The Nineteenth Byte

hyper-neutrino

3:00 PM

canadian weather btw

literally 31 degrees on tuesday, and today it's down to near freezing; wouldn't be surprised if it snows soon

user

Can you try this link and see if you get rickrolled?

hyper-neutrino

nothing happened

user

Oh, that's too bad. I'll have to investigate this further

Thank you for your contributions to rickrollology

caird coinheringaahing

@user I like #13. For example: one of these three links is a rickroll. Click at your doom

hyper-neutrino

your third link is wrong

unless you meant to mess up the video id

caird coinheringaahing

3:10 PM

@hyper-neutrino Is it? :P

hyper-neutrino

the second last character (the c) should not be capitalized :p

user

Really? The third link looks recognizable

Oh

hyper-neutrino

well my userscript doesn't warn me, i clicked it and it is saying "video unavailable", and i rickrolled myself to compare the video IDs

user

Wow, caird made you rickroll yourself. Now that's genius :P

Anush

I have a list of strings of the same length. I would like a list of counters which map letters to their count. That is one counter (dict) per index in the words. Is there a compact python way to do that?

rak1507

3:16 PM

[collections.Counter(i) for i in list]

Anush

so if there are 12 a's in the first position and 3 b's then the first item in the list should be {'a': 12, 'b': 3}

rak1507

oh

I'm not sure what you mean, can you give an example?

caird coinheringaahing

Zip and count by column

Anush

if the list is ['aa', 'ab', 'ac'] the output should be [{'a':3}, {'a':1, 'b':1, 'c':1}]

rak1507

map(Counter, zip(*l))

caird coinheringaahing

3:19 PM

[{char: word.count(char) for char in word} for word in zip(*words)] if you don't want collections

Anush

thanks! I am happy to use collections too

rak1507

using .count is o(n^2)

Anush

ah.. linear time would be cool

rak1507

yeah, Counter is linear

Anush

what is the Counter solution?

hyper-neutrino

3:20 PM

[collections.Counter(j)for j in zip(*w)] would use counter

rak1507

:58155868

hyper-neutrino

just rak's, but zip

rak1507

idk how to mention myself

Anush

nice! Thanks all

hyper-neutrino

or i guess [*map(collections.Counter,zip(*w))]

caird coinheringaahing

3:20 PM

@rak1507 You have to add text

rak1507

ah

Anush

[*map(collections.Counter,zip(*w))] <-- even cooler

rak1507

why not keep the map

unless you want to iterate over it multiple times

caird coinheringaahing

Or if you want to print it :P

Razetime

nice

hyper-neutrino

3:23 PM

if you don't want collections but want linear and want inline, [*map((lambda f:lambda a:f(f,a))(lambda f,a,c={}:a and f(f,a[1:],{**c,a[0]:c.get(a[0],0)+1})or c),zip(*w))]

rak1507

lmao

hyper-neutrino

Try it online!

user

@hyper-neutrino Btw on the "Print this question" challenge, you might want to add a notice discouraging people from editing the question

hyper-neutrino

@user how do I do that without editing the question tho xD

Anush

@hyper-neutrino :)

hyper-neutrino

3:29 PM

i guess i could indefinitely lock it

user

Oh lol

I thought mods could add a notice in blue outside of the markdown of the question itself

hyper-neutrino

that's a content dispute lock :p

(or whatever other lock type)

CMM: should I content lock this post? I think it just prevents editing, and given that editing any part of the question changes the challenge it shouldn't be touched (*cough* Community), so I think it would make sense.

even though there isn't really that much of a dispute. it's just Community running its network-wide edits like https and commonmark (whatever that is) migration or w/e

pxeger

commonmark migration was when SE switched markdown parsers and #header became invalid so there needed to always be a space after the #

hyper-neutrino

ah. lol

well the question looks bad unfortunately but changing it to fix formatting breaks the question so rip

user

3:46 PM

@hyper-neutrino That makes sense, but can other people still answer it or comment on it?

