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12:03 AM
100 rep bounty to the first one to figure out how fig got its name
expires tomorrow at this time
 
@AidenChow yes
 
@Seggan I mean, Android may be Linux but you can't directly run desktop apps on it
 
wait wat thats possible
 
I know Samsung has Dex or whatever but otherwise you'd probably have to jailbreak it
 
@Seggan It was originally Feg, so my guess is it's somehow related to Keg?
 
12:04 AM
Is it?
idk I'm an iPhone user so I don't know what y'all peasants do :P
@Seggan Functional Keg?
 
@emanresuA nope ;) tho ure on the right track with feg
@user no
 
@user Oh god that's cursed
 
12:18 AM
@Seggan functional seggan?
 
@Seggan You're a big fan of the fruit
 
12:36 AM
@Seggan android's not linux :P
 
pip's not python
 
I'm's not Joe
 
Who's not joe?
 
1:00 AM
Sandbox posts last active a week ago: Generate a Baudot punched tape segment
 
1:26 AM
@emanresuA I'm
 
2:02 AM
@lyxal argh you got it
the f is functional and fractional all rolled up into one
 
@Seggan excellent naming skills - they rival only my own
 
gimme an answer to award the bounty t
tomorrow
 
Vyxal Fizzbuzz
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A: 1, 2, Fizz, 4, Buzz

lyxalVyxal, j, 18 17 14 12 11 bytes ₁ƛ₍₃₅kF½*∑∴ Try it Online! I refuse to be beaten by Arn and Ash. I absolutely will not be beaten by either of those languages. Vyxal forever lads. Explained ₁ƛ₍₃₅kF½*∑∴ ₁ # Push 100 to the stack ƛ # Over the range [1, 100], map: (we'll call the ...

That one
@Seggan if I didn't know any better, I'd say you were me but American and younger :p
 
2:29 AM
Seggan is lyxal’s long long son confirmed :p
 
3:04 AM
how long?
 
Argh, long lost
@thejonymyster 128 bits?
 
@user vyxal is a family business :p
 
@lyxal yes indeed
 
3:33 AM
@DLosc (and APL and J and K for that matter also :P)
 
@thejonymyster yes i shall always be be better muhahahah
@mathcat perhaps
@emanresuA i may have triads..
 
haha
@flax , why are you here if you are APL
 
i am not APL
 
@flax 4-3
 
@lyxal 1
 
3:47 AM
Haha wrong
24 secs ago, by flax
@lyxal 1
Should be -1 because right to left
 
bruh do you know how i work
 
@flax you are a programming language
 
@flax you don't
 
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3:49 AM
Just did that lol
 
@flax the f*ck kinda logic is this. You claim to be right to left yet this example shows left to right
 
My guess is the - operator has its operands swapped
 
@lyxal hmm looks at APL
k, J, BQN
 
thre;s a DSO>?>???????
how many do you cgccers have?
CONFESS.
 
no.
get rekt
 
4:02 AM
what's rekt
oic
bye
o/
how many tio's do you guys have?
CONFESS!!!
 
don't repeat the same question twice
 
ok then i'll do it 3 times
gotta go o/
 
 
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5:24 AM
When I saw A000224 I thought "oh, this looks simple enough to do in Piet and use PNG bytes scoring"
and then I was hit by n queens problem lol
 
Sorry :P
 
@Bubbler riiiiiiiiiiip
 
6:02 AM
@cairdcoinheringaahing Does One OEIS After Another require integer bytecounts?
 
I suppose yes because the bytecount defines the next answer's sequence number
Assuming the given lang has a working interpreter, you can always choose to score your code by actual file size (rather than computed, "golfy" scoring)
 
Well, hopefully this is easier for you in Piet.
 
