The Nineteenth Byte

@Zacharý Participate in a site (vote, post a question, post an answer, etc...) while it's 2017-12-20 (the last day of Hanukkah 2017) anywhere in the world. The hat was first triggered on 2017-12-19 10:00AM UTC.

Magic Octopus Urn

@Zacharý That was NOT in response to your post.

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

XD

@MagicOctopusUrn if you were not reading and typing that in the spongebob narrator voice I will be very disappointed in you

Magic Octopus Urn

11:08 PM

@Christopher2EZ4RTZ I doubt my brain can talk like him, but I basically read all transition cards in SB narrator voice, yes.

Two.... weeks... lateur....

i.imgur.com/8hrycyI.png <-- My GLORIOUS new avatar.

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

oh my

Magic Octopus Urn

See how it looks like a balloon filled with ocean water xD?

(Without zooming anyways)

That's why I was lolzing, the small version is funny,.

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

@DJMcMayhem can you help me with brainflak?

cc @WheatWizard

Wheat Wizard

yeyo

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

that was fast

Wheat Wizard

11:20 PM

You mentioned the work brainflak and I appeared

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

i also pinged you :P

Wheat Wizard

nothing to do with you pinging me

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

first is the multiplication snippit and the modulo snippit stack clean?

Wheat Wizard

On the wiki, yes

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

sweet

Wheat Wizard

11:21 PM

everything on the wiki is stack clean. (unless stated otherwise)

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

nice!

now the hard stuff

New Main Posts

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Q: [CHRISTMAS THEME DISCLAIMER HERE]

Note to mods, if the title doesn't do justice, change it to whatever, I thought it was funny. You're tasked with hanging up the lights for this Christmas season, and your family has decided that for it to be a merry Christmas, you need to hang at least 2 Christmas lights on your house. So, you...

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

I am trying to do this formula
Xn+1=(aXn+c) mod m

Zacharý

Autopinger?

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

tio.run/…

there is my codez

Wheat Wizard

11:23 PM

@Christopher2EZ4RTZ I'm don't really understand what this means

Riker

@WheatWizard x_n = (a*x_n +c) & m

I think

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

@WheatWizard can I trust you not to take my idea and not write a better version in less time then I can? (cough DJ)

Linear congruential generator

A linear congruential generator (LCG) is an algorithm that yields a sequence of pseudo-randomized numbers calculated with a discontinuous piecewise linear equation. The method represents one of the oldest and best-known pseudorandom number generator algorithms. The theory behind them is relatively easy to understand, and they are easily implemented and fast, especially on computer hardware which can provide modulo arithmetic by storage-bit truncation. The generator is defined by the recurrence relation: X n + 1 ...

Wheat Wizard

Oh ok

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

that formula

Adám

CMC (not!): Write a bot that given a user id will ping them timed to match the beat of Jingle Bells.

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

11:24 PM

@Adám don't give me ideas

@WheatWizard any idea what is going on with my brain-flak?

Zacharý

I've made a bot that rickrolls files on Cloud9 ... I can give you ideas aplenty

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

i am going to try blum

Wheat Wizard

Never mind, I opened the wrong tab

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

XD

Wheat Wizard

Then deleted the wrong message

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

11:27 PM

Hahahah

Magic Octopus Urn

Wait, so send messages in tune to jingle bells?
*Note *Note *Note (pause) *Note *Note *Note (pause)?

Inb4 nineteenth byte is a spam-generator for jinglebells.

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

@WheatWizard you make me laugh

Wheat Wizard

I just woke up from a nap, I'm a little off it.

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

well now I have to find new values for my PRNG

Wheat Wizard

make sure to test them in the integer golfer. Pick ones that have a short KC

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

11:30 PM

KC?

Adám

@MagicOctopusUrn Yup. But just to be clear: I do not in any way intend to promote spam or using bots in PPCG. Both of these activities are banned and punishable.

