The Nineteenth Byte

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user202729

Can anyone check if my answer is correct?

quartata

@moonheart08 don't use rdrand by itself

ASCII-only

:| found the problem

had to hack a debugger in to find it tho:
https://tio.run/##xX1td9s4rvB3/wpuc2ZkNbKbpDOzM06du2kmncm53ban0@7Lcbxe2ZJjpbLkI8lJvJn89n0A8EWkRMlOtnuf9DTRCwmAIAiAJAhN/Xzx73/P/IK9euWESeCcLKazRdFfbTrRcpVmBcs3ubxM8848S5csXRUrP8tDJp6/XxVRmnzAR5ks62eZr2BkfhKkS3kXpQp2ka1nhSoVyqtZGsfhDIEq3FERZkWaxupBnM78OOx0ZmkQsiEbjTudIJyzSZH5NyFQ0o0Kd9Bh8DNPM3bHogRgDNjKz/NON/aX08BnN34WRLPCA4RJXuQDrbZ41Z9M8rAA5MvJpHvnscglkPYfQgRlOC5Bb/9f0WoSp8lVmBddozJH6iF3rsJuHCZd/sTFH14UmN9fpsE6DvPRZJL4y3AyGQNNSNpk4lGZrvPu/QfHY87P52cfz/98/u4T3ly8024@fDz/C/59d/43/vIN/v7l/af3@Pf8bxfwlJPmnJ1@VNefCezHi19@pVo/v//rO/z79vxNWf7X12f87Ye/f/r1P…

moonheart08

@quartata i can if i'm golfing :p

quartata

i mean yes

what are you golfing

moonheart08

00:16

Nothing at the sec, was looking into options for minimal bytecount random in x86 assembly

user202729

> posted 4m ago

It takes me about a hour just to type out the proof on SE so...

Anyway, please be quick, 3 hours left to be safe (assume there is a flaw in the proof).

moonheart08

@user202729 that proof is neat

:p

moonheart08

00:38

silly objdump, that's a table, not code!

suprisingly, the entire table is valid x86 in the eyes of the disassembler

considering all the other things x86 has, i'm truly suprised there is no conditional return

ASCII-only

@moonheart08 how often would that be useful though

moonheart08

true

but is INTO (interrupt if overflow) or DAA/DAC that useful? :p

ok i'll admit those are 8080 instructions

:P

but the amount of niche instructions these days is quite suprising

I mean, since when were specialized en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_field instructions a non niche thing :P

:O 400 rep

\o/

ASCII-only

00:56

@moonheart08 :|

@moonheart08 wait wat.

moonheart08

@ASCII-only en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVX-512#New_instructions_in_AVX-512_GFNI

ASCII-only

@moonheart08 well, they are part of a really specific extensions et

moonheart08

01:20

I was browsing questions. How the hell was this found. codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/146017/…

Conor O'Brien

this code will receive no penalties under the AP Computer Science grading rubric:

6

public static countInstances(int<><> class, int break)
    int amount == 0
    for(int counter == 0; counter < class.size[]; cnter++)
        for(int do == 0; do < class<counte>.length(); do++)
            if do = break
                amount++

    return amont

Esolanging Fruit

@ConorO'Brien AP CS A or AP CS Principles?

Conor O'Brien

CS A

user202729

@ConorO'Brien What language is that... !? Typo amont?

Conor O'Brien

CS Principles doesn't even do java, I think they use pseudo-js

@user202729 it's java

grading rubric

user202729

01:28

Unacceptable. Star.

Esolanging Fruit

@user202729 It isn't a requirement in computer science that code work, apparently.

moonheart08

^ seems like a dumb idea too

what are we writing it on paper or something?

Conor O'Brien

yeah

moonheart08

...

no thanks

Conor O'Brien

that's why they allow typoes etc, bc we can't check our work with a compiler

user202729

01:29

They should ask for pseudocode instead of Java.

moonheart08

as a C/C++ programmer, that is my worst nightmare

user202729

@ConorO'Brien You don't even type to make typo.

