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12:01 AM
@cairdcoinheringaahing rip me :( im sad now
 
12:35 AM
@Christopher2EZ4RTZ come on
 
1:01 AM
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Peter SchillingOptimize my cribbage hand! Cribbage and the scoring thereof is well explained in this challenge. Please familiarize yourselves with the rules stated there. Cribbage is a game with an excellent balance of luck and skill, so let's try to automate some of the skill. The setup Cribbage is dealt di...

 
 
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3:07 AM
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Q: Challenge: Build a Brainfuck pyramid maker

MassimoIn the Harvard cs50 class, there is a problem called Mario. The program asks for a number from the user, and then the program prints out a pyramid of that height. For example, if the input was 6, the output should look like: # ## ### #### ##### ###### (In the cs50 one the pyramid goes the othe...

 
CMC: do the above
 
3:30 AM
@LeakyNun Taking in input by character code, followed by the character that the program should build the pyramid from: ,>>>>,>++++++++++<<<<<[->+[->+>+<<]>[-<+>]>[->.<]>>.<<<<<] , 58 bytes, not-well-golfed, includes trailing newline Try It Online
 
nice
 
4:30 AM
I have acquired my first hat.
 
Is it the taco hat
 
Sadly not.
 
You have failed all of us who dreamed of a taco wearing a slightly smaller taco.
3
 
Well if you want me to be wearing a slightly smaller taco go and upgoat everything for me. /s
 
5:36 AM
@LeakyNun Can I do it in brain-flak?
 
5:51 AM
@DJMcMayhem Seeing as the BF*** version has already been made, I see no harm in going for it
 
6:07 AM
This is extraordinarily slow to calculate the naive way... [OEIS]
But also pretty easy to implement (naive algorithm). Should look for more efficient algorithm.
How can someone even find out the Enlist room...?
 
This is still mathematics beyond me, But you should totes use Funky to solve it.
 
Oh makes sense :) Hopefully implementing big floating point is not too hard. But it is really easy IMO. What part of the definition don't you understand?
^ No onebox? Blame SE.
Anyway... I would look for faster algorithm.
 
Big Floating Point might be possible in Funky, but I don't know where I'd start.
 
Asking for it being implemented feel too much like cheating, so I won't.
 
Well you could implement it yourself, Funky does offer methods for overriding operators to ease the experience.
But you’re probably better using a language with it already implemented, or one that doesn’t need big floats
 
6:24 AM
 
Swear words in git commits make me... crabby.
 
I think I swear occasionally in git, but I mostly just make exasperated noises
 
6:43 AM
@DJMcMayhem sure
 
Bessel function method seems easy enough to implement (and also efficient), but I'm afraid that I can't understand why it is true.
 
6:57 AM
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Q: Sample the Pareto Distribution

isaacgThe Pareto Distribution is a probability distribution that comes up a lot in nature. It has lots of special properties, such as an infinite mean. In this challenge, you will output a number sampled from this distribution. The Pareto Distribution is defined to be above x with probability 1/x, for...

 
7:21 AM
@NewMainPosts inb4 Mathematica built-in
 
@Mr.Xcoder Wrong.
 
7:41 AM
Chat mini meta - should we allow solutions which fails with theorical zero probability?
Also should solutions which suffers from numerical limitation allowed?
(for new main post)
 
Anonymous
@user202729 a) codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/q/8379/45941 b) The original JS solution had a non-zero probability of failure, since the distribution of random() is discrete thanks to floats.
 
Ok, if float must be treat as discrete, are the answers even valid?
@user202729 (related to this)
 
Anonymous
> Your answer only needs to be correct up to the limits of your floating point type, real number type, or whatever else you use, but you must be able to represent numbers at at least 3 decimal digits of precision, and represent numbers up to 1,000,000.
 
Oh ok.
 
Anonymous
There are 2^62 - 2^52 - 1 possible outputs from Math.random(). Therefore, using 1/Math.random() has a failure rate of 1/(2^62 - 2^52 - 1), which is quite small, but still non-zero.
 
8:02 AM
codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/47249/… - probably the challenge with the most deleted answer in comparison with valid answer?
 
 
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9:57 AM
Anyone think that the red number for notification has become darker?
 
Yup
 
@user202729 I first thought this was for the meta upvotes, but you're right!
PS: This seems oddly relevant for our site: i.redd.it/krl15xpgux301.jpg source
 
Except that our site doesn't measure code by line-of-code, we use byte-of-code or simply bytes.
 
