The Nineteenth Byte

emanresu A

12:01 AM

@lyxal My friend got exactly that email ._.

hyper-neutrino

12:12 AM

of all the things to blackmail someone with

oh wait nvm they said the part about videos ok

i was gonna say just revealing that someone watches porn, even if it's true, is... honestly not really anything worth much even?? IMO at least

ah, guess it depends where you live

caird coinheringaahing

Unless you live in a few select countries, revealing that someone watches porn would embarrass them for a bit (assuming people they know saw it), then they'd move on :P

Huh, the "Senior Product Manager" on the SE PubPlat team - Brendan Cleary - has accounts on 3 sites: MSE, SO and CGCC :P

This is probably why CGCC

emanresu A

Ye

emanresu A

1:11 AM

Poor OSP, it has nothing to say

Wait, it's still here

isn't it meant to leave?

CAAAIIIIIRRRDDDDD!!!!!

lyxal

@OldSandboxPosts ur sussy baka

emanresu A

Ok, it's gone now

Browncat Programs

2:55 AM

@cairdcoinheringaahing I was just thinking earlier today "I sure hope caird goes back to being caird soon" and now you're caird!

hyper-neutrino

ah, finally i have proof that you two are socks of each other (/s)

emanresu A

Just sayin', pxeger's a sock of vyxal bot.

hyper-neutrino

what

emanresu A

And jhtbot's a sock of Allxy.

Browncat Programs

Scammer: Is trying to extort $2500 from random people
Also scammer: "tгᴜst me. ἰ ҡеeρ mɣ шогd."

At least they give bad security advice at the end of the email, though

emanresu A

3:01 AM

Lol.

(CC @lyxal) Check out haveibeenpwned.com to see if your email's been leaked

Browncat Programs

"change your passwords often" is a great way to get people to use weak or reused passwords, and/or write them all down in a text file on their computer :p

Which I guess is exactly what someome pretending to be a hacker would want you to think they want you to do, now that I think about it

lyxal

@emanresuA well that'll teach me not to play club penguin clones and Dueling Network

Browncat Programs

@BrowncatPrograms This is either some 5d chess, or the scammer just doesn't know all that much about infosec :p

emanresu A

@lyxal Lol

You have been pwned

Browncat Programs

Okay so a scam email I've been sitting on for a while wants me to email one of their alts (pretending to be a bank) asking to withdraw $10.5m, which I would split with the scammer. So I included a message in the email to the fake bank where I try to bribe them to transfer all the money to me. Interested to see how this goes :p

My greetings to you. I am Hank. I have been previously informed officially to contact this bank in regarding of the deposited funds release, valued (US$10.5, Million) in Files (N°: 40011/Asp 02-6547M-14) From Finance Ministry as the rightful beneficiary to the deposited fund.

I will appreciate your help in this matter.

PS: Mr. Koffi is assisting me with this. He wants 50%, but if you transfer all of the money to me instead I will pay you 10% under the table. I can make you very wealthy with this.

lyxal

3:11 AM

lucky

rak1507

'very wealthy'? really? $1.5M is a lot of money sure but not 'very wealthy' territory :P

idk, depends

Browncat Programs

@lyxal If you want to have fun with the scammers too, send a similar message to info at garantibbvatk.com

emanresu A

Just don't forget to provide a helpful chart like this one:

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rak1507

lol

lyxal

nooo I don't have my throwaway account signed in on my computer

:(

emanresu A

3:13 AM

Also tell them you need to communicate securely, and should talk in pig latin.

hyper-neutrino

oh i got pwned from my account on mangadex?

i have an account on mangadex?

Browncat Programs

Sometimes I'll reply to the emails asking "is this an encrypted phone line?"

Usually don't get an answer :p

emanresu A

@lyxal I can throw them an email from sorryyouhavebeencompromised@gmail.com...

lyxal

@BrowncatPrograms what do they think your name is?

oh nvm

I just had to learn how to read

welp here goes nothing

Browncat Programs

Hank Chief

lyxal

3:20 AM

@BrowncatPrograms one last question: what did you put as the subject?

