Given any number (float, int, real, or imaginary) output an equation in LaTeX containing precisely 4 4s, no more no less, to generate that number. The operations you search are up to you but you may not repeatedly apply unary operators (ie. \$((4!+4!)!-4!)!\$ is acceptable but \$4!!+4+4+4\$ is n...
the whole thing just says "help new users" which I'm assuming is a burden placed on the community and site moderators and is... pretty much not measurable or specific
> Focus on teaching new users – provide all they need to know to start off on the right foot
the tour, help center, and question review feedback seemed pretty helpful to me. it's been a long time since I've needed either but i've looked at the tour a bit too much more than I'd like in the past month. beyond that it's just the community helping, and I firmly prioritize quality control over handholding new users who don't read the tour
> Be action-oriented – help users successfully complete tasks
I don't think this line actually says anything
> Deliver value at each step – each completed task should feel like an accomplishment and motivate users to take the next action
anyway. hopefully this actually improves things. I don't go on SO much anymore so I can't say much, and I don't think I'm going to vote on this post for now
Despite reading the Tour pages on SO, Software Recommendations, and IPS, I ended up formulating bad questions because I hadn't actually paid attention to the kinds of questions that were on those sites. New users should also be made to read through a few posts and "get a feel" for the site
When making a Minecraft data/resource pack, you need to include a pack.mcmeta file, which specifies information about it. pack.mcmeta contains a description, but it also contains a pack_format number, which tells Minecraft which versions this pack is for.
Your task is to take a version string, an...
> jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers.
It's just a library to make things simpler, not the work of the devil
jQuery's fine for a smaller thing, where you just want to get it working, but for something larger I'd almost certainly make a quick little ten line function to do what I need instead of requiring a whole huge library of things I don't care about
The page for daemons (computing) explains the connection in more detail.
> The term was coined by the programmers at MIT's Project MAC. They took the name from Maxwell's demon, an imaginary being from a thought experiment that constantly works in the background, sorting molecules.[2] Unix systems inherited this terminology. Maxwell's demon is consistent with Greek mythology's interpretation of a daemon as a supernatural being working in the background, with no particular bias towards good or evil.
Where I live there aren't any. If I, say, put a cookie on my website and don't have an annoying pop up, I kind of wonder if there's anything anyone can do.
For languages that use command-line flags to modify their behavior, these flags are generally added to the byte count. But I don't see a ruling on what to do with command-line flags in quine challenges. I.e. suppose this was a quine: perl -ne 'quine_program'. I see a few options:
Output the fla...
Cool, then I just wrote my first quine, and what I think is the first Vyxal quine. At least, I couldn't find any others on CGCC. It uses the D flag so that the strings are raw strings.
I'm not sure how I didn't see it when I looked before, but apparently Lyxal made a flagless Vyxal quine 3 bytes shorter than mine 6 months ago. But I'm still happy to have written my first quine, though!
Golf Code Golf
Given the full transcript of The Nineteenth Byte (the general chat room of code golf), output the full transcript. You can access the full transcript in your code, but you cannot access any other external sources
Since this is code golf, shortest answer wins, and standard loopholes...
Discovery: Vyxal has a pair of cyclic error quines - object of type 'int' has no len() and maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object.
The problem with error quines in Vyxal is that pretty much every command overloads for any data type passed to it. That, plus the fact that implicit input is there to helpfully provide a 0 to anything that needs some more arguments, means that there isn't really a lot of error to work with.
@cairdcoinheringaahing you have the input of the transcript, so it’s the first one I think (I’m not a very advanced coder so I might be misunderstanding what you said)
that's gonna be pretty tricky cuz you can only use a subset of characters which means you have a huge amount of gaps in BF programs that can be constructed
Telephone Cipher Encoder
code-golf
The telephone cipher is a relatively basic cipher originating from the book The Terrible Two. The cipher is explained here as follows:
Does this keypad (below) look familiar? It does? Good. You’ve seen a
phone before.
Now, in the telephone cipher, there are tw...
For languages that use command-line flags to modify their behavior, these flags are generally added to the byte count. But I don't see a ruling on what to do with command-line flags in quine challenges. I.e. suppose this was a quine: perl -ne 'quine_program'. I see a few options:
Output the fla...
Telephone Cipher Encoder
code-golf
The telephone cipher is a relatively basic cipher originating from the book The Terrible Two. The cipher is explained here as follows:
Does this keypad (below) look familiar? It does? Good. You’ve seen a
phone before.
Now, in the telephone cipher, there are tw...
