The Nineteenth Byte

Redwolf Programs

00:12

Apparently there's also a modal when a new user posts a challenge, that advises them to accept the answer that works the best :/

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Q: Find the HTTP status code

Given the name of an HTTP status code, such as OK or Continue, output or return the corresponding number. Your code is limited to 200 bytes, and the winner is the answer that correctly finds the number for the most status codes. For this challenge, the status codes your program should handle are:...

Lyxal

@user apparently no-one uses english

ChartZ Belatedly

@NewMainPosts Why do I get the feeling that Japt is going to win this by a mile? :/

rak1507

wonder if there's a mathematica builtin for it

user

@JoKing If you make any more, I'm sure @Lyxal will do their best to get it deleted and get your score back to 69.

ChartZ Belatedly

00:20

@user If only JoKing had some kinda special site ability or power that allowed them to delete and undelete posts at will...

user

@rak1507 There probably is, and it will probably get 12 upvotes, while the clever answer that doesn't use string compression will probably get 2

rak1507

lmao

user

@ChartZBelatedly Don't know what you're talking about :P

ChartZ Belatedly

All I know is that out of me and @JoKing, only one of our avatars is wearing a SE hat. Just saying, one of us seems more dedicated to SE than the other... :P

user

@rak1507 My most upvoted answer is a one word Mathematica builtin. It's my only answer in Mathematica, and I don't even know Mathematica.

rak1507

00:21

none of mathematicas http stuff seems to do this :(

hahaha

'omg builtin!!! so epic!!! deploy the upvotes!!!!!'

user

@rak1507 It literally took me 5 seconds to google ⍨

rak1507

yea well my most upvoted is a jelly one that took me about 5 seconds

ctrl f 'integer partitions' = upvotes galore

user

I wish there was some way to share the amount of work that went into an answer.

ChartZ Belatedly

Upvotes != quality

rak1507

@user well it's obvious but people don't care about that

user

00:23

Someone needs to make a .anguish extension for files that lets others feel your pain

Redwolf Programs

So you mean XML?

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Q: Adding readability as a constraint

BACKGROUND: I am a CS lecturer (teaching C++) and I keep thinking how to incorporate coding challenges in teaching. Many questions in this site are great; I have just used Do you want to code a snowman? as a warm-up homework assignment. The challenge of writing short programs fits my goal of enco...

discussion

user

@RedwolfPrograms Hey, don't hate on XML, hate on Ant and HTML

Redwolf Programs

Ah true good point

user

Making the file would probably add to your anguish, so you would have to make the file bigger, so you'd just keep on adding to the file with no end, making your anguish infinite.

Jo King

00:27

@ChartZBelatedly i haven't changed my avatar yet, i'm not changing it to put on a hat

ChartZ Belatedly

I'm rerunning Lynn's Jelly corpus analyser, and the second most common trigraph in Jelly answers is ...

Jo King

besides, my usual avatar is literally a hat, so that would be confusing

Redwolf Programs

No, it would be awesome

A hat on a hat

ChartZ Belatedly

Run an image of a hat though Identicon and use that :P

rak1507

@NewMainPosts oh this doesn't even have the code golf tag

ChartZ Belatedly

00:28

@rak1507 code-challenge with a limited length

rak1507

oh

200 is .... way more than required

user

@RedwolfPrograms A HAT on a HAT? How would that look?

rak1507

does this person know about compression

Redwolf Programs

The hat in the hat is one of my favorite Dr. Seuss books

user

Didn't know Dr. Seuss taught computer science :P

@RedwolfPrograms Oh, I see, it makes a lot more sense if there's a HAT containing a pointer to another HAT.

