The Nineteenth Byte

lyxal

12:01 AM

@ATaco ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ don't ask me I just woke up one day and there it was

emanresu A

12:28 AM

@Neil A variable was being set without having been defined in a strict mode module, and it worked in Firefox / safari

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ｌｍａｏ

Nobody

area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/127114/…

OH and

what is

> "code jam"

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/9446/…

and

"Biweekly Mini Golf"

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/240/…

thejonymyster

biweekly minigolf is here

but idk about code jam

Jo King

@Nobody that isn't even an event for this room, how are we supposed to know

thejonymyster

ah yea, there you go

Unrelated String

12:39 AM

@emanresuA wouldn't be the first tokenized encoding--enter ti-basic :P

Nobody

ok just thought it had to do with code

can anyone help me with my questions in code golf? thanks guys

lyxal

→ 3 fun little experiments moved to Sandbox

Nobody

12:58 AM

~~does this --- --- get used in CGCC or only in chat?~~

Unrelated String

posts on main you ust use <s></s>

chat markdown is... special

Nobody

does it work?

Nobody

1:16 AM

@UnrelatedString .

Jo King

1:40 AM

does the chat markdown that you just used work? i'm going with "yes"

thejonymyster

scientists have not yet confirmed this...

Nobody

@thejonymyster hahaha

ATaco

CMC: given a character, return its position in a standard US keyboard. The position is defined by which row they key is in (the first being the escape row) and which number key (from left to right). Only printable ascii will be input, and characters with multiple solutions may return any result. 0 or 1 indexed

I guess that turned out less mini than I thought

Nobody

what if they input

Ï

do we have to output optionshiftf

@ATaco .

thejonymyster

@Nobody that is not printable ascii

ATaco

1:57 AM

Only one key needs to be outputted, modifiers are implicit

Nobody

@thejonymyster ok

emanresu A

TIL JavaScript StyleSheets

thejonymyster

doesnt html have enough js as is

Unrelated String

no such thing

ATaco

Regex style sheets

lyxal

2:49 AM

@UnrelatedString whomst'd've are you this time?

Unrelated String

in canvas, 1 hour ago, by Unrelated String

i've been meaning to make an obvious accompaniment to the donut but haven't really had the time or effort lmao

also i've started editing my users of cgcc post :P

okay this is half because i cba to put her on canvas next to the donut but also half because of fucking morbius memes lmao

Nobody

you changed your avatar, hmm

@UnrelatedString .

Unrelated String

like i was skimming around bits where spoiler to maybe just caption something "it's morbin' time" and i just happened to see this frame and think that's actually good pfp material

thejonymyster

3:06 AM

we need a morbius themed challenge

Nobody

What's the easiest golfing language to learn? Or should I post this on meta?

Radvylf Programs

24 hours ago, by Radvylf Programs

Okay so, I've got a challenge in the sandbox (not at all fleshed out, just a title) that I want to discuss/get feedback on, to see if the concept's worth pursuing

Any feedback?

@Nobody Vyxal's a solid choice, it's got a big community and is designed to be easy to pick up

Pip is an older golfing language but uses a more familiar model. Jelly might be more familiar if you know APL/J/K, but otherwise it's not easy.

Japt is still pretty competitive IIRC, and if you know JS it might be a good choice

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Q: What is the easiest golfing language to learn in your opinion?

What is the easiest golfing language to learn in your opinion? I have tried to learn many golfing languages without success, and I want to hear your suggestions. ...

discussion

thejonymyster

i forget is there a community we know of where every so often, they have a lang design jam

i swear i heard about that here or something

wish i could help but speed challenges confuse me
where is it in the sandbox though?

Radvylf Programs

3:21 AM

It's literally just a title and a placeholder, the description I gave in that trancript is more detailed.

Also my URL autocomplete failed and I just googled "sand" lmao

Unrelated String

nice

Radvylf Programs

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Quickly approximate the square root of a float As in like, constant-time and almost instant, but off by a lot. No time for looping here. This is going to take a lot of work, since I'm going to make an emulated CPU which will allow more precise timing.

