The Nineteenth Byte

12:16 AM

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Gabriel's Horn From Wikipedia, Gabriel's Horn is a particular geometric figure that has infinite surface area but finite volume. I discovered this definition in this Vsauce's video (starting at 0:22) where I took the inspiration for this problem. You begin with a cake (a cuboid) of dimension \$x ...

caird coinheringaahing

@NewSandboxedPosts Stepping up your game right before being replaced :P

lyxal

@user are you ready?

Because I'm not going to be able to do it today sorry

user

Oh, that's too bad. Is it because of the fridge? Because I had nothing to do with that :

hyper-neutrino

what can I say but you're welcome

Bubbler

> Legendary: 81/150

I'm so happy that I'm making progress without APL bounties :D

caird coinheringaahing

12:30 AM

Nice! :D

ಠ_ಠ M doesn't have support for random numbers

hyper-neutrino

12:45 AM

wondering if I should CW the M answer

it feels unethical getting rep off of it but more trivial answers are everywhere so...

caird coinheringaahing

I get that, but CW isnt a rep waiver

hyper-neutrino

yeah you're right. and i think i've commented that elsewhere before. so best to practice what i preach :p

oh well once i get to the front page of rep / to a spot i like i'll probably start bountying off a good amount of rep

caird coinheringaahing

I keep trying to do that, but no one snaps at my deadlineless bounties :/

@hyper-neutrino You're 6 repcaps away from the front page :P

hyper-neutrino

alternatively i could just get rep. idk how i feel about reputation. at the same time internet numbers make me feel good about the time i ~~waste~~ spend on cgcc, but I also don't need reputation at all

i also somewhat feel like pursuing reputation is wrong or bad tho. idk what made me start feeling that way but it contradicts me wanting internet points so... D:

caird coinheringaahing

Personally, I hold the view that pursuing rep for the sake of rep (e.g. to say "look, I have X rep") is generally not great. But, trying to get rep so that you can help moderate the site (not relevant for you), or trying to post good quality posts and "happening" to get rep from it? Either of those are golden in my book

user

12:53 AM

To some extent, most of us are pursuing rep for the sake of rep. If SE weren't gamified, I'm sure there'd be a lot less participation

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Q: Exact generalised harmonic numbers

The generalised harmonic number of order \$m\$ of \$n\$ is $$H_{n,m} = \sum_{k=1}^n \frac 1 {k^m}$$ For example, the harmonic numbers are \$H_{n,1}\$, and \$H_{\infty,2} = \frac {\pi^2} 6\$. These are related to the Riemann zeta function as $$\zeta(m) = \lim_{n \to \infty} H_{n,m}$$ Given two pos...

caird coinheringaahing

Which is why I've been unhappy with my recent posts; I no longer "need" rep to be able to help moderate more, so I should aim to be posting high quality, and let people who need to the rep go for the FGITWs/low hanging fruit challenges. Yet, I don't think I've posted a challenge or answer I'm proud of in months

user

I haven't seen a ton of your recent answers, but your challenges are almost always interesting

caird coinheringaahing

Hmm. Most of them are "Here's a sequence I found. Golf it", which are fine, I guess

I think this was my last challenge I actually like :/

user

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ keeps activity up and gives people questions to answer

@cairdcoinheringaahing And Bubbler broke it :P

caird coinheringaahing

12:57 AM

@user I'm fine with that :P

"Breaking" a challenge suggests that there's a nice trick that someone found (via brute forcing or insight or whatever) which is 1000x more interesting than "Implements the formula in the question/user's formula/whatever"

OldSandboxPosts

Sandbox posts last active a week ago: Reveal by Halves (in need of a better name), Complete the Square (UNFINISHED), How Many Students are in our clubs?, A general-purpose macrogenerator

user

I disagree. "Implements user's formula" sounds very interesting :P

People finding a nice trick usually ends up in that trick being ported everywhere and the fun being ruined, even if that trick is amazing. I prefer questions where such mathematical insights can't be made and brute force can't be used to trivialize the task

caird coinheringaahing

TBH I kinda find code-golf "boring". It's fun to write a challenge/answer, do a bit of golf and be done with it, but once it's done, it's done. Non-code-golf challenges are the ones that are usually more interesting, and have a better "legacy". If I look back at my favourite challenges (of mine), most of them are non-code-golf

