The Nineteenth Byte

Geobits

4:00 AM

Uh... brb installing fonts. I assume that's a disapproval face, but my fresh OS won't tell me for sure.

Downgoat

@Geobits oh, what OS are you using now?

Gabriel Benamy

this is the face

Geobits

Still Ubuntu, just fresh and new after the incident.

H Walters

@GabrielBenamy Any Star Trek combat situation

Gabriel Benamy

Personally I'd go for a time travel incident

H Walters

4:01 AM

Because given the actual tech they have, they don't even come close to doing it right

Geobits

But... they reroute power to the forward shields and everything :(

H Walters

That plot-of-the-week fourth-dimensional teleporter thing... which they don't use to actually teleport because it musses their DNA up and stuff... should have been a military game changer

Replicate napalm + teleport it through their shields on the bridge = why the heck do you bother with phasers?

Gabriel Benamy

you can't transport through shields

Geobits

You could in one episode at least

H Walters

shields were useless against that plot of the week device

Gabriel Benamy

4:08 AM

that's why they always have to lower their shields before transporting anywhere

H Walters

Well, yeah, the "safe" teleporters that don't muss your DNA up, but I'm not sure I care all that much if a few molecules of napalm turn into mayonnaise

Geobits

I do. Mayo is disgusting :P

Even the smell.

The smell of napalm, though... I love it. Especially in the morning

H Walters

I can't really expect that much consistency though in ST; they are after all just a "car ship" level scifi

(You can roughly rank space operas by the physics of their ships; "car ship" is what I call it when all ships for some reason are always "horizontal" and in line with each other, and basically go forward/back)

Geobits

The enemy's ship is down

Gabriel Benamy

@HWalters god, that bothered me in so many Voyager episodes. "There's this really wide and deep anomaly but it's only like 1 km tall I guess we'll have to go through it and put the entire crew into comas just to survive"

Geobits

4:20 AM

To be fair, forward/back (main) movement is easier to design and maintain. As long as you have directional thrusters, though, there's no excuse for the actual maneuvers they use being so "flat".

Downgoat

@Geobits I often wonder if people taste mayonnaise differently, because the way I taste it I cannot fathom how you could find it disgusting

Anonymous

@Downgoat There's a lot of different kinds of mayo

Geobits

I haven't found a kind I liked. I just can't get past the smell. It smells like something that has spoiled.

Downgoat

For reference, I am talking about:

Geobits

It's one of the few things I've eaten that gives me an instant gag reflex.

Downgoat

4:23 AM

@Geobits the other being an upvote shaped cookie? :P

Geobits

One other being natto :P

Maltysen

@Geobits interestingly, I often find the texture of mayo disgusting, but if I can get it past my eyes into my mouth hidden by a sandwich or something, I don't really notice it as that bad

Geobits

Mayonnaise is useful as a binder in recipes, but that's about it. It's fine in things like deviled eggs and the like, where the taste and smell is completely masked by everything else.

PhiNotPi

One time I ate a sandwich with way too much mayo on it, leading me to intentionally avoid mayo for the next few months.

Geobits

I worked at a Subway when I was a young lad. Some people are downright excessive with it, and it made the thought of quitting very appetizing every time.

@Maltysen Sour, tangy, and gross. All great ways to ruin a sandwich :P

Downgoat

4:26 AM

I am starting to think the mayo you have tried was past its due date

TIL mayo has a texture

Geobits

It's not that. It's just that goats will eat anything.

Downgoat

to be fair, as a goat i can eat pretty much anything

:| ninja

Gabriel Benamy

H Walters

That texture isn't the mayo... it's the package they mayo is in

Gabriel Benamy

they will also climb pretty much anything, just to lick salt off of the wall

PhiNotPi

4:28 AM

CMC: calculate the goat's coefficient of friction

Geobits

Is the goat slathered in mayonnaise? It makes a difference.

Gabriel Benamy

goats do not fear death

Geobits

Only because they don't comprehend their own mortality.

Downgoat

if there is tin can on vertical surface, we climb vertical surface

H Walters

Meh... those goats are just on a vertical wall... downgoat's standing on a ceiling

Downgoat

4:29 AM

it is very simple

Geobits

Either that or too many video games. But probably the mortality thing.

Downgoat

my favorite goat meme regarding climbing:

Gabriel Benamy

I'm off to bed

good night everyone

Downgoat

:( I think CS teacher took some points for golfing java on test

not that Java is golfable

Geobits

Should have taken more than one lol

Downgoat

4:38 AM

D: but don't all Java programmers golf their code?

