The Nineteenth Byte

Adaptive randomisation Given a number \$n\$, a blackbox function \$f\$ that produces a random integer in the range 0...n-1 inclusive, and a number \$m ≥ n\$, your challenge is to generate a random integer in the range 0...m-1 inclusive. You may not use any nondeterministic builtins or behaviour,...

exedraj

emanresu A

12:46 AM

Is ^ understandable?

exedraj

@rak1507

There is the rak plate

As you can see, it isn't as similar as the Aaron plate is to Aaron, but it's kinda close

Mostly the colour is relatively the same

Aaron Miller

12:58 AM

@exedraj You have interesting countertops :P

user

Looks like the floor

Dude coinheringaahing

"countertops"? Pretty sure lyxal eats off of plates off the ground, like a civilised person :P

Actually, I think that's a rug

exedraj

@AaronMiller that's my carpet stoopid

Aaron Miller

@Dudecoinheringaahing Ah, here I was thinking he used a counter like some sort of barbarian.

Dude coinheringaahing

@Dudecoinheringaahing i am genuis

exedraj

1:00 AM

@Dudecoinheringaahing I don't like how you know this about me

@Dudecoinheringaahing correct

Dude coinheringaahing

@exedraj 2 words for you: human zoo :P

user

Imagine eating off of plates instead of hanging your food in a bag with a small opening and letting it slowly fall into your mouth in small pieces

Dude coinheringaahing

Look over there, we've got observation cameras there :P

emanresu A

Imagine eating

user

No, not there, the other side!

Dude coinheringaahing

1:01 AM

@user That's how I eat doritos :P

exedraj

@user is that it there?

Aaron Miller

@exedraj I was joking

YoUrE nOt JoKiNg YoUrE aArOn (inb4 Lyxal)

user

@exedraj Warmer, look more to the left

exedraj

@AaronMiller no you weren't.

@user behind the clock?

user

Yes

They're microscopic, though, so you won't be able to see them anyway

Us dogs have very advanced tech

exedraj

1:02 AM

Found it!

Aaron Miller

Yeah, that’s it, right next to the screw.

Dude coinheringaahing

(no one tell him that was the one we turned off last week)

Browncat Programs

Can I see your clock? Is it a cool clock?

Or a boring one?

How many hands does it have?

Are they cool hands?

exedraj

@BrowncatPrograms boring clock

Doesn't even work

user

5, like all normal clocks

Browncat Programs

1:03 AM

@exedraj Well that makes it interesting

exedraj

user

Don't all of you humans have clocks with the same number of hands as you?

exedraj

It's a little dirty and I need to clean it

Aaron Miller

@user why are all your clocks missing hands?

exedraj

But eh

Dude coinheringaahing

1:04 AM

@BrowncatPrograms 9, one for each member of the Weasley family, so that you can know where they all are

user

@AaronMiller Because I am too, and my clocks mirror the number of hands I have

Browncat Programs

Interesting, it is indeed a boring clock

user

> Interesting

> boring

How is being boring interesting?

exedraj

That's the kitchen clock though

The one in my room is way more interesting

Aaron Miller

@user So you periodically remove hands whenever you lose some?

user

1:05 AM

Yes

Bubbler

I have three clocks at home, which are three minutes apart from each other

user

Doesn't happen too often, though, it's only happened 9-10 times in the past few years

Aaron Miller

Well that’s good

Browncat Programs

I have one of those clocks that syncs with an atomic clock

Aaron Miller

I have one of those clocks that doesn’t

user

1:06 AM

Yeah I had a friend who lost all his hands and had to regrow a new body because he couldn't afford those prosthetics that sync up with your implants like normal hands

exedraj

Y'all are lame using normal clocks

Dude coinheringaahing

I think I have a clock in every room, at least :P

user

@BrowncatPrograms I have an atomic banana

exedraj

Gamers use stack overflow watches

Dude coinheringaahing

I have a Piet clock :P

Browncat Programs

1:07 AM

One of my grandparents collects clocks

user

@Dudecoinheringaahing I read that as "I have a Pet cock" and wondered if you're a farmer or sth :P

Browncat Programs

He has hundreds, and you don't want to be there on daylight savings

user

Oh no

Gonna be pretty terrible for that character from that book with the thing

Aaron Miller

@user Sounds inconvenient. For a while there they had no way of telling the time.