Conor O'Brien

@user202729 yeah :P

@ConorO'Brien amendment: change do = break to class[counter, do] = break

Esolanging Fruit

if x ++ break;

is allowed under those rules

but is ambiguous between if (x++) { break; } and if (x) { ++break; }

Conor O'Brien

"Missing ; where structure clearly conveys intent" might cover that

Esolanging Fruit

01:35

@ConorO'Brien Edited to show where the semicolon would go. I don't see what you mean

Conor O'Brien

oh I misread

Esolanging Fruit

Also, confusing "[] vs. () vs. <>" is allowed, which means you could write if (x [ 3)

Conor O'Brien

I think it means calling conventions but you have a point

Esolanging Fruit

Also, the first line of your file could be static countInstances(int<><> class, int break) public

(the public would apply to the local variable, not the method)

Conor O'Brien

lol

user202729

01:41

@user202729: (commenting here as I don't have the rep to comment there) You can't simulate a "move if false" out of a "flip" and a "move if true" because you can't undo the flip after you move. So you'll need some other way to handle that (e.g. a way to invert tests, that shouldn't be hard). More notably, though, that's a Turing-completeness proof in terms of halt behaviour, but the definition in the question requires you to be able to do I/O as well, so you need to prove you can do that. — ais523 2 mins ago

Pavel

02:11

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Q: How can I draw a Homer with epicycloids?

You may have seen this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVuU2YCwHjw. How does this work, and how to do it with Mathematica?

graphics image-processing fourier-analysis

Thanks Mathematica

ASCII-only

@Pavel dupe

this post contains the actual code used to generate wolfram's person curves too

Riker

02:45

@quartata bruh tag that msg nsfw

Leaky Nun

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A: Number of surjections

quartata

03:02

@Riker no

you can't stop me

ASCII-only

@EsolangingFruit lol it is here (in uni)

Esolanging Fruit

@ASCII-only Also in reality, so I've heard.

Dennis

03:24

Single-handedly nuked in 30 seconds. Not bad.

DJMcMayhem

@Dennis That was obviously a question about the x-86 family

Dennis

But it was also about privileges, so it belonged to meta.

Pavel

04:14

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Actual screenshot

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04:31

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Q: The Third Flak!

This challenge was posted as part of the April 2018 LotM challenge Brain-Flak is a turing-tarpit language which has gained quite a lot of fame here on PPCG. The memory of the language is composed by two stacks, but a "hidden" third stack was discovered by Wheat Wizard, leading to some interest...

code-golf brain-flak

ASCII-only

05:26

@cairdcoinheringaahing do verbose CLI flags do anything

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06:25

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Q: calculate index of maximum value

Hey i am trying to code a function say index_max(data_series, length, threshold); We say two indices are overlapping if the distance between them is less than the length. The function index_max returns a list of non overlapping indices that are greater than or equal to the given threshold value, ...

python

ASCII-only

@cairdcoinheringaahing help it's either i don't understand why e.g. foreach isn't working, or something isn't working as it's supposed to

user202729

Whose account is this?

ASCII-only

@cairdcoinheringaahing also this answer is invalidated :(

user202729

What is the proof that something is false called?

Seem don't fit There must be a path from each light to the battery., but waiting for disproof — l4m2 17 hours ago

I don't think so.

ASCII-only

06:42

@user202729 it is called disproof...

well, technically it's still a proof, and disproofs don't really exist

user202729

Apr 18 at 13:17, by user202729

If only the enter key also had a notch in it so this wouldn' — 12Me21 Mar 14 at 19:33

Fatalize

…why do I now see community ads when I still have my adblocker on

user202729

@Fatalize Because you didn't tell your adblocker to block it?

Fatalize

It always did before

without me having to do anything

user202729

Maybe SE changed something?

Fatalize

06:45

they sure did

user202729

I'm so uninteresting, my highest starred message is a quote.

ASCII-only

07:42

@cairdcoinheringaahing nvm. fixed the broken answer. but how to do for i in range(n) and be able to access the i

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Mt. Brain-Flak string code-golf balanced-string Sandbox: I'm sure this is a dupe, but the closest I could find was this, which is the inverse. Challenge: Given a valid Brain-Flak code, that is, a string of balanced parentheses <>, (), [] and {}, generate a mountain based on the nested brack...

Muhammad Salman

Hi. I have a question. I am curious if anyone is online and can answer it?

Cows quack

@Riker @quartata my friend posted the meme in reddit

@MuhammadSalman sure

Muhammad Salman

@Cowsquack : Thanks

So the question is I have been developing a language It is still in beta , I was curious If I can answer challenges using that language ?

