The Nineteenth Byte

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12:39 AM

Having now experienced two of them, I've concluded that I find eclipses slightly terrifying.

You walk outside and something seems just a bit wrong. The sky isn't quite the right color of blue; it should be brighter. But your brain chalks it up to the fact that you're wearing sunglasses--or maybe there's a wisp of cloud over the sun. Except there's not; there aren't any clouds around. Odd. But it's probably nothing.

Then, as you walk, you start to notice there's something strange about the shadows. But not all of the shadows. Your own shadow looks perfectly normal. The shadow of a bare tree looks... off, somehow. You can't describe what's wrong with it. Then you come to a tree with…

I wasn't sure if anyone else would feel the same way, or if we're all too cool to be afraid of solar eclipses anymore. Then I saw that Vi Hart posted a video today, saying much the same thing. I'm glad I'm not the only one.

OldSandboxPosts

1:00 AM

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noodle man

1:28 AM

@RydwolfPrograms idk i thought it was pretty

caird coinheringaahin g

@RydwolfPrograms It was so fun here in Seattle, where the weather decided that, in the recent spell of clear skies and sun, today would be the right day for clouds

Seggan

@DLosc yeah the not-darkness of a partial eclipse is weird

@DLosc its intended to be a black hole :P

i found the original hi res version of it i made:

Someone

1:49 AM

@cairdcoinheringaahing heard that same thing happened in Texas

New Posts

2:00 AM

Sometimes, when everyone else is sleeping, I like to go to the fridge and take the butter out. Not to eat it or anything. But to just, like, admire it. I'd spend all night looking at it, but then the fridge starts beeping at me so I have to go back to bed.

Ginger

2:29 AM

@Someone yup :(

lyxal

2:56 AM

@NewPosts next greatest hit just dropped

for some reason, the beat drop goes hard

l4m2

@NewPosts Get an air condition rather than open fridge door. Fridge move heat still in your house.

l4m2

3:28 AM

Any game don't use screen but the 3 leds on keyboard? Obviously remember the sequence can be made

Ginger

bold of you to assume a given keyboard has LEDs d:

my keyboard doesn't have any, except for one that lights up briefly when it turns on

l4m2

$5 keyboards usually have LED

Maybe $2 ones don't?

My laptop keyboard has Caps and Num but not Scroll.

Dannyu NDos

Never knew keyboards were that cheap.

'Cause, for me, it's my dad who does all hardware works.

lyxal

4:10 AM

star if you too would like to be software tested

l4m2

4:22 AM

Why do someone buy bombed keyboards?

emanresu A

4:35 AM

@lyxal Wrong onebox

lyxal

5:00 AM

I intentionally chose a screenshot :p

Because it cut the full title off at the funniest place

zoomlogo

5:15 AM

@lyxal did you make that?

its AI generated?

lyxal

It is

l4m2

5:34 AM

Did anyone create code-golf question about showcase, and add tag showcase?

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l4m2

8:17 AM

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/193773/76323
I can use QASS??5 than WS??DA?S to input PASS

and PASSRD??3 for PASSWORD, does it work on other emacs?

1 hour later…

emanresu A

9:25 AM

Good that they're open to feedback I guess

l4m2

/searchQuestion repeatedlyRemoveSubstringPattern([t,-t])

emanresu A

Q: Collapse the antistring

In this challenge you will be given an alphabetic string as input. We will define the "anti-string" of a given input to be the string with the case of all the letters inverted. For example AaBbbUy -> aAbBBuY You should write a program that takes a string as input and searches for the longest...

(not quite)

The Empty String Photographer

/searchQuestion chingSao

3 hours later…

Someone

12:23 PM

New Posts

Q: Fixed Repeating Output

Fixed Repeating Output is a challenge originally invented by Esolang user AnotherUser05 which shows that a language supports loops and I/O Challenge A program that solves the challenge has to do these steps in order: Reads a decimal integer x from any sort of input (e.g.: STDIN, file) Then, prin...

code-golf

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Someone

2:52 PM

I FINALLY ANSWERED A CODE GOLF QUESTION—

zoomlogo

3:26 PM

@Someone congrats!

