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12:04 AM
@Phoenix I'm more into writing languages these days
 
> piczles
 
@ASCII-only HAHAHA
 
@ASCII-only quetion: should we have explicit override keyword?
e.g.: override func loadGoatMemes() { ... }
 
I fixed it
 
@Downgoat No, C# has one and I don't like it.
 
12:14 AM
ok thanks adding
 
Override should be an annotation.
@Downgoat Why do you do this
 
@Phoenix not if it has semantic value
@Phoenix why am I a goat
 
@Downgoat What semantic value does it have?
 
@Shaggy Yes, there is a very quick way in Java to do something, if that something is switching to another language
@Phoenix dynamic symbol lookup
 
?
 
12:17 AM
@Phoenix superset of dynamic dispatch
 
The compiler should be able to determine if something is an override without need for a keyword.
 
no, but we can tell if potential bork or not bork
 
 
Please no
@Downgoat Why can't the compiler imply override?
 
@Phoenix because then we can determine whether to qualitfy the functin for a vtable pos. & dd
 
12:27 AM
Can you say that again, in complete English. I'm not sure what that last part is
I don't see what's hard. If superclass has function with same name, it's an override.
You can add an override identifier to the function at compile time it you need to.
 
@NewMainPosts :| This is really underspecified
 
@ASCII-only I did a lot of fixes on it
Check the revision history; the OP was really determined to make it crap
"piczles" was the best
 
12:42 AM
> The current winner is Gryphon's Python 2 answer at -224 bytes
:|
 
@ASCII-only Where is that?
 
@MDXF PPCG design userscript, this is caused by bad answer header formatting
 
@MDXF there's a link
 
@ASCII-only Ohh
@ASCII-only I fixed it
 
@ASCII-only that means they removed 224 bytes from Python's source code and the challenge was solved
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12:45 AM
> I think there is a problem with you second code ASCII-only it dos'nt follow my mose it just flouts above it
 
@ASCII-only Yeah
ruffle -> roughly, piczles -> pixels, cleerly -> clearly, visable -> visible, etc etc
It was very hard to restrain myself from linking the OP to the dictionary
 
@MDXF :| Header is back to crap again
 
What StackExchange is offline
Not anymore
@ASCII-only Back to slightly less crap again
I swear I will start a rollback war with this guy
 
Also yay I have three Stack Snippets in my answer lol
 
Those are all pretty cool
You know, it also takes a lot of self-restraint to not DV because of the OP's obnoxiousness
It's clear ish (after my edits) but ... man they were determined to make it not so
 
12:54 AM
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Q: Find all the Anagrams, and the Subanagrams too!

GryphonThis question is heavily based off this question, but should pose a number of additional difficulties. Your Task You must write a program or function that, when receiving a string, prints out all possible anagrams of it. For the purpose of this question, an anagram is a string that contains ...

 
Um
 
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@xnor Oh alright, that makes sense.
 
Does anyone see odd similarities between Gryphon's profile and Foxy's?
...and names, and posts...
 
user165474
Hm...
 
Coincidence :P
 
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12:58 AM
Hopefully :P
 
@MDXF And communities
 
Yeah. They're the same person.
Should we have a moderator check if there's any cross-voting?
 
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@MDXF How do you know?
 
@HyperNeutrino a) having used socks for bad purposes before and b) using socks for not bad purposes now, I can tell
And it's common sense... same communities, same style of writing (except one uses purposefully terrible grammar/spelling), they answer each others' questions, etc.
 
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Okay. I've never really used a hidden sock before (it's extremely obvious that I have a sock) so I wouldn't be able to tell :P
 
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1:02 AM
Though that does seem suspicious, I wouldn't be too quick to assume anything.
 
Should we flag something for mod attention?
 
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From my experience, I wouldn't yet because though it is suspicious, we shouldn't assume anything, and besides, I don't think mods can check for cross-voting, but if it becomes more obvious or even just not less obvious, you could ping a mod here.
 
True, but Dennis has specifically asked us to use flags for stuff that requires moderator attention...
 
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Okay, if that is the case, then maybe a flag would be a good idea. I'm not sure what to flag though. Hm.
 
Flag for moderator attention :P
There's an option where you can write a custom message
 
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1:06 AM
No I mean where to put the flag :P
 
Oh, maybe on Foxy's most recent post?
 
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Maybe.
 
user165474
I'd say we flag on the same post so what do you think
 
user165474
Wait a sec
 
I'm gonna look more at their interactions first
 
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1:07 AM
Gryphon made a comment on Foxy's post saying something about not invalidating answers.
 
And?
 
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Unless that's intended to make us think it's not a sock, that seems to me like it isn't a sock.
 
They both answered the same question, the only answer Foxy has
Gryphon edited Foxy's post
 
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...hm
 
How many interactions can there be??
 
