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Alex A.
Alex A.
5:01 AM
Not that I've thought of but I haven't given much thought to it
@Doorknob Do you use the system clipboard with Vim?
 
Liam
Liam
the output doesn't have to be minimal either?
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
Is Begot
Is Begot
Something like 1) multiply all percents *100 to get your targets 2) double targets if any are lower than current 3) subtract to get additions?
It doesn't need to be minimal, according to the ES6 answer's comments.
 
feersum
feersum
You guys are making it way too hard.
 
Is Begot
Is Begot
Probably :)
 
feersum
feersum
5:03 AM
Just find a common multiple, and use that as 1%.
 
Liam
Liam
yeah
that's what I was about to say
That makes it a bad challenge imo.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@feersum ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
 
Is Begot
Is Begot
Lenny of the day award right there.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
I do what I can to further the cause
 
Optimizer
Optimizer
@feersum I like it harder
 
Is Begot
Is Begot
5:10 AM
Besides, if we do it the easy way, it'll be too fast. No satisfaction that way.
 
Optimizer
Optimizer
too fast too easier
 
New Main Posts
New Main Posts
5:28 AM
-5
Q: Just a cite of body Muscle Building

user51863The principles are the same. However, the problem with most Muscle Building bodyweight programs is that you keep doing the same movements over and over again at higher rep ranges, when we all know that the key to gaining muscle mass is to perform less than 12 reps per exercise (20 reps works for ...

popularity-contest
 
Anonymous
Wow, mods are asleep
 
Optimizer
Optimizer
hahahahahahahaha
good job @NewMainPosts
 
Vihan
Vihan
@NewMainPosts popularity-contest
ಠ_ಠ
 
Optimizer
Optimizer
still better than chatgoat
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
@Mego Martin should be well asleep. Doorknob probably is now as well. Dennis might still be up. I'm up but haven't been paying attention.
There's the run down for you
 
Anonymous
5:40 AM
It was yolk :P
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
Thanks to all who flagged as spam; the Community user did the deletion work.
 
Is Begot
Is Begot
Ugh. Bird humor between birds.
 
Anonymous
Don't hate us because you ain't us
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
Yo Mego, chirp chirp, am I right?! HAH
 
Is Begot
Is Begot
@Mego The only proper response to that (ever) is "that's not one of the many reasons I hate you" :P
 
Anonymous
5:43 AM
@AlexA. Oh man you always know how to ruffle feathers
 
Optimizer
Optimizer
5:54 AM
flapped as spam
 
Is Begot
Is Begot
6:06 AM
I'd make a bird joke too, but the only one I can think of is a bit of ostrich.
(sorry for that)
(really, really sorry)
 
Liam
Liam
22:06 - 21:54 = 12 minutes where geobits was trying really hard to come up with a bird pun
11
 
Is Begot
Is Begot
I wish. I wasn't going to until I flipped back and noticed Opti had :P
If I couldn't come up with something better than that in 12 minutes, I'd be very embarrassed.
But you get a star anyway :D
 
Liam
Liam
I'm going to be entirely honest, I don't get it
a stretch
I GOT IT
 
Is Begot
Is Begot
@Liam That's because it's really terrible :D
 
Liam
Liam
I giggled a little. More at the fact that it took me so long
 
Is Begot
Is Begot
6:12 AM
It's not often I feel the need to apologize twice for a pun.
 
Liam
Liam
I kept adding the article "an" when I was reading it
A bit of an ostrich?
 
Is Begot
Is Begot
Also, your clock is three hours off. You should fix that.
 
Liam
Liam
#westcoast4lyfe
 
Is Begot
Is Begot
Pfft. Everyone knows East coast time is the only proper US time.
You guys even need your own channels because you can't cope with our superiority.
 
Liam
Liam
lies and slander
although I'll probably be living in dc in a couple months
so I guess I'll have to get used to it
 
Is Begot
Is Begot
6:16 AM
Oh? I've only visited. It was... interesting.
 