(That last sentence is not necessarily going to be the case)

thejonymyster

oh right i remember seeing that

lyxal

Everything is O(1) if you query an API /s

Unrelated String

are you thinking of scoring on some weighted combination of speed and accuracy

Radvylf Programs

3:24 AM

Yeah

Something like, your speed gets multiplied by the difference (division-wise) between your answer and the correct one

So if you answer 0b1.10 * 2 ** -2 and the correct answer is 0b1.1101... * 2 ** -2, you'd get a multiplier of about 1.009

Unrelated String

and have some like constant factors in there to make sure it's not viable to do something too wildly inaccurate like just halving the exponent and leaving the mantissa alone

Radvylf Programs

That's exactly what I was planning on using as a baseline actually. I'm going to aim for that to about double your score.

Unrelated String

smart

Radvylf Programs

→ 1 message moved to Off-Topic TNB

emanresu A

3:42 AM

@UnrelatedString new pfp?

Unrelated String

shocking, i know

emanresu A

I’m glad it’s not staring into my soul

Unrelated String

lmao

emanresu A

pxeger is pain

Nobody

4:37 AM

does anyone know a programming language similar to this

2d emoji

and,

> What is the easiest golfing language to learn?

lyxal

thejonymyster

@Nobody woha this is cool, what is this and where can i check it out?

reminds me of Don't You Lecture Me With Your $30 Website

lyxal

@thejonymyster "DON'T YOU LECTURE ME WITH YOUR $30 PROGRAM!" proceeds to play a beautiful cacophony of emoji spam

thejonymyster

i kinda wish that site was tc even though itd be useless and dumb

Nobody

@lyxal i saw that

@thejonymyster appstore

@thejonymyster too much sound hahahaha

PyGamer0

4:52 AM

@Nobody vyxal

Unrelated String

@thejonymyster especially since it's to emulate those videos where people just manually sound out the emoji spam lol

PyGamer0

@UnrelatedString new pfp?

Unrelated String

whoa

Aiden Chow

oh dang ye unrelated string does have new pfp

Nobody

@PyGamer0 ok

thejonymyster

4:57 AM

@Nobody ...5 stars 1 rating 0 reviews has me suspicious

PyGamer0

CMP: ^ guess the person

thejonymyster

woah is that a tmbg room

lyxal

@PyGamer0 you

PyGamer0

obviously

cant believe i am in so many rooms

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Q: Revese a string but descending order for Repeaated charactor

Task : Given a string, let say 'abacad' We need the output which is reverse in order but it should contain the repeated characters at the first. If more characters are repeated, then it should show them in descending order for repeated character for above example expected output is : adcb

code-challenge sorting

Aiden Chow

5:02 AM

@PyGamer0 lol dang

Nobody

@thejonymyster idc these stuff

plus it is 100%free

Aiden Chow

im in like 8 rooms myself , and i thought that was a lot

Nobody

clean

hyper-neutrino

meanwhile i am currently in 35 rooms lol

Nobody

hahahahaha

Unrelated String

5:04 AM

lmao noce

*i

Nobody

i wanna see a snapshot

Aiden Chow

@Nobody i dont even think all of them fit on the screen lol

Nobody

@hyper-neutrino imagining something really long...

@AidenChow me2

hahaha

PyGamer0

@Nobody also i would like to divert your attention to "Maid Café"

Nobody

where

Aiden Chow

5:09 AM

lol ye tf is maid cafe

PyGamer0

just do not visit it

Nobody

why

PyGamer0

Maid Café (メイド喫茶)

Welcome back, my Master! (お帰りなさいませ、ご主人様!) Sit wherever you'd l...

@PyGamer0 bruh

@Nobody trust me

5:10 AM

@PyGamer0 dont understand

Aiden Chow

that sneak peak of the description of the chat

lol

PyGamer0

ok go ahead visit it :P

Aiden Chow

nah im good

PyGamer0

at your own expense :P

don't blame me :P

hyper-neutrino

there isn't even anything wrong with it it's just the anime.SE main room lol

Nobody

5:12 AM

@PyGamer0 i went and i still dont understand

PyGamer0

lol

@hyper-neutrino lol

Unrelated String

there is legitimately nothing wrong with it

Nobody

@PyGamer0 only "a little" nsfw

Aiden Chow

@UnrelatedString whats it about

PyGamer0

@UnrelatedString i know i was scaring them :P

Unrelated String

5:12 AM

aside from i guess ~~nmp~~ sakamoto posting question oneboxes that can occasionally contain randomass untagged spoilers but that's just the site overall

Aiden Chow

oh its just the general chat for anime SE

Nobody

@PyGamer0 ...