@emanresuA hmm i mean it seems doable
 
lol, nice one
 
might need some rolling and stuff tho
 
6:15 AM
though I need to go to a meeting soon
 
Just picked a random one from OEIS that looked easy
 
still seems like a pain to do, tho thats probably just my lack of experience in piet lmao
cuz u can only access the top value in the stack, most likely needs some rearranging values within the stack using the roll instruction
 
Click here to give someone a popular question badge
 
ok clicked it
 
It was on 999 views when I posted that message
That's gotta be pretty rare :P
 
6:26 AM
it literally says "awarded 1 hour ago" lol
maybe u gave the award :D
 
Hm, weird
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Q: How do you organize hybrid meetings in the post-pandemic world?

MyLobbyHybrid meetings can be challenging to organize and figure out who's coming virtually and physically and how to keep track of attendance. Luckily, The MyLobby Hoteling Office Booking allows you to send an invite to your colleagues, and it gives them the option to accept the meeting virtually or ph...

Lol
 
@emanresuA lmao
 
6:57 AM
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Aiden Chowcode-golfgridmatrix Create Bernard from Desmos Background In the online graphing calculator Desmos, there is a certain shape that appears in the lower left portion of the graph in many high detail graphs, which the Desmos community has dubbed "Bernard". You can see an example of it in this graph ...

 
^ was planning to post that during desmos lotm but put it off and forgot about it lolol
 
@SandboxPosts I've seen Bernard so many times but never realised lol
 
@emanresuA lmao yeah i didnt realize it had a name until i saw it mentioned on r/desmos XD
hopefully everything is clear in the post btw
 
 
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8:06 AM
youtube just asked me to turn my video history on, pretty please? hell no, you can't have my data
 
Sounds like Alphabet Inc.
 
don't be evil, you know what, let's go all in instead
 
8:25 AM
@JoKing oh yeah ive been getting that too, i click "no, you cant have my video history" and its like alright fine we wont ask you again, i switch to another youtube tab, and guess what that one asks me?
 
 
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10:40 AM
aw no flax feedback lol
 
11:02 AM
CMC: Produce a checkboard pattern of 1s and 0s of size n
ngn/k, 17 bytes: {{y;~x}\x#,~2!!x}
 
@PyGamer0 Must be 1 in top left, or is 0 ok?
@PyGamer0 APL, 7: 2|⍳∘.+⍳ Try it online! (prepend ~ for 1 in top left)
@PyGamer0 BQN, 6: 2|↕+⌜↕ Run online! (prepend ¬ for 1 in top left)
@PyGamer0 12: {2!i+/:i:!x}
 
11:54 AM
SE down?
seems to be back up again
 
codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/248677/41247 anyone well-versed in BQN have any ideas for golfing this down?
 
12:18 PM
@PyGamer0 Vyxal, 5: ẊsṠ∷ẇ
ẊsṠv₂ẇ for 1 in top left
 
@PyGamer0 11: {x#2\x#2 1}
 
12:33 PM
@Bubbler wha-
 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

evanstar3Repair the sequence For every term in an arithmetic sequence, the next term equals the previous term plus some constant. For this challenge, create a program that takes a "broken" sequence as input and "repairs" it by filling in exactly one missing value. the missing value will never be the firs...

 
12:46 PM
How did the rest of the LDW go while i was out :')
 
@PyGamer0 cuz i am base
 
 2\2 1
(1 0
 0 1)
neat
 
1:10 PM
I want to add more diagrams / ascii drawings to this, but if i put them in the middle of my indented list, it ruins the indentation. Any advice?
 
can you edit them in temporarily to show us exactly what's happening?
or just send a screenshot
 
If you're careful you can put indented code blocks
 
@pxeger it just resets the indentation below it, but i suspect i'm just using the wrong type of code block,
@WezloOvOo can you show what the source / markdown for that is?
that would solve my problem instantly:-)
 
* Second step;
  * If the two cells immediately below each the bottommost Active cells are Empty and within the Playfield, those two Empty cells will become Active and the topmost Active cells will become Empty. (This is analogous to the O-piece moving down if unobstructed)
  * If not, the following subprocess occurs;
    * All Active cells will become Inactive:
      ```
      active
      ->
      inactive
      ```
    * Any rows of cells within the Playfield that are are composed of only
 