10:24 AM
Ugghh, this Anarchy Golf problem is eating my lunch. After hours of trying everything I can think of, I have 100 bytes in Python 2--but the leader has 92. O_o
 
 
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11:52 AM
There’s only a few weeks left to enter the 2017 code golf game (for December or for the entire year) – for the rules and details of how to submit your entries see https://www.dyalog.com/2017-code-golf-challenge.htm
 
Anonymous
12:09 PM
@DLosc Have you reported it to HR?
 
12:27 PM
@Mego looks like a rejudge doesn't help
oh, and I don't think shinh is active anymore
 
Anonymous
@EriktheOutgolfer I was making a joke about the "eating my lunch" idiom :P
 
well, technically you should have your lunch in the dining room, but does anyone do that nowadays
and also the very reason "lunch breaks" exist at all
@DJMcMayhem how does it end you say? um, it's a finite binary string
 
Anonymous
Nevermind. The whoosh from my joke should've knocked off your hat :P
 
it's me who dictates when, how and why my hat gets knocked off, not anybody else
 
12:44 PM
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Comrade SparklePonyElection-Based Challenge 3: Hack the voting machines! This is a series of challenges in which two people, 1 and 2, are running for office. People deterministically vote in certain ways in the fun and exciting world of 1 and 2, which can lead to a series of possibilities for the candidates to do ...

 
12:55 PM
Oh, I have delete vote privilege? When can I use it?
 
Anonymous
@user202729 On posts with negative score
 
Should we do something about this answer and this answer?
 
1:09 PM
Can moderators see deleted comments / comment history?
 
yes
well, comment history for mods was added recently
 
1:29 PM
> I know you dont like to help homeworks but i really need some help.
 
:/ I accidentally delete voted the spam answer because review queue
 
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Q: Need some help. I need 3 codes

Buğra Kavdır1-) Accept the numbers until the user enters the value “-1”. When user enters “-1”, the program prints mean, mode and median values of the given numbers. (Hint: You can use an array structure for keeping the numbers.) You must calculate these values with using your functions like “find_mean”, “fi...

 
@HyperNeutrino I flagged it as spam.
 
Same. I can't retract the delete vote though lol
 
Is it really spam? Just a really off topic question. / Oh, -7 already...
 
Is the "spam/rude/abusive" flag stronger than "not an answer" flag?
 
Yes.
6 spam/R/A flags cause Community to automatically delete it
it also causes OP to lose 100 rep and probably get answer-banned
 
Anonymous
2:01 PM
It baffles me how people can have nearly 20k rep and not understand how chat works
 
That may be normal on more "professional" SE.
 
2:23 PM
Oh neat. A new hat.
My icon is not very hat-friendly.
 
@Mego who are you talking about? (i have nearly 20k, so was curious)
 
Anonymous
@Mr.Xcoder I'm not going to name names, but I have one specific instance in mind from a recent interaction (though it's not the only instance).
 
2:52 PM
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Q: Declare a Code Golf Winner

Stephen LeppikNormally, I'd open with some flavor text here about being bored and/or lazy but looking through the stack-exchange-api questions that would be far from original. So instead I'm going to open with a meta and self-referential flavor text describing this lack of originality that then describes itsel...

 
Apparently float make the recent challenge unclear...
 
Anonymous
Yeah, it's not specified well - the specification contradicts the definition of a Pareto distribution. Additionally, floating point nonsense makes the 1/(1-random()) approach complicated - the probabilities will be skewed because of floating point inaccuracy (which is allowed by the challenge but still a headache).
 
Let's say, the probability of a float to happen is the probability the mathematical distribution gives an result that is closer to that float than any other...
then it is impossible to get that much randomness in finitely many steps.
Probably we need meta post about how to handle floating point inaccuracy?
 
3:09 PM
@user202729 No.
Why should we restrict languages that can create a perfectly good HTTP request from entering?
 
I don't understand - SE api needs internet, correct?
 
@user202729 i guess so
@AdmBorkBork mine too since a lot of the hats assume you're facing forwards x.x
 
ಠ_ಠ I got home and had 9 questions about my latest Sandbox challenge in my notifications. Time to get to work :/
 
15 mins ago, by user202729
Probably we need meta post about how to handle floating point inaccuracy?
 
