The Nineteenth Byte

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13:36

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Can anyone please help, what am I missing on my code? The part one is Calculate The Palindrome Level, my answers all correct, I just could not figure it out for the part two i.e Sum of The Palindrome Level, I could not meet the answer Palindrome Palindrome is a word, phrase, or sequence that rea...

math

^ Who'll post the welcome message?

okay, pxeger did

why is it not showing in the review queues?

caird coinheringaahing

The review queues are fairly slow

Typically takes between 5 and 60 minutes for a post to enter the queues

pxeger

and posts don't show in the queue if you cast a close vote on it already I believe

hyper-neutrino

hm... is this migrateable

pxeger

I'd say so

caird coinheringaahing

13:40

Worst case scenario is that SO rejects it

pxeger

I edited my welcome comment to remove the "check out SO's how-to-ask first" because I thought it wasn't so low quality

WRT this, I'm going to leave it open for now because it's only been 10 hours with no response; is that a good idea?

caird coinheringaahing

That's what I've done

If it goes unaddressed after a few more hours, then I;ll start thinking about VTCing

@NewPosts Closed posts can't enter the First Posts queue. That "entered" ~30 seconds ago, and was closed 37 seconds ago, so it immediately "left" the queues :/

hyper-neutrino

...

caird coinheringaahing

Ask this on codegolf.stackexchange.com - they'll probably like the challenge :) — Absinthe 2 hours ago

user

???

caird coinheringaahing

13:44

2 seconds @hyper-neutrino :P

hyper-neutrino

<o/

math

@hyper-neutrino what?

really?

hyper-neutrino

well I'm glad I checked that user's profile before attempting a migration

caird coinheringaahing

Someone who clearly knows nothing about this site directing them here - I feel kinda sorry for the OP tbh

hyper-neutrino

Absinthe has almost 500 reputation on Code Golf

I cannot tell if they've just forgotten what we're about or if they're legitimately trolling

pxeger

13:45

huh, no hammers on it, which is quite unusual

I suppose it didn't have code-golf so no gold badges could do it

caird coinheringaahing

Only mods can hammer non-dupe closes

hyper-neutrino

oh wait, all their rep is from one question that got really big

pxeger

@cairdcoinheringaahing oh I'm dumb lol

I think Absinthe probably meant what @user suggested but didn't think about the wording well enough and the OP misinterpreted it

user

You still pinged me :/

caird coinheringaahing

They've just got 4 pings in the past ~10 minutes :P

hyper-neutrino

13:48

i'm still mostly gonna blame absinthe - "post this on Code Golf" pretty clearly just means "take this post and move it to Code Golf", and for someone with 499 rep on Code Golf, you'd expect them to at least offer some guidance about what to actually do with the post before posting

user

@cairdcoinheringaahing ~~Time for 10 more~~

@hyper-neutrino Yeah, it's irresponsible to do that without linking to the help center, at least

math

@hyper-neutrino what's a migration?

user

They probably just took too much absinthe :P

caird coinheringaahing

Changing the topic slightly, Absinthe's user profile has reminded me of just how weird the rep + q&a system is on SO

@math If a post is off-topic here, but on-topic on another site on SE, we can "migrate" it there so that OP doesn't have to post it themselves

pxeger

@user I was hoping the \ would escape it but it didn't work so I had to put a ZWSP after the @, sorry lol

user

13:50

You get a lot less rep from questions there

caird coinheringaahing

@cairdcoinheringaahing Absinthe has 150+ questions (more Qs on SO than I have here) and 100+ As, just has ~3k rep

math

whoa

user

@pxeger np, I was kidding

@cairdcoinheringaahing Those are likely low-quality, judging from the volume

caird coinheringaahing

> has 150 questions
> doesn't have the Nice Question badge

pxeger

well I find unnecessary pings really annoying, so I try to avoid doing them to other people too lol

