The Nineteenth Byte

@BusinessCat Yeah, that's accurate. V's number support is pretty much the ability to do something n times, (or n +/- x times) and incrementing/decrementing numbers in strings

Fatalize

@Pavel Brachylog, 13 bytes (fairly readable imo): ℕˢ{%₂0∧?+₁|}ᵐ

Kritixi Lithos

I remember losing 1 rep for downvoting an answer, but now I got that 1 rep back... why?

DJMcMayhem

6:26 PM

@BusinessCat Translated into English, it's pretty much "delete every line containing a dash, and then increment the first number on every line ending with an even digit"

Pavel

@KritixiLithos deleted?

muddyfish

@KritixiLithos it probably got deleted

Pavel

ninja'd

Business Cat

Golfed the Retina to 53

And to 44 by using a better input format

Kritixi Lithos

@BusinessCat What does the ¶ do?

Riker

6:31 PM

it's literal newline iirc

Business Cat

^ Correct

DJMcMayhem

V treats newlines as carriage returns since they're a pain to work with

Kritixi Lithos

Also what does the _ do in the regex?

Business Cat

The _ is just the character for representing unary (I could have used pretty much anything)

Kritixi Lithos

@BusinessCat I think you can remove the %` and save 2 bytes

Riker

6:33 PM

you need at laest one ` iirc

it's flags

Business Cat

Down to 40 bytes

Kritixi Lithos

What does the % do?

Business Cat

That last line converts back to decimal from unary, which is done by counting the matches of the character (on a match stage Retina just returns the number of matches). The %` makes it count on each line instead of the entire corpus.

Basically it's "count the number of _'s on each line"

Wheat Wizard

@Pavel Brain-Flak 146 bytes

Kritixi Lithos

@BusinessCat Golfed 3 bytes: Try it online!

DJMcMayhem

6:39 PM

@WheatWizard Beautiful

Business Cat

@KritixiLithos Oh I didn't even know it would 1 by default

Kritixi Lithos

That's what it said in the tutorial for unary arithmetic

Riker

@DJMcMayhem sorry, to clarify: I mean to organize/propose a tag cleanup, where we tag every applicable [tips] question with [code-golf]. — Easterly Irk 6 secs ago

@DJMcMayhem

Wheat Wizard

Whoops I made a mistake Brain-Flak, 172 bytes

DJMcMayhem

@Riker Hmm. OK, maybe you should edit the title. Something like "Should we clean up [tips] questions that don't have the [code-golf] tag?" Or something better, I'm not sure

Riker

6:46 PM

yeah

@Downgoat imgur.com/gallery/LGvJH

3

some profanity

better @DJM?

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Q: Should we clean-up our code-golf-related [tips] questions?

Here is a search for these. (currently 42 of them, but some are things like "Tips for making Polyglots" and thus don't need the code-golf tag. The consensus is that tips questions should be tagged with the applicable challenge type, i.e. fastest-code, code-golf, etc. Should we go through and ad...

DJMcMayhem

Yeah, I'll retract my CV

@Riker +1 for rock climbing.

Riker

yeah

DJMcMayhem

The best sport (other than golfing of course)

Riker

rock climbing is fun

@DJMcMayhem lol

I live near j tree, and try to go every month or 2

mınxomaτ

@Riker This is like when your genetic algorithm goes down a rabbit hole of nonsensical settings and doesn't have enough randomization to get back out. So you just get some weird surreal output.

Riker

6:49 PM

yeah

DJMcMayhem

@Riker Absolutely. I try to go two or three times a week.

Riker

noice

I don't go that often because they don't sell nice big rock climbing shoes

DJMcMayhem

I'll probably go tonight

Riker

I wear size 13 US >_>

DJMcMayhem

o_O dang

Anonymous

6:50 PM

@Riker I feel your pain. 13.5 here

Riker

>_>

@Mego eyyy

DJMcMayhem

I'm just a measly 10

Riker

@Mego do they still sell that size commonly?

@DJMcMayhem and I'm like 5 years younger than you :P

DJMcMayhem

Lol. How tall are you?