By beta I mean still a major WIP. Since I can't provide TIO or any other links for it (since it is still a github project )

Cows quack

IIRC you can answer in that language as long as it can do some basic functions such as primality testing and adding numbers

Muhammad Salman

@Cowsquack : The language is able to do basic mathematical operations (addition, subtraction , multiplication , division , modulo and functions) and that is about it.

ASCII-only

09:22

@MuhammadSalman Yeah

@MuhammadSalman >_> <_< a lot of TIO languages are github...

Muhammad Salman

Ok. Thanks

ASCII-only

@MuhammadSalman that's okay, as long as people can see the output (and it has loops)

Muhammad Salman

@ASCII-only : no loops (sadly!)

Cows quack

you said it has functions, does it have recursive functions?

Muhammad Salman

It can support recursive functions. Along with nested functions.

Cows quack

09:27

I think that should be fine

Muhammad Salman

Great , thanks.

ASCII-only

@MuhammadSalman :P you don't have loops but you have recursive and nested functions?

Muhammad Salman

@ASCII-only : Yep :)

ASCII-only

oh btw you don't have to put a colon after pings >_>

Muhammad Salman

@ASCII-only I didn't know that part , thanks

Nit

09:33

@MuhammadSalman You can request adding your language to TIO, see gitter.im/tryitonline

ASCII-only

talk.tryitonline.net

For general discussion and feature requests regarding tryitonl...

Nit

@ASCII-only Oh, thanks, didn't know it has a room here, too.

Muhammad Salman

Is there a better way than this (I know that there are better ways )

OOps can't send URL.

ATaco

I know .NET regex is TC, but can I trust a user inputted Regex?

Nit

@ATaco regex dos is a thing

ATaco

09:47

So the answer is no?

Nit

I'm not that familiar with what your context is, but I would say no.

See owasp.org/index.php/…

ASCII-only

@ATaco catastrophic backtracking is a thing in any regex flavor

@MuhammadSalman :|

ATaco

Of course, but some flavours catch it when they notice it failing.

Muhammad Salman

@ASCII-only :)

@ASCII-only : repl.it/repls/SleepyGlassTransfer . (Repl.it link)

user202729

J: Is this code good? tio.run/##y/r/… (find all factors of a number)

ASCII-only

10:02

@MuhammadSalman :| no strings

Muhammad Salman

@ASCII-only : Sadly no string support , another sad fact is that since no interpreter I have to paste the whole thing for this.

ASCII-only

@MuhammadSalman ... you could host an interpreter on GitHub Pages

Muhammad Salman

@ASCII-only Hum , Great idea. Thanks.

ASCII-only

@MuhammadSalman :| you have hello world (how do make that happen btw) and fizzbuzz but no strings

Muhammad Salman

@ASCII-only Hello world is outputted if you have any of these (+ , - , * , / , %) signs but no numbers. Fibuzz is empty program. As for strings , he he I forgot to do that.

ASCII-only

10:06

what about functions

Muhammad Salman

functions follow like this. Still a WIP. Func name param param2 => whatever else

They are space seperated. (I know still working on it)

ASCII-only

10:19

Can anyone find a way to golf this?

ATaco

10:30

>> a = 2
<< 2
>> a.b = 32
<< 32
>> a
<< 2
>> 2.b
<< nil

I've been working on a new version of Funky-ish

And all variables are objects.

All of them.

ASCII-only

yay

just like java

well, JS

ATaco

Yeah but JS has boring all variables are lists

Muhammad Salman

@ATaco Great.

ATaco

You can't actually assign to numbers in JS.

ASCII-only

@ATaco you can assign to Numbers though :P

ATaco

10:34

Now I really need to stop putting off making forloops and function definitions.

ASCII-only

...

@ASCII-only mfw this is almost shorter

disappointing

corrected

user202729

11:06

Random thought: I was looking at nice ID posts. 10000 doesn't exist (why?), 20000 is deleted.

Stewie Griffin

The ultimate challenge on PPCG: Get the tumbleweed badge!

ASCII-only

@StewieGriffin codegolf.stackexchange.com/help/badges/21/tumbleweed

it's not that rare

user202729

@ASCII-only Back in 2013.

