The Nineteenth Byte

tfw you see that a question's been singlehandedly deleted by a non-mod so you check the profile and it's a user with 1 rep, and then you realize that it's OP lol

totallyhuman

o0 the vote ratio on the meta is weird

HyperNeutrino

I love how my answer is just like "It is not a dupe" and then below Mego's is just like "Yes it is" lol

Step Hen

@totallyhuman Honestly I think the fact that it was hammered twice and reopened manually twice says that it's not, at least by the majority opinion

totallyhuman

Agreed

It's why I'm against hammers

Step Hen

1:19 AM

@totallyhuman Nah, we need hammers, we just need to allow hammerers to choose not to hammer

totallyhuman

Disagreed :P

HyperNeutrino

thanks for the edit :P

@StepHen agreed

Step Hen

@totallyhuman Hammering is only for people who have experience. Usually, their unilateral decisions align with the community. It speeds up the process and allows askers to edit/fix a lot more quickly, as well as get crap closed sooner.

totallyhuman

The fact that 2 close votes and 5 reopen votes leaves a question closed is flawed

And also the hammerers would've definitely chosen to hammer it

Step Hen

@totallyhuman The fact that low-rep people can override more experience people is flawed by other reasoning :P

totallyhuman

1:22 AM

No

HyperNeutrino

No, not really. You're assuming that close and reopen votes are essentially exact opposites, but what you're not noting is that one of the close votes is from a user with much more experience on this site, and all 5 of the reopen votes are from users with less experience. Also, 5 reopen votes??? And it's closed??? Or was the hammer after the 5 reopen votes?

Christopher

@HyperNeutrino Yeah idk how it even works

Step Hen

@HyperNeutrino Hammer close, 5 reopen votes, hammer close, 5 reopen votes, now a couple close votes

HyperNeutrino

maybe it should be locked until meta decides something... idk

anyway brb in a bit o/

Christopher

Hyper handler is bork

HyperNeutrino

1:26 AM

i'll fix the controller when I get back o/

Christopher

k ty

totallyhuman

@StepHen they cannot override

They can only be of equal or lesser significance

Step Hen

@totallyhuman Hammer -> 5 reopen, that's an override (veto) in my book

totallyhuman

Then I can't argue

Step Hen

At least by this definition: use one's authority to reject or cancel (a decision, view, etc.).

totallyhuman

1:29 AM

5 > 1 /shrug

@StepHen and the low-rep users have authority over hammerers?!

Step Hen

@totallyhuman As a community, 5 lower-rep users have the authority to reject or cancel a hammer, I believe.

(unless I'm screwing something up)

totallyhuman

1:42 AM

But that's a majority...

Step Hen

Is there a plugin for JetBrains (PyCharm) that supports Github markdown tables (the ones with -s and |s)

Phoenix

@StepHen Isn't that a default part of Markdown?

totallyhuman

Nope

HyperNeutrino

@Christopher: There's actually nothing wrong with the controller. It's because both of my bots contain one critical "kill switch", which is that it will always split if it has an empty hand. thus, one bot is just killing the larger hand and the other bot is splitting the smaller hand, until the larger bot can't hammer the smaller bot, in which case the smaller bot will attack the larger bot's smaller hand, also not hammering it. Then the larger bot can hammer the smaller bot. Etc, never ends.

or something like that

Christopher

@HyperNeutrino Oh lol

That is odd

HyperNeutrino

1:49 AM

They occasionally finish... hm...

I recommend you run each game multiple times :P

Step Hen

@Phoenix I dunno, but my tables here (raw) show on Github and not on any of the markdown plugins

Phoenix

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

totallyhuman

tables are only in GFM

Step Hen

@totallyhuman That plugin didn't work either though

totallyhuman

you'd need html otherwise

Christopher

1:51 AM

@HyperNeutrino But one is random.

totallyhuman

@StepHen weird

HyperNeutrino

@Christopher it does sometimes finish apparently.

Phoenix

plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7701-gfm

Christopher

@HyperNeutrino huh

Phoenix

@StepHen ^^

Christopher

1:51 AM

10k is not enough. :P

Step Hen

@Phoenix That one didn't work when I tried it, is my syntax wrong?