Dude coinheringaahing

user

1:08 AM

Oh nice

Browncat Programs

Ooh nice

Aaron Miller

Oooh nice

user

@Dudecoinheringaahing Is that a Mondrian?

@AaronMiller No you were supposed to say "Oooh nice"

Aaron Miller

@Dudecoinheringaahing why do I feel like I’ve seen that clock before?

Dude coinheringaahing

@user Think so

Browncat Programs

1:09 AM

I feel like I've seen every clock, having been to my clock-collecting-grandfather's house :p

user

Piet Mondrian

Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (Dutch: [ˈpitər kɔrˈneːlɪs ˈmɔndrijaːn]), after 1906 Piet Mondrian (, also US: , Dutch: [pit ˈmɔndrijɑn]; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th-century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements.Mondrian's art was highly utopian and was concerned with a search...

Aaron Miller

@user i don’t know what ur talking about

Dude coinheringaahing

@AaronMiller You're actually me, but we have dissociative personality disorder

user

Dude literally painted all his paintings like that, not very creative

Dude coinheringaahing

I've never painted

exedraj

1:10 AM

user

/disapprove

Browncat Programs

> he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements

Aaron Miller

@Dudecoinheringaahing ah, that explains it

exedraj

That's my wall clock above

user

@exedraj This looks like a bizarre car traveling in four dimensions with a speedometer for each one

Browncat Programs

1:11 AM

I'd take a picture of my clock but the lighting's awful right now

exedraj

Dude coinheringaahing

@AaronMiller Look at any Mondrian painting and it looks like that clock :P

exedraj

That's my SO watch above

@user ah yes, the dimensions of time, temperature and humidity

Aaron Miller

@exedraj -1 not a cgcc watch smh

Dude coinheringaahing

@exedraj Wait, how'd you get that? :P

exedraj

1:12 AM

@Dudecoinheringaahing SE sent it to me :p

user

"We're watching"

Dude coinheringaahing

For what? Rickrolling Shog?

exedraj

@Dudecoinheringaahing 10 year birthday celebrations

They gave away free stuff when SO turned 10

Dude coinheringaahing

And we're still waiting on swag from last december

exedraj

Lol

Dude coinheringaahing

1:14 AM

IIRC HN hasn't even been contacted about his mod swag :P

user

> Definition of swag: chiefly Australia : a pack of personal belongings

> : goods acquired by unlawful means : booty, loot

Dude coinheringaahing

meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/swag

emanresu A

@Dudecoinheringaahing That would be quite an achievemetn

Dude coinheringaahing

Given how active shog was, I have to imagine it's been done :P

exedraj

@Dudecoinheringaahing more specifically, this is how

it's cringe af and from when I was into DHMIS

golly, that was a weird summer

undertale, roblox, minecraft death run, reddit, DHMIS, visual basic and a whole plethora of memes

Dec 2018 / Jan 2019 was wack

Browncat Programs

1:25 AM

I still halfway disbelieve that the southern hemisphere has summer when we have winter :p

It just feels so weird

exedraj

@BrowncatPrograms That's how I feel when we have winter and y'all have summer

Dude coinheringaahing

But warm christmas???

exedraj

> ~~warm~~ overly hot

emanresu A

Yes

It gud

exedraj

Maybe for you

Australia is the hot country

NZ probably isn't

emanresu A

1:27 AM

True

Browncat Programs

Iiiii'mmm dreeeaammmiinng of a booiiilliiing hooot chrriiiisstmmassss

emanresu A

We're not cold so much as windy, at least anywhere near the coast, which is 85% of NZ :p

Dude coinheringaahing

@BrowncatPrograms My current employer has offered me some part-time work (in retail) over the Christmas holidays, and I really don't want to do it :P Between the chaos, the music and the karens :P

emanresu A

karens?

exedraj

Karens.

You've never heard of them?

Dude coinheringaahing

1:29 AM

Middle-aged women who insist that people who work for minimum wage aren't people, and therefore don't deserve respect

emanresu A

Nope

@Dudecoinheringaahing Oh

Dude coinheringaahing

Or, for that matter, deserve to be treated like people ಠ_ಠ

emanresu A

Idea: Pay Karens minimum wage and see what they think of it

Browncat Programs

Out of interest, how often do you encounter them?