ASCII-only

mfw three are tips questions

user202729

How low is low?

Stewie Griffin

11:08

Zero the last 4.5 years is fairly rare...

ASCII-only

wait. that's a good pooint

@user202729 one or less

ever

codegolf.stackexchange.com/help/badges/100/illuminator

codegolf.stackexchange.com/help/badges/14/generalist

Stewie Griffin

I'm willing to bet real money that someone will get one of those before someone gets the tumbleweed badge again...

user202729

I get 8/500 for Illuminator.

ASCII-only

well sure

that's what happened for marshal lol

two in 15 days

side note: how did this person get one of the rarest gold badges ever

how am i not surprised

user202729

Why can't I find the Generalist badge in my next badge list?

ASCII-only

11:13

@user202729 like at all?

user202729

@ASCII-only The difference is 10 days...?

Stewie Griffin

@ASCII-only I'll likely get the Marshall badge this week actually!

ASCII-only

hmm idk actually

@StewieGriffin :O

then it'll be 3 in one month

user202729

@StewieGriffin What is there to flag then...

ASCII-only

how have you reviewed at basically the same pace for so long

user202729

11:15

meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/291321/track-generalist-badge .

ASCII-only

@user202729 well not surprising considering how close they always are in terms of rep :P

Stewie Griffin

@user202729 that's why I said likely :)

user202729

@StewieGriffin Looks like that there are only NAA to flag. (answer not satisfy the criteria etc.)

ASCII-only

@ASCII-only oh wait different badge

felipa

hi

Anush

11:26

hello coding whizzes

user202729

The problem with Generalist is that it has another site-specific requirement: It has to have 40 tags with at least 200 questions. This would either have to be tracked too (which would be somewhat demotivating as you can hardly do anything about this) or a lot of people would be confused as to why they did not earn the badge despite meeting all requirements. I think the intention to (finally) change this was announced somewhere here on Meta, but I cannot find it right now. — Wrzlprmft Apr 22 '15 at 6:39

We only have 24.

When (and if) we have 40 there will be a lot of badges awarded at once.

Angs

12:13

@user202729 How many questions does the 40th tag have?

Anush

is it unreasonable of me to be really annoyed that np.random.randint(0,1) is not equivalent to random.randint(0,1) ?

user202729

@Angs I think 90.

Anush

(python)

user202729

@Anush Equivalent in which sense?

Anush

@user202729q one of those two only ever outputs 0!

Angs

12:21

@user202729 Only 2002 questions in those 16 tags until the limit is hit!

Anush

randint can return a 1, randrange can't and neither can numpy.random.randint

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Q: Matrix in "slash" order

Given two positive numbers N >= 2 and N <= 100 create a matrix which follows the following rules: First Number starts at position [0,0] Second Number starts at position [0,1] Third number goes below First Number (position [1,0]) Following numbers goes in "slash" direction Range of numbers used ...

code-golf matrix

moonheart08

13:03

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/12403/build-the-busiest-beaver-in-x86-machine-code-in-32-bytes-or-less
I'm sorely tempted to revive this just to make an even slower counter. Wait until the realtime clock in the CPU overflows before incrementing the next number.

Or even

wait for it to overflow 2^64 times

in fact, why not just use all the spare registers for a smaller,but still big counter that counts how many times it overflows

ASCII-only

@moonheart08 yes. pls

moonheart08

i'm a genius. But i'm too lazy to try and test such an evil scheme :c

mostly because it'll take eternity

ASCII-only

@moonheart08 just write it and pretend it works

moonheart08

lol

that question is ancient. Does it even fit modern standards?

Probably not

so, how many years is 1.84467440737E+19 nanoseconds?

thx wolfram alpha.
584.94241735477 years

@ASCII-only so what should i do, wait? :P

ASCII-only

@moonheart08 well as long as it theoretically works correctly you're fine

there are a lot of answers like that here

moonheart08

13:12

/me goes to code

evil genius time

oh this isn't irc

/me when

ASCII-only

@moonheart08 there's a userscript for that

moonheart08

:P

ASCII-only

@fergusq what would be the golfiest tampio hello world?

