The Nineteenth Byte

Downgoat

12:00 AM

Even though python has implicit semicolons I use semicolons all the time out of habit

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Golf a Brain-Flak integer Integers are tedious to represent in Brain-Flak. Your challenge is to write a program or function which, given an integer N, will output a Brain-Flak program that outputs N. After a week 100 random integers between 1 and 1,000,000 will be generated. Each program or fun...

Downgoat

can anyone with vim experience pls tell my why this is borked:

map <C-A-Left> <C-w><left>

It's supposed to map control+alt+left arrow key to control+w followed by left arrow key

Nathan Merrill

12:15 AM

because there's already something mapped to C-A-Left?

or because Left is capitalized?

or A is capitalized?

Downgoat

idk. I can't find any info on remapping arrow keys

A should be capitalized

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

@Downgoat I'm not sure if vim recognizes that. Does it show up if you try to insert it with I <c-v><c-m-left>?

@NewSandboxedPosts Yaaaaaay! Someone thinks my language is interesting!

Downgoat

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan is m same as a?

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

you know what shocking realization i have come to

brainf*** sucks

it sucks the soul out of your body

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

Yeah, <M> == <A> == meta == alt

Ashwin Gupta

12:25 AM

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Q: How can I humanely kill a stranded Kerbal?

So I've got a stranded kerbal in sun orbit with no fuel or resources except for the EVA jetpack. I'm playing Demo, so there is absolutely no hope of me bringing him home in a rescue mission (docking parts not availble). I have honestly no idea how I ended up stuck in sun orbit anyways (a failed m...

kerbal-space-program

please, I feel so guilty

xd

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

how does that look?

Ashwin Gupta

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ nice

any specific reason for green?

<----

ah ok

:3

12:33 AM

I like it. Only thing I'd sugest is maybe try rounding the corners on some of thoes inner rectangles?

it might look less boxy that way. Honestly though the boxy look looks good for this so it doesn't matter.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

yeah, that's what I thought

Ashwin Gupta

yeah go with it then!

looks awesome, now out of curisoity what is it?

it's my comic :3

ah I see, like xkcd?

yup

12:38 AM

cool, let me know when its public, I'll read it!

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

here is the predecessor

I'm moving to github

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

Anyone have any ideas of how to make a good assembler to brainf***

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@RohanJhunjhunwala carefully!

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

thats very descriptive xD

Ashwin Gupta

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ lol this is hilarious

cergos.blogspot.com/2016/02/fitbits.html

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

12:39 AM

@RohanJhunjhunwala have you ever heard of BF basic

@AshwinGupta haha thanks

Ashwin Gupta

I shudder to think about all the exceptions you'd get if that actually happened randomly during program execution.

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ thats the sort of thing I am trying to make. I couldnt find the source though from a reliable sight

@AshwinGupta that gives me a unique idea for a probabilistic language!

Ashwin Gupta

@RohanJhunjhunwala oh god...

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

@AshwinGupta all integer types have a unique feature of making "fit bits"

Ashwin Gupta

=/

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

12:40 AM

10% chance

Ashwin Gupta

the horror...

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

:D

Ashwin Gupta

your hardware would explode

because even though its low probability

it could happen to every single bit

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

the only safe way to encode integers is unary in such a language

Ashwin Gupta

in your memory

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

12:41 AM

i guess its turing complete

Ashwin Gupta

very rare, but possible

@RohanJhunjhunwala :( then its not an integer.

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

@Ashwin well you can still use "non fit" integers for storage

so like 1, 3 ,7, 15, 31 etc...

@Ashwin Gupta right?

say the byte is the integer type.

then the ideal range is 0-255

so an integer like 1001 1001 may get fitter down to (00) 101101

thus you can only store data in bytes like 0000 0001 0000 0011 0000 0111 0000 1111 0001 1111 etc1

!

Dennis

> function dis() { return this }
undefined
> five = dis.call(5)
Number {[[PrimitiveValue]]: 5}
> five.wtf = 'potato'
"potato"
> five.wtf
"potato"
> five * 5
25
> five.wtf
"potato"
> five++
5
> five.wtf
undefined
> five.wtf = 'potato?'
"potato?"
> five.wtf
undefined
> five
6

Even if for nothing else, JavaScript is at least good for a laugh.

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

@Downgoat did you figure it out?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

HAHA FUNNY JAVASCRIPT HATE OMG LAFING SO HARD RN

Dennis

12:51 AM

Not sure what registered nurses have to do with it.

Nathan Merrill

@Dennis they like potatoes?

Dennis

Maybe. My google-fu may have failed me...

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

such javascript much shady

Dennis

OK, this was the first result for do registered nurses like potatoes.

