The Nineteenth Byte

7:01 AM

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Q: Creating asterisk pyramid without loop,if,while,for and even recursive system

I got a challenge from my lecturer to create an asterisk pyramid without any loop,if,while,for even without any recursive function in any programming language. I say that would be impossible, but he said everything is possible if you learn something specifically. Anybody can help me? INFO My b...

Destructible Watermelon

I suggest a new tag for the site: catalogue

is this a good idea?

Dennis

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A: Should there be a [catalog] tag (e.g. shortest in every language)?

No there shouldn't be a tag. They aren't really different from a normal challenge, except that they focus on simple/standard programming exercises and explicitly ask for answers in non-competitive languages. That makes the tag seem very much like a rather arbitrary meta tag. I would be in favour...

seshoumara

If I press 'Skip' on the review page, will it not show in my queue anymore and will show in other's, or is there a single queue for everyone and pressing the button just shows me the next answer without removing the current one from my queue?

ASCII-only

@seshoumara It won't show in your queue anymore

seshoumara

so there's a queue for each reviewer?

ASCII-only

7:07 AM

@seshoumara Yes

seshoumara

interesting

ASCII-only

@seshoumara wat how is that interesting

Jonathan Allan

hmm, it's totally clear what that guy with his pyramid is asking - but it's homework...

def p(n):
   i=1;exec('print(" "*(n-i)+"* "*i);i+=1;'*n)

ASCII-only

@JonathanAllan Sure, if you understand what the PHP is supposed to do (not what it does)

@JonathanAllan "* "?

An edit usually needs several approvals to be accepted IIRC

Jonathan Allan

it said any language

yeah "* " makes it a pyramid rather than a triangle

>>> p(3)
  *
 * *
* * *

seshoumara

7:10 AM

@ASCII-only It is interesting because although there is a queue per reviewer, they are still linked. If I understand it correctly, when someone completes a review it is removed from all the other queues as well.

DJMcMayhem

@seshoumara Not always, but yes, that's correct

ASCII-only

@seshoumara I don't think so, a post is removed when e.g. an edit is approved

DJMcMayhem

For example, if I were to review a suggested edit, it wouldn't come out if the queue until one (or two) other people review it

Or a VLQ

seshoumara

I was referring to first posts and late answers queues, I don't have access yet to the others.

DJMcMayhem

I'm not sure how those work, but I think it just needs a single person

seshoumara

7:13 AM

I think so too.

ASCII-only

@seshoumara Plus, it needs to be removed, it's pointless having multiple people review something when one will doo

seshoumara

that was my point with the linkage

ASCII-only

I wouldn't say they are linked though

DJMcMayhem

When I look through the review history (which you probably can't see) it doesn't look like any posts were reviewed twice

I don't remember how much to need to see that page

seshoumara

it's empty in my case

ASCII-only

7:17 AM

It's more that the server acknowledges that a review has been completed so it will not send those reviews to anyone else

seshoumara

most probably that way

remembering which reviews were skipped by everyone

What about answer edits done by the user? I see no queue for them.

DJMcMayhem

That's cause there's no need to have them

seshoumara

I think suggested edits queue are edits done by someone else than the user that posted it.

DJMcMayhem

Yep, any edit from a < 2k user goes into the queue

seshoumara

1k now

DJMcMayhem

7:21 AM

(That's the graduation number, I don't remember the current)

Oh ninja, thanks

seshoumara

:)

DJMcMayhem

Speaking of review, I'm excited, I only need 22 more VLQ reviews to get the reviewer badge. :)

seshoumara

But here's a situation. A user posts an answer and is downvoted. Later he sees the issue or edits it completely giving a new answer. Nobody will see it, including the person that downvoted, which maybe he would have changed his vote the second time.

DJMcMayhem

@seshoumara Here's an even bigger problem. A user posts a short answer. The system automatically flags it, and if the user edits it (a good thing) the system itself downvotes them

seshoumara

what?

DJMcMayhem

7:25 AM

It's stupid

seshoumara

I didn't understand what you said. Since when is the system voting?

