The Nineteenth Byte

Redwolf Programs

12:05 AM

I forgot: If a bounty ends and I don't pick an answer to award the rep to, does it get auto-awarded to someone?

caird coinheringaahing

Yes, but only half of the rep

Redwolf Programs

Is there a way to prevent that?

I might just have to post an answer with a sock, give it the bounty manually, then delete the sock answer

caird coinheringaahing

> Automatic awarding only ever applies to answers posted after you started the bounty.

Redwolf Programs

Oh, ok. Never mind then.

I seriously hope they're working on fixing the image exploit

Bubbler

That's... a weird kind of abuse

caird coinheringaahing

12:07 AM

> Otherwise, either all or half of the bounty will be awarded to the highest-scored answer among those which meet all of the following:

They were posted after the bounty was started, and
They have a score of at least 2 (at the time the automatic awarding takes place), and
They were not written by the bounty starter.

> If the chosen answer was accepted by the question owner, it will receive the full bounty. Otherwise, it will receive half the bounty. If two eligible answers have the same score, the older answer is chosen.

If no answer meets any of the above two criteria, the bounty is not awarded to any answer, and is not refunded to the bounty starter.

Source

Bubbler

12:27 AM

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A: Nominations for Language of the Month, 2021 edition

K K is a member of APL-family languages, originally created by Arthur Whitney. Arthur's K has many versions; the latest version as of June 2021 is Shakti (also commonly called K9), which is still under development. While official K versions were made for commercial purposes, multiple open-source ...

caird coinheringaahing

I dislike the integer tag (same with number and math), but I'm 3 upvotes away from the bronze tag badge, so now I like it :/ :P

Bubbler

Badges ruin the people :P

caird coinheringaahing

But... shiny :P

rak1507

@Bubbler would also recommend kcc

github.com/kparc/kcc

smarnav

@hyper-neutrino hi

caird coinheringaahing

12:35 AM

Huh, Mego's deletion removed his nomination, making the election look weird

> 1st Choice DJMcMayhem
3rd Choice PhiNotPi

totallyhuman

are you not aware of famous CG moderator, USER REMOVED?

caird coinheringaahing

> 3 Candidates
*shows two nominations*

@totallyhuman Weird, they also got elected twice at once over on SFF

totallyhuman

what an incredible member of the SE community

caird coinheringaahing

Oooh, I only need 40000 more reputation and it'll be 77777 :P

rak1507

12:50 AM

that's like 2 jelly fgitws + a few questions

easy

smarnav

how is that easy...

Wezl

@user okay here's a nib solution, without a "positions" builtin that I might add: extend == where first. Not sure if I'll keep extend as a name, more reason to finally sit down and write an interpreter

caird coinheringaahing

@smarnav rak was joking, 77k rep takes a lot of effort :P

Only been done by 9 users here, but 3 of those 9 have done it twice :P

Bubbler

None of the current mods have 77k rep

And I realized I just went over Jo King :P

OldSandboxPosts

Sandbox posts last active a week ago: Write a netquine, Combinatorial Pipes, Finite Composition of Univariate Functions [math] [code-golf]

caird coinheringaahing

1:00 AM

I think that all 4 mods together have slightly more reputation than Dennis

~210k vs 202k

smarnav

how did he get so much

by being the first?

caird coinheringaahing

He posted so many good answers over about 5 years consistently

Bubbler

by being one of the smartest for a long period of time

smarnav

makes sense

caird coinheringaahing

There's an old meme around here that you don't outgolf (or outtime, or beat in general) Dennis, he's just that good

smarnav

1:03 AM

I am quite new. only discovered this place a few weeks ago while looking at a totally unrelated se question

Bubbler

It's a typical way to step into CGCC :P

caird coinheringaahing

The fact that Jelly (the main language he created) is still incredibly competitive without any new modifications after 3 years is testament to how good he was at golfing. 05AB1E, Jelly's main competitor, has been under dev almost constantly and is still about equal to Jelly

I would argue that there are very few languages that can so consistently go toe-to-toe than Jelly and 05AB1E

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Title: Make a WebCrawler dictionary writer. Notice: for any text within <> tags, please ignore any .'s. These are simply added so that they are treated as plain text, and not code. Your goal is to make a program that acts as a regular WebCrawler, but also writes a dictionary using the websites. Y...

smarnav

also, jelly answers get posted almost immediately.

what do you think about this prospective question that I am working on: codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/a/23519/104373

caird coinheringaahing

@smarnav That doesn't make them good :P

@smarnav The one thing that all "Interpret this language" questions must have is a specification of how the language works, and exactly what commands must be supported and what those commands do

It looks like an interesting challenge - we don't often get interpreter challenges about non-esoteric languages - but it's sorely lacking in detail

Bubbler

1:08 AM

^^ This is why interpreter challenges are so hard to write, unless the language is extremely minimal

and also why there are so few of them

smarnav

I would agree with that.

