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Given a positive integer N, output a grid with area N and height and width dimensions as close together as possible, so as for the output to be an almost-square. The output can be a 2d array of characters/numbers/etc. or be a single string of characters separated by newlines. You may use any valu...

code-golf

noodle person

I kinda want to bounty akamayu's Dyalog APL solution too. It's very clever

and very underseen

@RubenVerg Clicking the link doesn't work for me

Says the page took too long to respond

By the way, how can I check out golf together? I haven't really looked into it but I am a fan of the concept

@emanresuA I think it's a good idea because a lot of people have posted answers which were wrong. It's easy to miss, the format for the song and the lyrics are different site to site

Nevermind, found golf together's link 82.66.97.238:20080

It doesn't let me make my username "Jacob" :o

What are the rules for a legal username?

att

01:00

when 4 chars wasnt enough i gave up

noodle person

Lol

I tried "Jacob1" which I thought would work because lyxal got "lyxal3" which is the same length

but it didn't

lyxal

@noodleperson I also got lyxal, lyxal2 and lyxal4

noodle person

Okay yeah so clearly it's bugged

lyxal

I keep forgetting my password so I just make a new account each time lol

noodle person

Or Maddie changed the rules

lyxal

01:13

I just managed to get lyxal5

emanresu A

so TIL that javascript will throw "too much recursion" on catastrophic regex backtracking

att

@noodleperson there could be a cool save if only dyalog had fold with initial value

ATaco

Hey gamers, it's time to write another Regular Expressions System 😎

noodle person

@att Oh? What would that be?

Seggan

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att

01:17

@noodleperson ⍴/ the result of ⍸

noodle person

Oh hm

att

doable in bqn maybe

noodle person

Why would that work?

Oh nvm I get it

That's smart

att

feels like it's been ages since i used bqn

noodle person

I've never tried it. I want to though

I've used Uiua a lot, which I know takes inspiration from BQN

att

01:19

i went apl->bqn->k and stuck with k

noodle person

I know a bit of APL.

I know TinyAPL much better than Dyalog

I also know some J

att

j is the big major array language i never really learned

lyxal

@noodleperson Feels like you'd need to know more than a fraction of a byte to use a language

noodle person

@lyxal Correction: I know all of APL. A, P, L

Neil

@ATaco did you just watch that stand up maths video?

lyxal

01:25

@noodleperson much better

ATaco

01:45

@Neil Close, a 3Brown1Blue video

l4m2

06:57

codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/a/26575/76323 Suggestion?

Themoonisacheese

08:56

@l4m2 not much to suggest on my end but i feel like the fact this requires your language to hold references or pointers in arrays massively limits what languages can do it

then again not doing that changes the challenge significantly in terms of what maths it is equivalent to so idk

l4m2

@Themoonisacheese Last paragraph expilictly allow valuey input, no pointer needed for a lang to solve

Themoonisacheese

don't know how i missed that

that's better but i still think it would end up requiring you to reimplement a version of pointers using that

not that it matters to me anyway this is the type of challenge that's way over my head so you can probably disregard what i'm saying

RubenVerg

11:59

@noodleperson yeah limit was 6 characters

changed to 5 now

noodle person

Ok cool

Why didn't "Jacob1" work then? Was there a problem with my password I guess?

RubenVerg

@noodleperson it worked fine for me when i tested it out

there are no requirements on the password

(except that it can't be empty)

noodle person

Ok. I just made an account :)

Have you noticed that your server is very slow?

It took like six or seven seconds to redirect me to the homepage

RubenVerg

@noodleperson yeah the pi which was routing the requests died again

@noodleperson it's a database problem, it's across the ocean from the server

we're working on solving that

noodle person

You could use a cloud hosted database closer to your pi or something

RubenVerg

12:02

currently it's on a server in france generously lent by Themoonisacheese

and the database is on Supabase

noodle person

supabase.com/docs/guides/platform/regions

It says there's a location in Paris

RubenVerg

i vaguely remember not being able to choose the region in free

noodle person

eu-west-3

Oh hm.

