The Nineteenth Byte

user165474

6:00 AM

lesson learnt: TNB = !PRODUCTIVITY

Anonymous

@Adám People will still argue about the vailidity of choices

Adám

@Mego No matter. 'tis a dupe anyway.

Phoenix

TNB keeps having these stupid discussions. My favorite is "But is C really TC???"

ais523

actually, that question is a perfect example of how to win a popcon: write an answer that obviously works but also obviously has ridiculous side effects that are fairly hard to remove

Jan Dvorak

@Phoenix isn't this why most of us stay here? :-D

Phoenix

6:02 AM

Didn't say it's a bad thing

Jan Dvorak

@ais523 The worse, the better. #PPCG

ais523

nah, I had a stock answer to the "is C TC?" question way before I joined TNB

Anonymous

@Phoenix You almost nerd-sniped me.

ais523

if you want pointless arguments about C's TCness there are plenty of other places to have them :-D

Anonymous

@ais523 cough compsci.se cough

ais523

6:03 AM

(in many of which it's actually fairly fundamentally ontopic, as opposed to here where it's tangential)

Jan Dvorak

C is not a language as per PPCG's definition.

Phoenix

Can't see reply targets @mego

user165474

2 mins ago, by Phoenix

TNB keeps having these stupid discussions. My favorite is "But is C really TC???"

Anonymous

@Phoenix Sorry?

Phoenix

I don't know what you replied to

Anonymous

6:04 AM

What do you want me to do about that?

Martin Ender

@LeakyNun don't know. I might lurk but I don't think I'd be generally active. more importantly, why would you invite me to a French chatroom o_O

user165474

Exactly what I just did, I guess. Maybe?

Jan Dvorak

C is not a language as per PPCG's definition because it's a family of specifications while languages on PPCG are defined by implementation.

user165474

:I

ais523

<Phoenix> Can't see reply targets @mego ← see, I miss IRC's way of doing things, all this fancy stuff with reply linking and the like just serves to increase the number of ways things can break

Leaky Nun

6:05 AM

@MartinEnder when did I invite you to a French chatroom?

user165474

(downvotes and VTD's like 5000 answers)

Phoenix

I don't see how that would nerd snipe someone considering we bring it up every week or so

Anonymous

@JanDvorak Sure, but C (gcc) is, which is what most answers use

Jan Dvorak

Which gcc? :-D

Martin Ender

@LeakyNun sorry, misread my notifications, it may have been someone else

ais523

6:05 AM

most of our C answers don't even work in compilers other than gcc and clang

Anonymous

@Phoenix The TC-ness of C is not something that is brought up every week in here (at least, as far as I've seen)

Anonymous

@JanDvorak gcc 6.3.1, chosen for no reason other than the fact that TIO uses that version

Jan Dvorak

It uses that version now :-D

Phoenix

Fine, every other week. Seriously it happens all the time.

Jan Dvorak

And now you've called in another round :-)

Phoenix

6:08 AM

Yep

user165474

New language idea: "Unspecified". Its implementation is "gives the correct answer to the challenge"

Anonymous

@HyperNeutrino Loophole

user165474

ik

ais523

Esolang has tons of variants on that already

Phoenix

Also how to implement

user165474

6:08 AM

onvm

user165474

@Phoenix I don't think it's possible lol

Phoenix

Exactly

user165474

Hi @Potato44

user165474

lol I was joking

user165474

(oh wait user can't reply aww)

ais523

6:09 AM

why does it even show people joining a room if they can't talk in it?

Phoenix

Loophole idea: Create a script that indefinitely posts commits of a language where the code is encoded in the version number.

Anonymous

@ais523 Why not?

ais523

because the information is slightly detrimental to the user joining (as other people will find out what they're up to), and no real advantage to anyone else unless they're doing something nefarious

Jan Dvorak

@Phoenix Github would kick you out pretty soon

Anonymous

@Phoenix If someone is willing to go to that kind of insane effort, I'd rather send attack drones.

