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4:00 PM
let's talk specifics
xargs|tr \ +|bc is a nice trick
as is perl -p $\+=$_}{
I don't see the problem in practice
 
yeah, because you're still looking at the answers that you do get as opposed to the ones that you don't get :)
I don't think this discussion will get anywhere though. we clearly want different things from a challenge. you asked where the downvotes came from, and I gave you a likely explanation.
 
I am !
 
the top-voted answer on "Things to avoid when writing challenges" is this:
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A: Things to avoid when writing challenges

xnorCumbersome I/O formats Generally, allow flexible input and output formats. People want to write code to do your task of, say, composing permutations, not reading/writing numbers in a particular semicolon-separated format, or from a file, or with input validation. For code golf, it's annoying whe...

 
Thanks for the explanation. It's true that I want different things from my challenges. I am very happy to have a plurality of types of challenges on PPCG. I think it's much better that way
 
so while ignoring that advice is perfectly fine, you'll have to expect some downvotes when you do
 
4:03 PM
I reject the claim that one integer per line is cumbersome!
 
> Generally, allow flexible input and output formats.
 
You are forcing a single input format. That is covered by that answer.
 
"cumbersome" is language specific. if you choose any single format, it's going to be cumbersome in some languages.
 
true
 
4:43 PM
Are you allowed to have the output be on top of the stack in a stack based language even if there is an "output" function?
 
Can anyone who knows Bash explain why this is borked: tio.run/nexus/… ?
 
if the language outputs the top of the stack automatically, then yes
@ГригорийПерельман argument vs. stdin?
 
I wish Befunge-98 on TIO reversed on EOF like it's supposed to
 
I wonder if there's any of the 8 possible 2D coordinate systems that isn't used by some Mathematica built-in... the inconsistencies in this area are nuts...
 
@JanDvorak So I should stick the stuff after <<< EOF into the input field?
 
4:46 PM
@ГригорийПерельман vOv. But try using echo or whichever function dumps its arguments to stdout
 
Oh god. My LA teacher has just posted this:
 
echo -e "(println \"Hello, World!\")\n(println (+ 5 7))" | clojure works
 
"Create your own meme." -- Closed as "Too Broad."
 
I hope he's not an English teacher. He has an its/it's mistake in there.
 
4:50 PM
@MistahFiggins +10 internet points for using "One does not simply outgolf Dennis"
 
Maybe it is supposed to be "explain how it is history" (meaning, it's no longer a relevant meme)
 
Or:
clojure <<< '(println "Hello, World!")
(println (+ 5 7))'
https://tio.run/nexus/bash#@5@ck59VWpSqYGNjo6CuUVCUmVeSk6eg5JGak5OvoxCeX5SToqikyQWX0dBWMFUw19RU//8fAA
 
@Riley No markdown in multiline mesages.
 
@ГригорийПерельман That would be great. I would totally do that if it was individual. My group might veto though
 
@ГригорийПерельман That's too bad.
 
4:52 PM
WAIT
I GET IT NOW
I WAS USING <<< WHEN I NEEDED <<
 
@JanDvorak He is. I need to point that out.
 
Is <<< the lose-sanity operator? I hate when I use that one by accident.
 
Roll san!
 
@MartinEnder It's the "Really really less than" operator. For when regular less than isn't enough.
 
@MistahFiggins If that doesn't work, you can fall back to "How does juice avocado i try for thirtee minut and no juic"
@MartinEnder It's Here-String, whatever comes after the <<< is piped into the command's StdIn directly.
I think it's really useful (when I'm not using wrong)
 
4:56 PM
0
Q: Array swapping with each elements in the range with their related elements

prokrtConsider an array of integers A having N elements in which each element has a one- to-one relation with another array element. For each i, where 1≤i≤N there exists a 1−>1 relation between element i and element N−i+1 The Task is to perform following operations on this array which are as follows:...