ChartZ Belatedly

00:30

@ChartZBelatedly Additionally: *`¡, `¡*, ¡*` all appear 24 times. I wonder why...

rak1507

@ChartZBelatedly what does ... do

~~I only just realised that was the code, and thought you were pausing dramatically~~

ChartZ Belatedly

@rak1507 It's used in explanations :P

rak1507

oh

well that's no fun

is there a way to tell what the actual most used and least used things are

imagine a golfing language that reshuffled builtins based on use

Unrelated String

@ChartZBelatedly especially for compressed and/or really long strings

ChartZ Belatedly

Or rather, ... outputs 0.50.5

@rak1507 Yeah, it's generally pretty accurate

rak1507

00:32

nice

damn it, matlab isn't on TIO

ChartZ Belatedly

@rak1507 Matlab costs money

rak1507

oh

of course the only language with a 'get status code name' builtin is not on tio

ChartZ Belatedly

Huh, 12 is the most common digit only digraph in Jelly answers

Unrelated String

@rak1507 octave is

rak1507

I doubt octave has the same obscure builtins but maybe

user

00:36

MATL is also on TIO

ChartZ Belatedly

Which is weird, cause isn't MATL built in Matlab?

rak1507

wait, MATL is implemented in matlab

wonder if you can call matlab from matl

Unrelated String

I think it might be built in Octave but based more on Matlab

user

Makes sense, Octave is free

ChartZ Belatedly

MATL's built in Octave on TIO, can't speak for the offline interpreter

Unrelated String

00:37

Ah, it works in either

> The compiler works in MATLAB R2015b or newer. [...] It is also compatible with Octave 4.0.0. The compiler tries to ensure consistent behaviour in both platforms.

rak1507

ah

user

Huh, is it a polyglot?

ChartZ Belatedly

Matlab and Octave are very similar

Neil

00:52

@Lyxal if you thought that was bad, there's a fashion footwear chain in this country called Shoe Zone. Its previous finance director Peter Foot, well, hot-footed it, or at least, stepped down, or maybe, walked away from the job, so they've appointed Terry Boot, who was probably a shoe-in, to, well, step into his position, i.e., fill his boots.

5

Lyxal

@Neil oh ffs

Redwolf Programs

And it's real

I googled it

Neil

(on a side note, Peter Foot's previous position was with a company that my then employer dealt with around the turn of the millennium as they had some old software which needed to be updated for Y2K)

Lyxal

I have no words for any of this

Redwolf Programs

I'm sure the new guy's going to have to walk a thin line to avoid being booted, though. At least it's a step forward for the company.

ChartZ Belatedly

00:57

God forbid he put a toe out of line

Redwolf Programs

It's not his sole responsibility, though

They can't have another accounting sandal

user

@Neil, please don't put your foot in your mouth with these awful puns.

user

01:37

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Q: 2019 April Fool's Day Retro Theme

Screenshot / Code Snippet (click to make bigger) About Keeps the 2019 April Fool's Day theme, all the time! Inspired by this post on Meta.SE Download Get it from GitHub, or below: // ==UserScript== // @name Stack Exchange 90's theme // @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/ // @versi...

script fun

^ This userscript is amazing. It makes everything look like this:

Redwolf Programs

It was annoying when you had to disable it per-site, though :p

user

I wish I was there then

I joined just a few months after that, I think

Lyxal

@user I remember that lol

user

01:59

@Lyxal Ok boomer

Redwolf Programs

That makes me a boomer too :(

ChartZ Belatedly

@RedwolfPrograms Turns out that Stack Exchange revoked my access to the API cause I queried them too much, so no I have to make a stack apps post to get an API key :/

Redwolf Programs

The quota's like 300/day, isn't it?

ChartZ Belatedly

Plus my internet is, and I can’t say this enough, shite, so all my bug testing leads to either “No API” or “No internet”

@RedwolfPrograms While loops do more than 300 cycles before I can stop them :/

Redwolf Programs

Oh, rip :/

user

02:02

May I ask why your bot queries it so much?

ChartZ Belatedly

It seems that the shit internet's the bigger issue rn

@user It shouldn't, it should only query it a number of times equal to the number of Sandbox posts from a week ago, but I misplaced a function call without realising it when testing a week or so ago

Redwolf Programs

Once you know the bot's working, I've got fairly reliable internet and a server with a backup power source, so you could set it up on there if you want

ChartZ Belatedly

@RedwolfPrograms Sounds good, thanks 👍

Getting API access isn’t hard, it just means I have to actually do something :/

I much prefer not doing things

rak1507

relatable

user

@ChartZBelatedly Don't we all?

Redwolf Programs

02:09

I would star that too but I have raw shrimp juice on my fingers

ChartZ Belatedly

Hmm, I'm starting to think I didn't lose API access, the bot's working again :/

user

@RedwolfPrograms You're willing to get it on your keyboard but not your mouse?