@user202729 seems like a challenge-specific thing
i've seen many challenges where you have to be within like 3 decimal points of precision or something like that
 
3:22 PM
Can we handle that generically? And no, floating point is widely used.
 
i realize floating points in general are widely used
but how to handle the inaccuracy seems to be done on a challenge by challenge basis for the most part
what would you suggest
 
I think we need meta.
 
for what
what would your generic solution be
 
Wait a minute...
 
3:29 PM
Or probably it will be duplicate for codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1324 ?
 
@user202729 Probably.
Though floats are only mentioned once in any answer to the question. I recommend posting another answer.
Possibly another question, though that might just be YACC.
 
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Q: Challenge: Capitalize Yourself

Massimo Challenge Create a program that outputs a capitalized version of itself. Rules and Specifics: Shortest answer in bytes wins Output should be formatted the same, including spaces Output should be in the same file as the orginal I can't give in/output without revealing a solution. Thi...

 
3:55 PM
CMC: Given an integer n between 1 and 5 inclusive and a string s, change the case of s based on the value of n, using this mapping:
n operation
1 upper
2 lower
3 swapcase
4 sentence case
5 capitalise the first character of s
Example: 1, "Hello, World!" => "HELLO, WORLD!"
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing SOGL, 11 bytes: UuS⁾⁽”W,;!!
 
Probably Jelly need a lot of ...?
 
@user202729 Or indexing into a string then eval'ing
 
that ,; really shouldn't be required, but SOGL eval doesn't pass inputs to the sub-program
 
Then you need a lot of .
 
4:02 PM
No, not really
 
But the fact is most of them requires > 1 byte... (am I wrong?)
 
No, you're not
@cairdcoinheringaahing so Œu,Œl,Œs,Œt and ...? In jelly?
 
@Mr.Xcoder Yes
 
And what is the fifth?
Or there is no atom...
 
4:07 PM
I just finished assembling a wooden ferry :)
 
@Mr.Xcoder Why?
 
Because It's fun... I want to test it on the nearby lake :D
 
Can't argue with that :P
 
Ah, so it's not a human sized one :P
 
4:11 PM
@cairdcoinheringaahing ಠ_ಠ
 
Anonymous
@cairdcoinheringaahing It is human-sized, for sufficiently small humans.
 
1 min ago, by Mr. Xcoder
@cairdcoinheringaahing ಠ_ಠ
 
Hehe, Mego's profile picture reminds me of one of my teacher's jumpers today :P It was Christmas Jumper day (but only for the teachers) and one had basically Mego on the jumper :P
 
Anonymous
@cairdcoinheringaahing It's a bit strange that your teacher had a jumper with a tall bearded man who needs another cup of coffee on it.
 
Mego's profile picture :P
 
4:15 PM
3 mins ago, by Mr. Xcoder
@cairdcoinheringaahing ಠ_ಠ
@cairdcoinheringaahing Jelly, 24 bytes: ị“Œu“Œl“Œs“Œt“ŒlµḢŒu$;”v
@cairdcoinheringaahing Jelly, 22 bytes: ị“u“l“s“t“lµḢŒu$;””Œ;v
 
@Mr.Xcoder Nice
 
4:35 PM
CMP: What is your longest answer to a question?
Mine is this :P
 
Anonymous
4:50 PM
@cairdcoinheringaahing I have no idea how to even go about finding/confirming that, but it's probably QFT
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing Probably this one? 220 bytes
 
this one, my third answer ever
although since I started u̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ torturing myself with SNOBOL, I expect that not to last very long
 
5:13 PM
@cairdcoinheringaahing 120148 bytes
might be kinda cheaty though
since that was an old answer that was posted before it was made code-golf
 
5:26 PM
@cairdcoinheringaahing I think mine is this 465 byte answer, but I swear I had a 500+ one somewhere that I can't find now.
 
Huh. I just checked the site analytics. Anyone else notice the weird spike on the 14th Sep?
 
QFT
 
Anonymous
@cairdcoinheringaahing Like @H.PWiz said: QFT was posted that day
 
Ah, makes sense :P
I just discovered the analytics and find them really interesting :P
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing Don't share the specifics in public, or the drone army will get you.
Any tips on refactoring duplicated-but-slightly-different code?
I've got a stupid function that is called by something that's essentially a copy-paste of it.
I'm probably just going to ignore the function, then remove it once nothing calls it... but is there a better way?
 