Leaky Nun

6:11 AM

53

A: Loopholes that are forbidden by default

Using MetaGolfScript MetaGolfScript is a family of programming languages. For example, the empty program in MetaGolfScript-209180605381204854470575573749277224 prints "Hello, World!". It is similar to using extra command line arguments, where they should also count as characters. And using the ...

already a thing

ais523

@Phoenix I had a similar idea, a golfing language with a builtin that returned the commit hash of the interpreter used to interpret the golfing language interpreter

so you could say "LoopholeLang, running on Perl 5.14.3-insert long commit hash here"

and use it to hide a bunch of bits somewhere that people don't normally check

user165474

tfw you realize you've been listening to the same song on repeat for like an hour

Anonymous

@HyperNeutrino Welcome to my brain

user165474

lol

Anonymous

I constantly have a song (or, more frequently, a repetitive/catchy bit from a song) playing over and over in my head

user165474

6:17 AM

I have a song playing on repeat but I'm concentrating on trying to outgolf Leaky Nun in Jelly for a challenge so my brain drowned it out

Leaky Nun

@HyperNeutrino which challenge?

user165474

in Jelly Hypertraining, 2 hours ago, by Leaky Nun

J+þ`-*
J=þ`œp€⁸;/€
Ç€Çż/€ÆḊZ÷ÆḊ×Ñ

Leaky Nun

oh, good luck with that

user165474

thanks, I'll need it :D

Phoenix

I've once listened to the Broforce theme for 14 hours straight while working on a project. That's nothing.

(ok, I did eat, but still)

user165474

6:21 AM

Public Survey: What's the longest amount of time you've spent working on a programming project without stopping (except for breaks)?

ais523

too long to keep track of

Anonymous

@HyperNeutrino Do naps count as breaks? Does 8 hours of sleep at night count as a break?

ais523

if you count sleeping and then resuming when I wake up as a break, I know for a fact that I've done at least 3 days, and strongly suspect I've done much more

user165474

ok to define break, I mean going to the washroom, eating, going for a walk to prevent brain death, playing pool for a bit to prevent brain death, etc.

user165474

My longest was pretty short

Phoenix

6:23 AM

36ish hours without sleep. Programming competitions are fun times.

user165474

o.o nice

Anonymous

@HyperNeutrino That didn't answer my question

Anonymous

Well, either of them

Phoenix

Longest break was going to a 7-11 for coffee for our team.

user165474

@Mego right sorry, definitive answer is if the nap is shorter than like 3 hours or so then sure but otherwise longer it's too long for a break

Anonymous

6:25 AM

Then probably 15-ish hours

user165474

ah ok

Phoenix

To be clear, the competition lasted a year. We just procrastinated. A lot.

user165474

:o

Jan Dvorak

If you define "fun" as sleeping at your keyboard, sometimes literally...

user165474

My longest was about 17 hours; my first hackathon and only so far (virtual hackathon)

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6:27 AM

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Q: Make a ;# transpiler

Related to: Make a ;# interpreter In the above linked challenge the task was to create an interpreter for the esoteric language ;#. The ;# language The language has exactly two commands: ; and # (all other characters are ignored by the interpreter): ;: Increment the accumulator #: Modulo the...

code-golf

Anonymous

23 minutes... That's really late

Jan Dvorak

I suggest shooting NMP dead and replacing him with a Smokey clone.

user165474

Have NMP watch realtime rather than RSS

Anonymous

Eh, we don't really need realtime post notifications

Anonymous

Within 15 minutes is fine. Within 30 minutes is still fine (but then we have an excuse to pick on the poor feeds bots, even though it's not their fault).

Jan Dvorak

6:33 AM

It totally is their fault...

Phoenix

But without real time notifications how will I snipe close votes ;-;

user165474

I mean, not realtime as in it updates every realtime update, but like have NMP look at realtime and whenever it sees a question whose ID it hasn't seen before, report it here

user165474

Better idea: Have Smokey come here, make the PPCG filter so insane that it will report every single question. Done.

Anonymous

@HyperNeutrino .* isn't very insane

Jan Dvorak

We probably don't want to dump these to metasmoke, though

user165474

6:37 AM

True. Undo ~~may~~ will hate us

user165474

@Mego true :P but that will catch answers and edits as well

Anonymous

@JanDvorak We can make our own version and call it metasnoke

user165474

:I

user165474

well i need to go to bed now if I don't want to die (more than usual) tomorrow

Arjun

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Q: Golf you an anagram for great good!

The Task In this challenge, your task is to write some code which outputs one of it's anagram chosen randomly but it should never output itself. Elaboration Given no input, your program should output any one of the anagrams of it's source code. But, your program should never output it's own ...

code-golf quine permutations anagrams

user165474

6:38 AM

@Arjun NMP will take care of that for you

Arjun

It's always so late. :P

Anonymous

Please don't steal the bots' thunder. They don't have much thunder, so they need it all.