hyper-neutrino

I believe so

user

lol Edge thinks that page is Vietnamese

hyper-neutrino

chrome does too xD

user

You should use Edge instead of Chrome

hyper-neutrino

why

user

3:49 PM

Microsoft recommends it, and they safe it's safer and faster

Nevermind, after your second vaccine, you'll come around too

hyper-neutrino

microsoft also force installed a windows update after i specifically disabled auto-update which caused my computer to bluescreen like three times a day for well over two weeks

caird coinheringaahing

@hyper-neutrino I think a content lock works for this

Uh oh, the bots just left

pxeger

REDWOOOOOLLF!

hyper-neutrino

rip

@RedwolfPrograms

pxeger

why the fuck does escape clear the contents of the chat textarea and break undo?

time to make another userscript

Razetime

4:06 PM

@pxeger SE chat is pure genius as you can see

StackMeter

Think I just thought of a looping construct for ///

You put the number of loops in one side, the number to be affected in the other

Then you run the rule you want, for example /a+b/+bbbb/

and boom

loops

Adám

CMC: Rickroll.

PHP, 6320 bytes. Try it online:
https://tio.run/##hVhrb@KwEv3Or1jk/bQ81GoLrUBslUgORm4jRZWoqRaoolRpJby6bheiIMpf33tmnFDo7tV1W0og8RzP48yx//P8nz9/bOxHGIZBkGAEYVhd80gSSSMJkkBqQcNp@kBZfiucKQqnpLRK4VdZK4oiLTCMtlZj4NXiG56ketCkqckdj7Khww9bdEuS1JeEI8SVtDCsyYaW1uW5k3SvNlGWRWla5Jq@hi1nnMUCpC0iHpoulEzi2K/BW8dkLs2y1JB5IcYA8LFWekKyD8j8LUaFIgmDhFYnlXO5MdUKBRBodlcsyRvWRFEBv6RZlBUuiwryhRMWy1JBUNknBITdsH2dHQB4/xNWCgPmJPux9PPHt3SJpVgBFwhJ3jBFlEUiqCKo4GygyDEwOwaw5M4qaRMGiBnioPaCK7Isp2hqHR0AJEeDjd9i5TIg2x4Mf8IAHEVJ6iK1MvaR4pyxAnPBiGEAIqnDGHtP0uMBL1EDQOTYPjwg/PJ9/mEQlpAfiisklX3MBD/CgQpZqLCO3Ajz9e33ZnI93/SMjK2QATL…

hyper-neutrino

4:22 PM

wh-

ngn

@Adám it didn't work - i didn't click

hyper-neutrino

also how do /// patterns work? does it support regex?

pxeger

@ngn you have to click "see full text"

user

@Adám Does PHP just output anything fed to it if it's not preceded by <?php or whatever?

ngn

@pxeger i mean, a rickroll is a rickroll if you get tricked into watching the video. i just ignored it :)

user

4:26 PM

Even if you had clicked it, you would hardly have been tricked into seeing it, considering the fact that Adám literally said "Rickroll" :P

ngn

true

pxeger

@Adám My first CMC using my TIO clone ATO: ato.pxeger.com/api/v0/…

user

Having your own domain is nice :D

pxeger

yes

I also have my own URL shortener, but it doesn't seem to be working so I had to quickly hack in 5 lines of Python

Redwolf Programs

Am here

user

4:28 PM

I need a userscript to warn me of redirects

pxeger

@RedwolfPrograms hello your bots are broken

Redwolf Programs

It's NP/SP isn't it :|

pxeger

yup

Redwolf Programs

is that why I got superpinged?

ngn

@user about:config has network.http.redirection-limit (if you use firefox)

Wezl

4:29 PM

@hyper-neutrino no it's /pattern (literal)/replacement/rest of the program. \ and / are escaped with \

user

@ngn Ooh, that's really nice!