ChartZ Belatedly

I did repeatedly get an error message saying "API usage quota exceeded", so that's annoying :/

user

On a side note, does anyone know if it's legal to use Google Translate's internal servers for free translations?

rak1507

nothings illegal if you don't get caught

user

02:11

@rak1507 Pretty sure it doesn't work like that, but okay :P

ChartZ Belatedly

@user They're not wrong

Redwolf Programs

@user There's an API right?

ChartZ Belatedly

Laws are just threats by the dominant socio-economic class and police are essentially an occupying army

user

@RedwolfPrograms Google's own API isn't free

@ChartZBelatedly Right, but even if you don't get caught, it can be illegal according to the current authority.

rak1507

if a tree falls in the woods but no one's there to hear it, does it make a sound?

ChartZ Belatedly

02:15

@user The fact that people are able to do "illegal" things and suffer no consequences suggests that for an act to be "illegal", you must also be found guilty of committing that act

user

@ChartZBelatedly That they suffer no consequences is irrelevant, though, isn't it? It is against the law, no matter if you care about that law or if you get caught.

According to google, illegal means "contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law." That doesn't include getting caught.

ChartZ Belatedly

2 mins ago, by rak1507

if a tree falls in the woods but no one's there to hear it, does it make a sound?

user

@ChartZBelatedly If a burglar robs a house and no one's around to report it, was there a crime?

ChartZ Belatedly

All I'm saying is that you could very likely use Google's internal servers with no real consequences

Razetime

@ChartZBelatedly this is already happening with colab

Devendra Walkoli

02:29

Hey guys can anyone help me with python. I'm having problem with storing SIFT features and extracting them from stored file.

user

@DevendraWalkoli Hi, welcome to The Nineteenth Byte. If this is a general programming problem, you might want to ask it on Stack Overflow, where more people will see it and be able to help.

@ChartZBelatedly Hmm, I guess I'll just go ahead, then

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Calculate the 'geothmetic meandian' of a set of numbers Randall Munroe's March 10 xkcd comic "Geothmetic Meandian" defines the 'geothmetic meandian' of a set of positive real numbers as follows. Define a function F, such that F accepts a set of n positive real numbers and returns the set (a, b, ...

Devendra Walkoli

Ok sure

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02:51

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Q: Largest power of 2 that divides \$n\$

Related, related Introduction The ruler sequence is the sequence of the largest possible numbers \$a_n\$ such that \$2^{a_n}\mid n\$. It is so-called because its pin plot looks similar to a ruler's markings: However, with a slight modification, we can also get a similar sequence. This sequence i...

code-golf math number

Lyxal

03:04

I have 121*69* rep

nice

you know what's not nice

SE markdown

stupid thing it is

rak1507

@NewMainPosts this is frustrating, <\⍢⌽⍢⊤ should work in dyalog extended but it doesn't

ChartZ Belatedly

03:17

@NewMainPosts Aaand, bitwise nonsense ruined it :(

user

@ChartZBelatedly You can always do it without the bitwise nonsense :P

ChartZ Belatedly

@user I have, but as soon as someone discovers some short and easy bitwise relation, every answer just ports it

Later, when I get to a device that can actually edit in some not awful way, Imma edit my 5 byte Jelly answer back in

rak1507

03:36

this is why challenges like this are bad

my apl answer would've been the coolest but ⊤ doesn't define an inverse for some stupid reason

ChartZ Belatedly

@rak1507 Nah, they aren't bad. Unless the OP had discovered the relation before posting, there's no way of knowing it could be that simply. The problem lies with code-golf's absolute devotion to short code, and be damned if your code is longer but more interesting

But I'd rather that than allowing any and all scoring criteria

rak1507

even if the relation didn't exist, the other answers are trivial too

ChartZ Belatedly

Yes and no. Me and Lyxal put in some serious effort in Jelly and 05AB1E to get to 5 bytes

Bubbler

@rak1507 Have you tried dzaima/APL? It has more fully implemented Under.

rak1507

does it have monadic ⊤?