Destructible Watermelon

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Is this number even? I tried searching the site for this, and while I found "even and odd" questions, they usually had another task (expression of even and odds, in prefix notation, or "How even is a number" testing multiple times, or similar), or were in a specific language (I saw a c and c++ q...

DJMcMayhem

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But I see it fairly often

From mother meta:

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Q: Community should not autodownvote "low quality" autoflags cleared by edits

Consider: User posts an answer. Community autoflags it as "low quality (auto)." (This is frequently a false positive.) User edits answer after 5-minute grace period. (Or perhaps someone else edits the answer.) Community sees the edit and obediently marks the "low quality (auto)" flag as helpful...

feature-request status-review flags community-user

seshoumara

Plus, a short answer is encouraged in code golf. Not all people post explanations, since sometimes the code is quite self explanatory.

DJMcMayhem

Well, it's true that code only answers are lower quality, and I'm definitely less likely to vote for them. But they're definitely not low quality should be deleted

Destructible Watermelon

7:32 AM

feedback please on the even number question

seshoumara

I have to be careful with this. I have some code only answers and sometimes I edit an answer after 10 mins, because I forgot to add how to run, or rephrased the whole thing better. Apparently I should avoid doing these things.

DJMcMayhem

@DestructibleWatermelon brutal honesty boring. It'll be fun for esoteric languages, but those will get lost under the 60 golfing languages with two byte solutions

Destructible Watermelon

howabout this

DJMcMayhem

CMC: Find the parity of a number in brain-flak

Sp3000

@DestructibleWatermelon I'll have to go look for it, but I think there's was an odd/even challenge somewhere that got ruined because everyone was answering assuming binary input

Destructible Watermelon

7:37 AM

@DJMcMayhem well, I see other questions that could be considered like that, and they don't seem extremely boring

also, if it is that bad, new scoring system:

lowest score in language wins the number of bytes of that solution. highest score is best

but that wouldn't really work, now would it?

DJMcMayhem

That kinda sounds like a cops and robbers

Destructible Watermelon

exactly

hence why it wouldn't work

DJMcMayhem

The only problem is that unary will be the only competitive language

Destructible Watermelon

and then the winning isn't even based on the answerer...

anyway, simple challenges have been posted before, and were fine

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Is this number even? I tried searching the site for this, and while I found "even and odd" questions, they usually had another task (expression of even and odds, in prefix notation, or "How even is a number" testing multiple times, or similar), or were in a specific language (I saw a c and c++ q...

Destructible Watermelon

7:40 AM

@NewSandboxedPosts ninja'd!

Sp3000

I get the feeling that challenge I'm thinking of has since been deleted

In any case I'd be wary about being too flexible with number bases

seshoumara

There's a nice sed solution with no math: /[13579]$/d;c1

Destructible Watermelon

cool

seshoumara

prints 1 if even, nothing otherwise

Destructible Watermelon

@Sp3000 I'll write that if it has the choice, it cannot use binary

but some languages will not be able to choose

actually, thinking about it, any language could use decimal

seshoumara

7:48 AM

but even that, like @DJMcMayhem said, it will be on 4th page due to 2 bytes solutions, but I don't mind, for me it's been that why answering with sed and dc only

Destructible Watermelon

To be honest, I would really like a place to post my woefully answers

hmmm, how about only languages made recently?

seshoumara

what about forbidding binary period?

Adnan

@DestructibleWatermelon That's a downvote magnet

seshoumara

there were questions where I couldn't use dc or even sed and didn't complained

if there was a similar question where people used binary, do yours without it

Destructible Watermelon

yeah, only decimal, i think

TùxCräftîñg

7:52 AM

hi

Destructible Watermelon

Divisibility by three would be better?

seshoumara

it would definitely make it quite hard for sed at least

Adnan

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Q: Divisibility test

Task Given two strictly positive integers n and d as input, determine whether n is evenly divisible by d, i.e., if there exists an integer q such that n = qd. You may write a program or a function and use any of the our standard methods of receiving input and providing output. The output shoul...

code-golf math number arithmetic division

This was the closest I could find

Destructible Watermelon

that's a pretty different task, but I think divisibility by three isn't as good as parity, which is easily abused ._.

