The Nineteenth Byte

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

12:01 AM

@NathanMerrill IDK :P

It wasn't a well-developed thought

quartata

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ My life story

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@quartata lel

J Atkin

Public service announcement: Communication among bots in the Connect-n koth (codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/65977/connect-n-time) challenge is disallowed.

I thought is was one of the standard loop holes so I didn't add it.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

okay :3

Also, how do I get the numeric equivalent of a date in java?

Alien G

Has anyone seen the SAO Abridged Parody?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

12:14 AM

No ?

Alien G

Hm :/

That's too bad.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

What is it?

GamrCorps

@AlienG Anyone else hate anime?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Sorry I'm a newb to Java, but can I store information within a class?

Like, this.rowIndex = 3, and then modify it?

Thomas Kwa

@JAtkin How are you going to disallow it?

GamrCorps

12:20 AM

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ yes, declare the variables outside of any methods but add the static keyword to the front

Thomas Kwa

What if I make a bot that senses if a different bot makes a sequence of moves that's characteristic of the other bot in the pair, and if so cooperates with it?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

static int test = 3;?

GamrCorps

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ yep!

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

:D yay!

GamrCorps

put a public in front to access it from different classes

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

12:21 AM

I can modify it merely by referencing it?

GamrCorps

yep

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@GamrCorps oh thanks :D

static int test = 3;
int makeMove(){
	test += 2;
}

GamrCorps

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ wait, is it running multiple simulations at the same time?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@GamrCorps I dunno

It calls makeMove multiple times, if that's what you mean

GamrCorps

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ is it the connect n challenge right?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

12:23 AM

yeah

> The simulations are multi threaded. If you want to turn that off, go to Runner#runGames() and comment this line (.parallel()).

GamrCorps

Yeah, multi threading could be a problem, let me check really quick

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

okay :)

J Atkin

@ThomasKwa Can't I make it a rule in the main post?

Thomas Kwa

@JAtkin ?

I'm saying it'll be difficult to enforce "no communication"

J Atkin

Couldn't you just look at the code to tell?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

12:28 AM

@JAtkin What does int[][] getBoard() return if the cell is empty?

J Atkin

-1

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Thanks. I'm not a Java-fluent person :P

How can I get the ID of the bot?

GamrCorps

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Ah, so apparently the multithreading creates multiple instances... shoot. Well here is a rundown: use static if you want all instances of your bot to access the variable (ex. static int botCount = 0; public Bot(){botcount++;}), dont use it if each instance should have their own version of the variable. So in a sense, the static keyword is like a global keyword. Better explanation.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@GamrCorps I get that.

Ish

If I understand you, using the static int x = 3; public makeMove(){x++;} would increment x every time makeMove is called, and this x would be preserved throughout the execution of the simulations?

phase

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ It would be preserved in every instance of that object

GamrCorps

12:34 AM

Say you have 2 bots of the same class put a random number into the variable x. With static the 2nd bot will overwrite the 1st bots number, without it, each bot will have their own random number

phase

static just keeps fields/methods separate from objects.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

o~o

El'endia Starman

/me is applying for a job

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@El'endiaStarman \o/

El'endia Starman

> How soon can you start working?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

12:36 AM

Good luck!

El'endia Starman

/me can choose year 2030

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@GamrCorps so if I wanted to keep track of a row number in a game, what would I do? All this Java stuff is swimming in my head

phase

My TV just turned on to Cartoon Network, which is playing a show called "Supernoobs". This is also a word I use to describe myself when Dennis outgolfs me.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

xD

El'endia Starman

@phase Dennis outgolfs everyone, not just noobs.

GamrCorps

12:39 AM

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ try it without the static, but if that doesnt work, just ping me or someone else and we will help you. Here is a good explanation of static: ideone.com/CMSy9H

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@GamrCorps thanks ^_^

El'endia Starman

> Date:
Format: M/D/YY *

/me is tempted to put C/7/16

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Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I should make a star-based KotH

Thomas Kwa

That reminds me of something @El'endiaStarman

Anonymous

This is the only time this will ever happen:

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Anonymous

12:46 AM

GamrCorps

@El'endiaStarman what about Jan 25, 1970? Would it be 1/O/-T?

