The Nineteenth Byte

HyperNeutrino

9:00 PM

@totallyhuman answer GoL Tetris and repcap forever

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@MDXF stalker ;P

Step Hen

^^

totallyhuman

hah I wish

MD XF

@HyperNeutrino Forgot to close this tab from when we were talking about your monthly rep :P

HyperNeutrino

lol

Jim

CMC: Given an input string containing alphanumeric characters, replace the runs of digits by the equivalent ASCII character.

For instance auidt71wbdu98 -> auidtGwbdub

HyperNeutrino

9:01 PM

lol 5/6 deleted ;P :P

MD XF

Hmm.... in postfix, why can't x 0 > be written as 0 x <?

Jim

The runs are guaranteed to represent a valid printable ASCII character

Step Hen

CMC: Prime factors of the number in that Fibonacci challenge

HyperNeutrino

could be

@StepHen >.>

Step Hen

@HyperNeutrino None of the ones I found online actually work with large numbers like they say they do

HyperNeutrino

9:03 PM

lol

that's a bit too large

Step Hen

well...

totallyhuman

screw it i'm posting my question

I literally copied the question from fibtraction

and nobody had problems with the specification :P

HyperNeutrino

good luck

totallyhuman

they were all focused on something else...

speaking of which, I haven't checked the votes in a while

welp still doing horrible

question's practically screwed

programmer5000

Votes of what?

totallyhuman

9:06 PM

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Q: Is fibtraction a dupe?

Recently this question caused a bit of a stir. The admitted goal of the challenge was to replace our old fibonacci question which the op felt was outdated. The question was closed twice by high rep users holding code-golf badges, and reopened twice by regular users. It currently has two additi...

HyperNeutrino

ocrap i capped with 3 hours left in the day :o

MD XF

@HyperNeutrino I capped in five hours once >.<

it was so annoying 'cause it happened overnight

(cue harsh comments about segfaults)

HyperNeutrino

stop complaining about capping over throwing random segfaults :P ;)

but yeah it's annoying because then you're like "oh no I can't do anything anymore or I'll lose rep"

totallyhuman

D: where'd my question go

MD XF

@HyperNeutrino That's one SE bug. If you repcap, and get 1 vote over the repcap, but then get downvoted, you lose 2 rep (ノ°Д°）ノ︵ ┻━┻

Step Hen

9:09 PM

@MDXF Why is that bad, then you distribute it over several days, I posted my capper right in morning (UTC)

totallyhuman

guys halp

MD XF

@StepHen Because then you can't do anything else during the day

totallyhuman

my question isn't showing up

MD XF

It kills your motivation to post more stuff

HyperNeutrino

well I went ahead and posted another answer anyway lol

MD XF

9:10 PM

@cairdcoinheringaahing I can't figure out for the life of me what your sign-printing Triangular program does

HyperNeutrino

oshit those votes were fast

Step Hen

FGITW

MD XF

@HyperNeutrino 0/10 cussing on stackexchange >.<

HyperNeutrino

wat

@totallyhuman sandbox was very useful lol

New Main Posts

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Q: Compare char to other chars in javascript

In my answer, I have this code: s.match(/[AEIOU]/) This seems too verbose to check if a string is one of A, E, I, O, or U. Can I do this in a shorter way?

tips javascript

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Q: How many ways can a river cross a road?

A (closed) meander is a closed curve, that does not intersect itself, which intersects a line a number of times. A meander can be analogized as a road crossing a river through a number of bridges. The number of distinct meanders of order n is the nth meandric number. The first few numbers of th...

code-golf number sequence

totallyhuman

9:13 PM

Jeez ok fine

I guess none of y'all can take a joke

How harmful is the phrase "plz send teh codez"

Like c'mon

Step Hen

@totallyhuman Yes

MD XF

@StepHen "how harmful is this phrase?" - "yes" ಠ_ಠ

HyperNeutrino

@Zacharý hehe sorry to compensate for my tormenting I'll remember to get your name right in the future

at least upvotes don't stop progress towards tag badges after capping

MD XF

@HyperNeutrino I think they do actually, at least they did back in April bug

HyperNeutrino

really >.<

Step Hen

9:17 PM

yesterday, by Step Hen

@WheatWizard It's nice that there's no tag score cap like there is a rep cap :P

meta-ninja'd

HyperNeutrino

lol

MD XF

Hmm... in a postfix-based esolang, should 3 2 > pop 3 and 2 and push 2>3?

