The Nineteenth Byte

1:21 AM

@LuisMendo I've only recently started to feel like I'm fully involved with this community, and I don't want to give that up yet.

1:34 AM

Jotlin is shortened Kotlin which is Google's answer to Apple having swift which directly relates to objective c

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@Lyxal There are in fact two languages: JSmash and Glava

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Q: Why are you wasting your time and brains on made-up nonsense problems like "code golf"?

6:01 AM

I must seriously say that I'm appalled by what I see on this "code golf" category of Stack Exchange. Some extremely smart people are sitting here solving made-up nonsense "problems" when there are a trillion extremely challenging real problems to fix in this world. The entire ecosystem of non-pa...

code-golf

6:44 AM

@Lyxal Either that's a ketchup stain, or you forgot to update the explanation in codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/198432/17216 when editing it for -1 byte.

7:02 AM

@Deadcode oops, I've smudged my sauce everywhere

I'll have to clean it up with an updated explanation

Is it normal for reputation increase to be truncated to 200 per day? (260 got discarded)

@Deadcode yes, I got rep capped yesterday

200 rep per day

Excluding bounties

@Lyxal Right, I noticed that.

7:35 AM

CMQ: how many of y'all around here are left handed/cross dominant/ambidextrous?

Jack says try topanswers.xyz

Right-handed, right-eyed, and right-footed, here.

8:26 AM

@Bubbler I've added you to the access list, thanks for giving TopAnswers a go :)

Bubbler

@Jacksaystrytopanswers.xyz Wow, that's fast.

Jack says try topanswers.xyz

@Bubbler pure coincidence, I happened to just get up ;)

Bubbler

8:43 AM

@Jacksaystrytopanswers.xyz Btw, just one small bug: the "log in" button isn't working on the "Main" site (what you get when you access topanswers.xyz without being logged in).

Jack says try topanswers.xyz

@Bubbler thanks, we'll get that fixed!

I've added it to the issue tracker: github.com/topanswers/topanswers/issues/7 — please feel free to add bugs there (or ping me, I don't mind which)

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New Meta Posts

11:34 AM

Q: How does one calculate bytes for a solution to a Code Golf scenario?

I am new to Code Golf, and would like to start answering questions/scenarios posted on this Stack Exchange Site. I have seen many scenarios posted before, and have come up with solutions for said scenario, as well as seeing how a answer is submitted for a given scenario (i.e. the language name, f...

discussion support

string combinatorics permutations

11:48 AM

Q: Super permutations

Super permutations Input: A string The program should loop through all lengths of the input (decrementing one each time), generate all combinations with replacement of the string, then make permutations out of the generated combinations, and display all of the strings. They can be separated wit...

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1:51 PM

Q: Choose unconsecutive files

Given a positive integer and a file-clicking sequence, provide the files resulted from the process. (I hope there isn't a formula for this.) What does shift & ctrl do? Given a selected position, Shift selects all the files between the starting position (the initially selected position) and the...

code-golf string

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111 11.

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2:29 PM

I'm having problems with Pyth so I need to do this tomorrow.

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4:32 PM

hi all

5:01 PM

If no one minds, I will try my CMC again

CMC Write code to construct a nondeterministic finite automaton over the alphabet of pairs of bits that accepts the word (𝑎_1,𝑏_1)(𝑎_2,𝑏_2)…(𝑎_𝑛,𝑏_𝑛) iff the binary words 𝑎_1𝑎_2…𝑎_𝑛 and 𝑏_1𝑏_2…𝑏_𝑛 have Levenshtein distance up to two

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Q: Residue number system cryptography source code

6:16 PM

-2

Please i need residue number system encryption and decryption source code using matlab

cryptography matlab

Kritixi Lithos

6:33 PM

@Anush are you thinking of posting a generalised average levenshtein distance challenge, along "average number of strings with distance up to D" given D and the string length n?

6:51 PM

Yes I was

What do you think?

Kritixi Lithos

what's the winning criterion, fastest-code or code-golf?

I am ambivalent. What do you think?

I guess fastest code might not make sense

But I am not sure

@KritixiLithos do you understand how to do it already?

Quintec

7:14 PM

if the NDFA is an important part of the challenge, I would have it be code-golf with respect to it somehow, ex. least states? I feel like the coding part is not the interesting part @Anush