The Nineteenth Byte

Bubbler

02:45

Any thoughts on this sandboxed challenge (not mine, but the OP wants to run a popularity contest)?

Redwolf Programs

Not many that you haven't already brought up, though I do think it would be VTCed as unclear if posted in its current state

Bubbler

I think adding some test cases will help for that

Razetime

03:55

good morning

Redwolf Programs

Hi!

pppery

morning?

Razetime

@pppery IST

Lyxal

04:16

@Razetime do you play minecraft?

Razetime

@Lyxal no, don't have it

Lyxal

aww

Bubbler

04:50

10

Redwolf Programs

There are over 10k people who haven't done part 2 of yesterday

pppery

Part 2 yesterday was definitely a pain to do

Redwolf Programs

It wasn't too difficult with the approach I used

But I mostly stumbled upon it by accident

Bubbler

It starts to require at least some amount of math/CS/problem solving/whatever

pppery

3 minutes

Bubbler

04:57

anyway, 3

Lyxal

ive got chalk at the ready and a clean driveway

pppery

2

1

Redwolf Programs

1m, glhf!

Lyxal

i used to do aoc inside but imma do it outdoors lol

HyperNeutrino

1; good luck everyone!

@Lyxal do the whole problem by hand with chalk on your driveway ez

Lyxal

04:59

oh, and badn't luck to yall

Redwolf Programs

(:

HyperNeutrino

:(n't

Unrelated String

cellular automata

Lyxal

im not going for rank im going for completion

HyperNeutrino

05:14

spent too long bugfixing p2 :/

12/116

damn

Redwolf Programs

Halfway done with part 1 :p

HyperNeutrino

nice xD

Unrelated String

that was fun

Razetime

second part is tough

Unrelated String

Day       Time  Rank  Score       Time  Rank  Score
 11   00:14:15   495      0   00:19:39   280      0

for once I didn't make any incredibly large mistakes

just flipped the death rule into a survival rule lmao

second part is only tough if you're trying to be functional

Lyxal

05:21

stupid lists in python

ASCII-only

:/

Redwolf Programs

Man JS is not the right tool for the job here

pppery

I likewise spent a long time bugfixing part 2, ending up with 160/409

Unrelated String

lol

@Lyxal i only had to mess with deep cloning because i chose to

ASCII-only

@RedwolfPrograms definitely lol

HyperNeutrino

05:26

i just ran a first pass to get the relevant "neighbors" for each seat to see which seats they need to care about for part 2

i assume it would've been too slow otherwise

hmm i'm wondering, should i share my template lol

Unrelated String

lol

it's a trade secret

Redwolf Programs

How long did y'alls take to run?

Got part one!

pppery

@HyperNeutrino Nope, my part 2 didn't do that and was fast enough

(it takes several seconds, which is long enough to be noticable when I run it, but not too long)

Redwolf Programs

Mine took like five minutes

Lyxal

okay it helps to read the part where it's applied simultaneously

HyperNeutrino

05:35

oh, okay. then again i don't know how many runs my code did

89 apparently

mine takes 2 seconds (TIO timing)

ASCII-only

yknow what

charcoal wouldve been the perfect language for this...

Razetime

@ASCII-only PeekVonNeumann right

Redwolf Programs

My part 2 has taken like 5m already :/

Wait! It just finished!

ASCII-only

bruh...

what the heck did you do for part 2

Unrelated String

mine took no more than like 10 seconds on part 2

HyperNeutrino

05:42

@RedwolfPrograms do you cache the relevant positions that each seat needs to watch

ASCII-only

im dumb but it took 2 seconds to run

@HyperNeutrino no need bro

Unrelated String

and that wasn't with remembering the locations of the visible seats

ASCII-only

that's overkill wth

HyperNeutrino

oh okay

mine takes 2 seconds lol

ASCII-only

mine takes 2 seconds with no special handling

Unrelated String

05:43

i should have cached the positions lmao

HyperNeutrino

wait then how do you do it

Redwolf Programs

Maybe I shouldn't have stored mine as a string and split it each time I wanted a part of it

HyperNeutrino

the way i'm doing it whether or not i save the positions with a first-pass doesn't change how long it takes to code

uh...

