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02:49

Maximal saturated domino covering of a rectangle code-golf dominoes tiling combinatorics grid Inspired by this OEIS entry. Background A saturated domino covering is a placement of dominoes over an area such that the dominoes are completely inside the area, the dominoes entirely cover the given a...

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Razetime

04:14

@NewMetaPosts which people were nominated for the previous elections?

pppery

@Razetime codegolf.stackexchange.com/election/2

Razetime

04:34

thanks a lot

Razetime

04:53

Hey @Neil, is this a known bug? tio.run/##TcrBCsIwDADQXyk7JdiC7uDBm6C7DQS/…

Razetime

05:44

And this: tio.run/##FcsxCgIxEEDRPqeQVBNIPISFhViIW4pFzI7J4JLBSVwQ8exjrP9/…

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06:32

Q: Score rock-paper-scissors

Given two string inputs of "Rock", "Paper", or "Scissors", determine the outcome of the RPS round. Output 1 if the first player wins, -1 if the second player wins, or 0 for a tie. Rock Rock -> 0 Rock Paper -> -1 Rock Scissors -> 1 Paper Rock -> 1 Paper Paper -> 0 Paper Scissors -> -1 Scissors Ro...

Q: Generate valid Fibonacci tilings

Background The Fibonacci tiling is a tiling of the (1D) line using two segments: a short one, S, and a long one, L (their length ratio is the golden ratio, but that's not relevant to this challenge). For a tiling using these two prototiles to actually be a Fibonacci tiling, the following conditi...

code-golf fibonacci tiling

Q: Zero sum covers

Introduction Consider a nonempty list L of integers. A zero-sum slice of L is a contiguous subsequence of L whose sum equals 0. For example, [1, -3, 2] is a zero-sum slice of [-2, 4, 1, -3, 2, 2, -1, -1], but [2, 2] is not (because it doesn't sum to 0), and neither is [4, -3, -1] (because it's n...

code-golf array-manipulation decision-problem

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Neil

08:33

@Razetime Variadic stuff is tricky... for that one I'd just use one of my Charcoal tips and simplify to Ｅ²⁶⎇﹪ι²⁺ΦαμAα instead

for the other one if I don't have a better idea I normally suck it and add in the arguments explicitly

Razetime

aaaa

thank you so much

Razetime

08:54

@Neil how exactly does that translate to verbose?

ok got it

Sanchises

09:27

I noticed there is both an encode and encoding tag. Maybe somebody can mark them as synonymous?

Bubbler

09:42

@Sanchises Looking at the tag wiki, encode seems to be the superset of encoding and decode (though for that purpose, encode should be renamed to encode-decode).

Razetime

10:23

@Sanchises I'm sure you can change tag synonyms at your rep level

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null

12:31

I'm going to nominate myself in the 2020 mod election if not for I only have 3k rep

caird coinheringaahing

13:29

@Razetime You have to have an answer score of at least 5 in the tag in order to suggest synonyms

Oh hey, @WheatWizard's back to WW again :P

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math

17:40

@cairdcoinheringaahing Are you going nominate yourself?

Wheat Wizard

@cairdcoinheringaahing Yeah I am going filling out the questionaire so I figure I ought to be my "normal" name.

caird coinheringaahing

17:57

@math For the mod election? Not unless no-one else better than me does, which I highly doubt

@WheatWizard The mod questionnaire?

Wheat Wizard

Yeah

caird coinheringaahing

In which case, no, @math, I will not be nominating myself :P

WW would for sure be a better mod than most IMO

dzaima

18:15

@NewMainPosts Canvas, 4 bytes

New Main Posts

Q: Is this a robbery?

Backstory You own a tiny jewellery shop in the suburbs of the city. The suburbs are too much overpopulated, so your shop has a thickness of only one character to fit in the busy streets. Recently, there has been lots of cases of robbery on the neighborhood, and you fear that robbers will also com...

code-golf string game tiling

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sporeball

19:19

any more feedback for sporeball numbers?

pppery

19:58

@cairdcoinheringaahing remember that there are 3 moderator positions available, so you can both be moderators.

caird coinheringaahing

@pppery Still, I stand by "If no-one else better than me", and tbh, I'd probably nominate someone else before nominating myself

I enjoy the moderation side of the site more than pretty much any other aspect, but I'm not confident in my abilities when it comes to dealing with troubling users. For example I really don't like stuff like spam and off-topic messages in chat, and (as I'm sure some people are aware) I don't keep that to myself

Really not sure how having a diamond attached to everything I do would affect me/my decision making

caird coinheringaahing

20:18

Besides, I've still got ~10k to go before I regain all the mod tools I had before the privilege increase :P

pppery

Moderators ignore reputation

(and, besides, the 25K rep privilege is rarely-used)

caird coinheringaahing

@pppery I quite like the site analytics, I find them quite interesting

pppery

oh, never mind ...

caird coinheringaahing

And it was more "I've still got my own personal goal of getting to 25k before thinking about going further"

Give it a year or two and if SE hasn't descended into a dumpster fire, maybe I'll throw my hat in the ring next time :P

pppery

There were only be another moderator election if either this one fails to attract enough candidates or one of the newly elected moderators resigns.

what other than a SE dumpster fire could cause that, I wonder?

caird coinheringaahing

20:26

Lack of activity. Alex hung up his diamond after nearly a year of inactivity which would;ve triggered an election if it weren't for the Monica incident

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Neil

23:22

@dzaima well, it should only be 5 bytes in Charcoal anyway

caird coinheringaahing

23:51

I've asked a thousand times, but any feedback for random fib? If no-one sees any glaring issues, I'd like to post it tomorrow

@WheatWizard Just to clarify, this means you'll be nominating yourself for the election?