The Nineteenth Byte

El'endia Starman

12:01 AM

Okay, shuffling away...

Up to 400,000 iterations....now.

Calvin's Hobbies

I'm up to 20 million random perm guesses (some could be duplicates but still :P)

El'endia Starman

Well okay then.

1 million for me now.

Your computer must be a lot faster than mine. :P

Sp3000

I have a bug: only 2 results for N=3 :P

El'endia Starman

lol

Okay, this is what I'm going to do for the build-up-the-grid idea: start off with the first row and first column filled, as well as the (1,1) place. Then every subsequent spot is uniquely determined.

Sp3000

Bug fixed: Needed permutations not combinations

El'endia Starman

12:06 AM

ahhhh lolz

3 million shuffles and nothing. Ctrl+C!

Sp3000

I got 376 instantly, but now I realise I have bugs for larger grids oops

El'endia Starman

lol

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

The height of my career as a code-golfer will be to create such wonderful, practical nonsense. I think that time is almost here: i**{KJR1>?[L*LARpR&]}L~Vo solves this, AFAIK

Sp3000

What's N = 2 btw? 24?

Calvin's Hobbies

Should be, as all perms are valid

Sp3000

12:13 AM

OEIS you disappoint

Calvin's Hobbies

Told you so

Sp3000

At this rate this'll be done in, er, half an hour

Oh right, PyPy

20352 maybe?

Calvin's Hobbies

@Sp3000 Hmm?

Sp3000

N = 4

Calvin's Hobbies

That many solutions?

How do you know?

Sp3000

12:23 AM

Not-so-good source code for perusal (pretty similar to El'endia's 1st row/column thing, except as you go)

Actually what the heck am I doing with the else at the end there, that's totally unnecessary

Slightly better (edited ideone code)

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Where's that meta post where people made a TI-BASIC interpreter?

El'endia Starman

Note to self: NEVER evaluate a generator with way too many elements.

Had to shut down my computer. And lost all tabs and windows of Chrome. >_<

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@El'endiaStarman What language?

Alex A.

Heh, like the time Dyalog was using 99.8% CPU because I tested my own infinite loop code.

feersum

Did it parallelize your infinite empty loop?

Alex A.

12:36 AM

I don't know what Dyalog does when I'm not looking.

All I know is that I quit Dyalog but my fan was going nuts so I checked Activity Monitor and saw a Dyalog process with 99.8% CPU.

That's when I learned that closing Dyalog doesn't terminate the system process if the code is still executing.

El'endia Starman

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Python.

itertools.permutations() generates permutations.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@El'endiaStarman Python on Chrome??????

Alex A.

Oct 14 at 5:49, by Calvin's Hobbies

Python I think

El'endia Starman

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ No. Making a list of uh, something like 10**9 elements froze my computer. Had to shut down. For some reason, Chrome's restore tabs didn't work as usual.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@El'endiaStarman Ohhhh haha

Alex A.

12:40 AM

This is why you should never use Python or Chrome.

ducks to avoid flying knives

El'endia Starman

[uses a shotgun]

Alex A.

runs

feersum

I once made a similar mistake of running someone's brute-force searching Python golf answer and having everything crash.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I'm hesitating to throw my dagger, because you never should really use Chrome, but Python is amazing.

Alex A.

(Why shouldn't you use Chrome? I use it at work.)

El'endia Starman

12:41 AM

I use Chrome all the time.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

D: WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS WORLDDDD

Alex A.

I use it at work because it's that, Firefox for Windows, or Internet Explorer.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Firefox for Windows. Do it.

Alex A.

No

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

And never do IE. It's like bad drugs.

El'endia Starman

12:43 AM

Invalid comparison for me; I've never done drugs, let alone bad drugs. :P

Alex A.

IE = Intravenous Ecstasy.

2

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I've never done drugs either, lets be sure ^_^

El'endia Starman

....what's the LD50 for a bird, I wonder...?

Calvin's Hobbies

00 03 04 07
12 15 08 11
01 02 05 06
13 14 09 10
(sum = 30)

El'endia Starman

nice!

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

12:44 AM

claps

Alex A.

@El'endiaStarman About a milligram of anything except seeds and water.

feersum

what is this grid supposed to represent?

Calvin's Hobbies

^ N = 4 solution, using my own version of Elendia's grid complete thingy

El'endia Starman

I must be the only person that at least tries to catch up with the chat transcript.

feersum

solution to what?