HyperNeutrino

I've lost around 55 rep to the cap already ಠ_ಠ

@MDXF postfix notation is stack based

so no, it's 2>3

MD XF

Oops.... not what I mean though. Basically, 3 2 * would pop 2 and 3 and push 6 (2*3). Would 3 2 > pop 2 and 3 before pushing 0 (2>3), or save the values?

HyperNeutrino

pop first.

MD XF

9:23 PM

How come, though?

HyperNeutrino

because 3 pushes the value, then 2 pushes the value, then * pops both.

MD XF

Yeah but when you're comparing two numbers you're probably going to want the original values

Like =. Should 3 2 = get rid of 3 and 2?

HyperNeutrino

yes

MD XF

3 2 * in postfix esolang is basically like 3 *= 2 in C

HyperNeutrino

except without causing errors

MD XF

9:25 PM

ಠ_ಠ pretend they're variables

HyperNeutrino

you can also make a quick-like thing that makes operators not pop

Luis Mendo

One thing is postfix, another thing is stack-based. With a stack-based language you usually consume (pop) the inputs and push the output

(or outputs)

MD XF

Ugh, this might invalidate a bunch of Triangular programs...

Luis Mendo

One exception is 05AB1E's "head" / "tail" functions (¬ / ¤), which don't consume the input

trichoplax

@HyperNeutrino It could be worse - I've never had more rep on SO than PPCG

MD XF

9:29 PM

Well guess I better make Triangular "standards"-compliant. I don't want to be the IE of the esolang world

There needs to be some way to tag answers. So that you can easily find all the answers in a language

Luis Mendo

Esolangs are a lot about being weird

Don't worry about making it different

But ask yourself how useful that is

MD XF

Imagine trying to find all answers in the C language >.<

@LuisMendo how useful what is? saving the values or discarding them?

Luis Mendo

Yes

In stack-based languages, I almost always find it useful for inputs to be consumed

MD XF

I can't imagine C discarding variables after an == statement. But esolangs are not C

Luis Mendo

C is not stack-based

MD XF

9:31 PM

That too

Luis Mendo

The concept of discarding applies to stack-based languages

MD XF

Yeah guess so.... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I've got the register commands for saving values

Jan Dvorak

C has memory management, though

You should use ptrcmp or isnull to avoid accidentally deleting pointer when comparing them.

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

code-golf cops-and-robbers Will it halt? Cops: This is the cops' thread. The robbers' thread is here. Your challenge is to make a program that runs forever without halting1, unless it gets a particular input2. If it receives that input, it must terminate in a finite amount of time3. This is c...

programmer5000

Time from post: 1m, 38s. Pretty fast.

MD XF

9:36 PM

Time from dv: 1m, 55 seconds. I read fast.

caird coinheringaahing

@MDXF the triangular answer computes (n>0)-(n<0)

MD XF

Just kidding :P

@cairdcoinheringaahing Yeah never mind. I had an interpreter bug

It's gonna be invalid :I

caird coinheringaahing

@MDXF what was the bug?

MD XF

@cairdcoinheringaahing l, g, = did not discard the values used

I was under the impression l and g did. I'm reluctant to make = so

programmer5000

@MDXF Good. Is it upvote worthy?

caird coinheringaahing

9:38 PM

Why not? If the values are needed, uses :": beforehabd

MD XF

@programmer5000 Didn't actually read it, I'm pretending to focus on Triangular while checking TNB every time I'm pinged

totallyhuman

oh noes

not an edit war

pls no

trichoplax

@MDXF "I'm pretending to focus on ______ while checking TNB every time I'm pinged" - I think that describes a lot of us...

MD XF

Hah. _______ was work for me until a couple months ago

trichoplax

At the moment ______ is a KotH for me, which you'd think would be immune from TNB distraction, but no

HyperNeutrino

9:42 PM

can someone explain this

MD XF

Even PPGC is not immune from PPCG distractions

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HyperNeutrino

ok to be fair, this is way more impressive than my answer

trichoplax

I haven't looked at TIO for a while. I love the turning gear around the play icon while processing

totallyhuman

@HyperNeutrino byte counter says it's 138 bytes and 134 chars

MD XF

@trichoplax I hate it because it means I did something wrong

HyperNeutrino

9:44 PM

@totallyhuman :o I think zachary's trolling me with unicode

trichoplax

When it just happens for a second and then smoothly fades back into a play symbol it's satisfyingly subtle

totallyhuman

that one line to be exact

MD XF

@trichoplax Yeah, that always gives me a smug look

Until I look at the output

trichoplax

:P

HyperNeutrino

zwsps :/

totallyhuman

9:47 PM

here, i retyped it

Jan Dvorak

Let's ban Unicode

HyperNeutrino

yay +215 rep today :D

@totallyhuman thanks but I did too lol :P

anyway gtg now o/

totallyhuman

bye

New Main Posts

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Q: Making Squared Words

The Challenge Your task is to create a program that takes any given string input, and outputs the input in a squared format. Empty strings should return an empty string. Examples Given the input: golf Your program should output: golf o l l o flog Input: 123 Output: 123 2 2 321 In...

code-golf string

New Sandboxed Posts

10:07 PM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

The Laboratory of the Counties Social Causality Contest The objective is to maximally compress the ecological social data at the OckhamsGuillotine github repository, as described presently. Motivation To create the best unified model of society by compressing a wide range of social data. Comp...