6:20 PM
@Riker still valid so I removed the NC tag you put
anyone wondering about my edits I made was a few formatting fixes and removing NC fron a bunch of answers
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A: I double the source, you double the output!

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZNewline 3 bytes i\n Note: running newline in the one newline between operators Try it online

I don't get why that is -1.
 
6:43 PM
@Christopher2EZ4RTZ You've written 3 bytes but it's clearly 2 bytes.
 
@wizzwizz4 it is 3 bytes
i asked the meta and that is what they said
 
In QFT is each cell in varlife a metapixel
 
@Poke yes
 
that explains a lot
 
they say this in the last part
 
6:46 PM
so when i'm actually playing tetris by altering the ram view window
that's a VERY zoomed out picture of what's happening
one tetromino is made up of metapixels
correct?
 
@Christopher2EZ4RTZ Please post link. :-)
(Note that despite languages being defined by the implementation, the readable version is just a human representation.)
 
can't find it
i remember it was said languages defined my implementation and since it is stored as 2 bytes it counts as such
 
@Christopher2EZ4RTZ I keep seeing your avatar and thinking it's mine cause of the hat :/
 
@Christopher2EZ4RTZ That's right.
So why have you written 3 bytes in the answer?
 
7:01 PM
because the \n is stored as 2 bytes and the i is stored as one
@DJMcMayhem trolled
 
7:14 PM
@wizzwizz4 1 design per upvote this answer gets (I may regret this) — Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ 3 mins ago
 
Everybody! Vote up that answer! :-D
 
:|
im ok with that :P
considering it has 1 vote i think i am good
well shit
+5...
 
@Christopher2EZ4RTZ why is the exit blocked with a book case
 
@flawr that is not the exit :P
 
7:20 PM
then why is there an exit sign? Imagine this room burning and being filled with smoke and everyone is frantically rushing to this bookcase
 
Quick, put out the fire with books.
 
rip
imma make 10 hats and keep them for when i get home and hate to write all over them
 
For srs, I think it's an optical illusion and the exit is actually further behind the bookshelf, as in there's another aisle there.
 
@AdmBorkBork lies!
 
7:25 PM
hat idea (dibs) quick to anger quick to forgive, be the first person to vote to close a post and after it closes be the first person to vote to reopen and it opens
 
moderator abuse vector :P
 
heyy
cheater
hat collector: have all other hats
 
@Christopher2EZ4RTZ That's a terrible idea
Especially with Mjölnirs lying around
 
so was making these hats!
(i hate like 8 hats in a pile)
 
@wizzwizz4 Proof that Amazon owns SE :P
 
7:31 PM
I wonder how close PPCG is to having 20 unique hats to unlock the "And YOU Get A Hat!"-hat. I mean, there seem to be some people here who are determined to collect as many hats as possible.
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing Honestly, for this.
 
@Laikoni Someone say my name? :P 10 hats and counting :P
 
@Mr.Xcoder nice
 
i have 2 hats
and i don't know how i got one of them
 
Hats are a good thing. They are all oriented on improving the sites
 
7:34 PM
i have 11 hats
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing Nice! I have the Sherlock hat and Denis has the unicorn hat, so PPCG has at least 12 hats.
@Christopher2EZ4RTZ but not on PPCG, according to your profile.
 
I am in doubt... Sleeping early tonight so that I'll be fresh tomorrow at a contest, sleeping late so that I watch the voice or go outside with my friends and going to bed sometime in between?
 
I think I was the first user on the site to get a hat (but being 99/100 on a silver badge when it hits really helps)
 
@Laikoni i have 11 paper hats :PP
 
@Mr.Xcoder d) Stay on PPCG and golf more :P
 
7:36 PM
^
 
TFW you outgolf 05ab1e by 12 bytes :P
 
TFW: TFW Frick why
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing Just saw you deleted it..
 
Delete then fix
 
There are several answers that don't read from STDIN.. Maybe you'll be fine
 
7:47 PM
Might as well conform to spec
 
Is there a rule for this kind of stuff somewhere?
 
Yeah. Answers must conform to spec, even if the challenge is very old
 
Not sure how GolfScript works, but even Dennis posted a solution that works with the input on the stack.
 
