also 32-byte python 3 quine works in proton 2 :D (not on TIO because I just fixed it and I won't ask Dennis to pull again until majorly significant changes are made :P)
CMP: What should be implemented next in Proton 2.0? Current ideas include lists/sets/tuples (and maybe dicts though those are slightly different), list indexing (a[b]), subreferencing (a.b), or declaring functions.
@EriktheOutgolfer to think about it more and read through all of their questionnaire questions a few more times ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ idk yet, I might vote later tonight or later this week. It depends on whether or not I am absolutely sure of who I want to vote by tonight.
CMP: If I found a formula for <the thing you are required calculate in the challenge>, should I let the answerers find it and just give the normal description of <the thing you are required calculate>, or just include it in the challenge?
I found it in my inbox, somehow managed to overlook it
Looks good.
@Adám I like it, but would you mind keeping the original text as-is, if you can still edit? (I'm talking about Want to post competitive answers or improve your Jelly skills?)
I am waiting for some more feedback before editing in though...
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O_o Typo again!
I am afraid I am going to have to roll back. It already got 2 downvotes!
@Dennis I did collect all the letters to do that, but since I didn't need it, I ate them instead of photographing them. I also thought clear letters would be cool:
@Dennis The tech: I bought two bags of Haribo jelly letters, borrowed my wife's phone (Nexus 5X), put the letters on the back of a Corning-ware plate on a low wall in the shadow on a half-cloudy day. Photo tweaked with Windows 10 Photos, then overlaid with text+special effects in Word, screenshot and finally cropped and resized in Paint.NET.
@Adám That sounds like it might work with the tools I have available (no Nexus 5X and no Windows, but still). Now I just have to figure out how to import edibles.
@Pavel I prefer jam/preserves from the local farms in my county here in this state, so I wonder if those are vegan. Not that I care, I'm just now stuck on the 'curiosity' path :P
@Riker I think you have a fairly good chance at Pico Glatt Mart, 9427 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035 (corner of Elm Dr. & Pico Blvd.). I can't spot them on the pictures from inside the store, though.
@ThomasWard Such are usually thickened with pectin, which is vegan.
@Pavel Actually, I once spent a lot of time and sugar experimenting, and was eventually able to make proper chewy candies from just white sugar and water. A very involved process though.
@Riker Your best bet on where to pick up the jelly letters I used for the JHT ad.
@Pavel They were not completely dry, but I packed them in small pieces of baking paper, and that worked fine. The same really applies to commercial chewy candies. Their inner wrappers are some type of coated let-go thing. Consistently came off in one piece.
@Pavel IIRC, I mixed sugar and water on a pan, then boiled it until dark brown and so little water content that it would become completely hard if cold (throw drops on thick steel to test). Then I added water to the super-heated substance (watch out!) and carefully dissolved the candy-mass. Then I boiled it in until it had the right water content to turn chewy. I poured out on a large baking paper, and then at the right moment, cut, separated, wrapped, and froze them.
Add to list of interesting off-topic TNB discussions: Confectionery
CMC: Given a list of integers, return the two which, when multiplied together, give the greatest value. Note that this is not always the two greatest integers, consider [-20, -5, 10, 8] which should give (-20, -5).
Read from bottom up: ⊃ ⍝ first b/⍨ ⍝ filter (⌈/=⊢) ⍝ mask for max ×/¨ ⍝ product of each b←,a⊣ ⍝ flatten (1 1⍉a)←0⊣ ⍝ stuff 0s into the main diagonal a←∘.,⍨⎕ ⍝ get input and make all pairs
Wait, TIO classes Emojicode as a recreational language? Would you call an OO high-level multi-paradigm language "recreational" just because its keywords are emoji?
@ngn I really don't see how. An alternative approach would be sorting and then comparing the products of the first two and the last two. Those are the only candidates.
@Adám we probably shouldn't hijack this room for apl chatter. I tend to use =⍨ and ≠⍨ instead of ⍬⍷list and ⍬⍳list but yours are more train-friendly and also work on enclosed arrays
@ngn Ah, but yours work on high-rank arrays. And we're not hijacking. The room is quiet and we're discussing golfing tips. That's about as on-topic as it gets.
@ngn That's pretty neat. WIBNI we had a sorting primitive, though? E.g. monadic ∧←⊂∘⍋⌷⊢ … Also, I keep thinking that </×/ should be combinable into an inner product.
@Adám yeah, count the frequences of primitives and common sequences (like the one for sort) in existing ppcg answers, build a huffman tree, publish an encoding, and apl might become the most successful language here :)
@ngn Yeah, yeah, we've been down that path before. I think someone wanted to do that for Jelly. But no, I want proper sorting primitives in Dyalog APL.
For the record, I meant easy to type for an outsider. I can type Jelly just fine on both my desktop computer and my phone. Others seem to have a harder time.
@Dennis Right. Question is how long time and how much effort it takes to become one. And once you are an expert, how long does it take to complete a given job.