It works with ```-style code blocks I think
 
1:15 PM
ohhh
damn it
i thought of doing that but brushed it off as too stupid to work :P
 
@thejonymyster *magical sound effects*
 
glad the markdown has our best interests in mind :-) nature is beautiful
 
@thejonymyster *only very slightly offended* :P
 
i mean im the stupid one for not trying it
 
1:17 PM
LOL :P peace on earth
thank you
 
these are so painfully not quite the same gray
 
oml
what's yours? im #EAEAEA
 
probably #eee (I like the three-letter hex codes)
 
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Q: 12 in 12 with no 1234567890

Nobody Needs NamesThis is my 12th question, so I thought of this idea. Goal: Output 12, with any preceding or trailing whitespace permitted In 12 languages (where different versions or flags count as the same language) Without using any numbers The criteria for a valid programming language are the same as those o...

 
ahh those are really good
 
1:19 PM
I took a risk
 
@WezloOvOo you lik thr let thi in gen, don you?
 
@WezloOvOo i specifically stole mine from the sys forum because the site didnt always transparency lol
 
@pxeger noo, not inn gen
 
ive had this icon since like............
 
@thejonymyster beedab
 
1:20 PM
beedab is legendary of course
 
also
 
I nev tho abo it but ig so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
i cant remember how long ive had this icon is how long ive had it :P
 
yeah true that's nice
I actually forked it a while ago because it was convenient to use it to add syntax highlighting for one of my languages
 
1:22 PM
UniMra something
 
(unmira is totally unrelated)
 
UiNiMaRa what was it lol
 
(Uncooked Mini Ravioli is one way to remember it)
 
how does one go about adding custom syntax highlighting ::
 
what is ravioli
 
> stuck, with a cat on their lap
@WezloOvOo UnMiRa?
 
yes
 
how does the syntax look like?
 
I don't really remember tbh
unlike my other languages where I spend most of my time designing and often don't actually implement them
(it may be turing complete :)
 
1:28 PM
does it have an esolangs page
 
@WezloOvOo xkcd
 
no for almost all intents and purposes it doesn't exist
@PyGamer0 the answer is all of the above btw
 
i like your idea of designing the logos first instead of the language ;P
 
uncovering everything I've ever done are we :P
@PyGamer0 some parts of the language are always designed first ofc
the language is not based on the logo
the language and logo are both based on the initial idea
I'm glad I got those ideas down because otherwise I would have nothing for my time spent designing instead of just a little bit
<shortscreamingrage>searching for shrug emoticon gives shrug eMOJI</shortscreamingrage>
 
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Q: 12 in 12 with no 1234567890

Nobody Needs NamesThis is my 12th question, so I thought of this idea. Goal: Output 12, with any preceding or trailing whitespace permitted In 12 languages (where different versions or flags count as the same language) Without using any numbers The criteria for a valid programming language are the same as those o...

I perhaps shouldn't have taken the risk...
 
@NobodyNeedsNames if you want feedback on a challenge, try posting to the sandbox
 
oops that's not actually what I meant
I should reread my own messages before reposting them
 
I didn't downvote, although I would if it weren't already at a low score because it's just not really an interesting challenge.
the answer 12 just wins because it works in like every golfing language ever
 
Anyway what I meant was that I downvoted because it's a boring question. It's not unclear, doesn't break any rules, I just think it's not interesting
 
@NobodyNeedsNames also; do x without y
@hyper-neutrino no numbers restriction
 
1:47 PM
oh right
 
the 12 language thing makes it tedious to even think of attempting tbh
 
but yes this is why we sandbox
@pxeger from what ive seen the site seems to be generally positive towards "sort of like this challenge, but way simpler" as both being different enough and being wanted as a challenge
but i dont need to tell you about the site :P
 
Yes you do
Please go on
 
The Code Golf and Coding Challenges stack exchange is a website wherein
 
1:52 PM
ha ha.
 