Alex A.

12:45 AM

@feersum A map of Calvin's house.

Calvin's Hobbies

@feersum Grid numbered 0 to 15 and all the 2x2 groups sum to the same value

Alex A.

@El'endiaStarman Sometimes I catch up, sometimes I choose to ignore it.

Calvin's Hobbies

Trying to verify @Sp3000's solutions number now but slow

feersum

This should be checkable pretty quickly since you have early outs whenever a subgrid doesn't have the right sum

I bet it takes less than 1 second in C.

Let's find out.

Sp3000

1:03 AM

So, we're onto day 2 and the sys recursion answer for unusable language just got a bunch of upvotes overnight despite two comments showing it's invalid. I'm confused.

feersum

I get 20352 solutions.

Calvin's Hobbies

@Sp3000 link?

Sp3000

Here

feersum

Let us rain downvotes upon our enemies.

Sp3000

@feersum Awesome, that's what I got :)

feersum

1:10 AM

It took 61 ms if anyone cares.

Sp3000

Nice! :D

feersum

Hopefully this wasn't supposed to be a fastest code challenge or something :P

Sp3000

I don't think so - just a chat minichallenge or something :P

El'endia Starman

...pretty sure my Python code won't run quickly enough to count all those solutions. :P

@Sp3000 Well, Calvin was considering making an actual challenge based off of it.

Sp3000

Oh? nvm then

Calvin's Hobbies

1:13 AM

@El'endiaStarman Mine is steadily chugging along. I'm about 6% done at maybe 2% per minute.

Sp3000

@AlexA. I missed this comment earlier, but let me find my megalaser...

Calvin's Hobbies

Anyone want to try a N=5 solution?

feersum

My program says there aren't any.

Sp3000

Surely there should be more...

feersum

It assumes the numbers are 0-24.

El'endia Starman

1:16 AM

If I allow negative numbers, my program found one immediately. However, to bring everything up into the positive range, the maximum number would be 36.

feersum

oops, I think I hardcoded one of the numbers.

Sp3000

At the rate mine's going, see you next hour

Calvin's Hobbies

I feel like there must be a paper or something on this, I'm just not sure what to google..

Sp3000

2x2 submatrix/sublock equal sum?

No google, not sunblock.

El'endia Starman

Shuffling da numbers now...

feersum

1:19 AM

I get 11520 for 5x5 permutations of 0-24, with 2x2 equal block sum

Sp3000

A lower number seems counterintuitive to me o_O

El'endia Starman

Ah, that's.....less.

Interesting.

Calvin's Hobbies

Yeah

El'endia Starman

Y'know, we can submit a sequence to OEIS...

Sp3000

I mean, 24, 376, 20352 ... 11520?

El'endia Starman

1:20 AM

Both that sequence and the sequence divided by 8 (takes out rotation/reflection duplicates).

feersum

I only got 56 for 3x3.

Calvin's Hobbies

@feersum That's wrong

We all got 376 (list here)

El'endia Starman

...hey wait, it should be possible to write a system of equations for the numbers in the grid given the initial conditions of the top row and left column, plus grid[1][1].

My program's still shuffling. No 5x5 solution found yet.

Calvin's Hobbies

@feersum Can your program give a sample 5x5?

feersum

ok

 0 24  1 23  2
 9 15  8 16  7
10 14 11 13 12
19  5 18  6 17
20  4 21  3 22

Calvin's Hobbies

1:28 AM

thanks

feersum

Oh, I see what the bug is

Sp3000

Hmm should probably make use of the ascending/descending thing

feersum

I didn't realize that the block sum could have different values.

El'endia Starman

@Sp3000 ...now that you point it out, that's very interesting.

feersum

I wonder why even sizes seemingly have to have all the same block sum, but not odd?

Sp3000

1:31 AM

It doesn't change much from the first row, first column, (1, 1) idea

But there's a lot of pairs that have to have the same sum

e.g. the 0,9 / 1,8 / 2,7

Calvin's Hobbies

Block sum?

feersum

The sum of a 2x2 block.

Calvin's Hobbies

What do you mean odd sizes don't have the same sum?

feersum

You have solutions with sum=19, sum=17, etc.

For N=4 they're all equal to 30.

El'endia Starman

Interesting.

Can you tell us what the range is for n=3 and/or n=5?

Calvin's Hobbies

1:35 AM

Oh that's what you mean, durr

feersum

I see 12-20 in the above pasted output.