I mean you have to avoid RSI somehow

Gabriel Benamy

I actually earned extra points for golfing a java question back in high school

the teacher told us that it wasn't possible to rewrite the code he gave us in less than 100 bytes and I did it in like, 97

I mean for starters, he used a four-letter variable name and called it like six times

Downgoat

:D you have good teacher

If Java STDLIB is so great, why does it not have basic repeat function ಠ_ಠ

Gabriel Benamy

this was many years ago, I don't know if he's still teaching

also I said I was going to bed

so I really am this time

Downgoat

oh yeah ok. g'night .o/

Anonymous

@Downgoat I don't think anybody in the history of ever has called Java's STDLIB "great"

Downgoat

4:41 AM

:/ 99% of people I talk to say "Java has powerful STL" and all that stuff

Anonymous

Maybe you only heard the beginning of "great, now I have to introduce yet ANOTHER dependency because Java's STDLIB is horrible"

H Walters

Wha? Java doesn't have STL

Anonymous

STL is a C++ thing

Downgoat

STL is not same as STDLIB?

TIL

I mean it's not exactly like Java's fast, nor has lovely syntax, so it's library is really all it has going for it (imho)

H Walters

No... I'm pretty sure C has stdlib, but not supporting templates it's kind of hard to do standard template library in C

Downgoat

4:43 AM

oh STL is standard template library

I thought it stood for STandard Library

H Walters

Yeah, part of STL is only part of C++

Downgoat

ok, now I feel stupid for saying stupid thing :(

Downgoat

4:58 AM

Question: any ideas for how a net/web literal would work

someway to perhaps represent something like:

H Walters

For what purpose?

Golfing language?

Downgoat

For cheddar

cheddar.vihan.org

It's a really cool new programminng language

i highly reccomend it

PhiNotPi

biased much?

Downgoat

Idk what ur talking about :P

H Walters

Are you looking to add graphing features? And would you be using it for graph theory stuff itself or just a general data structure?

("graphing" of course in this context meaning the art of edging nodes)

Destructible Watermelon

5:06 AM

Put ascii art

Then it can be the first ascii art syntax in a serious language probably

also, about that deleted answer on the I voted question, with the polyglot. Maybe, just maybe, we should have a question, even if it's on meta, where we post things like that, that don't really belong on a question or something

H Walters

I'd suggest building a graphing library around individual edges for utility... and supporting DOT (Graphviz format) input/outputs

The latter being the main utility... just because you could naturally hook to other things

Anonymous

What the hell? I don't have the gold code golf badge anymore?

Destructible Watermelon

Somebody must have stolen it!

Anonymous

I thought that once a badge was unlocked, you always kept it. But apparently you can lose a gold badge by getting downvoted.

Destructible Watermelon

there you go

any second now...

Anonymous

5:20 AM

@DestructibleWatermelon You should upvote posts based on content, not based on what a user is saying in chat

Destructible Watermelon

Yeah, but I usually just forget to vote good answers anyway

Anonymous

Huh, turns out tag badges being revoked is by design. That's... dumb.

Destructible Watermelon

also reading through it has a very nice trick too

ooh, think i got a nice golf for the same question

Dennis

@Mego That was a lot harder than it sounded... Anyway: tio.run/nexus-dev/bash#@5@anJGvYGKkoKZQnJOaWqBg9P8/AA

Anonymous

@Dennis Looks perfect now. A+

Dennis

5:27 AM

:D Now all that's left to do is pray it works in Safari.

Destructible Watermelon

nvm

H Walters

"Something bad happened. Please check your browser's console for further information."

Dennis

Did you?

H Walters

Empty

Dennis

What did you execute?

H Walters

5:31 AM

Just what was in there; echo 42 & sleep 2

Dennis

Huh. Does that happen every time?

H Walters

Just went back to the page... saw 42 and lots of stats... so no

Change to 43, saw 43... either it's fixed or intermittent

Dennis

Either network issues or goblins.

H Walters

Just shoved in a 33,729 word Venusian essay generator and tried again; worked like a charm

Dennis

:)

H Walters

5:39 AM

That's really freaking cool... would love to have this thing handy next time I golf in bash/cu

Anonymous

I'm really impressed with how good the TIO Nexus looks and runs

Dennis

Glad to hear that. :)

Dennis

6:06 AM

I can't believe it: Julia 0.5 stopped issuing warnings when you redefine the base operators.

betseg

6:51 AM

bash.org/?835030 lol

Slightly NSFW language

Destructible Watermelon

There is a fairly simple but nontrivial challenge someone could answer in Turtlèd, to get a 50 rep bounty...