HyperNeutrino

Controller results for each game run 10 times (where A vs B is not B vs A because starting order): {'RandomBot': 0, 'Aggressor': 11, 'CautionBot': 33}

Phoenix

¯\_(ツ)_/¯¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Step Hen

@Phoenix It's not that important, thanks for trying, lemme focus on fixing my interpreter instead of being able to check my markdown without committing

HyperNeutrino

Get Atom :P

Christopher

1:53 AM

That is interesting hyper

totallyhuman

|blah|blah|
|:---|:----:|
|foo|bar|

first row is titles

HyperNeutrino

totallyhuman

second row is alignment |:---| is left-align, |:---:| is center align

HyperNeutrino

no |:---:| is center align

hm one of us ninja'd the other with that edit/message thing...

Step Hen

@totallyhuman OK that works

OK I figured it out

HyperNeutrino

1:55 AM

Default is left-align anyway so you can do this for all left:

blah|blah
-|-
foo|bar

Step Hen

@HyperNeutrino Github lets you do that

The plugins don't

HyperNeutrino

hm. weird

Step Hen

For the plugins you have to use the correct number of -s

@totallyhuman thanks

totallyhuman

o0

HyperNeutrino

|blah|blah|
|----|----|
|foo |bar |

Step Hen

1:55 AM

^^ exactly

HyperNeutrino

Like this? @StepHen ^

Step Hen

but you can skip the last |s

HyperNeutrino

ah ok. also lol you answered my question before I asked it lol

totallyhuman

atom also has a markdown linter plugin lol

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I FRIGGIN LOVE IT! BIGGEST FAN OF THAT SERIES. I READ THE BOOKS, NOT THE MOVIE. THE MOVIE RUINED IT FOR ME. — Magic Octopus Urn 3 hours ago

do they often go into this mode?

Christopher

@HyperNeutrino umm it still is not working

HyperNeutrino

1:58 AM

erhm

can you zip your entire directory and send it to me?

or at least show me your directory tree for that directory

Step Hen

@DJMcMayhem you're CnR challenge is so great, because the cops do some cool stuff, and then the robbers are all like This is probably not the intended solution, but it works.

Christopher

Step Hen

@Christopher Gotta have that freehand red circle

HyperNeutrino

> circle

Can I see the first 6 lines of Handle.py?

Step Hen

@HyperNeutrino According to mother meta, yes, that is a circle. meta.stackexchange.com/a/138032/359104

HyperNeutrino

2:01 AM

@StepHen their seem to be some grammar error in you're message

Step Hen

@HyperNeutrino ofc you waited until the edit timer expired

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Slowly converging zigzag Given a single positive odd integer as input, return a converging zigzag as a list of strings, list of lists of characters, or newline-separated string, in this form: # # # # # # # # # # # You can replace # with any consistent non-whitespace cha...

HyperNeutrino

@StepHen lol that is great

@StepHen Of course! xD

Christopher

HyperNeutrino

@NewSandboxedPosts Geez that was fast

Christopher

2:02 AM

That vertical line is my mouse

HyperNeutrino

ok

Python version 3.6.0?

What's the output? Is it an error or something weird?

Christopher

Just nobody ever wins

EVER

Also if someone wins does it end to program?

HyperNeutrino

it should

try replacing your controller, don't know if there are any edits

Christopher

You know that is one hundred thousand turns right?

HyperNeutrino

did I say ten thousand?

Christopher

2:07 AM

Yeah

HyperNeutrino

@flawr But that's still not politically correct. Why do queens get confined to valleys but kings get to explore majestic mountains? Or vice versa? xD

Christopher

156?

HyperNeutrino

random 3 digit number lol

Christopher

lol

Step Hen

@Christopher Now that it's starred, you may as well mess with it :P

HyperNeutrino

2:09 AM

just for the starboard

Christopher

@StepHen haha

HyperNeutrino

@StepHen exactly :P

Christopher

wait noooo

You monster

HyperNeutrino

or, I could delete it so that it doesn't clutter the starboard because fun fact: we've had issues with the starboard and I would like to not contribute to that (second time today that I said "I'm stupid", it got starred, and I deleted it).

