The Nineteenth Byte

If you've read the book Contact by Carl Sagan, this challenge may seem familiar to you. Given an input of a set of mathematical equations consisting of a number, an unknown operator, another number, and a result, deduce which operators represent addition, subtraction, multiplication, or divisi...

Alex A.

@Geobits I kind of had a feeling you'd approve. :P

flawr

Hi!

Bye!

Alex A.

Hello and goodbye!

Zgarb

The Beatles - Hello, Goodbye

►

Alex A.

10:31 PM

I was just thinking of that song :)

RikerW

Is it just me or is @flawr obessed with airplanes, both crashing and not crashing?

Also, poll: Should I eat brownies, lemon bars, or chocolate bar with frosting?

star your choice

8

brownie

lemon bar

chocolate with frosting

/me stars a thing

Really?

:P

@Doorknob what to do when confronted with 10 angry watchmen?

nethack

Alex A.

10:42 PM

@RikerW Rather than abusing stars, you could just use this: strawpoll.me/6604414

Doorknob

not get confronted by 10 angry watchmen

why are the watchmen angry

Alex A.

Their watches are never in sync

RikerW

I punched one while blind.

And hallucinating.

I was hallucinating then something, no clue what, happened.

Doorknob

Don't move around in Minetown while blind/hallu/etc.

RikerW

WHY IS EVERYBODY WHITE SQUARES

@Doorknob Okay.

Alex A.

10:45 PM

hallu

RikerW

hallo

4 mins ago, by RikerW

star your choice

Why people why, 4 stars?

:(

Thomas Kwa

What's the time limit on unstarring?

Alex A.

2 minutes I think

Thomas Kwa

is that cumulative across multiple stars and unstars?

That is, if I star something for 90s, unstar, star again for 90s, can I unstar it again?

Alex A.

Starring is rate limited, IIRC. And no, it's not cumulative across stars, it's per post.

Thomas Kwa

10:51 PM

I meant cumulative across multiple starrings of the same post.

Alex A.

Oh

Starring and restarring the same post is subject to the same rate limit, I believe.

LETS TEST! :P /s

No

> /s

Someone say something starworthy.

2

Alex A.

10:52 PM

I forget what /s is

Oh, sarcasm

RikerW

sarcasm.

Alex A.

nvm

RikerW

ninjaed

@AlexA. ninjaed that

:P

@ThomasKwa alex-is-wrong

Alex A.

@ThomasKwa Looks like you did

RikerW

Is alex-is-wrong not starworthy?

I think I am the only student here who regularly in active in chat during school.

Alex A.

10:54 PM

You should probably pay attention in class instead :P

Ampora

Instead of doing work in my Java class, I log on to PPCG

RikerW

@AlexA. Yeah, but sex ed?

Maltysen

@RikerW I am

RikerW

No way.

@Maltysen Good.

Screw school.

Alex A.

Well, you gotta learn about it somehow...

RikerW

10:55 PM

I learned that about a year ago, as did the whole class.

And this is a friggin private co-op/school thing, they don't have requirements or anything.

Thomas Kwa

Okay, I've found out that the star is locked in after two minutes of continuous starring.

RikerW

Okay.

Oh, and mods clearing the stars doesn't reset the timeout.

Thomas Kwa

Well, at least more than about 80 seconds of continuous starring.

but I trust @AlexA.

RikerW

It stills says "It is too late to undo this operation".

Maltysen

@RikerW do you guys also have chromebooks?

Alex A.

10:57 PM

@ThomasKwa \o/

RikerW

@Maltysen No.

Bring your own laptop.

Maltysen

we only have them in certain classes, but those are usually the useless ones anyways

Alex A.

@Maltysen My school had paper books

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RikerW

Can't stop nethack... :P

Hey, typo (sorta)!

> It is too late to undo this operation

No full stop people.

Thomas Kwa

@AlexA. Now I'm thinking about making a book, but with hundreds of thin sheets of metal plated with chromium instead of paper.

RikerW

11:01 PM

@Maltysen why are you active during school?

I am sorta homeschooled, and have stupid classes.