TùxCräftîñg

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A: Golf you a quine for great good!

Vim, 17 keystrokes For a long time, I've been wondering if a vim quine is possible. On one hand, it must be possible, since vim is turing complete. But after looking for a vim quine for a really long time, I was unable to find one. I did find this PPCG challenge, but it's closed and not exactly ...

O__________________O

Destructible Watermelon

8:23 AM

fun fact: in my language the shortest approach to division by a constant can be different than for a variable

I'm not sure though: it might actually be a roundabout way

TùxCräftîñg

o_o

2 upvotes in less than 5 mns

Destructible Watermelon

I'm gonna write a parity calculator in woefully

Qwerp-Derp

8:43 AM

Hello

@Downgoat I found an error in your docs

ASCII-only

@Qwerp-Derp Where

Qwerp-Derp

docs.cheddar.vihan.org/Mathematics/Multiplication.html

ASCII-only

@Qwerp-Derp We can have explicit return, but do you want return in a cond

Qwerp-Derp

Yeah why not

ret is a good keyword

ASCII-only

So no more implicit return?

Qwerp-Derp

8:57 AM

I would prefer explicit

But implicit is fine

ASCII-only

Okay

Qwerp-Derp

I'm still thinking about it

Implicit makes the code easy to read

But makes it less golfy

Destructible Watermelon

how...

TùxCräftîñg

in The Block, 33 secs ago, by Zalgo

IDE basically codes for you

ASCII-only

@Qwerp-Derp It doesn't look like it's meant to be golfy though

Qwerp-Derp

9:00 AM

Yeah

So I would go for explicit

(The "implicit" in the previous block of messages is meant to be "explicit")

Destructible Watermelon

ok then

... why did I make this stupid mistake? ._.

ehhh I don't feel like making this any more

Sherlock9

I just made another major revision to my hexa-glyph answer codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/91417/47581. If anyone here have golfing suggestions, let me know

I should be leaving campus right now, so the explanation/ungolfing for that revision will have to wait.

ASCII-only

;_; why, internet

seshoumara

When I review a first post by an user and if the output is wrong, leaving a comment is preferable than downvoting I presume.

ASCII-only

@seshoumara I'm not sure

Qwerp-Derp

9:13 AM

That is a mystery... for another time.

ASCII-only

@seshoumara But definitely leave a comment, plus the user probably doesn't know the output is wrong so a downvote isn't gonna help

seshoumara

It just breaks my heart to downvote the first post of a new user.

Qwerp-Derp

Where is it?

seshoumara

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A: Source code GO!

Javascript, 28 bytes I'm new here, this is my first post so please tell me if I'm doing something wrong. Input "(o^o_o^o)". replace(/o/g,"") Output (^_^)

Qwerp-Derp

Ah

Yeah, don't downvote them

seshoumara

9:21 AM

I didn't, I said in general that it'll break my heart to downvote a first post

Qwerp-Derp

Ah

Stewie Griffin

9:43 AM

Do you think this ready to post? It has a single comment, and one upvote: "Looks like a fun challenge, but [... (I've addressed this)]"

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Make An ASCII Poker Chip Stack Arrangement code-golfascii-artnumbersortingconversion Poker has etiquette in how you arrange your chips, often enforced in tournaments - your chips may not be "hidden" from your opponents by being behind others, mostly to not hide some large denomination chip(s). ...

Qwerp-Derp

10:00 AM

Can anyone beat the score of 3810660 in my challenge?

Jonathan Allan

Heh polices and breaching are "simple" words but tissue is not :/

zyabin101

@Qwerp-Derp Which challenge?

Qwerp-Derp

"There can only be 1"

zyabin101

Ah! ^^

Jonathan Allan

@StewieGriffin - Why would the urlcount as bytes if the program could take the file on std in - surely it should just be that any code to fetch the data from anywhere contributes 0 bytes?