El'endia Starman

@GamrCorps ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thomas Kwa

@El'endiaStarman forums.xkcd.com/…

El'endia Starman

I'm actually not really sure how I have 252 rep so far this week and Dennis has only 200.

Anonymous

I'm not sure how I have 208, either

Anonymous

12:52 AM

I ended up with 197 yesterday because I downvoted somebody, and lost 5 more today because somebody unupvoted my dice challenge

GamrCorps

The better question is why did Dennis let 4 people beat him at something?

phase

Are "community edits" allowed?

@Mego That happened to me a couple weeks ago

Anonymous

@GamrCorps He's letting us get cocky so that, when he crushes us, it'll be even more satisfying for him

GamrCorps

^

Anonymous

@phase Absolutely not never ever

phase

12:53 AM

@Mego That's what I thought, just making sure

Anonymous

The only acceptable edits to an answer are fixing formatting and spelling/grammar, imo

El'endia Starman

@ThomasKwa I'm not sure what you're trying to point out.

Doorknob

1 hour ago, by Doorknob

That doesn't really apply here. Our policy is "never edit code in someone else's solution."

Anonymous

If an answer is invalid, poorly golfed, or has an incorrect byte count, let the answerer sort that out. If those problems persist because the answerer hasn't fixed them after a while, flag it as low quality and let it get deleted.

Anonymous

And most importantly, do not change 𝔼𝕊𝕄𝕚𝕟 to ESMin or Seriously/gs2 code to UTF-8

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Anonymous

12:58 AM

(forgot gs2 also uses cp437)

Anonymous

Looks so good

El'endia Starman

It does.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

ConnectNController.java:510: error: incompatible types: possible lossy conversio
n from double to int
                                                        return (double)getBoardS
ize()[0] / 2;

         ^
1 error
Press any key to continue . . .

GamrCorps

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Q: Suggested Edits: Reject Golfing?

Every now and then, I see an edit where somebody does some golfing (most recent). From what I can tell, our standard is to reject those edits as invalid and post a comment saying what was suggested, because we feel that golfing tips should be comments. And I have always done so (after I learned)....

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ if you want to end with a double, add a ".0" after the 2. If you want an int, remove the "(double)"

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

1:04 AM

@GamrCorps oh.

:P

Anonymous

@GamrCorps Waste of a byte, just do 2.

Sparr

"(\\\\/|/\\\\|\\\\\\\\|//)"

El'endia Starman

> Please record your password for your records.

Sparr

writing regular expressions with literal backslashes in them, in an environment that requires me to escape backslashes in strings

GamrCorps

@Mego ?

Sparr

1:05 AM

so \\\\ is a single literal \

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Sparr I feel for you. Which language?

Anonymous

@GamrCorps You don't need the 0, merely appending a . will make it a double literal instead of an int literal

Sparr

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ YAML

GamrCorps

@Mego yep forgot about that. You are right

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Sparr That sounds like a type of oatmeal

quartata

1:11 AM

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Just so you know, you don't need the statusBroken thing

Breaking inside the if breaks out of the for loop

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@quartata I know

I need to break out of both for loops

quartata

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Oh, OK.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

^_^

quartata

But wait, you don't check the statusBroken in the other for loop

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Iᴛ ᴡᴏʀᴋs :ᴘ

Sparr

1:19 AM

finally getting around to writing a syntax definition file for marbelous

Anonymous

Uhh

phase

@Mego oh yeah same

El'endia Starman

Thomas Kwa

Huh, we don't have a cross product question

El'endia Starman

(From the 'Trust Me, I'm an "Engineer"' Facebook page.)

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

1:22 AM

@ThomasKwa what's that?