Arjun

bot's thunder?

Jan Dvorak

We need better bots, with more thunder

You know, celtic thunder

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Q: Golf you an anagram for great good!

The Task In this challenge, your task is to write some code which outputs one of it's anagram chosen randomly but it should never output itself. Elaboration Given no input, your program should output any one of the anagrams of it's source code. But, your program should never output it's own ...

code-golf quine permutations anagrams

Arjun

6:41 AM

Here it comes!

Anonymous

Can you hear, can you hear the thunder?

Jan Dvorak

... or that :-)

Arjun

Should we have regex golf like this?

Jan Dvorak

@Arjun Once it's done once it will be overdone in no time

Arjun

But it'll be fun!

Martin Ender

6:45 AM

there are several regex golf challenges like that. if you want to write a new one, I'd suggest looking at those and seeing if the new challenge brings anything novel to the table.

Arjun

We can set a rule like Only for users with 1k rep or above

Martin Ender

what.

Anonymous

That's a terrible idea. That's possibly the second-worst idea I've ever heard.

user165474

What's the worst then?

user165474

Actually, if it's worse than that, I'm not sure I even want to know.

Arjun

6:47 AM

Sorry :P

Anonymous

@HyperNeutrino "hey what if there was stuff"

user165474

oh

user165474

lol :P

Arjun

@MartinEnder BTW, I didn't understand what you mean with that?

Martin Ender

just picking two random lists of words doesn't make a good regex golf. and picking two random lists of words than a previous challenge doesn't mean it's not a duplicate, if the techniques for finding short solutions are exactly the same. you'll want to pick lists with a certain amount of structure that can be exploited and changes the way the challenge needs to be approached.

Arjun

7:14 AM

@ais523 I don't get what you are saying.

Could you elaborate?

ais523

err, what message are you talking about?

you just said "@ais523" rather than linking to one, and I haven't spoken recently

Arjun

@ais523 The comment that you posted on my post.

ais523

oh, our current proper quine definition cares about which parts of the input correspond to which parts of the output

if you're asking for the output to be an anagram of the input, you can't tell which part matches which part

Arjun

@ais523 aba is not valid as per the rules defined by me in the post.

ais523

well, a and b could be multiple characters here

you have to abbreviate heavily when discussing things in comments

because they don't have so much room

Arjun

7:21 AM

@ais523 I really don't understand what you are saying.

:P

ais523

have you read our current proper quine definition on Meta, plus the followup post?

if not it probably won't make that much sense

Arjun

followup post?

ais523

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Q: We need a new proper quine definition

Note: In this Meta question, it was determined that the correct thing to do if you think an established consensus has become outdated is to post a new question, even if the question would otherwise be considered a duplicate. Background Our current rule for defining a "proper quine" is as fo...

discussion quine

that one

Arjun

@ais523 All I wanted to say by linking that link is that Cheating quines are not allowed.

ais523

yes, but that's how we define cheating

Arjun

7:26 AM

like HAHA THIS IS TECHNICALLY A QUINE in PHP

ais523

is 23723 a cheating quine in 7, for example?

it's two literals that each print themselves

but they run in reverse order, so actually they each print each other, so it's allowed

anagram that, and you can't tell which part of the input printed which part of the output, due to the duplicated characters

Arjun

@ais523 What should I do?

ais523

ignore it, the problem probably won't come up (e.g. 7 has no random number feature)

I'm mostly ranting about PPCG rules being nonsensical more than trying to suggest a fix

Arjun

Haha, that's good!

ais523

if it does come up then we can debate it

Arjun

7:28 AM

Will you delete your comment, then?

ais523

actually I'm going to add this to the "we need a new proper quine definition" post, because it needs discussion

and I may as well, the challenge is probably the wrong place for it

Jan Dvorak

Does anyone really think that the current Quine definition is good?

Arjun

@ais523 So, you'll delete the comment?

Thanks!

ais523

I already did

Arjun

Thank you!

:)

BTW, I was wondering whether we should have different threads for esolangs and mainstream languages?

ais523

7:33 AM

"threads"?

Jan Dvorak

Also, "mainstream languages"?