65

Q: SE Chat Modifications -- Keyboard navigation and commands for chat

Screenshot Use /command shortcuts to perform common chat tasks: See message history inline: Easily preview replied-to messages: And much, much more... About Legends tell of a prolific Meta Stack Overflow chatter who despised using their mouse above all things. In an effort to keep t...

script chat

slash + enter for command list

it's really nice, plus IIRC has a plugin API (I used it to add command to hide sidebar a long time ago)

@Downgoat i found your favorite language

HyperNeutrino

13:48

For Proton, should boolean literals be True, true, TRUE, or something else

moonheart08

true

dzaima

@HyperNeutrino I'd go for true

HyperNeutrino

ok

user202729

I'm tempted to make a language that outputs true as Why, yes, good sir or madam, this is in fact the case! — Nic Hartley Apr 20 '16 at 21:20

HyperNeutrino

...

ok then

I remember that :P

user202729

13:54

How is JHT now? The last message was posted 4 days ago.

HyperNeutrino

@user202729 last real activity was 18 days ago

whoops I let the Proton room freeze

mod pls unfreeze chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/63945/proton ?

moonheart08

x86 is magic. I'm glad i can declare my own calling convention. Thanks to most GPRs needing to be zero, i replaced the movs used to initalize a few constants with an or instead. Also reorganized my loop a little to remove an extraneous jmp, and deduplicated a increment. Result: 59 bytes of x86 to print the diagonal alphabet. \o/

all of that somehow saved bytes

the part that suprises me most is or being shorter than a 32bit mov

ASCII-only

Help. Can anyone fix the build error here?

fork and PR if you manage to fix it pls, need to sleep now

user202729

@ASCII-only (how was the {%raw something?)

Apr 12 at 6:28, by user202729

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3426182/ !

moonheart08

Ha! my assembly nearly beats the java 8 answer. I wonder if i can chop off two more bytes

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Decode my Alphabet Code (Cops) This is my first C&R challenge, so I thought I'd better post it in the sandbox. This is only the Cops thread and it's still missing some usual C&R rules (such as explaining what should be done once a submission has been cracked). cops-and-robbers restricted-source...

Downgoat

@ASCII-only how can be build error if static

betseg

2

from unicode.org

Dennis

14:28

4/3 very descriptive

user202729

... what happened with cairdcoinheringaahing ?

HyperNeutrino

@user202729 he voluntarily left his identified account because he doesn't like the community (second account deleted I believe) but might code-golf from anonymous accounts because he likes golfing but not the community.

user202729

Why would someone hates PPCG ⍨

moonheart08

When did that happen?

I swear i saw him talking not that long ago

HyperNeutrino

@moonheart08 10 days ago exactly

moonheart08

14:33

):

HyperNeutrino

> As of 14/04/18, I no longer participate in this community. I find it toxic, and highly unproductive. Basically the golfing is the only good part, so if you see answers in my languages appear from deleted, anonymous accounts, you know that's me.

Fatalize

^ who posted it?

user202729

@Fatalize Right in their profile...

Fatalize

nevermind I just read the messages above

moonheart08

I don't think i've ever seen any toxicity at all here

mınxomaτ

14:35

Eehhh

user202729

@moonheart08 That is the confusing part...

moonheart08

Glad i'm not a mod. People leaving for reasons like that would slowly drive me insane. I rather dislike it when people are being toxic, and having someone leave because of it would be very disappointing to me. :/

Fatalize

There was quite bit of toxicity in TNB a couple of years ago

user202729

> years

Back then I didn't know what is PPCG...

moonheart08

I've only been here for a few months. I wouldn't know.

Fatalize

14:37

I also think there's still a problem of people taking things way too seriously

Not really in a position to argue about PPCG anymore anyway, I barely participate nowadays

user202729

That may be Lembik or ais523 if before that date...

moonheart08

Maybe. I don't think ais523 would take anything too seriously. (I've known them from #esoteric on freenode)

Fatalize

ais definitely takes things too seriously

moonheart08

mm

Fatalize

He basically left because he cared too much about reputation/upvotes/downvotes

Stephen Leppik

14:41

Can I have someone take a quick look at this? codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/a/16075/62402 The test case generator is my first decent-sized Python program, so I'd appreciate another eye to it before I post it.

moonheart08

I mostly know them from #esoteric, not here

HyperNeutrino

The only thing I've seen that someone could perceive as "toxic" is how new users are treated, but even then I think the community handles that pretty well unless they're spammers or just blatant trolls. There are some cases where some users could change their wording, but from my perspective, I honestly don't see a problem, though I'm accustomed to harsher wording that some people might perceive as too harsh. I can't really say accurately anymore because I haven't participated for a while.

user202729

@StephenLeppik (ie. bugfix?)