user

13:52

@cairdcoinheringaahing It is a lot harder to get on SO

pxeger

> VBA Developer (freelance)

oh god

user

@ pxeger Eh, it's fine for me since I've turned off the volume

hyper-neutrino

here like every question i post nowadays gets nice question (not my past ones cuz they're bad)

caird coinheringaahing

@user 20% of my questions on SO have Nice Question :P

user

@hyper-neutrino That's just the way CGCC is

@cairdcoinheringaahing What, do you have 5 of them? :P

caird coinheringaahing

13:53

10 questions, 2 badges :P

hyper-neutrino

i don't have nice question either lol (42 q)

Aaron Miller

@user I don't have even a single Nice Question badge here :/

math

@user In SO questions are more likely to be something like: Help, Help some weird error Hw can I solve Help pls. They don't get upvoted very much

user

True

hyper-neutrino

well those are bad questions, i don't think it really means much to say bad questions don't get upvoted much

user

13:54

Even nice questions (in tags such as Scala) only get a couple upvotes

hyper-neutrino

but even questions that are fine in quality seem to not really get that many upvotes

whereas here even challenges that aren't all that great easily get 10-20 within a day or two

user

In Java, though, you can hit gold and get tons of upvotes for a mediocre question occasionally

hyper-neutrino

it's cuz SO gets like 20 questions a minute xD

user

@hyper-neutrino Because everyone watches every single challenge

math

@hyper-neutrino how can they with like 30 questions a minute

caird coinheringaahing

13:54

SE's model strives to have general questions with general answers. "Help, this code isn't working", even when a high-quality issue, are often too specific to fit with that

hyper-neutrino

and most general things are just dupes nowadays

math

actually, I got a question ban is SO

user

@hyper-neutrino I'd say specific things are usually dupes

caird coinheringaahing

Take a look at any of the highly upvoted SO question. You'll notice 2 things: 1) they're all from 5 years ago or earlier, and 2) none of them are "specific" questions

user

@math If you don't mind me asking, how?

math

13:56

@user stackoverflow.com/users/13238936/…

pxeger

but sometimes I think good challenges that happen to have very specific appeal (niche problem, or very hard) don't get many upvotes too (c.f. @AJFaraday's recent KotH)

hyper-neutrino

@math that doesn't really tell us much

user

Whereas easy-to-fgitw challenges get heaps of upvotes piled upon them

hyper-neutrino

did you delete a lot of negatively voted questions?

user

^^^

math

13:57

@hyper-neutrino you can't if there are answers already

hyper-neutrino

I see a bunch of neutral/barely positively voted questions which is... pretty normal

i don't see how that'd get you a ban

caird coinheringaahing

Deleting low-quality questions is an easy way to get a ban

hyper-neutrino

none of the seven questions on your profile have any downvotes

caird coinheringaahing

They might be bad, but the best thing to do is either edit them to improve them, or leave them be

pxeger

why? wouldn't SO want you to delete your questions if you realise they're low quality?

math

13:58

@cairdcoinheringaahing I might have deleted 2 or 3

hyper-neutrino

@math yeah that's like the #1 way to get yourself question banned

caird coinheringaahing

@pxeger SO prefers that you edit them to be better

hyper-neutrino

posting a bad question and then deleting it still creates clutter and moderation work and does not result in any positive outcome and thus the system will eventually restrict your question asking privileges because of that

whereas if you post a bad question and then fix it, then you've still created moderation work, but it's led to a positive outcome and the system believes the work was worthwhile and you have learned from it

user

And other people might benefit too

pxeger

fair enough

caird coinheringaahing

14:00

On the other hand, the Peer Pressure badge exists :/

You can have a little low-quality deleted posts :P

hyper-neutrino

or something like that - I don't claim to understand exactly why the system was designed the way it is (or how the numbers work behind the scenes anyway) but that's roughly how I interpret it

user

That's a useless badge

hyper-neutrino

@cairdcoinheringaahing I've been thinking for years that that badge should be removed

caird coinheringaahing

hmm

hyper-neutrino

> While posting a bad question is, well, bad, deleting it is still good.