Liam
Liam
why do you say that
 
Is Begot
Is Begot
I came away thinking it was an apt metaphor for the country, sad to say. Opulent monuments and government buildings, just a block or two away from some terrible ghettos. It seemed very much a tale of two cities.
 
Liam
Liam
Yeah that's true. But that's pretty much every big city though
 
Is Begot
Is Begot
Maybe it's different living there, I dunno. Like I said, I only visited, so I probably didn't get the full picture.
@Liam Maybe. It seemed more in your face there, at least to me.
 
Liam
Liam
Well I'm either moving there or baltimore
and everyone tells me to go to DC
 
Is Begot
Is Begot
6:21 AM
Yea, I never saw any of Baltimore except the harbor district, but I've heard it's not a great place now.
Look on the bright side: At least with DC, you have no effective voice in Congress.
 
Liam
Liam
I already feel that I don't have one
so no problem there
In DC you get to claim innocence from anything that Congress does wrong
 
Is Begot
Is Begot
Oh, I can claim innocence, too. Where I live, my preferred candidates don't typically get elected. That's what I get for being in the south I guess.
I mean, have you met our Senator? You might have heard of him, an up-and-coming guy named Rubio.
 
Liam
Liam
Hah doesn't ring a bell
Well I'm going to dress up like a thug for my latenight walk so no one bothers me
goodnight all
 
Is Begot
Is Begot
night
 
Optimizer
Optimizer
in Beep Boop Maggot, 18 secs ago, by Marky Markov
@Vihan _UNK _UNK _UNK _UNK _UNK _UNK _UNK _UNK _UNK _UNK _UNK _UNK _UNK _UNK _UNK _UNK _UNK _UNK _UNK _UNK _UNK _UNK _UNK _UNK _UNK
Is Marky a piglet?
 
Vihan
Vihan
6:34 AM
haha
 
Anonymous
 
Is Begot
Is Begot
What did you do to my poor little Marky?
 
Vihan
Vihan
@IsBegot I have him a dose of disapproval a little to strong...
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@Vihan Yes, why?
 
Vihan
Vihan
@MarsUltor can you give me a link, I'd like to try to make upgoat/downgoat vote buttons...
 
Is Begot
Is Begot
6:37 AM
Oh. Then I say that's a fair response.
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
Oops.
 
Vihan
Vihan
thanks
perfect
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@Vihan You forgot to remove the background. ಠ_ಠ
 
Helka Homba
Helka Homba
Or use goat legs as the star points
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@Everyone I really need more faces, I don't want an emoticon IME with three faces.
 
Vihan
Vihan
6:43 AM
@MarsUltor I will do that later, it's 10:43 right now for me so I should be going to bed soon...
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@Vihan can you push to GitHub?
 
Optimizer
Optimizer
he can push to GoatHub
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@HelkaHomba Three of these?
 
Vihan
Vihan
@MarsUltor It's just a few lines of CSS: 
background-image: url(<url of goat pic>);
background-size: 100%;
background-position: 0px 0px;
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
Here's the goat source file. Just set the alpha to 0. You can include the SVG path directly in the CSS: gist.github.com/minxomat/460d17f1459adce56c2d
 
Vihan
Vihan
6:47 AM
@mınxomaτ can you trace the upgoat image too please :3
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@mınxomaτ You don't have to, I should be able to do it.
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
Don't have my tool atm. But you can just flip the path in inkscape and overwrite the "-" with a text-path of "+".
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@Vihan It's just the downgoat image upside down, and with the number shifted.
@mınxomaτ I know.
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
@MarsUltor I wasn't replying to you.
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
5
Q: Scale and mirror SVG object

DeukalionHow do I most easily first scale an object, say 2 * times it's current size and then flip it vertically and horizontally, or both? As of now, I can either set "scale(2,2)" for it to become 2 times as big as it's width and height but I can't flip it at the same with scale(-1, 1) for vertical flip...