Arjun

Like Cops and Robbers

Jan Dvorak

Oh, you meant questions

Arjun

@JanDvorak Used by people for development in real projects

Jan Dvorak

What is a real project?

ais523

7:35 AM

I wrote a domain-specific language specifically for writing optimizer idioms for INTERCAL compilers

I've used that in a serious project (which admittedly was an INTERCAL compiler)

does it count as a mainstream language?

Arjun

We can have a meta post for languages that count as mainstream languages.

Jan Dvorak

... and languages will become esoteric or mainstream at the whim of a vote. No, thanks.

Arjun

One can post their language on it and if it gets n number of votes, it qualifies for mainstream language

Okay, probably it's another dumb idea of mine. I should focus on playing Clash of Clans rather than improving the site.

That's where I am good at.

ais523

classifying languages into eso and non-eso is hard

Jan Dvorak

Nah, just git gud at the improving the site thing

ais523

7:40 AM

you have languages like J and APL, which are definitely seriously intended and are used in industry, but look and behave like golfing languages

then you have languages like Prolog, which look like mainstream languages and don't have much in common with golfing languages, but their semantics are really unusual

Jan Dvorak

Then there is INTERCAL, which you wouldn't put on a CV yet sucks at golfing

ASCII-only

@JanDvorak No, it's actually advertising

ATaco

CMC; given a string matching [ a-zA-Z] print the longest continuous group of non-space characters, assuming there will never be a tie

ais523

there's this challenge; INTERCAL is famously comparable to most mainstream languages on it

as in, it's worse by only a factor of 2-3, rather than 10-100

ASCII-only

@ATaco JavaScript (ES6), 50 bytes: s=>s.split` `.reduce((p,c)=>p.length>c.length?p:c)

Jan Dvorak

7:43 AM

Ruby: ->s{s.split.max_by &:size}

ties prefer earlier words

Mayube

@ATaco C#, 57 bytes (s)=>s.Split(' ').OrderByDescending(s=>s.Length).First();

ASCII-only

VSL, (noncompeting): ? split max (? size)

Jan Dvorak

No implementation = no language. Sorry.

Mayube

it's a CMC...

ASCII-only

@JanDvorak Yeah ik

Jan Dvorak

7:47 AM

Sure you can mark your entry as non-competing even in a CMC :-P

ATaco

Jelly, 4 bytes. ḲLÐṀ

Jan Dvorak

Although I guess you did...

ais523

@ATaco you can actually do it in 3 bytes: Try it online!

I tried to solve it in my head before looking at your answer, then tried to figure out where the fourth byte was coming from

ASCII-only

@ais523 -1 prints a number not a word

@ais523 +1 for KLM

ais523

oh, I misread the question

that would explain it

ḲLṀ is pretty fun as programs go, though

so let's just say the question is wrong, instead

ASCII-only

7:51 AM

@ais523 you forgot the dot below the K

ATaco

They're basically the same idea

ais523

there we go

ATaco

One uses the Maximal quick, the other uses the Maximum atom

ais523

it's 4 or 5 bytes in Brachylog with a very similar algorithm: "split on spaces, order by length, take last element"

Erik the Outgolfer

@ais523 ḲLṀ Airlines...huh?

ais523

7:52 AM

I can't remember whether split on spaces is 1 or 2 bytes

order by length is 2

take last element is 1

ATaco

It's 3 in RProgN2...

ais523

I haven't written out the actual characters because Brachylog is a pain to type, I keep having to copy-and-paste from the docs

ATaco

For the split, the program itself is longer

Shaggy

8:08 AM

Hmm ... My rep went down by 90 overnight. :\

ais523

@Shaggy that's happened to a lot of people; an account got suspended for suspicious voting, I lost about 20 rep from that

but also another 90 from posts being deleted at the same time (presumably from that account)

I'm not sure quite what happened there; voting irregularities isn't normally a reason to delete every question a user's ever asked (thus causing every answer on those questions to have its rep contribution set to 0), so I'm guessing there's more going on than is public

Erik the Outgolfer

happened to me too

Shaggy

@ais523 Yeah, looks like this being deleted accounts for my missing rep.

Adám

@ais523 If you use special chars a lot you should use a custom keyboard layout.

ais523

I use more than one golfing language, though

also quite a few natural languages

also I'm something of a computer nomad; although I often use my own computer, I spent much of my life just using whatever computer happened to be available

ASCII-only

8:12 AM

@ais523 Solution: Ask for verbose mode

Adám

@ais523 So create one layout to rule them all. I've got 250 custom assignments on my layout, with room for many hundreds more. How many do you need?

