The Nineteenth Byte

Calvin's Hobbies

16:07

@TheBestOne I know. I'm very used to that.

Optimizer

16:22

so.. should I post a meta post somewhere about the case of my missing bronze badge ?

can data.se give me a day-wise list of my bronze badges ?

pretty sure i had 85 last week.

TheBestOne

@MartinBüttner When will you do your Conquer the Solar System challenge?

Rainbolt

I asked a Code Review mod how they determine what best practice is.

in The 2nd Monitor, 6 mins ago, by rolfl

@Rainbolt By applying what is already understood to be best practice, by applying common conventions that are used... and, @Rainbolt - by doing the opposite of Code Golf ;-)

It would appear that by signing up for six new sites (StackEgg mania) I have surpassed 10k rep.

Optimizer

@Rainbolt @MartinBüttner @Doorknob

Geobits

That means you should now have the pleasure of seeing chat flags. Have fun with that.

Optimizer

Mods vs Mods - fight

Calvin's Hobbies

16:30

Speaking of badges, when did @MartinBüttner get gold number 11?

Optimizer

march 30 ?

Geobits

Populist for fifty shades: codegolf.stackexchange.com/help/badges/49/populist?userid=8478

Calvin's Hobbies

Damn that populist...

Oh well, I'm 2 questions away from socratic

Optimizer

wow nice!

lets just ping (poke) him a lot today

@MartinBüttner woo congrats !

rolfl

in The 2nd Monitor, Mar 24 '14 at 1:49, by Doorknob

See you mortal enemies later. :-)

We always win ;p

Optimizer

16:36

@rolfl keep dreaming !

wow, pretty sure this is not the right path -

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A: The race has started. Are you running?

This is just a friendly reminder to vote. You have 40 votes to use every day, and I don't see many reasons to not use them all. Your voting on answers is what makes the reviewing process fun. In case you don't think I practice what I preach.

Geobits

@Optimizer Ours wasn't much better in that regard:

> We've each got 40 votes a day. Let's all use them to our advantage. Vote up any fun or interesting challenge, and any good solution, preferrably ones with explanations.

rolfl

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Q: Code Review Graduation

I am pleased to announce that effective from September 22, Code Review has graduated! It has taken a bit of time for this announcement to filter through the red tape, so, today was the day we found out. Let's use this as a place to discuss, celebrate, and otherwise commiserate. Notes: Code Rev...

Ours was somewhat effective ;-)

Geobits

Meh, still not enough downvotes happening :P

Rainbolt

Using the current indicators for a healthy beta site, if we all upvoted 40 posts per day and never downvoted, we would probably be the healthiest beta site in existence. Quality... well... who needs that?

Geobits

@Rainbolt We should also each post a few junk questions, too. We need our Q/day stat up ;)

orlp

16:43

fun fact

Geobits

That wasn't fun or a fact

2

orlp

I once wrote code where it was faster to not check for integer overflow, producing incorrect results

but because it was a monte carlo method, the incorrect results didn't matter

so the code is 'bugged', but is faster and correct :)

Optimizer

I think PPCG being a bit different from normal SE sites, (where people post a lot about their problems) can never have a very high Q/day

and because of that difference only, we have a very high answer ratio

Rainbolt

@Geobits What does this comment remind you of?

@diego "This data does not exist." is a valid answer. "If it exists, I cannot find it." would be another valid answer. — Rainbolt 12 secs ago

Calvin's Hobbies

@Optimizer That's what I've always said. We should get Martin to talk to the graduators about that.

Optimizer

16:47

its more about competition here which warrants quality and well thought through questions with complete information

@Calvin'sHobbies totally

but then again

what do we get from graduation :D

he wont bother much, as always he hadn't

orlp

security

Calvin's Hobbies

Dignity?

Nifty icons?

Optimizer

fun ?

orlp

a beta can be shutdown at any moment

'sorry, fuck you'

Optimizer

@orlp not healthy one like ours

orlp

16:48

a main site is harder to just shut down like that

Optimizer

and if a main site is not performing, it can too

orlp

@Optimizer then why are we beta?

Optimizer

@orlp who knows

orlp

the whole point of a beta is to see if it works

Geobits

@Rainbolt It reminds me of the babe... The babe with the power...

Rainbolt

16:48

Beta sites get shut down after exactly four days of neglecting any particular aspect of the site.

orlp

if it clearly works, there's no point of being beta

Optimizer

if getting stats is the only factor, then why is CR not a beta ?

