I came across something rather bizarre today, when I noticed this:
The cause being:
Upon further investigation, the Feeds user (ID -2) appears to have been renamed:
Was this intentional? Why has the SE-wide feeds user been renamed?
@cairdcoinheringaahing yes, but you did not provide the explanation, and thus it's not really a ninja because most of my answer wasn't about me changing it back :P
What the heck, somebody deleted my message that said Anders Kaseorg has been [something slightly more unpleasant than unpleasant] to me, and suspended my chat account for 29 minutes.
How in the world does that qualify for deletion and suspension.
The now-deleted message, rephrased: Anders Kaseorg has some very impressive code golf achievements, but I have trouble seeing him in any positive light now. For years I've a simple question for him regarding his claimed score on Regex Golf: Glob, and he's repeatedly ignored my question.
@Deadcode Unfortunately some users aren't as open to sharing their methods and solutions as others. See feersum's Seed Hello World. They've been offered literally 1000s of rep to reveal their method and havent'
@hyper-neutrino In the early form of the Regex Golf site, there was no viewable high score list of any kind. So a lot of people shared their solutions on Github Gists.
And then a later form of the site added the high score list, and of course hundreds of people copied the solutions that had already been posted, so it's impossible to know whether they came up with them themselves or not. But in the case of many of them, it's highly likely they copied it
@cairdcoinheringaahing I mean, I'd gain some respect for him even if just replied to me just to say, no, he doesn't want to share the solution or any information about it. That would be better than being completely ignored.
@cairdcoinheringaahing This is interesting but not the same thing, as feersum actually replied to some people.
I don't know if it's just that Anders Kaseorg was too busy to even read any of my attempts at communication, or read at least one of them but was too busy to reply to it (but not opposed in principle to sharing the solution), or if he actively doesn't want to share the solution.
@cairdcoinheringaahing Well, it's not so much that the Glob problem itself is all that interesting to me, but that Regex Golf is what kicked off my interest in regex (leading to such posts as this and this) and I have a strong sentimental interest in all of its puzzles, including Glob.
Even though in general I'm much more interested in algorithmic, general-purpose regexes like "match all perfect squares in unary" than brute-force ones like "match all of this particular set of 21 strings and none of this other set of 21 strings" (which Glob is).
@cairdcoinheringaahing Oh and another huge difference. It's obvious that feersum has something real, because the Seed Hello World solution is viewable by anyone. But the 17 character Glob solution may not even exist at that length (if the scoring formula was different), or may have applied to an earlier, different set of test cases.
Concocts evil plan to make seemingly helpful userscript that hyper-neutrino will run here so that it can post spam and get HN removed as a mod but delete the TNB just before that happens
Could we update the info box so that it includes a link to the Welcome post? It's a minor edit to the existing version that I think should help newer users, at least a little bit
Apparently the posts have to be short, with at least two short answers (<=400 chars), shouldn't have any crazy formatting, and should be open.
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An interesting thing to note is that if the question satisfies the above criteria, but the accepted answer doesn't, the system pret...
@LangLangC If I remember correctly, we asked SE to flip a switch that reduces the strict eligibility criteria, as we had not a single allowed question. You'll have to do the same thing on Health. — Mad ScientistJan 23 '18 at 17:44
That's how
> As far as I'm aware, that switch is only flipped on Skeptics.
Maybe not :/
> s far as I can best tell, if a question selected for the tour later becomes ineligible [...], the system will automatically revert it back to that generic question.
wow, I repcapped on MM from simply writing an answer saying "lol yeah someone prob messed with things so i just changed it back". bruh moment (i also filed a bug report earlier so it wasn't just that post, but still)
Thanks for having this discussion! We've pushed dzaima's proposed text and it's live now. Thanks Shog! Please let me know if you start seeing any unintended consequences. I like the text y'all came up with, so I hope things improve! — Catija ♦Sep 4 '19 at 16:25
well i've already pinged one in TL, so guess i'll just wait :P
if i haven't reported back about the tour question or the info box in a few days' time please do remind me, i'll probably forget if i don't do it soon :P
if the closure check is client-side could one theoretically just disable it an post an answer to an already-closed challenge? and if it isn't cilent-side, how is Neil able to do that if it should be closed server-side already o.O
in the revision history: - :57736829 Mods can edit anyone's message: HN, show 'em - :57736829 Mods can --mod abuse-- edit anyone's message - :57736829 Mods can ---mod abuse--- edit anyone's message (since I suck at markdown)
This room isn't the place for you to work through your though process for a challenge. Either create a room to do that, or do it your answer (if you post one)
ironically the top voted answer of the supposed duplicate can't be easily ported to the question it's a duplicate of, because vim doesn't do nested loops
(you can but you need to surround the inner one with try-catch or something; i've never actually done this)
but if the inner macro exits by failure then it will exit the entire stack of macros, so you'll only get one iteration of the outer loop
so your options are to have the inner loop exit somehow else (i.e. by knowing how many iterations to run it) or to wrap it in a lengthy try-catch
i guess in the specific case of the repeated-forward-differences task you could keep track of the number of iterations by decrementing it each time but this would probably cost... idk like 10 bytes?
@Wezl i feel like validation makes sense if the parsing itself is very simple but then at that point you may as well make it a decision-problem that's just validation
Is this too "provocative" for a MM post? Should I reword it?
> You can't use the words "is" or "are" within the first 40 characters in a tag wiki. I genuinely cannot think of a reasonable excuse for this, or a way of describing this other than stupid.
I came across something rather bizarre today, when I noticed this:
The cause being:
Upon further investigation, the Feeds user (ID -2) appears to have been renamed:
Was this intentional? Why has the SE-wide feeds user been renamed?