matrix svg scale flip programmatically-created
@mınxomaτ But @Vihan is going to sleep soon, apparently.
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
6:54 AM
@MarsUltor This should make it a lot easier ;) : gist.github.com/minxomat/c84fb5e568016a8fc4f3 . The Userscript font is Source Sans btw. so you might wanna change the +1/-1 font from Arial to that.
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@mınxomaτ It's okay to just flip it using a transform, right?
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
@MarsUltor Yeah. Flip it, change the color in CSS. Straight forward. I'd leave the bkgr. transparent.
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@mınxomaτ Yeah, I wanted the background transparent.
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
I also wouldn't necessarily write anything on the goats.
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@mınxomaτ ?
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
6:58 AM
Just the goat.
2
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
It doesn't really look too much like it points up though.
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
Right.
BTW: Here's the thing minified: gist.github.com/minxomat/b2d03338112b3bddba8a
 
Anonymous
I have a transparent version of the upgoat, but GIMP apparently doesn't export to SVG
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
That's a horrible green.
 
Anonymous
Oh crap I messed it up
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
7:03 AM
@Doorknob Are you familiar with pry? It's like irb but really cool.
 
Anonymous
That's the wrong one
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
For web SVG's, use Inkscape and export to "Optimized SVG".
 
Anonymous
Yeah I'm downloading Inkscape now
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@Mego I'm almost done. :(
You don't need Inkscape for this though.
 
flawr
flawr
Megoat
 
Anonymous
7:15 AM
 
Anonymous
 
Anonymous
PNG version in case I messed something up
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@Mego :(
I was gonna use @mınxomaτ 's and change it to up and downgoats via jQuery.
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
@Mego You messed that SVG up.
:D
It's just an embedded PNG, not a path.
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@Mego Also, that's an embedded PNG, which means you can't change stuff using CSS.
 
Anonymous
7:18 AM
Crap
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@Mego Stop already, I'm about half done. :(
I'm testing it in chat transcript for some reason.
@mınxomaτ Can you find/create a goat hoof SVG? (It doesn't have to be now)
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
Uhm what? What for?
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
The star image.
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
I think that would be a bit too detached from what this site is about.
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
7:32 AM
@Liam Welp. My pi(n) bounty expires in less than 3 days.
 
Anonymous
 
Anonymous
It should be much more gooder now
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@Mego But... I've pretty much finished. :(
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
@Mego You forgot to fill the +1.
 
Anonymous
Never underestimate the speed at which an idiot will complete a task :P
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
7:35 AM
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
Welp, it just happened. Helka asked a question. The ends are upon us.
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
...@AlexA.
4
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
@El'endiaStarman Stealth pings were fixed. How'd you show this to Alex with a link?
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
@zyabin101 This is not a stealth ping.
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@zyabin101 Stealth pings put the ping in the link address.
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
7:38 AM
Stealth pings show no trace of pinging.
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
Then what it is? A ling?
 
flawr
flawr
Showerthought: I think I will never be able to write a Just-in-time compiler. Mine would always be A-little-bit-too-late compilers.
4
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@mınxomaτ Couldn't you just do transform="scale(-1,-1) translate(-746,-748)" fill="#F00" and add <text x="300" y="450" font-family="Source Sans" font--size="250" style="fill: #FFF;">+1</text>?
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
[](http://@zyabin) <-- this is the old form of stealth ping.
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@flawr ALBTL compilers?
 