Rainbolt

@Geobits I was hoping it would remind you of our religious debate lol

Geobits

@Optimizer Getting stats isn't the only factor.

orlp

@Rainbolt maybe we should ask more questions to attract more traffic

and downvote for quality

Optimizer

16:49

@Geobits dude.

Geobits

@Rainbolt It was familiar, just couldn't place.

orlp

do we still have a moderator flag left, now buetnerr is moderator?

Optimizer

@Geobits I said the exact same thing . blindo :P

Geobits

@Optimizer Blindo? I'm still not seeing exactly that. I see an ambiguous line that could maybe be taken that way, or completely the opposite.

But okay.

Optimizer

@Geobits see the line above it

Geobits

16:51

> if it clearly works, there's no point of being beta

:P

Optimizer

if getting stats was the only factor. Which I think, clearly implies that I am referring that getting stats isn't

needs more that

Calvin's Hobbies

Blog - Stack Exchange: When Will My Site Graduate?

Robert Cartaino on October 20, 2010

At 90 days into beta, we’re supposed to evaluate each Area 51 beta site and either “pass” or “fail” them as full Stack Exchange sites. Some sites feel they’re not going to make it.

The Geographic Information Systems SE site has one more day of beta. We are Excellent in Qs answered and answer ratio, Okay in visits/day and Worrying in number of questions and number of avid users.

Are the admins planning to shut us down?

Please don’t! We may be small, but we’re good and growing. I’ve been working in the GIS field for almost 15 years and been acti …

We are way past the 90 day mark...

Geobits

@Optimizer Or you're legitimately asking why CR is graduating. That's what I thought.

Rainbolt

@orlp Of course we'll still have moderator flags. Why wouldn't we?

Optimizer

@Geobits haha, I was giving an example proving my point that stats generally dont matter strictly

Geobits

16:53

You get an extra flag once you graduate, too.

Optimizer

@Geobits but raiders try to keep using them

orlp

shit

will raiders restart PPCG?

Optimizer

they are trying even now

orlp

17:04

zzz

people misspelling my name as orip

New Sandboxed Posts

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Write code with the character count being the answer count You know, code-golfing is really cool. People take all sorts of code, and compact it into teeny-tiny byte-sized code! But I want to take it to the extreme, one- and two-characters long! So, here is my challenge: Write any code, with the ...

Optimizer

pretty sure its o reversed h and opposite b

orlp

@Optimizer I think you might have some keming issues

Rainbolt

I love Urban Dictionary's take on this. "What the font were you thinking?"

Geobits

Most [answer-chaining] challenges make answers harder or more interesting as the chain gets bigger, right? I feel this proposal does the opposite, but I've already killed (or helped kill) two of his proposals today. Anyone else have an opinion?

Sp3000

17:21

I commented once, I don't feel like commenting again :/

But basically as it stands the longer it gets the more padding there'll be

randomra

idea: going back from 100-length codes, and print every answers first char

@Geobits

Geobits

So answer 98 prints the first character from answer 99?

Or the first chars from 99 and 100?

randomra

99 and 100, in answer order

Geobits

Hmm. So what does 100 output, nothing?

100 chars to output nothing. Sounds like a job for Java!

randomra

maybe decrease length by 5, as there won't be that much answer, around the 50's is the interesting part

Geobits

17:26

Go ahead and make the suggestion on the sandbox post, it sounds better to me.

randomra

@Geobits nothing seems fine

can you do, if you have time

I can't type much nowdays :(

Geobits

I've been actively trying to not comment on it lol.

Martin Büttner

@Calvin'sHobbies the other day. ;)

@orlp I am amazed how you consistently get the umlaut transliteration right but the consonants wrong ;)

4

Sp3000

Gotta get used to Martin Bluer

Martin Büttner

@Geobits I'm actually visiting my family this week(end) ... hence only sporadic activity. ;)

randomra

17:35

added comment (meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/5019/7311)

Martin Büttner

@TheBestOne some day ;)

Calvin's Hobbies

@Sp3000 I still say M suffices

Were no languages made in 2011?

Geobits

I guess I'm just G then.

