The Nineteenth Byte

MD XF

2:00 AM

darn Dennis has said it :I

what even is this

user165474

@MDXF um.....

Phoenix

> Br***fuck

But why?

MD XF

@HyperNeutrino what about it

Destructible Lemon

@HyperNeutrino yeah that happens

MD XF

Also tinyurl.com/cubically-programming-language, also aaronryank.github.io/cubically.html

idk who created the all caps though...

user165474

2:03 AM

Me

MD XF

Why?

It's already on my site

user165474

lol too lazy to check

Destructible Lemon

guys you have to try my koth please

please

MD XF

@DestructibleLemon pls link

LegionMammal978

1,535.

MD XF

2:04 AM

@LegionMammal978 pls get a profile picture

user165474

@LegionMammal978 What is this?

Destructible Lemon

4

Q: Dungeon of botdom

– of crisis and martyrdom (that's the subtitle because subtitles are cool) In this king-of-the-hill challenge in python (yup; you need go no farther to know you may not submit in java), you need to create a bot that plays a game very similar to welcome to the dungeon Rules You submit a class,...

LegionMammal978

That's the number of Unicode letters that fit into 1 grid-width in the Ubuntu Mono font.

I haven't controlled for height yet.

@MDXF No

MD XF

Why

Why is it blank

LegionMammal978

Why not

user165474

2:05 AM

@LegionMammal978 That is very random. but why ;_;

Phoenix

@LegionMammal978 Doesn't Ubuntu Mono have garbage unicode support?

LegionMammal978

Why shouldn't it be blank

Destructible Lemon

because it is

MD XF

@LegionMammal978 um

Destructible Lemon

because he has a cloaking device

MD XF

2:05 AM

note the blank in that sentence

Phoenix

Also, it shouldn't matter which monospace font you're using.

LegionMammal978

@Phoenix ???

user165474

@DestructibleLemon No, that's SIGSEGV

LegionMammal978

Unicode works mostly fine on it AFAIK

MD XF

@DestructibleLemon if you write a quine in Cubically I will solve that :P

Destructible Lemon

2:06 AM

@HyperNeutrino nuh uh

LegionMammal978

The main problem is a lot of characters taking up more than a single monospace position

Destructible Lemon

@MDXF is this the kind of thing like if the sun crashes into the earth the grass is green?

user165474

@DestructibleLemon Doesn't SIGSEGV have a fully-transparent profile pic though?

LegionMammal978

^

MD XF

@DestructibleLemon yep

you don't wanna write a quine in Cubically, I don't wanna solve your challenge ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

user165474

2:07 AM

contradiction implies everything

user165474

@MDXF it's not about want/don't want, it's about CAN/CANNOT MENTALLY COMPREHEND lol

Phoenix

Still looks the same at a glance

MD XF

@HyperNeutrino eh I have no idea how to solve his challenge haha

Destructible Lemon

Jul 24 '16 at 16:51, by LegionMammal978

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ Yeah, my invisibility field failed, will be fixed tomorrow

user165474

@MDXF too long 0/10 too lazy to read lol

MD XF

2:08 AM

I think on Sunday I'm going to start a +1000 extended bounty for a Cubically quine

Destructible Lemon

@MDXF what I meant is that it is if but not if and only if

MD XF

@HyperNeutrino same :P

@DestructibleLemon uhh just more confused now lol

Destructible Lemon

go on now deadline

the grass is green if the sun does not crash into the earth either

user165474

a -> b =/=> a <-> b

Phoenix

Can someone explain to me what's with all the slashes in U&L's design?

MD XF

2:09 AM

screw it I'm starting the Cubically quine bounty now

Destructible Lemon

nooo

MD XF

not like I need rep when I won't be on PPCG for three months lol

user165474

@MDXF eh what if it expires

Destructible Lemon

no one will be able to do it!