(file -> set)

@Qwerp-Derp yeah I have not implemented anything further :(

TùxCräftîñg

10:09 AM

heh 299 votes cast, 9 helpful flags and 14 posts edited

Jonathan Allan

but I did propose a challenge ^

Qwerp-Derp

Ooh, cool

Wow I earned 160 rep from that question

TùxCräftîñg

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A: Showcase your language one vote at a time

Straw Straw is a 1D stack-based language I created. It mainly operate on strings. You can try it online here. Length 1 < Take one line of input and exit. Length 2 -> - take an item from the secondary stack, and > print it. Straw have 2 stacks: The first is initialized with an empty strin...

Qwerp-Derp

Posted Logicode onto the "Showcase your lang" thing

zyabin101

good luck

The minimal program, matching the regex out [01], needs 5 upvotes.

Qwerp-Derp

10:25 AM

???

zyabin101

The minimal program is five bytes, and needs 5 upvotes.

Qwerp-Derp

What do you mean?

zyabin101

Well, except if you could make a golfed version of Logicode...

Qwerp-Derp

Oh wait

Yeah

Don't worry

zyabin101

10:43 AM

Fairy-Max 4.8V v. Fairy-Max 4.8V. Who will win?

Qwerp-Derp

???

zyabin101

I'm running WinBoard :D

Right now, there are two Fairy-Maxes playing Chess. :3

Emigna

10:57 AM

98% of the way to fanatic badge and the 4-day job conference (with no mobile data) makes me forget to login a day...

TùxCräftîñg

._.

halp i wasted 1h on Kurzgesagt's videos

Stewie Griffin

@JonathanAllan The reasons why I chose this: url counts as 5 bytes if it's hardcoded, but not counted if it's taken as input (the same goes if the entire list is pasted as a string, or it's fetched from a txt-file. This is to avoid the unnecessary use of ulr-shorteners. The reason why it's 5 is because x.txt is 5 bytes, so it's the shortest txt-file that can be hardcoded.

Except if someone has implemented a function that only needs the filename and not the extension. In that case: Congratz, you have a 4 byte advantage.

I believe this is the most fair rule. There is no "penalty" for choosing to fetch the list from an online source compared to a local file. It's not like the online file will help you in any way.

Jonathan Allan

@StewieGriffin Oh, I thought the post implied we could accept the set as an input?

"The list of words can be" ... "taken as input"

Stewie Griffin

Yes, you can. In that case, it will count as just a variable assignment: For instance: f(s,w), where s is the text to process, and w is the list of 1000 words. In this case, it will take two bytes to retrieve the word list, ,w.

ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΟΗʹ

@StewieGriffin Nah, just name it .txt :p

Stewie Griffin

11:11 AM

But it can also be hardcoded if you want: ismember(s,w.txt), in which case it will count as 5 bytes, w.txt.

Or, ismember(s,www.wordlist.com/long_extension) <- Still 5 bytes, to be fair to those who want to get it from an online source.

Jonathan Allan

Yeah, exactly - why not just say it can be assumed to exist as a global, or on the stack or taken as input?

ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΟΗʹ

@StewieGriffin Why not 6 bytes for ,w.txt?

Stewie Griffin

You need the , anyway. It was kind of dumb of me to say that ,w was two bytes. I see that it was confusing...

Jonathan Allan

If you make it like I said, everything becomes equal, no?

Stewie Griffin

If you can take two inputs w and s like this, then it's only one byte: f(ws)

Jonathan Allan

11:15 AM

hmm, yeah, and if it's on the stack in a stack based language it might cost 0

I'm not entirely sure of the best approach

maybe just say it must be an input?

Stewie Griffin

@JonathanAllan Me neither to be honest :) So your opinions are appreciated! :)

It might be the best, but then again there might be languages that can't take filenames as input, or can't paste a string with thousand lines.

I'll consider it, and probably edit it a bit later. I got to go now, and I don't want to make changes that I haven't really thought through... :)

@JonathanAllan Thanks :)

Jonathan Allan

cool tc

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Q: Decode the chmod

Challenge Given a three digit octal permissions number, output the permissions that it grants. chmod On UNIX OSes file permissions are changed using the chmod command. There are few different ways of using chmod, but the one we will focus on today is using octal permissions. The three digits ...

code-golf parsing

Fatalize

@Sp3000 The mystery of the "Is this number even?" challenge…

Both sure it existed but impossible to find it :p

Beta Decay

11:32 AM

With chmod how does write only work? How are you supposed to write to something if you don't know what you're writing on?