Sp3000

I'm still waiting :( there are 2011 ones, just nobody posting

Dart's probably the main one

Doorknob

@MartinBüttner Want the honor of [status-completed]'ing this? :P

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Q: Replacement moderator proposal

As some of you know, I've joined Stack Exchange today as a core developer. As such, I'll be stepping down as a moderator. It's been a fun four years, and I'll miss this community a lot. In exiting my moderation role, I've been thinking about whom I'd like to see join on as a moderator in my plac...

discussion moderators

Martin Büttner

17:48

done, thanks ;)

rcrmn

Congratulations!

Geobits

@Sp3000 I was wanting to post for Go (2009), so I can't do 2011 or I'll have to sit it out :(

Sp3000

Man, 2009's where all the cool stuff happens

Optimizer

like ?

Martin Büttner

I won't post again until we get to 2005

Sp3000

17:54

Coffeescript, ><> and Velato

Geobits

@Optimizer I moved to Japan in 2009, that was pretty damned cool ;)

Sp3000

@MartinBüttner Prelude? :D

randomra

@Sp3000 I checked, whether you can post ><> :)

Martin Büttner

@Sp3000 :)

(although GCD will be horrible)

Sp3000

@randomra Were you thinking of doing ><> too?

Optimizer

17:55

@Geobits that is cool

randomra

@Sp3000 not that much

writing the p1- ><> now

Sp3000

Ah k

Geobits

I'd like to get 1985 (QuickBasic) too, but that might take a while. Good ol' QBasic... I spent way too much time with that as a kid :)

Sp3000

By the time we get to, say, Common Lisp, Retina will be on +50 or something :P

TheBestOne

Plankalkül

Plankalkül (German pronunciation: [ˈplaːnkalkyːl], "Plan Calculus") is a programming language designed for engineering purposes by Konrad Zuse between 1943 and 1945. It was the first high-level non-von Neumann programming language to be designed for a computer. Also, notes survive with scribblings about such a plan calculation dating back to 1941. Plankalkül was not published at that time owing to a combination of factors such as conditions in wartime and postwar Germany and his efforts to commercialise the Z3 computer and its successors. In 1944 Zuse met with the German logician and philosopher...

Martin Büttner

18:05

@Sp3000 I'm honestly quite baffled how many upvotes it got without any explanation

Sp3000

"Retina is a regex-based programming language" then proceed to solve task 2 and 3 is enough for most people, I think :P

Martin Büttner

well, gotta head out again... when I get back tonight, I'll finish that explanation and then start finding my way around this moderation thing ;)

Sp3000

:) once again, congrats

TheBestOne

18:24

Ignore Question Marks.

Sp3000

in Red vs. Blue - Pixel Team Battlebots, yesterday, by Sp3000

Tiny hint: It's better to be below than above ;D

orlp

@MartinBüttner I'm sorry Mr. Buettnerr

:D

Rainbolt

18:41

@orlp I hereby dub thee örrlep.

Sp3000

19:03

Hooray, Dart is in

Calvin's Hobbies

Dart

Yep

Sp3000

This could be a guessing game - I reckon Rust is next :P

PhiNotPi

19:21

Finally finished Element. I had to reacquaint myself, rather painfully, with all the quirks in the language.

Sp3000

Nice :)

randomra

this was updated:

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Shortening code (No title, some help please?) I'd like to give credit to randomra, who helped me with my old idea and gave me this new one. You know, code-golfing is really cool. People take a challenge, and it slowly gets smaller! But let's speed this up extremely. So, here is my challenge...

Hosch250

If I was a Blue, I'd just post my bot and tag along with you two.

Compass

Not sure if intentional rhyme, but that can be considered a crime.

Hosch250

What Red needs to do is get a killer combination set up, and not post it until the last second.

@Compass Huh?

Compass

19:24

Blue and two rhyme with each other.

Hosch250

Yeah, what is criminal about it?

Compass

It makes me read things in iambic pentameter when I shouldn't.

Hosch250

Then don't.

Are you going to write a Red bot?

Compass

I have no idea what bots we are writing.

PhiNotPi

@Sp3000 Why do you think of Element?

Compass

19:26

I just like reading code golf.

Hosch250

Red Team Chat for Pixel Team Battlebots

Chat for the Red Team to Discuss Strategies for Calvin's Pixel...

You are a Red.

PhiNotPi

I admit some of it is rather awkward.

orlp

FILTHY RED

Sp3000

The string thing looks pretty awkward in particular

Rainbolt

I'm surprised that nobody has actually started recruiting reds or blues.

Hosch250

19:27

@orlp If my bot continues improving at the current rate, it will be KILLER.

