The Nineteenth Byte

Destructible Watermelon

08:00

someone downdooted my sandbox post ;_;

and they didn't leave a comment about why ;_; jerk

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Q: A Program in Python that picks 'k' largest (L) or smallest (S) elements from an array (length n)

Program in python a program that picks 'k' largest (L) or smallest (S) elements from an array (length n). The program should take k, L or S, and n as arguments.

python

TùxCräftîñg

hi

trichoplax

@DestructibleWatermelon They just gave you feedback for free... It wasn't written feedback, but it still starts a conversation so we can have a look and see what we think. Which one is it?

Destructible Watermelon

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Title TBD Given an input string, in ASCII, output "+_+" as many times as the word "mime" appears in input, and output ";_;" as many times as the word "sad" appears in input. The order is irrelevant. If and only if no occurences of these words are in input, output "._."

@trichoplax Also its feedback for minus rep, and then no actual feedback

trichoplax

@DestructibleWatermelon Well it tells you something even if they don't write anything. It tells you to come and ask here before posting :)

Also, no rep on Meta so don't worry too much...

Destructible Watermelon

08:09

oh

trichoplax

@DestructibleWatermelon My feedback: No winning criterion, well specified, not especially interesting, worth looking to see if there's a duplicate target in one of the other string replacement/search challenges

I'm guessing downvoters will tend to tell you what they dislike if there's something subtle or complicated, but otherwise they'll trust that someone else will easily be able to tell you what's wrong/missing

@DestructibleWatermelon Yes the rep shown on meta is just your rep on main (apart from sometimes it's out of date for a while)

No amount of downvotes on meta can hurt your rep

Destructible Watermelon

oh right, forgot to write codegolf

muddyfish

I downvoted because I don't think memes make good challenges

Destructible Watermelon

It was based on a CMC

I could change it, I guess

trichoplax

Even on main downvotes are really important to how the site works, and I think it's essential they be anonymous so we don't lose out on downvotes that people wouldn't bother using if they were going to get lots of backlash

Sherlock9

08:16

@Mego Joy :| :D

Destructible Watermelon

I'm not sure what words and replacement words to use...

trichoplax

@LeakyNun I agree with @quartata that "Oh, please" has roughly equivalent meaning (just without the insult). A completely different wording that will help in many contexts is "Don't insult my intelligence", or occasionally "Don't insult my ability" (in the context of a competition of strength/agility/combat/skill). More generally, it is used to belittle a suggestion.

@DestructibleWatermelon Worth checking if the concept is a duplicate first

Destructible Watermelon

What words and replacement words should I use pls

@trichoplax what terms should I search for?

trichoplax

@DestructibleWatermelon I'm currently having a look at the string tag

Destructible Watermelon

well, at least it isn't an alphabet challenge :p

trichoplax

08:26

I don't have a problem with alphabet challenges as long as the underlying task is new :)

Not necessarily a duplicate, but an example of string replacement:

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Q: Replace alias to form phrases

Inspired by the C-directive #define. Challenge Given one phrase with some alias, and one array with each alias text. Output the initial phrase replacing each alias with its respective text. An alias is defined by one sharp # followed by its index in the array (the index may start at zero or on...

code-golf string

Destructible Watermelon

@trichoplax They tend not to though

trichoplax

I searched for [string] replace is:q

To bring up only questions, containing the word replace and tagged string

Destructible Watermelon

I kind of liked having the faces because of the composition and total number of chars

But memes make bad challenges or something

trichoplax

Well, it's certainly true that a meme doesn't make a good challenge. If it isn't already interesting, tacking on a meme won't make it better. If it is interesting, tacking on a meme won't make it worse, but it might make it unpopular just because memes become tiresome

Destructible Watermelon

It was more about the pattern the meme faces matched that I liked

Lynn

08:30

@MitchSchwartz Wow, this Brainfuck answer! I did a double take when I saw it was shorter than Python

Destructible Watermelon

Which question?

Anonymous

Why is it that the Russian SO room generates so many chat flags?

Destructible Watermelon

@Mego Because they couldn't read that inspirational message about not using flags as jokes 'cos they're visible to everyone

trichoplax

@DestructibleWatermelon Since lots of people just add memes to try and gain popularity, it's easy to assume that's your reason. If you think the pattern is going to be interesting to golf, edit to explain that and then get feedback on how interesting others think it will be. You might get some useful suggestions if people know what you're going for

Destructible Watermelon

I think I found a fair good patter to use now

Lynn

08:33

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A: Evaluate an expression of ternary operators

Brainfuck, 82 64 bytes + [ ,>>,> +++++++[<<<[------->>]<<-->-] << [ ->[<++>[+]] ] +>[>>] <<<- ] <. The output is \xff for 0 and \x00 for 1. The brainfuck implementation must allow going to the left of the starting cell, and for greater portability you may assume the output en...

