The Nineteenth Byte

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mınxomaτ

Also github.com/yoursuggestion should be free.

Dennis

@TimmyD The actual output is the same, but I guess there's a "philosophical" difference. That's why I included the 14 byte version as well, which actually leaves an empty string on the stack.

VoteToClose

Dennis really ties in the other intellectual sciences into code golf.

> The Philosophy of Code Golf - Dennis

mınxomaτ

8:22 PM

I though I'd give the github project name generator a try and the first word it generated was the German word for "prostitute" >:(

Hipe99

@VoteToClose that could be a book title.

quartata

@mınxomaτ Seriously?

I just ran it and got Cocker

..

mınxomaτ

Lal

VoteToClose

@Hipe99 'Twas the point.

JimmyJazzx

JSARTools

feersum

8:23 PM

> spazcover

'Flappster'

'spacman'

I read this as Vitsy. o-o

quartata

foswipe

Martin Büttner

8:25 PM

Should I downvote this? — Bojidar Marinov 59 secs ago

o.O

I don't know?

mınxomaτ

2

Hahaha

quartata

@mınxomaτ haha

@MartinBüttner He can't even downvote

Hipe99

codejs

Martin Büttner

@quartata this is also true.

quartata

And it was on programs take input from STDIN

wtf

VoteToClose

8:28 PM

@mınxomaτ I got this, but I skipped through it.

Hipe99

8:40 PM

crickets chirp

VoteToClose

They do indeed.

c:

Hipe99

@VoteToClose censorship!

Martin Büttner

has anyone here been playing Human Resource Machine?

Hipe99

not me.

quartata

Rather conveniently, any block in Minecraft can be represented with one unsigned byte.

VoteToClose

8:43 PM

@quartata ?

quartata

This makes my job easier, since it means I don't have to pick stuff.

@VoteToClose Since there are <256

VoteToClose

Uhh...

Hipe99

@quartata pick stuff?

quartata

@Hipe99 Yeah. Like pick specific blocks to support.

VoteToClose

Hipe99

8:45 PM

@quartata ah.

SuperJedi224

Still trying to port my chatbot over to java.

quartata

@VoteToClose minecraft.gamepedia.com/Data_values#Block_IDs

SuperJedi224

Not making much progress though.

VoteToClose

@quartata Direction? c;

quartata

@VoteToClose Per Conor's scoring rules that would have to be another byte anyways

Oh I just noticed something

VoteToClose

8:47 PM

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

quartata

Conor counts air blocks as 0 bytes

fak

I can't do that.

Guess... I'm... making my own scoring method.?

Hipe99

@quartata yes, now go post it.

quartata

@Hipe99 Lemme finish the assembler first.

@VoteToClose Positive X = North in MC, right?

VoteToClose

@quartata East. Negative Z is north.

quartata

@VoteToClose Ah, OK. That makes more sense.

VoteToClose

8:59 PM

No, it really doesn't. XD

quartata

Wait, Negative Z is north? Not positive?

Oh, you know what?

That's because that's Java's coordinate system.

Down is positive

Rainbolt

the z-axis indicates the player's distance south (positive) or north (negative) of the origin point—i.e., the latitude (source)

quartata

I don't know how this works but it is hilarious:

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A: Who is this chatbot?

Java New Edit: Still more tweaking in spare time. I've started a new branch, where I've been playing with the DFS algorithm. Officially the branch is to act as core to a new BFS algorithm I'm planning, but in the meantime I wanted to get a better handle on what the DFS is doing, and how it's mak...

TimmyD

Informal poll: falsey or falsy? Which do you prefer?

quartata

@TimmyD Falsy

Optimizer

9:09 PM

@TimmyD phalsie

quartata

github.com/ProgrammerDan/learning-chatbot/blob/bfs/…

> That's what I think you about the physical universe all live Chatbrains are a confused Chatbrain since Chatbrains and humans alike..

Rainbolt

I miss @ProgrammerDan :(

He was so enthusiastic about challenges

quartata

> Obviously not going to win any awards, being Java and all, but I love this problem and wanted to throw in my own entry.

@Rainbolt I don't think he's dead or anything:

> Last seen Oct 19 at 18:16

Only about a month.

Rainbolt

He's not active on this site now

quartata

Not everyone is like this:

> Member for 59 days

> visited 59 days, 59 consecutive

(that's me)

Dennis

9:16 PM

'\'0777

quartata

Huh, you can't see consecutive days on other people's profiles

Anonymous

9:27 PM

@quartata I missed day 30 for the enthusiast badge :(

Anonymous

VoteToClose

\o/ I just got the necromancer badge.

...again.