Anonymous

@Riker Yeah, but most places have very little stock

Riker

6:51 PM

5'8"

@Mego same

Anonymous

Jeez, you're like bluefeet

Riker

yeah

Anonymous

Short with flippers

Riker

@Mego I'm 14, so the height makes sense

Anonymous

At least mine are kinda proportional - 6'2" here

Riker

6:52 PM

the feet? not really

@Mego dang, tha'ts 1 tall penguin

DJMcMayhem

Dang

mınxomaτ

@Riker was that a unit pun

Riker

maybe

mınxomaτ

sirens

Riker

I'm actually somewhat suprised the metric unit-user got the pun

and the 2 people who use feet as measurements didn't

AdmBorkBork

6:53 PM

@Pavel PowerShell, 26 bytes showing off the swanky compare-an-array-to-a-scalar feature

Anonymous

I got it, I just chose to ignore it :P

mınxomaτ

Did you mean: superior unit-user

DJMcMayhem

I'm not short enough to complain, but not very tall. 5'9" (175 cm for my European friends)

Riker

wot

mınxomaτ

I'm 188cm and wear a size 44. Conversion is left as an exercise to the reader

Riker

6:54 PM

lol

size 12, 6ft 2in

DJMcMayhem

@mınxomaτ hey that's Megos height

Anonymous

10.5 shoe, 6'2"

mınxomaτ

@Riker See? Makes no sense whatsoever.

Riker

lol

do they even sell like size 43? or just in increments of 4

mınxomaτ

Of course.

Business Cat

6:55 PM

I'm also around 6'2"

mınxomaτ

The former.

Business Cat

I don't know I don't measure my height often

DJMcMayhem

Geez, why are you all so tall? Now I feel tiny

Anonymous

@Riker I should hope they do. One size increment in EU is roughly equal to one size increment in US.

mınxomaτ

It's a really fine scale. You can get e.g. a "43/44"

Riker

6:56 PM

ah

@DJMcMayhem I'm shorter than you still :P

DJMcMayhem

Yeah but you've got some growing left.

Riker

which isn't that impressive considering I'm 3/4 of your age but whatever

DJMcMayhem

And you have Hobbit feet

Mistah Figgins

I lived in the Netherlands for 3 years in elementary school. Now I have no concept of how big a foot is, a mile is, or an inch is. I also have trouble with US geography

Riker

@DJMcMayhem good point

@DJMcMayhem that is correct

I'm actually really hairy too

Anonymous

6:57 PM

I'm looking at a shoe size chart, and the EU system doesn't make any more sense than the US system

Mistah Figgins

@DJMcMayhem I hope he has some growing right too, or he will be lopsided

Riker

lol

Anonymous

It's roughly the same increments, with the same weird variations between

DJMcMayhem

@MistahFiggins That's understandable. There's a lot of States to remember. I suck at EU geography

Riker

@MistahFiggins right now I fit exactly the definition of a hobbit

so

I don't know if tolkien based hobbits off real people or not :P

Anonymous

6:58 PM

Like, sometimes .5 in US is 1/8 inch. Sometimes it's 3/16 inch. Sometimes it's 1/4 inch. It makes no sense.

DJMcMayhem

How many states do you think you could accurately name on a blank map?

AdmBorkBork

US states? All 50.

Mistah Figgins

Maybe 35

Possibly more

Riker

I can name all 50, plus a good portion of EU countries

Mistah Figgins

But I have no idea about what type of terrain is there

DJMcMayhem

6:59 PM

That's not bad at all

Anonymous

@MistahFiggins All of it

AdmBorkBork

I remember watching Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? as a kid and being flabbergasted that the contestants on there didn't know the geography.

Fatalize

Probably 5 or 6

lawl

Business Cat

I'm pretty good at geography but I might mess up on a couple states

Anonymous

Mountains, plains, forests, deserts, coastal areas, tundra, and a few islands

Jan Dvorak

6:59 PM

I could name quite a few if I don't need to get the order right

Mistah Figgins

I've stayed overnight in about 5 states, and been to about 25 European countries

DJMcMayhem

No, you have to point it out on a blank map

Riker

@AdmBorkBork I remember being forced to watch it until I knew them all

in kindergarten

Business Cat

Now I have to try doing this, RIP productivity.

Riker

lol nice

AdmBorkBork

7:00 PM

@DJMcMayhem As in, draw the boundaries?

Anonymous

See, in the US, if you don't memorize the states, you get plucked away by an eagle on your 10th birthday to a special school where they do nothing but drill the states into you

Mistah Figgins

@AdmBorkBork Oh wow, I remember that

@Mego I was in the NL be then ;P

DJMcMayhem

@AdmBorkBork No, like this: online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3003

I did embarrassingly bad >_> 72% in 3:45

AdmBorkBork

@DJMcMayhem 100% in 1:31

DJMcMayhem

It's the damn East coast that throws me off. Everything West of Iowa is a piece of cake

AdmBorkBork

7:06 PM

Clicking on Rhode Island is harder than knowing where it is.

Riker

^

100 in 1:52

Business Cat

How did I get 100% when I'm not even from the US

Riker

lol

Fatalize

I clicked on absolutely every state before finding connecticut

Riker

hahaha

Business Cat

7:10 PM

I like geography so I guess it makes sense

Riker

lol

AdmBorkBork

@Fatalize At least you spelled it correctly. That middle "c" trips up a lot of people.