Redwolf Programs

I should just post my SSH keys here lol

pxeger

maybe not

Adám

@user Apparently.

Redwolf Programs

I don't even see how they're down

user

4:31 PM

How'd you find it, anyway? I assume you didn't make it yourself? :)

Redwolf Programs

The logs don't show it closing

I think the bots are still up, just not in the users list

pxeger

@pxeger fixed it! z.pxeger.com/4~F8C_T7

Redwolf Programs

Has anyone confirmed the bots aren't posting things?

pxeger

anyone wanna test with a sandbox post?

Sandbox Posts

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

for (a.length of a) code-golf array-manipulation javascript A recent conversation in The Nineteenth Byte about language design brought about discussion of an "interesting" snippet of JavaScript code: for (a.length of a) console.log(a) This loops over the elements of a, but assigns each element t...

pxeger

4:34 PM

yay

hyper-neutrino

@Wezl no but like /./a/hello gives hello so i am assuming regex is not supported?

pxeger

it came back into the users list as well

Redwolf Programs

Looks like there's just some sort of heartbeat I need to respond to

Sandbox Posts

0

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Is someone eavesdropping? (WIP) Alice and Bob, quantum physicists are being watched by Eve, a quantum FBI agent. Eve has quantum tunnelled underneath Bob's house and is tapping all his quantum channels. Luckily, Alice and Bob are using the BB84 protocol to exchange quantum keys to encode their qu...

user

Maybe if they occasionally star and unstar a message on the starboard, they could stay in the users list (and not be too disruptive doing it)

pxeger

4:36 PM

well I don't see dzaima doing that, and they're always in the users list without sending any messages

so there must be some kind of heartbeat

Redwolf Programs

^

hyper-neutrino

I keep the tab open like 24/7 and even overnight I never seem to disappear

pxeger

anyone have an idea why there's such a sudden jump at midday UTC?

user

idk, maybe that's when us Americans wake up :)

pxeger

well how many regulars are in American timezones?

me, caird, Adám, Neil, Wheat Wizard aren't

user

4:40 PM

Hmm

Wezl

@hyper-neutrino yes it's literal text other than the escaping, and rules can loop, e.g. /A/AA/A

caird coinheringaahing

@pxeger There is a heartbeat message ping sent every 15 minutes or so IIRC

Wezl

@Wezl or just /// for "replace nothing with nothing until no nothings are found"

pxeger

@Wezl /// to me seems a bit like dividing 0 by 0. It doesn't really make sense.

user

/// (the language) doesn't make sense

Wezl

4:47 PM

@pxeger @user it's an esolang!

pxeger

well yeah obviously

Wezl

actually slightly better than sed for some challenges :P

hyper-neutrino

@pxeger midday UTC is approx. when I wake up :D

@Wezl ah; okay thanks

Redwolf Programs

So uh...SO jobs wants me to enter work experience and/or education and I have neither of those lol

pxeger

the ol catch 22

Wezl

4:54 PM

does it ask for those if you register as an employer :?

caird coinheringaahing

@pxeger I generally get to my computer around 11am (UTC midday) after doing morning chores

pxeger

fair nuff

caird coinheringaahing

And not to brag, but I am frequently in the room :P

pxeger

why aren't I?

hyper-neutrino

wait how is that even defined

no offense to any parties, but how are DJ and flawr there but not like half the other people in this room xD

pxeger

4:56 PM

it must be very long-term

caird coinheringaahing

From here:

> Take all users who

1) have spoken in the room within the last two weeks, and
2) whose messages in the room are more than one percent of all messages here,

and sort them (in descending order) by their percentage of activity in this room (as in 2.) divided by the how long ago they last spoke. Take the top ten resulting users.

hyper-neutrino

oh. well then, not to brag, but I am the most frequently in the room :D

pxeger

"one percent of all messages"

caird coinheringaahing

Which is very clearly wrong, but its the only MM post I can find about it :P

pxeger

that's not very well designed

hyper-neutrino

4:57 PM

tbh that's less of bragging and more of publicly announcing my lack of a life but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

caird coinheringaahing

@ShadowWizard Nope, hasn't changed. That's still how it works. — balpha Apr 22 '15 at 7:59

