The Nineteenth Byte

ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΨΠʹ

2:01 PM

A wild @MartinEnder has appeared!

It's accompanied by a wild @NinjaBearMonkey!

Jonathan Allan

:)

and all in just 4 minutes

El'endia Starman

Okay, that's probably enough bold text... :P

ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΨΠʹ

@JonathanAllan Now watch as 2,000,001 people star my message ;)

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

@LeakyNun 280 bytes shorter wow!

Jonathan Allan

@ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΨΠʹ bound to happen

Leaky Nun

2:06 PM

Are people this desperate about stars?

Sherlock9

I think we're just trying to think of interesting ways to make it look like many people have starred a message

x 10^80 people have starred this message

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ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΨΠʹ

@Sherlock9 hey, mine is honest at least

Leaky Nun

@Sherlock9 what are you going to do when 10 people star your message

Sherlock9

That's true :D

@LeakyNun D'oh!

El'endia Starman

Do we need another 80+ starred message? "okay seriously stop abusing the star board"

Speaking of which, it's up to 93 stars now.

Sherlock9

2:09 PM

I just picked 10^80 because that's the estimate for the number of cubic meters in the observable universe

quartata

@El'endiaStarman Nice

El'endia Starman

By the way, @quartata, remember how I said that I made an optimization to the transcript parsing -> database process? It cut the time for each day in 2016 from several minutes to like 30 seconds.

Releasing Helium Nuclei

4 hours ago, by Mego

@LeakyNun CMC: three hours without a CMC or a request for one

^ done

i think the first cmc after that was 3 hours later

El'endia Starman

On a different, general note: I'm thinking on how best to make other chat rooms available for analysis. In particular, I want to parse C.SE's main chat room and see how its characteristics differ from this one. I think one of the biggest differences will be average words/characters per message. :P

Leaky Nun

@RohanJhunjhunwala Where did the idea of making this assembly-like language come from?

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

2:21 PM

@LeakyNun essentially I was interested in making a language, I figured that interpreting some simple code would be fairly straightforward. I used TI-Basic as inspiration for an incredibly simple syntax

Leaky Nun

I see

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

@LeakyNun how did the refactor go?

Leaky Nun

@RohanJhunjhunwala 30%

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

@LeakyNun ok, thanks btw I really do appreciate the help

quartata

Missing a comma

I love how the second I went to fix the indentation I noticed it....

Leaky Nun

2:26 PM

@RohanJhunjhunwala Maybe it will take more time, but I will finish it before I take a long break from this site

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

ok

Leaky Nun

@RohanJhunjhunwala As my farewell gift ^^

quartata

?

Leaky Nun

I'm going to take a long break from this site

Releasing Helium Nuclei

why ;_;

quartata

2:36 PM

@LeakyNun Oh, OK.

> Breath weapon 18 used Program in disorder - perhaps you'd better #quit.

I have no idea what this means but I think I did something wrong

DJMcMayhem

@LeakyNun Aww... that's too bad. Why? (If you don't mind me asking)

Leaky Nun

@DJMcMayhem for an important examination

DJMcMayhem

Huh?

quartata

Ah, looks like I shouldn't have used AT_BREA

the breath weapons are hard coded

@DJMcMayhem Exam

Leaky Nun

@DJMcMayhem I need to prepare for it

DJMcMayhem

2:40 PM

Ooh. Yeah, that's definitely wise.

This site can be a time sucker

Sherlock9

@LeakyNun Oh dear. Good luck on your exam

Releasing Helium Nuclei

@DJMcMayhem s/can/is/

Leaky Nun

@Sherlock9 Thank you

I will be back

DJMcMayhem

@quartata nethack?

Sherlock9

When is the exam so we have reasonable timeframe of your return?

Jonathan Allan

2:42 PM

Best of luck @LeakyNun

Sherlock9

@ReleasingHeliumNuclei "is be"?

Leaky Nun

@JonathanAllan Thank you

Releasing Helium Nuclei

@Sherlock9 yep. totally legit engrish.

DJMcMayhem

@ReleasingHeliumNuclei fcc2wis

Leaky Nun

@Sherlock9 hkeaa.edu.hk/DocLibrary/Circulars/HKDSE/…

DJMcMayhem

2:44 PM

Oh wow. You mean a looong break.

