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3:00 PM
@El'endiaStarman nah, it clearly went the other way. NYSE designer clearly participates on ux.se :P
 
@TheBitByte Markdown don't work in multiline messages
 
@El'endiaStarman Ah, indeed. That's likely the culprit. Good catch.
 
@Oliver This reminds me of WikiVoyage being forced to change their old logo, due to being accidentally similar to another company's logo.
 
@TheBitByte I still don't understand what's going on - the formatting is still bad (why all the random bold bits?)
 
haha
 
3:04 PM
@TheBitByte I don' think I understand the challenge. I think you're looking for the output of an equation (eval'd or the like) where the variables are substituted with the corresponding term from the corresponding sequence?
 
@TimmyD Yes.
How do I make this more clear?
 
I think using a letter attachment rather than changing font might be more distinct in that case. Like, (0R + 0F) - 3
 
@Geobits Are you referring to sharklasers.com ?
 
oooh, I also like lasersharks.com
 
@mbomb007 Just in case anybody visits this website, it claims to be an anonymous email service. They added attachment support, however to prevent abuse, your not-so-anonymous IP address is sent in the email header.
As you might notice GurrillaMail is the parent service. SharkLasers is, if I remember correctly, someone who signed up for their premium private service, but chose to make it public for other users to benefit from it.
 
3:18 PM
@TheBitByte You would probably also be better off (after you have the challenge cleaned up and ready to go) to abandon the current challenge and post it entirely new again.
 
@TheBitByte I have edited your question to improve formatting
 
@Oliver Thanks!
 
Just an FYI, this user has been posting answers in (most likely) fictional languages, and providing fake links that don't work when asked for the language link.
 
@TimmyD Well, are you sure? I don't want any duplicate question tags or whatnot.
 
hi
 
3:20 PM
He even posted a comment saying "upvote me and i'll give you it"
don't upvote, just flag his answers if you see a new one
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ he's clearly answering in a metagolfscript variant :P
 
yes
I think he's just trying to get votes/rep by posting answers and hoping nobody notices they're fake.
 
@NathanMerrill In which case, that too is not allowed.
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ All answers are now deleted
 
@TheBitByte If your abandoned challenge is deleted, it can't be a dupe target.
 
3:24 PM
@BlueEyedBeast cool, thanks
 
@TimmyD Okay. What can I do to make it yet better again?
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Do you have a link?
 
@BlueEyedBeast They've all been deleted.
 
3:24 PM
@BlueEyedBeast We don't target users here. If that was not your intention, then I am sorry for misunderstanding.
 
but i'll find them in the review history
 
I can see deleted answers
 
same
 
Oh, nvmd muddy linked them
 
3:25 PM
you can't find them from his profile though
 
No you can't
Only mods can do that
 
@TheBitByte no, but tha'ts not targeting. that's warning other people
 
@BlueEyedBeast The last link only link to the question
 
@TheBitByte It wasn't my intention
 
Or is the answer super-mega-elevened so nobody can see it?
 
3:26 PM
@TheBitByte I also think the image of Fibonacci's series is very distracting. It's in a significantly larger font and bright red, so it really draws the eye.
 
@TimmyD Okay, will remove.
 
I think with Oliver's edit to utilize the actual letter phi, the plaintext version is nice and readable as-is.
 
@TimmyD Just remembered, can't delete my question since one answer exists. I shall improve the existing question, and I need two more reopen votes. :D
 
:/
 
@TheBitByte Mods can help with that.
 
3:29 PM
@TimmyD Okay. Any advice on how to improve the long, last paragraph full of numbers?
 
I would change the examples format
 
@Oliver I am asking how. I find it difficult to think of a different format that is not more complicated.
 
I said, I think if you use a letter distinction, it will improve readability. Like instead of (1st term of Recamán's sequence + 2nd term of Recamán's sequence) + (56th term of Recamán's sequence - 34th term of Recamán's sequence) ... do (1R + 2R) + (56R -34R) ...
 
or
r<sub>1</sub> + r<sub>2</sub> ...
ehh
 
Or, better yet, define the functions above to use R, F, and T
rather than a
Then you could use the subtext like Oliver has
That would probably be most readable
 
3:38 PM
Or, don't.
 
