The Nineteenth Byte

Sp3000

4:01 AM

@Doorknob Don't say I haven't given you a chance in the past month or two >:D

quartata

@El'endiaStarman \o/

El'endia Starman

Well, minor detail: if you start with Slow and then Stop it, when you click Start again, it will finish what Slow started and will stop once n steps have been done. At that point, Start will again run forever.

Alex A.

@Sp3000 Yeah, where have you been?

Doorknob

@Sp3000 Oh, I'm fully willing to concede that the fault is mine. Quite the visible plateau. :P

... speaking of which, my PPCG rep finally surpassed my SO rep.

Sp3000

@AlexA. Been doing a bit of work this summer

Alex A.

4:04 AM

@Sp3000 Nice. What kind of work?

El'endia Starman

@Sp3000 I was confused for a moment until I remembered where you live. :P

Sp3000

Programming internship, all the joys of Java

Calvin's Hobbies

@Doorknob Is there a way to find out how rep will change if meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/7683/… gets implemented?

Doorknob

Jan 1 at 22:52, by Doorknob 冰

Calvin would gain roughly 16k-17k rep if question upvotes were +10

Sp3000

@El'endiaStarman Yes El'endia, I live in a glorious country where we're lied to as kids because, unless you're in the mountains, there sure ain't such a thing as a White Christmas here :P

Doorknob

4:05 AM

(data.SE query linked in the subsequent message)

El'endia Starman

@Sp3000 hahaha :P

To be fair, basically no one in the USA got a white Christmas this year.

It was above 60 degrees F where I live.

Sp3000

Oh?

Alex A.

@Sp3000 That's great! Congrats on your internship! :D

El'endia Starman

@Sp3000 Yep. Trees had started to bud because of the unusually warm weather.

Sp3000

(thanks :) )

Calvin's Hobbies

4:07 AM

@Doorknob That's crazy. I'm not sure I deserve that

Sp3000

Ah k... did snow happen some other time of the year or something? Or just no snow where you are?

El'endia Starman

Given the extreme cold snap last night (went down to 11 F, -10 C), probably a lot of damage has happened to trees and plants...

Oh, actually, we got snow yesterday.

Totally unexpectedly.

(Except perhaps for people who watch forecasts.)

Doorknob

@Calvin'sHobbies For all you've contributed to PPCG, I sure think you do

Zach Gates

@Doorknob How can you check that lol

Doorknob

4 mins ago, by Doorknob

(data.SE query linked in the subsequent message)

Calvin's Hobbies

4:09 AM

data.stackexchange.com/codegolf/query/418330/…

It would put me third after Martin and Dennis :O

Sp3000

question_rep_worth = (user == "Calvin's Hobbies") ? 10 : 5

Zach Gates

oh

Doorknob

I would gain about 6k, if the change were made. Which is a pretty significant amount

I wonder if I could find the most affected users

El'endia Starman

I'd gain ~600.

Doorknob

but my SQL-fu probably isn't good enough for that

Calvin's Hobbies

4:13 AM

Would epic and legendary badges be updated as well?

Doorknob

yep

For all intents and purposes, question upvotes would have always been worth +10

Zach Gates

I'd gain 862

Calvin's Hobbies

I still don't know if it should be done though. In an average question I can get double the upvotes of the best answer, which makes it seem about fair how it is.

Doorknob

Questions are often way harder to write than answers, though

Zach Gates

^

Good questions*

Doorknob

4:17 AM

@Geobits, @anOKsquirrel, @Hipe99: got your time capsule entries

Calvin's Hobbies

@Doorknob Yet getting SE's attention about is harder :( No responses to meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/8030/… or meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/7683/… (I think)

Poke them with you beak @AlexA.

Alex A.

I'll peck them alright, but my weakness is birdseed.

Calvin's Hobbies

@Doorknob Just noticed that your new knob has no rod

TanMath

4:32 AM

@Dennis no...it is correct...

Dennis

@TanMath It isn't. It prints -215... and the correct answer is -2.139995e+34.

TanMath

@Dennis really? the last time i checked it was correct...

Alex A.