flawr
flawr
7:40 AM
^
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
[@zyabin101](http://www.arbitrarylink.com) <-- Getting someone's attention with a link.
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
@CoolestVeto And what is the new form?
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
There is none.
Silent pings don't exist.
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
@MarsUltor I have no idea about CSS at all.
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@mınxomaτ That's SVG
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
7:43 AM
@El'endiaStarman AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
rekt
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
15 hours ago, by zyabin101
I have a plan to program Tetris in an esoteric language. Does this plan deserve its own chatroom?
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
I doubt the text would be in the right place after the transform, but just try it.
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
Click the 15 hours ago to see the plan. I have one supporter - VoteToClose (formerly CoolestVeto).
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@mınxomaτ That's what I'm doing. Also, the transform is only for the path.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
7:44 AM
@flawr Mine would probably be Uncomfortably-early-to-the-party compilers.
I'm really bad at estimating time, especially commute time, so I used to always show up like 2 hours early to parties. :|
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
@AlexA. UE2P compilers?
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@zyabin101 No, that's normal AOT.
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
@MarsUltor AOT?
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
It's when AOL evolves into its final form: AOT.
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@AlexA. But it's not even AOM yet.
 
Alex A.
Alex A.
7:46 AM
It'll get there
@MarsUltor Ahead of time would be just before the party starts so you can help set up. It's nice. Uncomfortably early is like, "Oh great, now we have to hang out with this guy for a while before anyone else comes."
 
flawr
flawr
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@AlexA. Ahead of time is being ready once you get the invitation.
 
flawr
flawr
I need one that compiles my program before I even wrote it. To make up for my too-late-ness. Any recommendations?
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@flawr Use a JIT, it's close enough. Pypy/asm.js are fast and don't take very long to compile.
 
Anonymous
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
7:54 AM
0
Q: Using SOCKS with Minecraft

VoteToCloseMinecraft is very cool, much fun, but it doesn't appear to be listening when I tell it to use a SOCKS proxy. In Java 8 (my version is 1.8.0_65), under section 2.4 of this page in the documentation, it says the following: There are 2 system properties related to SOCKS: socksProxyHost ...

minecraft technical-issues
Input, anyone?
 
Anonymous
foo
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
bar
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
baz
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
quux
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
I thought it was baq after baz, then baqq, baqqq, etc.
But if you're using that many placeholder variables, something's wrong.
 
Optimizer
Optimizer
8:02 AM
foo bar baz foo bar foo baz
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
Metasyntactic variable
A metasyntactic variable is a placeholder name used in computer science, a word without meaning intended to be substituted by some objects pertaining to the context where it is used. The word foo as used in IETF Requests for Comments is a good example. By mathematical analogy, a metasyntactic variable is a word that is a variable for other words, just as in algebra letters are used as variables for numbers. Any symbol or word which does not violate the syntactic rules of the language can be used as a metasyntactic variable. For specifications written in natural language, nonsense words are commonly...
From the article: A "standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples" often used in the United States is: foo, bar, baz, qux, quux, corge, grault, garply, waldo, fred, plugh, xyzzy, thud.
 
Anonymous
I've never heard of xyzzy being used as a placeholder variable
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
 
Anonymous
I only know of xyzzy from text adventures and the cross product rule
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@Mego xyzzy is in the cross product rule?
 
Anonymous
8:15 AM
If a = b x c, then a_x = b_y*c_z - b_z*c_y
 
Anonymous
And then you rotate through the subscripts (x -> y -> z -> x) to get the other 2 values
 
Anonymous
(only works for 3-valued vectors)
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
:D In Australia, it doesn't look as hard to understand.
 
Anonymous
Because it's upside-down?
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
No, here we use a table: 
   i  j  k
i  0  k -j
j -k  0  i
k  j -i  0
 
Anonymous
8:18 AM
Ah, the original rule I learned was the determinant rule
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
I don't remember which I learnt first.
But the determinant rule is nice because it works with any number of dimensions. 
 i   j   k
u_i u_j u_k
v_i v_j v_k
 
Anonymous
Yeah
 
Anonymous
That's the more-natural representation to me
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
Argh
 
Anonymous
But the xyzzy trick is also neat
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
8:20 AM
I don't like the absence of MathJax. :(
Chat mini-challenge: Guess the origin of everyone's profile pics!
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
@Mego Likes penguins.
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
phase's is a TV test card, Peter Taylor's and primo's is from some challenge
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
@zyabin101 a pixelly identicon
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@CoolestVeto About: status-declined?
 