I'm trying to test making a POST but streaming the request entity. what's the easiest way to do that?
Currently trying to use python HTTPConnection
 
Hmm. I haven't worked with streams.
 
I want fine-grained control such that i can cancel the request after headers are sent but before the entity is sent
 
@Poke Okay, that's definitely outside of my expertise. :P
 
Congrats for having dwarfed your own record of score to post length ratio ;) — Lucas Trzesniewski yesterday
 
3:53 PM
This is the first time in years someone said Happy Birthday to me :( — dbanet yesterday
 
Is codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/99354/32686 a standard loophole? If it isn't it should be
 
@BlueEyedBeast I feel like standard loopholes are for issues that come up often. That isn't one of them, but I do agree that it's invalid.
 
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Q: Recamán's fibonacci is triangular

TheBitByteBelow are the descriptions/formulae of the sequences you'll need to use for this challenge: Recamán's sequence: a0 = 0; for n > 0, an = an-1 - n if positive and not already in the sequence, otherwise an = an-1 + n Fibonacci sequence: an = (Φn – (–Φ)–n...

 
@BlueEyedBeast Possibly this one
 
The idea of using line the number of columns is clever, but I think you'd have to set the value from inside your code. — Dennis ♦ 17 secs ago
 
4:07 PM
I can not write code today without writing a bunch of bugs
 
@NathanMerrill "I can not write code today" and stop there. Much better.
 
> I can not write code today without writing a bunch of bugs
 
@Dennis I don't feel like cluttering up the comments, so I'm moving to chat. I understand that reposting instead of fixing will contribute to the question ban, but in this case I don't think it was really bad form. The current challenge is a lot higher quality than the old one, and I think at this point the old one is unsalvageable. It'll probably stay negative no matter what
 
I don't see any way of salvaging a question that heavily downvoted even after extensive review and adjustment.
 
4:26 PM
@El'endiaStarman I was also wondering about this.
 
CMP: how many flags per day are you allowed on ppcg?
 
16 afaik
 
CMC: Create a program. Golf for total memory usage.
 
@DrMcMoylex The last revision of the original challenge is almost identical to the new question, so I don't understand the quality difference. Yes, having a question with a score of -8 isn't pleasant, but that should more or less correct itself if the question has been fixed.
 
@DrMcMoylex IIRC that's directly correlated with reputation.
 
4:30 PM
All courses of action are suboptimal at this point, but (in my opinion) the downvotes that remain are the price you pay for posting an utterly unclear and poorly formatted question in the first place and eastign everyone's time. It's not like @TheBitByte doesn't know about the sandbox. While not mandatory, skipping it for a convoluted challenge like this one is a very bad idea.
 
<8KB is what we're talking about
 
@DrMcMoylex 67
 
@El'endiaStarman And flagging history
 
@DrMcMoylex Looks like it's 16 for me.
 
@Dennis Wat? I thought mods have no limit
 
4:31 PM
@DrMcMoylex Oh, that's probably the bigger contributor. I have 70 on C.SE.
@DrMcMoylex We don't use up our flags... :P
 
It's not like I use the flags. Why would I flag something for moderator attention?
 
I'm confused
 
I mean, I'm pretty sure that mod flags don't decrease our flag count.
 
@Dennis If you want Martin to look at it? :P
 
@Dennis I've used them to get feedback from other mods, especially when it's my own content. Another mod on C.SE has used them as a note-to-self feature.
 
4:33 PM
@DrMcMoylex 16 here
 
25 for me.
I'm pretty happy with that
 
OK, and there are spam/offensive flags as well, which are actual flags. Hard to amount 67 in a day though...
 
@DrMcMoylex 12⚑
 
is it related to how much you've contributed on a particular day?
 
For me, whenever I vote to close, or flag, the counter drops (it started for me on 30) and it doesn't reset everyday. Now I have 23 remaining.
 