Stewie Griffin

@JonathanAllan, made an update. It's better formatted in the post of course: "The list of words can be saved locally as a txt-file (or something equivalent). The filename will count as max 5 bytes if it's hard coded. If it's taken as input, it will count as any other input fetched from an online source. The url will count as max 5 bytes if it's hard coded, regardless of length. If it's taken as input, it will count as any other input
taken as input (STDIN or function argument)

What do you think?

TùxCräftîñg

@BetaDecay the same way as fopen(filename, "w") in C: you know what you write, but you cant read the file

Jonathan Allan

@StewieGriffin I think it's too complex, why not just say it may be an input and scrap all this min max, fetch url, be a .txt etc?

or even should be an input

Stewie Griffin

The reason for it is: "Can we take the input from an online source?", "Can we hardcode the filename?", "Can we assume the list is already on the stack", "Can we ... blah blah blah :P

Jonathan Allan

but if you say it must be an input that avoids all those questions.

Stewie Griffin

11:41 AM

Or worse: "Why can't we hard code the filename?"

Once upon a time, this was said in an answer to a challenge of mine: "The way Pyth works, the only way to open a file is to receive its name on STDIN." It's not like that anymore, but there might be languages that have the opposite limitations...

@JonathanAllan But I can of course say it has to be an input, and when/if someone asks for an exception due to language limitations I can allow it.

Jonathan Allan

I think all languages can take input :p

Stewie Griffin

I meant "take filename as input, and open a file using that name". But I guess the easiest way is just to take the entire list as a giant string.

Beta Decay

@TùxCräftîñg Oh right

Stewie Griffin

@JonathanAllan Fixed, again... I think it follows your suggestions now. :)

Jonathan Allan

exactly, you can say an input is the string as it appears on the site linked.

that looks much cleaner :)

looks good to go to me so I ^vd it

Fancy picking apart mine a bit?

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Make An ASCII Poker Chip Stack Arrangement code-golfascii-artnumbersortingconversion Poker has etiquette in how you arrange your chips, often enforced in tournaments - your chips may not be "hidden" from your opponents by being behind others, mostly to not hide some large denomination chip(s). ...

New Main Posts

11:59 AM

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Q: Set associative mapping

A set associative cache consists of 64 lines,or slots,divided into four-line sets.Main memory contains 4000 blocks of 128 words each. How can we show the format of main memory addresses?

functional-programming

zyabin101

@NewMainPosts Please make that go away.

Stewie Griffin

@JonathanAllan I think it looks nice :)

Not sure if it's really ASCII-art though, but that doesn't affect the quality of the challenge in anyway of course :)

Jonathan Allan

Yeah, it's not "Art" but it's outputting "ASCII" , so I think it falls into the tag category

TùxCräftîñg

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A: Decode the chmod

Straw, 193 bytes ((01234567)((None)(Execute only)(Write only)(Write and Execute)(Read only)(Read and Execute)(Read and Write)(Read Write and Execute)))::~<:{-¢(User: ),+> >}:{-¢(Group: ),+> >}-¢(Others: ),+> Try it online

wayyyyy too long

Sp3000

@Fatalize Yeah deleted sounds likely, I tried every word combo I could think of

Stewie Griffin

12:07 PM

I'm not the biggest fan of creating ASCII-art myself (but I have 4 challenges with it), so I'm not sure I'd answer it. I would probably give it a go if the output format was: BBBCCCWWGGMMP.

@JonathanAllan But don't change it because of that comment, I believe there are probably more users disagreeing than agreeing with me. It was just my personal opinion. :)

Jonathan Allan

Thanks for looking :)

Beta Decay

@TùxCräftîñg There are some tricks you can do with addition. For example, 7 (Read Write Execute) is the sum of 1 (Execute), 2 (Write) and 4 (Read)

TimmyD

12:33 PM

@ConorO'Brien Nice.

