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A _

00:22

0 here.

Unrelated String

.5 here.

and I still haven't written a challenge yet

A _

01:04

and I still haven't written an acceptable challenge yet

I shouldn't be talking here.

3 hours later…

Downgoat

04:03

Hello TNB, it's been a while since I last talked here but I was writing college applications and was thinking back to the years I've spent here on PPCG. TNB and PPCG really captured my interest in CS and made me the programmer who I am today: so since I probably won't come back for a while, I wanted to say thanks for all the code challenges and weirdly specific discussions on JS type-casting :P =)

2 hours later…

New Main Posts

06:01

Q: Talk interpreter

"Talk" is a baroquified accumulator-based language that is created in order to make it difficult to put on Try It Online. The "Talk" language has 4 commands: 00 If the accumulator is 0, set the accumulator to 0. 01 If the accumulator is 0, set the accumulator to 1. 10 If the accumulator is 1, s...

2 hours later…

New Main Posts

07:40

Q: Billiard balls collision

Given the 2-dimensional positions and velocities of a pair of billiard balls right before impact, calculate their velocities after a perfectly elastic collision. The balls are assumed to be ideal spheres (or equivalently: circles) with the same radius, same mass, uniform density, and no friction....

code-golf geometry linear-algebra physics

3 hours later…

A _

10:58

Huh? PPCG is now CGCC.

Oh, I see, you mean CGCC before the renaming.

dzaima

11:17

@A_ many are gonna keep calling PPCG PPCG and you can do nothing about it.

A _

@dzaima Including you.

dzaima

yep

A _

12:10

H?FFýº 1ILF>!

Jo King

12:23

huh, almost two years now

with approximately 1.19 answers per day

i haven't even changed my avatar

Mr. Xcoder

12:56

O_o it's already been 3 years for me, roughly 0.83 ans/day

1 hour later…

A _

14:03

@JoKing I appreciate it, thank you.

If a CGCC challenge becomes a hot network question, it is active for approximately 8 hours.

A _

14:45

Is it possible to have a hot network question with negative votes?

Q: Talk interpreter

"Talk" is a baroquified accumulator-based language that is created in response to Dennis's quote on talk.tryitonline.net. Waiting for someone to create an esolang called talk. . The "Talk" language has 4 commands: 00 If the accumulator is 0, set the accumulator to 0. 01 If the accumulator i...

code-golf interpreter

I believe people are already starting to downvote this. So, downvote it!

DJMcMayhem

15:08

I think it actually is

No wait, it isn't

betseg

15:52

so i visit TNB for the first time after months and i saw somebody else doing it at the same day

MilkyWay90

@dzaima PPCG in our hearts

@betseg Who else? Calvin Hobbes?

betseg

goat?

MilkyWay90

oh yeah

How long has it been since you messaged here?

betseg

a lot lol idk

MilkyWay90

Is it roughly more than a year?

betseg

16:01

@MilkyWay90 my last few messages

MilkyWay90

Oh only a few days ok

betseg

that was just for a single message tho

MilkyWay90

oh right

betseg

and the one before it was replying to flawr

because i was pinged

MilkyWay90

oh ok

Thats a long time

I don't think I've been away from TNB for a long period of time

3 hours later…

flawr

19:29

@betseg btw /r/VXJunkies/

H.PWiz

20:25

@DJMcMayhem Can you unfreeze this, or does it require an SO mod?

Erik the Outgolfer

doesn't require a SO mod, you can see the chat server is chat.SE

DJMcMayhem

@H.PWiz done

(not by me, but it is done lol)

H.PWiz

Oh cool

2 hours later…

El'endia Starman

22:14

Looking for feedback on this:

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Determine the minimal indices needed to cover all queries code-golf This challenge is based on Mongo's handling of compound indices and index intersection, inspired by a problem that came up at work, but I'll restate the relevant details here. Background In any database, relational or not, th...