Calvin's Hobbies

Yep (assuming all those are correct, though I'm pretty sure they are)

feersum

5x5 takes forever now, lol

I got 51840 this time.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Sorry to interrupt your algorithms and such, but I have an idea for a code challenge that I'm not sure if I want to write it up yet. Here's the idea: A string like a#T# should return an array like ["aT", "AT", "at", "At"]. Does that make any sense?

feersum

No.

Calvin's Hobbies

1:44 AM

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Makes sense if X# just means upper or lowercase X. But kinda bland IMO

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Calvin'sHobbies Yeah, I was thinking about doing other "operators" if you will. Any ideas?

@feersum The # performs permutations based on case. So f#ear -> ["fear", "Fear"]

El'endia Starman

@feersum That makes more sense. :P

Calvin's Hobbies

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ You might end up making a new form of regular expressions

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Calvin'sHobbies Hᴏᴏʀᴀʜ?

Calvin's Hobbies

@El'endiaStarman N = 3 sum histogram:

2

El'endia Starman

1:48 AM

@Calvin'sHobbies Beautiful.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

^

Calvin's Hobbies

Yet meaningless

Sp3000

Maybe if you split up odd/even it might make more sense

El'endia Starman

n = 7 solution
0	48	1	47	2	46	3
13	35	12	36	11	37	10
14	34	15	33	16	32	17
27	21	26	22	25	23	24
28	20	29	19	30	18	31
41	7	40	8	39	9	38
42	6	43	5	44	4	45

Found by using the pattern in feersum's 5x5 solution and extending it to 7x7. :P

Sp3000

Oi :P

El'endia Starman

1:51 AM

Of course, this doesn't help in finding all (or any other!) solutions. :P

(Excluding those obtained by rotation/reflection.)

Sp3000

There's also inversion, like taking subtracting from n*n-1

That may/may not overlap with rotation/reflection though

El'endia Starman

Wait, you can do that?!

Calvin's Hobbies

El'endia Starman

Woah!

That's symmetrical!

And colorful! :P

Calvin's Hobbies

All the online histogram makers have weird formatting. I don't get the non int numbering

But yes! Symmetry!

El'endia Starman

1:54 AM

Ahh, I see. The last bin got lumped in with the next-to-last bin in the previous one.

Sp3000

(Symmetry = previous comment of mine :P)

Calvin's Hobbies

Shhhh

GamrCorps

Does anyone know if I can use the cjam interpreter jar as a java library and use some method inside of it to parse and run a cjam script from a java application?

Sp3000

Not sure, but you might be able to just use CJam's source code itself and tinker with it (ask aditsu maybe?)

GamrCorps

Thats what I was going to to anyway, just seeing if anyone here knew of a way to do it.

Calvin's Hobbies

2:03 AM

@El'endiaStarman I wonder what a monochrome image of those relative intensities would look like

El'endia Starman

mmm

pylab?

Calvin's Hobbies

(i.e. 0 = (0, 0, 0), 48 = (255, 0,0))

El'endia Starman

uh-huh

...I've discovered a marvelous pattern, of which this message box is too small to contain!

Calvin's Hobbies

There's no limit to multiline messages ;)

New Main Posts

0

Q: Insert a given pattern at a given point

The challenge Insert a character at a given index in a word Given a string input in the format: #:Pattern:Word Where: # is a positive integer marking the index Pattern is the string (whose length is undefined) to insert : is a delimiter Word is the word to insert. Assume that a : will no...

code-golf

El'endia Starman

2:07 AM

@Calvin'sHobbies (Shhh!)

a	b	c	d
e	h	a+e-c	b+h-d
f	a+b-f	-a+c+f	a+d-f
g	e+h-g	a+g-c	b-d+e-g-h

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

W000T I finished my # code :D

Calvin's Hobbies

I finally got 20352 for N = 4 as well

El'endia Starman

2:25 AM

Yay!

New Sandboxed Posts

0

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Watermelon Contest king-of-the-hill You and your buddies are contesting a lone piece of watermelon left in the middle of the table. You decide to make a program to contest for you. The Goal You want to be the last program standing. Then you get the watermelon. The Method Every round 1 progr...

El'endia Starman

So we have: 24, 376, 20352, 51840. Or, dividing by 8, 3, 47, 2544, 6480.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@El'endiaStarman You should add an OEIS for that

Hey guys: double or single quotes in coding?