MD XF

Extended bounty

user165474

2:10 AM

oh

LegionMammal978

^ @MDXF

Destructible Lemon

@LegionMammal978 good times

MD XF

@LegionMammal978 that's a better pic...

user165474

@LegionMammal978 0/10 use replies

Destructible Lemon

@HyperNeutrino 0/10 use 1/10

user165474

2:10 AM

@DestructibleLemon no

LegionMammal978

Was my profile pic for a certain period of time in July 2016

@HyperNeutrino I tried

Destructible Lemon

@HyperNeutrino 0/10 use 0/10 in these messages

user165474

No that becomes too noisy after a while

Destructible Lemon

@HyperNeutrino 0/10 it adds four characters

user165474

That's 4 bytes you could golf from your messages; up to 6 counting spaces on either side.

user165474

2:16 AM

And plz stop using "0/10" that much

Destructible Lemon

fine

user165474

I mean if you want to keep using it that's fine but don't say I didn't advise against it if someone flags you.

user165474

There was a decently long trash once because too many "0/10"s were posted

MD XF

Anyone wanna back this?

user165474

Back?

MD XF

2:20 AM

like add rep

since it's probably impossible

user165474

No thanks, I'm waiting for my language to become functional enough and then make a quine challenge in my language :P

MD XF

No I'm asking if you want to add some rep to the bounty

e.g. +1000 from MD XF and +100 from HyperNeutrino

user165474

That's what I meant. :P

MD XF

Oh :P

user165474

I'm going to bounty my own language so I don't want to make too many extended bounties

MD XF

2:23 AM

Oh make a quine challenge in your language. I only saw "make a quine in my language" lol

I also have a C bounty

'cause I have the shortest C quine

user165474

lol

user165474

I already have an extended +100 bounty

MD XF

Yeah I've seen that one

hah I was so happy when I beat my own C quine record

ATaco

I outgolfed Dennis again!

MD XF

@ATaco :o pls link

and merge PR

user165474

2:25 AM

In what language?

MD XF

:P

ATaco

0

A: Output the full name of titin

Lua, 1820 + 6831 = 8651 Bytes. k={}for S in("ylglutam lglutam ylgluta lglutamyl ylglutamy lgluta ylglut glutam lglutamy glutamyl nyl ylalanyl glutamy lutamyl leucyl ylglu lutam lglut gluta lthreonyl ylthreony ylgl lalanyl ylalany ylvalyl utamyl lutamy ylthreon threonyl lthreony yllysyl leucy euc...

Destructible Lemon

@ATaco nice

user165474

your solution better be correct or dennis may be mad at me for -15'ing him

New Main Posts

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Q: Splix.io - King of the land

You are an enterprising dot who wants to increase the land under his control. This is quite simple - travel outside your current land and loop back into your land and everything in that loop is now owned by you. But there is a catch. If some other dot somehow finds your loop and crosses it, you d...

king-of-the-hill java

New Bounties With No Deadlines

2:29 AM

0

A: List of bounties with no deadline

1000 (up to 1100) rep for a Cubically quine Cubically is, in some opinions (including mine), one of the most complex languages. It's built around a huge memory restriction. See the repository for more details. As there is quite a bit of debate on whether this is even possible, and as I'll be le...

MD XF

someone better +1 if I answer this in Triangular

Destructible Lemon

@NewMainPosts damn other peoples koths trying to steal my thunder

ATaco

Dennis's flaw was to use premade algorithms.

MD XF

is 43 prime?

user165474

@MDXF yes

MD XF

2:30 AM

dammit

ATaco

Yeah, 43's one of my favourite primes.

The three numbers I test for a prime tester are, 13, 24 (For a falsey), and 43.

MD XF

I haven't written a prime tester lol

Destructible Lemon

@ATaco why not 1 and 2 and 3

also 9 and 4

user165474

@NewMainPosts 0/10 only java

Destructible Lemon

those are important cases

ATaco

2:32 AM

Because I don't follow things that are "Traditional" or "Logical"

Destructible Lemon

@HyperNeutrino also that

ATaco

I only care if 13, 24 and 43 are correct.