El'endia Starman

@ThomasKwa Bonus for 7D cross product? :D

Cross product

In mathematics and vector calculus, the cross product or vector product (occasionally directed area product to emphasize the geometric significance) is a binary operation on two vectors in three-dimensional space (R3) and is denoted by the symbol ×. Given two linearly independent vectors a and b, the cross product, a × b, is a vector that is perpendicular to both and therefore normal to the plane containing them. It has many applications in mathematics, physics, engineering, and computer programming. It should not be confused with dot product (projection product). If two vectors have the sa...

Anonymous

1287

A: Breaking out of nested loops in Java

(EDIT: Like other answerers, I'd definitely prefer to put the inner loop in a different method. This answer just shows how the requirements in the question can be met.) You can use break with a label for the outer loop. For example: public class Test { public static void main(String[] args) {...

Anonymous

Use dem labels man

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

whoa

cool story bruh

El'endia Starman

That's pretty cool.

Anonymous

1:24 AM

labels are aight unless it's C

Anonymous

labels in c be bad because thas how u get go2s

El'endia Starman

I'll probably include \breakN instructions in PyAcidic.

Anonymous

Who needs breaks when you don't have the ability to do nested loops? :P

El'endia Starman

Funnily enough, I do have (and often use!) nested loops in Minkolang...

GamrCorps

Seven-dimensional cross product

In mathematics, the seven-dimensional cross product is a bilinear operation on vectors in seven-dimensional Euclidean space. It assigns to any two vectors a, b in R7 a vector a × b also in R7. Like the cross product in three dimensions, the seven-dimensional product is anticommutative and a × b is orthogonal both to a and to b. Unlike in three dimensions, it does not satisfy the Jacobi identity. And while the three-dimensional cross product is unique up to a sign, there are many seven-dimensional cross products. The seven-dimensional cross product has the same relationship to octonions as the three...

Thomas Kwa

1:28 AM

No cross prod in the sandbox either

I think I'll write two challenges, one for 3d and one for 7d

Unless you want one @Mego?

GamrCorps

why not one for n-d

Thomas Kwa

There only exist cross products for 1, 3, and 7 dimensions for some reason

GamrCorps

@ThomasKwa ah

Anonymous

@ThomasKwa Have at it

phase

@El'endiaStarman That's like every O program I make ;-;

Sparr

1:29 AM

@ThomasKwa 2^N-1 dimensions, I think

El'endia Starman

@ThomasKwa "for some reason" is explained here, which I'm reading now. :P

Anonymous

@Sparr Nope, 1, 3, and 7 only for binary cross products

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@El'endiaStarman I added some basic framework to the Spacewar! repo. I'm not sure if it's what you want.

El'endia Starman

/me goes to log in with my college account

Thomas Kwa

Should I allow builtins?

El'endia Starman

1:32 AM

/me tries to remember password

Sure, why not?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I have a most beautiful but frustrating language: it has a builtin for every task, but said builtin is always 1 byte longer than the optimal solution.

Anonymous

@ThomasKwa For a catalog yes, for a regular no

Anonymous

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ So Mathematica?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Mego But better!

El'endia Starman

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ That would actually be an interesting problem.

Anonymous

1:34 AM

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ So Python with itertools?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@El'endiaStarman What would? :/

@Mego Qu'est-ce que ce itertools?

El'endia Starman

Designing a language where every built-in is longer than the optimal solution in that language.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

oh, lol

El'endia Starman

Excepting the most basic ones, like addition, etc.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

It's impossible

El'endia Starman

1:35 AM

Are you sure? :P

Thomas Kwa

It's not impossible

Anonymous

I'm not convinced it's impossible

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Gimme a second

Thomas Kwa

Just have builtins for only things you know you can solve in fewer bytes already

Anonymous

But the number of builtins would have to be infinite (countably or uncountably; not sure which)

ev3commander

1:36 AM

@mego is right

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

^^ that's what I was getting at :P

Anonymous

Probably countably since they'd be recursively enumerable

Anonymous

(finite alphabet and such)

phase

/*wut is dis*/ comments all over my code

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Basically, for every task T, there must be a task T' that emulates task T.

ev3commander

1:37 AM

It is impossible because you have to have ∞ builtin

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Thomas Kwa

@Mego wait, you lost me

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

> ∞ builtin

+1

ev3commander

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ ?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@ev3commander bad yolks

ev3commander

:)

Anonymous

1:41 AM

@ThomasKwa For every string S in the language (Chomsky definition, not programming lanaguage), you'd need to assign a string that is length |S| + 1. Either the language does not have a maximal string length, and the number of builtins grows infinitely, or it does, and you'd end up needing strings longer than that maximum to name the builtins.

