hey, API question. A player needs to implement a function that picks an action to perform. However, some actions require no additional input, some actions need a character target, and some actions need a location target.
right now, I've done it by having the player implement 3 functions: pickAction(), pickCharacterFor(action), and pickLocationFor(action)
@betseg Linus only created the kernel, then distributed it with the already-existing GNU operating system. Don't think that Linus' views are that of the brilliant operating system.
@NathanMerrill Personally I would, but I'm weird.
Although I do think it's elegant; expand the struct to the function params and you've got the way most C functions take input.
I feel like people playing double-lip are just rejecting the progress and modernity, like the people who didn't want to play boehm system even tens of years after its invention
@PhiNotPi Just learn both. Practice single lip, and once you can play both it will be less of a problem if your manager makes you play single lip when there's no benefit and they don't even know about music anyway...
@NathanMerrill I can't immediately think of a reason to prefer one or the other. Someone writing a naive random implementation might prefer just one function with sometimes redundant parameters, but for any serious submission adapting to one approach or the other should be an insignificant amount of work compared with the main task
@wizzwizz4 No I'm not currently in a position where it even makes a difference... I'm a casual member of my university band, and literally nobody cares (or has noticed).
@NathanMerrill I like the idea of returning a single object to represent the move, which has fields for type, target, etc which can be filled in as needed.
@NathanMerrill I guess that affects how many submissions you get, affecting the amount of competition. I think for me, I'd rather a longer class definition that is easier to understand, so separating into specific functions would be better if I had any doubts as to what was required
What I would do is have a class "ActionPlan" that has the constructor ActionPlan(ActionType type, Character targ, Location dest) where "ActionType" is an enum or something similar, Character is some read-only class, and Location is some way of representing a coordinate.
Resident C++ gurus: is there a proper way to access classes and other special C++ junk using dlsym? From what I've seen I have to extern C a factory function of some sort
@El'endiaStarman I was just thinking today that if they are not dependent on just their on board cameras, but can access static cameras viewing the road ahead, then they wouldn't have to slow down for lack of visibility at corners.
King of the Hill: Moon Rockets
This is a challenge where you code bots to compete in an arena. In this case, you code a rocket flying over the Moon. Your goal is to shoot down enemy rockets, while not running out of fuel and crashing into the Moon.
Environment
Unlike many KOTH challenges the p...
Alphabet Diamond
You've seen the amazing alphabet triangle, the revenge of the alphabet triangle and now it's time for the revenge of the revenge of the alphabet triangle!
Introducing...
THE ALPHABET DIAMOND!
Your task is to output this exact text, lowercase/uppercase does not matter, though...
The Rule of Thumb for Title Capitalization code-golf
According to this site a general rule recommended by The U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual is
Capitalize all words in titles of publications and documents, except
a, an, the, at, by, for, in, of, on, to, up, and, as, but, or, ...
We've had a lot of alphabet challenges. For this challenge, you are passed the output of an alphabet challenge, and you need to output the pattern scaled to size N.
For example, if N=5 and you were passed the L-phabet:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
BBCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
CCCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST...
@daHugLenny Why do you edited the challenge to say bytes instead of characters? It's possible that Nathan explicitely wanted the solutions scored in the number of characters
So we all know that the continued fraction containing all $1$s...
$$
x = 1 + \frac{1}{1 + \frac{1}{1 + \ldots}}
$$
yields the golden ratio $x = \phi$, which can easily be proven by rewriting it as $x = 1 + 1/x$, solving the resulting quadratic equation and assuming that a continued fraction tha...
Oh right, the parsing is done by MathJax in your browser, which is only included on some sites (in this case, it's included on math.SE but not in chat)
Your task is to print this exact text:
z
yz
xyz
wxyz
vwxyz
uvwxyz
tuvwxyz
stuvwxyz
rstuvwxyz
qrstuvwxyz
pqrstuvwxyz
opqrstuvwxyz
nopqrstuvwxyz
mnopqrstuvwxyz
lmnopqr...
@trichoplax Admittedly, I downvoted for the latter reason. I wasn't sure at first since I saw it as just a really "meh" challenge, then I decided that that is good enough reason for me to downvote. All these alphabet challenges are just variations on a theme; they're hardly new. (I suppose you could say the same about math function and sequence challenges, but at least those have more variety.)
Alphabet challenges are uninteresting to me now, which I think is good enough reason to downvote. Note, uninteresting != not interesting. I'm more apathetic about the latter.
@Zacharee1 Well, you're pretty new here, but for some background, a few weeks ago, we had a storm of alphabetical challenges. Something like a dozen in a week or something.
Your task is to print this exact text:
אבגדהוזחטיכךלמםנןסעפףצץקרשת
(You are allowed to print a trailing newline)
SHA256 hash of the UTF-8 encoding of the text:
0ab6f1e0bf216a0db52a4a5a247f95cba6f51496de7a24dfd01f3985dfcf6085
Base64 encoding:
15DXkdeS15PXlNeV15bXl9eY15nXm9ea15zXnted16DXn9e...
Scrolling down the front page I see 8 challenges with "alphabet" in the title. Several use different alphabets and are not just fixed output challenges, but the bombardment with the same word in the titles can make it look worse than it is
King of the Hill: Moon Rockets
This is a challenge where you code bots to compete in an arena. In this case, you code a rocket flying over the Moon. Your goal is to shoot down enemy rockets, while not running out of fuel and crashing into the Moon.
Environment
Unlike many KOTH challenges the p...
Alphabet Diamond
You've seen the amazing alphabet triangle, the revenge of the alphabet triangle and now it's time for the revenge of the revenge of the alphabet triangle!
Introducing...
THE ALPHABET DIAMOND!
Your task is to output this exact text, lowercase/uppercase does not matter, though...
The Rule of Thumb for Title Capitalization code-golf
According to this site a general rule recommended by The U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual is
Capitalize all words in titles of publications and documents, except
a, an, the, at, by, for, in, of, on, to, up, and, as, but, or, ...
We've had a lot of alphabet challenges. For this challenge, you are passed the output of an alphabet challenge, and you need to output the pattern scaled to size N.
For example, if N=5 and you were passed the L-phabet:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
BBCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
CCCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST...
Your task is to print this exact text:
z
yz
xyz
wxyz
vwxyz
uvwxyz
tuvwxyz
stuvwxyz
rstuvwxyz
qrstuvwxyz
pqrstuvwxyz
opqrstuvwxyz
nopqrstuvwxyz
mnopqrstuvwxyz
lmnopqr...
Your task is to print this exact text:
אבגדהוזחטיכךלמםנןסעפףצץקרשת
(You are allowed to print a trailing newline)
SHA256 hash of the UTF-8 encoding of the text:
0ab6f1e0bf216a0db52a4a5a247f95cba6f51496de7a24dfd01f3985dfcf6085
Base64 encoding:
15DXkdeS15PXlNeV15bXl9eY15nXm9ea15zXnted16DXn9e...