 
I thought it was heredoc :-/
 
<< is for heredocs.
 
the lose-sanity operator would be <̲̃ͤ̈̏̑<̤͙͖̥ͪ̂̈́̆ͧ̀̕≮̤͉̦̬̑ͬ̃̇̂ͭ
 
*already lost sanity operator
 
echo -e '#!apt\nremove sanity'>zalgo.sh
sudo chmod +x zalgo.sh
sudo mv zalgo.sh /usr/local/bin
Oops, pretend that the \n is a space >_>
 
5:29 PM
0
Q: Count the number of Hamming distance sequences

LembikThe Hamming distance between two strings of equal length is the number of positions at which the corresponding symbols are different. Let P be a binary string of length n and T be a binary string of length 2n-1. We can compute the n Hamming distances between P and every n-length substring of T ...

 
5:48 PM
Hello
 
I think one of my friends from facebook (the only reason I still use it is for school) is actually a spear-phishing scammer
@MistahFiggins I must show this to my IAS teacher
 
Oh hey, I broke 1000 bronze + silver badges yesterday and 700 bronze today.
 
broke?
 
Huh, my badges are almost the say-what-you-see sequence ... 332113
 
hm, I could've sworn it's a phrase for reaching a certain score in something, but now I can't seem to find any evidence of that
 
5:58 PM
Yeah, that's fine US slang
 
It sounds a bit odd when the direct object is "badges," though.
 
It's implied that there was a previous "high score" or threshold that was surpassed.
Nah, because the "broke" goes with "1000"
 
@AdmBorkBork ah that's why, I checked the OED...
 
@ETHproductions @ais523 - I successfully wrote a program based on your logic and its deadly accurate for all the 25 numbers that i gave as input.
I have 1 question though..
why is that i need to divide the parity by 2?
 
6:02 PM
yeah, Merriam-Webster has it as well
definition 13
 
Definition 13 b: golf : to score less than (a specified total) trying to break 90
 
So, Java
 
(emphasis mine)
 
Can someone link to the avocad thing?
 
@MartinEnder That's a lot of definitions. I wonder what word has the most. Maybe set?
 
@Haunted Say you have 17, and you start with 1+2+3+4+5+6. You want to subtract 4, but if you just subtract the 4 you get 1+2+3+5+6, which isn't valid. So you divide by 2, then subtract the result (2) twice: first you get 1+3+4+5+6, then 1-2+3+4+5+6, which is the result you want.
 
But there was a recent avocado question: codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/113268/…
 
@KritixiLithos I don't have enough rep to view. Care to post a pic
 
@KritixiLithos What the heck
 
> oh no, not again
@MistahFiggins Old pic: i.imgur.com/dGFg9CC.png
Now it has 15 favourites instead of 7
 
6:07 PM
I find myself with some free time. Anyone have feedback on this sandbox post of mine?
 
That has to be a user who can see the old post or had a picture of it
 
@ETHproductions - Can you please explain this part? "So you divide by 2, then subtract the result (2) twice: first you get 1+3+4+5+6, then 1-2+3+4+5+6, which is the result you want."
 
@ETHproductions I took the old picture from this challenge
(third word; 1 hyperlink)
 
@Haunted You want to subtract 4 from the equation (1+2+3+4+5+6 = 21), but you can only do so by changing one of the '+'s to a '-' (which is the same as changing an 'R' to an 'L'). So to do that, you flip the sign of 4/2 = 2, giving 1-2+3+4+5+6 = 17.
Does that make more sense?
 
@ETHproductions: Check the cubix room: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/54500/cubix
 
6:13 PM
@Poke Some random thoughts: 1) If n is always y*j for integer y, what are the pros and cons of giving n vs giving y as input? (I don't have an opinion, just mentioning the possibility.)
2) So the positions in line start as 0 (or 1) and go to n-1 (or n), right? I don't think that's spelled out anywhere, I had to extrapolate from the diagram.
 
@MistahFiggins its*
 
@ETHproductions - Thank you. I get this but I am not sure how 21-17=4; 4/2 is giving the correct answer. This is working for every number. I was just curious how the difference divided by 2 always works out,.
Maybe i need to read more.. :)
@ETHproductions - i did not test for 12. What would be the case for this?
 
