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Dennis

@Riker Well, a PowerShell builtin for a Windows vulnerability kinda makes sense. The empty Jelly program works on all my machines though.

Riker

true

PhiNotPi

Statistics question: are there any other "linear" properties of probability distributions? For example: the expected value of a sum of independent random variables is the sum of their expected values. Also, the variance of the sum is the sum of their variances.

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Q: String subtraction

Objective Create a function to reverse string concatenation Input Two strings, where one should be subtracted for the other. You can assume that the string to be subtracted will never be larger than the other one. Output The result from the subtraction Subtraction You should remove on...

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Q: Rules for Duels

TL;DR What rules and guidelines should duels and duelers be held to? This idea sprouted originally as a potential solution to this problem. It was well received so the next step is to create formal rules and to address foreseeable complications. What is Dueling? A duel is an arranged eng...

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Riker

slow much?

DJMcMayhem

Part of the problem is probably that I had to look up chord, but even now that I did, I'm not sure how to translate chords into something a computer can understand, how C,Am,F,G is a transposition of F,Dm,A#,C, what exactly you mean by in any format, and which methods of "playing" are acceptable. — Dennis ♦ 26 mins ago

Agh, the music nerd in me wants to argue about how it should be Bb instead, but I realize that that's nitpicking and totally unrelated

Kritixi Lithos

I don't know anything much about music

Riker

@DJMcMayhem yes, I cringed at that also

DJMcMayhem

16:27

F is the IV chord of the C Major scale, and Bb is the IV of the F Major scale. The reason it wouldn't be A# is because A is already in the F Major scale but as a natural

Riker

also s/Bb/B♭/ but ye

DJMcMayhem

Meh

Riker

lol

Nathan Merrill

I took me while to read F,Dm,A#,C, because its so hard to hear that in my head

DJMcMayhem

A# is the IV of the E# scale which nobody uses because it has four double sharps and 3 sharps which is a ridiculous key to use

Nathan Merrill

16:28

or the I of the A# scale :P

ETHproductions

Now I know why to prefer Bb over A#. TIL

Riker

@NathanMerrill yea, I was confused about a#. took me a bit to realize that was b flat

Kritixi Lithos

all I remember from those music classes I had is that C# is pronounced as "C sharp"

Riker

> music classes

Nathan Merrill

realistically speaking, the most likely time when you'll see A# is in the F# key when they want major III

Kritixi Lithos

16:29

it was in school

and compulsory

DJMcMayhem

@NathanMerrill Yeah, but then the chord progression would be A#, F double sharp minor, E#, D#

Nathan Merrill

like, some sort of I III iv V pattern?

Riker

@Dennis clear the comments here?

it's been edited into code-golf instead of a popcon

@DJMcMayhem this bold hurts my eyes :p

try backticks?

DJMcMayhem

Also, if the whole point of the challenge was that the chord progression is over used so it applies to a whole bunch of different songs, he should have used I, V, vii, VI instead

4 Chords | Music Videos | The Axis Of Awesome

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Riker

> F double sharp minor

ETHproductions

16:32

"F double sharp minor" Oh god...

Nathan Merrill

I totally think that I vi VI V is far more common than I V vi VI

Riker

ninja'ed

DJMcMayhem

@Riker It's painful but true

Riker

yes but why would you ever use it

DJMcMayhem

You wouldn't. That's why you'd never ever ever ever ever use A# when you could just use Bb

ETHproductions

16:33

As someone who loves music but has never learned the music theory terminology... what's the difference between VI and vi?

DJMcMayhem

(And yes, I know I said b instead of flat)

Nathan Merrill

@ETHproductions FAC vs ACE

(In the key of C)

DJMcMayhem

No?

Those are both 6

FAC is 4

Nathan Merrill

oh!

my bad

ACE vs AC#E

DJMcMayhem

I think he's saying uppercase/lowercase

ETHproductions

16:34

Yes

Nathan Merrill

I read the VI as IV

DJMcMayhem

I think uppercase is major and lowercase is minor, but I'm not positive

Riker

@ETHproductions lowercase often means minor

Nathan Merrill

yep

Riker

idr about that context, it's been a couple months since I last played

DJMcMayhem

16:34

@NathanMerrill Is that standard/common?