@Doorknob I modified it to do all users at once but it timed out. :/

with RepChanges as (
    select p.OwnerUserId,
        v.CreationDate,
        SUM(case
            when v.VoteTypeId = 9 then v.BountyAmount
            when v.CreationDate > p.CommunityOwnedDate then 0
            when v.VoteTypeId = 1 then 15
            else 0
        end) as Uncapped,
        SUM(case
            when v.CreationDate > p.CommunityOwnedDate then 0
            when v.VoteTypeId = 2 and p.PostTypeId = 1 then 5
            when v.VoteTypeId = 2 and p.PostTypeId = 2 then 10
            when v.VoteTypeId = 3 then -2

Dennis

@TanMath Oh, your output is a fraction. It should be -1215233140483755572040304994079820246041491/56786730 then, not

-215342626674582763973031116417153301788322227803720067055154434863477482647960‌2543/100627634217132023236667548601233807434055680000

.

TanMath

@Dennis weird... i think it prints the right decimal but...

Calvin's Hobbies

4:40 AM

@AlexA. How about inputting a list of user ids, instead of just one?

Alex A.

Hm, that could be doable. I might try that in a bit.

Dennis

@TanMath Yes, the result is probably close, but the question only allows approximate results for decimal output. The problem lies in the floating point division you perform, which loses precision.

quartata

Looks like I would get about 900 rep.

Dennis

That's more than I would get.

El'endia Starman

@AlexA. What about the top 100 or so?

@Calvin'sHobbies Your experience is very skewed because you mainly write really good challenges.

Alex A.

4:44 AM

s/mainly/always/

Dennis

Nah, there was that closed one.

El'endia Starman

@AlexA. He's also written a few answers.

Dennis

Even the legendary Calvin's Hobbies cannot write a code bowling challenge.

Calvin's Hobbies

@El'endiaStarman Top 100 users by rep if a hardcoded json helps anyone (@AlexA.)

@Dennis I've tried...and failed

Dennis

@Calvin'sHobbies The rodded model was judged as too phallic.

Calvin's Hobbies

4:47 AM

@Dennis Seriously?

Dennis

Yes. The new one looks like it has a nipple though.

Dec 17 '15 at 0:51, by Alex A.

6/10 very phallic

Alex A.

I stand by that assessment

Dennis

I don't disagree.

Alex A.

data.stackexchange.com/codegolf/query/422506/…

^ top 100 by current rep

Calvin's Hobbies

Well Alex is a bird, he would know about cocks

Alex A.

4:50 AM

@Doorknob ^^

Calvin's Hobbies

(I'm sorry)

Alex A.

FYI Doorknob I'm not alerting you to my supposed cock expertise

Dennis

Jan 5 at 1:34, by Doorknob

O @AlexA., master judge of phallicness: n/10 how phallic is my new profile picture?

El'endia Starman

@AlexA. Can you add another row for the gain?

Alex A.

@El'endiaStarman Sure, gimme a sec

El'endia Starman

4:52 AM

s/row/column/

TanMath

does anybody know how to convert a Fractions object to float shorter than float() in python 3?

it is for this BtW:

2

A: Bernoulli Numbers

Python 3, 184 225 221 194 193 191 bytes This is based on Mego's example implementation, except golfed further. EDIT: Fixed and working now. Just here as a reference since most bytes for Python 3. EDIT: Now beating Sherlock9's answer. Thanks @quintopia! EDIT: The last two statements -> one sta...

El'endia Starman

*1.?

Alex A.

@El'endiaStarman data.stackexchange.com/codegolf/query/422508/…

El'endia Starman

Excellent!

Alex A.

How much would your reputation increase if question upvotes were scaled to +10? Find out here!

11

El'endia Starman

4:55 AM

Ah, 735 for me.

Alex A.

355 for me. ._.

El'endia Starman

I'm towards the upper end of the list. Interesting.

Alex A.

Nevermind, proposal not worth it, going to tell SE to forget about it. :P

Calvin's Hobbies

My actual is 2k less than my estimated :/

Ampora

If upvotes on questions are scaled to +10 (5 more than currently, how can users go up by amounts not equivalent to 0mod5?

Alex A.

4:56 AM

@Calvin'sHobbies SEDE doesn't update more than like once or twice a week I think

El'endia Starman

@Ampora Repcap.

Ampora

Calvin goes up 16981 for example

Dennis

@Ampora Rep cap.

bearmonkey'd

Ampora

Isn't that divisible by 5 too? Or can a user hit repcap, get a downvote, and get another upvote to get repcap again?

TanMath

how do i find myself?

Alex A.