@hyper-neutrino The diamond does that in fewer bytes :P

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hyper-neutrino

@cairdcoinheringaahing :'(

user

It looks like the limit for the length of a bookmark is 400 messages

hyper-neutrino

yep, I tried bookmarking the entire BMG#1 and it didn't work

user

There were more than 400 messages?!

hyper-neutrino

4:59 PM

people here talk a lot :p

pxeger

This is hilarious:

Emoji rockets turned into real rockets. Which works best?

►

StackMeter

5:18 PM

@user nope this is my idea

since esolangs.org hadn't got one

DJMcMayhem

5:37 PM

@cairdcoinheringaahing Even golfing the "I have no life" indication :P

Everything can be golfed

@cairdcoinheringaahing You know what's funny about that formula? I can basically hack it. It's been what... a year? Since I've been really active here. Send one message, and then boom back on top of the "frequently in room" lol

hyper-neutrino

o.O

noooo my title has been stolen :p

DJMcMayhem

Question: What's the point of registering for the BMG?

caird coinheringaahing

@DJMcMayhem Unfortunately, I think the diamond is 3 bytes, as Stack Exchange doesn't use a custom code page

DJMcMayhem

smh silly non-golfers

caird coinheringaahing

@DJMcMayhem You get pings 1 hour and 10 minutes beforehand

DJMcMayhem

5:47 PM

Also man, it has been ages since I've heard that ping thunk sound.

caird coinheringaahing

A nostalgic noise :P

Redwolf Programs

6:11 PM

@DJMcMayhem It also gives a rough indication of how many people will show up

I think we should add a Hello, world! feed, but just as a normal one

(Posted answer suggesting that here)

Adding a ticker feed just for that seems like it'd be kind of inconsistent and not really necessary

hyper-neutrino

another argument in favor of a normal feed

a new answer will likely prompt people to look at it and if it's a new or interesting language, discuss it

and since ticker feeds are very ephemeral, that leads to random contextless conversation topic swaps that will be really confusing for log readers

user

@StackMeter Wait, are you talking about the Rickroll thing?

hyper-neutrino

I think they're talking about the /// thing, though I don't think you were talking about that

user

Oh ok

Redwolf Programs

I wish I could work on hunter-gatherer or the language ranking script, but I'm too used to doing those on my other laptop :/

user

6:27 PM

1. Make GitPod account
2. Add all your stuff to a workspace there
3. Get used to the ---inconvenience--- awesomeness of GitPod
4. ...
5. Profit!

Redwolf Programs

I'm seriously confusing myself by switching between Text, Atom, and Vim every ten minutes lol

pxeger

vim >>> text >>> atom

user

Vim's kinda difficult to use

Redwolf Programs

I think those >s are backwards

hyper-neutrino

notepad >>>

Redwolf Programs

6:28 PM

Those >s are definitely backward :p

DJMcMayhem

y'all are blasphemers

user

I love how it makes some things really easy to do, but then other things are just a pain, and you can't expect most people to know all those commands

hyper-neutrino

V >>>

how's that :p

user

@hyper-neutrino Bleh.

pxeger

@hyper-neutrino <<< ^

DJMcMayhem

6:29 PM

Hopefully you're not using V as an everyday editor lol

hyper-neutrino

lol

Redwolf Programs

I like some parts about Vim, like o, but it's too 20th century for my tastes

ngn

@user what things are pain for you in vim?

user

VS Code >>> Atom >>> Sublime Text >>> Vim >>> Notepad >>> Nano

Redwolf Programs

Never tried VS Code, might do that when I get my new laptop in checks watch a month and a half

user

6:30 PM

@ngn Remembering commands, having to hit escape to go into normal mode each time, having to hit i or A to type stuff in (I keep forgetting to do that and weird stuff happens)