Destructible Lemon

this sounds like a new challenge

MD XF

Hasn't that been sandboxed for like a year? @NewMainPosts

Destructible Lemon

@ATaco you know that works for "is this number odd"? those are bad test cases

at least use 25

ATaco

2:35 AM

If I accidentally write an "Odd or Even" test when making a prime tester, I deserve it.

Destructible Lemon

do you need to go back to number school md xf :P

MD XF

No?

I mean I was right

I just misunderstood your statement

ATaco

Also, this is the first time I've had an answer accepted, ever.

MD XF

@ATaco pls link

ATaco

Even though I've won a few challenges.

Still, codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/126816/58375

MD XF

2:37 AM

That was quick :P

@HyperNeutrino why'd you accept that so fast?

Destructible Lemon

because it was shorter

Leaky Nun

@Fatalize 10/10 declarative much

ATaco

Although now that I've made a more efficient algorithm, I'm sure Dennis will outgolf it.

user165474

@MDXF If Dennis outgolfs ATaco then I will reaccept as soon as I find out; Dennis's answer was accepted for a while until ATaco appeared

user165474

Also this is now actually functional though it doesn't do much right now

MD XF

2:42 AM

@HyperNeutrino Oh ok makes sense

@HyperNeutrino "now" actually functional latest commit: 13 hours ago

user165474

???

user165474

oh wrong password

MD XF

Forgot to push?

lol

ATaco

Dennis should be reaccepted, as embarrasingly I conly coppied the first 32kb of the string.

Conor O'Brien

@MDXF I don't think it was especially necessary to bump those old sandbox posts. Deleting would have been sufficient.

user165474

2:43 AM

there we go

MD XF

@ConorO'Brien They were deleted

user165474

@ATaco oh lol...

user165474

@ConorO'Brien Beta discussed this on meta already

Conor O'Brien

link ?

MD XF

@HyperNeutrino link?

(not a picture)

ATaco

2:44 AM

How embarrassing.

Conor O'Brien

no self-respecting person would use that stale joke >_>

MD XF

@ConorO'Brien Talking to me?

LegionMammal978

966 Unicode letters fit in a single monospace position in the Ubuntu Mono font

MD XF

Five pictures of Link have been sent in the past few days

Conor O'Brien

...

I'm glad I was absent for that >_<

user165474

2:45 AM

8

Q: Cluttering the Sandbox with Edits

A few times I have noticed that, to reduce clutter, people have taken it upon themselves to reduce the body of sandbox posts in bulk. While, I don't disagree with the practice of decluttering, by editing 10+ posts all in one go, you create even more clutter. Instead of finding the newest posts ...

discussion sandbox etiquette

user165474

What joke?

user165474

This?

Destructible Lemon

the real question is why can't we disable deleted answers

user165474

Well I'm done for today, cy'all tomorrow! o/

Destructible Lemon

I mean they're deleted there should be a way I can avoid looking at them

Conor O'Brien

2:47 AM

you can use a small userscript/user style .deleted { display: none; } or something like that

ATaco

It really should be an option though.

MD XF

@ConorO'Brien Yes you told me that a while ago, I told everyone in here a few hours ago

Conor O'Brien

good job on spreading the news

MD XF

np

tfw you put a minus in your code where you meant to put a decrement and it works with the minus but not the decrement o_O

MD XF

3:06 AM

Ay the Triangular calculator is only 66 64 bytes tio

ATaco

CMC, write a sed that appends itself to the target document.

MD XF

@ATaco quine-variant?

ATaco

quine-variant code-golf string regex

MD XF

cool

nearly 1000 views...

Helka Homba

Contact anyone? chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/53490/contact

ATaco

3:22 AM

Who here names everything (figuratively) they write after themselves?

MD XF

@ATaco like Linux?