@DLosc Thanks for the input. I do mean to update the abbreviations as well in case you were wondering
 
1+2+3+4+5+6+7=28
28-12=16
 
I've been thinking about y vs n myself
 
6:15 PM
16/2=8?
 
@Haunted It's because you're subtracting 2 twice: 1+(+2)+3+4+5+6 -> 1+(0)+3+4+5+6 -> 1+(-2)+3+4+5+6
@Haunted Yes, this is a tricky edge case. You'll need to instead change 7 and 1, or 6 and 2, or 5 and 3
 
the only thing I can think of is that is might be cool if solutions can handle non-rectangular queues but that's not related to the challenge
 
@ETH
@ETHproductions - wow got it, Thank you so much. :)
 
@Poke Rather than saying x "is bounded by [0, 2j - 1)", I would suggest 0 <= x < 2j - 1. Not everyone is familiar with the notation of closed/open intervals.
 
@ETHproductions - Oh my God. I am so dumb. I finally fully understood it. You are a genius. :):):)
 
6:21 PM
Glad I could help :)
 
:)
 
@DLosc okay
 
Make sure that's < 2j - 1. The max values that works is 2j - 2.
 
whoops
copy/paste mistake
 
>> toString()
"[object Undefined]"
OK then
 
6:35 PM
@Cyoce I posted a comment saying "*its history" and now 3 other people have posted the exact same thing. Imma try to get the whole class to do it
 
@DLosc updated the abbreviations too
 
>> __proto__
WindowPrototype { , 1 more… }
>> __proto__.__proto__
WindowProperties {  }
>> __proto__.__proto__.__proto__
EventTargetPrototype { addEventListener: addEventListener(), removeEventListener: removeEventListener(), dispatchEvent: dispatchEvent(), 1 more… }
>> __proto__.__proto__.__proto__.__proto__
Object { , 15 more… }
>> __proto__.__proto__.__proto__.__proto__.__proto__
null
 
@MistahFiggins nice.
 
There is more than one weird thing about this
 
0
Q: Print the Greek national anthem

Erik the OutgolferIn March 25, 1821, Greece fought its great war of independence. In order to honor this, your task is to print the Greek national anthem: Σε γνωρίζω από την κόψη του σπαθιού την τρομερή. Σε γνωρίζω από την όψη που με βιά μετράει τη γη. Απ' τα κόκκαλα βγαλμένη, των Ελλήνων τα ιερά! Και σαν πρώτα α...

 
6:40 PM
@Poke Much better. :D For test cases, I would add one with maximal value of x (i.e. 2j-2), and also add one with an even value of j. [24, 4, 6] -> [0, 4, 8, 12, 16] fits both of those.
 
for sure
 
Umm, is it just my font on my browser, or is the output for Try it online! not right for others?
 
i'm not sure what it's supposed to look like
but i see lots of i's with accents
among other things
 
It's for that national anthem challenge.
So, it's supposed to look like Greek
 
@AdmBorkBork TIO is probably just reading the characters as bytes and outputting what it thinks it sees.
 
6:46 PM
Yeah, that's what I think, too. I'll post in Talk.TIO for Dennis
 
@AdmBorkBork imgur.com/a/D0cDs
 
Σ is what you get when you convert the UTF-8 encoding of Σ to ISO-8859-1 (source) so I think that's correct.
 
Ah, foo
Weird that it outputs correctly on my machine
 
@AdmBorkBork is powershell supposed to be ISO-8859-1?
 
Technically everything in the back-end is UTF-16
I think it's looking right on my machine because CP-1252 coincides with ISO-8859-1 for most bytes
Oh, wait, no, my local console is interpreting it as 437
gah
I hate working with code pages
 
7:14 PM
Noooo, I was just creating a Java answer to the Greek Anthem challenge when it got closed
 
Looks like @Mego hammered it
 
I feel like it should have a chance, but I can't vote without open-hammering it
 
I know, my vote is an open-hammer as well
So, that makes two
 
It is practically a cross-dupe between that and codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/97049/42545, but I think there's a sufficiently large hole in between
 
There was another reopen vote, so I open-hammered it
 
7:22 PM
Cool beans
 
Open-clawed it?
 