Leaky Nun

@DJMcMayhem Yes

DJMcMayhem

I thought you meant like 3-4 weeks

Leaky Nun

It's really important

Sherlock9

Next year o_o

DJMcMayhem

@leakynun Well, we'll miss you, and best of luck on your exam!

Leaky Nun

2:46 PM

@DJMcMayhem Thank you very much

@Sherlock9 As you can see there are so many subjects

Sherlock9

We'll go down by a full 3 questions a day while you're gone :D

DJMcMayhem

Maybe I'll have more rep than you when you get back. :P

Leaky Nun

@Sherlock9 Sorry I don't understand this sentence

@DJMcMayhem Sure you will

DJMcMayhem

@LeakyNun he means while you're gone we'll have less questions per day posted.

Leaky Nun

@DJMcMayhem I see

Releasing Helium Nuclei

2:50 PM

no more too much answers, its my time to shine! :P

Sherlock9

@LeakyNun With you here we get ~10 questions/day

Leaky Nun

@Sherlock9 Well I don't really post that many questions

Sherlock9

While you're gone, I predict a significant drop in questions/day

Adnan

Today, we have had 1

DJMcMayhem

Maybe I just need to step up my game and start posting more often.

Leaky Nun

2:50 PM

unless you mean the CMCs

DJMcMayhem

Although every time I say that, my question quality drops significantly

Sherlock9

I tried to find a stats page to back my guess up, but I'm not sure where to look

DJMcMayhem

@Sherlock9 do you have access to site analytics?

Sherlock9

At 4k? Maybe

Ah no. I need 5k to access site analytics

DJMcMayhem

Hmm, I can't remember but I think it's five

Leaky Nun

2:52 PM

@Sherlock9 When I'm back how many rep will you have?

DJMcMayhem

Ninja'd

Sherlock9

Depends heavily on how my fifth and sixth semesters go

It could all be a mess and I could take another unintended sabbatical like I did early this year

Leaky Nun

Maybe when I'm back, Literally or Obviously or Apparently will have been released...

DJMcMayhem

@Sherlock9 What do you want me to check? I can see we've been averaging 7-10 a day through august

Sherlock9

Can you stay long enough to answer my pancake sorting post?

Leaky Nun

2:54 PM

Maybe

Sherlock9

@DJMcMayhem Yeah, that's about it at the moment. Maybe check the difference next year or something

I'm not sure how the comparison would go

Downgoat

Game delayed by a sheep running onto the field

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Sheep < Goats

Leaky Nun

@Downgoat Maybe when I'm back you will have released Cheddar 2...

New Main Posts

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Q: Brainf**ck Loop Problem

I have a problem for a cyber club that asks you to print: ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA@?>=<;:9876543210/.-,+*)('&%$#"! Using Brainf**k in 29 bytes or less without using the ',' character. I have a working code: ++++++++++[>++++++>+++++++++<<-]>-->.<[>-.<-] However my loop is too long, sendi...

Sherlock9

Any more comments? May post this soon. meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/9934/47581

Downgoat

2:57 PM

@LeakyNun Where r u going?

Leaky Nun

@Downgoat I'm taking a long break from this site

Sherlock9

He's got a big, important set of examinations starting late March of next year and ending in early May

DJMcMayhem

@Downgoat IMO they're both pretty dumb and smelly

Sherlock9

Man, I'm going to miss your golfing help

Not many people know Pyth, Actually, Sesos, S.I.L.O.S and so on like you do

Leaky Nun

Thank you

Downgoat

3:02 PM

@LeakyNun D: ok

DJMcMayhem

Wow. Other than search engines, our second biggest referrer is Facebook.

I would not have expected that

Leaky Nun

@DJMcMayhem what's the first?

Downgoat

@DJMcMayhem so are greeb eggs, especially with ham >:(

Airship crash, Airlander 10 crashing into the ground cardington shed airship

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Sherlock9

Green eggs are okay. Greeb eggs, not so much

DJMcMayhem

@LeakyNun SO

Downgoat

3:03 PM

airship-crash

El'endia Starman

@LeakyNun: Good luck on your exams, and I look forward to your return. :)

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Leaky Nun

@El'endiaStarman Thank you very much

El'endia Starman

@LeakyNun On a related note, I'm impressed at the quality of English here. They must have not used an automatic translator... :P

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El'endia Starman

@ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΨΠʹ Is this like a super-duper caret? :P

Leaky Nun

3:05 PM

@El'endiaStarman English is one of our official languages

Sherlock9

We should compile a list of interesting challenges LN would like that he missed while away.