Unrelated String

still kinda weird that the site's main room is like 60% just one guy yuriposting but that's not like actually a problem

Nobody

you did it poorly haha

lyxal

@AidenChow a room you'll never find me in because my opinions matter.

Nobody

5:15 AM

what's the best guide to vyxal? github.com/Vyxal/Vyxal/blob/old/docs/Tutorial.md ?

lyxal

Vyxapedia.hyper-neutrino.xyz is the best

Unrelated String

wait i should have just said nmp so someone could correct me

Nobody

@lyxal hmm that site is like rubbish

areyou sure you didnt link the wrong one

thejonymyster

probably trolling :P

Nobody

Unrelated String

5:20 AM

oh is the server acting up again

Nobody

i dont believe this is the website

@UnrelatedString what

Aiden Chow

@Nobody lol what is that

Nobody

@AidenChow idk

lyxal

Dang it @hyper-neutrino

Unrelated String

it's supposed to be a vyxal site but hyper hosts it on the same server as the shenhe mains website and sometimes it just breaks for some reason

thejonymyster

5:21 AM

lmfao

hey whats the "you should use the sandbox" copypasta? or do we not have one

shit yeah i was thinking of scpwiki, they have a "you should get this drafted reviewed and greenlit" copypasta

anyway we should probably have one

Nobody

@UnrelatedString hahahahaha

Unrelated String

i think individual people have canned responses for that but i don't think there's a unified one

Nobody

on the same server?

when will it be fixed, hmm

@UnrelatedString .

lyxal

@hyper-neutrino is vyxapedia mostly static? Because maybe just host it on something like surge

Nobody

@lyxal i think so

thejonymyster

5:23 AM

@UnrelatedString drat. i dont wanna be the one to write it so ill just wait on someone else to mention it to the infinity profile picture person on cgcc

Nobody

@hyper-neutrino we need you ~~~

hyper-neutrino

again

just use HTTPS

vyxapedia.hyper-neutrino.xyz

if this also doesn't work then idk it's not an issue with my nginx config so it's probably just cloudflare certs overriding each other or smth dumb

Nobody

now it is good

Unrelated String

oh yeah it does work for me

PyGamer0

@hyper-neutrino oh lol if i use https then it works otberwise its shehe mains or somthin

Unrelated String

5:25 AM

i never actually tried it myself

hyper-neutrino

at this point i should just delete the shenhe mains website, i don't think anyone looks at it ever and I moved the staff applications back to google forms anyway

Nobody

bye, off of vpn for a bit so I should be able to see but not send messages

test

Unrelated String

and also wait what browsers don't default to https

hyper-neutrino

no it does but

Nobody

@hyper-neutrino < i don't think anyone looks at it ever

> i don't think anyone looks at it ever

people do

hyper-neutrino

5:26 AM

shenhemains.com and hyper-neutrino.xyz are on the same IP and apparently somewhere along the way something doesn't like that

Nobody

accidentally

lyxal

@UnrelatedString DDG for Android apparently

yeah

wack

@lyxal i'm on safari

5:27 AM

i was checking to see if maybe defaulting to https isn't a native feature of firefox and the only extension i could think of that would do that is ddg :P

Nobody

oh ok no vpn works

lyxal

Cool. I use the actual app

@Nobody ^

thejonymyster

@hyper-neutrino "When dealing with multiple values, the first one will be the last one popped, so if there are three arguments, a will be the third-from-top, b will be the second-from-top, and b will the the top of the stack (TOS)." typo?

s/b/c

hyper-neutrino

looks like it

Unrelated String

> When dealing with multiple values, the first one will ce the last one popped, so if there are three arguments, a will ce the third-from-top, c will ce the second-from-top, and c will the the top of the stack (TOS).

thejonymyster

5:29 AM

there ya go

hyper-neutrino

lol

lyxal

Perfect

Unrelated String

also managed to only notice "the the" in the course of writing that lmao

Nobody

does this not mention implicit output

vyxapedia.hyper-neutrino.xyz/beginners

thejonymyster

@UnrelatedString good catch!

hyper-neutrino

5:30 AM

alright fixed

Nobody

does this not mention implicit output

the jelly one or something that it was forked

also had not mentioned it

so

hyper-neutrino

I forked vyxapedia off of jelly compendium because I made both of them lol

PyGamer0

in Wellscripted, 8 secs ago, by PyGamer0

CMP: Which is better for conditional evaluation: ?: or if else

in terms of looks

emanresu A

The former

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~~just don't have ternaries to begin with and enforce short-circuiting boolean operator abuse~~

emanresu A

5:38 AM

The former allows chaining nicely

thejonymyster

also can you make it so that it doesnt have to have the else

js annoys me with that

(if youre making something and not just askin to ask)