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1:09 AM
(which one)
 
this, looks like Gryphon/Foxy meant to be on Foxy editing it but was accidentally on Gryphon
 
Could still be homage
 
Although the edit is pretty convincing
 
immediately
I'm not even gonna look into their Worldbuilding interactions
Oh also Foxy's trash post has 1 vote, my guess: Gryphon's
 
1:11 AM
coworker? :P
 
Husband/wife? :P
But look at the profiles
They're the same, but Foxy uses intentionally bad english and spelling
It's kind of obvious when it's intentional, ya know?
I'm pretty confident they're the same user. I have to go now, so if anyone wants to flag one of their posts (specifically the one they cross-edited) that'd be great. :-)
 
@MDXF General advice: whenever something looks suspicious, just flag it. Chances are, the moderator team has access to more relevant tools and is thus better equipped to look into it.
 
@Dennis Well, I just flagged one. Thanks
 
@Dennis brb flagging all posts containing 'sheep'
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Thank goodness for flag bans.
 
1:32 AM
flag bans?
 
120
A: Allow recovery from flag hellban

Shog9Update: Kevin Montrose makes it happen The hell-ban is no more! Long live the verbose, obnoxiously evident ban! Kevin has implemented (more or less) the system described below. Flaggers with a recent (past 7 days) flagging history consisting of at least 10 handled flags where >= 10% of flags we...

 
:| are you saying flags of blasphemous posts about sheep would not be accepted?
 
@Downgoat how many sheep related posts even are there?
 
@Phoenix If any, too many
 
1:42 AM
41 results. I feel like posting something conaining "sheep" just so it's 42
But would that make sheep the answer to life, the universe, and everything?
 
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Yes. And thus Downgoat would rage-quit PPCG from seeing such blasphemy.
 
What's the golfiest way to get null in JS apart from using the literal
 
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Do you want to find a way shorter than null or just the shortest way not using null?
 
@ASCII-only does 0 work? works in C
 
1:44 AM
@HyperNeutrino Not using null
 
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ok
 
user165474
Darn, Javascript has undefined and null as separate things.
 
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Out of curiosity, why do you need it?
 
@HyperNeutrino No reason lol, I'm just wondering
 
user165474
>.< well then again this is code-golf, having a real purpose is not essential to anything we do :P
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1:48 AM
({}).__proto__.__proto__ works (also document.oncut usually)
 
user165474
... why would you do that
 
Save too many bytes by using ... null
 
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...
 
Welp I'm about to lose 200 rep
 
@HyperNeutrino undefined means something is not defined, null is just empty/null value
 
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1:49 AM
ah ok
 
user165474
Darn, var f=a=>a.__proto__;f(f(f([]))) doesn't actually save any bytes
 
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Also window.onfocus is often null
 
@HyperNeutrino Also window.onblur and a lot of other things
 
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yes
 
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a lot of window functions are null unless they aren't
 
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1:53 AM
wait that doesn't mean anything
 
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?
 
@HyperNeutrino Quetion: what is try to do?
 
 
@HyperNeutrino (f=a=>a.__proto__)(f({}))
 
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1:57 AM
Oh hm.
 
@HyperNeutrino ({})[a='__proto__'][a]
 
user165474
Oh nice I did not know that syntax worked
 
user165474
>.< why is js so weirdddd
 
@HyperNeutrino Only Python is weird, in a lot of C-derived languages assignments evaluate to their value
 
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true
 
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1:58 AM
well actually originally being a java programmer i'm used to that
 
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I try to do that too much in python and fail ;_;
 
@MDXF Yes, pls commit less
 
@ASCII-only I didn't mean to but ... well, see the chat, bugfixes and much-needed improvements and such make up most of those
 
@MDXF Well yeah but please at least do 10 bugfixes at a time if there are that many bugs pls
 
2:03 AM
@ASCII-only Well, people were actively writing code in it and required the bugfixes immediately
If @LeakyNun deletes his fork I'll squash a lot of them
 
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What if he gets a spoon
 
@MDXF ??
 
unless force-pulling across forks is a thing
@LeakyNun I have too many Triangular commits
but if I squash them it will invalidate your fork
 
btw I just created another
 
PR?
 
2:07 AM
yes
 
@MDXF do you mean git merge -X theirs upstream/master?
 
@LeakyNun Why'd you put backticks around four-spaces-indented code?
Wait nvm you space-formatted it and removed backticks
 
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guys
 
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i have an english presentation tomorrow
 
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and i will be rickrolling everyone
 
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2:16 AM
from their OWN computers }:-D
 
@HyperNeutrino pls do goat version of rickroll :3 :3 :3
 
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no
 
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(plz don't downgoat me)
 
brb uber-downgoating you
 
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noooooo not like thissss D:
 
user165474
2:24 AM
downgoat is being r00d
 
quetion: why are you a neutrino but have benzene as avatar
 
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sigh I have been asked this question too many times
 
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Because I feel like it.
 