Fatalize

@HyperNeutrino Take e.g. the meta-post about raising privilege levels. What is the actual purpose of doing this, besides annoying lower rep users? It's basically a measure pushed by the mods because they want PPCG to feel "more graduated" even though it's completely useless

That's the kind of "too serious" circlejerk I don't like in PPCG

HyperNeutrino

I mean it supposedly reduces the number of people who have privileges (like, basically everyone has view-deleted permissions), but I honestly don't think reputation is even a good measure of privileges so there's no point in changing a scale that's wrong anyway.

moonheart08

14:43

Yea, the increased levels seem a little unnecessary for PPCG

HyperNeutrino

Like seriously, how much do internet points from clickbaiting people with memes reflect your responsibility in a community?

Stephen Leppik

@user202729 yeah, sorta. Although, I already put it into TIO and got it to compile.

moonheart08

PPCG users get rep based on what other people like, not on being helpful or similar

HyperNeutrino

exactly

moonheart08

So some people would be stuck below that barrier forever

I mean, the increased privileges basically say "get more rep now" to new users

HyperNeutrino

14:45

yeah

moonheart08

for stackoverflow, it means "be helpful"

HyperNeutrino

and like then I'd feel forced to participate again to get back my privileges which really just makes me feel like the community doesn't trust me with mod tools

moonheart08

Rep here is simply too varied for it to be sane

Stephen Leppik

@Fatalize tbf we have users who are unlocking CV powers in less than a week

Fatalize

@StephenLeppik So what? Has that been a problem?

HyperNeutrino

14:46

like i feel like time on a site should have some weight in privileges because low-rep users who have been on meta a lot and in the community a lot could be more suitable for some privileges than a code-golfer who just focuses on answering questions and not the community

Dennis

@Fatalize The actual reason is that privileges like voting to close or voting to delete become available way too soon, and we've seen these privileges being misused by low rep users.

moonheart08

Well, if it is done, there should be some sort of sideline for trusted users with low rep if that's somehow possible

HyperNeutrino

That's the main advantage I see to raising the bar; it mostly just prevents new users from getting them because you can't possibly get reputation quickly enough if the bar is high enough; still though, I think there should be some weight on community participation instead of only reputation.

Fatalize

@Dennis "we've seen these privileges being misused" => this is not even adressed in the post. Nothing is said about the problems this is supposed to solve, even though this is the only thing that should matter about the discussion

moonheart08

^

HyperNeutrino

14:48

Reputation isn't as good of a system for us than for Q+A sites but we're on SE so that's going to happen anyway.

user202729

@Fatalize "adressed" -> "addressed"

Fatalize

^ Frenchism, sorry

HyperNeutrino

I think something that could work to solve that problem is to just put a thing like "you can't have close-vote until you've been on the site for at least 2 weeks/a month/something"

user202729

@HyperNeutrino But SE...

HyperNeutrino

yeah...

user202729

14:49

(how is Axtell now?)

moonheart08

I mean, look at me, I take time to make answers. I normally do golf with assembly languages, which take time to write programs for (bugs are everywhere, and debugging is often slow). As such, by the time i answer a question, it'll have aged enough that the problem noted in this disagreement will happen for me

HyperNeutrino

the main problem is still that SE structure and PPCG ideology don't go together as well as SE would like

anyway gtg now

moonheart08

So i'm personally stuck below the rep barrier.

it simply does not work for ppcg

Dennis

@Fatalize Why else would they be raised? Preventing misuse is the reason moderation tools are privileges in the first place.

@HyperNeutrino There's a huge difference between visiting the site once or twice in a month and every day for a month. You have to measure the activity level somehow. Reputation alone might not be the best way, but it's better than time alone.

user202729

@StephenLeppik although not wrong, using & instead of and doesn't seem like a good idea.

