The Nineteenth Byte - 2016-02-12 (page 7 of 10)

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7:01 PM

Basically, this challenge will have you encode a string as a proper fraction.

But as a binary fractional number (e.g. 0.625 = 0.101)

Wait, wrong one..

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Anonymous

Man so I finished Transistor last night

Anonymous

I was not prepared for the ending

in the end, it stored electricity?

Martin Büttner

@Mego don't spoil it, please :)

I stopped playing it halfway through (don't remember why) but I do want to finish it at some point

7:15 PM

what is transister?

Martin Büttner

Bastion had a pretty powerful ending as well though, so I'm glad to hear that :)

Transistor (video game)

Transistor is a science fiction action role-playing video game developed and published by Supergiant Games. The game was released on May 20, 2014, for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 4, on October 30, 2014, for OS X and Linux, and on June 11, 2015, for iOS devices. Transistor sold over 600,000 copies across all platforms by January 2015. == GameplayEdit == Transistor utilizes an isometric point of view. The player controls the character Red as she travels through a series of locations, battling enemies known collectively as the Process in both real-time combat and a frozen planning mode referred...

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big cute owl eyes

hmm, why does that sound familar... :P

@MartinBüttner Thanks for suggesting me writing in retina,

Anonymous

7:18 PM

@MartinBüttner Of course I won't spoil it :) I would highly recommend finishing it, because the story is awesome. Granted, like Bastion, you don't understand much of the story until the end, but when you do, you'll love it.

Martin Büttner

@dev-null thanks for using it ;)

@Doorknob well, its true

one think I dont understand though: +: Short-hand for (), does this mean that imply the () mode?

@Mego I don't know anything about that game, but this is some damn awesome art

transistor could easily have been a windows phone game ... sigh

7:20 PM

or a capture group

Martin Büttner

@dev-null yes, it implies that this stage is run in a loop

that sword reminds me of Reaper

Anonymous

@AlexA. cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0111/7512/products/…

@MartinBüttner Another thing I'm a little curious about with the following ... Does )` create loop mode for both rexexes? retina.tryitonline.net/…

Anonymous

@AlexA. Have you played Bastion?

7:23 PM

@Mego Nope. Haven't even heard of it.

Anonymous

@AlexA. Fix both of those problems

Youtube's new region-based translation is pretty annoying. It'll show you video titles in the language based on your region, even if the video itself is in a completely different language (or just has subtitles in the other lang.). It also auto-enables subtitles on videos if they happen to be in the region language - and there's no way to disable this forever.

Martin Büttner

@dev-null it's identical to having (` on the first stage. (you could also have used that and omitted the ) instead). opening and closing parentheses in the first and last stage can be omitted and will be implied.

@AlexA. what Mego said.

Okay senpais

Anonymous

Bastion has probably the best story out of any video game I've played

Martin Büttner

7:24 PM

they have the most impressive narrators I've seen (heard) in games. and both have also pretty good soundtracks

Anonymous

Logan Cunningham has the best voice :P

Martin Büttner

oh, I know how to convince you, let me go look up the genre descriptions the composer gave the soundtracks...

"acoustic frontier trip hop" and "old-world electronic post-rock"

Anonymous

Bastion is essentially a steampunk western

Anonymous

And if that doesn't appeal to you, you need help

Martin Büttner

^

Anonymous

7:26 PM

Transistor is like techno noir

brb seeking help

me too

Martin Büttner

@Mego I might disagree with that, but the story is pretty good :)

(well I don't know what games you've played, of course...)

Anonymous

Bastion-Build That Wall (Zia's Theme)

Anonymous

That should be sufficient convincing to play Bastion :P

7:28 PM

@Doorknob now that its finally coming true, nobody cares (Stars)

@MartinBüttner How do I exit loop mode? Do I really need two more line breaks?

@Optimizer haha, hopefully at least some people will notice hitting 10 q/day

Martin Büttner

@dev-null ) closes the loop. what two more line breaks do you mean?

Since we're sitting at 9.9, I'd imagine the next person (or second-next) to post a question would get the glory of bumping it up to 10

All hail the ten-breaker.

