The Nineteenth Byte

12:00 AM

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Q: AoCG2021 Day 23: Finding the best seat

Part of Advent of Code Golf 2021 event. See the linked meta post for details. Related to AoC2020 Day 11, Part 2. You enter the waiting area for a ferry, and you see a bunch of people sitting at a bunch of seats. The seats form a grid like this (. is a floor, L is an empty seat and # is an occupi...

Bubbler

> The question you're asking appears subjective and is likely to be closed

Probably the trigger here is "best"

caird coinheringaahing

reaches for the close button :P

user

Heh, I just saw this question and remembered that the equivalent idiom in Marathi roughly translates to "elephant fart fart fooss"

nvm, it's not exactly equivalent, but it's a fun one anyway

Niko

my rep is palindrome now :D

lyxal

12:26 AM

@cairdcoinheringaahing I find the little ¥oʋƊ in your Jelly answer to be more amusing than it should be

You'd

OldSandboxPosts

1:00 AM

Sandbox posts last active a week ago: Challenge

caird coinheringaahing

Ah yes "Challenge", very descriptive

lyxal

mmm yes I have a "bytes" long answer in Language to that challenge

Redwolf Programs

I'm considering answering in language

But it could very well take an amount of time

hyper-neutrino

I think you could save some bytes by golfing

caird coinheringaahing

Potentially, you might have to use a few different builtins

lyxal

1:12 AM

Can't wait for person who mains language to come along and reduce the byte count by yes%

Redwolf Programs

1:34 AM

I just got IRL spam from a college I really want to go to!

Spam is fun when you want to be spammed

And not one of the 20 schools that've sent me email spam in the last two days

That's not even an exaggeration

caird coinheringaahing

@RedwolfPrograms Tell them that if they let you in, you'll improve their email spam so that its less obviously spam :P

Redwolf Programs

But this wasn't email spam! It was actual mail spam!

It means they're willing to spend a whole 2¢ to send it to me

caird coinheringaahing

Oh, that's so much worse :/

hyper-neutrino

who even uses snail mail anymore smh

Redwolf Programs

@cairdcoinheringaahing Nah, I only get mail spam from actually good colleges for some reason

So it's fun to collect it

caird coinheringaahing

1:38 AM

Personally, if I want to "mail" something to someone, I scrunch it up into a ball and throw it in the vague direction of their house and hope

Redwolf Programs

I mean it's kinda cool that you can just write someone's address on a piece of paper, put a sticker on it, drop it in a box, and it'll show up at their mailbox in like a week

user

Imagine not immediately throwing away spam from good colleges because you know you won't get in :P

@RedwolfPrograms ~~Very convenient for spreading anthrax~~

caird coinheringaahing

@user This is how you get your own personal visit from the FBI :P

user

Cool, and I was afraid no one would come over for Christmas! :P

Do you think FBI agents prefer chocolate cookies or brownies?

~~You can put anthrax in both equally well~~

Wezl - a cautionary tale

@user idk but personally I'd rather have a brownie with anthrax than a chocolate cookie with anthrax

user

1:54 AM

I'd rather have a brownie than anthrax

Wezl - a cautionary tale

what a coincidence, me too!

lyxal

Don't ya just hate it when your drink bottle is too big to fit into the drink bottle slot on your backpack?

pxeger

dammit this isn't vim

Wezl - a cautionary tale

ikr

usually I accidentally use tmux commands rather than vim commands. Fortunately my browser ignores control-b

caird coinheringaahing

@pxeger damn, you were one mod diamond away from shutting down chat smh

pxeger

1:56 AM

does :q do that?

user

My backpack's drink bottle slot is torn open on the bottom so I have to use my mouth as a container :(

Wezl - a cautionary tale

@lyxal it's definitely the backpacks falt

pxeger

or were you joking

user

@pxeger No, :q holds no power here, it's a mere emoji

@pxeger Careful...

hyper-neutrino

:q

pxeger

1:56 AM

lmao

user

Lyxal's right here :P

caird coinheringaahing

@pxeger If it does, I'm very scared of mods :P

user

@hyper-neutrino emoticon, whatever

hyper-neutrino

@user lol

caird coinheringaahing

@pxeger No, I've been caird coinheringaahing for the recent past

lyxal

1:57 AM

Gotem

caird coinheringaahing

I was Dude coinheringaahing and Chartz Belatedly, but those were a while ago

Juantro17

hi

lyxal

@Juantro17 hello there

Juantro17

what are you talking?

lyxal

Just general conversation relating to the world of code golf

Wezl - a cautionary tale

2:32 AM

licensed under CC0 if you want it

Redwolf Programs

@Niko Wait you're okie?