Anonymous

We've got 2 and a half hours until my challenge of no stars starts

SuperJedi224

@VoteToClose I've got 3 of those

VoteToClose

Anonymous

9:34 PM

@VoteToClose :(

Anonymous

I had 29 days, 29 days consecutive

Anonymous

Then I was on the road for 2 days

VoteToClose

4G is your friend.

Optimizer

The program is sad that its not stopping.. — Optimizer 2 days ago

has 25 likes :D

@Mego I lost my streak at 157 :(

VoteToClose

Can I seriously alter a question if it's obvious that no one's working on it?

Rainbolt

9:38 PM

Link to the question?

Calvin's Hobbies

Yes (IMO)

VoteToClose

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Q: String to ASCII Art Text

The Task You are to write some ASCII Art Text as seen from this website for generating ASCII art! Rules Input will only be alphabetical text and spaces, and will be input as a single line. It is also case-insensitive. You needn't fix if the output text is longer than the terminal width. As lo...

Rainbolt

I'm working on it now.

Sorry.

Optimizer

liar

VoteToClose

-.-

Optimizer

9:38 PM

all lies

Calvin's Hobbies

^

Rainbolt

Okay, I lied. I'm not sorry.

VoteToClose

Okay. So, may I change?

Optimizer

@Rainbolt I'm not, sorry.*

Anonymous

@VoteToClose ಠ_ಠ

Optimizer

9:40 PM

@Mego don't worry, he's not talking about altering Seriously.

VoteToClose

@Mego That was accidental. XD

I can't do "Hello World" because it's a dupe. :c

Anonymous

I should write a script that replies ಠ_ಠ to any message containing "seriously" or "srsly", with a cooldown so immature chat trolls won't abuse it to spam

Optimizer

srsly, stop it!

Anonymous

@Optimizer grabs a trout and waves it menacingly

VoteToClose

@Calvin'sHobbies If I changed mine to have to be a "Hello World" generation, would it be too similar to this in your opinion?

Optimizer

9:43 PM

seriously, its a crap.

Doorknob

@Mego hey that's mine

aditsu

@Mego seriously?

Anonymous

@Doorknob Plenty of fish in the C

Optimizer

Crsly?

Dennis

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New Main Posts

9:44 PM

0

Q: Reformat copy/pasted code to proper C like syntax

DISCLAIMER - My first question, please delete if duplicated. Often times when working between platforms, IDE's, text editors, etc., a code segment can be perfectly formatted in one file, and when you copy/paste it to a different text editor, the syntax is completely messed up and difficult to re...

code-golf typography

Optimizer

@Dennis lolwut?

Doorknob

can't tell if CJam or cat on keyboard

5

Calvin's Hobbies

@VoteToClose I'd say yes

VoteToClose

Damn.

Looks like that question's going to waste, then.

Dennis

;jk897 X

aditsu

9:45 PM

@Doorknob too little entropy for CJam

Rainbolt

I haven't starred anything since Doorknob put his foot down. I am afraid.

Can someone write a regex that will tell me when it's okay to star something?

VoteToClose

@Mego Use '_ಠ'DOr\DZ Vitsy code. c:

Anonymous

@Rainbolt ""

3

Rainbolt

You make me sad :(

aditsu

@Rainbolt .*

Anonymous

9:47 PM

@aditsu Does . match newlines?

VoteToClose

v

Doorknob

depends

aditsu

^

Anonymous

@NewMainPosts Dupe

aditsu

that's not code golf ^

VoteToClose

9:49 PM

See: all discussions relating to "reformatting an old question to different scoring criteria".

aditsu

I don't see them

Calvin's Hobbies

Any thoughts on this, agree/disagree? v

in Discussion between Mego and Peter Taylor, 5 hours ago, by Calvin's Hobbies

@Mego I'd argue that "built-in" cannot be well defined. e.g. your Gamma challenge forbade built in gamma functions. Suppose in my language the gamma function really just calls two other functions, negativeGamma and nonNegativeGamma. Do those count as built-ins I can't use?

(and subsequent comments)

aditsu

how can I search for something in the sandbox?

VoteToClose

@Calvin'sHobbies I thought I starred it.

aditsu

nevermind, I found something

Dennis

9:53 PM

@Doorknob Close enough. Daughter.

aditsu

so is this a duplicate too? v

0

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Format the code Given some source code in a C-like language, format (prettify) it using the following rules: remove all leading/trailing whitespace on each line collapse consecutive empty lines into one empty line if the first line is empty, remove it; same with the last line split lines after...

TimmyD

> You can also search through the sandbox by qualifying your search with inquestion:2140

VoteToClose

I'm an idiot

3

aditsu

@TimmyD ah right, thanks

@VoteToClose is this not prettifying?

VoteToClose

My submission to GemsOfStackExchange.

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