I think that the question could do with a lot of improvement, and I will try to improve it.

anyways, I have to leave, bye.

Redwolf Programs

Redwolf invent card game. Redwolf change to not have random. Redwolf sandbox.

Will KotH.

Wezl

@Wezl explanation

lyxal

@RedwolfPrograms alright then

you've convinced me

> Redwolf card game here. Redwolf made card game. Redwolf not sure KotH want card game. Redwolf want card game. Redwolf need card game. Redwolf want card game here.

Redwolf Programs

Wait 2021 is already halfway over

Here I am thinking the year started a few weeks ago

lyxal

1:20 AM

@RedwolfPrograms That’s what you get for living in a cold, snowy area in the US.

(is texas actually snowy though?)

Redwolf Programs

Not at all lol

It's extrememly uncommon

Maybe every few years we get a quarter inch or some sleet or something

lyxal

dang

Redwolf Programs

January was the snowiest weather ever documented here

lyxal

@RedwolfPrograms apparently "THIS MONKEY" is your favourite read from January

> I’m a little behind on my reading. Hopefully, the rest of the year won’t fly by as quickly.

Here are my favorite reads from January.

THIS MONKEY

Redwolf Programs

GPT?

lyxal

1:22 AM

correct ;p

caird coinheringaahing

@RedwolfPrograms You know how 2020 lasted a decade? I think 2021 is trying to speed run and fit within a month

Redwolf Programs

I'm so incredibly careful when deleting anything on my laptop now lol

caird coinheringaahing

I'm still not entirely convinced this isn't just some elaborate dream and it's actually Feb 2020 and I'll wake up when New Zealand declares war on Finland

lyxal

@RedwolfPrograms I don't think I've ever had to run a virus scan on my laptop, but I've been doing it for my desktop since I got it a couple years ago. My first one I bought from Best Buy and it came with a Norton anti-virus program on it.

Redwolf Programs

I just made three .zip/.tar.gzs of a folder, moved it to trash, and made a .tar.gz of the backups

I've deleted a fairly impressive amount of stuff unintentionally

And an even more impressive amount due to my SSD failing, but luckily I don't really remember what was on it lol

Wezl

1:29 AM

having rm without confirmation usually doesn't bite me but it deleted a bash script I was using today because I misused alt-shift-underscore

Redwolf Programs

I've switched to trash-cli with aliases and I'm never going back

trr to trash something, trl to list what's in trash, trx to delete something in trash, and trxx to delete everything in trash

caird coinheringaahing

I think being overzealous with deleting things has to be an overlooked coder stereotype. Like, most people struggle to empty their trashcan, or actually delete a file, but coders insist on struggling to not nuke the living shit out of random files

"Oh look, it's a word document with homework from 10 years ago that I never bothered to hand in, Better rm that just to be safe"

Redwolf Programs

To save time you should add -f, and probably sudo it because why not

I've rm -red three weeks worth of work before. Worst part is, I did that while trying to make a backup.

I then downloaded some software to try to recover it, and overwrote the whole partition by mistake

caird coinheringaahing

*gestures at those messages to demonstrate my point*

Wasif

1:55 AM

Hi everyone

Can I return a list as the return value of function when there is only one value, i.e. if I can return [-183] instead of -183

Bubbler

On Code Golf?

Wasif

@Bubbler yeah

Obviously

Binomial transform challenge

Bubbler

Yes by this (also related: this)

But the I/O is lists by default for binomial transform, so it is natural to return [x] even if there's only one number

and the input for one number would be also given as [x]

Wasif

2:17 AM

Ok

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2:49 AM

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Q: Online tool to determine number of bytes for Unicode characters?

I understand that Unicode characters are 1-4 bytes in size (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/11?topic=unicode-utfs). Given this, is there an online tool that will tell me the number of bytes in a unicode character? Or, if not, how do I determine this? I'm currently trying to determine the...

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Redwolf Programs

3:09 AM

@RedwolfPrograms Well, that was easy enough! Perhaps that should be in the Intro section for new members. — theorist 13 mins ago

@cairdcoinheringaahing Is TIO mentioned in the welcome post?

Wasif

@RedwolfPrograms what is welcome post?

Redwolf Programs

@Wasif This

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