How did it take me like a month to realize this

@hyper-neutrino The classic "I wonder what my nose tastes like" emoticon

Imagine if COVID-19 was like DVD-R and DVD+R, where COVID+19 did the same thing but you had to buy two immune systems since they're technically incompatable because sony made one of them

Inspired by the most recent xkcd tooltip

I find it oddly fun to poke around in the inner workings of online interpreters by running console.log(require('fs').readdirSync("."));

You can make a cheating quine in TIO with console.log(require("fs").readFileSync(".code.tio","utf-8"));

pxeger

2:47 AM

@RedwolfPrograms use Zsh, and just do ls :)

Redwolf Programs

Well, I had to do that when I was poking around in ATO :p

pxeger

there's nothing there, muahaha

it's all ~~hidden~~ one directory up

ato.pxeger.com/run?1=m724qjhjwYKlpSVpuhYrc4oVdHMSFfT0IHyoMEwaAA

Redwolf Programs

CMQ: What are your must-have languages for an online interpreter? Preferably less common ones; stuff like JS, Python, Jelly, Ruby, Haskell, etc. are obvious choices

pxeger

Zsh 5.8

Python 3.10

Ruby 3.0

Node 17

basically I want everything to always be very up to date

Redwolf Programs

Oh, that's a good one

I wonder if things like nvm exist for other languages...that could be an easy way to automate keeping them up to date

pxeger

2:55 AM

rvm for ruby (which I think nvm was based on, actually)

I think there's one for Python but noone uses it because Python's just that good and has very few breaking changes

Python's also very easy to build from source

user

@RedwolfPrograms Java, C, C++ are very commonly used (unless you're talking specifically for golfing, and even then they're pretty common)

I like Husk and Scala, so those would be nice to have too

Oh nvm you want less common ones

Redwolf Programs

Those are good too though, Scala's one I wouldn't have thought of

user

Having both Scala 2 and 3, on all three platforms (JVM, JS, native) would be pretty good

Redwolf Programs

How different are the platforms?

user

Then the various APLs

@RedwolfPrograms Not super different, honestly, although Scala.JS allows some drawing stuff, I guess

Redwolf Programs

3:04 AM

Well that's not super useful in a text-based online interpreter lol

user

Ah ok

There are big differences between Scala 2 and 3 though, it'd be great if you could support both once you have the time

Redwolf Programs

And the good thing about RTO's model is that even if I ignore you and don't add any Scalas at all, you can just add them yourself :p

user

Wait really? :o

Redwolf Programs

RTO's being designed to be updatable, even in the long-term abscence of its maintainers

And people can add their own esolangs at any time

user

How would that work? People have access to write to your server?

Redwolf Programs

3:08 AM

(They have to go through some approval stuff first of course)

@user There'd be a few ways you can do it, docker images being one

Or, if the language your interpreter's written in is already installed, you can have that language's image call your interpreter

E.g., you could write brainfuck.py, and then just submit it and whenever somebody runs brainfuck code it'd spin up a python instance and run brainfuck.py in it

Everything is, of course, safely sandboxed, so a malicious language wouldn't be able to do much, but there's going to be an approval process

user

Wouldn't someone be needed to approve PRs, though?

Also, time to go PR a modified version of ATO's Scala image(s) :)

Redwolf Programs

Not PRs, it's uploaded through the site

user

Oh

ATaco

3:26 AM

@RedwolfPrograms Lua. Can't live without it.

lyxal

@RedwolfPrograms what if it's too big to upload?

Redwolf Programs

Umm...is there a specific languages you have in mind?

lyxal

Probably vyxal

Redwolf Programs

How big is it?

lyxal

Last time I checked its 30mb maybe

Probably mote

*more

Redwolf Programs

3:37 AM

Those are rookie numbers

The Node image is over a gigabyte

(It comes with a full debian install)

lyxal

But I more mean generally what if there is a language someone wants to add but can't upload for some reason

Redwolf Programs

It's hard to answer that, there's just too many unknowns

lyxal

Would there be a way to just link the github/gitlab/whatever repo and have that cloned locally?

Redwolf Programs

Possibly, that's a good idea

lyxal

@RedwolfPrograms example: someone can't download the language files needed because they don't have enough space on their own computer or they don't want to have the files locally

Also, will there be options to have multiple language versions at once?

