The Nineteenth Byte

12:16 AM

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Input: A string (or the closest thing to that in your language) Output: The same string but converted to sentence case Rules: For this challenge, sentence case can be considered "The first letter of each sentence is capitalized. The rest are lowercase." (i.e. proper nouns do not have to be ...

Λ̸̸

4:27 AM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Generate a "Poem" code-golf string Given a strictly positive integer, N, produce an output satisfying the following: Produce an array of length N. Every string (i.e. "word") in the array is of length N. Every letter in the word is unique. Every first letter of the words are unique between each...

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Lyxal

5:26 AM

Today I learnt that we have a subreddit

r/ppcg

But why was it ever created when we have meta?

I mean, I understand the reason for having a discord server

But not a subreddit.

Λ̸̸

10:46 AM

@ngn My psychological age is 18.

I re-took the test and got 40. :)

ngn

@Λ̸̸ there's a test?

Λ̸̸

@ngn The test I took was in Mandarin.

To get a high score on the test, try to select active responses instead of passive ones.

ngn

@Λ̸̸ it says i'm 35～40. i can't read mandarin, i was just picking the longest answers :)

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Neil

11:23 AM

ugh, I was trying to create a VM in VirtualBox, but it crashed out my entire PC, and now it won't load my snapshots :-(

Λ̸̸

chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=ugh&user=17955&room=240

@Neil Which OS is that? I'd like to try it.

Nevermind. Let's just call it "Crash OS".

Neil

Fedora 31

Lyxal

11:38 AM

@Λ̸̸ wow that's a lotta ughs.

Does anyone here remember the whole Bobby Woodtooth debacle that occurred last year?

Because I literally just remembered it myself, and I couldn't help but laugh a little bit at the whole situation.

Λ̸̸

11:55 AM

@Lyxal No, I don't remember it. Care to tell it?

Lyxal

@Λ̸̸ just a profile claiming to be a sockpuppet account of a moderator. That's all.

Λ̸̸

...

Λ̸̸

12:20 PM

The empty program in 05AB1E (legacy) outputs contents of info.txt.

Neil

1:41 PM

ok, so it was my fault for allowing it to install updates and reboot, I was manually able to downgrade virtualbox to the previous version and it worked again (manual as in it's not supported with the kernel update I just installed, so I have to edit its source files)

wizzwizz4

@Lyxal There was a brief period of time when it seemed like a good idea.

Reddit used to be a different sort of thing.

Λ̸̸

2:12 PM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Generate a "Poem" code-golf string Given a strictly positive integer, N, produce an output satisfying the following: Produce an array of length N. Every string (i.e. "word") in the array is of length N. Every letter in the word is unique. Every first letter of the words are unique between each...

Any feedback for this?

New Meta Posts

3:37 PM

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Q: How can hash be allowed in a test challenge?

Immagine to have a group of elements \$G\$, and a challenge that requires to output truthy if the input is in \$G\$. I suppose that in traditional programming hashing (Bloom filter?) is a good solution to this task. But hashes have collisions, and since we are not so interested in avoiding them,...

discussion

Neil

6:03 PM

in fact, that snapshot was originally booted on 29 May 2017, so I'll shut it down in a fortnight so that I can upgrade virtualbox

Neil

7:16 PM

CMC: Let L and E be the log and exp functions in base sqrt(2), then write a function that computes E(E(L(L(a))+L(L(b)))) for at least a>1, b>1, but optionally for other values of a and b.

dzaima

7:27 PM

@Neil dzaima/APL, 11 bytes: +⍢((√2)⍟⍣2); unfortunately TIOs version doesn't quite allow that

i guess the TIO version could be golfed a byte

New Main Posts

7:48 PM

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Q: Emulate an online marketplace in only HTML with either JQuery or Javascript, but no PHP

I've been developing sandbox websites and am trying to emulate the design of an existing one for a clone script (but as static HTML for now). I thought I'd offer a challenge of trying to create a site only in HTML with jQuery and/or Javascript as needed. Found this site via stackexchange and thou...

code-golf

ngn

7:59 PM

@Neil @dzaima that expression can be simplified to a^{2 log_2 b} or in apl: a*2×2⍟b

Neil

9:00 PM

@ngn heh, I was wondering when someone would notice

Neil

10:50 PM

CMC: Given my current reputation, what are the minimum accepts of +5 and downvotes of -2 that I need to hit exactly 100,000 rep? Assume that my only other rep changes are +10 or multiples thereof.

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