Stupid double post

Nathan Merrill

AC#E is a very common chord

DJMcMayhem

No, I meant the case distinction for major/minor

Nathan Merrill

yes

ETHproductions

Oh, so VI versus vi is ACE versus... um... ACD#?

(or ACEb, not sure which is correct)

DJMcMayhem

No, that's an A diminished

A Major is AC#E

Nathan Merrill

16:35

typos XP

ETHproductions

Sorry, I was still stuck in C major/minor

DJMcMayhem

Ahhh, yes

A C minor is C Eb G

Nathan Merrill

so, chords are always thirds stacked on top of each other

so, that is why you always skip a letter when describing a chord

DJMcMayhem

Yep.

Nathan Merrill

so, ACD# isn't how you write it, its ACEb

DJMcMayhem

16:37

And scales always increase one letter at a time

ETHproductions

@NathanMerrill Ah, that makes more sense

DJMcMayhem

Since it seems we have enough music theory nerds in here right now, my biggest pet peeve with guitar players is that every single time they play in F, they call the IV chord A#. Every time without fail.

It really irks me. Like nails on a chalkboard

Piano players never have that problem. :P

Nathan Merrill

oh really? I don't really know many guitarists, so that's humorous

Adám

@KritixiLithos The programming language is actually called C♯, not C#.

Nathan Merrill

I can see how that's true, if they just learn standard chords and pair them together

programmer5000

16:39

@DJMcMayhem What's wrong with A#?

DJMcMayhem

@NathanMerrill That's one reason, but the other big reason is that every major scale is exactly the same fingering, so you don't need to learn the scale note names

Jan Dvorak

@Adám huh, I thought it was pronounced C-octothorpe

DJMcMayhem

@programmer5000 Scroll up. :P

Riker

@programmer5000 so

many

things

DJMcMayhem

We've been ranting about A# for 10 minutes lol

Riker

16:39

^

just call it b flat

that's what it is

DJMcMayhem

.oO(Not always though)

Nathan Merrill

The only time I want to see your A# chord is if you're in the key of F#

Riker

@NathanMerrill solution: don't go in the key of F#

Kritixi Lithos

@Adám I meant C-sharp, but seems like I got confused between the hash and the sharp

Nathan Merrill

F# is so much fun though :)

Riker

16:40

@Adám TIL

@NathanMerrill neither the language or the key are imho

DJMcMayhem

@Riker Nothing wrong with F#. Since F#/Gb have the same number of sharps and flats, neither one is preferable

Riker

@DJMcMayhem I just don't like it

either f# or g flat

programmer5000

Could this be reopened?

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Q: Get this annoying song stuck in my head

Your challenge is to play these notes (speakers or to a sound file): C A F G You may find this useful. Playing these frequencies would be allowed: 261.63 220.00 174.61 196.00 And so would this: 1046.50 880.00 698.46 783.99

code-golf music

Riker

just doesn't sound good imho

Nathan Merrill

I find that keys with a bunch of sharps/flats are much more enjoyable than ones with 3 sharps/flats

ETHproductions

16:41

@Riker What instrument do you play? piano?

Riker

but whatever, I'm out now (gonna go for a quick run)

Adám

Why doesn't Visual Studio include D♭?

Mayube

@DJMcMayhem Would you prefer it be called Bb?

Riker

see y'all later

@Mayube he's already said that, yes

DJMcMayhem

@Mayube Depending on context, yes

Riker

16:41

@ETHproductions yes, used to play a bit of ukelele though

Mayube

As a music producer and pianist myself, I don't think I ever refer to them by their flat names, I always favor sharp

Nathan Merrill

what? So you play in the key of A#, not Bb?

Anonymous

I look away from chat for 10 minutes and now I'm having flashbacks to high school

Jan Dvorak

Yes, and I use the A# chord.