ATaco

I was thinking like TacoScripts

Helka Homba

or rather Spyfall chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/59652/spyfall

New Main Posts

3:38 AM

0

Q: Approximate the plastic number

The challenge The plastic number is a number related to the golden ratio, with many interesting mathematical properties. As such, there are many approaches that can be used to calculate the number. In order to precisely specify the number for the purposes of this challenge, we'll use the follow...

code-golf math number

Phoenix

Aww yiss I was the first to say the term "tacoscript"

@ATaco Actually I think I named them that

ATaco

4:03 AM

Don't worry, this isn't new in regards to me naming things after myself.

Phoenix

None of your langs are

RProgN, Threead

ATaco

TacO

Phoenix

Ah

MD XF

Well @ATaco it's not really your name, just your username

if it was WilliaM or WillScript that'd be different

but it's just the name you like to use so why not use it in your languages?

ATaco

Taco is as much my name as Bill is, in a strange way.

MD XF

4:17 AM

Um

ATaco

I'd think as many people know me by the name "Taco" as people do "Bill"

MD XF

Oh that's what you mean

heh since I'm so much of a nobody IRL I bet more people know me by MD than Aaron

Poke

4:44 AM

Well I've had a pretty fun time with this so far... Can someone give me a quick peer review? codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/126532/51785

MD XF

@Poke Was that you who was asking about how to write a good explanation the other day?

Poke

negative

why? is it awful? haha

MD XF

Oh okay. Because if you were, I was gonna say wow you sure learned quick :P

Poke

:D

MD XF

That's insane that you used a HashMap in code that finds the name of a variable o_O

Poke

4:47 AM

well yeah there are 100 ways to make that "better"

like actually parsing the file instead of bastardizing the javap output

;)

MD XF

Heh. Very creative and intuitive though; if I didn't have enough extended bounties to lose all my rep I'd probably give you 50 :P

Poke

it's the thought that counts

MD XF

Not really lol but still

Poke

meh, this got be the last couple points for moderation permissions and being able to view deleted posts

so i'm happy with that, haha

MD XF

Cool. You'll soon learn that seeing deleted posts is not all it's cracked up to be; more of a burden than a privilege IMO....

Poke

4:51 AM

i'm sure you're right

but maybe i'll get a couple laughs and it will all be worth it

MD XF

Take the Sandbox, for example. 100 pages of deleted posts. Just gets annoying. But yeah, seeing all the spam is kinda funny sometimes

speaking of funny spam

Poke

you or someone linked that a day or two ago. many lolz

MD XF

Not me but I bookmarked it because yes, many lols xD

You know what screw it I'm giving you a bounty

...tomorrow, question isn't old enough

Poke

that'll be dope

MD XF

just like your answer lol

Poke

4:56 AM

8-)

What's up with your profile noting that you will be inactive after the 18

MD XF

Because I'm getting a promotion and will no longer have time for PPCG :/

Poke

ha

good luck :P

MD XF

That's why I'm starting bounties lol

Thanks :D

Dennis

@MDXF This is pure gold. I literally lol'd.

137

A: What if I see someone, like Nick Craver, doing something bad?

Here's a couple of gems, from this brief and gloriously underappreciated moment, preserved for posterity: From chat: With credit to Sasha for the capture...

MD XF

@Dennis Haha I think someone linked that back when someone else linked the tumblr (no idea why I keep adding an e)

That made me laugh

ATaco

5:13 AM

My personal favourite.

Dennis

5:32 AM

That's the one that made me LOL, but the next one is just as good.

Destructible Lemon

6:16 AM

I'm kinda disappointed with the lack of rep from my koth ;_; I thought it would be a rep fountain

I think I have the second highest voted question that wouldn't be closed if posted today

so that's fun

Alex K Chen

8:01 AM

Why the command prompt is not taking any input (When run from Code::Blocks) in this C code ?

pastebin.com/saCnZ1PB

Leaky Nun

@AlexKChen example input?

Alex K Chen

@LeakyNun What do you mean ?

Leaky Nun

@AlexKChen what input is it supposed to take?

