The Nineteenth Byte

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00:37

@Zacharý what's so surprising about that? TCL does that too :P

Zacharý

@ASCII-only This is what's weird

Only the literal [1] can get treated as a string.

ASCII-only

00:53

you're passing it a char array...

wait...

@Zacharý hmm

Zacharý

Like I said ... weird.

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Q: Can we assume typed inputs?

For some languages with a static type system the compiler is able to infer the types, however sometimes there's ambiguity (even with input) unless the user gives the type manually: Motivation 1: Haskell Consider the following Haskell example: f xs = do x <-randomRIO (toEnum 0, toEnum 1) --...

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ASCII-only

@Zacharý link

@Zacharý no?

@Zacharý now this is weird

Zacharý

No, I completely understand that one. D's string type is actually immutable(char)[]. And char cannot be casted to immutable(char)

ASCII-only

well actually it isn't

Zacharý

00:57

@ASCII-only link then?

ASCII-only

@Zacharý but a char literal is immutable(char)

@Zacharý sorry it was as a reply to my previous message

Zacharý

Ah.

@ASCII-only And there's no dchar literals. That got me a few times when I was writing 'd'd for RAD.

quartata

@NewMetaPosts pretty sure this is a duplicate

ASCII-only

@Zacharý :|

Zacharý

¨ is now implemented. I have a feeling RAD is going to be on TIO sometime this weekendn.

*weekend

Oh no ... segmentation fault. There are no pointers in my code.

⌿ and ⍀ are done.

quartata

01:52

@Zacharý how is it possible that there are no pointers in your code

id be very interested to see this

Zacharý

@quartata Because D is an awesome language.

Here, in the /dev folder

quartata

put on a blindfold and clicked on a file at random

i saw a pointer

id like my $20 back

Zacharý

Which one?

quartata

Segment[]

didnt read past the type. started foaming at the mouth.

screaming

Zacharý

@quartata That ain't a pointer in D my friend.

quartata

01:56

waking up the universe

@Zacharý are you telling me its copied

because if so i think i might have found, you"re performance issue

Zacharý

@quartata The pointer would be Segment*. Segment[] is like std::vector<Segment>

quartata

still wrapped

Zacharý

@quartata My performance issue is the O(n^2) parser and tokenizer.

quartata

unless it doesnt move and actually copies the whole vector

Zacharý

@quartata I think it moves.

quartata

01:58

which sounds like something rust would do

@Zacharý then congregations. you have a pointer

Zacharý

@quartata I meant no explicit pointers. No T* anywhere.

quartata

Oh well

i dont do that

ASCII-only

@Zacharý please don't scan postfixes then

quartata

std::shared_ptr<std::weak_ptr<std::shared_ptr<T>>

ASCII-only

do it like a normal, sane parser

quartata

02:00

kill all life on earth with this one simple tricj

ASCII-only

@quartata :|

quartata

better, than Boehm

Zacharý

@ASCII-only Once it's on TIO, that'll be next on the list.

ASCII-only

@Zacharý ok good :P

quartata

sometimes i wish i had a haskell compiler.

Pavel

02:05

@quartata brew install ghc or whatever

quartata

ghc is bigger than 2 GB, the butterflies cant address that far. so instead im just praying that a piece of toast falls from the ceiling with a copy on a hard disk

5

Pavel

@quartata Has a similar event ever occured in the past?

quartata

...it wasnt a joke?

@Pavel yes. this is how i got a C compiler Basically

pure chance, and yet it might just save us yet

now thats the real joke

Pavel

@quartata Lucky. I had to scavenge my C compiler from the remains of a C++ compiler being torn apart by a vicious javascript interpreter.

quartata

this is giving me bad memories.

people would tear apart real people. just for a place to stand. some shade.

anyways. if anyone can find me a smaller Haskell compiler, that would be more feasible than my toast idea.

I have to go find water after i ran the shower for 2 days. hopefully I dont get fired

quartata

02:48

does anyone know how to humanely dissect a Cactus?

im reading this tutorial right now and it says that it might live if you put the top back on?

let me see who wrote it

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Q: Iterate string instead of integer

This is a code golf version of a similar question I asked on stack earlier but thought it'd be a good code-golf question. Have a 10-length string starting from 0000000000 Iterate through till you get to 0000000009 Then start using letters in place to get 36 total iterators 000000000a . ....

parsing

quartata

"United States Army". seems trustworthy?

lol

03:05

@NewMainPosts closeflagged.

