The Nineteenth Byte

3:17 AM

@user Stackoverflow in stack overflow language

Redwolf Programs

Oh no

I just found a bug that's not going to be fun to fix

n % 0.1 should always be 0 for an integer, but because I'm using floating point it's sometimes 0.099999999999

Okay good I fixed it by not using modulo

Lyxal

4:08 AM

Oh i forgot how special java is

All the different capitalisations and class modifiers just to get HW working

SketchySketch

4:28 AM

Really don't understand why JS is designed to (-1)%5=-1, not 4.

Redwolf Programs

4:45 AM

@SketchySketch JS uses the same rules for modulo as Java and C (on most machines), so it doesn't seem to have invented the trend of bad modulo

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user

5:48 AM

@Lyxal Most Hava programs are not that trivial, so you don’t really notice it, especially with aul the other boilerplate it has

SketchySketch

5:59 AM

@RedwolfPrograms Yes I know that, but not friendly for some golfing challenges : )

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New Main Posts

10:35 AM

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Q: Cross language script

A simple challenge, write a script, which's source code will do work in two or more languages. It is necessary for the script to yield the same output and do the same work in the different languages. No empty programs Same method cannot be used repeatedly, like print xxxxxx where you change xx...

Neil

why were the JavaScript plumbers delayed?

because they had to await async

ba-dum-tss

Lyxal

10:59 AM

cue laugh track

6 hours later…

5:05 PM

Any time a challenge has something like "Surprisingly, no challenge like this exists" or "This is such a simple challenge its amazing it doesn't already exist" or similar, there's usually a reason for that ಠ_ಠ

@cairdcoinheringaahing :(

@Razetime Barring a few exceptions, which have generally been posted by 100k+ users, if you have to ask yourself "Why isn't this already a challenge?", it's probably because it's already been a challenge, but it's never specified clearly enough, or it's just a slight variation on another challenge, or it's just a bad question

well, new people are new people

when's the last time a new user's first challenge was any good?

Which is why we have the Sandbox. Not that it does any good if a new user decides to ignore it despite repeatedly having their challenges closed and people saying "You know, you should really check out the Sandbox"

@pxeger Fairly regularly

5:15 PM

I feel like I check /questions?tab=Newest about twice a day and less than 1/4 are worth upvoting

A lot of the time, new users post a poor quality challenge with potential and experienced users help them fix it up, because the only reason it was low quality is because they lacked the experience

@Razetime Thanks for the bounty! :)

@pxeger Speak of the devil :/

lol

@pxeger This one I think is the most recent posted by a "new user" (Sketch's first question was migrated over to meta)

I have issued a bounty for zsh answers! codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/a/20789

@pxeger Just an FYI, it's a little slow rn, but we have a feed to post new deadlineless bounties into the room :)

Q: I want to make a square depending on a number

5:22 PM

good to know

New Main Posts

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Q: Print all the days in week

Surprised, no challenge like this is made before it here. You have print out 7 days in the week, in this popularity contest. Your answers are better if it is creative. Sunday Monday Tuesday.... and so on. Rules Separator between the words can be anything, preferred at least separator is a title...

popularity-contest date

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i want to make a square. if you input a 0 you get nothing. input a 1 and get a 1x1 square. input a 3 and get a 3x3 square. what is the shortest way to do this?

code-golf

New Bounties With No Deadlines

A: List of bounties with no deadline

50-200 rep for interesting zsh answers I will award this if: the answer is interesting you have not been awarded this bounty before it will not cause me to go below 2000 reputation Possible bonuses if: a particularly good explanation is provided it is the first answer to the question it out-go...