The only language I know of that would be able to avoid the 2-bytes-per-char implicit restriction would be Jolf
 
@AdmBorkBork :D
 
^ i think that is final revision of activity view. any feedback?
 
Noice
 
7:36 PM
Uh, what? When did I star that repo?
 
Java outgolfed one Python 3 submission and Powershell \o/
 
The GUI looks great though
 
@KritixiLithos how?!?!?
 
Check out my friend's website
Web 3.0 much?
 
@ThomasWard The endtimes are approaching (and I didn't even have to use Java 8's lambdas)
2
 
7:38 PM
./spamCheck returns True, @Mendeleev :P
 
@KritixiLithos I commend you for your excellent algorithm (haven't read it yet though)
 
@KritixiLithos Or is it more a case that the end times have already arrived
and are slowly increasing the amount of darkness in the World leading to the eventual collapse of the planet's molecular structure
:P
 
@ThomasWard It's actually his website though, I'm not trying to sell anything
No ads on it either
 
@KritixiLithos (in other news, I blame Shog, because the tavern on the meta wheel of blame came up with Shog's name)
@KritixiLithos Would love to see this though heh
 
Rod's submission is similar to mine, but I did not see it until after having posted my submission
 
7:40 PM
> Cosmos Browser allows a person to connect to the internet through the use of SMS. No data or wifi required.
Wow
 
@ThomasWard If by "this" you mean the submission, here it is
Java could save 5-ish bytes if Java wasn't so fussy about escape codes
 
@ETHproductions Whaaaaat
 
@KritixiLithos Only beating the weaker Python 3 answer though.
 
@KritixiLithos well, it's Java
but that is a sign of the END
 
Anonymous
@AdmBorkBork Yes, I did. It's constant output with no added potential for compression - the encoding restriction doesn't make a difference. Just ignore it and read it as "output this sequence of bytes". Those are exactly the kinds of challenges we close as a dupe of rickroll as per this
 
7:43 PM
because Java outgolfing Py3 and PowerShell
i mean... o.o
 
Anonymous
The fact that it's also a song makes it even clearer as a dupe :P
 
@Mego The sequence of bytes can be golfed in an unusual way though
 
@ThomasWard what's next? Java outgolfing perl? golfscript? jelly?!
 
@KritixiLithos Java outgolfing itself, resulting in division by zero and the ultimate end of all
 
3
Q: Raise a single number

ZgarbIntroduction Suppose you want to compute the tail maxima of a list of numbers, that is, the maximum of each nonempty suffix. One way to do it is to repeatedly choose one number and replace it by a higher number occurring after it, until this is not possible anymore. In this challenge, your task ...

 
7:50 PM
Looking up the Greek National Anthem on Wikipedia, I found that somebody had edited the page to say that the original poem has 300000000 stanzas. 0_o I reverted the edit.
 
@DLosc You mean it doesn't have 300 million stanzas?
 
@Mendeleev your low profile desktop NIC has been picked up by the post office people today, delivery by March 27th unless we get insane weather again
 
@ThomasWard yay :)
thanks!
 
@fəˈnɛtɪk If so, I imagine they would have to be pretty repetitive. ;) I did suspend judgment until I saw 158 mentioned in some of the references at the bottom, and I knew for sure the bigger number was fake.
 
I actually found my second Optiplex and some more RAM, so now I have the first one running ESXi with 5GB, and the second one running Ubuntu Server with 3GB
Still would love to buy the RAM on eBay though
 
7:55 PM
@Mendeleev You should try to run my code for Lembik's newest problem with input=10 now that you have more RAM.
 
@fəˈnɛtɪk What is Lembik?
 
