@LeakyNun I was thinking about the "ch" sound the other day. Indonesian and Malay write the "ch" with 'c', "s" with "s" and "k" with "k". I think we even apply this to transliterating loan words.
Makes figuring out the approximate pronunciation much simpler
My questions:
Is this a duplicate or a superset of something? Basically, it's about sorting logical expressions based on the combinations that make it truthy. It's definitely related to my other question, but this one is a lot more complicated in processing the array while allowing for...
This is a follow-up to an earlier discussion Feedback Requested: Design-Independent Graduation.
Like the title says, design-independent graduation will go into effect and become our new regular practice the second week of September! All sites which have been waiting in the backlog to graduate w...
@Sherlock9 This gets more interesting: Y was the uppercase of "u" in Greek, and the Romans made them into two letters; then in the Roman's "dialect" of the Latin script, V was the uppercase of u, and then we made them two letters; also, "w" is just "double-u" (its name is double-u also)
but the name of "y" in many languages is "the Greek i" but "i" actually is from yod
@LeakyNun i meant the font that used here, which are verdana and arial, but probably changed to some other fonts by my linux system, since linux doesnt have them
@ReleasingHeliumNuclei Install the windows ttf package for your system and then set them in the advanced font options (assuming you're running chrom{e/ium}).
int main(int argc, char ** argv)
{
int i = 0;
i = i++ + ++i;
printf("%d\n", i); // 3
i = 1;
i = (i++);
printf("%d\n", i); // 2 Should be 1, no ?
volatile int u = 0;
u = u++ + ++u;
printf("%d\n", u); // 1
u = 1;
u = (u++);
printf("%d\n", u); // 2 Should also ...
@Sherlock9 Right now you're making the podcast scheduling a bit complicated :D. Do you maybe have any day where you could make somewhere from 0000 to 0300 UTC work?
There is a chance for Monday before class, Thursday, or Saturday before class, but I do want to sleep in at some point and especially when getting ready for class already takes me a while
Saturday is completely unsure because I want to travel home at some point
@DJMcMayhem Yeah, by the way: Are you sure you announced the correct days for your times? I.e. respecting that UTC might be a day later (or the other way). Just seems a bit odd.
Don't worry about it. My semester is just starting and it can take an entire month for the schedule to settle down while the professors work out their own schedules
@mınxomaτ I do not envy you. Scheduling is hard enough with my friends who live in the same city, I can only imagine trying to schedule something global, with a bunch of people that don't know each other in person.
@mınxomaτ yeah, I know. Are most of the responders so far centered around a particular area? I know there's lots of people from the US who've responded. (Me, easterly, alex, probably others)
@DJMcMayhem That's why I liked a chat I used be in "Late Night Skype". It was late for the UK and very late in the night for the UK, but early afternoon in my timezone
I also have a roadshow for my company for the next few weeks starting two days from now. When that's finished the schedule of at least two "applicants" will have changed completely. So don't expect any actual dates until end of September (cues Green Day song)
@mınxomaτ Good lord, I hope October 1st passes quickly for Green Day. Every year a bunch of nuts on Twitter message them to wake up, not knowing that the dang song is about the lead singer's father's death
IMO largest output could be problematic because busy beaver-type challenges are hard to get the speech right for, and I wouldn't expect many challenges in that category
Smallest output might be okay, but we'd have to think of what to do about the overlap with metagolf
Re largest output: I think I get the intention (esp with the uniquely separated pixels example) but I get the feeling its application might get a bit... broad (It sounds like a catch all for maximisation problems). Misunderstood at first and thought it meant most bytes output
I agree that the two tags are broad in terms of scope. However, I don't really see a huge problem with that. Fundamentally, the OP needs to define a countable "chunk", and your score is the number of chunks you produce
The problem I see is that 1) there's no logical reason to split max from min and 2) barring mixed scoring, broad maximisation/minimisation tags would be little different from how code challenge is currently used
1) Simply to make scoring clearer, and more well-defined. I agree that the challenge types are very similar.
2) code-challenge has quite a few of other challenge types as well (see the question above), and I think it makes sense to give them a better-named tag
The accuracy challenges, for example, is a totally different type of challenge
@Sp3000 sometimes challenges can be trivially changed from min to max, but other challenges, only one really works. That said, I agree that they are very similar, but I can't come up with a word that means "You want to minimize or maximize your output"
I feel like my problem is less to do with the tag concept and more to do with the fact that "largest output" doesn't seem to convey what you mean to me
I agree. I spent quite a while looking for another, and I'm not sure if one exists. The challenge really isn't about printing to the console, but "output" seems to imply that
@quartata Oh, speaking of which, you mentioned that Python's pickling of objects is really slow. Well, as far as I could tell, your Message object could quite easily be represented by a list or even a tuple, which would probably speed up pickling dramatically.
@NathanMerrill Especially since there's a request to officially change "answers" to "solutions" sitewide. Is it worth discussing possible alternative names for PPCG answers?
@NathanMerrill I agree it isn't worth it just for that reason, but I wondered whether the confusion could also arise when referring to answers (independently of the tag issue)
For my Computer Programming 2 class, my instructor has given us the assignment of creating a rectangle made of asterisks with diagonal lines drawn through it in Java. He also told us to write it in as few bytes as possible. I've gotten it down to 190 bytes, but I need to find a few to simplify th...