4:58 AM

@TanMath I ordered it by descending current reputation and restricted it to the top 100 users by current reputation. If you're not in that list then you can fork the query and modify it accordingly.

Dennis

@Ampora Yes. If you earned 198 rep one day and one of the question upvotes is suddenly worth more, you get 200.

Alex A.

\

Ampora

Got it, thanks

Sp3000

(hit my keyboard as I was moving my laptop)

Calvin's Hobbies

@TanMath Use data.stackexchange.com/codegolf/query/418330/… and put in your user id

Alex A.

4:59 AM

Oh, do that ^

Dennis

@AlexA. Mind telling me how you get +355 for posting three challenges, while I get +780 for 27? :P

Calvin's Hobbies

@TanMath You'd be bumped to 852 total rep about

TanMath

mine would increase by 210 rep!

yes...

Ampora

Oh hey I'm in the top 200 overall now :)

Alex A.

@Dennis uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh caching?

I'm told that caching is to blame for most things.

TanMath

5:01 AM

@El'endiaStarman gives different results than float()

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. Can you add a "number of repcaps" column?

El'endia Starman

@TanMath ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

PhiNotPi

Onside kicks are one of the greatest (and sketchiest) things in football.

Alex A.

@Calvin'sHobbies For practical purposes, no. The only way I could think to do it is more annoying than I want to do right now.

Calvin's Hobbies

:( And here I was about to make an "alex-is-never-wrong" challenge...

Alex A.

5:06 AM

Not sure if trolling..

Calvin's Hobbies

Never!

Zach Gates

alex-is-always-right :)

Alex A.

Oh wait, actually I think it might not be too hard

Calvin's Hobbies

(making people write code for you on PPCG is way too easy ;D)

Alex A.

@Calvin'sHobbies ಠ_ಠ but still here: data.stackexchange.com/codegolf/query/422511/…

Dennis

5:10 AM

@AlexA. jsfiddle.net/wtezyr5w/embedded/result

El'endia Starman

Estimated number of repcaps for me: 5.

....how many questions have I posted?

10.

So I'd rep-cap from half of my questions after the change? :P

Alex A.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. But dennis has legendary so must have 150+, but it says he would have 141

But it's ok :)

Alex A.

Disclaimer: My query may be heinously incorrect. Take all numbers with a grain of salt.

El'endia Starman

Yeah, and the estimated gain is 780 for Dennis.

Something's wonky.

Alex A.

5:12 AM

(grain of salt)

Zach Gates

alex-is-wonky

Alex A.

^ truth

Dennis

@El'endiaStarman jsfiddle.net/wtezyr5w/embedded/result

Alex A.

Wonky since day one, son.

TanMath

1

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Create a CleverBot! Tags: code-golf string natural-language CleverBot is a conversational AI that works fundamentally by repeating responses from real humans it has heard previously. It starts off pretty dumb, but once the database becomes (a lot) larger it begins sounding more like an actual p...

cool sandboxed challenge

Calvin's Hobbies

5:14 AM

@AlexA. or an asteroid?

TanMath

^

more like a really icey comet!

Alex A.

@Calvin'sHobbies It's a well known fact that all asteroids are at least a little salty. Some are spicy too.

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. I'm not rich enough to go to asteroid tastings :/

TanMath

it isn't an asteroid!

it is a comet!

Zach Gates

I thought it was an asteroid at first haha

TanMath

5:16 AM

asteroids are made of rocks!

Alex A.

They're mad at rocks? :P

TanMath

and comets are made of ice!

@AlexA. huh? reread the message! reread it!

Alex A.

I know, I saw the edit

TanMath

i accidentally wrote mad instead of made...

@AlexA. i know you know...

Calvin's Hobbies

Say, were the asteroid shapes in the arcade game generated on the fly?

I'm guessing no (just mushrooms and broken pacmen)

Alex A.

5:18 AM

The number of rep caps was even wronger than it should have been: data.stackexchange.com/codegolf/query/422512/…

(That's what happens when you don't take into account getting exactly 200 in a day)

But anyway, the above query ^^ has a slightly less wrong number

quintopia

I need 8 totally different types of challenge: math/sequence, string/kolmogorov, matrix/graphics, interactive, graph theory, lists/arrays, ... name two more

(popular ones)

Code bowling

image processing

@AlexA. downstarred

@AlexA. +1 for me. :P

quintopia

5:21 AM

@Calvin'sHobbies falls under graphics or graph theory

Alex A.