Business Cat

I thought it didn't have that c for years and when I first noticed it I though it was a typo

Adnan

@DJMcMayhem Score: 13% in 6:07 haha

DJMcMayhem

We should do one for Europe now so you can all laugh at how bad I do haha

Riker

7:18 PM

uh

DJMcMayhem

Typo

Anonymous

To be fair, I would be utterly miserable at labeling English counties

Business Cat

^ I would get 0%

I can't even name a single one

Riker

I got london, east sussex, berkshire, and that's it

Kritixi Lithos

@Riker Hobbits are 2-4 feet on average

Riker

7:21 PM

I'm going to imagine it took you this long to google it

because it's funny

DJMcMayhem

@Mego Heck, I'd be miserable at naming Colorado counties. I might be able to get 2-3 if I'm lucky

Anonymous

Well Sam and Frodo got taller after leaving Middle-Earth, right?

Kritixi Lithos

@Riker I already know it without googling :) (it's just that I was reading the transcript from when I was inactive)

DJMcMayhem

Holy crap, there are 64 counties in Colorado

Kritixi Lithos

@Mego Probably, but I'm sure that Pippin and Merry got taller by quite some amount

Riker

7:23 PM

@KritixiLithos yeah, I figuered something like that

Anonymous

I don't remember the endings to RotK very well :/

Anonymous

I need to re-read the trilogy

Riker

@DJMcMayhem CA only has 58 o_O

and I know 3

4

Anonymous

Texas has like a hundred

Anonymous

And I can maybe name 10

DJMcMayhem

7:24 PM

Yeah but Texas is basically it's own continent

Riker

@Mego 254

o_o

Anonymous

And only then because I've lived in them

DJMcMayhem

@Mego Texas is actually way bigger than you think it is

5

Anonymous

@DJMcMayhem Oh trust me, I know :) I've made long car trips

Anonymous

People in Europe talk about driving for an hour to get to another country. If I drive for an hour, I can reach the next city

Anonymous

7:26 PM

Not even the next county, thanks to being right in the middle of mine

Riker

texas is weird

@Mego the image is still funny

AdmBorkBork

Counties in Minnesota tend on the smaller side, so driving for an hour gets you in several different counties.

Kritixi Lithos

@Mego You can drive through the whole of Denmark East to West in 3-4 hours or so

AdmBorkBork

Unless you're up in the arrowhead / iron range

Riker

I'm at the corner of 3

RenderSettings

7:27 PM

countries, not counties :p

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"Creative" Hello, World popularity-contesthello-worldcode-challenge Your challenge is to create a "Hello, World!" program, but not any ordinary program... You just have to make a creative, difficult-to-understand hello world program. Viewers will vote based on your creativity.

Riker

and LA country is stupid and there are little pockets of "LA" that span like 5 houses, in like 20 different cities

Anonymous

I know a guy who lives in the Netherlands and works in Germany. His commute is about 30 minutes. In 30 minutes, I'm just leaving my city.

Nathan Merrill

anybody have experience adding a project to maven?

Riker

rip

AdmBorkBork

7:28 PM

In Louisiana they're called "parishes" not counties.

Anonymous

@AdmBorkBork Thanks, French/Catholic influence :P

Kritixi Lithos

@Mego My teacher comes to Denmark from Sweden (where he lives) every day, and it's still shorter than my commute to school while living in Denmark

Nathan Merrill

my commute went from 15 minutes to 6 mins a week ago or so :P

AdmBorkBork

@Mego Yeah, 30 minutes from downtown will get you into the country if there's no traffic.

DJMcMayhem

@NathanMerrill Did you move?

Nathan Merrill

7:32 PM

nope, my company did

our office was getting too small

DJMcMayhem

Nice

AdmBorkBork

I've barely been to Europe (spent a weekend at an ACM conference in southern England), but it's a real struggle for me to understand how small it is (or how big the US is).

Anonymous

@NathanMerrill Nice

DJMcMayhem

I just moved like two months ago

mınxomaτ

woot dark github

I'm conflicted. Now my avatar is invisible.

Anonymous

7:33 PM

If I get the Google position in a few months (flippers crossed), and my wife and I end up getting the apartment we want, my commute will be roughly a minute to cross the street.

DJMcMayhem

@Mego I didn't know that was still a possibility! That's exciting, what happened?

Anonymous

Back in October, when I was going through the process, I had the job offer, but it had to be approved by the SVP. He didn't approve it (due to company plans rather than an issue with me specifically being hired), but I will have the opportunity to try again in a few months.

Anonymous

The rumors I heard from people that work in and with Google was that it was due to a hiring slowdown implemented because of uncertainty about the result of the election

AdmBorkBork

Oh, awesome. I'm happy for you!

Anonymous

Thanks :)