Anonymous
@MarsUltor also primo
 
Anonymous
8:23 AM
@CoolestVeto truth
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
Nailed it.
 
Anonymous
grc likes xkcd, optimizer is a llama, El likes math and sonic, minxomat is Donald Duck, flawr likes reptiles, VTC likes flowers, Geobits dislikes everything
5
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
grc's is Black Hat (from explain xkcd/xkcd's logo)
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
/me claps for @Mego's supreme intellect.
@MarsUltor I thought he was just called "hat guy". o-o
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@Mego That's an optical illusion, not math.
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
8:25 AM
@Mego For Geobits: mego-is-wrong
 
flawr
flawr
I expected to see some kind of disaster in your list.
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
@MarsUltor everything ∈ math
 
grc
grc
funny thing is I don't even like xkcd that much anymore
 
Anonymous
Dennis is Dennis (and a menace to fellow golfers), Sp lives in Melbourne, Zgarb likes divisors
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
8:26 AM
@CoolestVeto TIL
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
Geobits always says why he downvotes things.
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
@MarsUltor It's "The terrible small logo", not just "The logo" :P
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@mınxomaτ ?
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
http://imgs.xkcd.com/static/terrible_small_logo.png
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
Is this permitted?:
Most of the time? — CoolestVeto 16 secs ago
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
8:27 AM
@mınxomaτ Not that one
@CoolestVeto According to meta, no.
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
@MarsUltor [citation-needed]
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@CoolestVeto Wait a sec
 
Anonymous
@CoolestVeto Looks fine to me
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
@CoolestVeto This would be shorter with ShellExecute imo.
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
(I don't know this lang so you guys do what you do best)
 
Anonymous
8:31 AM
I made comments
 
Anonymous
Basically what it does is os.system('rm %s'%(sys.argv[0])), but in a C and Windows way
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@MarsUltor It's a very mathy optical illusion.
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@El'endiaStarman How is it mathy?
ಠ_ಠ There aren't even any fractals.
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
Everything is mathy.
2
 
Anonymous
9 mins ago, by CoolestVeto
@MarsUltor everything ∈ math
 
Anonymous
8:35 AM
I got ninja'd while trying to find the OG ninja
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
@Mego OG ninja?
 
mınxomaτ
mınxomaτ
ಠ_ಠ
 
Anonymous
@MarsUltor Original Guacamole
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@mınxomaτ Scrolling is disabled for me. Probably because I blocked a pop-over of some kind with AdBlock.
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
 
HamZa
HamZa
8:38 AM
@grc what's up? Are you interested in participating in a CTF?
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
1) ಠ_ಠ and 2) eh, not interested anymore :P
 
grc
grc
is there one coming up?
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
@mınxomaτ ಠ_ಠ
 
HamZa
HamZa
5
Q: Boston Key Party CTF 2016 - 04 March 2016 at 22 pm UTC, lasts 48 hours

HamZaLet's participate at Boston Key Party CTF 2016. The CTF will begin on 04 March 2016 22:00 UTC and ends on 06 March 2016, 22:00 UTC. As usual, we will play as team sec.se. The team communicates through the CTF team chatroom.

discussion ctf
I just became room owner and saw your access request to the CTF chatroom. So I don't really know when you did actually request it :- )
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
wat
 
grc
grc
8:40 AM
@HamZa aw sorry, I'm going with my uni team for that one :/
my request was for one a while ago, but I sent it a bit late
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
Whasa key party? :D
 
HamZa
HamZa
@grc Alright, no worries. I'm also room owner in the regex chatroom, so you can ping me whenever you feel like joining :-)
@CoolestVeto sorry for the off-topicness :P
 
grc
grc
@HamZa alright, thanks!
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
@HamZa The only thing on-topic is wasting time, hence everything is on-topic. :P
 
HamZa
HamZa
hehehehe
 
grc
grc
8:43 AM
CTFs are kinda similar to PPCG
some challenges would almost be on topic
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
I was actually just thinking about how one might make a CTF challenge for PPCG.
 