TheLethalCoder

@KritixiLithos I always assumed it would be a bit like multiplying the string when I started using Carrot so `a^*1` would keep the stack as `a` but now I've used it more I think I prefer that `a^*1` duplicates the stack once, so `aa`.
I'm also not the best with Carrot yet, I've been able to do a few small challenges with it but most of the time I end up giving up with it. I think it's because I end up getting confused over the different stack modes and what should do what.

Alex K Chen

(Also, the extra crap and baloney in polish is for debugging)

@LeakyNun Numbers and symbols. Just before a few editing, it was taking inputs fine. (Not that the output was okay)

Like, this input was taken goodly: 2222***

(Which, by the way, is producing 2 instead of 16)

Leaky Nun

8:05 AM

It takes input just fine on TIO.

Beta Decay

Hey guys, how do you install GCC on Windows 10

I've done it before but I've completely forgotten

Mayube

@BetaDecay WSL :P

Your options are basically WSL or Cygwin

afaik

Beta Decay

Really? Then I how did I use to compile C, C++, etc. programs?

Is there an alternative to GCC

Mayube

probably with Cygwin

Beta Decay

I see, I must've used MinGW

Mayube

8:07 AM

The most "native" way of compiling C++ on windows is Visual Studio, after that it's WSL, then Cygwin and friends

Leaky Nun

@Mayube did you see my comment?

Alex K Chen

I use code::blocks.

Free and good.

Beta Decay

Sigh the school wifi blocks SourceForge

Mayube

a lot of places block SourceForge

uBlock Origin even blocks it by default

Beta Decay

The blocking reason says computers.filehosting... I wonder what's wrong with file hosting...

Leaky Nun

8:13 AM

@AlexKChen you need to put --i; in the beginning of the else block

tio.run/##hZJRb4IwEMff@ykumkmBdsMle9gqfgS/…

@AlexKChen

TheLethalCoder

If someone pings me and I'm not in chat, do I get a notification to my main inbox?

Mayube

@TheLethalCoder yes

Leaky Nun

@TheLethalCoder 15 minutes after the ping

TheLethalCoder

Okay thanks :)

Qwerp-Derp

Our school blocks Github Gist :P

It blocked c9users.io a while back as well

Mayube

8:17 AM

man, WheatWizard's MacGyver challenge is really cool

Kritixi Lithos

@TheLethalCoder Thanks for your opinion, I will keep it in mind.

Alex K Chen

@LeakyNun If that is for debugging, thanks, but I have already debugged it. If it's for reading the input, then it doesn't works, though.

Kritixi Lithos

and btw, you can use FSA to convert the stack-mode

Leaky Nun

@AlexKChen I included a link.

Alex K Chen

Is it for reading the input ?

Leaky Nun

8:19 AM

Just execute it.

Alex K Chen

Yeah, works. Thanks.

Kritixi Lithos

so $^F will take the input and store it in the stack-string, after which F will convert it to a float as the stack-mode changes to float-mode.

Alex K Chen

It still doesn't reads the input in Code::Blocks, though, for mysterious reasons. Works fine in tio though. [cc: @LeakyNun]

Leaky Nun

@AlexKChen what do you mean by Code::Blocks?

Alex K Chen

codeblocks.org

Mayube

8:21 AM

@LeakyNun IDE

Leaky Nun

@AlexKChen btw this does not require a newline

Alex K Chen

I don't know what it does. I simply open my sandbox.c file, write code, and press Build+Run.

Also in the first if the two i can be replaced by t[i++] to reduce another line, I think.

TheLethalCoder

@KritixiLithos I do enjoy using Carrot; it's a lot different from the languages I usually use. Keep up the good work!

Kritixi Lithos

Thanks :D

New Sandboxed Posts

9:25 AM

0

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Working For The Weekend code-golf date Option 1 Taking no input, output true if today is Saturday or Sunday or false otherwise. Option 2 Taking no input, output how many days, from today, until the weekend. Sunday: 0 Monday: 5 Tuesday: 4 Wednesday: 3 Thursday: 2 Friday: 1 Satu...