ASCII-only

@Adám O_o how

ais523

250 seems low, given that most modern golfing languages have their own 256-char codepages

some way to type raw binary a bit at a time would be really nice for 7

Erik the Outgolfer

actually you can't do that...

a keyboard layout doesn't fit that much

Jan Dvorak

alt codes

Adám

8:15 AM

@ais523 Of which most are printable ascii

Erik the Outgolfer

@JanDvorak yes including those

steenbergh

Lost 70 rep last night. this was deleted by Community (?), this by Dennis

Erik the Outgolfer

@steenbergh a lot of people did

ais523

@Adám ascii is less than half of such a codepage, by definition

steenbergh

Would be nice if those posts had a note saying what happened...

Erik the Outgolfer

8:16 AM

I also lost 70 rep overnight

@steenbergh also can you please not link to the posts?

Jan Dvorak

Don't forget modifiers: the alphanumeric keyboard covers half of the printable ASCII, shift + alnum is the second half, alt+ctrl is assigned 64 more combinations, alt+ctrl+shift is assigned 64 more.

steenbergh

Why not?

Jan Dvorak

Aliases should be mnemotechnic.

Erik the Outgolfer

suspended account

Adám

ais523

8:17 AM

does an account merely getting suspended cancel its votes? I'm assuming there has to be a deleted account too

Erik the Outgolfer

there is

steenbergh

@EriktheOutgolfer So? I'm not following you ...

ais523

so I'm guessing that one account got suspended (voting irregularities), and another account (perhaps owned by the same person?) got deleted, and that all the posts by either user got deleted (?)

Erik the Outgolfer

you essentially linked to a suspended account

ASCII-only

@Adám hmm how do you do this on windows

steenbergh

8:18 AM

But what's the problem?

ais523

account suspensions are public for a reason, otherwise people go around digging up more dirt trying to figure out what happened

Erik the Outgolfer

they're public only during the suspension period

Adám

@ASCII-only This is on Windows. Using Microsoft Layout Creator 1.4.

ais523

anyway, it's clear there's more that's going on than is public, and presumably the mods will comment if they have a reason to, and if not, probably not much need to poke

Adám

@JanDvorak Yeah, but the real trick is to use a few dead keys. With N entries, making one entry into a dead key gives you 2×(N-1) entries.

Jan Dvorak

8:21 AM

I'd rather have my keyboard layout double as a normal keyboard

ais523

this is actually a big advantage of golfing languages with ASCII-inspired codepages; it's easy to figure out which keys the bindings should be on

ASCII-only

@Adám Oh, thanks!

ais523

in Jelly, you're going to guess that to type Ḣ, one of the keys involved should be H

(and you can also memorise where ˙ is: in this case, AltGr-Shift-/)

Jan Dvorak

On my homebrew keyboard, you use altGr + p to type ů because altGr + u is taken by ú.

Adám

@JanDvorak How can you say so, with your last name? Also, my keyboard layout is just a superset of a completely stock US layout.

Jan Dvorak

8:23 AM

The Dvorak Standard Keyboard is normal.

Adám

@JanDvorak Ah, I should say that the two maps are AltGr+ and AltGr+Shift+.

Jan Dvorak

Yeah, that won't work if you also have to cover Ú and Ů :-)

Adám

@JanDvorak Just make a dead key for the ring and the acute accent, and you've got them all!

Jan Dvorak

ů/Ů is the only Czech letter that uses the ring

Adám

@JanDvorak åÅ.

Jan Dvorak

8:27 AM

We don't use those

Adám

@JanDvorak Who's we?

Jan Dvorak

edited

SIGSEGV

I made some idea changes to EQ8

It's not an equation anymore

its a long javascript snippet made short

First, it withs most objects you need (Ex.Math )

Jan Dvorak

yuck

SIGSEGV

err

why?

Should I only with Math?

Adám

8:32 AM

@ais523 Which languages do you use?

ais523

@Adám in terms of golfing languages, mostly Jelly and Brachylog

Adám

@ais523 And natural?