yes, thank you for not being misleading and contradictory at all

user

14:02

I downvoted it, it's not very helpful

math

@cairdcoinheringaahing can somebody tell me the downvotes of that answer please?

user

They already get rewarded for deletion by no longer losing reputation through down-votes. — gerrit May 8 '14 at 20:52

caird coinheringaahing

@math +31/-2

user

Actually, deleting a downvoted question isn't always good. The user should try to edit it to improve it. Deleting downvoted questions can lead you to be question banned — Lamak May 9 '14 at 15:56

caird coinheringaahing

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A: Newer users can't view vote counts, therefore cannot view current site consensus

Converting my deleted comment into an answer for more visibility While this is a popular idea (and something I personally support), changing this isn't going to happen, but there is an easy way around it. This is actually a common idea over on Mother Meta (see here from 2010 or here from 2009). H...

pxeger

14:03

@math for future reference, you could just use this

math

@pxeger oh wow

user

Bah, that's for losers

Real users just commit voter fraud to get 1k rep everywhere :P

math

@user how can you do that

I don't really know much of HTML proxy and stuff

user

Better alternative

caird coinheringaahing

Imagine not getting 1k as an assoc bonus every time you join a new site :P

user

14:04

@math It's a joke, DO NOT DO THAT!

@cairdcoinheringaahing Honestly, everyone should see vote counts

math

okay, okay

user

I like how Codidact shows them by default

math

I wanted to say that

caird coinheringaahing

I always confuse that with SE's "score on top, answer count on bottom" display :P

hyper-neutrino

what is the motivation behind hiding it behind a reputation restriction anyway; was it computational expense or something like that?

@cairdcoinheringaahing same lol

user

14:06

lol, my highest scoring question on SO was downvoted by multiple people, then upvoted after I discussed it on meta, closed as a dupe by me and then reopened by some random people

@hyper-neutrino Doesn't sound like it'd be hard to do in the first place

caird coinheringaahing

@hyper-neutrino Yeah, meta.stackexchange.com/a/1007/355458

user

This is like part of your reason for not showing the post which achieved a badge: "we don't have that data." Yes, you currently don't have the separate votes denormalized, but the system can change. I don't think it's a good idea to use "we're not currently set up to make this change trivial" as a reason against a feature request. — Jon Skeet Sep 8 '09 at 7:11

Jon Skeet has spoken :P

caird coinheringaahing

The Skeet has spoken, thus it will be done :P

Got to love outgolfing Nick Kennedy by close to 50% :P

user

Heh, there's a rapper called Lil Jon who said "skeet skeet"

Lyrics (warning: NSFW)

@user It nearly remained closed, but it looks like one of the answerers themselves voted to reopen it

math

^^ That's the old version of the song! Lyrics from 2018 song

user

14:14

bruh

It's the lyroll isn't it?

math

lyxroll?

user

Whatever you want to call it

It doesn't even count as a proper rickroll

Aaron Miller

@user Obviously, that's because it's a lyxroll.

user

Is "lyxroll" the official term, then? @lyxal

@user Yes it is

rak1507

@math wow this is amazing

how have I never heard this before

Aaron Miller

14:17

@rak1507 Lyxal voice reveal

math

sorta

rak1507

I've heard his voice before but not that video

math

@rak1507 where?

rak1507

from his other yt vids

caird coinheringaahing

rak actually kidnapped lyxal a few months back and forced him to finish Vyxal :P

math

14:21

@rak1507 It's unlisted

rak1507

ah yeah

@cairdcoinheringaahing shh

PyGamer0

CMC: x and y are inputs and both are numbers. calculate: x^2 + y^2

51AC8, 5 bytes: i²i²+

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Q: Calculate Palindrome Level