Thomas Kwa

Oh, so the language needs to have a builtin for every task?

Anonymous

It needs to have a builtin that is 1 byte longer than the optimal solution for every task, so yes

El'endia Starman

For this theoretical problem, ignore practical considerations regarding infinity. :P

Anonymous

Tasks are countably infinite, ergo builtins are practically infinite

Anonymous

@El'endiaStarman Even theoretically, we'd need a universe with infinite energy, which comes along with other problems

Anonymous

1:46 AM

Infinite energy and infinite entropy

El'endia Starman

> Assume a spherical cow...

Anonymous

You would need an infinite amount of energy to define the language, and an infinite volume to contain it (thanks to the Bekenstein limit)

quartata

Are you considering built-ins from the future?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

First n fibonacci numbers: mljm#'l

@quartata import future

quartata

Because if you consider only known tasks at any given point in time it seems like it would be finite, just very large

i.e only consider tasks in programming that have been considered before

not ones that are possible but have never been done

Anonymous

1:50 AM

@quartata Well duh, we want to (almost) win every challenge

Anonymous

We can't have builtins that existed after the challenges!

quartata

PPCG won't be around that long.

Just consider tasks that have been considered.

That'll cover every challenge.

Anonymous

@quartata Sure it will, we'll be in beta forever

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quartata

I mean, I'm sure some drunk cashier has considered simulating a grocery store on a grid before

@Mego But you won't be in beta forever.

El'endia Starman

Human beta lasts about 18 years.

Private beta: 9 months.

quartata

1:52 AM

I hear it lasts about 70 years.

El'endia Starman

No, that's the "finished" product.

quartata

Fair enough.

If we're talking about it from a purely theoretical stand point btw a Turing Machine could run the interpreter for this language.

Actually, wait.

OK, it could run an interpreter

But it couldn't interpret it directly I believe, since the table of instructions has to be finite.

But if the instructions were all on the tape

Thomas Kwa

Cross product is sandboxed!

quartata

ooh

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@ThomasKwa link?

Thomas Kwa

2:01 AM

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Wait for it...

@ThomasKwa wat

XD

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ ☟

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Cross product of two vectors code-golf math geometry The cross product of two three-dimensional vectors a and b is the unique vector c such that: c is orthogonal to both a and b The magnitude of c is equal to the area of the parallelogram formed by a and b The directions of a, b, and c, in th...

quartata

What is that character anyways

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

2:02 AM

GG

@quartata pointed hand downwards

quartata

Oh, I see.

It's very faint on my computer.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Mine, too.

New Main Posts

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Q: How long ago was this?

How long ago was this? The Rules Each submission must be a full program. The program must take input as two comma-separated dates in the form YYYY-MM-DD, and print the number of days that has passed since the second date to STDOUT as if today was the first date (if the second date would be in ...

code-golf date

quartata

@NewMainPosts duuppeee

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

PhiNotPi

2:06 AM

You are now breathing manually.

quartata

@PhiNotPi Wait, what?

Thomas Kwa

@PhiNotPi dammit

quartata

GOD DAMMIT

I just lost the Game too

El'endia Starman

hahaha

I'm not really breathing manually. Maybe half-and-half, now.

Alex A.

@Zgarb Which Star Trek movie did you see? The new ones are garbage.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

2:07 AM

I LOST THE GAME AHHHHHHHHHH

quartata

HA!