Destructible Watermelon

wait, no

Well, the patterns seem more arbitrary without memes

-|- compared to +_+

made a pattern I feel happy with

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Title TBD Given an input string, in ASCII, output ")|]" as many times as the word "right" appears in input, and output "(|[" as many times as the word "left" appears in input. The order is irrelevant. If and only if no occurences of these words are in input, output "X|X" this is code-golf

can you take the meme-hate downvotes away now?

trichoplax

I can't guarantee both downvotes are about the memes...

Destructible Watermelon

Well, why else would someone downvote with no reason, unless they just felt evil (>:])

trichoplax

If you leave it in the sandbox for a few days then there's more chance people will come along who are prepared to explain the problems

Mitch Schwartz

@Lynn :D

trichoplax

08:42

Personally, I can't see what the pattern adds to the challenge, compared to other string replacement challenges, so you would have to argue why it shouldn't be considered a duplicate

Lynn

God, the university I’m visiting just garden-path-sentenced me

> To register for wifi, get Microsoft Office for free and learn more about our services visit our website:

TùxCräftîñg

wat

Lynn

I was like, “I have to get Office to use their Wi-Fi??” until I read the rest of the sentence.

Destructible Watermelon

It isn't grammatical anyway;

Lynn

There’s an URL after the colon. It’s strange.

trichoplax

08:45

It would save people a lot of time if they put "Visit our website" at the front of the sentence

Destructible Watermelon

It says that unambiguously (office for wifi), but joins "learn more about our services visit our website" together ungrammatically

ASCII-only

@DestructibleWatermelon No, the website shows you how to connect to wifi and get Office

@DestructibleWatermelon The sentence is grammatical

Destructible Watermelon

@ASCII-only exactly, but the sentence says other to that

trichoplax

It's grammatically correct, just with confusing punctuation placement that invites ambiguity

ASCII-only

@DestructibleWatermelon No, that's exactly what the sentence says

Destructible Watermelon

08:47

Oh right, I forgot about the whole serial comma sometimes there sometimes not thing

Why english why?

trichoplax

I also love the irony of "To register for wifi ... visit out website"

Destructible Watermelon

Isn't it incorrect for omitting the comma between services and visit

TùxCräftîñg

^^

Destructible Watermelon

@trichoplax mobile data

ASCII-only

@DestructibleWatermelon English is the weirdest language

TùxCräftîñg

08:49

false

french is more weird

ASCII-only

~~Errors~~ Exceptions everywhere, and so many of the words are ~~borrowed~~ stolen

Destructible Watermelon

Why, why do people choose NOT to use the serial comma though. The only thing that does is confuse in any case

trichoplax

I think it's been long enough without returning them that we can call them stolen now...

ASCII-only

@DestructibleWatermelon Yeah, but don't expect everyone to always have perfect grammar

Destructible Watermelon

@trichoplax Also, it isn't exactly a replacement; you don't output the rest of the string, you only output an amount of )|], (|[, X|X

Also, opinion survey; What is the best punctuation mark?

trichoplax

08:52

;

ASCII-only

:31717766

Destructible Watermelon

@trichoplax I agree so much; It really should be used more

ASCII-only

or ¿ and ¡

trichoplax

If it was up to me, English would use those by default

TùxCräftîñg

no; the best is ;

ASCII-only

08:54

or greek question mark: ;

trichoplax

@ASCII-only It seems so bizarre to wait until you get to the end of a sentence before being told how to pronounce it

Destructible Watermelon

I hate it when people use colons instead of semicolons; It's thought of as useless yet so applicable when people don't realise

ASCII-only

@trichoplax Not too bizarre, you're only supposed to say it differently for the last few words anyway

trichoplax

Still seems something you would announce up front. I can actually approve using them up front only, more than afterwards only

?Isn't this easier

Chad

Hello all

TùxCräftîñg

09:00

lla olleH

Anonymous

@trichoplax English is postfix. Operators come last. Adjectives are pushed onto a stack, and nouns pop all of them and apply them. Similarly with verbs, objects, and adverbs.