Redwolf Programs

I got both right first try though, after like 15 minutes each of debugging and running

Unrelated String

lol

Redwolf Programs

05:44

Wait make that 30 and 15

Day       Time  Rank  Score       Time  Rank  Score
 11   00:32:27  2611      0   00:42:35  1696      0

ASCII-only

@Razetime not only that... the undocumented PeekDirection for part 2

smh my head

@RedwolfPrograms don't split it just keep it split bruh

Razetime

charcoal would've been easy

ASCII-only

as a list of strings

Redwolf Programs

I know, I was just trying to write the code fast :p

ASCII-only

bruh smh

Razetime

05:45

@ASCII-only pretty sure that's there in the docs

1st one was easy with window

2nd one is pain with window smh

Unrelated String

i can imagine

ASCII-only

@Razetime yea im just kinda dumb forgot it took in two arguments

what's window :o

Unrelated String

you know, i was almost going to hijack my jelly game of life code until i realized there were three cell types lmao

Razetime

There may actually be a way to get the diagonals easily through stencil

maybe I need to check some docs

@ASCII-only Nifty builtin which does this

ASCII-only

:o that's cheating

Razetime

05:50

pretty much lol

HyperNeutrino

wait that's op xD

i was actually hoping to get a lot higher than part 1 how are people so fast :c

Redwolf Programs

At least I got top 2500 :p

ASCII-only

same

Redwolf Programs

Actually there's still less than 2500 people completed

ASCII-only

bruh

what

Unrelated String

05:53

wow

Redwolf Programs

2418, 2166

ASCII-only

how can you tell

Redwolf Programs

adventofcode.com/2020/stats

ASCII-only

didn't you place 2611th

Lyxal

holy crap i actually did it

ASCII-only

05:54

so that's 4.5k with first star

Redwolf Programs

Yeah

ASCII-only

> Each * or * star represents up to 3428 users.

Lyxal

i was testing my code on the test case, saw it output the expected answer, and said "hmm i wonder what's wrong with it"

not realising i had it right

ASCII-only

...

Redwolf Programs

> Duck is the common name for numerous species in the waterfowl family Anatidae which also includes swans and geese.

HyperNeutrino

05:56

uh

...

Redwolf Programs

I thought we were quoting random parts of websites

ASCII-only

> Operands are denoted by x, y, z and a respectively.

holy crap these docs are terrible

HyperNeutrino

oh the waterfowl family includes swans and geese

ASCII-only

who even wrote this

Lyxal

okay i dont get the joke

ASCII-only

05:57

can i do a git blame

HyperNeutrino

i can't read i thought it was saying people called swans/geese "ducks" and i was like whomst

Lyxal

no chalk today :(

well im playing on redwolf's server

Bubbler

Why am I getting 33 seats with the example for part 2

Lyxal

@RedwolfPrograms get on mc

Redwolf Programs

@Lyxal Can't, it's super late here and I'm about to go to bed :/

Lyxal

06:07

aw ok

coolio

Redwolf Programs

You can still play if you want

ASCII-only

@Bubbler maybe you're not stopping at first seat (whether empty or filled)?

Bubbler

Frick, I messed up x and y coordinates and was pairing a seat at (x,y) with the count at (y,x)

A mistake which would never happen in other language

ASCII-only

@Lyxal downloading mc on artix... clearly this is going to end well

Lyxal

@ASCII-only clearly

ASCII-only

06:20

maybe i should get optifine. hmm....

Bubbler

No, I was not messing up with x and y

I forgot a call to transpose while I was padding the array (which should have been pad-transpose-pad-transpose but it was just pad-transpose-pad) D:

ASCII-only

10kbps download speed, nice

i feel like i lost connection before i even joined

Lyxal

06:42

I'm off for a bit but I'll be back soon hopefully

ASCII-only

wait. keepinventory is on

Lyxal

Yes

Lyxal

07:05

@ASCII-only I have to go sorry

ASCII-only

k

Unrelated String

07:16

@Bubbler nah it's hard sometimes to remember if 2d array indexing is inverted so row-major arrays are accessed as a[x][y] instead of a[y][x], because I know there's some language that does that but I can never remember which

HyperNeutrino

i always use a[r][c] and usually it helps me make sure i don't get it backwards

Unrelated String

mm

Bubbler

@UnrelatedString At least an indexing would be consistent inside a single language, e.g. if you access one matrix with a[x][y], you'd not access another matrix with b[y][x], whether row-major or column-major

Unrelated String

@Bubbler does factor...

oh no

Bubbler

07:31

Factor doesn't have that syntax at all, but at least I was doing the item access correctly (though I could mess them up while moving around the stack items)

Unrelated String

so your issue was really just that it was hard to keep in order when using the stack

makes sense

Bubbler

and it was not the issue, the real issue was that I forgot to call transpose in one place

Unrelated String

ah

Bubbler

I... really need to implement APL primitives in Factor

Lyxal

10:51

How's everyone going right now?