@Rainbolt If you were a Red, I'd recruit you, but you can just stay out of it :)

Rainbolt

I mean, given the tendency of PPCG to try to win by raiding other sites, recruiting users to suit your cause aught to be a no brainer.

Hosch250

@Rainbolt Trouble is, we don't know if our recruit will end up being Red or Blue.

Compass

I don't feel like I'd make a very good battlebot warrior

Rainbolt

I thought it was based on user number

Compass

I'd probably mow down my own teammates

Calvin's Hobbies

19:29

@Rainbolt Yes but I'd call that unsportsmanlike and take action faster than SE.

Rainbolt

I need to reread the challenge apparently.

Compass

Oh no, what if people start hiring mercenaries to sabotage their team? The horror! [/sarcasm]

Hosch250

@Rainbolt It is, but our recruit might not have an account.

randomra

@PhiNotPi I will definitely not do the metaOEIS challenge so if you (or anyone else) want to use any part of my idea, just do so.

Sp3000

@PhiNotPi "that control stack starts empty, we it so that the while loop starts" - we it?

Compass

19:30

if i were to make a bot it'd probably just be a chaotic bot.

Hosch250

I found two people who have accounts on PPCG, but they are Blue's, so I'm not going to recruit them.

Rainbolt

I didn't mean recruit people to repeatedly create accounts until they roll your team. I meant "Rainbolt. You're a blue. Join our cause?"

Compass

My algorithm would basically look to see if it can crush an enemy and try to do so. If I break even that's good enough, right?

Hosch250

A third Blue.

5 Blues.

Compass

Also, are we sure this will fit into a StackSnippet?

isn't the cap on the website 25K chars?

Hosch250

19:35

I think it just pulls the data from the answers, it isn't all posted in the snippet.

Compass

ah

Calvin's Hobbies

@Compass The post limit is 30k chars (and I think RvB is very close even with the minified JS). But yeah, it loads the answers dynamically, no length limit

Compass

Glorious

Hmmm, maybe a follow-the-leader bot would work.

Calvin's Hobbies

Well, besides that answers can't be more than 30k chars

Hosch250

Mine is currently a follow-Minos bot.

PhiNotPi

19:36

@Sp3000 fixed now, I think

Hosch250

But, TheBestOne and I are going to sync ours and make a Red team.

Sp3000

GCD at least looks somewhat normal :P

PhiNotPi

The ASCII N? Not so much probably.

Sp3000

I think if you manage the way I did it it might be shorter

Optimizer's probably not trying, but the CJam one can be golfed similarly

Hosch250

@Doorknob Come help Red!

PhiNotPi

19:41

I was think of doing it that way, but I just haven't tried yet.

Optimizer

@Sp3000 its not code-golf :P

Sp3000

I know, hence why I said you probably weren't treating it as such :P

Optimizer

Both the mods are RED and still we are losing like shit

Hosch250

My bot tagging along with Minos helps somewhat, but Blue still wins the majority.

Doorknob

heh

PhiNotPi

19:44

How does [:-1] work in Pyth/Python?

Hosch250

I think TheBestOne and I are going to try to protect Minos and sacrifice ourselves to split the Sphi--bots up.

Then, Minos can clean up.

Sp3000

All but last char

orlp

a[:-1] becomes a[0:len(a)-1]

Sp3000

^^ that. I'm assuming that would be like Element's )? If you remove the uncons'd char afterwards.

Calvin's Hobbies

19:57

My next koth (all-vs-all, no teams): Ant Colony Dominion

controller ready in a few days hopefully

Sp3000

Why not Rats Infestation Dominion? :D

PhiNotPi

@Calvin'sHobbies Bring it on.

Calvin's Hobbies

Red vs. Blue, Dominion...its hard to write a catchy title that doesn't reference something else

Sp3000

Woop it's dawn and it's still not 2010. Better go sleep.

orlp

@Calvin'sHobbies I have a catchy title

"Ants vs Ants"

Hosch250

20:05

We need a KOTH Wumpus hunt.

Geobits

Snipes are more fun to hunt. Elusive little bastards.

PhiNotPi

Snipe hunts are buckets of fun.

Hosch250

Never done it.

PhiNotPi

Well, you've been missing out.

Hosch250

You guys just sent me on a productive snipe hunt to find what it is.

PhiNotPi

20:10

Geobits agrees.