@moonheart08 I don't often upvote answers in languages I don't know. So...

moonheart08

15:01

Yea, that's the issue. If you want to earn rep, you have to go out of your way to write answers in languages everyone knows.

BMO

@moonheart08 Or provide a nice explanation too.

user202729

(otherwise issues like [this](todo find the post) would occur)

Muhammad Salman

Hi. Anyone good with JS ?

moonheart08

o/

What do you need help with?

user202729

@BMO It depends on a lot of factors: HNQ, challenge posted time, whether it's starred on TNB, etc etc

BMO

15:05

But yeah, quickly writing a solution in Python, Jelly, Haskell or C gives the most rep, even when it gets beaten a few hours later

user202729

@MuhammadSalman Just ask, don't ask to ask. (or in JS room)

BMO

Yes, it's sad how some answers get more upvotes just because they were quicker.

moonheart08

@BMO And i'd much rather do it in something more difficult, like x86 assemby. Which of course, can't be done quickly at all

user202729

FWIW

Muhammad Salman

I am trying to create a language and I seem to have a hit a snag , so I am trying to implement something along the lines of puts 'string' like ruby or print() like python and I can't think of how to go about doing that. Any help ?

moonheart08

15:07

how is that related to JS? Also, we'd need more info

user202729

@MuhammadSalman Read about syntax parsing etc.

moonheart08

^

Muhammad Salman

It is related to JS since I am trying to create the language in JS

user202729

@MuhammadSalman No it's not.

BMO

@moonheart08 Define "difficult" :P

Stephen Leppik

15:07

@user202729 is that your only advice?

user202729

feel like typical XY problem on SO

@StephenLeppik I didn't really read it...

moonheart08

@BMO as in, an intresting language that provides a bit of a challange to work with

Muhammad Salman

@user202729 : Oh well my sense of tagging question is not too great

moonheart08

not flat out annoying, but one that provides intresting ways to solve the problem

Stephen Leppik

@user202729 also, the functionality is identical right?

AdmBorkBork

15:09

@moonheart08 As someone who almost exclusively answers in PowerShell, I can say this is patently false.

user202729

(what is "deleted by Community <>"?)

Stephen Leppik

& vs and

user202729

@StephenLeppik For booleans, yes. (except one return 0/1 and one return false/true)

moonheart08

@AdmBorkBork what's false? My definition of difficulty or the fact it takes a while

AdmBorkBork

"If you want to earn rep you have to answer in a language everyone knows"

moonheart08

15:11

ah

BMO

@AdmBorkBork It certainly helps

Pavel

If you want rep you have to answer in PowerShell, obviously.

BMO

But nothing wrong with that I guess, that's just natural

AdmBorkBork

Sure, but trying to phrase it as the only way to get rep is disingenuous.

user202729

@StephenLeppik "go through the list" -> "from left to right" correct?

@Pavel Huh...?

Pavel

15:14

@user202729 i was just referencing that @AdmBorkBork is a PS wizard

AdmBorkBork

I wouldn't go that far. ;-)

user202729

@StephenLeppik The test generator looks correct. I suggest having a test case where 1 the ratio is exactly 0.3 or 0.5 2 a number is both incremented and decremented 3 consecutive equal numbers.

@StephenLeppik Why do you name your variable input then...

Also, maybe some rules regarding numerical error?

AdmBorkBork

Woo, 200 bronze badges

user202729

15:32

I promise I won't spend time on PPCG or TNB in the next 24 hours. (this message is mostly for reminding myself, don't care about this)

Adám

@user202729 How can you be reminded by your message if you don't enter TNB?

fergusq

@ASCII-only If you don't mind errors, probably X on lista;tulostetaan tie"Hello, world!". or A:lla on B;tulostetaan tie"Hello, world!". It doesn't contain a main function, so the JavaScript program crashes after printing Hello world.

tio.run/##K0nMLcjMz/z/…

Without errors: Kun aloitetaan,tulostetaan tie"Hello world!". tio.run/##K0nMLcjMz/z/…

Blue

codepad.org/rWllfrht

Can I cry yet?

Stephen Leppik

@user202729 the .5 edge case is in the example. I'll add your other suggestions too.

@user202729 huh?

@user202729 how so?

moonheart08

16:10

2^32 ducks, anyone?

It's fun how printing absurd amounts of ducks is shorter than printing a max of 255 or something

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