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

I need values up to 4294967295

Magic Octopus Urn

@Adám Adam, I doubt you'd be banned regardless of whether or not you were the cause of mass spam and hysteria... You're like a PPCG legend lol.

Adám

@MagicOctopusUrn What‽ How so? Do you confuse me with Dennis?

ATaco

I could do Jinglebells in the I am Typing indicator.

Magic Octopus Urn

11:35 PM

@Adám Idk lol, you are to me anyway.

@Adám I vaguely remember you as the first person to call me out hard on a programming error.

Adám

@MagicOctopusUrn Wow, I'm truly honoured.

Zacharý

( @Adam != @Adám )

Magic Octopus Urn

@Adám Ya just always seem to be one of those dudes on PPCG that has an air of "complete awesomeness".

Zacharý

If I remember correctly, @Adam is another user

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

@Zacharý no it pings Adám

@WheatWizard modulo just removed the 2nd stack item

Wheat Wizard

11:37 PM

@Christopher2EZ4RTZ Yeah it removes 2 items and does a mod b

Magic Octopus Urn

@Zacharý I just remember the first site I ever visited after looking up a user was Adam's APL website and reading the whole "about the team" page and laughing my butt off.

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

@WheatWizard tio.run/##lZDPCoMwDMbveYocG8ZgupOgvoF3QRwo1imb/…

wait

9 mod 209 is 9

facepalm

Adám

@Zacharý There are a whole host of Adams, but only 6 have more than 101 rep (i.e start + association), and the highest is less than 600.

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

@WheatWizard is there any way I can keep the b?

Wheat Wizard

yeah

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

11:39 PM

would you tell me?

Magic Octopus Urn

@Adám Who's the "youngest" APL team member? I remember reading his bio and laughing hard.

Wheat Wizard

I'm looking for the shortest way to do it

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

I mean Adam drank screwdrivers when he was supposed to help at a APL event

Adám

@MagicOctopusUrn Currently, that'd be Marshall.

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

does that count?

Zacharý

11:40 PM

I know that it pings Adám, I was just stating that (also, I got confused and thought it the @ was before Adam instead of Adám)

Magic Octopus Urn

@Adám Yep! His bio was funny :).

Wheat Wizard

looks like you will be best off just adding (({})) after ({}(<>))<>

Adám

Marshall brings great confusion to Dyalog, since he used to work with J (programming language) and Jd (J database) and now works with Jay (Foad) and JD (John Daintree). He hopes the team will forgive him if he just makes Dyalog APL fast enough.

Magic Octopus Urn

@Adám Yeah lmao, that got me to laugh fairly hard.

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

hahah

@WheatWizard sweet

Wheat Wizard

11:41 PM

@Christopher2EZ4RTZ Better yet replace the last bit with ([{}()]({}))

DJMcMayhem

@Christopher2EZ4RTZ Hey now, I wrote that after you finished :P

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

@DJMcMayhem i mean you did but still :P

and you golfed like 40 bytes off

Adám

… And if it wasn't enough, our tech guy is called Jason, and our chief language implementer is called JS (John Scholes) to disambiguate him from JD.

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

im confused

Zacharý

Only thing possibly more confusing than that is if a guy named Adam (no accent) at Dyalog.

And then there was (not now) Nick and Nick

Magic Octopus Urn

11:43 PM

@Adám I work with 3 John B's.

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

i just broke a little

Zacharý

I think the one that still works for Dyalog is Nic

Adám

@Zacharý No, Nic and Nick. We used to call Nic "No-Kay-Nick".

Magic Octopus Urn

@Adám I just thought it was hilarious, even more so because when you scroll through all the 30 year old faces and hit a 20 year old fellow you're just like.... wait what?

Zacharý

Of course, I have the same name as the 12th President of the United States of America.

Adám

11:45 PM

@MagicOctopusUrn Uh, not too many 30yos (3 or 4?). More like 60yos…

Magic Octopus Urn

@Zacharý Fun fact: 1% of americans know this fact.