i mean you've definitely been around here plenty long, you (probably) know more about the site than i could tell you :P
sure theres the newb perspective but that only tells you about first impressions, not so much about general site-feel
 
I've only been here about a year and a half
 
<: o how do u have so much rep
 
I have no life
 
i need to quit my job and code golf for a living
 
1:54 PM
no don't do that..
 
hey adám is apl hiring
(unsorry yes accent on this keyboard)
 
coding golf would be a pretty boring job
@thejonymyster APL isn't a company. You mean Dyalog
 
no just upload me into the source code and ill do what needs to be done there
 
@thejonymyster hey I'm handing them out for a very low price (free sámple)
 
just in the nick of time
 
1:57 PM
@pxeger apl the language isn't a company. You don't mean en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(shipping_company)
 
@thejonymyster however, quote "they inspired many copycats that basically came down to the same tricks". i don't think this will work in a big polyglot. and quote "it's hard to define "without Y" for a wide class of languages, leading to nitpicking like "I'm not using a+b, just sum(a,b)"." wouldn't apply. We just learned counterarguments in my English Class...
 
maybe it could work as a challenge if you lowered the entry barrier
maybe getting to 12 is the ultimate goal, but languages that polyglot in at least 2 langs can enter
might work as an emergency quick fix? :P
 
@thejonymyster done
 
@NobodyNeedsNames When you make a polyglot challenge, especially if it requires many languages, it pretty much becomes a task of "do anything in 12 languages", so at a certain point all polyglot challenges kinda become the same
 
@pxeger good point gotta admit...
 
2:03 PM
ah yeah i hadn't considered that. Maybe someone should add that to the "things to avoid" list
because that's honestly a non-obvious insight
 
good move
I'm going to wake up tomorrow to see a bit fat -100 on that question and I don't like that so if possible please help me revise the challenge thank you gotta go o/
 
@NobodyNeedsNames honestly? maybe just delete it, sandbox it later if you come up with something better. Sometimes an idea flops /shrug
 
@thejonymyster idc really cuz i can at any time delete it
maybe a miracle will happen, who knows
 
2:16 PM
yeah the change might end up saving it, who knows. I might even try it since it's not too restrictive, literally just "do a polyglot" :P
 
@lyxal im actually russian :P
seriously
i just live in america bc my parents moved here in the 90s
 
If I had a nickel for each russian member of Vyxal, I (think) I'd have two nickels
 
@Seggan Hi russian, I'm pxeger
who's the second?
 
@lyxal seriously?
 
@pxeger Dion
@lyxal the "I think" here means that I only know of 2. There could be more
@Seggan ikr. It isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice.
@pxeger *actually russian
 
2:31 PM
@lyxal i guess you have 2 indian members :p
 
maybe
there could be more
 
2:48 PM
There are at least 3
 
you?
oh yeah lol
 
Yeah
@Seggan If you've been living in America, wouldn't that make you both Russian and American?
 
technically yes
i was born here
 
But you haven't grown up here?
 
yes
 
2:58 PM
Ah ok
 
my nationality makes me in a kinda awkward position rn
CMP: whats your favorite answer that you posted
 
:|
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A: Minimal maximum byte for Turing Completeness

userLenguage, score = 1 ()  Lenguage only cares about the length of the file, so we can use any character (in this case U+0001). Yes, I am aware that I can use null bytes, but I wanted to give a fair chance to other people, so I made it 1.

 
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A: Happy Birthday... caird coinheringaahing? ChartZ Belatedly?

pxegerZsh -y, 145 148 144 142 131 130 bytes 1="echo Happy Birthday, ";$1caird coinheringaahing!>x "\";$1ChartZ Belatedly!>x #" "\";echo Happy Birthday, ChartZ Belatedly!>x #" Attempt This Online! Outputs to a file called x, which allows us to save bytes exiting because we can overwrite the file to chan...

because I spent every waking hour after that challenge's posting trying to write a golfy answer
(and still managed to save 15 bytes after posting)
 
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A: Draw the Ionising Radiation Hazard Symbol

SegganDesmos, 60 bytes w=hsv(0,0,1) r<5\{[0,3,6]40<\theta<[1,3,5]60\} xx+yy<9/4 r<1 Try it on Desmos This is the version without scaling, now the shortest Desmos answer. Desmos, 178 161 153 126 119 72 68 bytes R=1 w=hsv(0,0,1) r<5R\{[0,3,6]40<\theta<[1,3,5]60\} xx+yy<9RR/4 r<RR Try it on Desmos -12 b...