Bubbler

03:46

I think so, but maybe not.

rak1507

@ChartZBelatedly I don't think the jelly 5 byter took a lot of effort

ChartZ Belatedly

@rak1507 It took me remembering a recent challenge I competed in to realise that builtin would be helpful

rak1507

well, the same thing without the ` 2*` was the answer to a linked challenge

Razetime

@rak1507 yes.

rak1507

oh

epic

Razetime

03:48

github.com/abrudz/dyalog-apl-extended/blob/master/…

Bubbler

Whenever a challenge seems Under-able, I always try dzaima/APL first. (For example, it is the only one that handles ⍢⎕UCS)

ChartZ Belatedly

It's a fairly trivial challenge, so it won't yield genius insight for most languages, but I'm happy if the non-obvious (to me at least) version is shorter than the obvious

Razetime

wowo whut

rak1507

how can I do a ⎕SRC⎕THIS type thingy for dzaima/APL?

ChartZ Belatedly

@rak1507 I know, the accepted answer is mine

rak1507

03:49

f←\

Bubbler

f←( <newline> code <newline> )

rak1507

thanks

ChartZ Belatedly

What languages have significant whitespace? Python and Whitespace are obvious, what else? (By significant I mean that spaces/tabs/newlines have specific meaning beyond "separating tokens")

Razetime

@ChartZBelatedly japt

Redwolf Programs

@ChartZBelatedly You already mentioned Python but...

Nov 30 '20 at 15:46, by Redwolf Programs

I made a markov chain of the Wikipedia descriptions of most of the common programming languages, and the first thing I got was "Python is a cornerstone technology of significant whitespace"

Bubbler

03:52

Japt's space translates to a closing paren.

ChartZ Belatedly

I suppose Pyth does, newlines are a command which prints its argument

Bubbler

So it's fairly important

rak1507

argh, \ in dzaima/APL is left to right so <\ doesn't work

ChartZ Belatedly

Closing parentheses? Important? Nah :P

Relevant XKCD

Bubbler

Well, closing parens participate in the parenthesis autocompletion

Razetime

03:54

@rak1507 what about ⍀

user

@ChartZBelatedly Scala 3

rak1507

just replicate

tried it :/

Bubbler

and Japt has lots of reasons to parenthesize things from the right

Razetime

ugh lol

Bubbler

Wait, let me think about it

rak1507

03:55

lmao, extended has working \, dzaima has working ⍢, but nothing has both!

user

@ChartZBelatedly Also Nim

rak1507

hm I wonder if something can replace <\⍢⌽ though

user

@rak1507 time to make your own apl

rak1507

would be the only way to get one that worked...

Bubbler

How about this: Decrement the number, base 2, keep all the trailing ones, frombase 2, increment back

You need three unders for this though :P

Razetime

03:57

@rak1507 just pull request the extended repo

rak1507

how does dyadic funderg work

Bubbler

Idk, ask dzaima :P

rak1507

x f⍢g y = g⍣¯1 ⊢ (g x) f (g y)?

that'd make sense I think

Bubbler

That's how J does

To make decrement-increment into an under, you'll need to make it monadic like ⍢(¯1+)

rak1507

yep

annoying

I have a 7 as a full program anyway

2*⊥⍨~⊤⎕

Bubbler

04:02

Looks good

Razetime

so basically what bubbler means is

switch to J

Bubbler

:P

But yeah, J is fun on its own right

rak1507

idk if I can be bothered submitting it, I don't like full program submissions anyway

Bubbler

I don't like it either, but what can we do

I choose J when I'm pretty sure one of J's (usually mathematical) built-ins can do the most of the job, or its auto-mixing is useful

user

Make a dfn maybe

Razetime

04:05

@user what does this mean

user

@Razetime Sorry

Razetime

ah

rak1507

dfn would be longer

Razetime

"full programs" are convenient

user

@rak1507 Does it matter?

rak1507

04:07

for code golf, yes

ChartZ Belatedly

Any feedback on: 1, 2, 3, 4?

user

@rak1507 The core of the answer is still the same, though

rak1507

good numbers in general, particularly like 3

@user I guess

user

I don’t like 3, and I hate 1. I don’t like 4 either, but I can handle it.