Hosch250

Snipe hunt

A snipe hunt or fool's errand is a type of practical joke that involves experienced people making fun of credulous newcomers by giving them an impossible or imaginary task. The snipe hunt may be assigned to a target as part of a process of hazing. A snipe hunt is a specific type of "wild-goose chase", where a person embarks on an impossible search. Where a wild-goose chase may be accidental, a snipe hunt is always initiated by a second person, as a prank. == Etymology == The origin of the term is a practical joke where inexperienced campers are told about an imaginary bird or animal called the...

orlp

Compute the last digit of pi.

randomra

@Sp3000 posted the fish solution: codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/48504/7311

Geobits

@Hosch250 Watching people trying to find (and wipe up) voltage leaks is also good fun :D

Hosch250

Don't worry, I'll never do it.

Geobits

20:13

Hunt snipes? What, are you some kind of environmentalist? ;)

Hosch250

No, wipe up voltage leaks.

Geobits

But then the electrons get everywhere!

Hosch250

Let them.

The more the better.

randomra

@Geobits they are already everywhere...

Geobits

You still can't have them just leaking all over the place. It's bad housekeeping. Geez...

randomra

20:18

I just mop them up every week with some positrons.

orlp

negatron

neutron

positron

imagitron

irratiotron

Hosch250

Sillotron

orlp

transcedentron

Tron.

Hosch250

Megatron

Rainbolt

Tron

Hosch250

20:21

And if we want to get meta, there is always the Metatron

Geobits

These are all episode names for the upcoming Tron series?

TheBestOne

A snipe is an actual bird. They're legal to hunt in Idaho and Montana. I don't know about elsewhere.

Here's a picture of one:

Hosch250

My family saw some Wilson's Snipes yesterday.

New Sandboxed Posts

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Another ASCII Restriction Challenge? (answer-chaining) So recently, I was clicking around, and found this beautiful gem of a challenge. I wanted to participate, but sadly, only 8 characters remained, and being me, a lazy person faithful coder, could not answer because I'm too lazy to write an an...

Hosch250

I've never seen them.

orlp

20:22

@TheBestOne what a qt3.14

TheBestOne

I've had them in my front yard before.

Hosch250

@TheBestOne Any success with your bot?

TheBestOne

I've been doing school all day. It might be a few hours before I can work on it.

Hosch250

OK.

PhiNotPi

One time I saw a multiple-foot-tall bird in my yard. I have no earthly idea where it came from.

Geobits

20:25

Probably Australia.

Hosch250

@PhiNotPi Where do you live?

TheBestOne

Or the ocean.

Hosch250

Was it an Egret? Sandhill Crane?

Heron?

Was it white?

Calvin's Hobbies

@PhiNotPi Maybe you thought your tv was a window

3

TheBestOne

@Hosch250 He lives in Kentucky i think.

Hosch250

20:27

A Wild Turkey, maybe?

Rainbolt

Are there places where multiple foot tall birds are uncommon? We've got them everywhere in Texas.

Nearly every lake has a heron that acts like he owns the place.

TheBestOne

@Rainbolt South pole.

Geobits

Texas is uncommon by definition, isn't it?

Rainbolt

Are penguins not multiple feet tall? (Or does the south pole not have penguins?)

Hosch250

We have Great Egrets, Sandhill Crane, and Great Blue Egrets around here.

bing.com/search?q=height+of+penguin&form=MOZSBR

43–51 in. tall.

Rainbolt

20:29

Ok, then my question stands

I also have to wonder: whose back yard is near the south pole?

randomra

@Optimizer lenguage wouldn't work as row/column/diagonal would be the same

Optimizer

@randomra spaces ?

randomra

lenguage only uses the length of the code AFAIK

Hosch250

Whoops, Great Blue Herons.

TheBestOne

@Rainbolt My house is about .05 ls from there.

Hosch250

20:38

@TheBestOne .05 whats?

TheBestOne

ls

Rainbolt

Light-second

A light-second is a unit of length useful in astronomy, telecommunications and relativistic physics. It is defined as the distance that light travels in free space in one second, and is equal to exactly 299,792,458 metres or just over 186,282 miles. Just as the second forms the basis for other units of time, the light-second can form the basis for other units of length, ranging from the light-nanosecond (just under one U.S. or imperial foot) to the light-minute, light-hour and light-day, which are sometimes used in popular science publications. The more commonly used light-year is also presently...