@Adám accept flattery when it comes to you ;)

Adám

@MagicOctopusUrn ? I am in my 30ies.

Zacharý

(And Jason, Marshall and Michael)

Magic Octopus Urn

@Adám Annnd I've made attempted flattery an insult, dangit.

Qwerp-Derp

I need somewhat desperate help with Swift

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

11:47 PM

my productivity dies when you talk @MagicOctopusUrn

Magic Octopus Urn

@Qwerp-Derp Would... Would you say you need swift help? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Zacharý

... stop stealing my puns ...

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

why are you going to run ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Qwerp-Derp

@MagicOctopusUrn I need objective(-c) help

Adám

@Zacharý No, Jason and Jay and maybe Fiona. Marshall is in his 20ies, and Michael has grown up children.

Magic Octopus Urn

11:48 PM

@Christopher2EZ4RTZ I've spread my ADHD as Ronald Reagan planned for me.

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

downgoat quick make me productive

Zacharý

@Qwerp-Derp ... just code C, Objective C is supposed to be a superset of C, you C.

Qwerp-Derp

Back to the topic: here is my Swift code, and self.temperature never updates beyond 0.

Adám

@MagicOctopusUrn No offence taken. It is hard to judge bearded folks. The Danish State Railways once had a discounted ticket for those under 25 or over 65 and my father (who also sported a beard) asked to buy one but was countered with "but you are surely over 25, are you not?"

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

@Adám but how old was he?

Adám

11:50 PM

@Christopher2EZ4RTZ Over 65. Or maybe the limit was 60, and he was over 60. I can't recall.

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

ok makes sense

@WheatWizard i am sad to ask this. I need to run some code n amount of times where n>0 and is stored on the 2nd stack. How can I do this?

I just blanked for about 10 minutes on this

Magic Octopus Urn

@Adám It's so hard to judge people's age online. I once had a dude on one of my websites as a moderator for like ~1 year before realizing he was 14. So mature for his age, as are many people on this website.

Zacharý

Or would you say you're sad-flak (that's a thing right?)

Wheat Wizard

@Christopher2EZ4RTZ uh ... <>{({}[()])<>...<>}{}<>

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

@MagicOctopusUrn how mature do you think i am?

Magic Octopus Urn

11:52 PM

Ii mean, I kept him as a mod even after that because actions > age.

@Christopher2EZ4RTZ We've had this conversation before, I told you I thought you were an adult based on your actions, but you're 15.

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

i am not 15 :P

but thanks

Magic Octopus Urn

@Christopher2EZ4RTZ I guessed a number less than 18 b/c I forgot the real age xD.

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

I personally try to be mature online

unless you play dota with me then I am salty af

Adám

@MagicOctopusUrn Yeah. I don't believe in judgement by age. People should do and be allowed to do based on their maturity, not age.

Magic Octopus Urn

@Christopher2EZ4RTZ The only way I could probably tell your age, slightly, is the way you post quickly.

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

11:54 PM

@WheatWizard wait but how does that loop

@MagicOctopusUrn ahh clever

Zacharý

Except for certain outbursts (puns mainly) I try to act mature... don't know if I accomplish this though.

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

The message limit annoys me when I am having like 5 conversations at once

Magic Octopus Urn

@Christopher2EZ4RTZ Most people in my generation think out their messages because they're afraid of judgement. Usually when a person just posts exactly what they think immediately, they are younger.

Adám

(grrr, just got fiber (–50), but the wifi won't reach this room, so I have to resort to city-wide wifi (–3) which keeps cutting out)

Magic Octopus Urn

Not saying you do that, j/s you type faaasst.

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

11:55 PM

@MagicOctopusUrn I try to post what I think not to be rude to people but because honesty ends up working for me

@Adám you have city wide wifi?

Adám

@Christopher2EZ4RTZ London.

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ

@MagicOctopusUrn I only can type like 80 wpm :()