Palindrome Palindrome is a word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backward as forward e.g. "madam", "nurses run", "23499432". When palindrome sequence is splited in half, the first sequence may be a palindrome too. Part #1 "Palindrome Level" is how many times a palindrome sequence can be s...

palindrome

Adám

@PyGamer0 Sum of squares in APL is +.×⍨

math

@NewPosts uh?

hyper-neutrino

14:25

²S in Jelly if the input is a list

caird coinheringaahing

@math That's it as a challenge

hyper-neutrino

²+²} if it has to be a dyad

or sorry, ,²S

math

@cairdcoinheringaahing Did this user forget about the sandbox?

caird coinheringaahing

I don;t think they knew/realised

Adám

@NewPosts Homework?

math

14:26

probably

caird coinheringaahing

@pxeger A "rehash" is fine, so long as it's an actual challenge. The issue is that it isn't really that clear/lacks a OWC

hyper-neutrino

er, we probably did not need three comments :p

pxeger

yeah, that old chestnut...

hyper-neutrino

eh. i already referred them to the sandbox on their first post anyway so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

caird coinheringaahing

@hyper-neutrino If only you could clear them up :P

PyGamer0

14:27

@PyGamer0 i am mad as you have to press the run button twice for it to run.While locally its fine.

hyper-neutrino

please make your code field monospace

PyGamer0

@hyper-neutrino i didright

caird coinheringaahing

@NewPosts Ugh, someone please add the [code-golf] tag to this

pxeger

@hyper-neutrino it is??

PyGamer0

@hyper-neutrino github.com/PyGamer0/51AC8/blob/main/src/templates/…

caird coinheringaahing

14:30

@NewPosts This is dupe of this

PyGamer0

oh you dint have DejanVuSans Mono installed

hyper-neutrino

my jelly and vyxal resource sites serve the font with the stylesheet because dejavu sans mono isn't a standard system font i think

Razetime

@PyGamer0 monospace should not have quotes

afaik

hyper-neutrino

also your code field doesn't expand so if there are more than three lines you have to scroll

pxeger

@cairdcoinheringaahing hey why can't I change my close vote? I retracted it and now I can't put another one on. SE is so unnecessarily complicated sometimes

caird coinheringaahing

14:31

@pxeger You can only VTC a post once

pxeger

@Razetime I don't think it makes a difference

@cairdcoinheringaahing how did you change yours then? Or did you not VTC in the first place?

caird coinheringaahing

I knew it was a dupe, so went looking for it

Didn't realise it wasn't code-golf tho, so I couldn't hammer

hyper-neutrino

VTC and VTRO can only be cast once each, regardless of type. why can't you change the close reason? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but it does prevent close/reopen wars (especially with gold badge hammers) unless a really large amount of people get involved

Razetime

@pxeger removing the quotes works :P

user

Woah chill pill guys, I simply meant the challenge of counting palindromic parts would make good golf — Absinthe 10 mins ago

pxeger

14:33

@Razetime oh lol

user

Poor Absinthe's inbox

Razetime

CSS do be like that

pxeger

@user I was right!

math

@pxeger congratulations

user

^

caird coinheringaahing

14:34

I kinda feel sorry for this user, as they haven't exactly had a good first impression with us :(

hyper-neutrino

hm, maybe my initial comment was too long

i literally linked the sandbox and they just ignored that even after responding to me

user

@cairdcoinheringaahing Yeah, they even apologized on SO :(

caird coinheringaahing

Left a bit of a comment on the question, hope it helps them

pxeger

they might miss it in the sea of long comments in their inbox though

math

@cairdcoinheringaahing nicely said

user

14:42

HN coudl probably delete the irrelevant ones

caird coinheringaahing

@pxeger Possibly. Can't hurt to leave it there anyway

@user Already flagged for removal :P

Adám

CMC: How many of these 6 programming languages do you correctly identify on first try:

hyper-neutrino

only the second and sixth lol

caird coinheringaahing

None

I think I vaguely recognise the 5th, but I;ve never seen any of the others

rak1507

@Adám clojure, racket, elm, crystal (?), f#, smalltalk

nope, 4th one is wrong, no idea what that is

Adám

14:56

The 4th is Dart.