El'endia Starman

What context/use?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

In a language that permits both interchangeably.

E.g. JavaScript, Python

El'endia Starman

2:34 AM

Hmm. I tend to use just whichever one I feel like using, basically.

Sp3000

Hmm somehow I feel like I'd expect a number much larger than 51840 for N = 5 - we'll see

El'endia Starman

I do tend to be consistent within a program, or at least among nearby lines.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I like that :) No hard and fast rules

El'endia Starman

@Sp3000 Yeah, can you confirm that?

Sp3000

It's still running, and won't be done any time soon

Anonymous

2:35 AM

I usually use single quotes for python, and only doubles when I'm embedding single quotes and don't want to escape them. Or when I feel like it.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Now's the time I wish I had a poll-bot. :P

Anonymous

strawpoll.me/5782154

5

Sp3000

I used to always use double quotes for everything, now it's single for chars/certain types of strings and double for strings that are mainly for data. Break the rule if the string contains one type of quote

shrugs self-set rules are complicated

El'endia Starman

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I've requested an account. When I'm approved, I'll submit those sequences.

Calvin's Hobbies

El'endia Starman

2:40 AM

@Calvin'sHobbies That looks like you used my 7x7 example... :P

I think it'd be more interesting to pick a random one.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@El'endiaStarman What now?

@Mego Fancy that! Such a cool tool.

El'endia Starman

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ To submit sequences to OEIS, you have to have an account. To get an account, you have to request one and be approved by an editor-in-chief.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@El'endiaStarman Oh. I don't know much about the process, haha.

El'endia Starman

I just found out myself. :)

GamrCorps

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ @El'endiaStarman I have an account, and just a fair warning, I have been trying to get a sequence approved for weeks now, so a few tips: details, details, details.

El'endia Starman

2:42 AM

@GamrCorps Noted.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@GamrCorps Thanks for the tip :D

GamrCorps

It's really taking some work to get the Dennis numbers on there....

Anonymous

@GamrCorps Is that the sequence of Dennis's CJam golf scores?

El'endia Starman

@Mego Haha, no, it's this:

37

Q: Generate Dennis Numbers

This challenge is a tribute to PPCG user Dennis for winning the robbers' part of The Programming Language Quiz. Looking at Dennis' PPCG profile page we can see some pretty impressive stuff: He currently has over thirty-seven thousand reputation, making him second in rep overall, surpassing th...

code-golf number sequence palindrome

GamrCorps

Almost typed the exact same thing :P

El'endia Starman

2:48 AM

:)

Anonymous

Oh yeah I remember seeing that challenge

GamrCorps

@El'endiaStarman here is the draft page if you are at all interested: oeis.org/draft/A263172

Calvin's Hobbies

For the record my favorite sequence I've come up with here is 2,4,7,26,27308 (see here and here) :)

GamrCorps

@Calvin'sHobbies I remember that! I agree with you, thats a nice one!

Calvin's Hobbies

But someone already put it on OEIS: oeis.org/A242020 :O

GamrCorps

2:52 AM

Still neat that you are indirectly linked to a OEIS sequence

Anonymous

What does that makes your Erdős number, then?

El'endia Starman

Depends on who he's written a math paper with...

Calvin's Hobbies

Which is no one

El'endia Starman

So infinity.

Calvin's Hobbies

I'm good at proposing problems, not solving them :D

GamrCorps

2:55 AM

^

El'endia Starman

Oh, speaking of OEIS, @feersum, how long do you think it would take your program to find out how many 6x6 squares there are?

Anonymous

Being an indirect influence on an OEIS sequence is worth an Erdős number of ℵ_0, at the least

El'endia Starman

Also, we haven't considered rectangular grids!

GamrCorps

@El'endiaStarman What exactly are you trying to solve?

El'endia Starman

[sigh] Here we go again...

@GamrCorps Array of integers, every 2x2 block has the same sum.

Calvin's Hobbies

3:00 AM

@GamrCorps Arrange the numbers 0 to n^2-1 in a square such that every 2x2 group has the same sum.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

FUN FACT there are 9 people with an Erdős number of 2 that have the last name of O'Brien

Calvin's Hobbies

@GamrCorps There are 376 n = 3 solutions

GamrCorps

@El'endiaStarman @Calvin'sHobbies Ah, I see. Good luck then!

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

thing

GamrCorps

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Why is it that I checked everything....