Redwolf Programs

I'm scared I'll forget to hit i one day and delete my whole hard drive or something

user

@user Plus, editing a project with multiple files is really difficult

Redwolf Programs

Project view is the #1 feature I miss when using Text, closely followed by find and replace

A good dark theme is third

DJMcMayhem

> Oh no, I tried to type :! rm -rf /<enter> but I forgot to hit i first!

pxeger

@user you can use alt+whatever to do one normal mode command without leaving insert, and you can use Ctrl + [ instead of escape (although tbh you should just swap it with caps lock)

user

6:31 PM

Sublime Text and VS Code have handy Go To commands, and even if you don't like those, you can just directly click on the file you want to open. With Vim, you need :Vex and then Ctrl+W to switch between splits and resize them and stuff

@pxeger Oh nice

pxeger

maybe I'll try VScode with a vim plugin

DJMcMayhem

@pxeger Are you sure about that? It doesn't do that for me. Do you have a plugin or something?

<C-o> does a single normal command though

pxeger

Maybe it's Ctrl + ]. I can't remember. I don't use it. Caps lock is much better

Redwolf Programs

Out of interest, what's the difference between VS Code and Atom? What's better about one over the other?

user

@DJMcMayhem Is that Vim for Ctrl and then o?

DJMcMayhem

6:33 PM

Oh sorry, I meant the alt thing, not the esc

@user Yes

user

@RedwolfPrograms VS Code is faster afaik even though they both use Electron

They're pretty similar, though

DJMcMayhem

Ctrl-[ is equivalent to esc because of ASCII

user

VS Code should also get more regular updates and stuff, since it's supported by Microsoft

DJMcMayhem

But I don't think alt-normal command is a thing

ngn

@DJMcMayhem alt+ as replacement for esc works when using vim in a terminal

pxeger

6:35 PM

@DJMcMayhem oh depends on your terminal and vim settings. Alt+X (for example) literally just sends Escape X, but vim detects if the escape is quick enough and treats it as a separate binding. I have that turned off, so it just does Escape then command. And it doesn't reenter insert mode, I forgot that

Oh and Ctrl+C also exits insert mode

DJMcMayhem

Yeah, it probably depends on terminal. If I type alt-something in insert mode it just inserts a different character

(To be specific, it inserts the character of the key I pressed with the high-bit set in latin1 encoding)

pxeger

weird

what terminal are you using?

ngn

@DJMcMayhem alt or altgr?

Redwolf Programs

Sounds sorta like AltGr maybe?

ninja'd

DJMcMayhem

Uhhh, it doesn't say altgr?

pxeger

6:38 PM

right alt is AltGr (sometimes; depends on keyboard layout I think). What OS are you using, as well?

DJMcMayhem

Windows 10. My left and right alts both behave the same way

user

WSL or actual Windows?

DJMcMayhem

Actual windows

pxeger

and what terminal?

or are you using gvim (in which case that's your problem)

DJMcMayhem

I use gvim more often, but I get basically the same behavior in cmd

pxeger

6:40 PM

you should use the new Windows Terminal

user

@pxeger Powershell?

pxeger

@user powershell still runs in conhost.exe (which is the "terminal" interface to cmd) by default

Redwolf Programs

Just checked out VS Code, I think I like Atom's UI a bit more (didn't notice much of a speed difference though)

user

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ If your laptop's good enough, I guess it doesn't matter

DJMcMayhem

@pxeger Not the default one?

pxeger

6:42 PM

nope, it's new: github.com/microsoft/terminal

DJMcMayhem

If that's the same one you get from the windows store, no difference.