Christopher

Dennis has more rep than Martin now. Oh my god, where did these extra 996 fingers come from?! — caird coinheringaahing 3 hours ago

HyperNeutrino

2:10 AM

also does the controller work now

Christopher

@HyperNeutrino idk nobody wins still

HyperNeutrino

hm

Christopher

Yeah one bot is not hitting

I think it is yours

[[622, 622], [1, 1]]
[[1, 1], [622, 622]]

Two lines

HyperNeutrino

hm

it does give me results when I try it

cautionbot: 13, randombot: 0

Christopher

Imma go to bed for now

Step Hen

2:12 AM

@Christopher Better controller: lambda:randint(1,2)

Christopher

Trying to figure it out

bye o/

HyperNeutrino

bye o/

Destructible Lemon

does anyone else here read the eavesdropper webcomic?

ATaco

2:38 AM

CMC: Given 2 numbers, a and b, calculate the recursive Fibonacci number of $a^b$. For example, if b = 0, just output a. If b = 1, return fib(a). If b = 2, return fib(fib(a))

Business Cat

2:53 AM

Racket, 91 bytes: (define(f n)(if(< n 2)n(+(f(- n 1))(f(- n 2)))))(define(g a b)(if(= b 0)a(f(g a(- b 1)))))

g is the desired function

JS, 49 bytes: g=(a,b)=>b?(f=y=>y<2?y:f(y-1)+f(y-2))(g(a,b-1)):a

HyperNeutrino

so many brackets

Business Cat

It's a Lisp descendant :P

HyperNeutrino

makes sense :P

Business Cat

Now that I actually figured out how to run it on TIO I'm mildly interesting in using it again

DJMcMayhem

@StepHen I'd actually consider that it's weakpoint. It's super hard for the cops

MD XF

3:15 AM

I posted an answer in Triangular after not using it for a month, without using the reference :D

ATaco

RProgN2, 42 bytes. {]0>{]1-f\2-f+}²[1?}z={y=]0>{1-yXz}²[y?}X= Defines function X.

Business Cat

3:33 AM

Heh

@ATaco Jelly, 3 bytes: ÆḞ¡

ATaco

4:13 AM

I love WorldBuilding.SE

Leaky Nun

4:41 AM

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Q: Codebreakers and Codewriters

Let's say you have some text, and you want it to send it to your friend, but you don't want anyone else to read it. That probably means you want to encrypt it so that only you and your friend can read it. But, there is a problem: you and your friend forgot to agree on an encryption method, so i...

Do we really have no interesting answers?

Just simple ones, without using cryptographically secure functions

@BusinessCat you forgot a^b

ATaco

(I meant to write that as $fib^b(a)$)

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Q: Find an Illegal String

The challenge is to find a string of characters that cannot appear in any legal program in your programming language of choice. That includes comments, strings, or other "non-executable" parts. Challenge Your program may be specific to a particular version or implementation of your language's ...

code-challenge restricted-source

Destructible Lemon

I had an idea...

what about a koth, that includes source modification

and the goal is for a program to output the highest ratio of unique fibonacci numbers/ other numbers, or some other formula

actually that doesn't make much sense :/

I had an idea for another koth, based on a genetic algorithm thing I saw

except the bots in this koth will have memory

so, the idea is that bots have a field of view

and they can only tell if an enemy is in the field of view

or a bullet is in the field of view, I'm not sure

oh I'm being noisy again

ATaco

5:02 AM

@DestructibleLemon I stole the old LoveFiddle code, so now I can show off an old version of the 3D Engine online.

Destructible Lemon

and not the non-curving one?

ATaco

(I don't have that code on me)

Destructible Lemon

also it freaks out when I walk into walls

ATaco

Also I can't load textures, online, either.

Describe "Freaks out"

Destructible Lemon

a bunch of error notes

ATaco

5:05 AM

>error: main.lua:43: attempt to index global 'bit' (a nil value) by chance..?