TheBestOne

Interesting fact: Lewiston, Idaho is the most inland port on the west coast of North America.

Rainbolt

Also could mean "Light Speed", "Living Sacrifice", or "Light Saber", but I'm using context clues.

orlp

fun fact

TheBestOne

20:41

The bottom of the page gives the correct abbreviation.

orlp

the speed of light is constant in every reference frame

PhiNotPi

List the files in the current working directory?

orlp

except your mom, it seems to be unable to escape from her

TheBestOne

Ahem: in every inertial reference frame

Rainbolt

You live 0.05 Lynyrd Skynyrds away from the South Pole

TheBestOne

20:43

No I don't.

Rainbolt

Wasn't talking to you.

Hosch250

for (j = 0; j < 7; j++) {

j wasn't declared with var.

Unless I'm missing something, that is.

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A: Red vs. Blue - Pixel Team Battlebots

Blue Team - SphiNotPi3000 // Char 0: top or bottom ("T" or "B") // Char 1, 2: x/y coords // Char 3, move polarity // Char 4: offset (as codepoint - 128) var twin = 21487; var myself = 2867; var formpos = "T"; var tochar = String.fromCharCode; var movestat = (move % 2).toString(); var inbox = ...

Same here:

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A: Red vs. Blue - Pixel Team Battlebots

Blue Team - SphiNotPi3000 // Char 0: top or bottom ("T" or "B") // Char 1, 2: x/y coords // Char 3, move polarity // Char 4: offset (as codepoint - 128) var myself = 21487; var twin = 2867; var formpos = "B"; var tochar = String.fromCharCode; var movestat = (move % 2).toString(); var inbox = ...

PhiNotPi

Oh well, I guess. It doesn't seem to have any bizarre effects.

Rainbolt

21:24

Lol, this made me laugh.

-4

Q: My Multiplayer of Minecraft CRASHES!

Im Going In Mineplex That Is a Server in Minecraft And it CRASHES!!

minecraft minecraft-server

Don't even bother clicking on it. The onebox covers it.

Alex A.

21:55

I got Julia in @Calvin'sHobbies's history challenge. Luckily the next language I want to do is exactly 5 years older than Julia so it's legit. 2007 shall be the year of the lol. LOLCODE, that is.

@TheBestOne: I live close to what is probably the least inland port on the west coast of the US.

PhiNotPi

22:12

Don't know where the Sandbox Bot is, but here's a new sandbox post: meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/5021/2867

New Sandboxed Posts

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

A Continuously Running KOTH, or "An MMO with all AIs" This was an idea discussed in chat, I'm throwing a sandbox post together because I thought it would be really fun to do. The main idea is that the KOTH is hosted an an external website, where the competitions is continuously running. When a...

PhiNotPi

Normally it doesn't take that long.

orlp

22:29

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Q: Write an URL compressor

Today your goal is to invent URL compression. You must write two programs: a compressor and a decompressor. The compressor will be called with one URL on stdin and its output will be read on stdout. The decompressor will be called with the output of the compressor on stdin, and must produce the...

kolmogorov-complexity restricted-source compression

PhiNotPi

My auto-visit PPCG script isn't working.

I need to fix that.

orlp

someone is a 'fanatic'

Chris Jester-Young

@PhiNotPi Are you trying to get the 100-day streak? I've found that using the mobile app is a great way to keep your streak.

PhiNotPi

Whenever I create a new task, it executes, but I haven't witnessed it executing on the second day after creation, even when I click the "Run" button in Task Scheduler.

Chris Jester-Young

@Hosch250 In idiomatic JS, vars are supposed to be declared at the top of the function, rather than where it's first used.

PhiNotPi

22:42

@ChrisJester-Young Yes, I'm on day 66 right now and am leaving on "vacation" in two days.

Chris Jester-Young

@PhiNotPi Well then, it still sounds like the mobile app is the best idea.

Just remember to use the app to visit Code Golf every day.

TheBestOne

@orlp Compresser: url.replaceAll("http(s?)://", "$1");

orlp

@TheBestOne how will you decode that?

you have no way of differentiating between http and https at the decoder

PhiNotPi

I have a "dumb phone" and cg.se isn't loading at all.

TheBestOne

Decompresser: url.replaceAll("^(s?)","http$1://");

orlp

22:49

@TheBestOne nevermind, misread your regex

either way, that's a start

you still have ~950 chars left to increase compression!

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