The Nineteenth Byte

J Atkin

18:00

I need to check that out..

My current style

ETHproductions

Yeah, let's see... his's called Exo 2, I think

google.com/fonts/specimen/Exo+2

Hmm, the "favorite" icon is just a blank hexagon

Martin Büttner

@Doorknob 17 hours and no one had posted a Retina answer to the Spanish conjugation challenge yet. phew... :) (I saw it this morning and thought it would be really simple in Retina, but didn't have time to tackle it until now.)

ETHproductions

Wait, Exo 2 is just for the header

Ah, it's Source Sans Pro

google.com/fonts/specimen/Source+Sans+Pro

Oh shoot, I'm almost out of votes on PPCG meta

Martin Büttner

elections do that.

ETHproductions

Maybe I shouldn't have upvoted all of the suggested categories on that page...

(jk, I didn't upvote them all)

"You have 2 votes left today" Well there would be a ton more left if people would just stop posting good suggestions for categories!!!

Optimizer

18:17

@JAtkin nahh

Martin Büttner

@ETHproductions then you'd have to downvote them instead though :P

PhiNotPi

@JAtkin I don't like the transparency of the questions box.

quartata

I wish we could have one unified userscript instead of like ten

J Atkin

You get to pick and choose the best parts

quartata

I'm no good at dissecting javascript

ETHproductions

18:20

Maybe I'll create one where you can separately specify which spritesheets, fonts, and backgrounds you want to use

quartata

I mostly just want Conor's style with Downgoat's buttons/badges

I was under the impression that was what we agreed on, at least

PhiNotPi

Well, if we want to come up with a "final design for graduation" then we should start organizing an attempt to combine these userscripts.

quartata

Yeah.

It would be easier if we could get Conor to actually work on the userscript cracks whip

PhiNotPi

Move this conversation over to the design room?

ETHproductions

gist.github.com/ETHproductions/60a9d536c4da056488dd

Slightly more customizable version

@PhiNotPi Sure, can only mods do that?

PhiNotPi

18:27

Or at least we can continue talking over there.

Cyoce

Hey guys

quartata

@MartinBüttner It's hard to tell from all the 20-byte solutions labeled "super duper cheating," but it does in fact appear that primo set a new record on anarchy golf: golf.shinh.org/l.rb?bf

Cool stuff.

Martin Büttner

@quartata Oh, I didn't even check the plain helloworld challenge.

quartata

:P

Martin Büttner

I like how ev3 submitted it as well...

@quartata I had just seen this: golf.shinh.org/p.rb?Helloworldless+Hello+world but it also has 92 just as the plain HW

quartata

18:34

18 nooodl 24 0.0105 2014/09/27 22:18:48 1B / ?B / ?B

Now who could this fellow be ;)

@Mauris have you betrayed us? Have you gone to the dark side... of Anarchy Golf?

Martin Büttner

an improvement of 11 bytes is absolutely crazy. I really wonder though what the actually optimal solution would be (and whether the program would still make sense to a human).

quartata

lol

quintopia

19:08

@MartinBüttner well, the search space is down to only like 2^244 possible programs now. We could probably brute force that in less than a year with a distributed search...

TIL Perl is not an acronym

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Q: Make a Frogger Solver

🐸🐸 You must make the shortest program to always find the optimal solution to a simplified Frogger game on a 9x9 grid. Course Elements: L - Log (Length: 3-4). When you hop on a log it carries you with it. V - Vehicle (Length: 1-2) Speed (1-2): On the left hand side of the row will be the s...

Thomas Kwa

@quintopia 2^244 is about the number of elementary particles in the universe.

TimmyD

@quintopia Pretty Esoteric Real Language

TanMath

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Start a word with the end of a word When I was younger, I use to play a word game. It was very simple. The first player chooses a word, the next player says another word that starts with the same letter the previous word ended with. This goes on forever until somebody gives up! Trick is, you can...

quintopia

@ThomasKwa good to know. Obviously we need some good heuristics to weed out programs that could never work without executing them, and a good portion of the planet's computational resources to work with. But even if it takes 1 second to run each program, we can still brute force the full, un-streamlined set in only 9E56 years! According to current theories that means we could know BEFORE the heat death of the universe. And that's assuming only a billion computers are working on it!