Browncat Programs

"Funds"

Without the quotes

lyxal

Alright time to see what I can do

s/I/I + GPT3

emanresu A

What's the address they sent it to you from?

Because when my friend got it, it was a spoofing attack

lyxal

3:35 AM

@BrowncatPrograms this is what I plan to send:

Hello there,
My name is David Alexander. My good friend Hank Chief esquire recently told me about how he had been requested to make a withdrawal for $10.5 billion USD from this bank. He also told me that if I emailed you as well, that I could get a small profit from the transaction as well.
For reference, the money is from Files (N°: 40011/Asp 02-6547M-14) From Finance Ministry as the rightful beneficiary to the deposited fund.
Hank said that if I email you, you will give me a sum of $3.5 million USD for referring him to make the withdrawal.

quite obviously that isn't my actual bank account number

because for a start, funny numbers

and second of all, I'm in Australia

we don't got JP Morgan Chase

and yes I know you're email says 10.5 million instead of billion

I think it'd be funny if they think you're overselling things

eh i sent it anyway

Browncat Programs

Sounds good :p

Anyway, it's getting late here so o/

lyxal

o/

emanresu A

o/

emanresu A

4:27 AM

It's someone else's throwaway

hyper-neutrino

→ 12 messages moved to Trashcan

emanresu A

Fine

PyGamer0

get moved

@emanresuA there are a lot of scambaiter on youtube

just watch them and you can troll the scammers

Codidact Posts

5:18 AM

New Posts - Challenges - Code Golf: When The Ternary Is Balance

posted on September 05, 2021 by Razetime

Inspired by this Rosetta Code article. Introduction Balanced Ternary is a method of representing integers using -1, 0...

lyxal

5:34 AM

CMQ: When reading a factorial, do you internally yell the number?

Like for 5! do you think "FIVE" instead of "five factorial"?

emanresu A

6:39 AM

Nein danke

emanresu A

7:18 AM

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A: The Programming Language Quiz, Mark II - Cops

???, 250 bytes 5<4# ++++++++v++{++{+< v:-1 <"d"\"i" I=((print))#d+"100"ci}$'mai n' \ " > *>:"d"$-o:1-?v; n=""#printf >-}++++=^;-# >, :|1h: ^ -1< for Sk4 in range(100): I(n,Sk4+(1/2 and 1 or 0)) ##-[>++<-----]>[->+.<][>^<++++>]1@3 \\iiiiidiisiodso This is a polyglot of at leas...

I'll be very impressed if anyone cracks this.

PyGamer0

@lyxal no

lyxal

7:51 AM

TIL you can spin an apple so fast it explodes

Adám

I think most solid things explode if spun fast enough.

lyxal

only if they have a circular surface

Spinning an Apple until it Explodes at 28,500fps - The Slow Mo Guys

►

Adám

@lyxal No, because in APL, we write it as !5!

@lyxal Yeah, I saw that.

lyxal

@Adám so you yell and then calmly say "five"?

Adám

No.

lyxal

8:03 AM

Dang :( [:P]

emanresu A

8:59 AM

@lyxal Cool

emanresu A

9:20 AM

Bruh, I was playing Among Us and the same person was impostor 3x in a row

lyxal

That's a bit sussy

Anush

10:11 AM

have we had a challenge to write Cistercian numbers?

emanresu A

"Vote Gray, It's the impostor"

I may be impostor, but I have pronouns.

Anush

codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/216166/… found it

pxeger

10:30 AM

Fun fact: the UK Government has a Platform-as-a-Service (think Firebase or Heroku)

Anush

@pxeger which is odd for a low tech country

"The team provides 24/7 support for any platform-related issue.

