Fun with Lasers and Prisms (WIP) Given a rectangular grid of objects, one or more laser pointers, and a target, determine if any laser beam will hit the target. Objects ASCII will be used for illustration purposes Laser Pointer: ^, V, <, > - a beam will shoot up, down, left, right, respectiv...

Will it Rein? code-golf Inspired by a comment by user253751: Monica is a horse. At any given time Monica's reins are either attached or not attached to her bit. If Billy wants to ride Monica and the reins are not attached, he will attach them. After Billy rides Monica he will detach the rei...

In this fastest-code challenge, you are provided with a set of \$n\$ identical blocks and need to determine how many unique buildings can be constructed with them. Buildings must satisfy the following rules: No overhangs - each block must either be on the ground or supported by one or more bloc...

Rise and Fall of Communities Over the years, I've been part of many growing online (and offline) communities, usually in some kind of advocate and/or moderation capacity (I'm just a room owner here). Without exception, these communities are now either gone or a shadow of their former self. This ...

Bucket and Minimize The challenge - given a numeric list L and an integer N as inputs, write a function that: finds the bucket sizes for L such that it is split into N whole buckets of equal or near-equal size, and returns for each element in L the minimum of that element's bucket. Example -...