ETHproductions

I have always thought of it as A# as well

Jan Dvorak

16:43

Or is it the Bb chord?

Anonymous

For a short time, I actually wanted to get a degree in music. Then I decided that I wanted to make money.

ETHproductions

@JanDvorak I think the consensus here is that it's Bb unless you're playing in F#

DJMcMayhem

@JanDvorak Only problem with that is that the notes of the A# chord is A#, C double sharp, E#

Jan Dvorak

Musicians do make real money

DJMcMayhem

Like 0.0002% of them. :P

Nathan Merrill

16:44

well, I'm a musician. And I make money

Anonymous

@JanDvorak A small percentage of people who go to school for music make enough money to support themselves. An even smaller percentage of people make enough money to support themselves and a family.

Nathan Merrill

just not from music :)

Jan Dvorak

Correction: pop singers make real money

DJMcMayhem

Relevant: imgur.com/poahNVD

Anonymous

The rest of the musicians make Monopoly money

Jan Dvorak

16:45

@DJMcMayhem very accurate

Kritixi Lithos

17:02

what in the world

DJMcMayhem

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user165474

Anyone interested in running through the Snowball KoTH controller runs? I don't have time right now but I can do it like this weekend or sometime tonight if I'm lucky.

PhiNotPi

@HyperNeutrino how much effort would it to be get the languages set up?

Nathan Merrill

17:18

@HyperNeutrino when you post a KoTH, you really need to commit to the time to run it

user165474

@NathanMerrill I've confirmed that I can make time tonight, but new submissions after tonight might not be tested until Thursday at the earliest.

Nathan Merrill

that's not too bad

user165474

How often typically should I update it

Nathan Merrill

people get impatient with their submissions, but I usually try to do 1 run a day

PhiNotPi

Daily if possible for the first week

user165474

17:20

@PhiNotPi Not too much, as long as I can run the program from the command line

user165474

@NathanMerrill alright. I'll see if I can get some time tomorrow morning before class

Nathan Merrill

In related news, I've also been seriously committing to this KoTH server. I think I have the SQL tables designed, and now I just need to figure out how to make a Java webserver

PhiNotPi

@NathanMerrill Is this going to be, like my KOTH server but done right?

Nathan Merrill

same concept, yeah

what mistakes did you make?

PhiNotPi

Well, it was never really polished at all. But basically the way it worked was that there are two different "main" programs for each challenge: one that is the controller which can run in the background and updates the database, and one which is run whenever you load the page that accesses the data from the database to generate the leaderboard or other page content (like graphics).

Nathan Merrill

17:27

So, I'm going to require people to use my framework. This gives me a couple of bonuses:

1. Each game produces a scoreboard so for a tournament, I can list out all of the games

PhiNotPi

One of the things I wanted to do with my server was a "live"-bitcoin-trading challenge: every couple minutes your bot will get a turn to "buy" or "sell" bitcoins (based on the actual current value of bitcoins), and your score at any point is what your return on investment would have been if you had actually been trading them.

Nathan Merrill

2. This allows me to also have a table for bots, and the games they participated in, for useful debugging

PhiNotPi

And so the controller would actually be running continuously, with scoreboard updates every 15 minutes or so.

Nathan Merrill

3. I've learned way more about JavaFX (with my current job), so I'm really considered allowing people to have both a local webview to watch a game, as well as a StackSnippet to watch a game from the server

4. I auto-download submissions, so submissions automatically will be added to games

5. Score aggregators (like MAM, or even simple ones), can show a breakdown on how their scores were updated

user165474

Mostly the reason I can't commit as much time as I'd really like to is because I'm in high school so most of my day is ~~wasted doing nothing~~ spent learning things or doing ~~nothing~~ homework.

PhiNotPi

17:32

@NathanMerrill Do you think you will be able to support some kind of real-time or continuously-running competition on your server?