rak1507

?! I would think the obvious logo for dart would be a dart, but obviously not :P

Adám

I guess those are the feathers of a dart.

rak1507

ah

Razetime

@Adám none of them

Wheat Wizard

@JoKing I wasn't even trying to golf it at first. I was just wondering how many unique 45 byte solutions I could come up with.

Very nice solutions though.

pxeger

15:07

@Adám the first 2 and the last 2 I recognise but can't place, and the 3rd and 4th are Elm and Dart

oh 1 is Clojure

Adám

Now, the crowd here consists of programming language enthusiasts, that probably have broader familiarity with the world's programming languages than most crowds have. I think it is safe to conclude that programming language icons should include the (stylised) name or initials (or be very suggestive, as with Elixir):

caird coinheringaahing

Welp, now I have to go through those and make my guesses :P

@Adám I think I got most of them :P

_ means "no idea", yes I know I've guessed D and R twice :P

Adám

Second R is Rust, and second D is Dyalog APL.

caird coinheringaahing

...how did I not recognise Dyalog???

hyper-neutrino

D, ?, ?, Python, Pascal, C++, Clojure, R, C#, PHP, Rust / Ruby, Lisp, Racket, Caml, JS, Dart, Elm, Lua, Go Lang, Crystal, Erlang / ?, Basic, Java, ?, APL, TS, J, F#, Groovy, Smalltalk, Haskell, C

some of these i only know from the last CMC :P

caird coinheringaahing

15:16

Same here :P

Adám

@cairdcoinheringaahing Most of your _ are miscounts.

pxeger

mine

caird coinheringaahing

@Adám Most? I had an extra _ in the top line, but the rest correspond with logos

Adám

@cairdcoinheringaahing You have 12 columns instead of 11.

caird coinheringaahing

Corrected

rak1507

15:20

@Adám I'm not sure golfers are programming language enthusiasts really, something like clojure is very common but probably not very well known here

caird coinheringaahing

More golfing langs should have logos :P

pxeger

More logos should be of golfing langs

caird coinheringaahing

05AB1E kind of has one, and I think so does Vyxal

Vyxal Bot

@cairdcoinheringaahing Yes, the logo is my profile picture.

pxeger

haha

ATO

15:26

alas I'm not a golfing language

PyGamer0

@ATO then who are you

pxeger

@PyGamer0 well, not me, at least, for sure

Wheat Wizard

@Adám 5/6 I misidentified the last one as smalltalk and while my first guess for the second to last was f# I did have to check.

(I have also worked professionally with 3/6 of them)

pxeger

@WheatWizard what is the one you thought was smalltalk?

Wheat Wizard

The last one.

pxeger

15:30

no, what is it actually

Wheat Wizard

Don't know.

Oh it is smalltalk? it's the cover of byte magazine about smalltalk. It doesn't seem like a logo to me.

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jan.

pxeger

ugh

caird coinheringaahing

@NewPosts (OP edited and then deleted their original post)

FWIW I still think this is a dupe, as it's the same task, but over prefixes then sum

hyper-neutrino

i am not sure if this deserves to be a dupe or off-topic more because it's both extremely underspecified and is mostly a code dump (which isn't even complete???) and is also just the same task, so let me know if I should hammer it the other way

pxeger

15:36

@NewPosts jan??

does Jan work in the bakery?

caird coinheringaahing

WW's a big fan of January :P

Wheat Wizard

@pxeger jan li pali e pan.

pxeger

I can't help reading WW as woodwind lol

@WheatWizard toki pona?