Fatalize

7:49 AM

@Dennis So you can set 2+2 = 5 with no warnings?

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8:25 AM

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Q: New tag proposal: Variable Kolmogorov Complexity

I was thinking maybe we should have a tag for those things that are kind of like kolmogorov complexity, in that it is a no-input output challenge, but not quite. For those challenges where a output from no input is needed, but is just something that obeys certain rules, rather than one specific ...

Anonymous

@Dennis Obviously goblins

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9:34 AM

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Q: Convert a bit into a bool - or more bits?

Preamble We all know the datatype bool. It is common in many languages, and the easiest way to represent a bool as a number is either 1 or 0. Therefore, a boolean can contain two values: 1, true, or HIGH 0, false, or LOW Because it only represents two numbers, one bit is enough to contain a ...

code-golf parsing integer

Anonymous

9:58 AM

Would anyone mind reviewing this challenge?

Anonymous

Whoah why isn't the accepted answer at the top when I'm sorting by active on meta?

Destructible Watermelon

10:15 AM

> don't downvote this

Classic RosLuP

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Q: Plus and Times, Ones and Nines

Implement this recurrence relation as a function or program that inputs and outputs a non-negative integer: F(0) = 0 F(N) = the smallest integer greater than F(N-1) such that the sum and/or product of its base-10 digits is N To be clear, the sum of the digits in a number like 913 is 9+1+3=13....

code-golf math sequence arithmetic integer

flawr

10:38 AM

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ oh I think there are a few other subs also devoted to stuff like that^^

seequ

11:07 AM

/me bought Mathematica finally

Worth it? No idea.

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Q: Are GoL challenge on topic

I have a challenge idea that is pure Conway's Game of Life, would this be on topic on PPCG? I know we already have some, but it seems to me that they're just cool language restricted golf, which are frequently frowned upon here.

discussion

betseg

11:25 AM

i.stack.imgur.com/pXnqB.jpg lol

Kritixi Lithos

> restricti

At least they have a sense of humour

betseg

My connection is borking plz he

Kritixi Lithos

+1 for "bork"

betseg

Plz no star for unoriginal unfunny joke :'(

Kritixi Lithos

Your wish has been granted. Now I am a free Djinni

New Main Posts

11:47 AM

0

Q: Convert a sample to an index

We are putting balls into a fixed number a bins. These bins begin empty. Empty bin (a=4): 0 0 0 0 And one by one we add balls to the bins. 0 0 0 1 or 0 0 1 0 or 0 1 0 0 or 1 0 0 0 We need a quick way to loop over all the possible states the bins take, without duplicates and without mi...

code-golf number combinatorics

aleksusklim

@Dennis , about codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/102240/63039 : Please feel free to edit your answer and to flag it for moderator attention so it can be undeleted – So I successfully edited my answer (now there is a very golfy "UPD:") but for some reason I couldn’t flag it. Something is not loading with a red popup… Maybe you can undelete my answer manually, please? (Sorry if this is wrong time or place to ask, I’m new here)

TuxCopter

Hallo golfers

ven

12:16 PM

o/

Dada

@aleksusklim I think you should put the golfed code first in your answer. Also note that it's not "the moderators" who thinks golfing is the most important, but the community who agrees that when a challenge is about golfing, the answer should be golfed (and serious contender).

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12:49 PM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

GoL flooding Considering a 1000x1000 grid (no wrapping, borders dead), your task is to grow the maximum "stable" population from the fewer individuals. For the purpose of this challenge, the definition of stable is a configuration who repeat with a period of less than hundred(100) generations. ...

trichoplax

@aleksusklim Voting is important when the challenge is tagged popularity-contest. Golfing is important when the challenge is tagged code-golf. They are two different types of challenge.

@aleksusklim I suspect that complaining about the moderators in your answer will not endear you to the community, since the community chose those moderators... You could look through the other challenge types if you don't want to golf - personally I also find fastest-code and code-challenge interesting.

seequ

I haven't been here in like 1,5 years and Geobits still has top stars.