@Mendeleev I'm not stopping you but I ain't helping either lol
 
@ThomasWard Not asking for help lol
 
cool :)
 
7:57 PM
aight
 
When it fails there is an explanation for why as a comment on the code :P
 
not gonna even try to create an array that huge
Why is it golfed?
 
Chrome just says the page ran out of memory and kills it
it isn't really golfed
 
Why not use a Stack Snippet for trying-online capabilities?
 
And because I originally thought that it was code golf
For some reason my code gave me a 0 is not a function error before on one of the earlier questions. No idea why
Anyway got to go.
 
8:00 PM
ok
@fəˈnɛtɪk Check your post
 
@NewMainPosts CMC: Find the tail Maxima of a list
 
Would someone mind giving me input on a challenge idea I had? I've started to type up a sandbox post but I don't have the time to fully flesh it out. The idea is similar to a simplified variant of Tetris or another falling-block game. Each of the pieces is a single cell represented by a 1 or 0, and if you get a whole row of them the row is cleared. You're given the board size, falling pieces, and moves made for each piece.
Is this too similar to previous Tetris-related challenges (I'd link them but I gotta run very soon)?
 
@KritixiLithos Better check it again, lol. Also, haha, I see we came up with the same 870 magic number.
 
8:18 PM
@DJMcMayhem whY? 0h!
 
Haha
@Dennis I was actually just about to ping you. I need jelly help
Is there any way to assign elements of an array?
Like l[3] = 4 or something
 
¦ sort of does that.
 
is there some way to run codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/113787/9206 from the command line?
 
@DJMcMayhem My first revision used it. Clumsily.
 
or does it have to be run in a web browser?
 
8:28 PM
@Lembik It has a TIO link, which uses Node.js under the hood.
 
@Dennis is link at index n one or zero indexed?
 
Node.js can run it via command-line
Oh, ninja'd
 
But then you have to infect your computer with NPM.
 
@DJMcMayhem Everything is 1-indexed in Jelly.
 
@Dennis thanks the link doesn't work for input=9 it seems
 
8:30 PM
@Dennis OK, thanks. Jelly is still really hard to wrap my head around, but it's sorta starting to make sense. I've got this though: Try it online!
 
0
A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

OrbySimplify Brainf**k We'll call a language BF equivalent if it emits a simple substitution mapping to and from BF. For example, consider the hypothetical language SimpleBrain which is identical to BF except that it does not include + or >, but instead has }. It emits the following mapping to BF: ...

 
I'm sure it's horribly inefficient
 
@Lembik Notice how time in the debug is 60.02 seconds?
 
@Dennis why
 
@Lembik Yeah, it times out. .oO(That should show a warning. Why doesn't it show a warning?)
 
8:30 PM
ah yes
 
@Mendeleev Because 0 is falsy. I like my indices truthy.
 
oh wow nodejs just works
 
@ГригорийПерельман Yes?
 
8:32 PM
@Dennis This shows the expected warning. Color me confused.
 
time nodejs test.js is my new friend :)
 
@ГригорийПерельман Well, how would you like it if I said "Grigori" randomly? :p
 
@Dennis Wouldn't it be convenient to be able to do something such as array[input<4] for accessing arrays?
@AdmBorkBork You should have thought of that when you changed your name to a phrase commonly spoken when something is broken.
 
For what it's worth, I've had "AdmBorkBork" about as long as "bork" was synonymous with "broken."
 
@Dennis disabling output cache made the warning appear as expected
And now the warning has been cached successfully.
@AdmBorkBork I thought you were TimmyD or something like that?
 
8:37 PM
@ГригорийПерельман Yes, you're remembering correctly.
 
@ГригорийПерельман Checking if there was a timeout is a 2-step process. Looks like one of them isn't deterministic.
 
That wasn't that long ago.
 
Aug 19 '16 at 14:35, by TimmyD
@DJMcMayhem My online gaming handle is (slightly) more interesting. A bunch of friends and I were having a LAN party about 8 years ago or so, playing Silent Hunter at the time. This was right around when The Muppets started re-gaining popularity, and one of us found the Swedish Chef/Chacarron remix (which is hilarious), playing it on loop. By one of us, I mean me. Since we were doing naval battles, I temporarily changed my name to AdmBorkBork ("Admiral Bork Bork"), but it wound up sticking.
 
