@cairdcoinheringaahing 5 Moderation, 3 of which are gold. Guess my site goals are now: Raise 420 more flags, then win a mod election. Then, review 606 more First Posts, edit 40 more tag wikis and create a tag used by 50 different challenges
@RedwolfPrograms Well, you could give away most of your rep through bounties and ask people to downvote you until you lose the edit privilege, then you could edit one of my answers and I would accept it, thus giving you +1 :P
Thoughts on challenges involving generating 3d objects? There are a variety of languages and frameworks that can be used to output a 3d object, including, but not limited to, codecad. However, many 3d frameworks or game engines could also be used this way. I think there are a range of interesting challenges that could be created here, but I'm not sure whether this is allowed. Is it/Should it be? And would the standard rules work well for this?
There are a variety of languages and frameworks that can be used to output a 3d object, including, but not limited to, codecad. However, many 3d frameworks or game engines could also be used this way. I think there are a range of interesting challenges that could be created here, but I'm not sure...
@DigitalTrauma IMV it's not clear enough as it is to be open on meta, and it seems like a "can I do X?" question to me, which I believe are better to be asked in chat first, then on meta if no answer is provided
If people disagree, that's fine, but I'm going to leave my VTC there
I was just reading through the old factorial challenge, and more specifically the Golfscript answer. It’s truly fascinating how people in 2011 thought that 12 bytes (10 to remove naming the function) was good for non-builtin factorial
The fact that Golfscript was almost entirely non-alphanumeric in commands, that it has variables and that constructs such as while used to be 5 characters long still shocks me
@rak1507 Strongly disagree. I’ve never seen a Python answer that has impressively utilised Python, but I’ve seen many answers that only work/are that short due to the fact that they are in Husk, 05AB1E or Jelly
@cairdcoinheringaahing all husk 05ab1e and jelly answers are short because of being in those languages, other answers are short because of finding smart solutions
99.9% of all “impressive” Python answers on the site are only impressive because they were the first to use the algorithm. If they were in Rust, JS or Scala, they’d be just the same
@rak1507 I argue that anyone who claims golfing languages are only “smart” because they’re naturally short has never properly golfed using a golfing language
the act of golfing in a practical language can involve more insight in some ways but golflangs just have more tools to work with = more viable ways to approach a problem
and the more viable ways there are to approach a problem, the more it takes to figure out which one is the best, and the higher the chance that it's something insane
@rak1507 Again, I believe anyone who makes this argument has never tried to get rid of that one byte you know you can get rid of, but nothing quite works out
My point is, that it is an awful post by our rules. But it’s fun and people like it, so it stays. That’s true for a lot of challenges. Posts that are nowhere near as good as other posts on the thread are “enjoyed” by other users, they upvote them, and now people point to a boring builtin answer, or a low-effort, high-fun Python answer as “a good answer”
Just because it gets upvotes doesn’t mean shit, to put it bluntly
A good answer is one that shows incredible insight into how the language works, in order to save a couple of bytes. That’s language agnostic, and we can all appreciate such answers
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Jelly. The builtins are extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical golfing most of the nuance will go over a typical cgccer's head.
@rak1507 In short (pardon the pun), impressive golfing is language agnostic. Someone realising how to remove 1 byte may be more impressive in a Vyxal answer than 5 bytes in a Golfscript answer or 20 in a Python answer. However, just as often, the opposite may apply. There’s really no way of knowing until someone comes along with an answer that makes you go “Damn, that’s clever”
@rak1507 He turned himself into a golfing language, funniest shit I ever saw
@rak1507 Alhough if you haven't used one it may seem like using a golfing language is just ctrl+fing for a built-in that does exactly what you need, it almost never works out that way. At least to me, what makes golfing interesting is the sheer number of possible ways to approach a problem, and the skill it takes to find the right one. A golfing language gives you way more possible approaches because there are way more commands. Sure, there are a good number of challenges that (cont.)
(cont.) are trivial in a golfing language, but chances are they're trivial in any practical language. A complicated (i.e. 5+ bytes) solution in a golfing language will probably require much more skill and work than a complicated (i.e. 50+ bytes) answer in a typical practical lang
TL;DR, golfing languages let you get rid of the fluff, and focus on the parts of golfing that are fun and interesting. It's like criticizing a handyman for having a lot of tools; sure a guy with a hand saw puts in more work to cut a plank, but that doesn't mean the carpenter with a table saw has less skill.
I'd count pretty much any language that was developed some time in the last few weeks/months (or maybe even a year), that hasn't become popular already, and isn't just a trivial BF derivative. My main goal isn't really to reward or promote certain languages, just to encourage language development and encourage the usage of newer or community developed langs.
exponents of prime factorization are non-decreasing; prime or power of a prime; prime or power of any integer; prime or highly composite and all of those could be made more inconvenient if instead of directly testing the value given they count the number of positive integers less than or equal to it which test true--and it could also have exceptional behavior for 0, 1, or even 2
Background
This is a standard textbook example to demonstrate for loops.
This is one of the first programs I learned when I started learning programming ~10 years ago.
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python question: I have a dict called letter_map which maps letters to numbers. If I have a list of lists of letters, how can I map each one to a number using letter_map?
@Anush you choose the most useful and actually helpful things to do (you probably would want to make a Tamil word do something like get the permutations of a list rather than play Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley)
And then, once you have a suitable list of however many commands you allocate space on your codepage for, you assign Tamil words
Not really related to anything, but I wrote the proof of the NP-completeness of the min cost matrix permutation problem in the sandbox. Anyone to want take a look (and tell me if the proof makes sense?)
oh, I was wondering what the a was doing there, is it supposed to be q? (Even with that, you still need code for the case where the last character is the same as the first.)
Background
This is a standard textbook example to demonstrate for loops.
This is one of the first programs I learned when I started learning programming ~10 years ago.
Task
You are to print this exact text:
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