Beta Decay

bbc.in/2syWCCU

Huh... :/

feersum

Come on, North Koreans don't even have computers

Beta Decay

Nah, It's Kim Jong Un at his laptop hacking while munching on cheese

2

Leaky Nun

@Downgoat what is this bug

@Phoenix Cheddar, 15 bytes: n->n.map(1&(+))

Luis Mendo

9:45 AM

@xnor I see you (like others have) set a bounty to bring attention to a challenge, without specifying any condition for winning the bounty. I want to do that as well. I was wondering, is it standard practice to not specify that? Or is it better to specify a bounty winiing criterion? If you don't, how should you decide who gets the bounty?

Lembik

hi all.

any comments on codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12923/9206 ?

otherwise I may post it only to find that everyone hates it :)

Shaggy

'Lo, all :)

Lembik

hello!

Shaggy

4

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Alphabet Aerobics code-golf kolmogorov-complexity Challenge Given a single letter (a-z) as input, output the 2 lines of Blackalicious' Alphabet Aerobics that correspond to that letter (ignoring the intro & outro). Rules You may take input by any reasonable, convenient means as long as it'...

Looking to post that in the next hour or 2; any final feedback? Corrections to lyrics or punctuation? Does it need the compression tag or is the KC tag enough?

Shaggy

10:15 AM

@Lembik Reading the scoring section, should it not be tagged fastest-code rather than code-golf?

Lembik

@Shaggy yes!

thanks

Shaggy

@Lembik Apart from that, I'm not sure I fully understand it! :D But, don't read too much into that - I'm closing in on 80 hours worked this week and more to come, my brain is mush!

Lembik

@Shaggy no problem :)

at least the OEIS code should be clear :)

OEIS A005434

Shaggy

@Lembik Maybe include a link to the entry in the body.

Lembik

@Shaggy done

Shaggy

10:21 AM

Sorry I can't be of more use than that!

New Sandboxed Posts

0

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

This question is based on a question I asked in Spanish language. Yes, I asked for an algorithm in Spanish Language. :) The Spain license plates game In Spain, current license plates have this pattern: 1234 XYZ where XYZ are three consonants taken from the full set of Spanish conson...

Leaky Nun

@isaacg your page crashed again after I tried to run a program

New Main Posts

1

Q: How many ways to write numbers as sums of squares?

Task Given two integers d and n, find the number of ways to express n as a sum of d squares. That is, n == r_1 ^2 + r_2 ^2 + ... + r_d ^2, such that r_m is an integer for all m. Note that swapping the values (e.g. r_1 and r_2) is considered the different from the original solution. For instance...

code-golf number number-theory combinatorics

Adám

CMC: given a sort order and a text, sort the text's letters. E.g. Order='ETAOINSHRDLU', Text='HELLOTHERE', Result='EEETOHHRLL'

Jim

Are there resources about runnable code snippets (Leaderboards, …)?

Leaky Nun

10:36 AM

@Adám Python, 32 bytes: lambda a,b:sorted(b,key=a.index)

(if you accept list of characters)

Shaggy

49

Q: Leaderboard Snippet

I've been using a stack snippet for a while to generate leaderboards for my simpler or more popular code golf challenges. I want to share the code for this snippet here so others can use it more easily as well. Feel free to put feature requests and bug reports in answers, or let me know in chat....

discussion stack-snippets scoring

Or use the userscript.

Leaky Nun

@isaacg well my program needed much stacks, or whatnot, but TIO wouldn't crash like that

Erik the Outgolfer

This is just madness.

Destructible Lemon

10:58 AM

selfplug again

5

Q: Dungeon of botdom

– of crisis and martyrdom (that's the subtitle because subtitles are cool) In this king-of-the-hill challenge in python (yup; you need go no farther to know you may not submit in java), you need to create a bot that plays a game very similar to welcome to the dungeon Rules You submit a class,...

king-of-the-hill card-games

please more people answer

Okx

@DestructibleLemon award bounty?

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