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

That should be a challenge

Thomas Kwa

I kind of want to make cross product a catalog, but I don't know if it meets the criteria to be a good one

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ a code-golf question? How would it work?

quartata

@ThomasKwa Eh, I don't think it qualifies as a standard "beginning" programming challenge

PhiNotPi

I think the whole breathing / blinking / tongue-position / nose-in-vision thing is a whole lot more fun than the Game.

El'endia Starman

2:09 AM

Has anyone done hooks on GitHub repos?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@ThomasKwa IDK - I was thinking "whenever the input contains something that is similar to 'the game' (i.e. fixed Lev. D), output "I lost the game""

@El'endiaStarman saywhat

ev3commander

!!!11!!

El'endia Starman

I think @PhiNotPi might've done that? You were planning on pulling KotH entries from GitHub, right?

PhiNotPi

idk

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ and then take input every N seconds or something

PhiNotPi

2:10 AM

I just used some kind of Git API or something.

quartata

Maybe output "You just lost the game" every (nextGaussian * some constant) seconds

El'endia Starman

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Hooks are things that happen at specified times. For example, I have a post-receive hook on my website's Webfaction server that, when I push to the git repo there, checks out all the files to their proper place, thereby updating the website.

quartata

Also, you guys literally just made me die in UNDERTALE thanks

So I really did lose a game.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@El'endiaStarman ooo

@quartata I feel no pity. You guys make me die in TF2 all the time :P

Doorknob

@quartata that's because you should be playing nethack instead

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

2:12 AM

Spy + The Nineteenth Byte = Skrub

quartata

@Doorknob shut up I wanna finish my true-pacifist run first

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Right, but this was against Undyne. I have to do the flip spears segment all over again.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@quartata ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

quartata

Thanks.

El'endia Starman

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ So, for instance, if I can set up a post-receive hook on the GitHub repo, then I can make the server code update when you push to GitHub.

Thomas Kwa

Wow, I just realized we have eight 100+ point bounties out

codegolf.stackexchange.com/?tab=featured

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

2:13 AM

@El'endiaStarman I sort of get that. Generally.

PhiNotPi

#YODO (you only die once)

quartata

Also @Doorknob

A friend of mine was playing nethack

He was at level 8

He was in a corridor running from a "wasp" when a lynx showed up

He was playing in tile mode though

Doorknob

there's no such thing as a wasp

quartata

So he thought it was a little kitten

@Doorknob I think it was a soldier ant, he called it a wasp

Doorknob

wat

quartata

2:14 AM

Anyways, he threw a tripe ration at it

dead

He had jump too, so if he had actually used that turn he could have escaped

Basically just a tale of why tile mode sucks

Doorknob

um ok

El'endia Starman

Wow, 10/10 thrilling story!

Alex A.

Nethack is just like The Sims, right?

quartata

It was funnier when I heard it

@AlexA. Yeah, except your minions don't place statues of you at half a million population

Doorknob

@AlexA. ಠ_ಠ

Alex A.

2:16 AM

Or maybe more like Rollercoaster Tycoon?

SuperJedi224

Hello

Alex A.

Isänmesez

quartata

Edit apparently the thing had wings and it showed up the same turn as the lynx

So I'm guessing it was a vampire bat

Either way, he got pinned in

This is a really interesting challenge:

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Q: Parse a two-dimensional syntax

Background Alice and Bob are creating a golfing language to win every single PPCG challenge. Alice wants to make a two-dimensional language, like ><>, but Bob prefers a prefix-infix syntax like in J. As a compromise, they decide to create a two-dimensional prefix-infix language. The parser is a ...

code-golf grid parsing

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@quartata true

El'endia Starman

@quartata I agree.

quartata

2:19 AM

Bison2D

Alex A.

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Q: Programming Puzzles and Taco Truck

Programming Puzzles & Code Golf has opened a taco truck! The word is out and now users from all over the Stack Exchange network are coming to try our tasty, authentic ASCII tacos. We need your help to ensure that everyone gets their orders in a timely manner. There isn't a whole lot of room insid...

code-golf ascii-art

sumbudy du ma chelenj

quartata

@AlexA. too hard 0/10

Alex A.