Destructible Lemon

yes

ATaco

Replace that line with a = (a+4)%4

Destructible Lemon

anyway, cool

ATaco

I'll load the newer version when I'm at my home computer.

Leaky Nun

in Mathematics, 15 mins ago, by Leaky Nun

Can I solve $a^x \equiv 1 \pmod n$ given $a$ and $n$ quickly?

in Mathematics, 14 mins ago, by Leaky Nun

Quickly means $O(\log n)$

ATaco

5:10 AM

@DestructibleLemon Without curvy walls and some bug fixes

Wheat Wizard

@LeakyNun I think there was a PPCG question on this recently

Leaky Nun

@WheatWizard golf doesn't mean quickly

Cows quack

Wheat Wizard

@LeakyNun It was fastest-code

Leaky Nun

@WheatWizard link plz

Wheat Wizard

5:13 AM

I'm trying to find it right now

ATaco

@Cowsquack Cannot replicate.

Wheat Wizard

Hm I can't find it but I do remember it

abstract-algebra+fastest-code turns up nothing

ATaco

Best speed I can get is $O(n)$

Wheat Wizard

Yeah, I can't think of anything better than brute-force myself. But computer science is not my strong suit.

Ah !

I have it

Destructible Lemon

@ATaco I encountered bugs as well

Wheat Wizard

5:20 AM

$x = 0$, thats $O(1)$ which is even better than $O(\mathrm{log}n)$

@LeakyNun Do we get any assumptions about the Ring? i.e. Is it an integeral domain? a field?

I assume that $a$ and $n$ are at least coprime.

Ok well I need to probably go to sleep now. Tell me if you get a solution because this is the kind of thing that will bother me for a while.

New Main Posts

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Q: Round like a Zero

Goal Given an input number, round it off to the nearest number with one significant figure. Requirements Input A floating point number. Assume the input number results in an output within the data type's limits (ie. ignore overflow errors.) Output The nearest number that consists of one ...

code-golf math

ATaco

@WheatWizard $n^0 = n$, not $n^0 = 1$

Wheat Wizard

@ATaco No $n^1 = n$, $n^0 = 1$

ATaco

My problem is rooted in that I made the incorrect assumption that ^ was the power operator in javascript

Wheat Wizard

Oh god, does Javascript's power operator do that?

ATaco

5:34 AM

Nope, But that's the XOR operator.

** is power.

Wheat Wizard

Ah just like python

I like it that way, something about the carrot always makes me uneasy

I just don't trust it

ATaco

Also, $(2^x)\%6=1$ is unsolvable.

(If we can't use $x=0$)

Wheat Wizard

Yes thats why I am going with the assumption a and n are coprime

if they are not coprime it is unsolvable (other than the trivial $x=0$)

I think we can use the fact that we can form a cyclic group with $a$ as the generator

but I need to go to sleep now anyway

Leaky Nun

@ATaco they are coprime

New Main Posts

8:02 AM

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Q: ANNNOUNNNCCCEEERRR VOICCCEEE

Write a function that takes a string of letters and spaces (no need to handle non-letters) and performs the ANNOUNCER VOICE translation algorithm as follows: First, uppercase everything. For each word, Elongate each consonant cluster except the first by tripling each letter. Elongate the fina...

code-golf string

Mayube

8:22 AM

@HyperNeutrino It is a well-known fact that the following terms, despite their origins, are gender-neutral: Dude, Guys, Bro, Gurl, Dog, Dawg, Fam, Bruv ;)

Wtf, Python's round function intentionally returns 20 when rounding 25???

values are rounded to the closest multiple of 10 to the power minus n; if two multiples are equally close, rounding is done toward the even choice

@EriktheOutgolfer that'll be why Jelly's builtin doesn't work too

New Main Posts

9:46 AM

0

Q: contractible closed geodesic

Very often I encounter a statement but can't find the exact reference: on a closed surface with non-positive constant curvature (e.g. a flat torus or higher genus surface with constant negative curvature), there does not exist any contractible non-constant closed geodesic. First, is this statemen...

geometry

New Meta Posts

10:11 AM

0

Q: Has there been an increase in Spam/Off-topic questions?