4:36 PM
This mean the flags are not accepted and the close votes don't close the questions
 
Hey, upvoter on my challenge, you can't possibly have read it, understood it, and determined it was worthy of an upvote in ten seconds. Not that I'm complaining about the +5, but c'mon ... :D
 
AFAIK
 
@TimmyD Now you have 3 votes
 
@PhiNotPi It's 10 + (Rep / 2K) + ((Helpful flags - declined flags) / 10)
So I have 10 + 8 + 7
 
@KritixiLithos Sure, that's fine. But the first one was literally within ten seconds of me hitting the "Post" button.
 
4:38 PM
I have 10 + 1 + 1 then
 
Where does it say your flag limit?
 
Click flag on a post
(Without confirming the flag)
 
0
Q: Print an array with maximum density of local maxima

DschoniThis is my first puzzle, so I'm trying to be as specific as possible and am happy to get poked to any loopholes it might have. You are given a mxn matrix of numbers, that have two possible integer entries a and b. A sliding window of size c is moving over the array and the following rules applie...

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Q: Armistice Day Challenge

TimmyDToday, November 11th, is known as Remembrance Day, Armistice Day, or Veterans Day (depending upon the country), and is a day of reflection and gratitude for members of the military and their service, specifically started to reflect the end of European hostilities in the first World War. Let us re...

 
I have 10 flags
 
21 flags
 
4:42 PM
Anyone know if there is << for output in old versions of Python? I feel like there was something like that, but I can't remember or find it.
 
@mbomb007 that was used to redirect print statement to a different file?
 
Oh, is that what it did?
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking of
 
If I remember correctly
 
Yeah. It's not going to help me with the challenge. Nvm.
 
@mbomb007 print>>open(*"ww"),range(10) as an example
 
4:47 PM
So, there's this History.SE question about large-scale protests after US presidential elections, and I'm quite amused by the top answer, which says that South Carolina protested Abraham Lincoln's election by starting the Civil War. Sure puts the recent election into perspective. :P
 
Evenin'!
 
Good evening!
 
Hmm. I need a fellow mathematician....hey @PhiNotPi, how familiar are you with slope fields?
 
Hahahahaha.
 
4:52 PM
I've done some slope fields before, what about them?
 
Showerthought: Maybe there are creatures that are made of dark matter that look up into the skies at nights, and say to the creature next to it "Hey Botzig, do you think there are creatures that made of dark matter?" xkcd.com/1758
 
@PhiNotPi Okay, if you draw one for gravity, all the lines point inward towards the center. You can also draw one based on dy/dx = x/y which is circular. Can both of these be represented by a single matrix with different numbers in it?
 
Did you know rickrolling has been around for the majority of your life? (if your age > 17)
 
Yes
 
Nintendo Wii
 
4:57 PM
Wait, the x/y slope field is not circular, but my question remains.
 
My age is not on the list
 
@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC You got your inequality backwards.
 
@KritixiLithos Then you're too young to feel old
 
@BlueEyedBeast Thanks, that makes me feel happier :)
 
4:58 PM
@El'endiaStarman the entire slope field as a matrix?
 
@ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΟΗʹ OH MY GOD CGP GREY AND KURZGESAGT BOTH RELEASED A VIDEO ON THE SAME DAY!
@mods sorry for screaming
 
@PhiNotPi Yeah. In a sense, I'm trying to figure out if a given differential equation can be represented in a matrix, but now that I've put it that way, that can't be right.
I should probably give a little background.
 
Kurzgesagt is amazing
 
As in, a 2x2 matrix so that multiplying it by the vector [x, y] gives you a vector representing the slope field at that point?
 
5:01 PM
I was thinking about forking my Spacewar! game so I could add little dots like missiles that are short-lived but show how gravity pulls objects at different points in the playing field. Then I thought about changing the differential equation to something else, and that's when I had the idea of continuously deforming from one "slope field" to another, while playing the game.
 
@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC they do it occasionally
 
@PhiNotPi Yeah, that's a good way to put it.
 