Razetime

@ChartZBelatedly wondering if whispers is possible for 1

user

04:08

2 is good, though

ChartZ Belatedly

@Razetime It's math-y enough that Whispers could do well

user

CMP: Which numbers do you like/dialike?

ChartZ Belatedly

2

It shouldn't be prime, but it insists on being so

Razetime

@user 1 because unary is boring

user

@ChartZBelatedly At first glance, 1 looks good

Razetime

04:11

@ChartZBelatedly oh no the 4th one is a carcassonne challenge

user

@Razetime Unary doesn’t have 1, does it?

I dislike -1 the most because it’s evil and is always scheming against the positive numbers (especially 2). It would even betray 1, because it has no morals

ChartZ Belatedly

@Razetime There have been an equal number of questions as answers for Carcassonne related challenges on the site, I intend to change that one way or another :P

Razetime

carcassonne difficult

user

2 is one of the best numbers, because it’s always trying to help others out, although it cam be uppity at times

Redwolf Programs

Four is nice.

user

04:16

@Razetime Real life, or answers involving it?

Razetime

everything

Redwolf Programs

Also we need to bury this conversation before Lyxal gets a chance to answer it

2

Razetime

69

there I already claimed it

user

@RedwolfPrograms Really? 4 seems like an opportunist to me - it goes along with others unless it can help itself

rak1507

CMQ: Consider the story of Baucis and Philemon as a whole. What are the lessons about hospitality that Roman readers have learned from this myth? (4 marks)

user

04:19

@rak1507 vtc as this is a homework question :P

rak1507

lol

user

What is this story? Does it involve alcohol?

rak1507

Baucis and Philemon

In Ovid's moralizing fable which stands on the periphery of Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Baucis and Philemon were an old married couple in the region of Tyana, which Ovid places in Phrygia, and the only ones in their town to welcome disguised gods Zeus and Hermes (in Roman mythology, Jupiter and Mercury respectively), thus embodying the pious exercise of hospitality, the ritualized guest-friendship termed Xenia, or theoxenia when a god was involved. == Story == Zeus and Hermes came disguised as ordinary peasants, and began asking the people of the town for a place to sleep that night. They...

ChartZ Belatedly

@Razetime 420

Does this mean that caird + Razetime = Lyxal?

2

@rak1507 Baucis = god of indulgence IIRC, so from a story about him, we learn that orgies, drugs and alcohol are good?

user

Razetine = Lyxal - caird

ChartZ Belatedly

04:23

I don't know if I should be offended or not :P

user

@ChartZBelatedly It’s a good story, then (different Baicis though)

@ChartZBelatedly you may be offended now, but you will cone to accept that you are merely a 0, as we all are

Actually i think i lije 0 more than 2 - it’s like K : calm, mature, and open minded

Redwolf Programs

04:39

@user Is that like a synesthesia thing? Grapheme-personality sort of?

Lyxal

@user 69 and 420

@RedwolfPrograms too late

rak1507

@user my favourite number is sqrt(pi)/2 (0.5!) because it connects so many aspects of maths together and produces a totally unexpected result

Redwolf Programs

What's that?

Oh wait they're equal

I thought you meant multiplying them lol

rak1507

oh lol

user

@RedwolfPrograms Probably

@rak1507 That’s actually pretty interesting

@RedwolfPrograms en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_linguistic_personification

Redwolf Programs

04:57

Any feedback for KotH: Hunter-Gatherer Society? One thing I'm wondering is how complex/"realistic" the terrain generation should be. For example, should rivers just be thin rectangles, or natural-ish looking rivers?

Lyxal

05:34

Github suggests the best repository names

turbo-octo-meme

That's what it gave me

very useful

Redwolf Programs

I love it when I try to hit Ctrl + Shift + Tab to go to a previous tab and accidentally hit W and close all of them :/

Lyxal

use Alt + F4

it gets the job done nicer

Redwolf Programs

I usually use a screwdriver to pry the contacts off the laptop battery, that ensures nothing gets saved to the disk or anything

Bubbler

@RedwolfPrograms Just read the terrain part, and it looks like some simplified Minecraft :) I think Minecraft's algorithm is described somewhere

Redwolf Programs

I've got most of the biome selection and tree/bush/stone placement figured out, I guess I'll look at how Minecraft handles rivers and coastlines.