If your team is experiencing any issue using the platform we can provide assistance during office hours."

contradiction?

pxeger

@Anush why is the UK a "low tech country"?

Anush

@pxeger I guess because it developed first in the 19th century?

and is pretty much stuck there

or did you mean how? :)

pxeger

@Anush what the fuck are you talking about

Anush

@pxeger The UK and why it is a low tech country. I was just answering your question

pxeger

10:43 AM

ok but we're not stuck in the 19th century???

Anush

countries that modernised more recently are typically much more high tech

@pxeger well look at the london underground and compare it to countries that built theirs in the last 30 years

pxeger

@Anush [citation-heavily-needed]

Anush

citation for the london underground? :)

pxeger

@Anush the underground is continually expanding and refurbishing to be more modern

Anush

only sort of. The tunnels are not being expanded and the stations are not being rebuilt

the jubilee line is a little more modern that is true

the civil service is very much culturally built on a 19th century model

full of people with non-science degrees

who can hardly turn on a computer

pxeger

10:47 AM

do you work in the civil service, or are you, as I suspect, talking entirely out of your arse?

Anush

@pxeger I can talk nonsense out of my mouth too :)

no need to be rude

how many cabinet members have science degrees?

the prime minister has a degree in Latin and Greek

it's very 19th century!

pxeger

@Anush no need to make up meaningless statements about the uk being stuck in the past

I don't want to sound like a patriot because fuck the uk, but at the same time, some of what you're saying is ridiculous

Anush

if you travel round SE Asia you will immediately see the difference

@pxeger which part is the most ridiculous?

pxeger

@Anush the system of government's ass-backwards-ism has little to do with how low tech the country isn't

Anush

can you guess the total number of MPs with Maths degrees (out of 650)?

@pxeger If the cabinet all had degrees from Imperial College I do feel it would be very different

the fraction is 0.003

For CS?

pxeger

10:53 AM

@Anush I don't really want to have to defend the cabinet, but Oxbridge (which most of them are from) doesn't whatsoever imply they have terrible backgrounds

Anush

@pxeger it's not that they are stupid, it's that they don't know anything science and computing

pxeger

@Anush I don't want my PM to have a CS degree; I'd much prefer a Government and Politics degree, or Economics, or Sociology, or even liberal arts

why does the PM themself need to no anything about science and computing

emanresu A

^

Anush

For CS arguably it's a higher fraction 0.0046

pxeger

their job is not to personally maintain a PaaS

lyxal

10:54 AM

^

pxeger

that's why we have a Government Digital Service

Anush

this is out of all 650 MPs

the civil service is the same

pxeger

not one of the MPs' jobs would require a CS (which is quite a vocational subject, let's be honest) degree

Anush

if the MPs know nothing of the modern world and the civil service know nothing of the modern world

this is more or less my point

pxeger

why are you equating them though?

Anush

10:57 AM

equating MPs and civil service?

the govt makes policy

pxeger

the civil service is not elected; they aren't in power; they are operational departments

Anush

how can they make competent policy relating to modern technology if they don't understand it?

pxeger

they generally don't make such fine-grained policy decisions to need to understand modern technology

Anush

@pxeger the civil service advise

@pxeger medium.com/the-haven/… :)

pxeger

> Satire

Anush

11:01 AM

I know! :)

I quite liked it

emanresu A

11:25 AM

Still no one's had a crack at codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/235072/100664

emanresu A

11:35 AM

@lyxal Let me guess, you're throwing everything you can at it.

I'll give you a clue, it's been used on this site before.

lyxal

@emanresuA me when I'm actually not

procrastination ftw

emanresu A

I honestly thought you would be, because you always do.

Also, does anyone knwo a good tool to decode qr code images?