Nathan Merrill

17:42

Potentially, but it'd require a large rework

I still have a pretty strong hierarchy of "Tournament of Games"

and real-time breaks that

because a game never actually finishes

I'd need to come up with some sort of class that runs a "game of rounds", and each round it updates the scoreboard?

I mean, tournaments can last forever right now

so I could repurpose them to be the actual game

but that might end up being super hacky

DJMcMayhem

@Lithium "A Stack Overflow themed Jenga game" is a pretty good metaphor for how most software development works 😜 — Benjamin Hodgson ♦ 1 hour ago

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This comment is beautiful, 10/10

programmer5000

One more vote to reopen:

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Q: Get this annoying song stuck in my head

Your challenge is to play these notes (speakers or to a sound file): C A F G You may find this useful. Playing these frequencies would be allowed: 261.63 220.00 174.61 196.00 And so would this: 1046.50 880.00 698.46 783.99

code-golf music

Jan Dvorak

Oh well, I'll do it.

Anonymous

I'm not going to vote to reopen because the chord information should be in the challenge body, not a link

Nathan Merrill

@programmer5000 what's a sound file?

programmer5000

17:53

@NathanMerrill .ogg, .mp3, etc.

Nathan Merrill

I need a definitive list

because ABC notation seems rather appealing

Anonymous

These problems could've been worked out in the Sandbox

Nathan Merrill

also, do you allow any C note?

^^

programmer5000

@NathanMerrill en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_file_format#List_of_formats

@NathanMerrill and yes, any C note.

Nathan Merrill

In the post!!

then please say that in the post, and how to calculate their frequencies

Jan Dvorak

17:54

Also, how long should the sound file be? What note lengths?

Anonymous

The challenge should contain all of the information needed to craft a solution, assuming that the only thing a user knows is how to write code in a programming language.

Wheat Wizard

Whats a good number challenge to do in a new language?

Nathan Merrill

primes + fibonacci?

Jan Dvorak

project Euler

Wheat Wizard

OH yeah fibonacci, thanks

programmer5000

17:56

@NathanMerrill is that better?

Jan Dvorak

@Mego Is it really required to explain what a note is?

programmer5000

I hope not.

Nathan Merrill

It's crucial to prevent abuse

Anonymous

@programmer5000 No, because it's still a link, not an unambiguous description. Put a little bit of effort into your challenge writing, please.

Nathan Merrill

not because people can't look that stuff up

Anonymous

17:58

@JanDvorak You'd be surprised how many people don't have any experience with music.

Nathan Merrill

but because if you don't define it, then anything goes

Anonymous

If you say "A", a lot of people don't have any idea what that means.

Jan Dvorak

He did list the note frequencies

Nathan Merrill

right, but he listed two of them, and also said that any "A" works

if you're going to allow multiple frequencies, tell me exactly which ones

Jan Dvorak

true

Nathan Merrill

18:00

because even "A" is broad, which is why (in the world of tuning) we say A440

programmer5000

You are not currently allowed to play any "A", just 220.00.

Simply Beautiful Art

Eep, sorry for the earlier message, though I hope it didn't disturb anyone.

Anonymous

@NathanMerrill And then that's still not enough, because of equal temperament vs just temperament vs others

Jan Dvorak

@Mego that's not a property of a single note

programmer5000

Is 220.00 HZ fine?

Anonymous

18:01

@JanDvorak Sure, but there are multiple notes

Anonymous

This music challenge of mine spent a lot of time in the Sandbox, going through revisions to make it clear.

Nathan Merrill

@programmer5000 it's looking better. I'd indicate that the notes have a minimum length of X seconds

programmer5000

It has that.

Or are you suggesting > 100ms?

Jan Dvorak

Now there are four specific frequencies to play, so there should be no need for too much theory. Specifying an allowed error for the frequencies would be nice, though.

Nathan Merrill

oh I missed that

my bad

Anonymous

18:03

@programmer5000 Loophole: Each note lasts infinity seconds

Jan Dvorak

It's 0.1s for each note, but where did the 0.25s between notes go?

programmer5000

Not needed.