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Q: Help my maniacal wife decorate our christmas tree

My wife is very lets say particular when it comes to putting ornaments on our christmas tree. Let's get her some code to help her in this trying time. Input Given an input n > 2 the height of the tree and 0 < k < n the distinct number of ornaments. Task Decorate the tree starting with 1 and ...

code-golf ascii-art

trichoplax

@Dada I definitely agree the golfed code should come first. Personally I would go further and say that adding irrelevant information after the golfed code clutters the challenge in the same way that invalid answers do. I like to see a good explanation of the golfed code, and I don't see a problem with linking to related approaches that don't fit the challenge, but when a large proportion of the answer is irrelevant I don't think it is fair to the other answers to allow it.

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betseg

1:14 PM

@seequ over 100 stars now!

Welcome back btw

seequ

Goodish to be back.

Hm, there doesn't seem to be any SE <-> Matrix bridges yet.

Well, now I know what my next project is.

TimmyD

1:35 PM

I'm struggling to understand where the line is drawn. This answer is clearly golfed, even if it is a polyglot. As I mentioned, I always understood this to mean earnest contender -- as in, the user clearly put effort into the answer. That's undoubtedly the case here.

However, it seems like Dennis, Mego, and others are taking a harder stance, that the answer has to have a potential of winning.

If that's the case, should languages other than Jelly, MATL, Pyth, or the like get flagged as not being serious contenders?

Dada

@TimmyD The answer is meant to be a polyglot, and that polyglot is golfed. He didn't write it to be as short as possible, he wrote it to be a polyglot. There is a difference

seequ

I'd argue a polyglot is just a juxtaposition of languages, thus as valid as any single language. Very few people actually contend to win.

feersum

If we allow code golf answers for arbitrary sets of languages rather than only single languages, we should also allow answers for 0 languages.

TuxCopter

Only allow a >0 number of languages then

seequ

Something usually isn't comparable to nothing

TuxCopter

1:45 PM

Halp I am bored and I don't have an esolang idea

feersum

I think it would add a lot to our site to have a 0-byte answer answering the challenge for the empty set for each question.

Geobits

@seequ Not my fault. People just keep starring my stuff for some reason.

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feersum

You know, the 8-starred TV comment isn't quite accurate. The TV in context was an organic LED. If it gets too dry, the pixels can get dehydrated and die.

betseg

@TuxCopter one with flag emojis?

TuxCopter

@betseg 🚩

Geobits

1:55 PM

Kinda. Dank doesn't just mean moist or damp, but disagreeably so.

TimmyD

@feersum Thanks for not adding anything constructive to the conversation. :-/

betseg

@TuxCopter more like 🇺🇸🇹🇷🇫🇷

TuxCopter

?

Oh wait I have an esolang idea

feersum

What

What are these colered things

TuxCopter

An esolang using braille characters so a program look like a lot of dots

feersum

1:57 PM

These should not be permitted in text.

TuxCopter

@feersum 😟

betseg

@feersum flags?

@feersum 😐

emojicode.org

TuxCopter

# Full Phrase
Faker::Hacker.say_something_smart #=> "Try to compress the SQL interface, maybe it will program the back-end hard drive!"

github.com/stympy/faker

xD

Geobits

@TimmyD My main issue isn't that it's a polyglot (I'm still trying to decide on that). It's that it does all sorts of things, rather than following the spec. If the spec was "output fib(n)" and you wrote a polyglot that did that in a couple languages, that's different than a polyglot that output fib(n) for one language and someothersequence(n) for everything else.

The majority of the answer reads like a popcon, not a code-golf.

TimmyD

2:14 PM

lol at the comments on my answer here

seequ

Wasn't this a big thing a while back?

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A: The Many Memes of PPCG

Meme: Crossed out 44 is still regular 44 ;( Less common is when a four-byte solution is reduced to a three-byte solution, at which point the meme becomes “Crossed out 4 is still regular 4…” Originator: Optimizer / Doorknob Cultural Height: Started Mar 2015, height Oct 2015 - Background: This...

Geobits

Crossed out e is still regular e. Almost :/

TuxCopter

Crossed out ə is still regular ə

seequ

Crossed out.. damit

TimmyD

@seequ Yes, that's the reference. I just find it amusing that people are comparing and contrasting things like the iOS app.

Gabriel Benamy

2:18 PM

hi again

Geobits

@TimmyD You can just barely tell on android.

TimmyD

@Geobits OK, that's a fair enough point. But, it seems like you're the only one (at least that I've read) that's espousing that position, as other comments seem to indicate that it's not a valid answer because it's not a serious contender for winning.