HamZa
HamZa
Did you participate at ctf.internetwache.org ? That one was quite fun
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
@grc On topic is subjective [vtc'd]
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
It'd be like a kind of KotH.
 
grc
grc
@HamZa yeah, but I didn't have much time and no one else from uni ended up joining
so it fizzled out a bit
I should go through the challenges though
 
HamZa
HamZa
8:45 AM
@grc They made them online. So you can launch them yourself :D
 
grc
grc
awesome :D
@El'endiaStarman I've seen multiple code golf CTF challenges
xss with a character limit
shellcodes in small buffers
 
HamZa
HamZa
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
Hmm. I was actually thinking something more akin to a real-life game of CTF, something a bit more real-time.
 
grc
grc
attack/defense?
 
Anonymous
A turn-based CTF move-or-stab KoTH would be interesting (have we had one?)
 
grc
grc
8:47 AM
defcon ctf is pretty cool
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
A Stratego variant would probably be really cool.
 
HamZa
HamZa
@grc still struggling with exploit/reverse engineering challenges. I just bought nostarch.com/hacking2.htm, hopefully I would learn some stuff
 
Anonymous
Basically you're on a map, and each turn you can either move one square NESW or stab an adjacent square NESW. Stabs happen first, then moves. If you get stabbed, you respawn inside of a home base. The goal is to move over a certain square in the enemy base, and make it back home without dying.
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
That'd be awesome to visualize.
 
Anonymous
Plus stuff like flag resets (when you walk over your own flag it returns to your own flag stand)
 
Anonymous
8:49 AM
And flags being dropped when the flag holder dies
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
Carrying the flag slows you down too.
 
Anonymous
Also flag holder shouldn't be able to stab
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
So you can drop it to run faster.
eh, that's not really needed
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
I would compete in this. :D
 
grc
grc
@HamZa nice - I thought that was written by a community manager for a minute lol
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
8:50 AM
I broke my keyboard.
 
Anonymous
Use even/odd UIDs for teams again, since that typically works well
 
HamZa
HamZa
lolwut
 
grc
grc
same name as the author
 
flawr
flawr
@El'endiaStarman Convert mass of the flag to energy in order to speed up faster than anyone else.
 
HamZa
HamZa
@grc ooooh, I'm not that familiar with stack's employees :-)
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
8:51 AM
@Mego What could potentially be pretty interesting is to assign answers randomly to teams every round, so you have to make your bot work well with others, period.
 
Anonymous
@El'endiaStarman That would also be neat
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
Are you Sandboxing it yet? :P
 
Anonymous
It would discourage the Sp/Phi-style teamwork like in BattleBots
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
You better be...
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
 
Anonymous
8:52 AM
Writing it up now :P
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
@Mego What lang?
 
flawr
flawr
@zyabin101 Your dog?
@CoolestVeto Prolog
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
ಠ_ಠ
 
Anonymous
@CoolestVeto Gonna try to make it language-independent
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
So, like, write to file?
 
Anonymous
8:53 AM
As long as it can do ASCII stdin/stdout, it should be good
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
@flawr I'm not sure what you mean.
 
Anonymous
Nah man pipes
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
Might be nightmarish to format.
 
grc
grc
@HamZa I've been wanting to read this for a while
 
flawr
flawr
@zyabin101 Has your dog been involved in this?
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
8:55 AM
@flawr No, only me. My only dog was out of house.
 