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1:00 PM

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Q: Esolang IDE Feature Requests

I'm thinking of creating an code editor for various esoteric languages and am thinking about which features should be added. These are the features that I will add: Syntax highlighting where possible Code explosion: breaks apart code for explanations Inbuilt function references Byte counting i...

discussion

TimmyD

1:19 PM

Wow, I'm amazed. I come back this morning, and three of my comments are still on the starboard.

TùxCräftîñg

1:41 PM

slience

quartata

@ETHproductions OK, so I've adapted Laffy's knowledge base maker to create a map of sentence forms (like ["PRONOUN", "VERB", "ADJECTIVE"]) to the most common sentence form of replies to messages with that form

This should make a simple set of transformation rules for ETHBot (albeit a not very sophisticated one)

It's still running right now

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Mutilating the Query I know you've always thought about the trials and tribulations of experiencing the joys of life as a web proxy. Honestly, who hasn't? Today you're tasked with realizing this goal (at least a part of it). Website X gets gets a lot of traffic on the daily and is looking for a ...

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

1:56 PM

@Dennis "these positions"?

El'endia Starman

2:13 PM

I just had a "wow" dream. Back story was that I was some sort of fugitive or rebel, and trying to find a good hiding place and trying to find any resources I could use. I was not the leader; that was a woman who was really smart and wise. At one point, we entered something like a temple that was inhabited by intelligent gorillas. Whereas I probably would've been in a lot of trouble, she, the leader, handled the situation without a problem. At some point, we started digging only to find lava.

We were stumped until the leader told us to pour water on it, at which the lava turned into obsidia…

TùxCräftîñg

Huh?

zyabin101

^^ TS

Beta Decay

@El'endiaStarman Sounds like Minecraft

TùxCräftîñg

^

El'endia Starman

@BetaDecay Yep, was very Minecraft-y in the latter half.

TùxCräftîñg

2:24 PM

mini-poll: do you play minecraft?

Beta Decay

No

GLASSIC

used to

zyabin101

Users of the PPCG Minecraft server obviously do.

But I do play Minecraft, for Xbox 360.

TùxCräftîñg

»  ls

bash: s: command not found

@zyabin101 ಠ___________________________________________ಠ

GLASSIC

I need a good 8086 simulator which i can step through code , see memory etc . trying to dig into dosbox manual if there are any debugging tools in it ... any choices ? x86 simulators are fine too , for now though

TùxCräftîñg

2:26 PM

bochs

GLASSIC

it's a disaster to install it on my computer

i get error when installng via rpm

TùxCräftîñg

yes, installing bochs is hard

zyabin101

UTSL (Use the Source, Luke)!

TùxCräftîñg

i cant, i'm on windows :P

Lynn

*waves*

zyabin101

2:29 PM

Download the Bochs source, get the artefacts required thru rpm, then build Bochs from the source.

GLASSIC

bochs suggests me to install qemu .... it's unsupported

@Lynn waves <3

@Lynn hallo

hihi :)

in Zalgo 666, 13 secs ago, by Zalgo

[at]Poke -1 for rickr— nvm

wat

Jonathan Allan

2:30 PM

@Lynn um string compression?

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A: Decode the chmod

Jelly, 100 bytes Almost certainly golfable - 100 bytes, what?! ,“Only” Ñ ṖK,“ and”,Ṫ LĿK 7RBUT€Uị“Execute“Write“Read”Ç€“None”ṭ O_48ịÇ“User: “Group: “Others: ”żY Test it at TryItOnline How? ,“Only” - Link 1: pair with the string "Only" Ñ - Link 2: call next link ṖK,“ and”,Ṫ - Link 3: in...

zyabin101

> in Zalgo 666, 13 secs ago

666, 13... coincidence?

TùxCräftîñg

:O

Lynn

“Execute“Write“Read” → “ØJƓ“¥Ị£“¤/¡»

“None” → “¡*g»

zyabin101

There should possibly be an online Jelly string compressor. :3

Lynn

“Only” → “£ɱ~»

TùxCräftîñg

2:33 PM

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A: Decode the chmod

Straw, 193 bytes ((01234567)((None)(Execute only)(Write only)(Write and Execute)(Read only)(Read and Execute)(Read and Write)(Read Write and Execute)))::~<:{-¢(User: ),+> >}:{-¢(Group: ),+> >}-¢(Others: ),+> Try it online Push 3 times a conversion table on the first stack, switch to the se...