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TùxCräftîñg

you are comparing English to a stack based lang... ?

trichoplax

@Mego I feel like I've just had my mind opened. Feels uncomfortable

ASCII-only

@Mego TIL English is stack-based

TùxCräftîñg

brb creating a English parser

ASCII-only

09:03

Then it shouldn't be too hard to make a parser

damnit, ninja'd by one second

Sherlock9

@Mego Then Indonesian is prefix. Noun first, then the adjectives in most cases.

TùxCräftîñg

same for French

Anonymous

@Sherlock9 Spanish (and many other Romance languages) do the same

Anonymous

@ASCII-only Actually it is extremely difficult, because English is not a regular language. It has more exceptions than it has rules. Often, the reason why one grammatical formation is preferred over another boils down to "it sounds better that way".

ASCII-only

oh well, at least there's already a decent English parser

Sherlock9

09:09

That reminds me of when my brother asked why we don't use a phonetic alphabet for English. "Because no one can agree on the pronunciation and it's changing all the time."

TùxCräftîñg

and this problem can be prevented with a phonetic alphabet

Anonymous

@Sherlock9 Yep. In America, we basically just make up our own pronunciations and shoot the people that use pronunciations we don't like. :P

Anonymous

Some of the confusing parts of English come with infix operators, like commas and conjunctions.

Destructible Watermelon

I like verbs that have other verbs as part of their usage

ASCII-only

@DestructibleWatermelon ?

Destructible Watermelon

09:15

"I have not driven" Have, uses driven as a part of its usage

Mitch Schwartz

you can push your adjectives onto my stack anytime. let's pop some nouns

Destructible Watermelon

@MitchSchwartz [Ellipsis]

Mitch Schwartz

oh right i forgot you were 12, sorry

Sherlock9

@TùxCräftîñg Probably not: youtube.com/watch?v=EaYZljTlCUo

Mitch Schwartz

shouldn't corrupt innocent minds with talk about grammar

TùxCräftîñg

09:27

[['the', []], ['fox', ['quick', 'brown']], ['jumps', []], ['over', []], ['the', []], ['dog', ['lazy']]]

my parser work

Sherlock9

Well, your prepositional phrase parser may need work, but that's an excellent start

Anonymous

One of my favorite grammar joke things of all time is the sword behind inappropriate prepositions from Kingdom of Loathing. It randomly picks an inappropriate preposition for every preposition in the game, even in chat.

Anonymous

It made for some hilarious combat messages

TùxCräftîñg

09:51

ζıℓəncε

Sherlock9

Man, I should get back to KoL some day

TùxCräftîñg

KoL?

brb

Sherlock9

KoL = Kingdom of Loathing, what Mego was talking about

Releasing Helium Nuclei

Oh new CM13 snapshots

Destructible Watermelon

10:07

@Mego I must see this kingdom of loathing

it seems amusing

TùxCräftîñg

ßαςκ

Destructible Watermelon

@TùxCräftîñg NOT THE SUPERFLUOUS UNICODE!!!¡¡¡

TùxCräftîñg

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Destructible Watermelon

At the character class thing, and this game (Kingdom of Loathing) is already amazing

Many decisions, how could I choose

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Permutapalindromic numbers Given an integer N as input, output the Nth permutapalindromic number. A permutapalindromic number is a strictly positive integer such that there is at least one permutation of its digits that results in a palindrome (i.e. a number that is its own reverse). For examp...

drobilc

10:20

Hey

TùxCräftîñg

yeH

drobilc

that would be _z in pyth :)

ASCII-only

@Sherlock9 I stopped playing because of daily reset, nowadays I'd miss it half the time

Leaky Nun

what the fuck?

ASCII-only

@LeakyNun ?

Leaky Nun

10:31

why is TIO ad on main

ASCII-only

@LeakyNun why not?

ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΨΠʹ

^

Leaky Nun

@drobilc what is _z in pyth? i thought it just reverses input

ASCII-only

@ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΨΠʹ Oh hello white spy

Leaky Nun

who put it in main?

