The Nineteenth Byte

12:27 AM

are we talking about classic sci-fi book series with wack endings
because fuck i'm not sure i've bothered to read anything after the dune books that don't exist
when is someone going to just break into brian herbert's house and publish photocopies of the actual dune 7 notes

lyxal

Heh, who needs books when you can just read TNB transcripts?

Unrelated String

like i am still mad and i read that all like three years ago

between the straight up plot holes and the whole tying the grand finale of this 7000 year plot back into the halfassed prequels thing

i much prefer the butlerian jihad being a galactic scale moral panic that started because people were just freaked the hell out by what computers can do than a literal war against killer robots that started because one of them dropped a baby off a balcony for the lulz

lyxal

12:47 AM

> one of them dropped a baby off a balcony for the lulz

...

user

2:17 AM

Wtf

I’ve heard the entire Fime series id messed up tho,mot jyst the end

Sandbox Posts

2:46 AM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Suits Me In college, Summer Klerance was what her teachers referred to as GBL*. Each student in her probability class had been given an individual problem to work on and turn as part of their final grade. Summer, as usual, procrastinated much too long, and when she finally looked at her problem, ...

hyper-neutrino

3:09 AM

Monica's answer to the Community VP input thread

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Redwolf Programs

3:37 AM

I'm really hoping this is the start of a rebuilding of trust between SE and its community. Even just taking the time to ask directly for feedback and input on what to change says a lot about the new VP in my opinion.

I don't know what sort of contractual requirements SE has due to the settlement with Monica, but if they're able to make an apology I feel like were the closest to that so far

lyxal

4:07 AM

CMQ: How many people have used XSLT here?

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Will Alice win in this Stick Bomber game? code-golf decision-problem game Background Stick Bomber is a two-player game I just made up. Initially, some sticks are placed in one or more groups, and the sticks in each group are laid out in a straight line. So a configuration with three groups of 3, ...

PyGamer0

4:20 AM

CMC: Output gibberish. (Random letters with random length)

lyxal

what range should the characters be in? Printable ascii? All of unicode?

uppercase only? lowercase only?

ATaco

Perfectly random length, (All lengths possibile) or is an upper maximum alright?

Funky, 53 bytes while(m=math.random)(9)<9write(string.char(m(26)+64))

Assumes all lengths possible and Uppercase only.

lyxal

@PyGamer0 Vyxal, 8 bytes, {₀℅|kA℅₴

All lengths possible and uppercase only

or with a maximum length of 100: ₁ʀ℅(kA℅₴

or ¤₴ʀ℅(kA℅₴ for a variable length

¤₴ isn't needed if outputting the input is fine for length 0

Bubbler

4:46 AM

Feedback?

Razetime

4:56 AM

@Bubbler i think the jordan matrix is ready to post

idk why people haven't upvoted it

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5:41 AM

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What if function application was right-associative? code-golf string parsing Background In Haskell and many other functional languages, function application f(x) is simply written as f x. Also, this form of function application is left-associative, which means f x y z is ((f x) y) z, or ((f(x))(y...

ngn

@hyper-neutrino could you grant meta.stackexchange.com/users/1037273/meyt4r write access to chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/90748/the-k-tree please?

hyper-neutrino

@ngn do they have a chat profile?

if not I am able to create one

ngn

@hyper-neutrino chat.stackexchange.com/users/518723/user1037273

hyper-neutrino

done

ngn

thanks!

hyper-neutrino

5:49 AM

@RedwolfPrograms yeah, I personally have a lot of faith in the direction we may be seeing with Philippe - I haven't really worked much / at all with him but overall I have a lot of confidence in our CMs (even if they often come bearing bad news or status-declined tags :P).

i'm not just as confident in SE itself and don't really know how the hierarchy is, but I am hoping that this new position will give the community a larger and more direct line of communication with SE through a dedicated employee, which previously I'm not sure CMs were always able to do

we'll, again, have to just wait, see, and hope for the best, but I am just hoping this will be an improvement to the corporation's treatment and handling of us as the community and that the VP's enthusiasm towards supporting and prioritization of the community will be echoed in the chain of command above him

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PyGamer0

CMQ: Thoughts on Python 3.10.

^ Including pattern matching

lyxal

6:15 AM

May 19 at 23:57, by lyxal

But then again, imagine being in a country where covid is actually relevant

Oh how that aged terribly

hyper-neutrino

well played (F)

every time CBC posts and doesn't disable comments i am reminded of why i do not look at youtube comments

people really think rushing reopening is how we can fix the economy?

sure, let's reopen, and then three weeks later when the fourth wave hits ontario lets see how that plays out for small businesses