This one started out as the longest and ended up getting the shortest :P
 
3:23 PM
CMP: what is your favourite question on the site (doesn't have to be your own)
 
Because I don't think I could choose from all questions, I'll limit myself to only mine: probably this :P
@pxeger It's coming up on a year since that was posted :P
 
oh no noone has sent a message for about a minute -better post something to keep it active ::P
 
@pxeger This because Tetris in GoL is a huge achievement
 
I mean the answers are good but honestly the question is bad
If people want to start a project they can just start it. The question shares an idea but it's not a good fit for SE's question format
 
The question isn't bad, it's just that it's not great
 
3:35 PM
argh i just hate it when ato doesnt run my code
> An error occurred; see the console for details
i am on mobile... so i cant check the console but i suspect its the websocket unexceptedly closed connection
@emanresuA i cant use flags (C for example in flax) on DSO..
 
3:56 PM
@cairdcoinheringaahing is that a subtle hint asking for a follow-up challenge? :Þ
in Attempt This Online, 1 min ago, by pxeger
Breaking news: I believe I have finally squashed the long-standing bug which caused ATO to randomly stop working
 
cameras are rolling
This is Code Golf News, and I am your frendly reporter Seggan
We have breaking news today: according to an anonymous source, pxeger has finally appeared to fix the bug that makes ATO, his online code-runnning service, randomly stop working.
 
> anonymous source
lol
 
It is not proven if the bug has really been fixed, but diagnostics seem to indicate it is. We will keep you posted on the latest news.
 
@pxeger Seggan cares about the privacy of his sources even if his sources are willing to doxx themselves
 
4:10 PM
@PyGamer0 yes?
 
in Attempt This Online, 5 mins ago, by PyGamer0
@pxeger ato is back for me!
@Seggan ^
 
that doesn't prove that it won't come back
 
Code Golf News never said that
the news never lies
 
Why did Wait() fix it?
 
@user presumably it didnt wait vefore and just forced the connection to be closed if it didnt respond within a few milliseconds or something
 
4:12 PM
Oh
 
i will be wrong though :P
cause i dont understand stuff, that is just a guess
 
Previously, it was only waiting for STDOUT and STDERR to finish copying, which most of the time happened after cmd had finished
 
now it waits for the process to finish?
 
but sometimes that wouldn't happen, and it would do the cleanup before the cmd was finished
so the sandbox got broken by being interrupted by being cleaned up too early
but now it waits for the sandbox to finish before cleaning up
I think this was the change that broke it: github.com/attempt-this-online/attempt-this-online/commit/…
 
@Seggan did you notice this
 
4:16 PM
Run() was equivalent to Start() immediately followed by Wait()
 
@PyGamer0 no havent been on gh in the past 2 days
the desc makes no sense
> I needed to make a contribution so that I can pin the main repo on my profile
 
You can't pin repositories to your GitHub profile unless you've contributed to them at least once
 
ah
 
@PyGamer0 Pip, 7 bytes: $=%GMCa
Also 7 bytes with 0 in upper-left corner: %$+GMCa
 
4:36 PM
Does anyone know any speech to text systems for people who want to code? I have broken my arm
 
copilot + word?
 
Interesting idea
 
5:14 PM
@graffe how did you break your arm?
 
By accident, I'd guess
 
@graffe Ouch. I don't know of any, but if you find something you like, I'd be interested in hearing about it.
 
6:06 PM
I will let you know!
@pxeger bang on :)
 
Is it possible for you to code one-handed?
 