5

@WezL why is your pfp the qr code for the rickroll link?

emanresu A

12:22 PM

SLEEP TIME

lyxal

okay

PyGamer0

12:46 PM

@emanresuA cyberchef

Browncat Programs

1:39 PM

@Anush Just because they don't have a degree in it doesn't mean they don't understand it

There's a lot of things I don't have degrees in but know way too much about, and that includes computer science

And politicians typically have people who do have relevant degrees in all of the related fields, who can tell them more specific information on top of what they already know

Personally I'd rather my political leaders understand politics and government first and foremost, and listen to the people who know more about a topic than they do. That doesn't always happen of course, but making every political leader get fifty degrees in every subject they'll ever need to form an opinion on is ridiculous.

Saying the UK is less technologically advanced because it gained access to that technology earlier doesn't make any sense even on the surface; the UK might not look as flashy and modern as places that are more recently developing, but that's because it doesn't have to prove itself, and spending billions just to make things look shiny is something it just doesn't need to do.

user

I’d say politicians on specific committees that have to do with education/global warming/cyber security should keep themselves updated on that stuff and would preferably have experience with that, but yeah, having a bunch of degrees won’t be all that useful

Browncat Programs

That goes back to my first point, just because they don't have a degree in education or climate science or cyber security doesn't mean they can't have a very good understanding of the topic

rak1507

I don't think any politician in the entire world has a good understanding of technology related issues lmao

Browncat Programs

I've probably picked up a masters' degree's worth of knowledge on CS from hanging out around here lol

(If they had masters' degrees in obscure esolangs and ways to save bytes on JS answers :p)

@rak1507 I think that's less to do with them being politicians, and more with them just being old :p

rak1507

1:57 PM

yeah

Browncat Programs

Solution: Replace all current politicians with teenagers

pxeger

@BrowncatPrograms not only that, but you're also the most humble person on the site

Anush

@BrowncatPrograms :)

pxeger

/hj

user

2:19 PM

@BrowncatPrograms Well you don't need a very good understanding, just a decent one and some experts who do have a very good understanding to help out

rak1507

and more importantly to actually listen to them

user

True

@BrowncatPrograms Better solution: Replace all current politicians with clones of me

caird coinheringaahing

3:28 PM

O.o Just had an FA review that entered the queue 14 seconds after posting. Think that's the quickest I've ever seen

caird coinheringaahing

5:13 PM

CMC: Given an integer n, output whether n! - (n-1)! + (n-2)! - (n-3)! + ... + (-1)^k(n-k)! - ... - (-1)^n*1! is prime (A001272)

Adám

@cairdcoinheringaahing Extended Dyalog APL, 9 bytes: 1⍭`-/⌽!⍳⎕ Try it online! (not sure why the backtick is needed)

rak1507

it shouldn't be, that's weird

in regular with dfns {1 pco-/⌽!⍳⍵} works

caird coinheringaahing

What does the backtick do normally?

@cairdcoinheringaahing 7 bytes in Jelly feels too long

Sandbox Posts

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Convert to arrow function and back In JavaScript (ES6 and above) an arrow function expression is a syntactically compact alternative to a regular function expression. Create a function that takes a string representing a function and converts between an arrow function and a regular function If th...

Adám

5:46 PM

@cairdcoinheringaahing Nothing. It acts as an escape character to use the primitive instead of the cover.

Unrelated String

@cairdcoinheringaahing I think it is

(really nice use of ḅ- by the way)

caird coinheringaahing

...Of course, because subtracting from a range is just... a range...

I can do good smarts :P

Unrelated String

originally I had RU in there but then I remembered you're taking the absolute value at the end anyways

Sandbox Posts

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

When's the Listening Party? A listening party is an event where a bunch of people get together to listen to some music (like a viewing party, but for music). In the age of the internet you can do Listening Parties online with friends, where you just all hit play together. The problem is on the i...

Sandbox Posts

6:09 PM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Greedy queens sequence code-golfsequencechess Challenge Implement the "greedy queens" sequence (OEIS: A065188). Details Taken from OEIS page This permutation is produced by a simple greedy algorithm: starting from the top left corner, walk along each successive antidiagonal of an infinite chessbo...

emanresu A

8:14 PM

Please add codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/233894/100664 to unaprreciated posts list. The question was unanswered for five years.