Sp3000

3:03 AM

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ "All of the above"

El'endia Starman

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Voted for all three (except other). :P

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@GamrCorps @El'endiaStarman @Sp3000 LOL

GamrCorps

7 hours ago, by Martin Büttner

You know, when you need help procrastinating, we are always here for you...

Calvin's Hobbies

Mini challenge - output:

  a b c
 d e f g
h i j k l
 m n o p
  q r s

GamrCorps

@Calvin'sHobbies I so want to see a hexagony answer

2

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

3:06 AM

@Calvin'sHobbies Submission (JavaScript; 70 bytes):

    alert`  a b c
     d e f g
    h i j k l
     m n o p
      q r s`

Anonymous

    :24814552 Python 2, 55 bytes

print """  a b c
 d e f g
h i j k l
 m n o p
  q r s"""

Anonymous

Gah why won't code formatting work

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Whoops. I made a mistake.

JavaScript, 54 bytes.

alert`  a b c
 d e f g
h i j k l
 m n o p
  q r s`

@Mego There should be a "fixed font" button.

Calvin's Hobbies

@Mego Surely ' '.join(...) would help?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Hooray! @Mego

Anonymous

3:10 AM

Close enough

Sp3000

33 bytes, badly golfed

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

sighs CJam!!!

Anonymous

@Calvin'sHobbies Getting the linebreaks in would be a hassle. A docstring is probably the shortest way to go

GamrCorps

"  a b c
 d e f g
h i j k l
 m n o p
  q r s"

you get the point: 45 chars, almost every golfing language

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Simplex, 46 bytes

"  a b c
 d e f g
h i j k l
 m n o p
  q r s"g

Calvin's Hobbies

3:12 AM

What if the letters are allowed to be any non-whitespace chars?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Calvin'sHobbies That makes it easier

Sp3000

31

GamrCorps

@Sp3000 Is there a way to split strings at index n in cjam? i.e. split "abcdefg" at index 3 to "abc" "defg"

Sp3000

"abcdefg" 3/(\:+

Might be a better way but that's the first that comes to mind

GamrCorps

thanks!

Anonymous

3:18 AM

2981 bytes

Anonymous

This is code bowling, right?

quartata

> Bubblegum is an esolang designed to chew bubblegum in kolmogorov-complexity challenges

Anonymous

@quartata So it runs out of ass immediately?

Sp3000

'a194Zb{_S*o6\-,f+)\S*oNo}/; <-- 28

That's some really badly golfed BF :P

quartata

Yes.

Sp3000

3:20 AM

@quartata Bubblegum is ~ 40

Anonymous

Yeah it would be better to have the newlines and spaces in their own cells

Anonymous

I just made a quick and dirty generator based on levenshtein distance

Sp3000

Woop nvm, Bubblegum is 35. Stupid Windows line endings.

quartata

Too bad I could never get it working

I thought 40 sounded high.

Sp3000

40 was compression, 35 was base 96

quartata

3:22 AM

How exactly does Bubblegum meet our definition for a programming language anyways?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Simplex, 39 bytes

" x x x "("x ")13" x x x "C/.{5}/g

Sp3000

If the hash of the program happens to match a totally not carefully chosen hash then it's run as Python

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

I can probably golf it a bit more

quartata

I was wondering what that hash thing was about. Seems shady.

feersum

@El'endiaStarman An hour perhaps?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

3:24 AM

Simplex, 36 bytes

h"  x x x  "]h0' ("x ")13h0C/.{5}/gg

quartata

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ You have got me wanting to try Simplex out now

El'endia Starman

@feersum It would be nice to have it by the time I submit the sequence to OEIS. That way we have 5 terms and not just 4...and I can justify why expecting more is slightly unreasonable. :P

quartata

Is it stack based?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@quartata YAAAAAAY :D

@quartata Erm. No. It's strip-based. Sort of like brainf***.

feersum

Don't forgot the N=0 and N=1 terms :D

quartata

3:25 AM

Ooh

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

here's the semi-updated docs

I'm going to update them tomorrow though I can't know because I'm procrastinating hard-core

El'endia Starman

@feersum 0 and 1 respectively. :P

Though those wreck the /8 pattern.

feersum

Both 1, I would say.

Anonymous

I made my bf solution much better

El'endia Starman

True.

Anonymous

3:28 AM

260 bytes now

quartata

So it is like bf but designed to make sense.

Anonymous

Heresy!

Anonymous

BF makes perfect sense to my caffeine-addled brain

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@quartata Simplex? Pretty much, yeah. Plus added functionality.