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And I like hexagons.
 
hexagons are pretty cool...
@HyperNeutrino like twice?
 
2:29 AM
@HyperNeutrino Then why not change your name
 
4 times actually?
 
@HyperNeutrino s/s/y/
> r00d
Oh no it's a leetspeaker
 
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1337 :3
 
@HyperNeutrino 5/1/31/
 
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@ASCII-only Because I use this username a lot (as in in one place) and I like it :3
 
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2:34 AM
31I73
 
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I 4M 4N 3LIT3 C0D3R
 
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@ASCII-only No hexagony is agonizing
 
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@HelkaHomba Wait idea, if I take the interpreter for a language and remove some bytes to solve the program, can I claim to have a negative score? :D
 
@HyperNeutrino No
 
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:(
 
2:40 AM
That's like taking most of an interpreter away and just keeping the prime checking function
 
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aww well it was a decent try
 
@HyperNeutrino nope
 
@ASCII-only the rule would be you can't write any of your own code, just remove bytes in the interpreter (no rearranging, no adding)
 
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@DestructibleLemon y sew mean
 
why on earth are sew and sow pronounced the same
 
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2:43 AM
We got bored of having 5 vowels so we decided to make a bunch of them sound the same.
 
@LeakyNun same reason leak and leek are
 
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Leeky Nun?
 
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@HelkaHomba same reason? No. In GVS /ow/ became /aw/ (that's why we pronounce "down" as /dawn/)
and /ew/ becomes /ju/ (that's why we pronounce "new" as /nju/)
 
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queue -> kju?
 
2:45 AM
@HyperNeutrino yes. silent "e" at the end. "qu" pronounced as "k".
 
user165474
Ah ok
 
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welp anyway got to go work on stuff now, o/
 
3:05 AM
Did Martin mark this as a dupe before he was a mod?
 
@MDXF it would seem so.
 
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@MDXF lol the deleted answer though
 
Haha it's true though...
 
@LeakyNun GVS?
 
@ETHproductions great vowel shift
 
3:19 AM
Ah
I don't know much about the history of languages. Never thought this would be the place I learn :P
So... "bite" was pronounced "beet" 600 years ago? Interesting
 
@ETHproductions yes, in a simplistic sense.
 
Yeah, I'm sure it wasn't that simple
 
and "beet" was pronounced /be:t/ 600 years ago
/e/ is a sound that doesn't exist in modern UK/US English
you may find it in Australia/NZ
and of course, French and German.
 
Huh, lemme see if I can find a sound file for it on the Wikipedia page then
 
treat it as halfway between /i/ as in (beet) and /ε/ (as in bet)
 
3:27 AM
Was "door"" ever pronounced like "doom", I wonder.
 
@LeakyNun That's about what I got
 
Probably
 
@Phoenix why would it be?
 
Because of its spelling
 
why would the "r" be pronounced like "m"?
 
3:27 AM
I think the point is the "oo" would be long
 
@LeakyNun I was talking about the oo
 
@Phoenix no, you got it the other way round
"doom" was pronounced like "door"
 
Similar to "dome"?
 
the "r" prevented the sound from changing
@ETHproductions similar, yes. same, no. This is in the same vein of people pronouncing French é as /ei/ in English...
people just can't do /e/.
 
Nothing is ever exactly the same when comparing old and new pronunciations :P
 
3:29 AM
@ETHproductions certainly.
@Phoenix just look at its spelling. "oo" means a long "o".
(that is, until GVS changed "oo" to a long /u/)
 
GVS?
 
great vowel shift.
 
The Great Vowel Shift was a major series of changes in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in southern England, primarily between 1350 and the 1600s and 1700s. Through the Great Vowel Shift, all Middle English long vowels changed their pronunciation. English spelling was becoming standardized in the 15th and 16th centuries, and the Great Vowel Shift is responsible for many of the peculiarities of English spelling. == History of analysis == The Great Vowel Shift was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860–1943), a Danish linguist and Anglicist, who coined the term. ==...
 
Right
TBH I'm just disappointed we don't have thorn anymore. So much time and effort lost writing out th when we could have just had a simple loop.
 
θorn?
write it as theta lol
 
3:32 AM
wat no
 
IIRC, Icelandic preserved the thorn.
@Phoenix I can't type thorn.
 
þorn
 
@LeakyNun Hence why it's still in the first 256 code points of Unicode
 
That looks... uh...
 
@ETHproductions I see.
 
3:33 AM
Rather than being relegated to some historic section
 
so downgoat would be pronounced as /downgɔ:t/
 
Like modern "got"?
 
yes, but longer
 
like downgoot?
 
