The Nineteenth Byte

6:03 AM

@HelkaHomba That's an oddly specific number. It'd have to be 7 bars of 4/4 or 9 bars of 3/4, both of which seem quite uncommon

Mars Ultor

@Sp3000 not necessarily

it could also be 27/28 bars of 3/8, 14 bars of 6/8, 9 bars of 9/8 or 7 bars of 12/8

but all those numbers of bars seem uncommon

Helka Homba

@Sp3000 It's for an elevator in Minecraft that plays note blocks in regular intervals on the way up. To reach the height limit exactly 27 "lifting modules" are needed.

Sp3000

I'm assuming the combination of "famous tune" and the small number of bars would narrow it down to mostly nursery rhymes and such, which don't generally have uncommon time signatures (as far as I can tell)

Mars Ultor

@HelkaHomba Screenshot?

Lembik

@MartinBüttner I am not sure how to do that now. Is there any chance you could do it please?

Sp3000

6:07 AM

Is it 27/28 beats or 27/28 notes?

Mars Ultor

Any reason why it can't have more/less?

Lembik

is it possible to find a question you deleted?

Helka Homba

(still in creative)

@MarsUltor More is not an option, since it can't be higher. But less is possible

Mars Ultor

Wait

are they all note blocks?

Also, how are they triggered?

Helka Homba

@MarsUltor Since they look the nicest of all blocks slime blocks can't move

Lembik

6:09 AM

@MartinBüttner worked it out

Helka Homba

@MarsUltor Only one on the side is triggered via pressure plate + repeater

Sp3000

If quavers are okay, you could do 4 bars of "I am the Doctor" from Doctor Who :P

Chris Jester-Young

@Lembik Only ones deleted in the last 2 months, or ones you've bookmarked.

Mars Ultor

@HelkaHomba The one sticking out from the right?

Lembik

@ChrisJester-Young thanks

Helka Homba

6:11 AM

@MarsUltor Yes. I'll probably be building it soon in the PPCG Minecraft Server, if you want to see specifically how it works

Mars Ultor

Shouldn't be too hard to change them to every four blocks

That way it shouldn't be too hard to add quavers/semiquavers

Helka Homba

That wont work, the slime blocks push you up 7 blocks (this is an elevator first and foremost, then a music player)

@Sp3000 beats I guess. Or 27 notes all with the same timing

Sp3000

Same timing makes things hard :P

Mars Ultor

So quavers/semiquavers are probably too much work

Why to the max height though?

Helka Homba

For elytra acrobatics :D

@Sp3000 This would be famous enough...if I knew it

Anonymous

6:19 AM

I would like some feedback on something in this challenge

Anonymous

I believe it's fair to say that all the answers that do system(url); (or equivalent) in the respective languages are trivially related and thus are duplicates

Mars Ultor

Is the elevator automatic?

Helka Homba

Yes

Anonymous

Basically what I'm asserting is that, if there is a bash/batch/other shell language submission of A, other submissions that are simply calling system/exec/whatever with A (or a trivial modification thereof) are duplicates of the first.

Anonymous

Is that a reasonable assertion?

Mars Ultor

6:25 AM

@HelkaHomba Do you mind saving and linking the world?

Sp3000

@Mego I probably wouldn't go that far, but it almost does feel like there should just be a challenge for doing a system call in the fewest bytes

Anonymous

@Sp3000 I'd downvote that challenge for trivialness (triviality?) so hard that even Geobits would be like "damn".

Sp3000

The problem I'm kind of having here is that, for some languages, even if it had a different way of doing the task that doesn't directly use system, it could just be that system is shorter

Mars Ultor

@HelkaHomba If you really want music, it would be easier to choose music by wiring a pressure plate at the start and end to a time query gametime command block, then using that to decide on the number of ticks per note. Then, you wire the music up to start once someone enters, then wire it to the rest of the note blocks with appropriate delays.

Sp3000

I don't think Calka's intending to use command blocks on the server though (might be wrong about that)

Mars Ultor

6:39 AM

Yeah

I know

those are only to count the number of ticks it takes to get to the top

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Q: Are these answers duplicate?

On this challenge, because of the way it is constructed, there aren't many ways to solve the question. @mego has commented on a bunch of answers that directly used a system call "duplicate" (for example, here here and here) Although wrapping code in a system call is a trivial modification, the ...

Helka Homba

@MarsUltor ehh, too much trouble, but you can join the server where I'll build it

@Sp3000 right

PhiNotPi

6:54 AM

Woo! First challenge in a while: codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/76675/…

Sherlock9

Well, Helka, you could do the elevator, and then do an arbitrary-length minecart rail with note blocks

Then you could do a whole song

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@BernardMeurer Yeah, I hate it when people see my golfs with two indentation levels and suggest I switch to Python 2 so I can mix tabs and spaces. Blech

So, I should learn good version control practices I have never really needed it while golfing before, but while making games and my Piet answer to my Josephus question, my version numbers kind of went crazy. Can you guys give me some best practices now so I don't screw it up later? Like when do I pull and fork and so on

Anonymous

@Sherlock9 Commit when you've done something. Push when you need that something to be accessible somewhere else. Fork when you want to work on someone else's something. Branch when you want to make changes to your something without affecting other somethings. Pull when you're ready for those changes to your something to affect your other somethings.

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Q: Identify arborally satisfied point sets

An arborally satisfied point set is a 2D set of points such that, for any axis-aligned rectangle that can be formed using two points in the set as opposite corners, that rectangle contains or touches at least one other point. Here is an equivalent definition from Wikipedia: A point set is sa...

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Anonymous

I structure my VCS by giving each major change/goal its own branch, and using master for pulling those branches together and doing minor changes and bugfixes.

Sherlock9

@Mego Thanks Mego! :D I'm going to bookmark this chat for future use

Anonymous

7:05 AM

I hope my liberal use of the word something has led to you reaching enlightenment about your somethings.

Sherlock9

It will, as soon as I pick up a project to something in.

Anonymous

You could always do some somethings with Seriously! I'm always open to collaboration. Especially if it involves turning the docs from nothings into somethings.

Sherlock9

I'll take a look around. I can guarantee nothing though, as I've never really taken a look at other people's code before

Wait what's the difference between fork and branch?

Anonymous

A fork is someone else's repository that you've forked under your own name

Anonymous

Presumably to do some work and either submit pull requests to the main repo or continue on as a separate project

Optimizer

7:17 AM

Anonymous

A branch is a separate part of the same repository, usually temporarily made for the purpose of implementing major changes or merging pull requests

Sherlock9

Well oops

Probably should have just saved to desktop instead of forked

Optimizer

or you can branork it

Anonymous

You typically will fork a project when you intend to do some work on it and make a pull request to the maintainer(s). Otherwise, simply cloning it is enough.

Anonymous

The only real difference between a fork and a clone is, on the remote end, you get your own repository with a fork

Sherlock9

7:23 AM

Well, I was planning on doing work on the docs, so I guess forking was a good idea. I'm not sure at this point, but I'll just roll with it

Anonymous

Forking was the correct move, yes :)

Sherlock9

Yay!

Quill

8:09 AM

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A: basic python + spark (performance and copy-paste)

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zyabin101

8:31 AM

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8:45 AM

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