GolfScript has implicit STDIN input
 
Oh ok
Now I'm confused :S
 
7:50 PM
my hat has +8
i am going to run out of paper
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing Where?
 
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Q: Detect rotated strings

gnibblerRead two strings from stdin. Output Yes if one string is a rotated version of the other. Otherwise output No Testcases Input CodeGolf GolfCode Output Yes Input stackexchange changestackex Output Yes Input stackexchange changestack Output No Input Hello World Output No

@Mr.Xcoder ^
 
Only because the 05ab1e one conforms to rules :P
 
Where does someone outgolf it by 12 bytes?
Oh this?
 
anyone have a SE shirt?
 
7:54 PM
Fixed, but it's still 2 bytes shorter :P
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing Why did you delete it?
Oh Yes vs No?
 
@Mr.Xcoder Old IO rules
 
But Dennis takes input from the stack too
 
GolfScript? That takes implicit STDIN input IIRC
 
oh yeah
Cumberstonic...
 
7:59 PM
Is there a rule for what to do if a language can't read from STDIN?
 
hmm 1 more upvote until 300 meta se rep
 
Closest possible alternative
 
@wizzwizz4 WHAT HAVE I DONE
8 hats!
 
Have you ever wondered what a demon sounds like? Run tree / | aplay -c 2 -f S16_LE -r 44100 /dev/stdin and find out.
Which I just did, accidentally at full volume, in public.
;-;
 
what is that
@Pavel meta.stackexchange.com/a/304564/345817 it hit close to home
 
8:01 PM
pipes a tree of your filesystem to the audio device
 
O_O
@Downgoat i have something for you to run
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing Can I ask some jelly questions in JHT?
 
@DJMcMayhem Yeah sure. Be there in a minute
 
But yours is much nicer ^^
 
8:02 PM
@DJMcMayhem I am there too, if you need my help
 
@Christopher2EZ4RTZ made a hat too <):-)
 
@flawr nice
i have 11
ready to be filled in when i get home
in an hour
 
CMC: a program that prints the capitalized variant of the program source
cookies for implementing the case change manually
 
@LeakyNun capitalized variant = "lower -> upper and upper -> lower" ?
 
just the former
 
8:18 PM
@Christopher2EZ4RTZ no it's not I didn't even try to golf it
 
How bizarre ... this particular program installation instructions has me manually downloading and installing nodejs, Git, etc. ... like, package your software better!
 
@AdmBorkBork what are you downloading?
And it's totally normal for software to expect npm or git to be installed, a lot of software is distributed through them.
 
On Windows?
 
^ agree here
windows installers are usually all self-contained
 
8:32 PM
Their preferred installation method is via Docker, so I guess I can understand the jump-through-hoops approach to Windows installation, but still...
 
what are you installing
i probably would have started looking for alternatives
 
It's called Informer ... some sort of reporting software
 
:]
 
not my call unfortunately
 
unlucky
 
8:33 PM
yep
rip me
 
Just install Linux
 
It would almost be easier at this point, I'm on step 13 and still installing pre-reqs
 
I've been using PS as my shell for a few weeks now and it's actually really nice
 
Awesome. Isn't it great? I really like it. ;-)
 
some day i might try to learn it
but there hasn't been a need up until now
i use cmder on windows so i guess i could swap over
but some day my work lappy will get windows 10 and then i'll just have bash
hopefully
 
8:48 PM
@Pavel Didn't you integrate bash with PowerShell?
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

J843136028Unicode Fractions Given a fraction in the format m/n (where m and n are integers), output the corresponding unicode fraction. If m/n can be simplified, then output the simplified fraction. You will not be expected to allow any input that does not correspond to a unicode character. Arrays, e.g. [...

 
@AdmBorkBork I have since installed Linux so I no longer needed to do that mess
 
Ah, so you're just using the open-sourced version of PowerShell directly on Linux. Nice.
 
Yep
 
9:12 PM
@flawr nice party hat meta.se suggestion, -1 not enough pics of a slowworm wearing it :)
 
we can change that :D
 
Hey guys, does calculating A^B! % C involve applying the modular exponentiation algorithm B times or can we do better than that?
 
Is that (A^B)! or A^(B!)?
 
the latter
 
9:27 PM
Tfw you get much more rep on meta than on ppcg in a single day :c
 
@Mr.Xcoder You mean mother meta?
 