@Downgoat eh... not really
"oa" represents /ɔ:/, "oo" represents /o:/.
 
3:47 AM
:| just to clarify: pronounced: "down" - "go" - "t". not "down" - "got", or "down" - "goo" - "t"
:| apparently swift sort is faster than C sort with unsafe float point ops
 
So today I was on a Windows 7 computer that had some Yahoo search toolbar program, and a somewhat fishy message popped up
It looked something along the lines of this:
 
@Downgoat downgroot
 
(Excuse the poor photoshop skills, I photoshop with MS Paint)
I just about clicked the OK button, but then I noticed
So I clicked the word "here" and the pop-up respectfully disappeared
 
@Downgoat the "down" would be like the "done" in "condone".
and "goat" is lengthened "got".
 
donegot
 
3:52 AM
What I want to know is why the heck developers are allowed to hide the Cancel button in the middle of the text itself
 
4:09 AM
@ETHproductions O_o
@ETHproductions A bit like HTML, I guess?
 
I guess
It shouldn't be allowed though IMO
Of course, I've no idea what they'd do to stop that...
 
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Mobile chat is weird :I
 
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It's not too bad though, in my opinion.
 
It's awful
 
user165474
I expected worse.
 
4:15 AM
Well it might be due to the fact that I was using it on a custom phone the one time I tried it
 
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Possibly. By the way, did you hear back about the potential sock thing?
 
@HyperNeutrino Not yet, I'll check my flag replies
 
user165474
Alright. I'll do the same.
 
user165474
wait how do i check
 
4:20 AM
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/users/flag-summary/<your user ID here>
 
user165474
oh ok thanks
 
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yup pending
 
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hmmm i only have 1 declined flag
 
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and that's because i was being dumb and flagged one comment too​ many and you can't comment unflag
 
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ooo i finally got the curious badge!
 
4:22 AM
I have two
one was an accident
Oh good job, mine still hasn't loaded :I
 
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rip
 
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took me long enough
 
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i had 5 times the required amount of received questions
 
I probably have 10
(total good received questions, not times)
 
user165474
ah ok
 
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4:27 AM
Hi @Riker
 
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How do I make websites think my phone is a computer?
 
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Oh wait found out
 
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*it
 
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I can't edit things because now my phone's on the desktop chat site and this is even worse
 
"found out" works too :P
 
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4:31 AM
sure :P
 
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i was mostly trying to use discord without needing to download it
 
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but the formatting makes it unusable because desktop is not compatible
 
user165474
so i gave up and I'll just check tomorrow night
 
What timezone?
 
user165474
the one that's around half past midnight
 
4:33 AM
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Q: Generate a random number

asmgxThis is to build a random() function that generates a random number that is not going to be repeated I mean do not use the ready made Rand fucntion in your function and If 2 people called the same function at the same time they will get 2 different results. numbers should be between 0 and 1000...

 
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edt i think
 
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yeah edt
 
UTC - what
For example, pacific northwest is UTC-7
 
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4
 
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lol OP tried finding it but didn't find the dupe
 
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4:37 AM
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Q: Pick a random number between 0 and n using a constant source of randomness

LembikTask Given a positive integer n less than 2^30 specified as input in any way you choose, your code should output a random integer between 0 and n, inclusive. The number you generate should be chosen uniformly at random. That is each value from 0 to n must occur with equal probability (see Rule...

 
I could've dupe-hammered it (I wonder what the close reason would have shown), but it's very unclear so I just closed as unclear
Actually no, it doesn't even have the tag
 
@Phoenix I. Am. Gaot.
brb making gif
 
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@ETHproductions could you theoretically hammer any challenge by doing a tag edit to include code golf and then nuking?
 
@HyperNeutrino One guy with a gold tag on stackoverflow nuked an incorrectly-tagged Java question
it was hilarious
 
@HyperNeutrino Nope, the system catches that
 
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4:48 AM
aww
 
user165474
and lol that's great
 
@ETHproductions Have you tried it? :P
 
No, but I trust Dennis's word :P
 
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lol i just wrote a jelly program on a phone it is painful
 
user165474
feature request: make a jelly app
 
user165474
4:52 AM
took me about 5 minutes
 
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and it was 3 bytes
 
user165474
anyway should go to sleep now. bye!
 
Bye o/
Oh also for those of you who gawk at my rep slope
Look at her, she's doing pretty darn good
 
5:32 AM
I kinda nuked my fedora install completely just now
Trying to rescue files from live OS
And then reinstall fedora
Why is fedora installer not wanting to work ;-;
All it can render is a cursor
Yay the DE loaded!
 
5:46 AM
Is it possible to keep my old /home partition when reinstalling fedora?
 
CMC: set intersection. (set built-in not allowed; element in output must be unique; elements in input may not be unique)
 

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