ASCII-only

10:32

@LeakyNun Yeah

@LeakyNun Nobody? It's probably because someone just posted it in the ad thread

drobilc

@LeakyNun Exactly

Leaky Nun

what is the ad thread?

drobilc

@LeakyNun Tux reversed my input :)

Leaky Nun

@drobilc use "Hey" as input and _ as code, implicit argument Q

ASCII-only

@ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΨΠʹ 0/10 not transparent

ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΨΠʹ

10:35

@ASCII-only I tried, but SE strips transparency

drobilc

@LeakyNun Oh yeah, that seems to work :)

TùxCräftîñg

my profile have transparent background

ASCII-only

@ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΨΠʹ Use a gravatar? Geobits/Tux have transparency working

orlp

Is it possible to solve this problem wiht O(1) memory?

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Q: How many lights are on?

You are little speck on a Cartesian plane. Pondering your existence, you decide to roam around your plane and touch things. You notice that every coordinate pair you visit has a light switch. To entertain yourself, you decide to toggle every switch that you come across. The Challenge: Create a p...

code-golf counting

like a n^2 algorithm for example

ASCII-only

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drobilc

10:37

Why am I getting "Http/1.1 Gateway Timeout" when I'm visiting my website from my phone but only when I have mobile data turned on?

Leaky Nun

@orlp theoretically yes, by checking whether each grid is passed

that would take you O(n^3) time

since you know that the farthest position is (n^2, n^2)

Also, I think you meant O(1) extra memory

orlp

well that's always implied

Leaky Nun

because an online algorithm can hardly exist

@orlp by the way, the common algorithm takes O(n^2) memory and O(n) time, still multiplying to O(n^3), so an algorithm with O(1) memory would need to have O(n^3) time

that is if O(n^3) is indeed the lower bound

Sp3000

Er... Isn't your submission O(n) memory?

Leaky Nun

@Sp3000 wait... alright, with hashing indeed it uses O(n) memory... so it might be possible to have constant memory and quadratic time

Sp3000

10:43

Does space/time normally just multiply like that?

Leaky Nun

@orlp yes it is possible, by having two pointers

let's say we found out that we are on the 100th arrow and our position is 3+4i

the other pointer would loop the whole string to see if we see 3+4i again

ASCII-only

@drobilc you're not accidentaly using localhost, right?

Leaky Nun

nvm that wouldnt work

drobilc

@ASCII-only no

orlp

I was thinking of that @LeakyNun

but there is a way of making that work

Leaky Nun

10:45

duplicates is the main problem

orlp

actually

I think this is O(n^2)

for each position in the string: O(n)
  check if current position occurred before in the string O(n)
  if not, check if current position occurs an even amount after this point, if yes, add one to 'on' count O(n)

O(n) * (O(n)+O(n)) = O(n^2)

Leaky Nun

I said it is O(n^2) already

Destructible Watermelon

> Seal Clubbers hail from the frigid Northlands, because one character class always hails from the frigid Northlands. They rely on their Muscle to survive.

orlp

I mean, without using extra memory

Releasing Helium Nuclei

Wat iz O(x) n wat iz it calld

orlp

10:47

big-oh notation

asymptotics

Leaky Nun

@orlp ik

@ReleasingHeliumNuclei O(n) means that the runtime/memory is approximately n or a constant multiple of n

orlp

@LeakyNun not quite

Leaky Nun

wtv

orlp

O(n) means that the limit T(n)/n is a finite constant as n goes to infinity

Leaky Nun

@orlp yep your algorithm should work

Destructible Watermelon

10:49

How could I have not known what Kingdom of loathing was for this long ;_;

Chad

Can anyone help me to minify my code? codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/86075/…

Destructible Watermelon

YES...No because I don't know Latex ;_; soz

ASCII-only

@Chad brb

Chad

@ASCII-only brb?

ASCII-only

@Chad be right back, waiting for tex editor to open

Chad

10:51

ok

do you know latex?

Destructible Watermelon

> You're a little nervous about encountering a crate this early in the game.

Chad

why'

Destructible Watermelon

WOw how could I have gone this long without knowing this game...

ASCII-only

@Chad yeah, a little bit

Chad

ok

ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΨΠʹ

10:54

> \value{i}< 11

The space necessary?

ASCII-only

@Chad But isn't no loop shorter? e.g. \documentclass{book}\begin{document}1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10\end{document}

ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΨΠʹ

^

Chad

wait

@ASCII-only Thanks

El'endia Starman

@DestructibleWatermelon Stanley's Parable?

Destructible Watermelon

Kingdom of loathing

Chad

10:57

@ASCII-only \documentclass{book}\begin{document}12345678910\end{document}

Destructible Watermelon

> Adventuring is the best way to get new stuff and make numbers get bigger. And you probably wouldn't be playing this kind of game if you didn't like watching numbers get bigger.