Someone

golflang people when the code is longer than 10 bytes:

@Someone me when I can't spell longer:

Seggan

4:06 PM

today in Comment of the Day:

Any magic or science that can be distinguished from the other is insufficiently advanced. — keshlam 19 hours ago

Someone

4:33 PM

woah

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emanresu A

6:20 PM

TIL about facebook.stackoverflow.com

Seggan

7:15 PM

...

emanresu A

(used to be a separate SE site where facebook devs would answer facebook-related questions. 2012 was weird)

Seggan

ah yes fun

Neil

7:34 PM

there is nothing significant about 170003 apart from perhaps the run of three zeros

emanresu A

8:26 PM

@Ginger Since TST's freezing is coming to an end soon, can I borrow your chat-downloading script to do some statistical analysis?

(and hopefully not get IP-banned / crash chat again)

RubenVerg

halfway to hello world!

DLosc

Any feedback before I post this?

emanresu A

Looks good

Always ending with an element of the first list feels a bit odd to me, but it does make the challenge spec more consistent/interesting

Ginger

9:12 PM

@emanresuA uh, it's a flaming pile of garbage

so I'll have to clean it up

emanresu A

I don't need anything fancy, I'd just prefer not to have to manually index the last two months of messages

DLosc

@emanresuA Part of the reason for that is to make zip-based solutions harder. For example, if the output ended with an element of the second list, zc would be a solution in Brachylog.

Though maybe what you're saying is end with the last element of the longer list?

emanresu A

Yeah, that feels like the more natural behaviour to me, but it's your challenge and ending with an element of the first will probably make it more interesting

New Posts

10:08 PM

Q: FizzFizzFizzBuzz!

Given a positive integer n, output the "FizzFizzFizzBuzz" sequence for that number: print the decimal representations of the numbers 1 through n, separated by newlines, however: If the number is divisible by both 3 and 5, instead of the number output Fizz the number of times it can divide by 3 w...

code-golf integer fizzbuzz

Rydwolf Programs

Pro tip: "I've been indicted more times than Al Capone" isn't a great comparison to make when you're trying to seem innocent 💀

Rydwolf Programs

10:54 PM

Wait I might have just thought of a loophole to be president of the US for multiple decades straight

Seggan

what is it

Rydwolf Programs

The 20th amendment, section 3, states that if the president-elect doesn't yet quality for president, the VP-elect is president until then. So if you ran as VP with a newborn child on the ticket for president, you'd be president until the child is 35.

emanresu A

It wasn't originally constitutionally required, but presidents who served two terms have traditionally followed George Washington's example and gotten false teeth.

The last panel especially

Seggan

@RydwolfPrograms The Supreme Court is about to vote 9-0 to block your number

Rydwolf Programs

Oh y'all don't even wanna hear my idea with regards to the 22nd amendment

@emanresuA oh I love that obe

emanresu A

10:59 PM

Although y'know... if you were president for 35 years, would your body have been fully recycled by then?

Seggan

turnover half-life

DLosc

11:44 PM

@RydwolfPrograms So I think this still wouldn't work. The 12th amendment says "no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President," and the 22nd amendment says "no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once" (emphasis added).

Though I'm sure that if someone tried it, they'd argue that being ineligible to be "elected to the office of the President" doesn't imply being "ineligible to the office of President"... :P

The more practical way to do it would be to pick some loyal follower and have them be the president and you be the vice president who actually pulls all the strings. Then in eight years, you pick a different loyal follower. There's no term limits on the vice presidency.

(This, of course, assumes that your loyal follower doesn't start developing their own ideas once they're president... aaaand once again we've got a bunch of good material for a series of political thriller novels.)

@RydwolfPrograms Also, of course, you'd have to keep picking new children to be president, since each one can only be elected to two terms. ;)

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