes:

Kogalymavia Flight 9268

Kogalymavia Flight 9268 (KGL 9268/7K9268) was an international chartered passenger flight, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia which crashed in central Sinai following departure from Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport, Egypt to Pulkovo Airport, St. Petersburg, Russia on 31 October 2015 at 4:13 UTC (7:13 Moscow time). The aircraft, an Airbus A321-231, was carrying 217 passengers and seven crew members. 214 of those aboard were Russians and three were Ukrainian, mostly tourists. With the death toll of 224 people, Flight 9268 was the deadliest plane crash in Egyptian history, surpassing the...

Lembik

@mınxomaτ thanks! Not that I had heard of AutoIt :)

Optimizer

@flawr plane crashes are actually on-topic here.

mınxomaτ

@Lembik I've added an extensive explanation for you ^^

Lembik

thanks!

mınxomaτ

I'm really surprised that not many people heard of AutoIt. It is even a job requirement for some automation/testing IT jobs (along with Powershell, Perl etc.).

flawr

3:35 PM

@Optimizer Are they?

Lembik

@mınxomaτ maybe hobbyists and amateurs don't use it :)

which is what many of us are

also..I don't own a copy of windows :)

mınxomaτ

@Lembik It is mainly used by hobbyist :) .

And I think this should run in wine 1.7

Lembik

interesting

and you can move aliens with it!

anyone want to bet what the minimum program size will be?

<200 or not

it's funny how no one even bothers trying in C or C++

mınxomaτ

Because that would require extensively long API calls (at least in Windows).

Lembik

@mınxomaτ can't you just use sdl for example?

or maybe even some dirty low level trick that only works in linux :)

mınxomaτ

3:40 PM

@Lembik Not really that much of an improvement length-wise.

sdl i mean

Lembik

@mınxomaτ how about writing directly to some framebuffer?

(this is a linux concept if you are not a linux person)

mınxomaτ

You could overwrite the desktop device context :D

Lembik

right :)

some sort of dirty trick surely would be fun for someone to implement!

mınxomaτ

But GDI and loading the image is still shorter (even if blittet to DC(0))

Lembik

@mınxomaτ oh sorry I meant for the previous pixel drawing challenge

in any case.. I feel some C/C++ person ought to enjoy it :)

mınxomaτ

3:42 PM

The question is if you allow hardcoded jumps (by offset) into DLLs. This allows drastically small x86 binaries.

Lembik

that sounds fun too :)

mınxomaτ

Example (256bytes Windows executable): pouet.net/prod.php?which=50582

Lembik

nice

@mınxomaτ if you had the energy to make an animated gif for your answer that would be nice

mınxomaτ

@Lembik The screencast flickers slightly because my solution uses 100% cpu time because of the empty loop: h60.imgup.net/aliene727.gif

Optimizer

so you are saying that you have only a single core computer?

or otherwise, your language can spread your empty loop across all the cores?

mınxomaτ

3:49 PM

No, my other cores are occupied :)

(crappy laptop - cant record >20fps).

VoteToClose

o-o

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

nice one @VoteToClose XD

VoteToClose

361 rep for the week is pretty staggering for me. XD That's more than half my entire rep overall.

TheDoctor

:P

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

4:05 PM

lol moment I got mortarboard without actually hitting rep cap at the end of the day

VoteToClose

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A: The Many Memes of PPCG

Meme: Failing to Outgolf Dennis Origin: Dennis and anyone who tries to outgolf him. Cultural Height: Until PPCG is no more (never) Background: Dennis always wins. Seriously. Almost no one has beaten Dennis, ever. If they have, he's just golfed it down more.

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Same. :D I had 2 down votes, but I had enough up votes for it to count.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

:D happy I thought I was alone

Sp3000

2 down votes = checks ... you'd only need one upvote to cancel that :P

VoteToClose

I know - but I had received 2 down votes, so total rep gained for the day was 196.

So close... :D

TheDoctor

:P

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

4:12 PM

@VoteToClose You can now see vote counts ;)

VoteToClose

yesterday, by VoteToClose

TheDoctor

I could get site analytics within a day...

parts-express.com/…

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

subwoofer

2

VoteToClose

Saying that it's too quiet?

TheDoctor

woof

2

VoteToClose

4:21 PM

What's the shortest quine in Pyth?

'rd3*Z is the shortest one in Vitsy, now.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

2Q is a quine in simplex. :7

VoteToClose

Explanation? :D

TheDoctor

q is a quine in... you know

VoteToClose

HQ9(+|++|-|--|...)

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@VoteToClose One second, it may actually be shorter...

checking docs

VoteToClose

4:28 PM

-.- You have a built in, don't you?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I might not have one. And it's actually longer ;-;

2Q``

VoteToClose

How it work?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Well, Q does this: Adds program source code to outer program, from the beginning (exclusive of ! characters, if the current byte is not zero) If byte is 2, duplicates current command

And ` does this:

a = # of occurrences mod 4.
(a = 0) Evaluate outer program
(a = 1) Suppresses evaluation of outer program
(a = 2) and instead outputs it.
(a = 3) Evaluates outer program, copying the current program to the next outer program (at the end)

VoteToClose

That's fancy. o-o

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Thanks bows

VoteToClose

4:30 PM

It's not Simple, though. ;D

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

XD Related, Simplex was originally a joke language.

VoteToClose

Right, I must go to be mildly social. Bye, all!

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