The Nineteenth Byte

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12:51 AM

Inspired by this blog post. Write a program that outputs 99 distinct programs (in the same language) that output the string I love you. How the programs are separated from one another in the output will be defined by you. However, Each byte of output can only belong to 1 of the 99 programs. C...

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Jono 2906

3:11 AM

@Adám APLnap

sporeball

3:52 AM

currently working on creating an online interpreter for my esolang

would it be bad practice to go back to all the questions i've already answered with it and add a link?

i would assume so, since the 8 most recently edited answers on the site would then become mine

ngn

@Adám da ganja man

@sporeball so? that shouldn't be a concern. i too have done such burst editing in the past.

@sporeball i think it's also a good idea to add your codegolf answers as tests for the language and update them whenever you introduce a breaking change

sporeball

4:19 AM

good idea

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10:17 AM

Q: A queen's walk across a spiral

In a far-off kingdom, a chess queen takes a daily walk across a spiral path, numbered from 1 to n, not caring to follow the spiral itself, but simply making queen's moves as she would on a chessboard. The queen is beloved by her subjects, and they make a note of every square she visits on her pat...

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FrownyFrog

12:50 PM

Respectable 24 bytes

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H.PWiz

3:14 PM

When did the timeline button get added? (I know the page has existed for some time)

dzaima

@H.PWiz interesting. somewhere between 6 to 2 hours ago

Adám

@H.PWiz What button?

dzaima

@Adám button below upvote/downvote of any post

Adám

Ah thanks. I see now.

AdmBorkBork

3:40 PM

Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time (Official Music Video)

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dzaima

shog9 tweet thread, don't think it was posted here yet

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Neil

5:26 PM

useless use of cat? security.stackexchange.com/a/224212

DJMcMayhem

5:46 PM

In your opinion, which of these two snippets is uglier? (Python)

# 1
try:
    if a.b.c.get() != 0:
        # Do something...
except:
    pass

# 2
if a is not None and a.b is not None and a.b.c.get() != 0:
    # Do something...

(This is assuming that if a.b is not None, than a.b.c cannot be None)

So basically is it better to ask for forgiveness or permission?

Adám

@Neil Clearly, they should have used the cat command when leaving the computer.

AdmBorkBork

6:46 PM

@DJMcMayhem I think #2 is uglier

El'endia Starman

7:26 PM

@DJMcMayhem I prefer the latter form since it's more explicit.

Poke

When debating the use of exceptions I find it useful to ask myself if the use case is actually exceptional. Is this something you expect to happen? Worth remembering that exceptions are a code flow interrupt which is sometimes what you want.

On the other hand it's "more pythonic" to ask for forgiveness iirc.

Depending on the context I don't know that either of those is ugly

although something like a.b.c.get() seems to violate the law of demeter

or approaches it

DJMcMayhem

7:42 PM

@Poke Hmm, interesting, I've never heard of that before

I think I'd agree with it in general, but I don't know if there's a way to avoid it here

Poke

7:53 PM

that's always the problem :]

there is always the consideration that you might be over-engineering something too

AdmBorkBork

CMC: NMP, reading from a file and outputting to STDOUT (or equivalent). code-golf

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Q: Please help with this C++ question

write a program that loads 10 values from a file and computes the average. you should only open the file once. C++

c++

AdmBorkBork

@AdmBorkBork PowerShell, 23 bytes Try it online!

Jono 2906

8:49 PM

Any last feedback on this?

AdmBorkBork

9:07 PM

@Jono2906 A list of what brackets are matched would be a good inclusion.

Just to explicitly say "{" matches with "}" and the like.

Oh nevermind, that's your second paragraph, haha

Why does [AbC] --> [AbC]]?

Same with the number one just below it

Jono 2906

@AdmBorkBork must be a bug with my generator

AdmBorkBork

A test case like A[bc --> A[bc] would be good, too. I don't see one where the only open bracket is in the middle.

Otherwise, gets a thumbs-up from me.

Oh. You have empty string as input, will it ever consist of only brackets?

If so, a test case with that might be good, too.

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10:23 PM

Q: Keta Bracket Autocompletion

Keta (Keyboard tacit — clever naming, I know!) is a golfing language I’ve been working on recently. One of it’s features is it’s most probably unique bracket autocompletion system, which will hopefully allow for shorter programs. There are two types of brackets in Keta: grouping brackets ([] and...

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11:58 PM

Q: Spotify Shuffle (music playlist shuffle algorithm)

Background Perfect shuffle algorithms like Fisher-Yates shuffle don't produce great results when it comes to music playlist shuffling, because it often produces clusters of songs from the same album. In an attempt to solve this problem, Spotify introduced an interesting shuffle algorithm in 2014...