TanMath

19:23

what do you guys think?

quintopia

@TanMath that game is called Geography. It is known to be PSPACE-complete. If it's not a duplicate, it is a good challenge.

how do I put spoilers in an answer?

TanMath

@quintopia >!

quintopia

thx

TanMath

>! Hello! this is some really big spoiler

come on! it doesn't work in chat!

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Start a word with the end of a word When I was younger, I use to play a word game. It was very simple. The first player chooses a word, the next player says another word that starts with the same letter the previous word ended with. This goes on forever until somebody gives up! Trick is, you can...

TanMath

19:29

@quintopia it is called a word chain... thanks!

Do you think there are enough testcases?

ok... so there is a similar challenge that uses the three last letters... would mine be a duplicate?

actually nvm.. that challenge is not even a code golf challenge

quintopia

19:47

@TanMath en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_geography

Zgarb

@TanMath About your sandbox challenge: should the output sequence be maximal in some sense

TanMath

@quintopia i have put a link in the question...do you want me to put this one instead?

@Zgarb ?

Zgarb

@TanMath Accidental enter...

TanMath

@Zgarb true, but it depends on the input list...

Do you mean you want me to say that " you must print thr longest possible sequence"?

quintopia

@TanMath No, this is for your own interest

Zgarb

19:50

@TanMath Either that, or "a sequence that cannot be extended anymore".

TanMath

@quintopia oh, ok..

@Zgarb ok, thanks!

Zgarb

Will all the input words be lowercase ASCII only? And can the input list contain duplicates?

TanMath

@Zgarb all will be lowercase ASCII...the list may not contain duplicates...

Zgarb

@TanMath Ok, good. That's all the clarifications I can think of now.

TanMath

@Zgarb Thank you, I will put all of this in the challenge specifications!

BlockCoder1392

19:57

Hellooooehellooohelloeoohleo

ETHproductions

Heeelelellellelloello

BlockCoder1392

yup.

RikerW

@NewSandboxedPosts Thank you.

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Do-nothing Polyglot Challenge This challenge requires you to write a polyglot which contains a comment in as many languages as possible. The comment must say This is a polyglot comment. The program must do nothing at all. Besides comments, your code may contain no-ops from the language(s) you...

RikerW

Thank you again @NewSandboxedPosts.

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Q: Create an ASCII-to-hex table for Mark Watney

Inspired by this SciFi.SE question. Background (with spoiler): Challenge With no input, output the following ASCII table exactly like this: Dec Hex Dec Hex Dec Hex Dec Hex Dec Hex Dec Hex Dec Hex Dec Hex 0 00 NUL 16 10 DLE 32 20 48 30 0 64 40 @ 80 50 P 96 60 ` 1...

code-golf kolmogorov-complexity

RikerW

Thank you @NewMainPosts.

You guys are on a roll! :P

mbomb007

carrot.carrot

RikerW

^

flawr

@trichoplax Nope, it is calle Swine.

> "(...) Pearls before Swine"

RikerW

^^^

^

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^^^^

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^^^^^

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^^^^^^

Martin Büttner

20:19

you're working hard towards your chat suspension ;)

RikerW

Ok.

I did stop though.

ETHproductions

^^^^^^^ ^
^   ^ ^ ^
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^^^ ^ ^ ^

RikerW

@MartinBüttner But it looks cool, so it can't possibly be bad!

BlockCoder1392

@ETHproductions w0t

flawr

@RikerW I'm not gonna bring any counter examples based on Nazi symbolism.

RikerW

20:20

@flawr Thank you.

@flawr cool salamander.

flawr

I do not get what you want to say^^

RikerW

I don't know either. :P

flawr

You're 14?

BlockCoder1392

No.