Dennis

What is unclear? — programmer5000 13 mins ago

@programmer5000 Instead of screaming at us in comments, you might want to consider explaining the task at hand as well as you can. What might very well sounds clear in your head, since you already know what you want us to do, might not be clear at all to readers.

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Nathan Merrill

@Mego I'm surprised nobody found a codec for ABC notation

because seriously, once its found, that is super abusable in your challenge

user165474

Note that 220Hz with a square wave does not sound like an A (IIRC)

programmer5000

18:08

Why not?

Jan Dvorak

I think there are defaults for allowed audio outputs?

Anonymous

@NathanMerrill I'm surprised, too. I didn't even try, though :P

Okx

Funny how Java beats python by a huge margin in this challenge.

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Anonymous

@HyperNeutrino It mostly sounds like ruptured eardrums

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Anonymous

Actually it sounds like chiptunes :P

user165474

18:11

lol square waves do sound bad

Jan Dvorak

That's why the era of 1-bit audio ended as soon as it could

user165474

Hm. Actually it does sound like an A, just an octave higher and fatal to the eardrums.

user165474

@JanDvorak that existed?

Anonymous

@HyperNeutrino Telegrams :P

user165474

oh :P

Jan Dvorak

18:15

Gameboy had 4-bit audio

a square wave is just a sine wave with massive amounts of higher harmonics

user165474

lol That is true.

Jan Dvorak

anyways, g2g pub

user165474

bye! o/

programmer5000

Is anything still unclear in my challenge? If so, please tell me, otherwise please vote to reopen it.

Anonymous

> If you output to a file, please use a .ogg or .mp3.

Anonymous

18:17

What if output is done on STDOUT?

Jan Dvorak

Normally just raw bytes that can be fed to aplay are allowed

betseg

./prog > file && aplay file

srsly ninja'd?

Jan Dvorak

just do ./prog | aplay

user165474

./prog | aplay? or can i not bash?

Anonymous

@JanDvorak Other way 'round

betseg

18:20

why the stars

Anonymous

Ok these ninjas really need to get out of TNB

user165474

:(

Jan Dvorak

jumps onto the roof, disappears into the darkness

Anonymous

Please don't star things that aren't important or interesting. Starring things just to star them doesn't benefit anyone.

user165474

tries to jump onto the roof, trips, and falls out of sight

user165474

18:21

Welp I gtg now. Bye! o/

totallyhuman

bye

programmer5000

@totallyhuman did you just join to say bye? O_o

totallyhuman

i came, i saw :PJY

betseg

veni, vidi, dunno

7

flawr

veni,vanna,cry

Okx

18:35

latin,latin,more latin

Kritixi Lithos

@betseg what does that mean?

came, gone, dunno?

betseg

veni means i came, vidi means i saw, and dunno about the last one

Kritixi Lithos

That i

betseg

that ı

programmer5000

veni vidi vici: I came, I saw, I conquered.

Riker

18:46

I have to say, the SO top bar is ugly af

so hard to realize I had 4 notifications and 15 rep

totallyhuman

Hehe

:PJY was supposed to be :P if it weren't for my friend over here >_>

Okx

You can edit messages you know.

Phoenix

CMC: Expand a string: string -> sttrrriiiinnnnngggggg, foo -> fooooo

totallyhuman

... After which I event

Went

To troll my friend and ran out of edit time

Anonymous

@Phoenix Pretty sure we've had that

Dennis

18:58

@Phoenix xJ

Business Cat

CJam: qee{~\)*}%

Anonymous

Actually, 6 bytes: ;ru♀*Σ

Business Cat

0 indexing is such a pain

Anonymous

I might be dumb

totallyhuman

Python:

def f(s):
 r=''
 for i in range(len(s)):r+=s[i]*i+1

Anonymous

19:00

Nope, the enumerate way is longer by two bytes: ñ⌠iu*⌡MΣ

Business Cat

CJam, 10 8 bytes: Sq+ee::*

Anonymous

@totallyhuman Nope. Get rid of the triple backticks, highlight all the text, and hit ctrl-k

Kritixi Lithos

APL, way too many bytes: {↑,/⍵⍴⍨¨⍳⍴⍵}

Phoenix

n=1;o="";for i in input():o+=i*n;n+=1, if I remember the way blocks work with semicolons.

