The Nineteenth Byte

12:38 AM

@Sisyphus Agreed, the current # is way too big.

2:53 AM

@Razetime Awesome! That search function is such a great thing to have for docs.

Is there an option for a light theme?

@DLosc light theme?!?!? That's a bad idea

Why, pray tell?

3:08 AM

@Lyxal The Nineteenth Byte is light theme.

@DLosc But I think we should have a gray theme.

in talk.tryitonline.net, Jul 6 '18 at 1:55, by Dennis

Light-colored themes are an evil plot to blind the human race.

[likes light themes for most things]

[is not blind]

@petStorm Hm, why not a pastel blue? That would be nice.

@DLosc To please people who prefer the light theme and those who prefer the dark theme, I propose a gray theme.

But truthfully, what would be best would be a button so each user could choose which kind of theme they want.

What does the Japt interpreter start with? Gray mode.

3:45 AM

@Razetime Ah, never mind, I see the option in _config.yml now.

3:58 AM

@DLosc yes, light theme can be configured in there

to force a custom color theme you need a lot more CSS

skillpatrol

in The APL Orchard, 3 mins ago, by skillpatrol

are you guys allowed to play golf during the lock-down :P

Rich people definitely are

skillpatrol

coolio

The new formatting sucks!

yes!

@skillpatrol trumpgolfcount.com

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skillpatrol

4:03 AM

lol

4:41 AM

Is this site referenced as "Code Golf Stack Exchange" or "CGSE" anywhere?

@HighlyRadioactive Yes. On the main sidebar says "Code Golf Stack Exchange is..." so the name is official.

5:04 AM

@Bubbler but I barely see this site known as "CGSE".

@HighlyRadioactive Yeah, I don't think the acronym is official.

A: Should we remove unnecessary restrictions on the factorial challenge?

5:17 AM

@Bubbler And the only mention of it was recently...

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No, we shouldn't, but... I agree with the idea that we should not change a challenge unless the original OP wants to, especially when changing these rules might make older answers non-competitive. However, I am fully in support of the idea of a "canonical" challenge. Here on CGSE many of us, myse...

> Here on CGSE many of us

We do use the name CGCC as an acronym for Code Golf & Coding Challenges

@DLosc If you're done with the changes, feel free to merge into gh-pages.

5:45 AM

@DLosc A bit of help here..

why isn't this printing anything in Pip?

b:a^n
Fi,#b{pb@i}

Jo King

7:57 AM

frick, the section headers are huge now

and they increased the line spacing too

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

9:32 AM

Yup, Heading 2 should be the new standard

Is there a way to add in a custom style that will restore the old sizes?

New Sandboxed Posts

9:47 AM

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On the Subject of Wire Sequence This challenge is from a game, Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes. It's hard to say how this mechanism works. The engineering is pretty impressive, but there must have been an easier way to manage nine wires. — from the manual Input Exactly 9 "wires", each which is l...

10:20 AM

@Razetime +1

@Razetime userscript (there's already one that resets line spacing)

Brain SE

ah interesting

@Razetime what

userscript

11:36 AM

I do not believe it

I didn't see any answers to that question smh

It's not on se

External site

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Q: My smartphone's phonebook

Introduction Recently I was trying out one of the more obscure use-cases of a modern smartphone: Calling someone by number. While typing it in, I noticed that some of my phonebook entries were displayed, even though the number I was trying to call was different! After some experiments, I figured...

code-golf

@Razetime it's true though! They actually did it!

11:51 AM

@Razetime You didn't see?

That link is a shortened url that goes to

guess what

rykral

no wonder lmao

Hahahahahahahahahaha

Get rickrolld lol

John Dvorak

I'm tempted to flag that

12:13 PM

@Bubbler Man, I feel old if CGCC is taking over from PPCG :/

12:31 PM

@Lyxal What is an "inpreter"? Well, this word means the same thing as rickroll.

12:41 PM

@Lyxal There's the thing called preview

There are many things that doesn't make sense at all on CGCC: The upvote flood of CGoL Tetris, the CW on Showcase of Languages, everything.

@HighlyRadioactive I mean, Tetris GoL is an insanely impressive achievement that took a team of users years to do

1:15 PM

@cairdcoinheringaahing By "years", you mean 1 and 1/2 year, right?

@HighlyRadioactive My browser had the shorturl preview enabled by default. So I didn't get rickrolled...

@petStorm No, I think the first attempt at answering it was posted to the Sandbox in 2015, and the answer to Tetris GoL was Sep 2017. Either way, it's still one of the most impressive answers on the site

@cairdcoinheringaahing How? Please explain.

All they did was reusing the silly metapixel which is already overly advertised everywhere

they put in no effort at all!

my pronoun is monicareinstate

@HighlyRadioactive You want me to explain how creating a playable version of Tetris in Game of Life is impressive?