Adám

12:07

CMC: Given a Boolean list, determine if the last element is the only True. [false,false,true]→true, [false,true,true]→false, [false,true,false]→false, [false,false,false]→false.

Jo King

@Adám 14 bytes, Raku, {.one&&.[*-1]}

Jo King

12:23

actually, 12 bytes, &one&{.tail}

wait no, i don't mean the language "Actually", it's still Raku

Adám

@JoKing Seriously?

3

ChartZ Belatedly

@Adám Jelly, 3 bytes: Try it online!

Adám

@ChartZBelatedly Nice idea!

ChartZ Belatedly

Another 3 byte version, different approach: Try it online!

Adám

12:39

And if I told you APL can do it in 2 (ASCII!) bytes, would you be intrigued?

Jo King

@Adám |/ ?

Adám

@JoKing I guess that works. I was thinking </

Neil

13:16

right reduce by comparison, I guess?

Adám

Yes, or reverse division remainder

Neil

in Charcoal I would probably write All(Reverse(Input()), Equals(i, Not(k)))which is 7 bytes in succint

ChartZ Belatedly

Jelly needs a reduce-right quick :/

user

13:54

I'm sure no one cares, but Scala has reduceRight, reduceLeft, reduce (which seems to just reduceLeft for most classes), /: (foldLeft, :\` (foldRight), and just fold.

Adám

@user Try doubling your backticks.

user

@Adám Ah, it's too late, it still looks weird.

@Adám Scala, 19 bytes: _.reduceRight(!_&_)

user

14:12

Oddly enough, the math tag badge has only been awarded 118 times.

ChartZ Belatedly

Bronze, silver or gold?

user

Bronze

Is there a way to see how many times the gold badge was awarded?

Adám

@user codegolf.stackexchange.com/help/badges/89/math

user

@Adám Thanks!

ChartZ Belatedly

Whenever I look at tag badges, I'm always reminded that the vast majority of my rep comes from challenges, not answers :/

user

14:19

@ChartZBelatedly That just means your challenges are good/interesting

Redwolf Programs

> we even created a new hat on the fly to recognize users that found and shared ways to cheat at Hat Dash

You mean I spent days helping report when cheated leaderboard scores appeared and they were getting rewarded?

user

@RedwolfPrograms Consider it a hat of shame, not a hat of pride

Bubbler

@ChartZBelatedly Look at Socratic instead :P

ChartZ Belatedly

@Bubbler 77/100 :P

Redwolf Programs

For like a week I had the highest play time out of anyone for that game and I don't get a hat for that, but if you hack in 100 million points you get one :/

ChartZ Belatedly

14:25

Although, I'm closer to Curious: 77/5 :D

> 871/1000 score

Bubbler

92/100 for me

ChartZ Belatedly

Only need to get 129 more upvotes on code-golf answers :P

@Bubbler CnR challenges hurt Socratic, as it only counts days :/ I have 87 "well-received" challenges, but 6 of them are CnR

Bubbler

That's true

user

9/100 :\

ChartZ Belatedly

The trick is to post the cops challenge at 23:59 and the Robbers at 00:01 :P

Bubbler

14:27

and I lost a few in my early days by simply posting multiple challenges on the same day

Redwolf Programs

I quite often will post multiple good challenges in a day, which is annoying for Socratic

ChartZ Belatedly

Jan 27 at 10:40, by caird coinheringaahing

@Lyxal When I first joined, I didn't know about the Sandbox. Cue like 7 shitty questions, which got downvoted, closed and then I deleted them

Bubbler

Hmm, not much. I have 94 questions in total anyway

ChartZ Belatedly

Why I don't have Curious :/

My "question record" is 0.48 and it needs to be 0.5 to get Curious/Inquisitive/Socratic

user

Inquisitive is the wrong name for a CGCC badge

ChartZ Belatedly

14:29

TBH all of those 3 are wrong names

Bubbler

What is the question record?

user

Yeah

ChartZ Belatedly

@Bubbler A metric measuring how good you are at asking

Lemme just find the mother meta post detailing it

From here:

> In order to qualify for any of these badges, you must have a "positive question record", which means you don't have too many Closed, Negative, or Deleted questions overall. The formula is (TotalQuestions - Negative - Closed - Deleted) / TotalQuestions ≥ 0.5. Questions that qualify as Negative and Closed and Deleted count three times in this calculation. If you don't, you won't earn any of these badges.