Bubbler

I like mathematical insights. I like weird base conversion tricks. But my absolute favorite is breaking a challenge :P

caird coinheringaahing

@cairdcoinheringaahing That's probably why I've switched to the more "behind the scenes" stuff (reviewing, tag wikis, edited etc.) rather than posting a lot

hyper-neutrino

1:11 AM

@cairdcoinheringaahing yeah, I agree with that. I guess part of it may be a) I have 25k b) I'm a mod so I shouldn't be going after rep at all, and it's better for others to have it. But at the same time, it's not really like rep I gain is rep others lose either (though I was considering not editing my posts into the LOTM or asking to decline the bounty)

that's why ideally i like to answer challenges that don't take up too much of my time to optimize but also aren't too easy

though the last answer i can think of that i was like exceptionally proud of was honestly probably one of the OEIS chain ones, the rest just ranged from trivial to somewhat interesting :p

caird coinheringaahing

TBF that answer in the OEIS was crazy impressive :D

I can't think of any other answer on the site where someone contacted the person who made whatever the challenge was about in order to solve it :P

hyper-neutrino

was totally worth the time and trouble, lmao

caird coinheringaahing

1:28 AM

@cairdcoinheringaahing Correction: 2197000 combinations, just about within forcing distance

lyxal

5:06 AM

Hey just fyi, my cursed java got me 99/100 for my assignment.

why not 100/100? Because of a single line I missed

very sad.

conclusion: cursed java in tnb makes for good marks

hyper-neutrino

5:16 AM

-7 bytes: cursed is redundant; instead of cursed java you can golf that just to java

A username

5:34 AM

So, have we found Redwolf's middle name?

hyper-neutrino

yes

A username

What?

Matthew?

I expected...

Something else.

A username

5:48 AM

@hyper-neutrino I only recently realised what you meant for this, but any more feedback?

lyxal

ah yes vs code messing up at it's finest once again

folding functions incorrectly

beautiful

hyper-neutrino

@Ausername i don't think i've seen/reviewed that

A username

vscode works with anything but Java.

@hyper-neutrino Wait wrong answer, I meant this

hyper-neutrino

wait if you get previous moves, can't you just look through all of the previous results and ignore the storage?

also, does the game end when all cards are gone and most points win? seems like the obvious way but just to be sure

A username

You only get the previous moves up to your last move, not full history.

So you get the actions+results of all moves up to and including your previous move.

Will clarify.

Yes you're right about how to win.

hyper-neutrino

5:57 AM

oh so you only get your move and not other bots' moves? or what do you mean

A username

The bots go in a predetermined order, so you get the most recent move of every bot.

hyper-neutrino

oh wait, when you say up to, do you mean in reverse chronological order?

"up to your last move" sounds like [1 .. last] not [last .. now]

A username

Yes, pretty much, but I've clarified it all again just to be sure.

hyper-neutrino

yep, that makes more sense

A username

Ok thanks. I'll start working on the controller now and maybe post tomorrow.

I had a look at your one. Seems pretty good, just can you clarify how the output format works?

hyper-neutrino

6:08 AM

@Ausername it's basically a list of sublists of people - each person should be in exactly one sublist (except if you exclude non-suspicious people), everyone within a sublist should have the same suspicion level, and the sublists should be sorted in decreasing suspicion

(already posted to main btw) i'll try to clarify more in the post but i'm not sure i can make it too much clearer; it's a bit confusing but also straightforward, just that it might not make sense in the middle

A username

Wait what? FGITWS...

I wonder if I can beat Arnauld...

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Q: The Computer Thief

You wake up and find out that your computer has been stolen! You have a few sensors and scanners, but unfortunately, the footage is incomplete, so you want to find and rank your suspects for further investigation. Your computer is an \$M\times N\$ rectangle, and your camera caught a bunch of peop...

code-golf array-manipulation

lyxal

@NewMainPosts smh, suspicion level should have been sussiness ;p

hyper-neutrino

banned

lyxal

6:30 AM

ah yes, thank you VS code for not pointing out the 11 missing semicolons in my file \s

How do I know there's 11? Because they all came up as compilation errors

Bubbler

Are you sure the "missing semicolon" errors are actually missing semicolons and not something else?

lyxal

error: ';' expected

it literally is just a case of not recognising errors

Bubbler

I mean, the actual fix may not be it even when the compiler says so

lyxal

but the semicolons actually were missing

Bubbler

OK then

lyxal

6:54 AM

How the heck did DDG manage to get this under the search results for "Lyxal"?