D:

quartata

Every time I try to do it, I get hungry for tacos.

Doorknob

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Q: Unfold musical jumps

The Dal Segno and Da Capo are two very commonly used musical terms. They mean "from the sign" (𝄋) and "from the beginning" respectively. There is also the idea of the coda (𝄌), which is the very end of a piece of music. It's what's played after the "main section" of the piece. A D.S. al coda ...

code-golf music

quartata

2:21 AM

Then I go eat tacos and forget what my code does.

Doorknob

sumbudy du ma chelenj 2

quartata

So, yeah it's too hard 0/10

Alex A.

u_u

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

> There isn't a whole lot of room inside food trucks, so you'll need your code to be as short as possible.

quartata

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Q: Simulate a game of Craps

Craps is a fairly simple dice game often played in casinos. Even if you aren't a gambler (which I'm not), it's still a fairly interesting game. Here's the rules: At the start of a game of Craps there's what is called the come-out round. The player rolls two d6s (six-sided die) and the two die ro...

code-golf game random

sumbudy du ma ez chelenj in CJam

wtf y is ruby da winnah

Alex A.

2:21 AM

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ True facts, broseph. Ever been inside a food truck?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. yeah. it was not fun

quartata

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Can confirm.

Alex A.

@quartata cuz rube is gut

quartata

@AlexA. Oh, not you too

Doorknob

rube is da bezd

quartata

2:22 AM

Also, I'm still really proud of my joke Julia answer on that

Alex A.

@quartata ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anonymous

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Heroku has that functionality built in

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Mego Okay.

I don't know what that is either.

quartata

@Mego Too bad Heroku is lazy and keeps falling asleep

I think it ate too much turkey on Thanksgiving

Anonymous

@quartata I've never had that problem

Anonymous

2:24 AM

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ herokuapp.com

Alex A.

@quartata That was a long time ago

If you're still full from it you should see a doctor

Doorknob

I officially hate VirtualBox

it refuses to work

Alex A.

y

ÿ

Anonymous

@Doorknob Issues I have had with VirtualBox = 0 (unless it's operator error)

Alex A.

I use VMWare Fusion. Works great. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anonymous

2:28 AM

As long as I'm not being an idiot, VirtualBox works great

Anonymous

There was that one time I tried to get a VM running using a real hard drive though

Anonymous

But that falls under "being an idiot"

Alex A.

One time openSUSE was installing updates and it didn't tell me it was doing it so I shut down the VM. It never booted back up.

Doorknob

oh I think this is caused by me being an idiot

why is my kernel version still 3.16.0 >_<

Alex A.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Dennis

2:41 AM

@AlexA. This is why automatic updates are disabled on all of my devices.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

[21:40] c_o_n_o_robrien: afaik
[21:40] Seiya : wtf does that mean

Dennis

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Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Has anyone here built a computer before?

Dennis

Like buying and assembling parts? Sure.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Cool!

My friend needs to build his own. Any pointers?

(not memory pointers)

Dennis

2:49 AM

I pretty much grew up doing that. Laptops aside, I've never owned a pre-built computer.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

:O

Dennis

Pointers for buying or assembling?

Calvin's Hobbies

Did our challenge spree do anything other than ruffle up the chat room?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Both, I think.

Dennis

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Closed as unclear what you're asking. :P

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

2:52 AM

@Dennis XD

Doorknob

Turns out I stupided even more than I thought I did

apparently my Linux kernel version was on 3.16.0

the current version is 4.2.0...

turns out my laptop was using Ubuntu's grub and not Debian's

so I had to boot into Ubuntu, run update-grub2, and then boot back into Debian >_<

but hey! virtualbox works now \o/

Thomas Kwa

@Calvin'sHobbies I decided not to submit any challenges today because they would get less attention due to crowding. But I'm sandboxing a lot, so they'll be released soon.

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