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Q: Welcome to Code Golf and Coding Challenge StackExchange!

What is this site? This is a place to host recreational coding challenges, such as code golf. We are unlike most sites in the Stack Exchange network. We are not a question-answer site, nor are we a forum, instead we use the Stack Exchange network as a host for our coding challenges and solutions....

discussion support new-users

Redwolf Programs

Missed an s in the title

Bubbler

14:31

@ChartZBelatedly Cool, so it is exactly 1 for me

ChartZ Belatedly

@RedwolfPrograms How did I miss that? :/

Oh yeah, for ^^^, feel free to edit any mistakes/typos/poor wording/whatever, there's no need to ping me. It should be more of a community post than "my" post anyway

user

Now for a userscript that makes comments that link here :P

Redwolf Programs

Just use my quick comments userscript

You can change what the different numbers paste in :p

user

@RedwolfPrograms Do you have a link?

ChartZ Belatedly

Yeah, I've already modified the quick comments script to include links to it :P

Redwolf Programs

14:37

github.com/RedwolfPrograms/userscripts has a link to it

user

Actually, I think the pro forma thing should work too, I already have that

@RedwolfPrograms Thanks

Redwolf Programs

This takes you right to the install page

user

Does anyone know how to find questions in SEDE where most (or all) of the answers are by the question asker?

Redwolf Programs

It'll take an inner join, so no :p

user

That sounds complicated :(

Redwolf Programs

14:45

Welcome to SQL :/

I am convinced nobody knows how SQL works and they all just pretend

user

@RedwolfPrograms Like when you're watching a movie but you forgot what the prequel was about :P

Redwolf Programs

At some point I want to make a system that automatically downloads all the important information from SEDE weekly and lets you query it with a custom JS-like language I'll make

JS-like as in it uses JSON's data types and structures, not as in awful

user

JS wouldn't be that bad

ChartZ Belatedly

@RedwolfPrograms Why would someone deliberately make an awful language?

Bubbler

We have a ton of languages that can handle JSON, we don't need more of them

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user

14:50

You should try out Scala.js, it compiles to JS but has all the advantages of Scala

Redwolf Programs

@Bubbler I agree with the first part

But the more JSON in the world the better

user

I prefer YAML, actually

No need for those double quotes or commas or braces

Bubbler

I hear people started to hate JSON

Redwolf Programs

Well, I like JSON's data types. JSON's formatting isn't the most practical.

user

Meh, a stack is the only data type you need :P

ChartZ Belatedly

14:52

Who needs stacks when you can have bits? :P

Redwolf Programs

Bits are cool, bytes are just trying to steal the fame

user

@ChartZBelatedly Bits can't hold other bits

Redwolf Programs

@user Wait tell you learn about pointers! :p

user

@RedwolfPrograms Qubits are even worse.

Redwolf Programs

Nah, Qubits are cool.

user

14:53

@RedwolfPrograms That takes multiple bits - a data structure

@RedwolfPrograms Quantum computing may be cool, but a lot of it seems to be hype.

Redwolf Programs

Yeah, it's not very useful for things other than making crypto nerds worried

ChartZ Belatedly

I'm just not sure about quantum computing, seems like a lot of uncertainty

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Bubbler

Qubits are not cool. They are Qool.

user

@RedwolfPrograms It can actually help security

rak1507

qubits are good because they are a valid word in scrabble and you get lots of points

Redwolf Programs

14:55

Although I doubt people will ever understand quantum computers very well, I've spent way too long trying to convince people that a qubit isn't just a bit that can hold three values :/

user

There are algorithms that can help tell you if someone's eavesdropping

@RedwolfPrograms Of course not, it's a bit that can hold 4 values :P

rak1507

if lives_in_pretty_much_any_country_in_the_world(): return True

user

@rak1507 This should be how all things are judged :P

rak1507

agreed

Redwolf Programs

Why don't we call them "quabbits"? (Pronounced like "rabbits")

Bubbler

14:57

Lack of wit when they were first named

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