Anonymous

47 bytes as a function: lambda s:''.join(s*-~i for i,s in enumerate(s))

Luis Mendo

19:01

@Phoenix MATL, 6 bytes: tgYsY"

Kritixi Lithos

I think you can golf by using a recursive function

Adnan

@Phoenix Python, 40 bytes: f=lambda x,y=1:x and x[0]*y+f(x[1:],y+1)

Luis Mendo

@BusinessCat Indeed. Yet people complain mroe about 1-based indexing than about 0-based

Adnan

Or 39 bytes: f=lambda x:x and f(x[:-1])+x[-1]*len(x)

totallyhuman

>_> consider me out-golfed

Okx

19:06

@Adnan I don't think the f= counts.

Kritixi Lithos

it does because you are referencing it in the function

Riker

yea, it's recursive

nice golf tho

Okx

Ah, I didn't notice :P

Business Cat

JS, 42 bytes: s=>[...s].map((c,i)=>c.repeat(i+1)).join``

user165474

lol I have +-0 rep change for UTC today right now :P

Okx

19:16

@HyperNeutrino Make that +10 ;)

Jan Dvorak

that's the usual case for me

I got +10 today, from one upvote. The Java answer got 6.

user165474

yay

user165474

The funny thing is that I lost 120 rep from deleting an answer and giving a bounty today (well actually last night but UTC time)

Kritixi Lithos

1.5 years ago, most of the days would have resulted in a net +0 rep for me, now that I became better at golfing and started answering more, it's less common to see a +0 rep change

Business Cat

@Phoenix Brainfuck, 24 bytes: ,[<<+[->+>.<<]>[-<+>]>,]

user165474

19:19

The last time I got +0 rep was April 30. I was close on May 3 and 6 with only +5

user165474

and onvm i have +15 now ?? lel

user165474

And someone please answer this, it's not that hard

Kritixi Lithos

The last time I got +0 rep was on April 27

I fear I will get a +0 day quite soon due to inactivity

user165474

I will always visit PPCG at least once a day even if I don't do anything, just so I can get Fanatic eventually :P

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19:33

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Q: How long is my number?

Challenge Given an integer, Q in the range -(2^100) ≤ Q ≤ 2^100, output the number of digits in that number (in base 10). Rules Yes, you may take the number as a string and find its length. All mathematical functions are allowed. You may take input in any base, but the output must be the len...

code-golf number

Adám

@KritixiLithos With AGL: ⍳∘≢é⊢

Jan Dvorak

@HyperNeutrino how do you decide if a state is a GoE state?

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19:57

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Q: Calculate the inverse modulus

The task: Output a value for x, where a mod x = b for two given values a,b. Assumption a and b will always be positive integers There won't always be a solution for x If multiple solutions exist, output at least one of them. If there aren't any solutions, output nothing or some indication tha...

code-golf math number-theory

Wheat Wizard

I feel like the fibonacci question has grown rather unclear as the site has grown. Should we do something to make it clearer?

trichoplax

@HyperNeutrino The reason I donated that challenge is because it wasn't ready and would take a lot of work to make it so. Since it has been posted largely unchanged I wouldn't expect answering it to be easy - a brute force solution would be almost impossible to test in a reasonable timeframe

Nathan Merrill

@WheatWizard sure, edit it!

programmer5000

Is my challenge unclear? If so, why? Otherwise, could it please be reopened?

flawr

Sandboxing helps.

Jan Dvorak

20:12

"please use a .ogg or .mp3" - eh, no. No no no no. Both are very complex file formats that would pose a major part of the challenge. We'd spend ten hours reading on how the format works, then 100 bytes outputting an incompressible 30-byte file header, then ... I'm not sure. I think that MP3 works in the frequency domain??? One of the codecs for ogg is FLAC, which would let us have to compute the sine wave, but...

programmer5000

@JanDvorak what should I say instead?