New Sandboxed Posts

10:24 PM

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Word Problem Generator popularity-contest Word problems can be a great way to test comprehension of concepts, but they are pain to write. That's why you need to make a program that takes an equation (or set of equations), and makes a word problem out of them. For example, if the input is x+3=8, ...

0

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Float 754 to Hamming code-golf integer floating-point You will be given as input an integer k in the range from -4503599627370496 (-2^52) to 4503599627370496 (2^52). As is well known, integers in this range can be represented exactly as double-precision floating-point values. You should output...

0

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

THIS IS FORTRESS! (tentative title) code-golf Fortress was a language being developed by the Sun Programming Language Research Group (R.I.P. Fortress) that had a unique property to it, it was possible to render ("Fortify") programs in different font-styles (i.e. blackboard bold, bold, italics, ...

programmer5000

(when the last 5 chat posts are by bots)

HyperNeutrino

bots != feeds

totallyhuman

hey how do i take input with spaces in them in charcoal o0

programmer5000

May 15 at 15:59, by New Sandboxed Posts

I AM A BOT THIS IS DISCRIMINATION

Destructible Lemon

about the ant koth, and the 16 bot limit

HyperNeutrino

10:30 PM

ok fine maybe i lied lol

Destructible Lemon

what happens to the other bots? do you run with every possible set of 16?

if you do the latter, you get probably too many matches

totallyhuman

;-; can't figure out charcoal

HyperNeutrino

rip the edit log: codegolf.stackexchange.com/posts/133643/revisions

totallyhuman

wanna wreck everybody on the challenge

@HyperNeutrino rip the question too

might get tumblweed off of it o0

HyperNeutrino

there is a comment so nope

totallyhuman

10:35 PM

oh comments

>.>

HyperNeutrino

and besides, I'm going to upvote it later once I get votes lol

DJMcMayhem

Oh, I didn't see it had been rolled back when I first edited it

HyperNeutrino

I mean, it is just a joke but you shouldn't roll back the edit made by an experienced high-rep user lol

totallyhuman

i stopped after the first one

dunno why caird walked in

although i still don't see why it's being removed :P

only got +30 today

HyperNeutrino

rip

totallyhuman

10:41 PM

Seriously though somebody tell me

Why is it being removed

This is just like the memes page except nobody's giving a reason

HyperNeutrino

then post to meta, i don't know

totallyhuman

All I do is get downvoted on meta

2

:P

HyperNeutrino

at least you don't lose rep :P

also idk why I said i don't know

I rolled it back to not have it lol

I removed it because it doesn't add to the challenge and it decreases the overall quality of the challenge in my opinion, and because DJMcMayhem removed it lol

besides now it's pretty much 3 higher rep users vs 2 lower rep users for opinion and i'd keep it off unless you want your post to get autoflagged for edit-wars lol

I forget the rules about it getting triggered but I think a few consecutive rollbacks will do the job

totallyhuman

I'm keeping it off

But I still don't see how it decreases the quality

^^ I'm not that stupid

Wheat Wizard

11:01 PM

@Downgoat I just thought I'd remind you that the bounty grace period ends in 2 hrs.

ATaco

11:13 PM

I should probably write up some Documentation for RProgN2.

Phoenix

Probably, yeah.

BTW, @ATaco does the steam sign in do anything?

ATaco

@Phoenix Not anything that the average person can see.

Consolidates Sessions, and also gives me access to the web console.

I really like how @ArnoldPalmer cracked my RProgN2 solution, although it's no-where near as short as the intended solution, it actually shows some understanding of the language.

HyperNeutrino

wtf I can't view the First Posts and Late Answers queues without having votes?

Wheat Wizard

@HyperNeutrino ostensibly because you can't vote to delete

But idk why you would be able to view reopen/close vote queues if that was the case

HyperNeutrino

I can vote to delete and vote to close/reopen

I meant up/down votes

Wheat Wizard

11:27 PM

@HyperNeutrino I didn't know the two were separate. I guess they want you to be able to vote on answers

is late answers open for you?