Unrelated String

defaulting to what otherwise
null?

thejonymyster

oh right the actual use for ternaries

Unrelated String

lmao

des54321

@UnrelatedString if youre vaguing python here, i do believe python actually technically has ternaries, its the inline use of foo if condition else bar

no one uses that because its lengthy and stupid

Unrelated String

5:40 AM

6 mins ago, by PyGamer0

in Wellscripted, 8 secs ago, by PyGamer0

CMP: Which is better for conditional evaluation: ?: or if else

@des54321 that's the joke lmao

PyGamer0

@emanresuA ternary?

emanresu A

yes\

Unrelated String

ternary operator
the thing you asked about

PyGamer0

ok

Nobody

@hyper-neutrino both does not mention implicit output

and why put these links

vyxapedia.hyper-neutrino.xyz/kc-hello-world

that lead to 404

thejonymyster

5:42 AM

i was making a lang once that was gonna have an n-nary operator, youd just keep going

Unrelated String

as in the "conditional evaluation" syntax you're asking about is called the ternary operator

because it takes three arguments

Nobody

or is it intended or workinprogress

thejonymyster

i dont think they were asking for the definition but i cant tell if youre memeing at this point

Unrelated String

oh wait i totally misread which message the question was a reply to

thejonymyster

cest la vie

Unrelated String

5:44 AM

but yeah for the record python's ... if ... else ... expressions are also referred to as ternary

thejonymyster

named after the rather inquisitive tern

Nobody

@UnrelatedString why doesn't python have ternary

even desmos does

Aiden Chow

@Nobody uhhh isnt it just a if condition else b ?

Nobody

i mean a shorter one

cuz, codegolf needs it

@hyper-neutrino why are there so many 404 links

and please add implicit output to the beginner's tutorial

Aiden Chow

what is implicit output anyways

Unrelated String

5:54 AM

@Nobody the tips post notes multiple alternatives

indexing if you don't mind both expressions being evaluated, logical operators if not

Aiden Chow

@UnrelatedString logical operators as in short circuiting or what

Unrelated String

actually i forget if indexing is shorter than multiplication + or when you have something that can work on

ye

lyxal

@AidenChow when a program prints something automatically if something hasn't already been printed

at least, that's how it is in Vyxal and (IIRC) 05AB1E

Nobody

@UnrelatedString yah but still, why not have a ternary op

@lyxal you should include it in vyxapedia.hyper-neutrino.xyz/beginners#flags

or should i tell @hyper-neutrino instead

lyxal

we'll update it a little later

if not hyper, I will when I get the chance

Nobody

6:08 AM

ok, Jelly has the same problem btw ;-)

but then, it's a little obvious given the hello world program

back from test ;-) tho it is irrelevant

Jo King

these golfing languages don't have a ternary operator because there's probably shorter ways of doing conditionals

Nobody

ok

`string a` →a # a = "string a"
`string b` →b # b = "string b"
←a →temp      # temp = a
←b →a         # a = b
←temp →b      # b = temp (swapping the values of a and b)

vyxapedia.hyper-neutrino.xyz/beginners#variables

hmm, i wonder if there is an a,b=b,a in vyxal

> There is a special variable known as the context variable. More information about it is available on its element page here.

yet "here" directs me to a 404 λ€ ∧∆

PyGamer0

@JoKing doesnt jelly have a quick to do that

Jo King

i don't know jelly

Unrelated String

?

PyGamer0

6:23 AM

? Ternary if.

emanresu A

6:45 AM

Anyone know a language which:
- Has 32-bit signed integers by default
- Has a print function
- Supports numbers with underscores
- Has single-line # comments
- Doesn't error on integer overflow
- Is a scripting language
- Has Python-style modulo
- Dividing two ints gives a float

Aiden Chow

lol still trying to crack that i see

PyGamer0

@emanresuA python

emanresu A

@PyGamer0 almost, but python has arbitrary-precision ints

Nobody

@emanresuA what does "python has arbitrary-precision ints" contradict

Unrelated String

he needs 32 bit ints

presumably with relevant overflow behavior

Nobody

6:51 AM

ok

emanresu A

^^

Nobody

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, why 32-bit signed integers

@emanresuA .

emanresu A

Because I'm trying to crack a certain polyglot with overflow behaviour

Aiden Chow

i think there is a number inside that is 2^31-1

emanresu A

yeah

Nobody

6:56 AM

overflow wrap or error

@emanresuA /

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Find the winning Mormon Bridge card Mormon Bridge (also called Oh Heck, similar to Oh H***) is a card game played (at least by me) with a standard Rook deck. A standard Rook deck includes cards 1-14 in 4 suits, which are black, red, green, and yellow, and a Rook card. Each round, a card is taken ...