Chad

It's better here

@ASCII-only My code is 62 :)

ASCII-only

@Chad I'm pretty sure that counts as only one number

Chad

no

Leaky Nun

@Chad you need a separator

read the fucking question

Chad

10:59

latex4technics.com

\documentclass{book}\begin{document}12345678910\end{document}

Use it

ASCII-only

@LeakyNun where?

Leaky Nun

guys im trying to come up with a randomness test by testing whether the frequencies of length-k sequences are evenly distributed where k goes from 1 to the length of the text

is it feasible?

ASCII-only

@Chad doesn't even work there with documentclass and document

Chad

wut

ASCII-only

you have to change it to 12345678910 for it to work there, it's just an equation editor

if you want a true LaTeX editor, use Overleaf

El'endia Starman

11:02

@LeakyNun You'll have to define "feasible" since iterating through all subsequences of a sequence is O(n^2), which is polynomial and perhaps feasible in that sense. If you're analyzing something the size of a book, that probably won't work too well.

Chad

El'endia Starman

@LeakyNun Also, 0123456789 is a sequence where every subsequence is distinct, and hence they all have a frequency of 1.

Leaky Nun

@El'endiaStarman 10 does not occur

ASCII-only

@Chad My bad, didn't see LaTeX mode

El'endia Starman

@LeakyNun Hmmm, oh, I see, right.

Chad

11:05

@ASCII-only i.imgur.com/bseZ5aT.png

Leaky Nun

@El'endiaStarman so is it feasible?

El'endia Starman

@LeakyNun Like I said, depends on your definition of feasible. It's certainly a randomness test, but not necessarily a very good one. Another thing to consider: it doesn't make sense to consider subsequences longer than length log(k) because there will necessarily be some subsequences that aren't included, simply because there isn't space to put them.

Hmm. I've been considering contiguous subsequences thus far.

If you consider non-contiguous subsequences, then going through all of them is O(n^n) (I think), which is not polynomial.

ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΨΠʹ

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Q: Are all numbers rational?

Is it correct to say that some number $A$ is rational because $A$ is $\frac{A}{1}$? Because the only restriction I had see for rationality is $A=\frac{a}{b}$ with $b\neq0$, but in that way I can say $\pi$ is rational because $\pi=\frac{\pi}{1}$. What's the problem here?

elementary-number-theory definition irrational-numbers rational-numbers

wat

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Q: All in all it's just, uh, another trick in code golf

The purpose of this challenge is to produce an ASCII version of the cover of this great album by the rock band Pink Floyd. The brick junctions are made of characters _ and |. Bricks have width 7 and height 2 characters, excluding junctions. So the basic unit, including the junctions, is: ______...

code-golf string ascii-art

Lynn

11:36

> “[…] the Hahn polynomials are a family of orthogonal polynomials in the Askey scheme of hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials, introduced by Pafnuty Chebyshev in 1875 (Chebyshev 1907) and rediscovered by Wolfgang Hahn (Hahn 1949).”

Poor Chebyshev ;_;

Leaky Nun

@El'endiaStarman then log(k) it is

El'endia Starman

@Lynn There's a name for this, but I don't quite remember what it is right now.

Luis Mendo

@Lynn It usually happens :-(

Impractical to implement when first developed by Gallager in 1963, LDPC codes were forgotten until his work was rediscovered in 1996.

El'endia Starman

Stigler's law of eponymy

Stigler's law of eponymy is a process proposed by University of Chicago statistics professor Stephen Stigler in his 1980 publication "Stigler’s law of eponymy". It states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer. Examples include Hubble's law which was derived by Georges Lemaître two years before Edwin Hubble, the Pythagorean theorem although it was known to Babylonian mathematicians before Pythagoras, and Halley's comet which was observed by astronomers since at least 240 BC. Stigler himself named the sociologist Robert K. Merton as the discoverer of "Stigler's law"...

The best thing is that it applies to itself! Stigler wasn't the first to describe this law.

TùxCräftîñg

esolangs.org/wiki/Caker

Luis Mendo

11:42

With Gallager, at least

LDPC codes are also known as Gallager codes, in honor of Robert G. Gallager, who developed the LDPC concept in his doctoral dissertation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960.

Destructible Watermelon

> Tut looks up at the moons, yawns, and looks back down.