Razetime

11:14

whatcha mean

ASCII-only

11:27

@Lyxal i've been fishing forever but no enchanted fishing rods :p

Lyxal

11:40

@ASCII-only did you find the chest with the iron armour I left for you?

ASCII-only

o

i never went there lol

@Lyxal btw why can the entire spawn chunk not be mined

correction. i can't interact with it at all

ATaco

12:01

That's default behaviour

Spawn Chunk protection

@ASCII-only

ASCII-only

:U

Adám

@ASCII-only That's a new one. What does it mean?

ASCII-only

y'know what

i have absolutely no clue

Redwolf Programs

13:18

Why are there six messages in russian in the chat flags thing

@ASCII-only I'll op you

Redwolf Programs

14:45

I created an infinite-output tag for my newest question, seems like it could be a good idea since we have so many questions where the main goal is producing infinite output with some sort of restriction

New Main Posts

14:57

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Q: Follow a linked list

For this challenge, a linked list looks like this: [1, 2, 4, 0, 6, 1, 3, 1] You'll notice there's no data; each item in the list is just a reference to the index of the next one. Your task is to write a program or function which will follow a linked list like this forever, outputting each item a...

Razetime

@RedwolfPrograms most infinite output stuff falls within sequence , right

Redwolf Programs

Not necessarily, just search "infinite output is:q" to see what I mean

Razetime

maybe it makes sense

caird coinheringaahing

15:22

@RedwolfPrograms You need quotes around the "infinite output". Without them, you get any questions that have both the words "infinite" and "output" (130 ish). With them, you get 14 results

Redwolf Programs

I know, that was just to show that there are at least a few other questions where the tag makes sense, and I'm sure there are plenty others that don't specifically include both words.

caird coinheringaahing

10 if ignoring sequence, and further investigation shows that only 6 of those are open and require infinite output (rather than banning it). It doesn't seem like its a necessary tag, or that it really adds anything extra to tagging that simply including the phrase "infinite output" wouldn't do

Redwolf Programs

I disagree; many questions involving infinite output won't necessarily include the phrase "infinite output". I think it could be useful to be able to search the infinite-output tag, and even if it won't get more than ten or twenty questions, it could still be helpful (we have tags for certain programming languages that only have a few questions)

caird coinheringaahing

@RedwolfPrograms You could open a meta question on it

(and I'm against the language tags, don't think it's useful having a bunch of tags for languages that only have a tips page)

Redwolf Programs

I'll work on a meta post

Any thoughts on the title?

caird coinheringaahing

15:38

"Proposal for new tag: [infinite-output]" is the standard format IIRC

Redwolf Programs

Here it is

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16:14

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Q: Mimic the X11 Primary selection

Background In X11 (a windowing system used by a lot of Unix-like OS), what you would call the clipboard behave a bit differently than on other OSes like MacOS or Windows. While the "traditional" clipboard using ctrl+v/ctrl+c works, there is also another clipboard, called PRIMARY selection, that b...

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Q: Proposal for tag: [infinite-output]

I recently created the infinite-output tag for my newest challenge. After a discussion in chat, there's a bit of disagreement on whether it's needed. Here are some questions I think the tag would apply to: Shortest code to produce infinite output (For obvious reasons) Implement a truth machine (...

discussion tags

Razetime

anybody used tinylisp here?

user

17:03

So what's happening with Best of CGCC 2020?

caird coinheringaahing

@user We usually post them in Jan/Feb to allow for any latecomers

We could post the category call now if people want that

user

That makes sense.

Is the call for categories also done then (or the end of December)?

caird coinheringaahing

Looking at past years, it seems it's posted early Jan, then the voting post happens late Jan/early Feb

user

Cool, thanks

caird coinheringaahing

18:41

@RedwolfPrograms Thought: infinite-output may be too specific. non-halting or something that implies that programs shouldn't finish might be better, as we have a lot more of those

For example, answers to this shouldn't ever halt (theoretically of course), but wouldn't exactly have "infinite output"

Redwolf Programs

Hmm, true. Maybe post an answer to the proposal suggesting it so people can vote.

caird coinheringaahing

Suggestions for a tag name? non-halting doesn't sounds good to me

Redwolf Programs

Not sure, maybe infinite-loop?