Nobody

7:50 AM

so cold here

graffe

8:15 AM

hello!

sanity check: if I toss 10 coins and count the number of heads and tails, is the prob of getting each possible outcome 1/11?

pxeger

by "each possible outcome", do you mean "each possible total number of heads"?

graffe

yes

(heads and tails but the number of heads determines the number of tails)

I think I have a simpler solution to my challenge if I am not going crazy

pxeger

if so, no, it's a binomial distribution

graffe

@pxeger how can one outcome be more likely than another?

pxeger

with n=10 and p=0.5

@graffe on average, you'll get 5 heads for every 10 you flip

the chance of getting no heads is (1/2)^10, which is pretty low

graffe

8:26 AM

that is true but the prob of getting 10 heads is the same as getting 5 isn't it?

isn't the prob of getting 5 also (1/2)^10, ?

pxeger

no, because you can get 5 heads in many ways: HHHHHTTTTT or HHHHTHTTTT or HHHTTHHTTT or ...

graffe

what is the prob of getting 5 heads?

@pxeger argh... you are right!

then I don't have a simpler solution to my challenge :)

thanks

pxeger

each of those possibilities has a chance of (1/2)^10, but there are 10choose5 = 252 different ways of ordering them

graffe

yes I got myself confused

Nobody

8:50 AM

yeah

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Alternating permutations code-golf permutations combinatorics number-theory sequence An alternating permutation is a permutation of the first \$ n \$ integers \$ \{ 1 ... n \} \$, such that adjacent pairs of values in the permutation alternate between increasing and decreasing (or vice versa). Eq...

Nobody

9:13 AM

@RadvylfPrograms I left you a message chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/61256859#61256859

graffe

9:35 AM

@m90 I looked at your code. I think it could work but in my problem there is a fixed number of coins you can take which doesn't correspond to the variable limit afaict.

sorry @mathcat in case you got pinged

PyGamer0

@graffe you pinged anyways ...

yesterday, by PyGamer0

> This is why we now need to store the length together with the pointer, duplicating the amount of information stored by the system.

does this mean that if C/C++ was properly designed, the pointer will have the length information so we don't need a separate variable?

(quote from "Notes on programming")

pxeger

you don't always need to do that though

for structs, integers, etc., the size in memory is fixed and known at compile time

emanresu A

^

pxeger

it's only arrays and things that need length

PyGamer0

well the book is referring to malloc and free

yes arrays

graffe

9:43 AM

@PyGamer0 I don't think you can unping can you?

pxeger

and length is not an inherent part of a memory address, so it doesn't really make sense for the pointer to somehow "contain" the length

PyGamer0

@pxeger but doesnt the computer know how much memory is allocated?

pxeger

not all pointers point to the start of an allocated block

PyGamer0

how does a computer know how much bytes to free?

@pxeger hm true

@pxeger but then does free work?

on that pointer

pxeger

you can't call free with a pointer that isn't exactly the same pointer that malloc once returned

well, you can, but it's undefined behaviour

> The free() function frees the memory space pointed to by ptr, which must have been returned by a previous call to malloc(), calloc(), or realloc(). Otherwise, or if free(ptr) has already been called before, undefined behavior occurs

from man 3 free

PyGamer0

9:47 AM

/ATO/code.c:1:14: note: returned from ‘malloc’
    1 | main(){int*x=malloc(32);free(++x);}
      |              ^~~~~~~~~~
free(): invalid pointer

@pxeger ok

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Q: What's the best die to roll?

The "standard" polyhedral game dice are, have 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 20 sides. (Yes I know that there are two 10 sided die which together make a d100, but we're ignoring that right now.) If I want to generate a random number between 1 and \$n\$ where \$n\$ is not one of those sides I have a couple o...