Pavel

03:27

@quartata They seem very united, I don't think they'd lie to you.

JungHwan Min

I'm not gonna lie, my CellularAutomaton answer is probably the peak of my PPCG career

42, cellular automaton, and built-in abuse, all at the same time

quartata

@Pavel yeah thats what i figured

user202729

03:44

@JungHwanMin Would making it shorter than 42 make it less impressive :P

@Mr.Xcoder Looks like that it works.

Yes it works. Pyth = shorthand is more general than Python's. (of course)

Downgoat

04:04

@quartata O_o why do you need to dissect a cactus

lol

@Downgoat :/ perhaps he has to get water, as the post above implies?

@quartata (this one)

quartata

yeah, yeah

every bit counts

lol

I can't still understand what's going on o_o

quartata

think im tripping after drinking this cactus water actually

dont do this kids

lol

hmm

strange

quartata

04:10

never mind it was just indigestion from all the fried lychee nuts i ate

Downgoat

@quartata oh in that case give it lots of love and eventually the cactus will open its heart and give you its water

lol

github pages doesn't want to update itself o_o

quartata

@Downgoat souds like that takes a while

not sure i have the Time

lol

Is this a situation when you cant stick a straw in

quartata

thats not a bad idea

lets see here

hm. need a metal straw.

oh ok apparently while i spent 3 hours dicking around with cactuses someone actually found another acquifer

lol

04:16

Or you can stick a metal pipe-thingy (perhaps a water tap) in

quartata

sometimes i wonder why the embassy pays me, i dont think they have any idea what i actually do

perhaps its better that way

lol

Are we in a philosophical talk

quartata

we all are in a philosophical talk, every night of our lives

thats just how it works

i don't make the rules

lol

meh I'll assume we are

quartata

OK just saw this on HN and... I'm not sure what's going on with this: theverge.com/2018/7/27/17622846/…

Why was this a condition

Don't get me wrong Spectrum sucks but

Not sure how this came about

lol

04:28

idk about this, I'm not american

Zacharý

@lol, your username tho' ... lol

lol

lol I used this name like a year or so

Zacharý

04:57

Who were you in the interim?

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Sandbox for Proposed Challenges - Programming P…: Answer by flawr for Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

posted on July 28, 2018 by flawr

Locate Substring This is not a challenge yet, just a place to write down an idea. Given some finite binary string \$S\$, we can try to find the minimal length \$n \in \mathbb N\$ such that we can uniquely locate each contiguous substring \$ T \$ of \$ S \$ that has length \$ n \$. Example Let \$ S = 01000110 \$. Then surely \$ n > 1\$. But we also immediately see that \$ n > 2\$ b…

feersum

Sandbox for Proposed Challenges: the new pastebin.com?

user202729

Occasionally the onebox looks like that. No idea why.

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Q: Is it possible for a challenge to have hidden scoring test-cases?

Assume that the method of generating the hidden test-cases is known. (for example: a list of 5000 uniformly random integers in range [1..1000]) Reasons why hidden test cases should be allowed (that I can think of): Guaranteed to prevent hard-coding (assume that there are sufficiently many poss...

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Q: Check if number is odd or even

You need to check if a given number is even and then print 0, or it is a odd number and then print 1. The Number can have many digits. So a challence is translate this program: #include <iostream> #include <string> using namespace std; int main() { string a; cin >> a; if ( atoi( a.s...

brainfuck

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14:28

Sandbox for Proposed Challenges - Programming P…: Answer by lol for Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

posted on July 28, 2018 by lol

Is my maze even solvable? code-golf maze Input A 2D array of booleans, which will be our maze. A truthy value will be a wall, and a falsy value will be a path. We start at the left upper corner, and end at the right down corner. Those two cells will always be a falsy value. Output A boolean value, which truthy means solvable, and falsy means not solvable. I/O Examples Input | Solu…

Erik the Outgolfer

@NewSandboxedPosts you're broken

Soaku

14:39

  File "D:\Dane\JetBrains\PyCharm\SargoniaNew\sargonia\player.py", line 172, in keys
    eval("self."+a[key.lower()]+"(val)")
  File "<string>", line 1
    self.xp=int(val)
           ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

how is this invalid syntax

lol

Hmm

Soaku

The full method is this:

    def keys(self, d: dict):

        a = {
            "doświadczenie":   "xp=int",
            "złoto":           "gold=int",
            "dostępne punkty": "points=int",
            "hp":              "hp=int",
            "atk":             "atk=int",
            "mp":              "mp=int",
            "sp":              "sp=int",
            "broń":            "weapon=items.Item",
            "zbroja":          "armor=items.Item",
            "zwierzę":         "pet=items.Item",
            "zaklęcia":        "spells=list"

(yeah, totally bad practise, it has to read a human-readable format and be future-proof)

user202729

Hm...