Poke

ppcg just told me to go upvote questions... i guess i only show answers love

Geobits

My take is that you should golf down whatever language(s) you're using, not that it should be a serious contender across languages. Adding a bunch of other stuff to make it a polyglot (and "cooler") clearly isn't "golfed" to spec. If it was a polyglot where everything in it went to satisfying the spec, I'd feel differently.

Poke

I think I mentioned yesterday that I agree with geobits

I'm perturbed that this is still the topic of discussion

seequ

2:28 PM

There is no point to codegolf if you always compete across all languages, imo.

Poke

@seequ I don't think this was the argument

seequ

Guess I missed something crucial.

Gabriel Benamy

tfw ur depressing comment about your job is still on the starred messages list

Geobits

Star something and knock it off :P

seequ

Now that's just starbaiting.

Geobits

2:32 PM

Not me... Just something ;)

Gabriel Benamy

@seequ The general idea of the argument was that the code, which ran in three different languages, only actually answered the question in one of them. In the other two, it did something similar (and really cool), but didn't actually meet the spec of the problem. I think the general idea of the mods wasn't "it isn't golfed well and therefore can't compete", but rather "it doesn't actually answer the question properly"

Poke

The other languages in the polyglot did not satisfy the challenge's winning criteria; they just did other "random" (using that term loosely) tasks. Theoretically if all languages in the polyglot completed the acceptance criteria you could think of the answer's language being the set of languages used in the polyglot. Since this was not the case, though, only C was valid and for a C answer there was A LOT of room to golf (since it contained all the invalid polyglot code)

seequ

Gabriel: Ah yes, in that case I'd agree.

Poke

and i thought that's where we ended yesterday

let's talk about this browsix.org

wild right?

Gabriel Benamy

isn't that just TIO but missing a bunch of languages

seequ

2:35 PM

o.o

Poke

it's a browser unix terminal

reduced functionality i'm sure

but still pretty neat

Gabriel Benamy

unix.bpowers.net

mbomb007

Achievement Get: First Gold Badge!

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TimmyD

@Poke 1) Run httpd in browsix. 2) host browsix code. 3) posixception

mbomb007

famous-question

Poke

2:37 PM

@TimmyD haha, that would be pretty funny

seequ

Gabriel: Seems like that requests it from a server?

Gabriel Benamy

>mkdir works
>cd doesn't
welp

Poke

$ vim
/usr/bin/vim: command not found
$ vi
/usr/bin/vi: command not found
$ nano
/usr/bin/nano: command not found
$ gedit
/usr/bin/gedit: command not found
$ ed
/usr/bin/ed: command not found

nvm this isn't cool anymore

seequ

Install them

Poke

ooo

you have to echo code to a file

easy

Gabriel Benamy

2:39 PM

how 2 send killsig after accidentally just running node

Poke

i did the same thing

hahaha

no idea

TimmyD

@mbomb007 Grats

Poke

ctrl+c is just copy since it's a browser >.<

Geobits

Weird, I always thought it was 100k views. Grats though :)

seequ

damit

Gabriel Benamy

2:40 PM

>no cd

Poke

@seequ highlight then hit ctrl+k

seequ

$ ls /usr/bin
cat
cp
curl
echo
exec
grep
head
ld
ls
mkdir
nice
node
rm
rmdir
sh
sha1sum
sort
stat
tail
tee
touch
wc
xargs

Ahh.

$ nice --help
error: Error: spawn /usr/bin/--help -128$
/usr/bin/ror:: command not found

Gabriel Benamy

Known issues with this shell:
- 'cd' is not implemented.
- backspacing past '$' produces "interesting" results

Poke

haha wtf

Gabriel Benamy

apparently when you backspace twice it reads the previous line, chops off the first two characters, and tries to run that

Poke

2:44 PM

yeah, haha

Gabriel Benamy

So I have, well, as much of an ethical dilemma as someone on code golf dot stack exchange dot com can have

TimmyD

@GabrielBenamy Are you going to answer a code-golf question with a polyglot?

Gabriel Benamy

A couple of days ago, the Tasteless and other bugs challenge was posted. In the ensuing chaos, three of the first five answers ended up being deleted, and I posted some regex that I had thought was pretty decently golfed. Afterwards, several other people simply copied my regex and ported my solution into their language of choice, which didn't really bother me, but it is what it is.

mbomb007

Should a meta tag-proposal question be tagged as status-completed if the tag has since been added? meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/10584/34718

Gabriel Benamy

Since then, some people have posted solutions with better regex than mine, and I've gotten several comments from people suggesting I replace the regex in my code.
My question is, should I replace my code with the best regex so far? Or should I leave it as it is, and let people who did a better job than I did accept the credit they deserve?