Anonymous

7:30 PM

@Calvin'sHobbies The honor of passing 10 q/day should go to you

Who wants to bet that the question that finally does it will be some off-topic general programming question? ;)

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@MartinBüttner Sorry just me mistakenly deleting a wrong space. :/ And thanks I see now: retina.tryitonline.net/…

@Mego This is a nice song.

Since the q/day period is 2 weeks long, that means that we need at the most floor((10-9.85)*14) = 2 questions to go from 9.9 to 10

7:34 PM

ermahgerd 9.9 questions per day

yep

quick I must post my sandboxed question to be ten-breaker

@Doorknob I can get Marky to _UNK one.

Anonymous

@AlexA. It's my second-favorite song on the soundtrack. My favorite song is spoiler-ish, because it's the end credits song

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Bridge Hand Scoring One of the things that makes contract bridge very interesting is its highly complicated "artificial" meta game. This system of scoring hands is a small part of it. Bridge is a trick-taking card game. Each player gets a hand of 13 cards, and the game starts with the bidding. ...

thoughts quickly

This is really crazy how did we reach 9.9

they'll have to graduate us now :P

Anonymous

7:35 PM

@quartata what would happen if I tried to bathe in pure soap

Sep 19 '15 at 17:24, by Alex A.

@Doorknob There should be a qualifier: Except for PPCG, which would devolve into a post-apocalyptic shitscape should it ever reach 10 questions/day.

alex-is-wrong ;)

@Mego implosion

Anonymous

ok cool

well, there's always a chance that immediately upon reaching 10, everything implodes, but...

boom

7:36 PM

You know what our tenth question should be?

Calculating the q/day stat.

Anonymous

My cat is trying to write a challenge to get us to 10/day

@Mego how's it going so far?

@quartata "Are we graduated yet?"

Anonymous

@Doorknob sdjfkq3h eacujfg sd

@Mego Jelly can probably solve that in 4 bytes.

7:37 PM

Mathematica has a built-in for cat stepping on keyboard.

@Mego looks decent, but could use some sandboxing

Anonymous

@quartata That would be fun, if only SEDE gave the same results as A51

@AlexA. yea but it's 13 bytes

Anonymous

@Doorknob s/sand/litter

first comment to sandbox post : "Asddd asdda sd?"

7:38 PM

@Mego hahaha

@Mego SEDE doesn't have an API anyway

it kind of does

CatSteppingHA

there's a URL that does a CSV download from a query

Can you construct a query in the URL?

7:39 PM

no

Martin Büttner

well, it could just be a list of timestamps and you could output the running average for each day in the given range

it has to be preexisting

How do you send a request to SEDE without going there?

Anonymous

@AlexA. I mean for pulling the data for the question. The 2 week q/day average on there is quite different from A51. SEDE says 8.3 for us

@MartinBüttner That's what I was thinking.

Although pulling from SEDE would be cool too

7:39 PM

@Mego Should be 1 month, not 2 week

@AlexA. javascript

I think that's what Area 51 shows

@Optimizer *jQuery

Anonymous

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@AlexA. PrototypeJS

@Mego Oh weird

7:40 PM

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hmmm

that would be 10.9 q/day

so it's definitely not deleted post shenanigans

let my cat post a challenge which can be closed quickly

but, not including deleted posts, it's 9.2 per day...

weird

SEDE doesn't update immediately. If I'm not mistaken (which I very well may be), it's only once or twice a week

Anonymous

Counting all posts for the last 2 weeks (regardless of deletion/closing), SEDE gives too low of a number

@Doorknob timezones?

Anonymous

7:41 PM

@AlexA. If that's the case, then fooey

@Optimizer wouldn't cause that huge of a discrepancy

@Mego Alex is right

nnnnoooooooooooooo'

Anonymous

@Optimizer Everything goes by UTC on SE

@Mego Just use the SE API. get("http://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions/...")