ATaco

3:40 AM

I miss TIO. I hope Dennis is doing okay.

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Redwolf Programs

@lyxal Yes, definitely

I'm adding a feature where every language can have variants, such as different versions, or CPython vs. PyPy type stuff

ATaco

Is the intention only major languages, or would esoteric/golf languages be within scope?

Redwolf Programs

All languages will be within scope

lyxal

@RedwolfPrograms Would there be a limit on how many subversions allowed?

Redwolf Programs

Possibly, but if so, it'll be a large number

lyxal

3:42 AM

Because I know python 3 has quite a few fun little subversions

Redwolf Programs

For common languages like Python or Vyxal, especially if a small linux distro like Alpine is used as the base, I'd probably be fine with close to a hundred

lyxal

Oh

Well dang

Ooh I have a feature suggestion

People can also add pre-loaded examples for languages

Basically the "Hello world" button on TIO but customisable

Redwolf Programs

Ooh, that's a great idea

I was also planning on having an "info" tab along with "run" and "post", for docs and explanations of examples

lyxal

How about also on screen keyboards for sbcs languages

Redwolf Programs

That could also be a good idea, although it probably won't be in the initial release

lyxal

3:47 AM

Also, customisable themes stored locally with cookies or something

That would be cool

Redwolf Programs

Eh, seems like anyone who cares enough to customize the theme would already have a userstyles extension

lyxal

Not necessarily

It'd be for people who aren't good with css

Like me

Fmbalbuena

4:09 AM

what is xkcd webcomic?

Redwolf Programs

It's what it looks like for the most part

Fmbalbuena

xkcd 724

^ funny comic

Redwolf Programs

Please don't onebox that

Just do [xkcd 724](https://xkcd.com/724/)

Fmbalbuena

done

Redwolf Programs

Thanks, idk why chat oneboxes them so big

Fmbalbuena

4:13 AM

what is xkcd?

What do you mean?

what is xkcd???

xkcd.com/about

5:00 AM

Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but... how does hyper's CodeReview.SE answer about Vyxal have syntax highlighting on the code blocks? There doesn't seem to be any language specification. Does CR try to guess a language automatically?

lyxal

I thought language guessing was a standard part of SE networks

DLosc

IDK, I mostly hang out here and on non-programming stacks. Do our code blocks try to guess a language? I've always thought you had to specify one explicitly if you wanted highlighting.

lyxal

That's the thing though... TIO always inserts the highlighting scheme at the top of languages in applicable answers

Someone would have to experiment

BRB gonna go commit science

Looks like it doesn't guess

DLosc

I'm pretty sure I remember somebody editing one of my old (pre-TIO) Python answers just to add syntax highlighting

Bubbler

@DLosc The syntax highlighting framework tries to guess the language (from the list of known languages for it) from the given block of code. To entirely disable syntax highlighting, you need to insert a comment line  or something

or specify none as the language in the triple-backtick block

lyxal

5:10 AM

But it doesn't seem to do that here

E.g codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/205046/78850

I edited out the default tio highlight rule and now it doesn't have any colour

Bubbler

Idk the specifics, you could ask a meta Q about it

DLosc

C(R)MQ: How many esolangs have tags on Code Review? I know I've seen questions there in BF, Lolcode, and Vyxal

Just found one for Befunge (with a grand total of one question, plus a question about writing a Befunge interpreter)

Bubbler

5:27 AM

One in ><>

emanresu A

php /s

Bubbler

I see nonempty tags for ArnoldC, Dogescript, Whitespace (I'm browsing all tags starting from the last page)

emanresu A

And V

Concerning

Bubbler

That V is not the esolang V, but a practical V

emanresu A

Oh

Bubbler

5:32 AM

2 questions in Pyth

polyglot is a surprising tag on code review lol

Not exactly an esolang but also TIS-100

Too bad "spl" is not Shakespeare Programming Language

COVID-19 really?

DLosc

@RedwolfPrograms A word that epitomizes the trouble with English spelling: impinging (especially when you compare it with pinging) :P

hyper-neutrino

you can figure out most pronunciation through tough thorough thought though

emanresu A

ಠ_ಠ

Bubbler

@DLosc Went through half of the tag list and looks like that's it - BF, Lolcode, Vyxal, Befunge, ><>, ArnoldC, Dogescript, Whitespace, Pyth

DLosc

Not bad, not bad

emanresu A

6:03 AM

in Advent of Code, 40 secs ago, by hyper-neutrino

yeah i really don't understand how the fuck my code isn't working like i fucking hate coding so much why did I choose to do this with my life

Sandbox Posts

6:15 AM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Encode some integers with some others code-golf integer array Input an non-empty array of positive integers. Output another non-empty array of positive integers which encode the input array. Output array should not contain any numbers used in the input array. Output array may have same length or...