Lynn

Jeez I should make a web interface for this already.

Jonathan Allan

stupid cmd line gives me: "¦?t????e??T4??ß?x»

TùxCräftîñg

@zyabin101 jelly.tryitonline.net

Lynn

The web seems marginally better at Unicode, and stuff

zyabin101

> Jelly string compressor

not decompressor

Jonathan Allan

2:33 PM

no there is a string compressor, made by @Lynn, here: codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/70932/53748

TùxCräftîñg

it probably have a compression thing

zyabin101

It doesn't.

Jonathan Allan

but I can't get the characters :(

>>> print(Compress().string("Execute").string("Write").string("Read").go())
"¦?t????e??T4??ß?x»

TùxCräftîñg

what OS?

Lynn

…Yes, I’m Lynn. Hi. :D

Jonathan Allan

2:35 PM

I might be able to if I reboot

Hi :D

could you pase the results of that? ^

Lynn

I just figure people shouldn’t have to install Python, and also, you’re not the first to have this problem

Jonathan Allan

(that will give a list of strings right?)

TùxCräftîñg

python unicode is stupid

use ruby

Jonathan Allan

no it's my cmd line not Python

Lynn

That will compress the string ExecuteWriteRead, without trying to look it up in the dictionary

TùxCräftîñg

2:36 PM

what operating system?

zyabin101

Results of chcp?

Lynn

Did you see this line?

Jonathan Allan

I've reinstalled Deja Vu Mono but I need a reboot to get it working on the cmd I think

Oh, haha no I didn't - thanks!

Lynn

I’m doing the last one :)

Jonathan Allan

thx :)

Lynn

2:38 PM

Ouch, that’s right:

Compressed strings can’t end in spaces, I believe. :<

Jonathan Allan

ah hmm, well they go 3, 2, 1...

Lynn

Strange how there’s no pad with spaces Jelly command

I’ve been wanting to make a rectanglify monad that turns [“hello world”,“line”,“another”] into [“hello world”,“line ”,“another ”]. (And a dyadic variant that uses some non-space char)

Jonathan Allan

like zip with default

Lynn

Oh, right, we do have that!

z⁶$⁺

Jonathan Allan

oooh

we need to start at 3 and go down though...

or reverse the thing

Lynn

2:47 PM

This pads to the longest line, so you should be fine

Except for that final column of spaces

zyabin101

Challenge idea: Rectanglify an array.

Lynn

You wanna like, take “User“Group“Others”, add a colon to each, z⁶z⁶, add a space to each. Not sure at all how well that works.

Alternatively: add a colon, followed by 7−length spaces, to each.

Jonathan Allan

@zyabin101 see sandbox

zyabin101

Done already? ;_;

Jonathan Allan

with a twist (literally)

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Transpose a Ragged Array code-golf Given an array of arrays of integers where the rows may not be of equal length, pad those rows with nulls, and transpose the array. Rules Use any sane input for the array. Specify which null(s) you are using for this function. The output should be a transpo...

zyabin101

2:52 PM

This transposes the array, however.

Jonathan Allan

yeah but it's the same thing plus

zyabin101

And uses integers.

Mine won't transpose the array and will use strings.

TimmyD

@TùxCräftîñg PowerShell Unicode is stupid-er

DJMcMayhem

@El'endiaStarman You know, I just watched a video yesterday, and it said that deaf people's dreams are very much more visually intricate. (It also said blind people's dreams are more intricate with the other four senses)

I don't think I've ever had a dream that visually intricate

zyabin101

Hah, I made Ultimate++ TheIDE list me a new section. Trickery.

El'endia Starman

2:56 PM

@DJMcMayhem Seems accurate to me. I primarily experience dreams through vision and emotions.

Besides, I didn't even include all the details I could have. :P

zyabin101

You skipped a lot of PPCG while you were away, @ETHproductions.