Latest example: Hopefully it'll be gone soon. Over the past few days I've noticed an increase in spam/off-topic questions and answers. The community itself seems to handle these very quickly (probably for lower rep thresholds to perform certain actions). Which is a very good thing, so that these...

discussion closed-questions

New Main Posts

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Q: How to join to line segments using an arc of an ellipse

I have two non-parallel line segments and I want to join with an arc of an ellipse such that the orientation of the line segments coincide with the orientation of the tangents of the ellipse at the points joined by the ellipse. How can I find the equation of the ellipse. If there are more than o...

geometry

Mr. Xcoder

@NewMetaPosts Yes, there is an increase

ASCII-only

10:26 AM

Yeah the two other consecutive oneboxes

Mr. Xcoder

CMC: n -> [0,1,2,..., n, n - 1, n - 2, ..., -n] (n is positive)

3 -> [0, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 0, -1, -2 , -3]

Leaky Nun

@Mr.Xcoder 6 bytes in Pyth

Mr. Xcoder

Nice

Leaky Nun

6 bytes in Jelly

Mayube

lots of bytes in braingolf

ASCII-only

10:35 AM

and JS

Mr. Xcoder

Jelly ties.... Pyth?!

@LeakyNun Are you 100 % sure it's 6 not 7 bytes in Pyth?

Leaky Nun

@Mr.Xcoder yes

Mayube

@Mr.Xcoder Braingolf, 35 bytes Try it online!

Mr. Xcoder

@LeakyNun Here we go: +UQ}Q_

Leaky Nun

@Mr.Xcoder bingo

ASCII-only

10:38 AM

@Mr.Xcoder Python 2, 34 bytes: lambda n:range(n)+range(n,-n-1,-1)

Mr. Xcoder

@ASCII-only I think It can be golfed a bit

Mayube

tfw python can beat braingolf T.T

Mr. Xcoder

@LeakyNun Did you have an alternative solution?

Leaky Nun

@Mr.Xcoder no

Mr. Xcoder

> TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'range' and 'range'

Jan Dvorak

10:40 AM

That... makes sense. How would you add ranges together?

Mr. Xcoder

Ah, Python 2

Leaky Nun

@Mr.Xcoder Python, 42 bytes: lambda n:[n-abs(n-i)for i in range(3*n+1)]

ASCII-only

@JanDvorak with a mountain adder

Jan Dvorak

notes to use that pun in Contact

Mr. Xcoder

@me Evolved Cthulhu: V»«+¨V…V—V

LiefdeWen

10:47 AM

In Neim why doesn't 𝐈 include 0 even though wiki says it does?

Leaky Nun

@LiefdeWen wiki says (0 .. n] which doesn't include 0

it should really be termed half-inclusive range

maybe he just means it includes n

LiefdeWen

@LeakyNun Wiki phrases 𝐑 the same but it includes 0

Mayube

@Mr.Xcoder Braingolf, 26 bytes Try it online!

Shorter than python now :D

Leaky Nun

@LiefdeWen wiki says [0 .. n) for 𝐑 which does include 0

[] means include and () means exclude

Mr. Xcoder

V»                     - Assign V to input
   «                   - Print:
     +                 - The sum of:
       ¨V               - Unary range with V
           …            - Inclusive Range with:
             V           - The input
               —V        - And the Negative input

LiefdeWen

10:50 AM

@LeakyNun Ahh thank you

Mr. Xcoder

Nice profile pic @WheatWizard

ASCII-only

Just realized totallyhuman is 50% watch

Mr. Xcoder

CMC: Print this exact text: ಠ_ಠ_ಠ_ಠ_ಠ_ಠ_ಠ_ಠ_ಠ_ಠ, without taking input

No one?

@LeakyNun Jim pointed out that .MP_ does not work for lists that do not contain primes, because obviously all are False and it returns all of them.

So the solution is still fP_TQ

Mayube

@Mr.Xcoder Python 3, 23 bytes print(("ಠ_"*10)[:-1])

Mr. Xcoder

@Mayube I approve of that solution

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