Leaky Nun

@Sherlock9 Thank you very much

Sherlock9

Just add stuff to the list until he comes back and dump the whole thing on him.

You're very, very welcome

Leaky Nun

@Sherlock9 I'll finish all of them

Sherlock9

I hope so :D

DJMcMayhem

3:07 PM

@LeakyNun prolly in like 10 minutes

Leaky Nun

@DJMcMayhem haha thanks

Sherlock9

Well, I'm not sure that's always a good idea. We find things interesting that we throw in there and you may not like. Or where your answer idea was posted

That's happened to me a lot

El'endia Starman

Maybe we could make a new tag: leaky-nun-would-like-this-one

Leaky Nun

@Sherlock9 It's a good idea

@El'endiaStarman Thank you very much

Nathan Merrill

@El'endiaStarman are you sick of my questions? (It's totally fine you are)

Leaky Nun

3:10 PM

A list you guys could make is who changed to what name

so that when I'm back I'll recognize you guys

Sherlock9

Oh yeah, that's important

We should already be keeping track of name changes anyway

Releasing Helium Nuclei

ill be betseg again

El'endia Starman

@Sherlock9 That'll be easy enough with the TNBDE!

Leaky Nun

@El'endiaStarman What is TNBDE?

El'endia Starman

@LeakyNun The Nineteenth Byte Data Explorer.

Nathan Merrill

3:12 PM

make SQL queries on chat

Sherlock9

The Nineteenth Byte Data Explorer? ninja'd

I wanted to finish typing it anyway :P

Leaky Nun

How many characters can you type in one message?

El'endia Starman

Something like 400, I think.

@LeakyNun Exactly 500.

Leaky Nun

@El'endiaStarman I see thanks

Nathan Merrill

@El'endiaStarman do you have a timeout on SQL queries?

New Main Posts

3:21 PM

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Q: PKCS#7 padding validation

In cryptography, PKCS#7 padding is a padding scheme which adds a number of bytes N ≥ 1, where the value of each added byte is equal to N. For example, Hello World!, which has 13 bytes, is the following in hex: 48 65 6C 6C 6F 2C 20 57 6F 72 6C 64 21 If we choose to PKCS#7 pad to length 16, the...

code-golf string cryptography

TheBitByte

Why can't I comment on something without having to join the community?

This sucks.

Adnan

@TheBitByte To prevent spam

Nathan Merrill

@TheBitByte I responded :)

TheBitByte

@Adnan Okay, I'm not posting questions or answers, those I'll accept joining the community, but simple comments also? Why?

Nathan Merrill

Spam still exists on comments?

ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΨΠʹ

3:25 PM

Any font suggestions?

TheBitByte

@ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΨΠʹ Consolas

ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΨΠʹ

Fatalize

@LeakyNun See you tomorrow

Leaky Nun

@Fatalize see you

TheBitByte

@ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΨΠʹ Try Inconsolata.

Or Fira Mono.

Sp3000

3:33 PM

(please less rockets and more image links instead though)

Nathan Merrill

I'm going to have to get used to see your name in italics @Sp3000

Leaky Nun

@Sp3000 why is your name in italics?

ninja'd

Nathan Merrill

room owner :)

Sp3000

Oh, does that happen? Didn't realise that's what italics meant

Nathan Merrill

yeah, for a second I thought that part of your message was in italics, and I kept trying to find it

TheBitByte

3:35 PM

CMC: Output ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΨΠʹ's rocket in as few bytes as possible.

Sp3000

That's just this challenge, right?

Nathan Merrill

@TheBitByte I'm not entirely sure if my challenge is compression, actually. Its more or less, removing extraneous information

Leaky Nun

Why is this answer getting no love?

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A: PKCS#7 padding validation

Brachylog, 14 bytes ~c[A:B]t#=h~lB Try it online! ~c[A:B]t#=h~lB ~c[A:B] input is concatenation of A and B t B #= has all equal elements h~lB the first item of B is the length of B