Bubbler

AoCG notice: Challenge posting volunteers appreciated for 24th and 25th (details in the link)

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Riker

6:34 AM

@Bubbler i'll take one of them, 24th should work, if nobody else claims it

lyxal

@Bubbler 25th

Redwolf Programs

6:51 AM

Something went really wrong somewhere

emanresu A

7:51 AM

...

Razetime

@Bubbler i'll take 25

Bubbler

@Razetime You're too late lol (though having a backup is always great)

Razetime

did not even notice lyxal

hyper-neutrino

8:14 AM

When reading this I didn't expect it to be you having posted it lol — emanresu A 18 mins ago

@emanresuA why not lol

emanresu A

Because it's not the type of challenge you usually write, and maybe also 'cos you haven't posted a challenge since July?

hyper-neutrino

ah. well i took the idea from wezl cuz he didn't want to put in the effort to properly formulate/formalize it lol. so yeah, your intuition was right

also huh, has it actually been that long?

emanresu A

hyper-neutrino

oh. huh.

pxeger

@RedwolfPrograms is this reproducible?

hyper-neutrino

8:20 AM

that's not too surprising tho tbh; writing challenges takes a lot of motivation compared to answers (or at least, more than I have)

emanresu A

rot13.stackexchange.com is my favorite site

lyxal

> You can change the ratio and move the points

Imma change my L to a W

pxeger

@Bubbler does this need to be pinned, given we've got 2 volunteers already?

@pxeger this can also be unpinned now, since LYaL is over

pxeger

8:52 AM

codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/a/19289

??

for <10k users

Niko

@RedwolfPrograms lmao yes

PyGamer0

@pxeger ah yes my favorite language null null null

Niko

and my question is closed again lol

pxeger

"Randomly choose 2 number" - this needs further specification. Does it have to be a uniform random distribution? Must they be independently chosen? — pxeger 8 hours ago

Niko

@pxeger I think adding statistical independent solve this problem?(according to the link)

pxeger

9:02 AM

> Does it have to be a uniform random distribution

Niko

oh

uniform statistically independent?

pxeger

if you just specify that they should be chosen uniformly that's fine

Niko

I think the current version of the question ring the bell right?

:)

Bubbler

@pxeger I decided to keep it in case the volunteers failed to show up, so anyone else can catch it and move the challenges

PyGamer0

9:36 AM

ok i am finally gonna make a flax room

Unrelated String

> flaxing

PyGamer0

ok so is "flaxing" is a good name for the room?

CMP: Room names for flax?

flax

Discussion about flax. Github: github.com/zoomlogo/flax. Docs: ...

what is sparse(?

Unrelated String

¦

Razetime

9:51 AM

@PyGamer0 github.com/DennisMitchell/jellylanguage/search?q=sparse%28 this might help

Unrelated String

i'd advise thinking of one or two less messy replacements because there isn't much to love about the current behavior of ¦

PyGamer0

ok

Unrelated String

a version which forms a list out of nothing but the elements at the selected indices, applies the link to that list, then masks those back on would probably ideal

PyGamer0

what is split_rolling(?

Unrelated String

would be insanely good for a few string challenges

PyGamer0

9:54 AM

> string challenges

cough cough there is no strings

lyxal

10:08 AM

@UnrelatedString so basically apply at certain indices

Unrelated String

ye

¦ is apply at given indices but it does so by applying to the entire list then masking the before and after together

hyper-neutrino

yeah... like wtf is this lol

same with the at-odd and at-even; they all work like this

lyxal

@hyper-neutrino is that supposed to replace the items with their length?

hyper-neutrino

nope, it takes the length of the whole list and replaces elements at those indices with that value

it looks like it's supposed to replace items with their length

but that isn't how it's implemented

granted, this is actually fairly reasonably designed because you can just stick a euro after the L and the other way around would not be possible

lyxal

@hyper-neutrino wait tf?