@El'endiaStarman Note that the rep caps listed in the query is the number of times you will have ever rep capped, not just due to the increase.

El'endia Starman

That makes much more sense.

Zach Gates

I'm not even on there heh

Calvin's Hobbies

@quintopia then graphical-output (they are very different)

Dennis

Popularity golf: Most downvoted answer wins.

Alex A.

5:22 AM

@ZachGates data.stackexchange.com/codegolf/query/422513/…

quintopia

@Calvin'sHobbies are they? maybe.

Alex A.

Selected more than 100 users and now you're in there

Zach Gates

Awesome!

7 caps :D

quintopia

then i need one more

Calvin's Hobbies

@quintopia Facial recognition is different (and harder) than drawing gradients, for example

Alex A.

5:24 AM

> herder

quintopia

so what's my eighth challenge type?

Alex A.

herding

Calvin's Hobbies

@quintopia Are these for you to make? or do you mean to solve existing challenges?

El'endia Starman

@quintopia King of the Hill?

Calvin's Hobbies

@quintopia interpreter (or regex/parsing kinda thing)

quintopia

5:28 AM

@Calvin'sHobbies the latter

Dennis

Hey, we know that guy.

78

A: Why does the smallest int, −2147483648, have type 'long'?

In C, -2147483648 is not a constant. 2147483648 is a constant and - is just a unary operator applied to it. Incidentally, the constant 2147483648 does not fit in an int (it's one too large, 2147483647 is typically the largest integer) and thus has type long, which causes the problem you observe. ...

FuXXXllzl!

Close enough

yep

@Calvin'sHobbies I'm trying to classify built-ins in terms of what types of challenges they tend to be used most often for. I think King of the Hill falls under 'math' usually. 'interpreter' falls under 'string'

Calvin's Hobbies

5:30 AM

How about "data and memes" Like a list of english words, or geographic data, or ways to rickroll people.

chemical elements, etc

Alex A.

A rickrolling built-in is pretty much mandatory in any modern language

quintopia

@Calvin'sHobbies seems pretty mathematica-specific, but I suppose it's true enough.

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. HTML6 requires half of all youtube pages to redirect to youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Dennis

@AlexA. ಠ_ಠ

Alex A.

@Calvin'sHobbies As it should be

@Dennis Better get to work adding one to Jelly

Dennis

5:34 AM

status-declined

Alex A.

:(

Rick Astley will be very disappointed

Calvin's Hobbies

Yes he will be

Alex A.

He's never going to give you up, so why are you so willing to give him up?

weeps

Dennis

Calvin's Hobbies == Rick Astley confirmed?

Alex A.

Calvin's Astley

Calvin's Hobbies

5:37 AM

Still better than being @ಠ_ಠ

Alex A.

You mean you aren't @ಠ_ಠ?

Dennis

No, @ಠ_ಠ is @ಠ_ಠ.

Alex A.

@ಠ_ಠ

Dennis

Trying to flood @ಠ_ಠ's inbox, aren't you?

Alex A.

Who, me? Or do you mean @ಠ_ಠ?

Dennis

5:43 AM

You, not @ಠ_ಠ.

Alex A.

~~@ಠ_ಠ~~

quintopia

kicks everyone's Astley

Alex A.

Oh god, you got me right in the Ricks

quintopia

you have more than one Rick?

agog

Optimizer

~~@AlexA.~~

Alex A.

5:45 AM

@quintopia I am the MULTI-RICK

@Optimizer Where have you been? You haven't posted anything on the main site in ages.

Dennis

~~removed~~

Optimizer

@AlexA. I am in the jungle. connectivity here is not good

quintopia

@AlexA. I mean, I wasn't going to say anything, but there may need to be an airing of grievances about what a huge Rick you've been being

Alex A.

@Optimizer Like you're actually in the jungle, or you're trolling?

Optimizer

trolling

Alex A.

5:46 AM

@quintopia :(

@Optimizer Oh. Okay. I was about to get all excited and ask you jungle questions.

quintopia

@Optimizer just roll with it

Optimizer

I am

quintopia

Opt, Opt, Opt of the Jungle, WET as he can be...

Optimizer

you're on a roll ..