Dude coinheringaahing

About once a day

exedraj

1:31 AM

@Dudecoinheringaahing where do you work?

Dude coinheringaahing

But apparently that goes up over Christmas

@exedraj Everywhere :P

See someone over there who's employed? That's me :P

Browncat Programs

:o Larry from Amazing World of Gumball?

Is it really you?

emanresu A

Is someone you work with a Karen?

Dude coinheringaahing

@exedraj In a large shop, on the tills

@emanresuA I think its impossible to work in retail and still be a Karen

Aaron Miller

@Dudecoinheringaahing is that a challenge? /s

emanresu A

1:34 AM

Have you ever met a Karen called Karen?

Dude coinheringaahing

I generally don't ask their names

Where "their" refers to "anyone" :P

emanresu A

O

user

@Dudecoinheringaahing Well, anyone can be a Karen if they put their mind to it, not just middle-aged white women with weird haircuts :P

Dude coinheringaahing

@user True, Karen is a sense of mind :P

Browncat Programs

But but but...if I'm unhappy about something, that's not my fault, so it has to be caird's fault :p

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user

1:38 AM

And many (perhaps even most) of those named Karen are mere Karen wannabes and do not have the powers of a true Karen

@BrowncatPrograms I don't think most of those sort of people are capable of even that much logic

Aaron Miller

I have an idea for a challenge where you have to determine if a string is a “wordindrome” (a term I just made up), essentially if it is made up of substrings where, if the order is reversed, it is the same, e.g. abcdefabc is made up of [abc, def, abc], which is a palindromic list, or abcdefefcdab is made up of [ab, cd, ef, ef, cd, ab] which is also palindromic. I’m not sure (a) if it would be interesting, (b) if it is a dupe, or (c) how to clearly specify the challenge.

Unrelated String

i feel like it's a dupe but i can't think of the name of the challenge

like i'm 81% sure i solved that in brachylog a year ago

user

@AaronMiller You could instead find all "wordindromes" inside that string

Because any string "foo" is a wordindrome by doing ["foo"]

Aaron Miller

@user is “foo” a substring of “foo”?

Dude coinheringaahing

user

1:44 AM

@AaronMiller imo yes

Dude coinheringaahing

user

This second one seems very similar

Aaron Miller

@AaronMiller I guess a simpler way of saying it would be: determine if a string can be split up into a palindromic list of 2+ substrings.

@Dudecoinheringaahing yeah, that’s pretty much what I was thinking. Dang it

although, it counts an unmodified string as a chunky palindrome, and asks for the number of ways it can be chunked, so maybe it’s different enough? Idk

Bubbler

1:58 AM

@AaronMiller That is equivalent to "determine if a string can be split up into a palindromic list of two or three substrings", since if you have ["ab", "cd", "ef", "cd", "ab"] then ["ab", "cdefcd", "ab"] is equally valid

Then it becomes a super simple \1 regex problem

Aaron Miller

Shoot, u right. Guess I’ll scrap that idea, then.

ASCII-only

2:20 AM

@user wow uhh.... thanks?

Browncat Programs

2:34 AM

> In 15th century Apulia Italy, a woman was bitten by a tarantula ... [t]he only way to cure the bite was to "shimmy" and to have the right sort of music available

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Game of Life, but on a 4-8-8 tiling code-golf tiling grid game-of-life array-manipulation Background The 4-8-8 tiling looks like this: For the purpose of this challenge, we take the orientation of the tiling as exactly shown above. In plain English words, we take the tiling so that it can be see...

exedraj

@BrowncatPrograms you know, I was really thinking you were announcing that you got access to GPT-3 somehow until I saw the Wikipedia article for the Dancing plague of 1518.

and that makes me wonder why the frick you're looking up such an article in the first place.

Browncat Programs

If you know I would really appreciate if you would tell me because I don't

exedraj

Did you get there from the article on unusual deaths?

Browncat Programs

No

exedraj

2:38 AM

Then I don't know either

because the links to that article don't seem reasonable: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/…

emanresu A