@HighlyRadioactive Then surely you could beat their score, no?

consider making a better tetris in GOL without using metapixels

@cairdcoinheringaahing Sure when I have time

I'm doing the basic components

including my own display

1:24 PM

@cairdcoinheringaahing A Tetris in Game of Life is impressive, because the results got a lot of upvotes.

@petStorm Other way around: the results got a lot of upvotes, because Tetris in GoL is impressive

I'm more impressed by the upvotes than the answer

I promise I can do it in 6 months or less

@cairdcoinheringaahing I'm trying to explain that Tetris in GoL is impressive, not the other way around.

Tetris in GoL is impressive, because the language is one of Conway's creations.

1:40 PM

@NewMainPosts very inclined to answer this

But I really don't wanna think today

A: Golf you a quine for great good!

@petStorm Then this one is impressive as well

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Conway's Game of Life, 7 bytes ! ** ** Uses Plaintext format.

is it?

@HighlyRadioactive It's not a valid answer to the question.

it doesnt seem right

does the exclam get printed?

Okay. But either way, the Tetris deserves 1039 downvotes for its trivialness, not upvotes.

hell no

1:44 PM

@HighlyRadioactive That's not how downvotes work

@Razetime Obviously, no. Point is, MD XF seems to assume the next generation is the output, which is wrong.

Downvote for low-effort, not because something is trivial. Otherwise every answer to Hello, World! would be downvoted

lmao true

@cairdcoinheringaahing it's obviously low-effort

@HighlyRadioactive It very clearly isn't. You can argue about whether it's trivial or not, but it is, without a doubt, not low-effort

1:46 PM

@cairdcoinheringaahing How??

Answers that take 1 and 1/2 years, aren't low-effort

I uses a Unicode keyboard that contains the full unicode, and I took a long time to type [insert low-effort here]. High-effort?

If you dislike an answer, downvote and move on. Don't advocate for others to mass-downvote, and don't be disparaging about anyone's answer, low or high effort.

SE works on a Be Nice policy, try to stick by that

@HighlyRadioactive If you bought this keyboard, you definitely read the user manual (which teaches you how to type efficiently in this keyboard), didn't you?

@petStorm didn't.

1:50 PM

@HighlyRadioactive Bad news for you. You should probably read that.

Don't encourage brigading because you don't like an answer

@HighlyRadioactive Although, how much did you pay to buy that keyboard in the first place?

@petStorm Lyxal gave it to me!

$-1!

@HighlyRadioactive Wow! So I think Lyxal threw the user manual away!

Which is probably why you didn't read the manual in the first place!

@HighlyRadioactive I have 16 fingers! They are numbered 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F!

So it's really easy for me to type in a Unicode keyboard!

As of August 28th 2020, the narrator goes insane! Stop talking to it immediately!

Can we stop spamming please?

my pronoun is monicareinstate

2:00 PM

Ah nice! You posted this exactly at 14:00(UTC)! Nice timing!

petStorm is utc+8 I think

Yep

petStorm is Chinese

@HighlyRadioactive By the way, I became mad a few messages ago! Anything I say is going to be unverifiable!

s/d /d at you /

@petStorm hahahahaha

2:09 PM

*hahahhahahahahhah* (x1m)

*10**6

Q: Remove item from array and count number of pairs in the remaining array

@HighlyRadioactive The fact your message got removed, is more likely what triggered the spam or a fake version.

Lyxal, I don't have your name on my e-mail, but it's really funny seeing how they do this, and how they do this all day long. And they know what they are doing.

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Given an array of n items: (specified in first line of input) iterate over the array and remove an element at each iteration, then, for the remaining array, calculate the number of pairs formed. Sample input: 5 1 1 2 1 2 Sample Output: 2 2 3 2 3 Explanation : Consider the case when k = 1 for...

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Q: Max profit from jobs

There are N jobs available. For i-th job you will earn Pi dollars after Di days. You can take and complete at most one of these jobs in a day and you cannot retake a job that you have already done. Find the maximum total amount that you can earn no later than K days from today. Input Format First...

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Q: happy fractions

we call a fraction x/y a happy fraction if there is one more fraction z/m = x/y (1<=z<=m<=9) and z atleast appears once in decimal representation of x and m atleast appears once in decimal representation of y. given an integer number a. Please calculate the number of happy fractions x/y such that...

code-golf

3:13 PM

Lotta new arrivals today!

We should bring them over here

@NewMainPosts @Razetime When commenting on a new user's first question, it's usually best to give them as much information, and be as helpful, as possible. For example, you can reword something like this to make the user's introduction to the site much less confusing

Explain what the Sandbox is for example, and tell them how that can search for similar questions. Let them know that all challenges have to have a winning criteria, that sort of thing is much better than a single sentence telling them to visit another page and do what they're told