SIGSEGV

Anyways, also it has a one letter input, which I'm thinking of the character `\`

ais523

more generally, though, I use a huge number of programming languages; I've created well over 20 myself, and there are over 60 in the polyglot

Jan Dvorak

But then again, using with as a compiler is better than using with as a normal programmer

ais523

8:33 AM

if each of those had its own character set, we'd never get anywhere

(note: I also use plenty of languages which aren't in the polyglot, e.g. my day job's in Java, but the polyglot requires me to have at least some level of familiarity with every language there)

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Convert Euler to Quaternion Write a program or function that given 3 float inputs representing the Pitch, Roll and Yaw of an Euler Angle in degrees, will output the W, X, Y and Z values of a corresponding Quaternion. The formula for converting the values is as follows, where P is Pitch, R is Ro...

SIGSEGV

This is my first one, Theres also processtack but its kind of stopped development before completion

Adám

@ais523 "the polyglot"?

ais523

this one

just generally, knowing a lot of programming languages has been very useful for my jobs

I can be asked to fix something in a random language and will probably know it already, and if not, knowing so many makes it easy to learn

(not to mention that in research compiler development, we're trying to do things that have never been done before, but knowing what has been done before is a useful way to try to get a starting point on the problem)

mınxomaτ

8:52 AM

I have n samples, that together have a total size of s. What is the statistically most accurate way of extrapolating n for a bigger s (s')? s' will always be bigger than s if that matters. The simplest way would be to take the average, but maybe there's a better one.

ais523

what do you mean by "extrapolating n"?

mınxomaτ

For a bigger constant s', output an approximation of n. Input is a n,s pair for a smaller s

ais523

but n is the number of samples

oh, I see, you're effectively trying to ask "so far, with my n samples, their total value is s; how many more samples would I need to get samples with a total value of s'?"

I think, at least; could you confirm/deny?

mınxomaτ

Basically. Yes.

ais523

clearly taking the average isn't ideal

e.g. if n is 0 on average, s' is nonetheless going to be less than infinity if there's any variation in the ns at all

Mayube

8:57 AM

Given n and s, divide s by n, then divide s' by the result? I suppose that'd be taking the average though

New Sandboxed Posts

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Alice's ordinal formatting Introduction Alice is a 2-d language by Martin Ender which has two different execution modes, cardinal and ordinal. When the instruction pointer passes through a mirror (either / or \), it switches from one mode to the other one. In this challenge we will focus on or...

mınxomaτ

n > 0

@Mayube It is.

ais523

well, yes, but looking at the extremes is a good way to show that a particular approach doesn't work

(averaging, in this case)

I guess the correct approach is to try to determine the distribution that the ns come from, and then work out the average number of times you need to add that distribution to itself to get s

the central limit theorem says that the second distribution (of summed ns) is a normal distribution

thus all you'd actually probably need to know with n is the mean and (probably sample, in this case) standard deviation

SIGSEGV

9:14 AM

So I'd change the name of the language since its changed its property

Hmm

What should I name it

Oh I know

'Eval'

Jan Dvorak

no.

SIGSEGV

Why not?

feersum

wat I just realized my laptop has more RAM than my desktop.

I'd better go buy some more RAM right now.

Luis Mendo

@MartinEnder Thanks for the tips!

Martin Ender

9:29 AM

no problem, thanks for using Alice :) ... let me know if you have any other questions. there's also a separate chatroom for Alice. chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/56891/inside-the-looking-glass

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Q: Help Jarl Olaf in his raids

Jarl Olaf lives in a beautiful village, Stackholm. In every year he is thinking about raiding a place to get some golden jewelery, food and programmers woman slaves. He is a good person but not the brightest one, so you need to help him decide the next target. He has three targets in his mind: J...

code-golf ascii-art

Shaggy

Need some more feedback on this sandbox, please.

SIGSEGV

9:51 AM

@feersum Download them

Christopher

10:27 AM

@feersum I would advice the Ram 2000, lots or horsepower for computing!

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10:47 AM

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Q: Make the fastest file deleting code

This is a speed challenge. The goal is to find the fastest way to delete a file in the computer. You can use threads and mapping or whatever strategy you want. I tried this challenge in my classroom the other day, i made in C/C++ and i got a program that would delete a file faster than the OS (w...

code-golf code-challenge fastest-code fastest-algorithm

Erik the Outgolfer

@NewMainPosts code-golf code-challenge fastest-code fastest-algorithm

only one of those four should be the winning criterion...

Okx

@EriktheOutgolfer Just one of our daily doses of unclear questions, it's normal ;)

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