John Dvorak

Rust and Haskell call them diverging

Redwolf Programs

runs-forever?

caird coinheringaahing

18:48

That's even worse than non-halting :P I think I'll go with infinite-loop, but I'll include "gimme suggestions" in my answer

Redwolf Programs

Probably the best choice for now

Can tags be renamed, or just deleted and a new one made?

John Dvorak

infinite-loop excludes functions that deadlock on mutexes, IO, ...

endless-runtime?

caird coinheringaahing

@RedwolfPrograms IIRC you can't rename a tag, but there are multiple different options to get rid of it

@JohnDvorak I like that

Redwolf Programs

energizer-bunny :p

(or duracell if you're outside the US)

John Dvorak

@RedwolfPrograms I'll allow it if you can manage to line up a sponsorship.

caird coinheringaahing

18:52

The easiest way to delete a tag is to edit it out of all questions it's currently on and the system deletes it automatically at the end of the month

Other ways are to suggest a synonym, or flag it as needing to be mod-nuked (for rude tags)

Redwolf Programs

How about a compromise, infinite-runtime?

caird coinheringaahing

@RedwolfPrograms Given that it looks like this has a pretty solid consensus (+7/0 vs +1/0), would you mind accepting my answer?

Redwolf Programs

@cairdcoinheringaahing Done

caird coinheringaahing

Ah, time to enjoy that imaginary +15 meta rep :P

ಠ_ಠ I just realised I have more Good Answer badges on Meta than Main

Redwolf Programs

I think I only have one Good Answer badge on the entire network

Redwolf Programs

19:12

I accidentally made a tag wiki edit and my rep isn't a multiple of two, can someone downvote this?

caird coinheringaahing

@RedwolfPrograms No, because it isn't downvote worthy :P

Redwolf Programs

Hmm, I disagree :p

caird coinheringaahing

Also, tag wiki edits are +2, that shouldn't change the parity of your rep

Redwolf Programs

I meant ten

caird coinheringaahing

Go make 4 more tag wiki edits then :P

Redwolf Programs

19:15

I hit 7500 earlier, only 250 upvotes to go until I get 10k!

Redwolf Programs

21:07

Oh, I just realized there are 13 blank spaces total in between the existing AOC challenges...I bet they'll end up out of order as we make our way back to the north pole

It'll probably be something like "oh no, we have to turn around to [hand waving]" then we'll return and the 25th will be at the equator

Neil

@RedwolfPrograms why don't you just go for more obscure rep counts such as 112255?

Redwolf Programs

I do have a screenshot of 6969

caird coinheringaahing

@Neil checks Neil's rep count

Lyxal

21:28

Wow I missed a lot

caird coinheringaahing

Suggested tag name: indefinite — Lyxal 1 min ago

@Lyxal It's a bit vague, don't you think?

Redwolf Programs

I'll be home in an hour, anyone planning on being on the server?

Lyxal

Probably yes

@cairdcoinheringaahing well program execution runs for an indefinite amount of time

As compared to something like Hello world, which is definite in time

caird coinheringaahing

@Lyxal It's not a bad suggestion, it's just not as descriptive as infinite-runtime for example

Especially as indefinite can mean vague/undefined, which might not be a good tag for new users to accidently use

Redwolf Programs

21:46

CMQ: Do you think you should be able to vote on your own posts on Meta?

caird coinheringaahing

@RedwolfPrograms No. If you don't agree with it, don't post it

Given that votes are used to signify agreement/disagreement on Meta

Redwolf Programs

Hmm, true.

Lyxal

21:59

That being said, if its a consensus question and you want to post an option you don't agree with so as to provide both sides, you can leave a comment saying that you'd personally down vote it

(^ only applies to answers)

caird coinheringaahing

22:17

@Lyxal Personally, I disagree with that as well. If someone genuinely has that opinion and wants it to potentially be consensus/included in the discussion, then they should post it

Lyxal

@RedwolfPrograms are you on?

Redwolf Programs

@Lyxal Getting on now, just got home

Lyxal

i feel like the fortress is in the soul sand valley

caird coinheringaahing

22:34

FYI you guys, we did have a CGCC gaming room that I'm sure a mod'll be willing to unfreeze if you want a more specific room

HyperNeutrino

If you guys want it just let me know

Redwolf Programs

We can use in game chat for now I think

Lyxal

yeah

Redwolf Programs

BTW raided 16 gold blocks from the bastion

Redwolf Programs

23:21

We're doing dragon fight soon, if anyone wants to join

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