Tut ;_; y u do dis. I needed your help

TùxCräftîñg

wat

Destructible Watermelon

Tut is my pet sleepy wereturtle

TùxCräftîñg

......................................ok

Destructible Watermelon

I was fighting a barrel mimc

orlp

11:49

@LeakyNun codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/90027/4162

done

TùxCräftîñg

CMC: Or logic gate in Caker

Lynn

How should Caker take input?

TùxCräftîñg

somewhere in the tape

Destructible Watermelon

that moment when a special move does less damage than a regular move ._.

TùxCräftîñg

i love OEIS sequences where calculate a term need predicting the future

Destructible Watermelon

12:00

No, those sequences only include the lowest possible value for each term

Rohan Jhunjhunwala

@uoɥʇʎPʎzɐɹC there we go!

Destructible Watermelon

Gotta level up my turtle by throwing it at things

orlp

12:16

@LeakyNun now only 83 bytes in C :)

Leaky Nun

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A: All in all it's just, uh, another trick in code golf

Pyth, 31 bytes I need to golf it heavily... the score is too shameful. AQVE<@.>B.>*H?%N3+\|*7d\_G4/N3H Try it online already. Input format 6,44 11 Output format ____________________________________________ | | | | | | | | | ...

@orlp now only a third of C!

@TùxCräftîñg what is caker

TùxCräftîñg

@LeakyNun esolangs.org/wiki/Caker

śįℓėñĉə

Leaky Nun

12:31

@TùxCräftîñg ñ is roughly a "ny" sound and ĉ is rouchly a "ch" sound

TùxCräftîñg

i just used fancy unicode chars...

Leaky Nun

@TùxCräftîñg i was just saying

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Petals around the Roses Given 5 numbers from 1 to 6, calculate the number of Roses, Petals and Roots. Try guessing the formulas yourself by visiting http://jetpackshark.com/RPS before reading anybody's answers. (The dice-like display is significant.) This is code-golf, so the shortest program w...

Leaky Nun

@orlp Is uniformly random the most random?

TùxCräftîñg

wat ruby is stupid

Leaky Nun

12:37

why

ven

/shrug

orlp

@LeakyNun what do you mean

Leaky Nun

@orlp well... in terms of shannon entropy maybe

just pick a standard

orlp

uniform random has the most amount of entropy, yes

Leaky Nun

alright

TùxCräftîñg

12:46

mınxomaτ

@TùxCräftîñg I think it wants you to enable the ssh-agent

TùxCräftîñg

i know

but it's the same manipulation

so why make 2 exact same things ಠ_ಠ

Leaky Nun

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A: All in all it's just, uh, another trick in code golf

Pyth, 43 27 bytes I need to golf it heavily... the score is too shameful. AQVE<*H?%N3X*8d+G*4/N3\|\_H Try it online already. Input format 6,44 11 Output format ____________________________________________ | | | | | | | | | ...

2 bytes off again

from 43 bytes to 27 bytes \o/

Maltysen

@TùxCräftîñg Maybe it's used to be different but then they made it the same and forgot to combine the steps.

zyabin101

13:07

Hello, currently on Mom's phone (I was permitted by her) on Microsoft Edge mobile on InPrivate.

Leaky Nun

@zyabin101 "I was permitted by her" sounds weird

you could say "by her permission"

or "with her permission"

zyabin101

Edit window has closed. 🙁

Maltysen

@zyabin101 what happened? Got banned from PPCG or something?

Leaky Nun

@Maltysen I reckon he just has his computer down or something

TùxCräftîñg

Windows is borked on his computer

and his modem only work on Windows computers

zyabin101

13:12

@Maltysen Lost my Lenovo A328.

To be exact, it's borked.

Maltysen

@TùxCräftîñg why?

TùxCräftîñg

because of a driver IIRC

Maltysen

Is it the drivers?

If so ndiswrapper is what he needs

@zyabin101 ^

zyabin101

Rhubarb

TùxCräftîñg

stuartellis.eu/articles/erb

the 3 links at the end of the page are dead links

it's a new record

Maltysen

13:18

@zyabin101 eh?

zyabin101

@Maltysen In sopython parlance, it means "Bye".

Mom needs her phone, see you around.

Leaky Nun

13:33

in Python on Stack Overflow Chat, yesterday, by Jon Clements

What's that old quote? "The day that Microsoft make something that doesn't suck will be when they start making vacuum cleaners"?

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ಠ_ಠ Kro$oft make vacuum cleaners

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@LeakyNun I actually like a lot of MS products, but that's still hilarious

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