Although I do get different characters with -u NONE

Ah, it's enc=latin1 (default with -u NONE) vs enc=utf-8 (What I use)

Stupid compatible

user

Ugh, just installed the new terminal and it looks like Edge

DJMcMayhem

Wow, I can't believe the vim default is enc=latin1 instead of utf-8. Seems like a questionable decision

pxeger

neovim is a lot less questionable in many ways

Wheat Wizard

I use spacemacs in evil mode now.

neovim is nice but spacemacs is really nice.

pxeger

6:48 PM

never heard of that before. I'll check it out

DJMcMayhem

@pxeger Sure, but since vim 8 came out I think a lot of the arguments for neovim are less relevant

ngn

@DJMcMayhem probably a decision made before utf8 existed

DJMcMayhem

Not that neovim isn't better, just I'm not sure it's better enough to justify going to the effort of using it instead of vim (imo)

Wezl

@RedwolfPrograms always insert /* :! rm -rf / --no-preserve-root<newline> */ in your files in case someone pastes into normal mode

@pxeger *advertises favorite vim ~~clone~~ improvement*

pxeger

@Wezl neovim in many terminals has paste detection, so it will always enter insert mode

Wezl

6:51 PM

yay DWIM this can't cause problems at all

pxeger

?

StackMeter

7:14 PM

@Wezl why

that's just wrong on so many levels

Wezl

@StackMeter it's a joke. Jokes are exempt from reasoning

pxeger

@Wezl but the / will be interpreted as a search, and the rest won't be interpreted as a command

Wezl

>:| then put a newline

ngn

cmp: what's the most useful snippet of vimscript you have written?

Wezl

@ngn :q :P

caird coinheringaahing

7:21 PM

Given that the only time I use vim is to try out vim answers to kolmogorov-complexity challenges, probably one of those :P

Redwolf Programs

@Wezl :q, the "I wonder what my nose tastes like" emoticon

hyper-neutrino

D:

pxeger

:þ, the only valid tongue emoticon

Wezl

"tongue"?? it's spelled "ttungg"

ngn

news: doctors discover new medical condition - spelling stutter

7

StackMeter

7:47 PM

ok

or :b: the golf hole emoticon

user

@ngn :q!. Very useful when you want to save and exit Vim in a hurry

ngn

@user ZQ is shorter

user

Thanks! I'll have to remember to avoid typing ZZ though, that's a very dangerous command

StackMeter

9:54 PM

What does ZZ do

rak1507

have you googled it?

hyper-neutrino

@StackMeter write the current file and close the current window

also potentially helpful, on Vi/Vim SE

Sandbox Posts

10:13 PM

0

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Introduction In this challenge, you’ll generate some “ascii art” with user-supplied dimensions. The resulting figure looks a bit like a theater, hammer, axe, eagle, banner, or highway. Specification Write the shortest possible code in any language that does the following: It takes two arguments, ...

user

@StackMeter Don't listen to HN, ZZ closes Vim (all files you have open) without saving. Use ZQ to save and then close

Wheat Wizard

:xa

hyper-neutrino

okay jokes aside, what does ZZ actually mean...

I'm assuming vimhelp.org is correct...?

like I legitimately don't know enough vim to identify jokes

Wezl

@hyper-neutrino what you said. They're trying to get you to quit without saving

hyper-neutrino

okay :p

I mean i always just use :wq

or :q! if i have made some serious mistake like deleting half the file somehow

Wezl

10:22 PM

@Wezl a worthy goal, I will assist

Redwolf Programs

Apparently :x does the same thing as :wq but doesn't save it if you haven't made changes

hyper-neutrino

interesting

Wheat Wizard

:xa does :x but across all files.

Redwolf Programs

All files?

Wheat Wizard

If you have multiple buffers open it writes and closes all of them.

Redwolf Programs

10:27 PM

Wait can you open multiple things at once in vim?

Wezl

yes

Wheat Wizard

Yeah there are a couple of ways.

In vim/neovim I use tabs, but in spacemacs I just use emacs buffer support.