@ГригорийПерельман As soon as you figure out which something is particular, please let me know.
 
8:38 PM
0
Q: Divide and divide and conquer

Greg MartinSometimes, when I'm idly trying to factor whatever number pops up in front of me¹, after a while I realize it's easier than I thought. Take 2156 for example: it eventually occurs to me that both 21 and 56 are multiples of 7, and so certainly 2156 = 21 x 100 + 56 is also a multiple of 7. Your tas...

 
I can't say I know how Jelly works, but just passing a Boolean as an argument to the atom that gets an element by index could be used? IDK
 
What do you mean?
 
I think you can do <4ị
 
Greater than 4?
 
8 mins ago, by Григорий Перельман
@Dennis Wouldn't it be convenient to be able to do something such as array[input<4] for accessing arrays?
 
8:42 PM
That was just pseudo code to make up for me not having any idea how Jelly works.
 
You may have to stick a in there since Jelly is 1-indexed
 
Oh, I thought you were talking about my answer
 
@ГригорийПерельман Oh, now I get it... sorry for bringing the discussion full circle :P
In any case, it is just 1 byte extra to do what you mentioned
 
This Jelly. 1 byte is life or death.
 
Wait, so what would you expect this to do? I'm not sure I get it
 
8:44 PM
If input is less than 4, get the 0th element of the array, else the 1st element of the array.
Except Jelly arrays are 1-indexed, so it errors with 0. (I think, I don't actually know)
 
No, it gives the back element
 
Right, array[0] in Jelly == array[-1] in Python
 
That makes sense. Then it's actually more useful that way, since last or first is probably more convenient than first or second.
 
Yay, you're talking about a pseudo-ternary in PowerShell
 
8:48 PM
I tried to powershell once. I promptly gave up and installed Bash.
 
I feel sorry for you
 
It's fine, the command line isn't nearly as useful on Windows anyway.
 
Right, which is why PowerShell exists
 
Because they didn't actually need anything useful, right.
 
cmd.exe is a legacy environment based mostly from the pre-Win95 days
PowerShell is the new hotness
I actually can't recall the last time I opened cmd.exe on a machine ... has to have been several years ago
 
8:53 PM
Powershell is so slow tho
It takes 15 seconds to start on my computer
(I just timed it)
 
Yeah, it pre-loads a bunch of .NET libraries
 
It's actually faster to do what I want manually in the UI 99% of the time.
That's what I meant when I said the command line isn't as useful.
 
I run a custom shell that also loads a bunch of Active Directory and Exchange commands
Ah, yeah, if you're doing single changes, sure. I process batch-style changes too much during my day-to-day work, so I need a shell
 
For that I use the linux subsystem. It's not faster, but I know how it works.
 
Yeah, Exchange doesn't really have WSL commands, but it does have PowerShell commands, so, that's what I use
 
9:00 PM
Wait, your profile says you're a PowerShell admin. What does that mean? You develop PowerShell?
 
a sysadmin who uses powershell?
 
hey!
 
Yeah, but the words "Powershell Admin" sound very much like someone who is an admin of powershell.
 
No, I don't develop it, just use it constantly
 
user165474
9:07 PM
My objective for today: Hit the rep cap for the first time :P +75 to go, 3 hours left.
 
I got the mortarboard badge once (brag)
 
Also, meaning that I do more than just Exchange. I also do AD, DNS, file shares, etc.
 
Does PowerShell have an equivalent to grep?
 
Depends on what you're wanting to grep.
 
9:09 PM
@DestructibleLemon I got the mortarboard badge because I got serial-voted :L
 
I got it because I got a bounty
 
@AdmBorkBork I want to search my C drive for files containing the regex foo|bar
 
PowerShell works on objects, not plaintext, so a lot of Linux commands don't directly translate. I mean, you can, but that's not the best way to do it.
 