@El'endiaStarman I still want Spacewar! 2.
@El'endiaStarman MMPORG Spacewar! ?
 
@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC Aw heck no. :P
 
@noɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC omg wat plz no
 
5:03 PM
@El'endiaStarman With bots.
Like screeps.
 
It already gets crazy enough with just two players. Three wouldn't be fun to play, and adding more would just make the experience much messier.
 
@El'endiaStarman in that case, only solutions like dy/dx = (qx+ry)/(sx+ty) would work.
since both dx and dy have to be linear combinations of x and y
 
@El'endiaStarman Then I want .* MMPORG with bots like screeps. Speaking of screeps, let's setup our own screeps server - the code's on GitHub now.
 
I'm up for a PPCG screeps server.
The original wasn't very fun because of the whole "pay for computation time" = "pay to win" balancing issue.
 
@PhiNotPi Hmm, right. Luckily, gravity is one of those since it's apparently dy/dx = y/x, so [[0 1] [1 0]] in matrix form.
I wish Desmos' slope field plotter had arrows.
Oooh wait, it should be [[0 1] [-1 0]] for gravity.
The other one is antigravity.
 
5:10 PM
TWO cgp grey videos
@PhiNotPi star the idea so we can get manpower
 
[[-2 1] [1 -2]] is interesting
there's only a few main variations, though. The good thing is that these matrices maintain (0,0) as the sole singularity.
 
Hmm, actually, I don't think [[0 1] [-1 0]] represents true gravity since it gets stronger further away from the origin.
 
true... it represents the slope but not the proper magnitude.
 
I think we could keep magnitude following the inverse square law.
Both gravity and antigravity follow it.
 
5:17 PM
Yeah, and just tweak the slopes according to this matrix.
 
both [[1 0] [0 1]] and [[-1 0] [0 1]] create interesting slope fields.
The latter being a circle, leading to infinite acceleration along a circular path. (edit: actually, that's not how it will end up working)
 
I especially want to see how OrbitBot responds to that. :P
Alright, lessee...I have to leave for work at 14:45 and it's 12:21 now...
 
the acceleration is circular, which basically throws all ships out of the orbit into deep space.
 
But it's a toroidal space! :D
Perhaps we could tweak it so that the acceleration points inward somewhat also.
Wouldn't that be like [[-0.8 0] [0 0.8]]?
 
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Q: Must all answers be runnable by a computer?

TheBitByteIn other words, the answerer must provide or explain some way or form to run their answer on a computer. This would apply to new answers only, assuming the required consensus is reached. If the answer cannot be run on a computer at all, it is not allowed. What do you think about this?

 
5:24 PM
there's a math theorem that says only the inverse law and inverse square law can create stable orbits
 
What are you using to look at slope vector fields?
 
desmos
 
@PhiNotPi True. But that doesn't really matter here. :P
 
@El'endiaStarman multiplying by a constant doesn't change the angle
 
Hmm, right.
 
5:26 PM
@MartinEnder Let me elaborate a bit more. Puzzling.SE is an SE site for puzzles. We're a site for programming puzzles. We then must establish an objective definition of "What is programming?", as to perhaps disallow non-programming answers. We don't want to turn into a generic puzzling site.
 
hig uys
 
[[-1 1] [1 1]] is a spiral
 
*hi guys
 
@PhiNotPi Does that correspond to f1(x,y) = -x+y and f2(x,y) = x+y? 'cause I'm not seeing a spiral.
 
should be? I'm having dy/dx = (-x+y)/(x+y)
this this slope field viewer... desmos.com/calculator/p7vd3cdmei
maybe my problem is in vector vs. slope fields.
 
5:31 PM
Yeah, I'm using this vector field viewer: desmos.com/calculator/eijhparfmd
It's hard to tell if it's actually displaying what I want.
 