RubenVerg

and you cannot move databases that already exist

we're working on putting it locally

and mirror the changes on Supabase as a backup

but it's turned out to be more complex than we thought

noodle person

Hmmm

lyxal

12:29

@noodleperson managed to read "seconds" as "weeks"

noodle person

So when can I expect to see your homepage after logging in?
About 6-8 weeks

Themoonisacheese

13:07

about the more complex than we thought: help is wanted from someone with experience in ipv6 networking because i'm way out of my depth

@RubenVerg dumping the db and recreating it in eu-west-3 is also an option btw

provided it's possible to choose the location of course which it might not be

RubenVerg

I'll check

heh, can only create two free projects and one of them is the test one

The Empty String Photographer

16:56

Discovered a new way to take fractions of numbers in a golfy way in Desmos

In Desmos, x.1 is interpreted as x*0.1, or x/10

rydwolf

17:27

Week-long fence hold is finally over

Academically I'm deeply fucked but I organized something that brought hope to more people than I could ever count so I'm happy nonetheless

Ginger

as you should be

rydwolf

All week we've had people (including tons of profs) who've come by to say thanks or give us free food

We're organizing a (one night) fence painting for Trans Day of Remembrance which I'm pretty excited for

Oh also my advisor is fully onboard with my new career plan (and a big fan of the fence) and gave me a ton of useful info :D

Ginger

I suppose I can't exactly thank you directly since I, uh, wasn't there :p
but I can thank you for organizing it and (as you said) bringing hope to so many; your work has a bigger impact than you can ever know

rydwolf

Did I show y'all pictures of it?

Ginger

I don't think so?

it's things like this that keep me going ngl
reassurance that... how'd you put it? this too shall pass
blah I can't words. need water

The Empty String Photographer

17:38

@DJMcMayhem Your message ID is the first 8 digits of pi!

rydwolf

I'm currently trying to download the fence pics off instagram and it is taking a whole long time lol

god this is so infuriating

Here's the only one I could get

All of us standing in front of the republicans' fence

Ginger

yall's faces are like eight pixels each :p

rydwolf

Here's the front

And here's the cool side

You can't see most of the detail but it's breathtaking in person

Ginger

that's awesome :p

rydwolf

Me last night :D

We had it lit up for a few nights

You can think Milwaukee, CAT, Lockheed Martin (lmao), and a few other of our robotics club's sponsors for the equipment lol

(The irony of lockmart unintentionally being a small part of what enabled this fence to exist is beautiful to me)

Apparently the community engagement fellowship would give me $3k in funding for further efforts which would be sick as fuck

So I'll definitely apply for that

rydwolf

18:07

Also, unrelated note, I fully support Redz as a nominee for RO--she's been a great RO in TGC

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Ginger

agreed

the argument against her seems to be that she lacks experience with CGCC, but I think this community really isn't that different from PLDI, especially given how PLDI came to be in the first place

6

chat is not letting me check how many messages she has here because she's been offline for two weeks :|

rydwolf

> The MCAT score range is 472–528

...why not just make it 0 to 56 ffs

Ginger

18:22

magnificent cat appreciation test?

rydwolf

duh :p

(the med school admissions test lol)

Ginger

ah

your chat bio still says "future president" :p

rydwolf

oops

Ginger

trnas/gender-affirming

rydwolf

shut up

fixed :p

Ginger

18:24

trnasgedner

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rydwolf

skamtebord

Ginger

true!

at some point I want to revisit my shitty chat website, because I think I've finally solved the problem of authenticating users

and the solution is WebAuthn (my beloved)

a way to prove your identity that doesn't need you to trust me with your password and doesn't depend on an external authentication provider

Sandbox Posts

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Ginger

the only problem with it is that I think FF has slightly flaky support for it?

maybe they changed this but last time I tried to use it with FF it didn't work because it wanted a hardware security key and I store my keys on my phone

and I'm loath to use something that Firefox doesn't support

~~never mind all the times I've done that inadverdently...~~

RubenVerg

20:42

@Ginger it seems really really complex

Ginger

we'll see :3c

ATaco

22:27

@Ginger 100% of the reason I haven't voted for yet is the lack of recent chat history.

I suspect a lot of voters think similarly

Ginger

she's on hiatus for a few weeks, that's why

ATaco

Respectable, but doesn't make for an active RO

Ginger

people don't go on hiatus all the time :|

this was an unfortunate accident of scheduling

lyxal

@ATaco if the vote was at a different time it'd be a different story

Redz has proven to be an active RO of TGC

Ginger

xnor hasn't been seen for, oh, two years

lyxal

22:38

^

Bubbler hasn't been seen around very much either

ATaco

Which is why we're doing a vote isn't it?

lyxal

A school camp shouldn't be a reason you don't vote for someone

ATaco

Yeah, but I only have anecdotal motivation to vote for them

I'm not saying they wouldn't be a good RO, which is why I haven't down-voted.

Just wilfully abstaining.

(And explaining that it's probably the same reason many are doing the same)

I don't wish my abstinence to be misinterpreted as a lack of trust in their ability.

Ginger

(redz uses she/her fwiw)

ATaco

(Ah, I was playing it safe with theys)

att

23:14

@rydwolf you can be both

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