HamZa
HamZa
@grc haha. Not sure if I have a motivation problem or time management problem :P
 
flawr
flawr
@zyabin101 Are you a dog?
2
 
grc
grc
I have both
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
@flawr I'm a human.
 
HamZa
HamZa
ok, enough chat.SE for today :-)
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
8:56 AM
@zyabin101 Typing with your human hands.
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
@El'endiaStarman y
 
grc
grc
@HamZa haha bye
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
WHY DON'T YOU COME HANG OUT INSIDE MY HOUSE. WE CAN COOK BREAD AND CHAT ABOUT OUR INTERNAL SKELETONS.
3
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
@HamZa Good night, HamZa!
 
HamZa
HamZa
cyaa
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
9:10 AM
I have a challenge idea!
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
>.> The guy commenting on my question about SOCKS thought I was running it on my own computer. >.> I am uneasy.
@zyabin101 :o Do tell.
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
@CoolestVeto You have to measure how much broken keys will be pressed on the broken keyboard.
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
o-o I don't understand that so far.
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
Based on that, you have to calculate how much it'll take to type it.
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
Still not understanding you.
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
9:14 AM
For reference, the broken keys that aren't purely functional on my keyboard are `123qwaszx and their shifted equivalents. I usually use, unfortunately, the left Shift.
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
Oh, so you mean, like, "take a string input and see how many times these keys are used"?
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
@CoolestVeto And based on that, calculate the time it'll take to type it.
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
Oh. So, it's a regex for all caps and those chars, then multiplication.
Hmm. This comment on my Arqade question is slightly off-putting.
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
Yes. But does it need a twist to make it hard?
 
CoolestVeto
CoolestVeto
He thinks that the port for HTTP is 8080, not 80, he thinks that you can have a server running on a port... he doesn't understand network tunnels, and he thought I was running the SOCKS proxy on my own computer.
@zyabin101 Eh. Once people figure out how to parse it, it'll become trivial, but as long as you have a good enough backstory (use that image), I think you'll be fine.
 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
9:24 AM
@Pharap I feel bad for orphans. That's why I have my processes kill their children before exiting. — QPaysTaxes Feb 29 at 17:53
 
Anonymous
Alright, CTF KotH has been drafted and sandboxed
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
@Mego \o/
3...
2...
1...
Sandbox!
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

MegoCapture the Flag Do you ever wonder why we're here? Objective Capture the enemy team's flag and return it to your base. The first team to 3 captures wins the round. The player with the most wins across all (number TBD) rounds wins the game. Teams There will be two teams each round. Teams wil...

 
El'endia Starman
El'endia Starman
.......wow
That was really good timing.
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
9:38 AM
17 hours ago, by zyabin101
I have a plan to program Tetris in an esoteric language. Does this plan deserve its own chatroom?
Why no one supports my proposal? ;(
 
Anonymous
Because nobody cares?
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
@Mego It's a great plan, I promise!
17 hours ago, by zyabin101
# My Plan

I'm nowhere near finishing this, but I've got an **attack plan**. The key word here is **abstraction**. If a stage becomes esoteric, I'll abstract it to the next stage.

1. Create an esoteric language with an interpreter in a known programming language, for example Python.

2. Create a self-interpreter for that esoteric language.

3. Start improving this self-interpreter to make the language like a known programming language.

4. Start creating libraries for the language, among them a library for console works (like curses).
 
Anonymous
@zyabin101 it can be the greatest plan in the world, but that doesn't mean anybody will care.
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
5. **Program Tetris**.

## Optional tasks

- *Implement the Game of Life*.
 
Anonymous
You do you. Preferably without overloading TNB with chatter that most of us are unconcerned with.
 
Mars Ultor
Mars Ultor
9:49 AM
@zyabin101 I don't understand. Self-interpreter?
 
zyabin101
zyabin101
@MarsUltor A program that interprets the language the program is in. A good example would be PyPy, a Python interpreter in Python.
Also, when PhiNotPi returns?
 
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