And they allow computers

Maltysen

> those are the useless ones anyways

meaning english and us history

Alex A.

@ThomasKwa I actually heard that one of the ancient peoples of South America (Mayans, maybe?) made books with thin sheets of gold as pages.

RikerW

@Maltysen Why are we even learning us history?

Its not like it has an effect now really.

Maltysen

I know right?

RikerW

Some bits like the constituition yeah, but like nothing else.

Maltysen

11:03 PM

its just the same stuff over and over again

for like the 5th time since middle school

Thomas Kwa

I'm in AP USH

RikerW

And make the teacher mad with sindarin.

@ThomasKwa AP history????

Maltysen

world history last year was cool tho

RikerW

^

@Maltysen grade?

Maltysen

right now im 10, world history was in 9th

Thomas Kwa

11:05 PM

Right now we're learning about after the Reconstruction

Alex A.

"Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it."

I've always wondered if that meant that if you don't study in your history class, you'll fail it and have to take it again.

2

RikerW

lol

Alex A.

I never liked history in school but I do think it's an important thing to learn. I mean, it's part of standard education for a reason.

RikerW

@ThomasKwa What about you? grade?

@AlexA. Yeah, but not US History.

Thomas Kwa

Junior

RikerW

11:07 PM

Okay.

8/9th.

Thomas Kwa

4 AP classes; moderately hard schedule.

RikerW

Grades get messed up in homeschools.

Alex A.

@RikerW You mean US history isn't part of standard education? It was for me. Several years of US history was required as part of my high school education.

And world history was part of my middle school curriculum.

RikerW

@AlexA. No, just stupid.

Alex A.

What's wrong with US history? As residents of the US, it's good to know how things got to where they are today.

RikerW

11:10 PM

I have AP (not) Chem, English, Algebra II, AP Comp. Sci, and a couple other normal stuff like history.

mınxomaτ

> normal stuff like history

> normal stuff

Alex A.

> stuff

>

> - <

> (removed)

AP (not) ?

11:12 PM

Labeled as AP, not at all AP. >-<

mınxomaτ

American Patriotism?

Arsenic Poisoning?

RikerW

Advanced Placement.

I think.

advanced placement

ninjaed

Adhesive Pandas?

11:13 PM

@mınxomaτ that also works

RikerW

Yeah, that.

ninjaed

Maltysen

@RikerW don't you get 2 electives?

RikerW

I do, piano and Comp Sci.

Maltysen

ah

RikerW

Comp sci is a joke though.

I only do it for the nethack time.

Maltysen

11:16 PM

I skipped the actual comp si classes

RikerW

lol

Maltysen

and am doing the ap independent study thing

GamrCorps

I think this website is better than most computer science classes

RikerW

I am getting better at nethack though.

Maltysen

^^

RikerW

11:17 PM

^^^

lol double caret edit

Ampora

Proof that this site is better than school: I have learned 100% of Fishing from this site and 1% of Java from school.

GamrCorps

I mean, Ive learned more stuff from just reading Martins' or Dennis' posts than I have in any CS class.

RikerW

^

Ampora

^^

Maltysen

and the ap independent study thing is in java

so you know, suicide in slow motion

RikerW

11:19 PM

Ew.

:P

Poll: Best esolang? (includes golfing langs)

Can't have created it yourself.

GamrCorps

@RikerW why not just make a strawpoll or google forms? Also, my vote is CJam.

RikerW

Cause.

brb

Alex A.

@GamrCorps What's your reasoning for CJam?

Not saying I disagree or anything, just wondering

GamrCorps

@AlexA. Personal bias by the fact that its the only one (besides mine) that I know and can fully understand (although, I do wish there were some more features)

RikerW

docs.google.com/forms/d/…

Note: alex-is-wrong is not an esolang. (sadly)

Summary: docs.google.com/forms/d/…

@AlexA. you like pyth best?

Alex A.

11:33 PM

I have no strong preferences but I chose Pyth because I can understand it better than other esolangs.

RikerW

Okay.

And spreadsheet of reponses:

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/…