Also, this is eligible for someone's bounty/

caird coinheringaahing

@emanresuA (and to anyone else) Please drop these in the CGCC Blog Room as well, so that it's easier to find them when the next blog post is written up

caird coinheringaahing

8:53 PM

Does anyone know what "computation of {n}(n) halts after k steps means" for natural numbers n and k? I'm guessing it has something to do with Turing machines, but the {n}(n) notation is unfamiliar to me

Wheat Wizard

9:15 PM

Context?

caird coinheringaahing

Specker sequences

Wheat Wizard

Oh yeah.

caird coinheringaahing

And in case anyone tries to ninja me, I'm drafting a challenge around them, I call dibs :P

Wheat Wizard

I may have already "called dibs" by asking it.

caird coinheringaahing

This

Wheat Wizard

9:18 PM

I am not certain but my belief is that it {n}(x) is the nth turing machine called with x as input.

caird coinheringaahing

That's what my guess was as well, but I'd imagine that would be listed under the linked article, and I can't find any mention of that notation :/

Wheat Wizard

It is just one specker sequence. I prefer to work with TM as being inputless for discussions of this.

I know I've seen this notation before.

So it's not the invention of a random wikipedia editor.

Browncat Programs

9:44 PM

@pxeger (in case it wasn't clear I was joking :p)

caird coinheringaahing

@BrowncatPrograms Congrats on becoming Browncat

Browncat Programs

?

caird coinheringaahing

You were joking, now you're Browncat :P

Browncat Programs

Oh lol

I thought you just hadn't been paying attention to my username for the last two weeks :p

Unrealted, I discovered an electronics kit in my attic I'd gotten a few years back as a gift but never messed around with, it had two DPDT relays and some of those really cool high voltage toggle switches so I made a few cool things

Unfortunately the breadboard it came with is very old and/or poorly made, so it was extremely difficult to get the jumper wires to connect properly.

caird coinheringaahing

10:08 PM

For some reason, OEIS has sequences for "Square numbers mod n" for 11 <= n <= 100" (A010375 to A010461), all in order, except for A010462 (n = 30) (plus, some numbers are missing)

Apparently, 12 and 16 are the only missing ones ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Browncat Programs

They probably already existed somewhere

caird coinheringaahing

Can't find anything, searching for "squares mod 12" or "squares mod 16"

emanresu A

Most likely uninteresting

caird coinheringaahing

There are also a seemingly random assortment of "nth cyclotomic polynomials", from 28th to 119th

Browncat Programs

@emanresuA But every other number from 11 to 100 is? :p

caird coinheringaahing

10:18 PM

Arguably, 12 and 16 would be more interesting :P

emanresu A

Yeah, mod 16 is just '0 9 4 1 0 1 4 9` repeated

mod 12 is just '0 1 4 9 4 1` repeated

caird coinheringaahing

mod 24 is just 0 1 4 9 12 16 repeated

None of them are more or less interesting than another (except maybe mod 100)

Jonathan Frech

oeis.org/A000012

caird coinheringaahing

> Number of ways of writing n as a product of primes

I guess it's not wrong :P

I do love all the various different ways of saying "all ones", demonstrated in the "comments" section of that :P

Jonathan Frech

Also quite a number of properties appear to hold.

caird coinheringaahing

10:39 PM

@cairdcoinheringaahing Oh, it continues! 120th through to 1785th :P

Sandbox Posts

11:07 PM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Minimally prepend numbers to get a symmetric Young diagram code-golf math integer integer-partitions Background A Young diagram is a diagram that represents a nonincreasing sequence of positive integers using left-justified rows of squares. As an example, 5, 4, 1 is drawn as OOOOO OOOO O A Young...