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Q: Monday Mini-Golf #5: <s>Don't</s> DO try this at home

Monday Mini-Golf: A series of short code-golf questions, posted (hopefully!) every Monday. Sometimes folks get tired of life's rules: "don't do this", "you can't do that", "we won't let you do this". It can seem really restricting at times! But now and then, it's good to have a little fun, so le...

code-golf string

quartata

3:30 AM

It got within 10 bytes of outgolfing Sp's hastily golfed Cjam code so hey looks good

Anonymous

I just got the outspoken badge. You people really need higher standards for starring stuff.

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Sp3000

BF, 142. Still very golfable:

++++++++[->++++>++++++++++++>+<<<]>..>+.<.>+.<.>+.>++.<<.>+.<.>+.<.>+.<.>+.>.<+‌.<.>+.<.>+.<.>+.<.>+.>.<<.>+.<.>+.<.>+.<.>+.>.<<..>+.<.>+.<.>+.

Anonymous

Loops? We don't need no stinkin' loops!

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@quartata Thanks ^_^ It actually beat the Golfscript solution for this question at 11 chars

BTW @quartata Here is my personal document for Simplex; it contains a bunch of old code segments that may or may not comply with the current specs link

quartata

I got the outspoke badge within a week of joining chat. If you think they have bad standards join chat around 9-10 am. I dont know what it is about those times but people are just nuts

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

3:34 AM

LOL I have yet to obtain that badge.

GamrCorps

In Cjam, I cant get this to work: W$i_,< to see if the int at the bottom of the stack is less than the length of the length of the string at the top. Any suggestions?

Anonymous

I've been here for like 2-3 days

Anonymous

How to get stars: say something about how people give stars away very liberally

Sp3000

@GamrCorps You're slicing range(int on bottom) by (int on bottom)

Try the _, first

Anonymous

I need something to sit on top of bash that guesses what I meant to type when I typo a command and executes it

Anonymous

3:37 AM

I typed some variant of exity/exitr like 4 times trying to close my shell

GamrCorps

@Sp3000 Ah, thanks again!

quartata

I have observed that the more "meta" a chat post is the more stars it will get.

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@Mego Ubuntu has something like that but it doesnt work for shell builtins.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Perhaps we could do a meta analysis on meta chat posts, then perform a meta-meta analysis on my messages pertaining to the meta analysis of aforementioned meta chat posts!

quartata

Case in point...

Anonymous

@quartata It only works to suggest things you meant to type, unless I'm missing something

quartata

3:41 AM

star status: make it rain

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

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quartata

Oh yea I thought thats what you meant

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

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quartata

talkin to mego

Anonymous

No, I meant something that guesses what I meant and then actually executes the guess

quartata

3:44 AM

Also I didnt mean your post was gonna get sters. Your post lacked the depth to convince me that this was really hell

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

Good night y'all. Peace out etc.

quartata

(look up basically sweet genius if you dont get it)

Alex A.

WOOT Python double quotes supreme majority

quartata

Night!

El'endia Starman

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ G'night!

quartata

3:46 AM

Also tfw you notice a giant typo that ruins the entire joke and you cant edit it because youre on mobile.

GamrCorps

Just posted my first ever CJam golf answer! Will never beat Dennis' but it was worth a try!

El'endia Starman

@AlexA. ....TECHnically.

quartata

Alex can you change my sweet genius post to say convince me instead of convine

Alex A.

@quartata Done

quartata

Danke comrade

Dennis

3:49 AM

r_e`0\{~'a=2*(*1$+}%$_@=W>
{
  W=2*mQ2+:LS*aL(*'_L*a+N*\
  {
    'a=
    {
      _'_#:I'At_I(='A={I(L)-'_t}&_I)='A={IL)-'_t}&
    }{
      _'A#:I'_t_I(L)-='_={I(L)-' t}&_IL)-='_={IL)-' t}&
    }?
  }/
  N/{S-},W%ee{~S*\S*\+}%_0=,f<W%N*'_' er
}{
  &
}?

Alex A.

@quartata I also corrected "you" to "your" in the second sentence. ;)

quartata

Wha wat is that

Alex A.

@Dennis There's whitespace in this. Doesn't that crash CJam?

Dennis

@quartata It's for Martin. Don't mind me.

Sp3000

@Dennis -1, fails on test case aaarr

Dennis

3:50 AM