@NewMainPosts I really don't think that challenge is a dupe. Firstly, you have to remove all non-alphabetical characters and convert to lowercase, and second, "append a space to each character" doesn't work on this challenge.
I'd cast a reopen vote but that'd automatically reopen it...
then any dupe or not-dupe votes you cast count as five
this is a process that likely does more harm than good on PPCG, because it discourages the people who are most familiar with a tag from casting dupe votes on it
Q: So I post a code-golf question, state in the question that I won't accept an answer unless it's incredibly intuitive. A few days later, someone posts a huge C++ answer that is incredibly intuitive but could certainly not win any challenges. I love it, I've helped the answerer golf it a few times and I'd like to accept it. (There are, clearly, shorter solutions.) What should I do?
Inspired by a restriction on What do you get when you multiply 6 by 9? (42)
By order of the President, we are no longer permitted to use confusing fake numbers (i.e. numbers other than integers from 0 to 99 inclusive), and are instead to use only real numbers, that is, those that are not fake.
...
it a) screws up the sort orders, and b) reduces the within-a-language competition by making people think they have to use the best language for the task in order to get the accept
I mean, if you want to have the shortest submission, you need to use the right tool for the job, you generally can't use Java or C# to win most (any) code-golf competitions
Consider a binary string S of length n. Indexing from 1, we can compute the Hamming distances between S[1..i+1] and S[n-i..n] for all i in order from 0 to n-1. The Hamming distance between two strings of equal length is the number of positions at which the corresponding symbols are different....
I have no experience in fastest-code, I've never had any reason to write fast code... I generally write for efficiency and cleanliness, or the exact opposite, code golf
Honest RPS
Many people consider RPS to be a game of chance. If both players play unpredictably, the best strategy is to play randomly. However, let's introduce a bit of predictability to it.
Each bot will have a chance to tell the other bot what it's going to play. If it plays that weapon it s...
@Mayube Huh, I'm usually more active when I'm not at work. Anyway, I realized a fatal flaw with Decimal - it has no method of reading an integer. It can read characters but there's currently no way to interpret those as integers and print/operate on them as such. I was wondering if you had any suggestions for adding this capability, without changing the syntax of any existing commands. (I'm asking you because you're the only other person I know of that's golfed in Decimal.)
also I have no real experience creating golfing languages.
Make a program to insert a Ken Thompson virus into a program code-golf code-generation
A Ken Thompson virus is a virus that infects your compiler and other programs. Since it infects all your tools, you can not detect it without using tools from before the virus was introduced.
Your will create...
Make a program to insert a (fake) Ken Thompson virus into a program code-golf code-generation
A Ken Thompson virus is a virus that infects your compiler and other programs. Since it infects all your tools, you can not detect it without using tools from before the virus was introduced.
Your will...
Yeah, the second (and second-first and second-second) points are still a bit unclear
For any other input to Q run P with the input, then P should output something that would be valid input to Q that will generate another Q? Yeah I'm really confused :P
Sinus scrollers have their origin in the demoscene. There are no authoritative definitions, but I can assure you that's how they are commonly referred to.
Hello World - sinus scroller version code-golf hello-world math ascii-art
This challenge incorporates:
Hello World
ASCII art
The Demoscene
Challenge
Print a vertical sinus scroller. The head of this sinus will always be the string Hello World.
The sinus scroller should loop infinitely, pri...
@MDXF As long as they combine into something unique, I don't see a problem. Unless you incorporate an analytical definition, you risk getting it close as unclear though.
Is there a way to list the process ID of just each open window? ps just lists ps itself and zsh, ps -A lists every single running process which is hard to dig through.
@MDXF pgrep lets you search for process by name, but the problem is that pgrep [Ww]riter is not yielding any useful results, and I can't seem to kill writer.
@Phoenix Hmm... what I mainly use ps auxwww | grep name for is when I accidentally freeze a TTY and I want to un-freeze it, I just ps auxwww | grep tty1 and kill -9 TTY1_PID. I honestly have no idea what the auxwww does, but it shows everything.
Oh yeah it seems that pgrep is a watered-down version of ps auxwww | grep name. Don't use pgrep, use that command instead.
Inspired by a restriction on What do you get when you multiply 6 by 9? (42)
By order of the President, we are no longer permitted to use confusing fake numbers (i.e. numbers other than integers from 0 to 99 inclusive), and are instead to use only real numbers, that is, those that are not fake.
...
Consider a binary string S of length n. Indexing from 1, we can compute the Hamming distances between S[1..i+1] and S[n-i..n] for all i in order from 0 to n-1. The Hamming distance between two strings of equal length is the number of positions at which the corresponding symbols are different....
Honest RPS
Many people consider RPS to be a game of chance. If both players play unpredictably, the best strategy is to play randomly. However, let's introduce a bit of predictability to it.
Each bot will have a chance to tell the other bot what it's going to play. If it plays that weapon it s...
Make a program to insert a Ken Thompson virus into a program code-golf code-generation
A Ken Thompson virus is a virus that infects your compiler and other programs. Since it infects all your tools, you can not detect it without using tools from before the virus was introduced.
Your will create...
Hello World - sinus scroller version code-golf hello-world math ascii-art
This challenge incorporates:
Hello World
ASCII art
The Demoscene
Challenge
Print a vertical sinus scroller. The head of this sinus will always be the string Hello World.
The sinus scroller should loop infinitely, pri...
