The Nineteenth Byte

PyGamer0

7:00 AM

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ah i forgot which plug detects indentation and sets tabstop and shiftwidth to that

^ this plugin is the best

the notify plugin

user

@Razetime ye

pxeger

@user yeah, VS code is surprisingly snappy given it's an electron app

user

I will admit that it’s gotten a little slower since I installed a bajillion plugins, but it’s still barely noticeable (and not even close to, say, Atom)

pxeger

you think Atom's slow? Try IntelliJ lol

user

Yeah but Intellij is an ide

pxeger

7:13 AM

VS code is so much faster even when configured as an IDE

user

And it’s not really laggy, unlike Atom (although it eats into ram)

@pxeger True

hyper-neutrino

is atom rly that laggy lol

user

There are some features from IntelliJ that I miss in vscode but they’re not too necessary and/or wouldn’t take from performance too much if added

hyper-neutrino

i don't really notice issues with it, have i just never tried a good editor before

user

@hyper-neutrino It is to me idk

@hyper-neutrino That’s possible

Razetime

7:16 AM

intellij is just much fatter in general

user

I mean you may never have tried a fast editor (bit atom seems to be a good editor otherwise)

pxeger

yeah I don't think Atom's that slow, although I've never really used it for a long time

PyGamer0

intellij eats up memory

Razetime

atom is cool but github is microsoft now and vscode is the same thing

user

Yeah

PyGamer0

7:17 AM

and IntelliJ is not an ide for J as the name suggests :/

pxeger

the other big advantage to using Vim is that it runs in the terminal so I don't have to context-switch as much when I'm using it

user

Protip: don’t repeat my mistake and run three jetbrains ides at once

Razetime

you don't need IDEs for array languages

user

@pxeger and you can use it over ssh too right

pxeger

yeah that's true

VS code can work over SSH as well though

PyGamer0

7:18 AM

@Razetime cause they are intuitive?

user

I’m kinda looking forward to Fleet which will supposedly be able go between editor and ide. Won’t be ready for a long time though:(

Razetime

oh yeah jetbrains

@PyGamer0 no, because they have barely any code and little to analyze

user

@Razetime i mean you don’t truly need ides for anything, editors with some linting+find declaration are enough

PyGamer0

fleet looks like VSCode on first glance

Razetime

honestly the only thing i'd recommend IDEs for is Java and C++

Java because its package management and build systems are bees

user

7:21 AM

The bee’s knee’s you mean

pxeger

the solution to that problem is to just not use java

not to use an IDE

user

Gradle is great

@pxeger that’s not an option for many

Vscode has decent java support

Razetime

gradle decides that it wants to do its job after 30 seconds

pxeger

@WheatWizard can I use a language that encodes programs as single integers and just score using log256(program)?

user

Yeah it’s slow to start but once the daemon’s started it’s okay

Also that doesn’t require an ide

pxeger

7:24 AM

if your package manager requires a daemon running to be usable, it's pretty badly designed

user

All ypu need for java is autocomplete +macros to write that awful boilerplate for you

@pxeger it’s not really a package manager lol (which is probably bad)

PyGamer0

@user and a debugger?

user

Idk how you save jars to maven local without running wn annoying terminal command

lyxal

@pxeger that just sounds like stax/any other source compression language except maybe a few byte savings

user

@PyGamer0 sure, i was mostly kidding before

emanresu A

7:59 AM

o/

lyxal

8:24 AM

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pxeger

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emanresu A

8:53 AM

How do you do images on mobile?

pxeger

in chat? I don't think you can directly upload

without manually switching to the desktop site

but you can just paste the URL

lyxal

pxeger is correct

Either switch to desktop version of the site or paste the link

emanresu A

Oh well :p

I was going to show y’all how bad SE is at rendering tables on mobole

PyGamer0

^ my nvim statusline (partially yoinked from eviline)

PyGamer0

9:24 AM

in Vyxal, 18 secs ago, by PyGamer0

you know what, imma gonna apply for deepsource, for flax

also i officially have 2⁴ followers on github

xnor

@pxeger might it work to do lambda x:"0".join(x).join(x)?