Quill

artistic

discordapp.com/jobs/product-designer

;-; that sounds like an awesome job

Downgoat

1:03 AM

@Dennis wow javscript vrey dumb. brb starring very funee becus javscript is shit hahahahahaha.

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan oh ok\

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan wait, won't I go to insert mode?

btw you forgot todays vim TotD

Dennis

Apr 5 at 6:12, by Downgoat

JavaScript is the worst

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

@Downgoat yes it will, that's the point.

Also, I assume I'm not too late.

Quill

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Q: It’s time to retire the term “rep-whore”

Going forward, “rep-whore” (and its derivatives) will be treated like any other term that’s inconsistent with the community’s “be nice” policy: it will be removed. It’s totally okay if you’ve used it in the past. Nobody’s judging the many users who’ve used it. And users will NOT start being s...

discussion reputation be-nice-policy

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ 0_0

Vim tip of the day: use <C-o> from insert mode to execute a single normal mode command.

Dennis

1:15 AM

What's the consensus on an alternative? "Rep-fanatic"? — Quill 1 min ago

The PC term is clearly rep prostitute.

Downgoat

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan :D I already knew that. Does that make me pro-vimmer?

Dennis

Seriously though, I'm surprised that term survived as long as it did. Remove the rep and you have a suspension.

Quill

it actually blocks you from having that by itself in a post

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

@Downgoat did you know about i_ctrl-a?

Dennis

Exactly.

Downgoat

1:27 AM

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan wat

did you mean i? won't that just go into insert mode, type a _ and do <c-a>?

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

No, that's vim notation for "ctrl+a in insert mode"

Downgoat

oh, if you meant increment number I already knew that too :P

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

But that's only normal mode. :P

Downgoat

oh :|

wait then what does it do

nvm fonud out

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan another vim question: how to close current tab? :tabclose is saying "Cannot close last tab page"

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

Why not just :q?

Downgoat

1:40 AM

that will close the entire window right?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I hear alt+f4 gives you free vim tips

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

No, just the current buffer/tab.

It's :qa that closes them all.

Quill

what are you talking about, alt-f4 is how you make coffee

Dennis

I thought that was 418.

Quill

nono that's tea

Downgoat

1:42 AM

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I'm on mac where it's ⌘Q :)

@Dennis no thats to make a tea pot

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Downgoat close enough

Downgoat

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan nope :/ apparently closes the current split

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

Yeah exactly. Splits are buffers too.

Downgoat

;_; I thought there would be individudal tabs for each split

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

TIL I'd get $110-120k at SO :P

Downgoat

1:50 AM

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ .___.

brb getting job at SO

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

XD

Downgoat

lemme ask if they hire goats

charredgrass

2:10 AM

So apparently, a friend of a real life friend found my PPCG profile

they were kind of freaked out by the weird atob answer I have (suggested by Downgoat)

Downgoat

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan is there golfier way to do: :s/<//

quartata

/<[enter]x is the same as :%s/<// but I don't know about searching only the current line

Downgoat

I know I could search but I was hoping there would be some motion that would let me do like c<whatever><

quartata

What's this for

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

Wait, are you searching or substituting?

If you're substituting, you could just do :s/<

quartata

2:24 AM

He wants to delete one < on the current line I presume

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan Oh yeah

Downgoat

@DrGreenEggsandIronMan oh huh TIL

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

Yeah, those last two slashes are unnecessary.

But f <x is golfier.

Downgoat

.______. I made random function which gets random item from array but its returning 1s and 2s

how am i supposed to test random function

quartata

Do it x iterations and plot the distribution

El'endia Starman

@quartata: Did you get to play around with the transcript analyzing script?

quartata

2:28 AM

No, not yet. Was busy with something else

Helka Homba

@Downgoat seed it

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Downgoat and I gave you a seeded random thing ;)

Dr Green Eggs and Iron Man

@Downgoat codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/74759/31716

Huh. Why didn't that one box?

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A: Tips for golfing in vim

:%s/\n//g is always equivalent to :%s/\n// which happens to also be equivalent to :%s/\n surprisingly enough. (In general, without any flags, the last slash in a :s expression is never necessary.)

quartata

Only one boxes in replies not pings.

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3:16 AM

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Pokerface Introduction Leo enjoys playing poker, but his job at Tech Inc. is too demanding for him to learn how to play well. Leo, being a computer scientist, is not discouraged. He decides to take more time that it would have taken to just learn poker, and use it to write a poker bot to help h...

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Nathan Merrill

has somebody made a "most popular language by tag" query for PPCG?

GamrCorps

3:51 AM

not that I know of

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