That doesn't seem very helpful / golfy

hyper-neutrino

10:15 AM

i don't think i've found a proper use for that functionality yet

either i just use euro or the thing i do vectorizes anyway so it doesn't matter

sticking a euro after it doesn't always work either because it will then run it on each index and mask, so if there are any errors thrown you can't bypass those

Unrelated String

^

emanresu A

> I won't change my username and avatar in the near future. - Bubbler (Source)

Cat week go brr

Lyxal said the same thing...

lyxal

But I didn't get elected now did i

emanresu A

True lol

I voted for you

lyxal

Thank you

But I'm fine with not having gotten RO status

Imo Vyxal's popularity this year seems like a reasonable trade off

emanresu A

10:28 AM

True lol. We've had >1k answers and 26 users learnt it, although most of them answered once or twice

Wait 26?

26?

Yep

×_!

(Note, the one at the bottom is a CW polyglot answer which I edited vyxal into)

PyGamer0

10:34 AM

@emanresuA how is velay going?

emanresu A

Might come back to it at some point

Vyxal's functions are somewhat less portable than I thought they were.

lyxal

First world problems: The fan I use has an oscillate button on its remote control but I had it rotated in a way that meant the head wouldn't fully rotate to point at me when automatically oscillating meaning I had to manually rotate it myself

I felt so strongly about ^ that I decided it was in my best interests to tell everyone

emanresu A

Patched the query and there's actually 27+allxy

emanresu A

11:08 AM

o/ slep

PyGamer0

○/

⍤/

lyxal

11:52 AM

okay so here's undeniable proof that we are in a society:

'we' can be represented by unicode array [119, 101], where each number is index of character in unicode table
Array [119, 101] has 2 items in it
'in a society' can be represented by unicode array [105, 110, 32, 97, 32, 115, 111, 99, 105, 101, 116, 121], where each number is index of character in unicode table
Array [105, 110, 32, 97, 32, 115, 111, 99, 105, 101, 116, 121] has 12 items in it
Number 12 is even, just like 6 is
Alright, so now 'we' = 2 and 'in a society' = 6
Take a closer look at number 2, which represents 'we'

generated here

actually, here's a better proof that we live in a society:

'we' can be represented by unicode array [119, 101], where each number is index of character in unicode table
Array [119, 101] has 2 items in it
'a society' can be represented by unicode array [97, 32, 115, 111, 99, 105, 101, 116, 121], where each number is index of character in unicode table
Array [97, 32, 115, 111, 99, 105, 101, 116, 121] has 9 items in it
Alright, so now 'we' = 2 and 'a society' = 9
Take a closer look at number 2, which represents 'we'
2D car has 2 wheels
A car has 4 wheels
4 is a first non-prime natural number

Neil

12:21 PM

1 is the first non-prime natural number

Adám

0 is feeling unnatural

lyxal

12:37 PM

3

4

@Razetime ^

Razetime

literally me rn

lyxal

so now when people ask "what's the (raze)time", you can say it's 3 o'apl

Razetime

12:53 PM

neat

lyxal

@lyxal almost a whole year later and I'm still asking what the hell is this?

PyGamer0

@lyxal i see 2x-1

is it two x minus one or two x dash one?

lyxal

first one i think

but that's not the point

"I Am A Parasprite" ☾𝔼𝕀𝕃𝔼𝕄𝕆ℕ𝕋𝕐☽

►

user

It’s a paraspriye

PyGamer0

or a paracute

@lyxal explain

lyxal

1:00 PM

(l)ooks (g)ood (t)o (m)e

PyGamer0

ah

i was thinking it was lgtm.com lol

also i have a bot on the flax room

in flax, 58 secs ago, by PyGamer0

PyGamer0 closed PR: #2

see

it works like a charm

Aaroneous Miller

lol

lyxal

@PyGamer0 the bot seems a little broken

it's seems to maybe be offline

that's not very big shot of the bot to be offline

PyGamer0

wdym its online

lyxal

ii'mma go slee pnow

o/oo/

PyGamer0

1:14 PM

o/o///ooo///oo///lllll

PyGamer0

1:34 PM

@emanresuA when are you changing your name to name A user?

flawr

2:47 PM

@emanresuA or A Meaner Us.