Desmos is nice
@Oliver Hi! I cracked both of your answers! :D
 
...
Great
 
@KritixiLithos try one or both of mine? :p
 
im making a new cops and robbers challenge
challenge
 
@Calvin'sHobbies well, that was a sad way to get C&H back
 
5:34 PM
challenge
ughhh i cant spell
 
@El'endiaStarman try -x+y and -x-y
 
...... @Downgoat.....
why are you infecting people with goatspeling
5
 
@Oliver: You can edit your messages within two minutes of posting.
 
ohh
thanks
 
waits for the flood of pencil marks
 
5:36 PM
there
 
@Oliver No problem. Try to avoid doing it more than once or twice if the message has a ping in it though, since the recipient gets pinged each time.
 
5 pencil parks in a minute, wow!
 
ok
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ *gaotspelling
 
5:37 PM
no
speling
 
@KritixiLithos y u ninja me
 
@KritixiLithos called it
 
@PhiNotPi Yup, that's a spiral.
 
@El'endiaStarman that's amazing
 
@TuxCopter ninja'd
 
5:38 PM
;_____;
 
@PhiNotPi Basically, a) no eigenvectors, b) one eigenvector, and c) two eigenvectors, right?
 
@El'endiaStarman well, now that we have that sorted out, it shouldn't be too hard to add a couple sliders to the game to change the direction of gravity in whichever way.
 
Woo-hoo, second "reviewer" badge! \o/
 
TFW your parent clicks an UD link, thinking it's a normal dictionary.
>_<
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ How badly are you grounded now? :P
 
5:42 PM
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ UD?
 
I once clicked on a UD link thinking it was a normal dictionary, I got scarred for life
 
urban dictionary
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ :| ;________; i did not intend for this
 
@El'endiaStarman i have no clue. it wasn't my fault though, I think mom is looking at eyebleach right now
 
clearly they have just grown hooves
totally not related my quest to make world ruled by goats
 
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ (Yeah, I didn't think it was your fault. :P)
 
@El'endiaStarman what do each of those look like on the vector field?
 
hi guys
 
hi
 
user has changed his name
the NAA one i posted about earlier
 
5:47 PM
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ d'awwhh
 
@PhiNotPi A would have to be either circular or radial, since the only unaffected vector is the 0 vector. B would be flowing towards or away from a given line, and C would be in one of three configurations regarding flowing towards or away from two lines. I think that's what they correspond to.
 
Does anyone know of any modern MMOFPS-esque games other than Planetside 2?
They don't have to be quite the scale of that but I'm interesting in seeing FPS games that could have 100 players or so in a game
 
Let's set up a PPCG Screeps server, npm is having weird errors on my machine :P
 
5:48 PM
firefall @quartata?
friend I have plays it
idk what is it other than basically PL2
 
ehhh
I mean it looks OK but it's Windows-only and mixed reviews :P
It seems like this is a relatively untapped genre
 
@quartata dirty bomb might be similar, thuogh I think it's more like tf2 than PL2
 
@El'endiaStarman there's x-y, x-y that forms a line
 
haven't seen a two-line one yet
 
5:51 PM
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Dirty Bomb games are very small.
 
or maybe that's what the hyperbola-shaped ones are.
 
I think they're usually 8v8
 
idk
don't play myself
 
@quartata Extra Credits did an episode on why there are so few MMORTS (good ones, at least), and the conclusion was basically that it's really hard to balance them since players get more powerful over time and the more they play.
@PhiNotPi That's what I was thinking, yeah. Though I suppose those asymptotes aren't properly eigenvectors?
Wait, yes they are, since multiples of eigenvectors have their magnitudes changed by the vector field, but not their directions.
 
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Q: Quine Anagrams! (Cops' Thread)

OliverThis is the cops' thread. For the robbers' thread, click here. Cops' Task First, write a quine in a language of your choosing. Next, scramble the quine. Make sure to do this well as the robbers will be trying to unscramble it and find the original source code! Post an answer on this thread. In...

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Q: Quine Anagrams! (Robbers' Thread)

OliverThis is the robbers' thread. For the cops' thread, click here. Cops' Task For the cops' thread, click here. Robbers' Task Find an uncracked submission on the cops' thread. (A submission may only be cracked once.) Unscramble the code to find a working quine. Post an answer on the robbers' thr...

 
5:59 PM
great
 

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