Anonymous

Timezones aren't an issue

Anonymous

7:42 PM

@AlexA. how to juic api

@AlexA. which wouldn't do deleted posts, but then again maybe A51 doesn't count those

@Doorknob I would hope it wouldn't

I'm trying to find a site with like 1 q/day so I can get more accurate numbers

hah, communitybuilding has 0.6

39 visits/day

Oof

of course

> How to juic a community avocad

7:43 PM

8 undeleted questions in that past 2 weeks

yeah, that's 0.6 when rounded

I guess A51 doesn't count deleted

then could it be that a51 has not yet updated to account for today's questions

blame caching!

?

Anonymous

@Optimizer Nope, because it was 9.8 a few hours ago

it can be constantly 1 day behind

7:45 PM

yeah

Anonymous

That seems less likely

using "14 days" exactly in search yields 140 results

exactly 10 q/day

I guess that means if we wait like 6-8 minutes/hours it'll become 10

El'endia Starman

Graduation in 6-8 weeks whoohoo!

Anonymous

@El'endiaStarman You're late for that joke :P

El'endia Starman

Late? Pfft. Never.

7:47 PM

by the way, I've contributed 0.57 of that (purported) 10 q/day :P

El'endia Starman

It is always timely to make a 6-8 weeks joke. :P

Anonymous

139 for 2 weeks from yesterday

Anonymous

Which rounds to 9.9

Anonymous

So that might be it. A51 might be behind by a day.

I think it's just cached by, say, an hour or so

I've seen it change multiple times in a few hours before

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7:48 PM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Parse nested digit-lead strings code-golf string parsing TODO: come up with a background and a better title. The task A string S is constructed with the following process: Start with S being the empty string. Insert at some position of S a string of the form ds, where d is a nonzero digit a...

Anonymous

Our last question is over an hour old

> or so

:P

Anonymous

I'd believe like 2 hours

yeah

Anonymous

Since it's was 9.8 about 2 hours ago

7:49 PM

@Sp3000 hi

@Doorknob that can still happen if its 1 day behind constantly

true

Anonymous

Which means we might hit 10 in 10 mins, if it updates on the hour every 2 hours

Anonymous

Quick everybody break A51 with your constant refreshes

is this the post-10qpd apocalypse that they were talking about?

7:50 PM

yes

Anonymous

Probably

El'endia Starman

Well, ~~get~~ pre, not post...

@AlexA. was right about the apocalypse :O

Anonymous

He actually slightly misspoke. It's the alpacalypse.

obv its an apocalypse if Alex has started being right

7:52 PM

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welp, false alarm; that's clearly misuse of the lenny face

that face isnt helping

Anonymous

It's helping me

Anonymous

It's inspiring me to write more challenges

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7:53 PM

someone post one anyway; don't let us drop back to 9.8 :P

oh, you know what it might be?

maybe it's because of times, not dates

it could be "exactly 14 days," not "the entirety of the 14 last days"

Anonymous

Maybe

I posted Mutually fill in the blanks at 12:54 UTC, and it's now 19:54 UTC

that could account for the missing few questions

@Doorknob -_- wasn't this what I was saying the whole time?

Anonymous

Nobody listens to the llama :P

:(

7:56 PM

@Optimizer maybe I misunderstood what you meant to say by "timezones"

not that one

that fact that its always 1 day behind.

which means it counts 14 days from yesterday's 1:26 AM to 15days back's 1:26 am

exact 14 days, not entire 14 days

You know I thought we abused stars

Then I went into Meta Tavern

shudder

There's an easy way to resolve this: someone post more challenges already!

@Doorknob i tri but no one giv feedback

Anonymous

I'm trying but my cat fell asleep while writing one

7:58 PM

pls juic quartata's avocad

@Mego deleted posts dont count anyways

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

code-challenge string Auto BATCH golfer. I love BATCH, despite its shocking lack of functional commands, despite even due to its lack of non-integer support. Why? Because this works: SET var=SET %var% i=0 This would evaluate to: SET var=SET SET i=0 Fantastic, isn't it? I've used this tech...

@Mego d'awh

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

How does this look?

writing challenges is hard work

writing one every other day is pretty hard too :P

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

7:59 PM

I have 11 challenges ready to be deployed.

Almost.

Maybe like 9

Anonymous

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