Jan Dvorak

2 hours ago, by Jan Dvorak

Normally just raw bytes that can be fed to aplay are allowed

programmer5000

@JanDvorak edited.

Wheat Wizard

Is this clear?

trichoplax

@WheatWizard The link isn't :P

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Nathan Merrill

20:20

Java question: I'm trying to figure out how to organize my KoTHCommServer so people can submit their KoTHComm frameworks. Do you simply have people submit a github repo link/path to a particular class, and I compile the class and instantiate it (using reflection)?

@WheatWizard that looks far better to me

Jan Dvorak

Oh, wait, there is a link?

Nathan Merrill

we were just talking about it :)

its the fibonacci challenge linked about

Jan Dvorak

The linked question seems fine

Nathan Merrill

now it is :)

Christopher

I am amazing

I manage to attract downvotes in the sandbox. Mainly for imperfections in my challenges. Makes no sense as it was sandboxed to work out the bugs

Wheat Wizard

20:28

Thats what downvotes in the sandbox are for.

Poke

^

meta downvotes in general mean something completely different

Nathan Merrill

I've changed my votes several times in the sandbox

Jan Dvorak

I thought downvotes in sandbox meant the challenge didn't have a chance to live?

Christopher

@JanDvorak Same.

Wheat Wizard

Probably depends on the person.

Jan Dvorak

20:30

It is how I use them...

Nathan Merrill

no, it means that it's not ready in its current state

Wheat Wizard

But I downvote to let people know that I would VTC if posted as is

Christopher

I feel like it should be no hope to live. Because it is quite clear it is not ready as it is in the sandbox.

Wheat Wizard

I don't think people downvote because it needs minor fixes, usually it is because the question is far from ready.

Nathan Merrill

yeah, it depends on the distance-to-ready

trichoplax

20:32

Depends on context too. If someone posts a sandbox challenge saying "looking for feedback on this far from ready idea" I wouldn't downvote it just comment, but if someone's looking to post to main soon I'd downvote and comment, then remove the downvote when it's resolved

Poke

I've posted sandbox posts to main that received 0 upvotes in the sandbox and they've done decently well

but i wouldn't post if it had downvotes with explanations

Wheat Wizard

I've also had it go the other way where a +6 in the sandbox completely flopped

trichoplax

Best to pay most attention to the comments.

Nathan Merrill

was it a KoTH?

Wheat Wizard

I wouldn't take sandbox votes too seriously, comments are important

Christopher

20:35

I challenge anyone to a duel. I am looking for a challenge to duel with but am thinking about a 50 rep duel using newline

Wheat Wizard

@NathanMerrill No but similar

Jan Dvorak

I use sandbox downvotes as a coup de grace of sorts, which is weird because it's not all that effective as a coup, or even grateful.

Wheat Wizard

@Christopher Whats the question? I'm always down for a duel

Christopher

@WheatWizard Finding one but I want to use newline as the language (choose the weapons thing)

Wheat Wizard

Would we both compete in newline?

Christopher

20:37

@WheatWizard Yes.

I will be adding one feature so it will be NC most likely

(Ascii output)

Wheat Wizard

Ok find a challenge you think is possible and I'd be willing

New Main Posts

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Q: What's the file extension?

Your challenge is to find the file extension of a provided filename. Example I/O: hi.txt -> txt carrot.meme -> meme lol (undefined behavior) what..is..this..file -> file

code-golf string

Anonymous

@programmer5000 Please stop posting challenges if you're not going to put any effort into making them clear.

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Jan Dvorak

He did put some effort ... after we doused him with CVs

2

Oh, I missed the new one is from him as well

Well, this one seems clear enough, just ... boring, IMO

I hope you don't mind me answering?

totallyhuman

20:53

that split lol

Jan Dvorak

Yeah, normal / ~~abnormal~~ golfing languages :-)

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