RikerW

@flawr 13

Dennis

20:25

Is codegolf.stackexchange.com down for everyone or just me?

flawr

Oh, moons != month.

RikerW

@Dennis Just you.

ETHproductions

@Dennis Not for me.

flawr

@Dennis You've been banned.

RikerW

ninjaed

Dennis

20:25

ERR_CONTENT_LENGTH_MISMATCH

What is this I don't even.

Optimizer

it means that you've not golfed enough

flawr

@Dennis Reason: Too much golf, not enough code.

RikerW

Opposite ninjas. :P

@Dennis What browser?

Optimizer

samuraied

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BlockCoder1392

????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

RikerW

20:27

wat?

@Dennis Wait, down for me now too?

BlockCoder1392

You're banned

RikerW

hard refresh fixed it.

BlockCoder1392

I'm not

RikerW

20:42

Trippy, sort of.

Cool though.

Optimizer

Windows XP?

Rainbolt

Minecraft!

RikerW

Minecraft, and OS X 10.8.5.

@Rainbolt Fellow minecraft fan, I salute you.

Rainbolt

salutes

Optimizer

that is not minecraft. He's just stalking Rainbolt!

RikerW

20:45

Yes, it is.

Proof.

Rainbolt

You have one of those names that make a cool username. Briker.

My brother has you beat though. Crainbolt. And my cousin, Brainbolt.

RikerW

brikerw technically.

Optimizer

Drainbolt

RikerW

Really, Brainbolt?

Optimizer

Trainbolt

Rainbolt

20:46

Bryan Rainbolt

Optimizer

Thomas Rainbolt

RikerW

Wow.

Optimizer

David Rainbolt

Rainbolt

Oooh. Naming my kid Thomas or David.

Optimizer

Grainbolt

Gregory Rainbolt

RikerW

20:47

B is my first initial and Wachtler is my last name.

@Optimizer Geoffrey Rainbolt

BlockCoder1392

b? Wat

RikerW

No.

Rainbolt

I guess my name is a play on Drainbolt. I ended up with John so I get to be Jrainbolt

RikerW

Riker is my middle name, and the only one I use.

@Rainbolt lol

Optimizer

@Rainbolt you can use Grainbolt

Rainbolt

20:49

But I'm not a G

Optimizer

and say its pronounced Jee Rainbolt.. then expand it to John Rainbolt

:P

RikerW

Change your name.

Optimizer

soft G is almost a J

Rainbolt

Greg sounds kinda dumb. What's a smart sounding G name?

RikerW

Geoffrey

Optimizer

20:50

my name starts with G, but location difference

BlockCoder1392

Gyxzsjdkfnszidkmlkzxcmzxkdmzsjkddsfsdfdsytghbjs

Rainbolt

Oh yea Geoffrey is classy

RikerW

lol

Rainbolt

Is anyone else in here using a FitBit?

RikerW

No.

Optimizer

20:51

I hate wearing a separate thing than my watch

so most probably gonna buy chronos for my watch

unless it tracks more stuff than my phone already does

Rainbolt

My resting heart rate was 81 for the entire holiday, when I was running twice a day. Now at work it is 68, which seems really low.

RikerW

Anybody know how to find a persons google docs given their account?

Optimizer

wearchronos.com

Rainbolt

Makes me think this thing is a piece of crap, since your resting heart rate is supposed to be about the same every day (because it's your heart rate when you are resting)

Optimizer

well, it does not track anything more than steps.. so its a tough call.

@Rainbolt there are things called high BP and low BP

Rainbolt

20:54

Chronos or FitBit?

Optimizer

when act even when you rest

@Rainbolt not really. more like "oh something more than just step count without an additional wearable"

@Rainbolt oh and i was talking about chronos

Rainbolt

This thing gives me a graph of my sleep so I can see what times during the night I was woken up or restless or sleeping soundly

It gave me a smiley face when I had ten hours of uninterrupted sleep

J Atkin

Titles, anyone?

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Draw my bar graphs (I am open to better titles) code-golf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_chart You have been chosen to make a program that creates some pretty ASCII bar charts. Here is the input format: [List of words (they can have spaces)] [an integer >= 0] Bar 3 This is so cool 4 IDK-Wh...