pxeger

@xnor how would you recover the length of the input list in that case?

xnor

9:43 AM

I don't know, but I don't know how to find a collision either

pxeger

well [1, 11] gives the same output as [1101111] (both give [1101111])

it works if I include the length of the list as a second element in the encoding

xnor

ah right anything that maps singletons to themselves is doomed

pxeger

> This integer is trivially guaranteed to be larger than any of the integers in the input

I really didn't think this through

xnor

it was a nice idea

PyGamer0

10:42 AM

fun fact: If someone upvotes my answer or question i will have 800 reputation

lyxal

12:52 PM

I swear birds have gotten away with corrupting the justice system - they get away with things like property damage, aggravated assault, theft, jaywalking and being a public nuisance yet they never get arrested nor do they get sentenced/fined in court.

just another reason birds don't make me happy.

but really though you'll be driving along a road and birds will just be standing there dangerously just standing there

if a human did that, they'd be yelled at and in some places fined

but the birds just get away with it

and then there's all the times birds poop on things like cars, statues, benches, all that sort of stuff

if a human ever did that, it'd be on the front page of the daily mail

(admittedly, 99% of the stuff on there is nonsense/tabloid stuff)

but when a bird does it, people just say "birds do be like that"

wizzwizz4

You're not allowed to shoot humans, but I hear a lot about pigeon shooting.

Birds don't have it all good.

lyxal

I'm talking about suburban birds

like the ones in the city and at the beach

and of course, they never pay taxes

who knows what else they do?

heck, some of them probably run international drug empires right under the noses of everyone.

wizzwizz4

I think this is unlikely.

So will you if you know what's good for you.

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lyxal

can't believe I just got threatened by birds

maybe it is time for bed

o/

pxeger

that was not a threat, it was merely a nugget of advice

\o

PyGamer0

1:09 PM

\oo/

@lyxal i think @wizzwizz4 is a bird ;p

PyGamer0

1:21 PM

ok is blockchain based on a doubly linked list?

wizzwizz4

@PyGamer0 No, singly-linked.

It can't be doubly-linked unless you have a time machine.

pxeger

> is blockchain based

no, it is a buzzword

caird coinheringaahing

@pxeger No, all my homies use physical cash, blockchain is cringe

wizzwizz4

If you want a “blockchain”, just use Git. It's better at pretty much everything blockchains can do.

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And you have support for merging, too!

PyGamer0

ok so whats the difference between a blockchain and a singly linked list?

pxeger

1:23 PM

I wonder if there's a simple P2P protocol you could glue git to to get a nearly fully functional blockchain

PyGamer0

does it use hashes instead of pointer to the next node?

pxeger

@PyGamer0 blockchains are supposed to be cryptographically verifiable

blockchains are generally distributed, so they use hashes instead of pointers

PyGamer0

what its that simple?

wizzwizz4

“Blockchain” is barely an invention.

pxeger

well the definition of blockchain itself is pretty simple

merely blockchain a functional cryptocurrency does not make

wizzwizz4

1:25 PM

The cool part of Bitcoin is the thing about a coin melting pot, not the cycle-burning double-SHA2 thing.

PyGamer0

and i thought blockchain means a chain of lego bricks :P

wizzwizz4

That's a blockstack. Very different thing.

I suppose you could make a chain out of Technic pieces, but those aren't blocks.

PyGamer0

@wizzwizz4 you can attach blocks to those technic pieces

wizzwizz4

I'm convinced.

All hail (LEGO®-brand) Blockchain!

pxeger

@wizzwizz4 shouldn't it be a blockdequeue, since you can easily push and pop blocks onto/from both ends?

wizzwizz4

1:30 PM

@pxeger One of the ends is attached to one of those massive boards.

PyGamer0

we are discussing about Lego Data Structures lol

how would a Lego binary tree look like?

wizzwizz4

2:27 PM

I assume it would be implemented on a Lego Turing machine.

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