@DestructibleLemon But bounties don't contribute to the repcap
 
tell that to my mortar board badge
 
9:10 PM
@AdmBorkBork How would you do that?
 
@ГригорийПерельман So you'd probably do a Get-ChildItem -recurse on the root, with a Where-Object to do the regex match.
Sorry no backticks, I'm on mobile.
 
I still have no idea how to write the command tho :P
 
Yeah, sorry, I rely heavily (maybe too much) on tab-completion, so it's a struggle to write the actual syntax from memory.
 
As someone who uses a JetBrains IDE for everything, I feel you there.
 
Gci C:\ -recurse -include *.log|?{GC $_-match'foo|bar'}
Something like that
 
9:17 PM
Powershell uses .NET regex?
 
Yep
 
This really doesn't show the power, though, because you're working with objects and not text, so you can keep piping ... Say, pull out those files that are larger than a meg and move them to a new folder root
Or write them to a new registry key, or export them as a custom JSON object, etc.
 
@Mendeleev 10/10 looks great but button doesn't work
@ETHproductions oh, that's actually the event where you pushed to I think PPCG-Design, for some reason it displays as a star event and puts some random description
 
9:33 PM
That's... somewhat hilarious
That particular repo has popped up in my feed because of ararslan (Alex A.) forking it, but I never even opened the repo
 
So I found a challenge that should not be protected (You know the rules and so do I) can it be unprotected?
@Martin I have been planning on making a golf version of mathematics. Image jelly code page but each thingy in the translation step just is a golf version of some of the more used and longer mathmatica builtins, if you had to choose just 257 of tham what ones would they be?
That is open-ended to any of the mathmatica users
 
Mathematica already has several hundred of those I think (of course it doesn't help that they're all multi-byte)
 
9:50 PM
@DownChristopher if you post a link, I'll do it
 
205
Q: We're no strangers to code golf, you know the rules, and so do I

PolynomialWrite the shortest program that prints the entire lyrics of "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley. Rules: Must output the lyrics exactly as they appear in the above pastebin. Here's the raw dump: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=wwvdjvEj Cannot rely on any external resources - all lyrics must ...

 
@DownChristopher done
 
@DownChristopher this has been suggested many times in the past. I personally don't think it's a very interesting idea. If someone made a golfing language based on Mathematica, I think they should primarily focus on Mathematica's type system, pattern matching features and functional nature, not on its crazy library of built-ins.
 
10:35 PM
@DownChristopher The whitespace answer on that, I think, takes the cake, though i know for a fact it's noncombative xD
 
10:47 PM
@MartinEnder mthmtca anyone?
 
I have a great idea for a challange
Then i forgot it :P
 
You had a great idea, then? :P
 
11:06 PM
True
 
Interestingly, it still displays the regular avatar wherever a larger version is needed
 
Wait what
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

SparklePonyCode a Bitwise Cyclic Tag Interpreter! On the Esolangs page for Bitwise Cyclic Tag, they show how the data-string changes. Your task is to make a Bitwise Cyclic Tag interpreter that does this. Shortest code wins!

 
Hmm, it's already known:
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Q: Some users' chat icons are sometimes displaying as default gravatar depending on size

Byte CommanderIn Ask Ubuntu chat, there are some users (e.g. cl-netbox and Thomas Ward) of which the user icon is recently displaying wrongly most of the time: cl-netbox' icon on all sites id a blue square with the white letters cl. It shows up this way in the user list on the right and even in the popup ...

 
11:28 PM
dang, I missed the 13 months of graduation celebration
does anyone know what happened here?
 
Not sure why it edited the one link 5 times
 
@Sherlock9 :D
 
11:45 PM
Question: can someone who has github account make two commits?
 
@Downgoat yes
more even
this is the nature of github
 
@DestructibleLemon is your GH username Destructable Watermelon?
 
@DestructibleLemon oh, can you give me a link to your profile then
 
11:50 PM
pls make commits :3
 
I need to test GitGoat
 
thanks
 
I guess I will commit COTLR
wait, will do later
 

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