RikerW

Depict a graphs that belong to me with the name of bar.

:P

TanMath

@RikerW isn't this the chrome Remote Desktop viewing itself?

RikerW

21:08

No, iterated screenshots.

TanMath

oh...

If you have chrome Remote Desktop, do try to do this

RikerW

One more iteration: ^

Alex A.

21:42

@Rainbolt Alex is a better name for your future child, objectively speaking of course.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@AlexA. "Alex bolt"

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

I wasn't able to find a challenge like this before, but it wouldn't surprise me if it already exists. A strand of DNA is made up of bases notated by the letters A, T, C, and G. A always pairs with T, C always pairs with G, and vice versa. Therefore, you can find the opposite side of a DNA str...

Alex A.

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ That would be assuming that "Rain" is @Rainbolt's first name. I'm fairly certain his real name isn't "Rain Bolt." :P

BlockCoder1392

His name is "??? Rainbolt"

Rainbolt

I'll make his first name Fish and his middle name Pontchart

TanMath

21:45

@NewSandboxedPosts thank you! I am pretty sure this is a dupe

ETHproductions

"Fish Pontchart Rainbolt"... I like the sound of that :)

Alex A.

There is no need to thank the feeds bots. They are cold, unfeeling robots.

ETHproductions

Or reorganized: "Fish Pontchartrain Bolt"... is that a reference to something?

Alex A.

Fishpont Chart Rainbolt

Oh, I've got it: Charles Thaddeus Rainbolt.

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

"Ey! Charlie-bot!"

Alex A.

21:48

> botl

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

:P

Alex A.

"Botl" is how you spell "bottle" once you're a few bottles in.

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Martin Büttner

*a few botls

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

**a fyoo botls

Rainbolt

Nvm you edited it

Alex A.

21:52

Growing up I had a Japanese neighbor named Yuhei, pronounced "you-hey." I can only imagine how many times he's heard "Hey you!" as a play on his name.

flawr

@MartinBüttner ä fiu boddls

Rainbolt

@AlexA. I had a doubles partner in high school whose name was Yu

He was a foreign exchange student

Alex A.

In middle school I had a friend named Alex Hu.

Rainbolt

Alex who?

Alex A.

^ the bane of his existence

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

21:54

I have a friend named "Hui yin", pronounced "Wee win"

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

This challenge was closed, because it was way too broad, but, in the comments, SuperJedi224 suggested a slightly different challenge that I thought was a really good idea, so I'm stealing it and posting it here. Write a text editor in 2000 bytes or less popularity-contest Write a text editor...

Alex A.

@NewSandboxedPosts no

Yuhei's sister was named Momoko, which translates literally to "peach child." (もも=peach, こ=child)

I find that so adorable.

flawr

@AlexA. *Knock Knock*

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

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Q: What counts as a duplicate on CodeGolf.SE?

Unlike on other Stack Exchange sites, the execution of an idea really makes a difference on this site. My question is, if an idea for a challenge has been used before, does that make any other challenge based on the same idea off-topic, or can an idea be re-used if it's implemented in a substanti...

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^ ironic

Alex A.

@flawr I know where this is going. ಠ_ಠ

Rainbolt

21:57

@AlexA. I wonder if her parents realized that when she is an adult, she will still be a peach child

ETHproductions

^^^^ LOL

Alex A.

@Rainbolt Probably. Idk, I still think it's a cute name.

Rainbolt

Her grand kids will still be calling her peach child

When she is 85

Alex A.

Her grandkids will probably call her grandma when she's 85

Rainbolt

Maybe she'll get remarried

Martin Büttner

21:59

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ sorry.

Rainbolt

I called my step-grandfather Gene because grandpa was reserved

flawr

@AlexA. And before that they'll call her grandchild?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@MartinBüttner why?

Alex A.

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ See your meta post :P

Pietu1998

Did anybody here watch the U20 ice hockey final? :D

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