Bubbler

@PyGamer0 I think the pattern matching on lists/tuples/dicts can be a lifesaver in many cases, though first-class algebraic data type support would make a much better synergy (I know it is technically possible as shown in the middle of PEP 622, but it is way too verbose and doesn't work well with "rapid prototyping")

hyper-neutrino

i'm just glad i'm fortunate enough to have online courses available to me and a co-op job that lends itself easily to being remote so i don't have to deal with all of this bullshit

lyxal

@hyper-neutrino erm maybe

We were all pretty quick to reopen last June/July or so

hyper-neutrino

well i mean like

lyxal

6:20 AM

And it worked relatively well until now

hyper-neutrino

in the middle of my city being the province's hotspot with a very unstable and somewhat growing new covid case rate

we are following the province with reopening into stage 3

if your cases are low and you reopen and then bad stuff happens again, that's very unfortunate

if your cases are still not even low or even still growing and you reopen and bad stuff happens, that's just stupidity

anyway, it's not like anyone'd listen to my pointless opinions anyway xD so i will just sit here in my room for like 80% of my life for the foreseeable future and be glad i have that luxury

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Q: Longest Zero Sum Sub-array

Given an array of integers. Find out its longest sub-array (contiguous subsequence) whose sum is 0. The sub-array for output may be an empty array. Input Input an array of integers. Output Output the longest zero sum sub-array. If there are multiple such arrays, output any one of them. Output For...

PyGamer0

@Bubbler algebraic data support as in sympy?

hyper-neutrino

@NewPosts i am speed (it will be very embarassing if i somehow messed up something this simple)

Bubbler

@PyGamer0 No, more in Haskell or functional-programming sense

PyGamer0

6:28 AM

@hyper-neutrino how does your jelly answer work?

hyper-neutrino

@PyGamer0 explanation added

portable to vyxal in 7 bytes (jelly + 2)

PyGamer0

CMQ: Is there a way to get the largest (by length) element of a list in python

hyper-neutrino

max(a,key=len)

ah fuck the empty case is screwing me over because the sublists atom excludes the empty sublist

PyGamer0

thanks

Try it online!

^ very bad answer

@NewPosts for <-

how do i improve it?

hyper-neutrino

you should be able to collapse sublist generation into one double-listcomp

PyGamer0

6:41 AM

@hyper-neutrino ??

yeah i am not good at golfing in python

idont know the cool stuff to make my code shorter

Underslash

is there ever a case where it would be worse when taking a sublist for it to return the empty array as well?

PyGamer0

@hyper-neutrino how would i do that?

hyper-neutrino

i have 90 in python, will give some time before posting

Underslash

@PyGamer0 for starters i believe you can remove s = ... B.append(s) and just do B.append(...)

where ... is the code there

@PyGamer0 also, you can use list comprehension at least once in order to turn the inner for loop into a list comprehension, and do B += [...]

Try it online!

what I always have trouble with in double loop comprehensions when adding to an array is not creating "flat" arrays

hyper-neutrino

well you can do that by just not nesting the list comps

or do you mean you want to have it not be flat

Underslash

6:51 AM

wdym by not nesting them

hyper-neutrino

[a for b in c for d in e]

Underslash

im going to be completely honest i've never seen that syntax before

hyper-neutrino

anyway, posted a python sub to the problem, waiting to get outgolfed by dingledooper/xnor/whoever

Underslash

so would b and d be the iteration variables

hyper-neutrino

yeah you can flatten a nested list comp by doing that syntax - do note that its order is left to right so print([(a,b)for a in[1,2]for b in[3,4]]) gives [(1, 3), (1, 4), (2, 3), (2, 4)]

@Underslash yes

Underslash

6:54 AM

wow

hyper-neutrino

you would normally do [[x for a in inner] for inner in outer]

Underslash

thats really handy

hyper-neutrino

but to flatten, [x for inner in outer for a in inner]

Underslash

yeah, and it follows the same form as if you put a double nested for loop all on one line

pxeger

@hyper-neutrino (which is entirely illogical)

@Underslash and it follows the opposite form as if you read it in English which confuses me to no end

Underslash

6:56 AM

true

hyper-neutrino

the former is obviously unambiguous and i remember the latter as "it's opposite the former cuz funny"

Bubbler

Every language has pain points and we as programmers are supposed to get used to it

hyper-neutrino

yeah. i'd say i've gotten used to most of the common weirdness you have to deal with python

not familiar with the extents of how weird you can get it, but at least used to things so i can use it even if it has peculiar behavior or restrictions

Bubbler

Haskell has the same specification order, though at least it doesn't use English in code

PyGamer0

is it illegal to make or share memes in australia??

Underslash

7:02 AM

@PyGamer0 Try it online! this is as far as I could get your method down with my basic golfing ways

@PyGamer0 I would hope not

lyxal

@PyGamer0 no

I've made and shared many memes

Look I'll share a meme now

I made that meme and shared it

Underslash

such illegal

lyxal

And I'm totally fin....oh wait why are the police here?

PyGamer0

oh

lyxal

Welp, it was nice knowing y'all :p

Underslash

7:09 AM

if it was illegal to make memes, that would pretty much mean it was either illegal to send images, or unenforcable, since pretty much any random picture can be counted as a meme

lyxal

Reddit wouldn't exist if memes were yesn't

Underslash

like here: random meme i got from reddit

technically, you could consider this a warning

because it is inadvisable to swim in mayo

however, in practice its a joke

Underslash

7:30 AM

@hyper-neutrino codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/231563/99035 jeez

hyper-neutrino

yeah i shouldn't have posted mine even prob. tempted to delete it cuz it's really trivial and boring lol