It's possible but quite annoying
Maybe if I was better at one handed vim
Using my phone is much easier than a keyboard
 
Well, at least you're not using Emacs
There's Sticky Keys and other stuff to ease typing with one hand, I think
 
6:23 PM
@graffe o that is so cool
 
6:41 PM
@user I will check that out, thanks
 
windows has global sticky keys
 
Cool
 
 
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8:05 PM
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Q: Position from atomic number in the periodic table

aluriakLet us consider the following representation of the periodic table. __________________________________________________________________________ | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 | | ...

 
@NewPosts This is half of a dupe of several things...
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Q: Sprocket Science: Animating a Chain Drive System

EllThe goal of this challenge is to produce an animation of a chain drive system, comprised of a set of sprocket gears connected together by a chain. General Requirements Your program will be given a list of sprockets, specified as (x, y, radius) triplets. The resulting chain drive system is compr...

@PyGamer0 Frick. one moment
@PyGamer0 Soo, this is because the flag handling bit isn't in the run_flax function, so I'm gonna have to handle it myself.
 
8:22 PM
@pxeger Tweetable Mathematical Art. I get why it was closed, but I wish we had more challenges that bring out such creative and beautiful answers (and some darn good golfing, too).
 
8:34 PM
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Q: Is it a valid list?

emanresu AGiven a string like [[[],[[]]],[]], made of only commas and square brackets, your challenge is to determine whether it represents a list. A list is either: [], the empty list At least one list, joined with commas and wrapped in square brackets. You may use any three characters instead of [,]. Y...

 
9:23 PM
@NewPosts I really want to answer this with an infinite list of all valid lists
 
Good luck :P
 
Testing it would be hell though
 
9:41 PM
Could someone help me check its validity? The way it works is this:
1. It adds "[]" to the infinite list list
2. For every prefix/subsequence starting at index 0 of the infinite list, it adds everything in that prefix to the infinite list, then adds each permutations of that prefix (wrapped in a list) to the infinite list
 
@user Will it ever reach [[[]],[]] or [[],[[]]]? I don't see them in the early outputs, anyway.
 
I think so?
Wait, no, good catch
Instead of each permutation of each prefix, it needs each permutation of each subset of each prefix
 
lol is there an oeis sequence of valid brackets
there should be
like, binary 1 is left 0 is right, and then every number which is all matched up
 
There probably is an OEIS like that, although that doesn't exactly map to emanresu A's challenge because there you also have to handle the commas.
 
s/][/],[/
 
9:48 PM
@thejonymyster oeis.org/A014486
 
yay!
@DLosc just do the commas after :P
actually, no :P because im not joking :)
(as lyxal would be quick to point out)
 
I feel like a regex-only solution to this challenge might be possible with a regex flavor that supports recursive matching
 
.NET can deifnitely handle this, it's got a feature specifically for matching brackets iirc
 
@des54321 regenerate 2.0
 
9:54 PM
the biggest problem would probably be preventing trailing commas
 
@DLosc Fixed
@emanresuA Is it okay if my program halts for truthy inputs and doesn't halt for falsy inputs?
 
There's rules against that somewhere on meta, so no
 
5
Q: Can Halting be considered output?

Wheat WizardI am currently designing a language that cannot halt unless it all of its memory is cleared, this means for any practical application it has no output whatsoever. However when the program does halt it does output HALTED. In languages otherwise incapable of traditional output can halting and non...

 
You don't have to solve the halting problem to check my answer though
You just need to check if the algorithm used is correct (which it probably isn't lol)
@user This is the first time in a while I've given symbol names to three different variables (<, ?, and >)
 
10:08 PM
@Draco18s get a quantum computer with virtually-infinite memory, install a decent APL distribution, and spend the time you wait for it to create an aging preventing serum, cos you'll have to sit tight for a couple centuries. — Uriel Jun 8, 2017 at 22:19
 
@des54321 i dont see how, just only allow commas between ][
 
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