HyperNeutrino

nope

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Q: Cannot view certain review queues without having up/down votes

Apparently, when a user has reached their daily up/down vote limit of 40, they are unable to access the First Posts and Late Answers review queues. Why is this? When I go into the FP/LA queues, it's not like I only up/down vote, I also sometimes vote to delete or add comments, and I personally th...

discussion

Wheat Wizard

Wait you can view low quality though?

HyperNeutrino

yes

Wheat Wizard

-3

Q: Don't cap reviews based on vote limits

As noted in the original announcement for the First Posts review queue: The only requirement to participate is the ability to cast both up and down-votes on the site, making this the most inclusive queue to date. It seems wrong to block a user's ability to review First Posts and Late Answer...

feature-request status-declined review voting-limits

Destructible Lemon

wait they complained because someone explained why they disagreed?

whaaaaat?

totallyhuman

11:35 PM

No way

HyperNeutrino

hm i see

Wheat Wizard

Man I'm never going to vote again out of fear of not being able to access the queues

HyperNeutrino

lol

lol I hope meta doesn't hate me for asking two questions in quick succession

ATaco

@DestructibleLemon Try this version if you've got the time

HyperNeutrino

anyway gtg now, I expect to come back and have 1 rep on meta lol o/

Wheat Wizard

11:36 PM

I actually only vote about three times a day anyway. I've never come close to the cap

Destructible Lemon

@ATaco I'm not doing much

ATaco

You can press E to open up a little map editor thing, where you can click to place walls, right click to remove them.

The slowness of the web version seems to let you move through walls but w/e

Destructible Lemon

um, I escaped through a wall

oh ninja'd ecks dee

pretty cool

ATaco

The web version is emulating Lua, so it's pretty inefficient. I can't use my bitwise operators either.

totallyhuman

ecks dee

ATaco

11:41 PM

And I can't load textures either, it's just really sad all together.

MD XF

@totallyhuman 0/10 use my meme pls

totallyhuman

@MDXF and what would that be

MD XF

@totallyhuman (lambda x:''.join(x.split())[2:0:-1])('MD XF')

HyperNeutrino

oplsno

MD XF

@HyperNeutrino You came up with that ಠ_ಠ

HyperNeutrino

11:49 PM

true (lambda x:''.join(x.split())[2:0:-1])('MD XF')

but then why did you say "use my meme" ಠ_ಠ

MD XF

'cause you made it but it's my name

totallyhuman

o0

HyperNeutrino

lol

totallyhuman

[totallyhuman] !covfefe 42
  [covfefe] covfefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefefe

This is an example of a great bot

HyperNeutrino

is that 'cov'+'fe'*n

totallyhuman

11:52 PM

Nō

It's 'covfefe' + 'fe' * n

HyperNeutrino

lol

Biweekly Contest for Undervoted Answers

See codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13129/68942

totallyhuman

Because covfefe must always be complete

Destructible Lemon

but how do you do covfe then

HyperNeutrino

sure xD

totallyhuman

@DestructibleLemon !covfefe -1

Let loose your vote clickers

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Q: Is fibtraction a dupe?

Recently this question caused a bit of a stir. The admitted goal of the challenge was to replace our old fibonacci question which the op felt was outdated. The question was closed twice by high rep users holding code-golf badges, and reopened twice by regular users. It currently has two additi...

discussion duplicates

Destructible Lemon

11:55 PM

@totallyhuman hey... but then it that would do covfefe because "fe" * -1 = ""

MD XF

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A: Output the sign

Triangular, 26 15 bytes $\:-%0U..g/l0P< Try it online! Currently nonworking until Dennis pulls; found some interpreter bugs. Formats into this triangle: $ \ : - % 0 U . . g / l 0 P < How it works: The code, without directionals, is read as $:0gP0lU-%. $ reads an integer from st...

totallyhuman

@DestructibleLemon exactly why it's a special case

Hang on

ATaco

@DestructibleLemon You can try out the better executable version Here

You can also place portals and things.

totallyhuman

!createbot @covfefe
^!covfefe$ -> covfefe;
^!covfefe\s+([\d\.]+) -> {${'covfefe' + 'fe' * int(groups[1].split('.')[0]) + 'f'}, !break};
^!covfefe\s+-1 -> {covfe, !break};
^!covfefe\s+-2 -> {cov, !break};
^!covfefe\s+(.*) -> ${groups[1] + ' covfefe'};

Destructible Lemon

could be simpler

ATaco

11:57 PM

Destructible Lemon

do "cov"+ "fe"* (n+2)

Biweekly Contest for Undervoted Answers

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