Zach Gates

ba ba da ba

ba BA da ba

quintopia

5:49 AM

@Optimizer like toilet paper, baby

TIL one can type unprintable characters in Notepad++ with C-q, C-w, C-e etc.

Alex A.

@ETHproductions Japt feature request: s/\t/ / your source code. :P

quintopia

how about s/\t/\t\t\t\t/? SO MUCH READABLE

El'endia Starman

I guess I'm gonna stick with tabs just for the annoyance factor... :P

Dennis

@AlexA. status-declined, status-ಠ_ಠ

Alex A.

@Dennis That reminds me of a certain gelatinous language whose source code could also use a tranformation ;)

quintopia

6:01 AM

@Dennis Jelly feature request: auto-golfer. A compiler which takes a valid Jelly program and produces the shortest program that does the same thing.

@Dennis Also a halting problem solver

Dennis

@quintopia No problem. I won't promise you speed though.

quintopia

what's a fast-running command to filter all lines containing non-alphabetics from a file?

(e.g. should process a few hundred megs in under an hour)

or else, what is the right tool for the job? grep?

Zach Gates

MBs?

Alex A.

@Dennis No problem? o_O

El'endia Starman

@AlexA. Probably a simple brute-forcer.

Alex A.

6:15 AM

@quintopia sed/awk/bash

Dennis

28 secs ago, by El'endia Starman

@AlexA. Probably a simple brute-forcer.

Alex A.

oh

El'endia Starman

I'm going to encode the grid in Variations of Life as a mixed-base number for the permalink. This will be fun. :P

Zach Gates

I'm going to sleep, see you all in about 6 hours

El'endia Starman

G'night!

Alex A.

6:36 AM

The cats are so pissed.

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. That's so mean :G

Alex A.

Right?

Basically animal cruelty

The cats are like, "Do you think this is a fucking joke?!"

Calvin's Hobbies

/feeds all cats a potato

Alex A.

(I really hope he gave them a treat or something after that debacle)

El'endia Starman

hahaha

Calvin's Hobbies

6:49 AM

While were on the subject: Dogagram

Alex A.

@Calvin'sHobbies I want this as a poster on my wall.

Or tattooed to my chest.

Calvin's Hobbies

I'm trying to pick a favorite

Alex A.

Calvin's Hobbies

@AlexA. Puppy Puzzle

(@El'endiaStarman likes these maybe)

Alex A.

I'm awful at this kind of puzzle

Calvin's Hobbies

7:01 AM

El'endia Starman

7:13 AM

By the way @AlexA....

quintopia

@Calvin'sHobbies it would be nice if they'd chosen a middle color for the background, like pink or blue, so that the features of the white dogs don't vanish

El'endia Starman

agreed

Calvin's Hobbies

7:34 AM

Let's see if this works: everybodyedits.com/games/PWftLC7hpRbEI Join the "Natural planet" world

El'endia Starman

I have no idea how to edit.

Calvin's Hobbies

me neither (I'm the one with the tongue)

El'endia Starman

I think one has to have an account for that.

Calvin's Hobbies

How about this - collaborative drawing? flockdraw.com/ge803u

join us @AlexA. @quintopia -> flockdraw.com/ge803u

El'endia Starman

8:19 AM

source (lots of gifs)

But that one up there is by far my favorite.

Optimizer

what is this?

El'endia Starman

A water pump that uses...tides, I guess, but any rhythmic motion will do.

When the outside water level (to the left) drops, the low pressure causes the water on the left side of the structure to be siphoned upward, where it flows into the basin of the next level up. When the outside water level rises again, the high pressure pushes the water up on the other side into the basin of the next level up. It eventually gets to the pipe and flows out.

I guess you could think of it like a sump pump. Build one of these in the wall of a coastal city and the tides and waves pump out any water inside. I doubt that's actually what it is, but that would be one possibility.

Lembik

9:07 AM

added some tips to codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/69154/…

FlagAsSpam

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Any updates to the user script for PPCG?

My eyes are bleeding.

El'endia Starman

9:55 AM

PERMALINKS IMPLEMENTED!!! :D

~~Wah, clicking on it from here breaks it. I'mma fix that right now.~~ FIXED! :D

feersum

I love how informative C++ I/O exception messages are.

ios_base::failbit set: iostream stream error

El'endia Starman

Another interesting pattern.

And here's @PhiNotPi's wire CA system.