TimmyD

2:50 PM

@GabrielBenamy The whole of SE (at least, so far) is CC-BY-SA, so as long as you provide acknowledgement, there's no worry.

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Count the number of numbers Your goal is to write a full program or function that takes from standard input a positive integer number N such 0 <= N <= 9 and output how many of N are present in this picture: In the picture there are 500 numbers from 0 to 9 (included) arranged in 20 columnns pe...

Gabriel Benamy

@TimmyD It's not that I'm afraid of copyrighting, but I didn't golf as well as they did.

Nathan Merrill

hmm...that's interesting. I think if we had complete control over the site it'd be interesting to hide all submissions. The user could choose to show them at any time, but once they were shown, you couldn't submit anymore

maybe do it by language?

you'd get a lot less collaboration that way

Poke

@GabrielBenamy I've been in a similar scenario and for me it came down to thinking about if someone posted a similar solution in the same language

If I use their enhancement I basically would have the same thing they do

Gabriel Benamy

The spec of the challenge comes down to just implementing regex in your language of choice

Poke

2:57 PM

so especially if my solution is significantly different than the "more golfed" solution

i would leave it

TimmyD

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A: What qualifies as "enough difference" in posting similar answers?

According to the Terms and Conditions of the site: Since all the content we give to the site is under a cc by-sa 3.0 license, any copyist of this sort has two obligations: Give proper attribution, and Share alike Therefore you are free to yoink their solution as well, golf a few bytes out ...

ven

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Release me! As code-golfers, we're not used to releasing (surely). We're gonna need a few tools to help us do that. Of course, to help marketing a new release, we need a nice and shiny Release Version. Who doesn't get excited when they hear about version 3.0.0? Task Your task will be to write...

Stil trying to find a nice "first question" to post, if anyone knows of a duplicate, I'd like to know. ("next version" gives 7k results)

Poke

@TimmyD I actually like the accepted answer better

people will let you know when you dun goofed

@ven giving you some feedback

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Q: 20+ Categories of Answer Languages Your Doctor Won't Tell You

I use this language daily anyway, here's a quick entry. (Javascript) I use this language daily and you will also feel my pain. (Java) I wish I used this language daily so I'm practicing. (Haskell) I'm supposed to use this language so I'm dipping an ironic toe in. (C#) We used to use this languag...

discussion answers

Fatalize

^ wtf

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3:08 PM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Release me! As code-golfers, we're not used to releasing (surely). We're gonna need a few tools to help us do that. Of course, to help marketing a new release, we need a nice and shiny Release Version. Who doesn't get excited when they hear about version 3.0.0? Task Your task will be to write...

TuxCopter

@NewMetaPosts wat?

Jarko Dubbeldam

Not sure if there are some hidden references there I'm not getting

Gabriel Benamy

ok I have the perfect score, nobody upvote or downvote me anymore please

TuxCopter

? You have 1729 rep

It's not a special number

Gabriel Benamy

yes

how dare you insult the great taxicab numbers

1729 is the smallest positive integer expressible as the sum of two positive integers in at least two ways

1729 = 1^3 + 12^3 = 9^3 + 10^3

Poke

3:13 PM

s/positive integers/cubes/

?

Gabriel Benamy

whoops

1729 is the smallest positive integer expressible as the sum of two positive cubes in at least two ways

my goof

Fatalize

@Fatalize - how incredibly wrong I am, obvs. — wyldstallyns 5 mins ago

Jarko Dubbeldam

close enough

Fatalize

I have no idea what this guy is saying with this post

Poke

@Fatalize As far as I can tell it's supposed to be a fun post making fun of clickbaity news articles. It's posted on meta because it's off topic for ppcg but related to golfing langs

Jarko Dubbeldam

3:16 PM

If we have to believe the tags its about answers :o

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Q: Eating Skittles Like a Normal Person

Skittles are colored candy where there are 5 distinct flavors; grape, green apple, lemon, orange, and strawberry represented by (p)urple, (g)reen, (y)ellow, (o)range, and (r)ed respectively. I used to eat skittles by sorting all the different colors, then eating them in sequence. After getting a ...