Ah.

eval is for expression. Use exec.

Soaku

ahh... makes sense. Never used those methods in Python, I avoid them

Works, thanks

user202729

Still, you should do a = { 'key' : ('field name', int) }, then

self.__dict__[a[key][0]] = a[key][1](val) (if this is more readable...?)

Avoid the exec.

Zacharý

14:47

Polish I'm guessing?

Soaku

Yeah, I wasn't thinking much when doing this. Thanks

@Zacharý Yup

Zacharý

This is for some kind of game (sorry, I've been asleep, so I don't really know what I've missed), right?

Soaku

@Zacharý exactly

Zacharý

Okay then.

Soaku

16:03

oh my god... In the script above, I call a function, it finds a list of pairs with regex, starts a loop and then passes them to a different function. When the program executes line by line in a debugger, it reaches the loop and then suddenly the function stops, like if there was a return inside, but there is only an assignment...

What the frick? It was caused by a call to .rtrim(":") on one of the groups...

oh wait. rtrim is undefined. why the hell there were no exceptions?

Zacharý

16:31

IDK.

quartata

16:49

@Riker I havent forgotten about will smith eating soy beans

just so you know. its in development.

Erik the Outgolfer

17:22

hm, I think I know why NSP et al. are broken, the link format has apparently changed

Anonymous

@EriktheOutgolfer I'll look into it

Erik the Outgolfer

I don't think you can do anything about it

it's apparently a change from the SE side

Anonymous

I can ask a CM about it

Erik the Outgolfer

it's also problematic with me posting answers lately, I get scrolled to the bottom

Anonymous

Actually I guess a post on mother meta would be a better choice

Erik the Outgolfer

17:26

the thing is that the answer's ID is no longer in the proper URL, only as an ID reference (i.e. #<answer_id> ending of the URL, which is probably supposed to auto-scroll to the post, but no /<answer_id> anymore)

Anonymous

That's pretty dumb

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Q: Let's practice the scoring rules of 421!

421 is a rather popular dice game in France and some other European countries. It is mostly played in bars and pubs to determine who's going to buy the next round of drinks. The full game is usually played in two rounds, with tokens that each player tries to get rid of, but this is irrelevant her...

code-golf game sorting

Erik the Outgolfer

19:11

@Mego yeah, try to post an answer (whenever you can) and see the address bar...yuck

(it might be obvious if it sends you to the bottom of the pit :P)

Zacharý

20:12

RAD is finally ready to be on TIO.

Downgoat

20:54

:| apparently antivirus is showing phishing ads XD

Pavel

I don't use an antivirus, I just brick my computer and wipe my system, reinstall the OS often enough that it doesn't matter.

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21:21

Sandbox for Proposed Challenges - Programming P…: Answer by OMᗺ for Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

posted on July 28, 2018 by OMᗺ

What associativity was it again Tags: code-golf, balanced-string, parsing, parentheses, parsing, string Non-associative operators (for example the subtraction-operator) often are either left- or right associative, such that one has to write less parentheses. Consider for example the following: $$ a-b-c $$ Probably everybody read that as \$(a-b)-c\$, by default (usually) subtraction i…

Downgoat

@Pavel if you can reinstall the OS and have it be fine then you didn't brick your computer

Pavel

I'm not going to argue over the definition of brick here

Zacharý

22:25

@dzaima, how is your APL clone going?

dzaima

@Zacharý not working on it much. It works, but doesn't have a ton of built-ins

Riker

22:51

@quartata alrighty ty

@quartata tha'ts a great twitter, take some hints

@flawr that is indeed true

@flawr 9/10 needs an identical but smaller subreddit

also sorry for the late responses i was out of internet

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Q: Advanced Board Move count: from Top Left to Bottom Right of a Board, can move to right, down, left and up; Can not revisit any cell

So an extension of the typical basic DP question: A NxN chess board, write code to calculate the number of ways you can go from the the top left to the bottom right corner, given that you can go down, up, left, AND right, and you can not revisit any cell. N <= 100 I couldn't figure the exact...

code-challenge matrix board-game

Riker

pretty cool indie game

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