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Neil

00:00

@RedwolfPrograms there's no such thing as an array index in JS

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caird coinheringaahing

01:24

Contact

For playing the game Contact, where one person tries to "defend"...

Anyone up for a game of Contact?

Redwolf Programs

02:04

@Neil What do you mean?

I know they don't act like indices in normal languages, but according to MDN the indexed parts of an array are separate from the object containing non-indexed properties, so it is (theoretically) like an array in a lower level language with extra (and frankly pointless IMO) functionality tacked on.

Bubbler

02:50

In short: JS is complicated and full of hacky corners

Redwolf Programs

JS is the English of programming languages...it's a huge mess, made up from a little bit of any paradigm the creators could think of, but it's somehow the most common one

Redwolf Programs

03:25

Wait, is there no general room for Stack Overflow?

New Main Posts

04:19

Q: Printing Hello World using fewest characters

I saw a problem which asks you to print "Hello World" using the fewest characters, including spaces. How can I further shorten this code? Thank you in advance! #include<iostream> int main(){printf("Hello World");}

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Razetime

05:43

Any further feedback on this?

@cairdcoinheringaahing a bit early for me lol

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Anush

09:57

hi all

Razetime

10:14

@Anush hello

New Main Posts

10:35

Q: NATO phonetic spelling can take long

NATO phonetic alphabet is a spelling alphabet that associate to each of the 26 letters of the English alphabet one word (table below) that is easy to understand over the radio or telephone. For example, if you want to communicate the word CAT over the telephone, you do the following spelling: CHA...

code-golf alphabet

Neil

10:50

@RedwolfPrograms right, but the indices themselves are still technically strings, e.g. via for..in or Object.keys, although there's a lot of special-casing going on for performance reasons

Anush

11:17

fun game.. guess what this matlab code does

x1 = [119,101,98,40,39,104,116,116,112,58,47,47,119,119,119];
x2 = [46,121,111,117,116,117,98,101,46,99,111,109,47,119,97];
x3 = [116,99,104,63,118,61,100,81,119,52,119,57,87,103,88];
x4 = [99,81,39,44,39,45,98,114,111,119,115,101,114,39,41];
eval(char([x1,x2,x3,x4]))

(don't execute it)

Lyxal

11:30

Something to do with the Web?

Also, there's no spaces, so it's obviously golfed to some degree

Wait it's a rickroll isn't it

Because there's a https://www.youtube in the beginning

Yeah it must be a rickroll

@Anush nice try but no

You can't trick those who have rickrolled many others

That, or it's some other video

Which video is it?

Anush

11:54

caird coinheringaahing

12:10

@RedwolfPrograms No, but there is a whole different domain for it

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Luis Mendo

13:18

Q: This is not [pyth]on

What can be done to reduce misuse of the [pyth] tag? The pyth tag is intended for questions relating to the esoteric language Pyth. The tag was created in 2017 and has one question. That does not mean it has not been used. Lots of questions have been created with the pyth tag. I don't know how ma...

discussion tags retag-request

caird coinheringaahing

Why isn't "just delete it" the top answer to that?

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Redwolf Programs

14:58

@Neil I think it converts the indices to strings when being iterated over, but according to MDN they're stored as numbers I think

Neil

15:40

@RedwolfPrograms they may be stored as numbers internally for performance reasons, but they're still strings, otherwise [0][false] would be 0, and it isn't

New Main Posts

16:01

Q: Compatible strings

When studying numerology, you can say two words (strings consisting entirely of letters) are compatible if they produce the same number under the following operation (let's use the string hello as an example): Map each letter to a number according to the following, ignoring case: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8...

code-golf string decision-problem

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New Main Posts

19:22

-4

Q: find minimum length of two 3-dimensional dots in a list

I have a list of 3D dots represented like this: [[x, y, z],[x, y, z],[x, y, z]]. the goal is find the minimum length of two of these 3D dots. this question has to be answered in python. This is code-golf so the shortest code in bytes wins.

code-golf python 3d

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Neil

21:42

ooh, I passed 111,111 earlier today

Redwolf Programs

If a closed question gets edited again in the reopen queue, does it get put back in the queue?

I helped the writer of this question clarify it, but I'm not sure if people saw it to have a chance to VTR.

caird coinheringaahing

22:28

@RedwolfPrograms IIRC a closed challenge gets put in the queue every time its edited

rak1507

22:39

Is there a sample format for posting in the sandbox?

caird coinheringaahing

22:49

@rak1507 No standard format, but most people use something like:

# Title

<necessary background>
<general description of task>
<rules>
This is <winning criteria>
## Test cases
<test cases>

# Meta
- Dupe?
- Clear?
- Tags are [tag:tags]
- Feedback?

rak1507

Thanks :)

rak1507

23:08

codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/a/20513/95516 I posted mine

caird coinheringaahing

@rak1507 The New Sandboxed Posts bot will post new proposals to the sandbox, so you don't have to worry about doing it yourself :)

rak1507

Oh cool

New Sandboxed Posts

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

I am bad at coming up with titles (suggestions please) A discord server I'm in has a bot that generates 'random' fake base64 text. It uses this code to do so: import random import string def generatebase64(seed): random.seed(seed) letters = string.ascii_letters + string.digits + "+/=" ...