Yep of course
 
@ParthKohli You should only need to do it X times, where X is the largest power-of-two that's smaller than B! ... A^2%C * A^4%C * ... or am I not understanding your question?
 
oh that's true
 
What's the consensus on self answers?
 
9:31 PM
@ParthKohli And, if C is composite, you could use the Chinese Remainder Theorem to make the calculations easier, if you're doing this by hand.
 
@Riker changed
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing Self answers are fine, but general courtesy is to give the challenge a little while to draw out other answers so you don't FGITW your own challenge.
 
Just found out i was kicked from this chat last night. Sorry for what I did
I don't know what is was though so if you know could you tell me so i can improve?
 
How long is 'a while'? Specifically, is 24 hours ok?
 
Sure, I think that would be fine.
 
9:42 PM
@Christopher2EZ4RTZ I'm not an RO and wasn't there, but this may have had something to do with it
 
ahh that makes sense
 
10:12 PM
For anyone who cares, PPCG needs 2 more unique hats to get the "And you get a hat"
 
Which hats do we need
 
I can get us there with one more hat (I'd get the 11 hats one), then only one more hat is needed
Just hypothetical, but if I get a Nice Answer badge (10 upvotes on an answer), I'd then get "The Milliner", which would leave us with one to go
ಠ_ಠ No-one's got the rep cap hat. Sends in Dennis
 
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A: Calculate the lowest number where the sum of the sequence of numbers exceeds a given value

caird coinheringaahingJelly, 18 12 11 10 bytes 1Æs>¥#ḢṄÆs Try it online! -1 byte thanks to Mr. Xcoder! How it works 1Æs>¥#ḢṄÆs - Main link. Argument: n (integer) 1 ¥# - Find the first n integers where... Æs - the divisor sum > - is greater than the input Ṅ - Print... Ḣ ...

it is at +9
 
Anyone experienced with syncing photos with iCloud?
 
i can only upvote once :|
 
10:21 PM
Nice hat @LuisMendo
 
I have the And YOU get a hat
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing Thanks! Tempted to keep it all along. It's one of the hardest to get
 
@Christopher2EZ4RTZ From which site?
 
Yeah, they've got all the really active hat hunters :P
 
10:22 PM
i got a new hattt
a new hidden hat
 
Which one?
And how?
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing repbait :P
 
@Mr.Xcoder Yeah, but it's for a good cause :P
 
I also have a crap ton of +9 answers
 
In reference to my sandboxed challenge Parse a list of signed unary numbers, what are your opinions on allowing vs. disallowing output of -0?
 
10:26 PM
Hehe, I just answered my Dice Cricket question, with a win-win option. Either it gets voted to +3 and I get a hat, or it doesn't get voted and I get a hat :P
Although. If it's stuck at +2, I'm screwed :P
@DLosc I think you should make it optional per answer
WEll, there's the last upvote. Now to wait for SE's caching :/
 
:P
I earned the Meta SE the And YOU get a hat hat
 
@Christopher2EZ4RTZ VTC as dupe
 
no like I earned the 20th hat
 
@flawr 10/10 avatar
would updoot again
 
:) glad you like it:)
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

ScroobleNon-Palindrome Hello, World code-golf restricted-source hello-world palindrome Really just this challenge with the word "not" added. Your task is to create a program that prints "GREETINGS, PLANET!" (case-insensitive, leading/trailing whitespace okay). Seems simple enough, right? Well, here'...

 
@Christopher2EZ4RTZ That's too many :P Also, first time SE has ever given you homework? :P
Also, 19 unique hats for the site! \o/
 
"You can live the entire rest of your life without breathing." vsauce
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing that is about the right number with 2-3 extra for more
@flawr though that will be very short
 
10:52 PM
Any further feedback on this tag proposal?
 
Random question: What languages are better (golfier) at testing inequality than testing equality?
 
I'm curious because brain-flak is one, I wonder if there are others
 
Using xor
(a^b) is shorter than (a==b)
 
Hmm...
Actually, I suppose most languages could do (a-b) instead of (a==b)
 
10:55 PM
A lot of languages that have == for equality, as - or ^ can be used
 
@DJMcMayhem regarding numbers: In matlab/octave you can use - instead of ~=
 
Any final feedback?. Most likely posting tomorrow
 
OK, addendum: only consistent values (1/0, true/false) count
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing i would not exclude REPL, as they count as separate languages
 

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