It's a program using the old code page, plus the old way of permalinking, meaning it's completely useless

Bubbler

Lol

lyxal

May 11 at 1:23, by caird coinheringaahing

@lyxal frick, only 10/10 not 69/420? I failed as a crewmate, hella sus. Let me just go commit frick and die

Judging by that, I'd say yea

*yes

hyper-neutrino

7:11 AM

the lyxalitis is spreading

hyper-neutrino

7:21 AM

@lyxal idk if you've seen this already but might interest you: rickroll continually extended by an AI

lyxal

@hyper-neutrino I have seen it before, but it is very interesting

hyper-neutrino

ah, nice. yeah it's very cool :p

StackMeter

7:44 AM

@hyper-neutrino lol

what's everyone's favourite letter

mine's E

StackMeter

8:22 AM

did the room die

lyxal

8:42 AM

No, it's just a quiet period

StackMeter

k

A username

9:00 AM

When Arnauld outgolfs you by 2x

@cairdcoinheringaahing You don't mean 'coinheringaahing', right?

A username

9:44 AM

@lyxal You're famous!

ophact

@Ausername no, because lyxal is a very uncommon word and so the only pages that will pop up are lyxal's pages.

A username

One of the search results.

ophact

@Ausername and also, Arnauld seems to outgolf everyone.

A username

True.

ophact

is that really how @lyxal looks

A username

9:46 AM

I doubt it - the filename was in Russian.

StackMeter

yo

A username

yoyo

yoyoyo

yoyoyoyo

yoyoyoyoyo

yoyoyoyoyoyo

StackMeter

(yo)*7

A username

for i in range(100):
    print('yo'*i)

StackMeter

yes

ophact

10:18 AM

console.log(...[...Array(100)].map((_,i)=>'yo'.repeat(i)))

StackMeter

that's longer than python lol

lyxal

11:05 AM

@Ausername I assure you that isn't me

Marginally (very marginally) similar, but not me

@Ausername lotm language, 6 bytes

A username

11:25 AM

@ophact for(i=0;++i<100)print('yo'.repeat(i)) (v8)

@lyxal Good.

StackMeter

@Ausername still longer

StackMeter

11:47 AM

also

I just realised I'm 77.6% of the way to being a trusted usrer

literally 1 month ago I was on 51

rep

now I have 776

I'm almost there

like, a few more questions would do it

rak1507

only if you put them in the sandbox first ;)

StackMeter

I put one in the sandbox

it's here - check it out

also gotta put some answers out

user

12:59 PM

Heh, I got a Nice Answer badge on Worldbuilding.SE simply for copying an idea from a movie. I can get used to this

rak1507

link?

user

Oneboxes are bad

StackMeter

oh come on

I've made 33 answers and the highest one has 6 upvotes, second highest 3 and all others are 2 or less

how do you get all the luck

user

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

StackMeter

come on

this is stupid

user

1:05 PM

If it makes you feel any better, this is the only site where my first post was this well-received. I have a crappy question on Software Recommendations that I can't even delete

That wasn't upvote-worthy

StackMeter

how am I going to get to 1000 at this rate

user

Learn APL, steal Adám's rep :P

rak1507

worked for me :P

StackMeter

wdym

user

But really, you shouldn't be worried about rep at all - even though it's nice to have, the main point of this site is enjoying golfing/puzzles

Wzl

1:07 PM

@lyxal @user Ok you should receive it in the mail soon, as well as some complimentary termites with a taste for stamps. Let's hope it arrives safely :D

StackMeter

ok

user

@Wzl Mmm, I love fried termites! :P

Wzl

they're alive, so you can fry them however you like :)

lyxal

@StackMeter make 2 golfing languages (1 that is horribly bad and 1 that is somewhat good) and use them. Also, sh*tpost/rickroll in the nineteenth byte

That's my strats

user

How does shitposting here help you get rep?

Wzl

1:12 PM

@lyxal but there are side-effects

lyxal

@user it helps you get known in the community

And helps others get familiar with you

user

Hmm, manipulating people to get rep doesn't sound too ethical...so I'll try it! :P

lyxal