Pietu1998

10:22 AM

public class SuperMarioBros {
    boolean marioIsAlive;

    public void playMusic() {
        while(marioIsAlive)
        do do do do do do do ;
        while(marioIsAlive);
        while(marioIsAlive);
        while(marioIsAlive);
        while(marioIsAlive);
        while(marioIsAlive);
        while(marioIsAlive);
        while(marioIsAlive);
    }
}

El'endia Starman

@PhiNotPi Implemented! :D

Aaaaaaand it's time for me to head to bed.

Calvin's Hobbies

@El'endiaStarman Can you do wireworld?

El'endia Starman

@Calvin'sHobbies Not yet!

I'll have to figure out how to change the interface for that, though.

Alive/dead states is kinda hard-coded at this point.

Plus the rule specification. It's not as straightforward as B3/S23.

Lembik

10:45 AM

hi @flawr

New Sandboxed Posts

10:56 AM

0

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Find the capacity of 2D printed objects code-golfsequencearray-manipulation In a fictional 2D world, a set of 2D printing instructions for an object can be represented by a list of integers as follows: 1 4 2 1 1 2 5 3 4 Each number represents the height of the object at that particular poi...

Lembik

11:07 AM

this chat needs a way to tell you when people are normally awake :)

a bar chart of activity by time... maybe a coding challenge? :)

Calvin's Hobbies

@Lembik chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/240/the-nineteenth-byte

The info page I mean

Lembik

@Calvin'sHobbies interesting... is that bar chart for chat?

Calvin's Hobbies

Yes. Message frequency per day and per week on average. Every chatroom has one

Lembik

very nice

thanks

zyabin101

11:42 AM

7 hours ago, by Alex A.

How much would your reputation increase if question upvotes were scaled to +10? Find out here!

They only show rep for the 200 best people on the chosen q-and-a-website. :?

Calvin's Hobbies

@zyabin101 Use data.stackexchange.com/codegolf/query/418330/… with your user id

You'd be at 84

zyabin101

@Calvin'sHobbies Oh, good. With +10 per question upvote I'm able to set bounties but have not enough to set one successfully (needs 125 rep for a bounty of +50)

Calvin's Hobbies

It would probably be faster to get the rep naturally. Who knows when and if that rule wile be applied.

New Meta Posts

0

Q: Is there an official policy on what counts as an art contest?

I'm really confused about what the rules are regarding the popularity-contest tag, and the notion of an "art contest". I have an idea for a challenge, but I wasn't sure if it would be accepted, so I asked a meta question to help me understand the current state of affairs. However, I'm really con...

discussion

New Main Posts

12:04 PM

2

Q: Paint the Mona Lisa in 1k of code

Here is a picture of da Vinci's Mona Lisa. Click here for a larger version. Your task is to reproduce the Mona Lisa in 1024 bytes or less. You will write a program that takes no input and loads no files, and outputs an image file. The rendering section of your program will be no larger than 10...

popularity-contest graphical-output

Doorknob

@AlexA. maybe try SELECT TOP <n> instead of just SELECT

@AlexA. oh, never mind, you did that :P

Calvin's Hobbies

Why do we dislike art contests again?

Doorknob

@El'endiaStarman nice! :D

@Calvin'sHobbies why do we dislike popularity contest in general? why do we dislike code trolling? why do we dislike challenges that aren't solved with programming skill but with something else?

AIUI the term "art contest" is used to refer to a [popularity-contest] [graphical-output] whose main winning criterion is "look pretty"

Calvin's Hobbies

Art skill is still interesting to see, and will always require a little programming skill for the things we do

Doorknob

maybe, but that doesn't make it on-topic

Calvin's Hobbies

12:17 PM

@Doorknob Ok. I get the case when anything pretty is the target, that's plainly too broad, but for a specific target image, one could argue knowing compression algorithms are more important than knowing art

Lembik

what is the etiquette about answering your own challenge?

I have some very simple code that is better than all the current answers currently :)

Calvin's Hobbies

@Lembik Go for it

Lembik

@Calvin'sHobbies thanks.. maybe I should just add it to the question?

rather than as an answer

Calvin's Hobbies

Nah, unless you really really want to emphasize it as an example. Don't clutter the question and get additional rep for your coding work

There is no shame/taboo about answering your own challenges

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Lembik

@Calvin'sHobbies I added it to the question by way of motivation.. See how trivial it is :)codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/69154/9206

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