PyGamer0

uh

github.com/flax-lang/flax

eh

ok i am advertising flax (the tacit one) on my about on discord lol

Razetime

3:03 PM

good for you

Fmbalbuena

3:41 PM

hello

DLosc

3:53 PM

@PyGamer0 Or reuse A man

4

DLosc

5:40 PM

Well that's an appropriate HNQ

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Redwolf Programs

6:11 PM

@pxeger It happens every time yeah (until I rebooted), I think it's a side effect of when I stackoverflow'd chrome during AoC

Almost everything I tried to do resulted in a segmentation fault or bus error, including closing the terminal lol

@pxeger That null null null null spam was everywhere

A lot of stuff got vandalized with it

At least two posts

Wait that's not really everywhere I guess

caird coinheringaahing

6:33 PM

All the answers to the nominations thread at the time got vandalised

Redwolf Programs

Okay I have done a shockingly large number of things wrong when choosing hard drives for my server lol

1. They're SSDs and my server does not support SSDs (aside from high end enterprise ones)
2. They're SATA and my server doesn't even _support_ SATA (so no idea how they've worked this whole time)
3. They're like $40 knockoff consumer grade drives, when you're supposed to have special server ones

I mean tbf I set this all up in 6th grade but...how has it worked this long without failing lol

TFW a single drive for your server is going to cost twice as much as the server itself

(It was a used server for like $80 lol)

Oh hang on, that's a scam. They're actually three times more if you get it from a reputable seller.

Guess I'm not setting up a RAID 10 array lol

DLosc

6:53 PM

@RedwolfPrograms Oh dear.

Redwolf Programs

So for a second I was like "eh, it might just be worthwhile to switch to Azure/DigitalOcean at this point" and then I looked at the price for that lol

Looks like I'm going to have to get a job somewhere sooner than I thought :p

Yeah at Azure/DO you pay like $40/TB/mo, so I suppose a one time payment of $250 for a 1 TB hard drive isn't too bad

DLosc

Should I edit this question to say CGCC instead of PPCG?

Redwolf Programs

Probably not, we have nearly 700 posts mentioning PPCG so we probably shouldn't set a precedent for changing them all

DLosc

7:10 PM

When I flag a chat post as spam/offensive, do I get to specify which one it is?

Redwolf Programs

No

It just asks you if you're sure, then flags it

If it's a situation where it could be unclear why it's being flagged, a mod flag might be a good idea

DLosc

Hmm, okay

I mean, I don't think it's a "serious issue that requires moderator attention." Maybe I'll just try telling the person to stop first.

Announcement: I have increased the deadlineless bounty for Pip answers from 50 to 100 rep!

caird coinheringaahing

8:03 PM

@DLosc the distinction doesn't even matter on the main site. The only difference between spam flags and R/A flags are where they're shown in your flagging history

hyper-neutrino

in fact, unless you're a mod, retracting one red flag doesn't even let you cast the other, lol

user

8:18 PM

CMC: Guess the context of this image

emanresu A

... NFT piracy?

user

(mostly useless) Hint: An earlier part of the video had the horse dragging the box, which was tied to the back of the horse with a long rope

@emanresuA lol no

Adám

@user Watching a video on YouTube.

user

ಠ_ಠ

emanresu A

thanks, google

user

8:22 PM

That is surprisingly good for a computer, though

emanresu A

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Q: How do know what i got wong when i ask a question

My gramer is pore because of learning disableitys. And my questions get auto flagged as pore a lot with no feedback on how to fix them. What do i do?

discussion

:(

Redwolf Programs

9:36 PM

Okay, if you wanted to buy four hard drives for your server, would you buy four new ones, or five refurbished ones?

The four new ones would be just a tiny bit more expensive, but there's the advantage of being able to buy one two pack at first to ensure compatibility

user

@emanresuA :( Even if their posts are good (no idea if they are because I haven't checked their account), people would probably think "Spam!" first whenever they see that

pxeger

I don't think hard drives often have a problem with compatibility

@RedwolfPrograms same capacity?

user

Although this person claims to use spellcheck and got all that wrong lol

Might be a troll

pxeger

and what filesystem/redundancy system are you planning to use

Redwolf Programs

@pxeger Yeah, they're all 1 TB drives

@pxeger I've got a pretty ancient server, with a pretty cheap RAID controller, so it does weird stuff with unofficial drives

pxeger

9:47 PM

ah, hmm

Redwolf Programs

I'll probably go with a 2-pack for now, and set up RAID 1. If at some point I need better performance and more storage, I can buy another and upgrade to RAID 10.

According to the manual the RAID controller doesn't even support SATA, so I'm a little confused as to how a pair of $40 SATA SSDs has managed to (halfway) work for the last three years

lyxal

Only SATA? Golly, that's not very Christmas of them. smh should be SANTA

Redwolf Programs

Hmm, but if I am planning on upgrading to RAID 10, it'd be worth going with the 5-pack since I save a few dollars and have an extra in case one fails...

flax

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