Wezl

:/ my editor-of-choice has bad window support so I just use tmux windows, but then pasting is super annoying

Wheat Wizard

What editor is that?

user

@RedwolfPrograms You can open up a new split using :Sex :P

Also :Vex, :Tex, etc., but that one's more fun

Redwolf Programs

10:31 PM

That had to be intentional lol

hyper-neutrino

*sigh* content dispute lock locks answers... why??

the lock tool is so restrictive

we only get four canned settings than don't necessarily serve the appropriate purposes, and we can't tweak the individual settings ourselves

it'd be nice to be able to adjust each individual setting, like locking votes, answers, edits, comments, etc. but I guess it's not that often that editing a question in any way completely breaks it no matter what the edit is

user

Luckily for you, you have no life, so I'm sure you'll figure something out

hyper-neutrino

ಠ_ಠ

I'll just bookmark so edits will notify me, and I can just fix it manually

user

I think you need to Follow to do that

hyper-neutrino

oh. yeah. oops

Wheat Wizard

10:34 PM

What post is this? Feel free to ping me in [REDACTED]

user

[REDACTED]?

Wheat Wizard

Official mod business. You don't need to know.

user

(ノ°Д°）ノ︵ ┻━┻

caird coinheringaahing

@WheatWizard The "Print this Question" one

Wheat Wizard

Ah yeah. I was looking that earlier today and thinking of making a bot account to just edit war with community.

caird coinheringaahing

10:37 PM

Community has messed it up with its http to https edit and the common mark migration, so HN had to fix it

Wheat Wizard

There are a couple places we need to watch community.

hyper-neutrino

codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/55857/… there's no real dispute, just that editing this question breaks it. no real edit war by any user that we can stop xD

caird coinheringaahing

@WheatWizard Pretty sure the appropriate responses to edit wars are mod locks, so hmm :P

hyper-neutrino

very ironic that the automatic community mod, intended to help the community through automatic clean-up, needs to be watched and manually overruled by mods so much :p CGCC is really weird tho

but yeah, there is no lock I can apply here :/ might ask in TL for a solution but this is a one-off case so I'm not gonna ask for a new feature

Wheat Wizard

Honestly 90% of its behaviour could be turned off. Its flags are next to useless.

hyper-neutrino

10:40 PM

true

every week i dismiss at least one auto flag on sandbox

caird coinheringaahing

It's useful to own anonymous contributions, weird edge cases like migration stubs and for mass edits (e.g. CommonMark). Past that, I haven't seen a useful action of its

hyper-neutrino

we have enough users to flag correctly and mod presence to handle things ourselves lol. i agree that other than a few mass edit things it's not too helpful around here :p

even roomba is debatably useful. it's nice i guess. part of the 10%

Wheat Wizard

I think the more than 20 comments flags are actually useful.

caird coinheringaahing

@hyper-neutrino Roomba is definitely helpful imo

Hell, I'd personally make it more aggressive and let it go after year old closed questions, regardless of score

Wheat Wizard

I wish it wouldn't delete old open questions though.

hyper-neutrino

10:45 PM

fair. there's not much of a point in having them, i agree

Wheat Wizard

A while back I spent like 12 hours of work on the lowest voted open, unanswered question and community deleted it before I could finish my answer.

hyper-neutrino

^^^ though. but the comment flags are nice to identify things to take a look at even if they're wrong a good amount

caird coinheringaahing

@WheatWizard Doesn't it only delete them if they have a zero score?

Wheat Wizard

This particular one had negative score.

It was basically an extremely hard restricted source question. Basically impossible.

I was working on solving it in glypho, more or less the only language I think could possibly solve it.

user

So I was clearing out junk on my laptop and came upon a file called Duolingo.txt filled with a bunch of odd phrases that sound almost like they came out of some AI (gist)

idk why they're there or what I was going to do with it

StackMeter

10:58 PM

What about :d

user

> I’m drinking my wife now.

@StackMeter What about it?

Wezl

@StackMeter :d is for delete

so/q/25737296/difference-between-d-and-dd-in-vim

lyxal

11:59 PM

The one and only true winking face: ⌏P

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