caird coinheringaahing

Pretty sure it is

Wheat Wizard

That is toki pona for "People make bread."

user

16:07

@Adám D, Swift, Kotlin, Python, Pascal, C++, Scheme, R, Ruby, ??, Racket, OCaml, JS, Dart?, ??, Lua, Scala, Basic, Java, Dyalog APL, TypeScript, J, F#?, Groovy

Whoops, didn't see C#, PHP, Rust, Go, Crystal, Erlang, Pharo?, Haskell, C at the side

Wheat Wizard

Your first ?? is the word lisp so my guess is lisp.

Your second ?? is elm.

user

@WheatWizard Ooh, didn't see what that spelled out

@WheatWizard Thanks

Any idea what the balloon thingy is?

Wheat Wizard

It's supposed to be Smalltalk.

user

Ah, close enough :P

Wheat Wizard

But it's a magazine cover, not really a logo.

user

16:11

Which magazine?

Wheat Wizard

Byte magazine.

Also I don't think that's crystal, I think it's elixir.

It is elixir.

user

Right, a drop wouldn't make sense for Crystal anyway

@Adám Where'd you get this from, btw?

@user s/Scheme/Clojure?

Adám

@user youtube.com/codereport

user

Thanks!

Adám

All of this stems from my wanting to create a logo for APL.

user

16:16

The apple ones you made before were quite nice

Adám

Current attempt:
https://dzaima.github.io/paste/#07VLBcoIwEL37FTvxkFMgxOCAY3T0wK239gMoUKDGxEEK2q/vIuDU1l57aWcys9mdfW@zL2@5Pu01NFl1LK1RxHM4gcwkNi1NrsjTY8QCAsc6NmmsrckUMZasV5PlscmhKbN2a0@KMDEDJoTjg5zjIdCWaV0oIjk/nAjgBHNUpKjrw8J127Z12pljq9wVnHMXmboJZ43kz3Gyyyv7ZlKWWG2rxTSKIgKrCcDyENcFvJRaKzoVcuPJgEKq6AMHwZ1AMy8A5nFHNuySeyGE79T9BvXCgM9uoV@QHdNd6Gy72fqbHnod16HH2BdYCMx3RBeH8Cm9x3u7zUCCvcDCoktGTD4ADH4ERckqu8sQjhKNGeuFp@Ja0KXJkvig6EXVm/KrLc1Y7/hxQlJWic4gOSmKz6CQnLsLhUpR2T/itkn80HLZrpdJ4kJNsEdxAgyyD94cvcILJh2/YZ4Y9nNzNFbnh9Wv2Qs7/u315@z1AQ#svg

Redwolf Programs

I thought my laptop was shipping from connecticut but apparently the "CN" meant "China" lol

user

@Adám The fact that it contains "apl" is nice - it's annoying when you can't identify a logo because it doesn't contain the name of the language

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16:36

feb.

caird coinheringaahing

@Adám Sus

@NewPosts ಠ_ಠ

hyper-neutrino

...

math

Again?

really?

maybe it's a bot

oh but they tagged it as a programming puzzle

@NewPosts deleted

pxeger

butterise?

Redwolf Programs

So presumably this has been posted multiple times before?

(Just logged on not too long ago)

caird coinheringaahing

16:43

Now I want them to post 10 more, so we can get to dec. :P

@RedwolfPrograms This is their 4th post today

hyper-neutrino

the initial post was a clone of their SO post, which I blame an SO user for for being misleading in their referral to this site

their second was the problem statement, but poorly formatted (and it is also a duplicate)

caird coinheringaahing

Take a look at the transcript for links + context

hyper-neutrino

their third was a slightly modified thing that was still a duplicate and even worse formatted

and the fourth was pretty much the same thing with no real improvements

i pointed them to the sandbox on their first post, and three people did so on the second post, and even on the third post i think, and on the fourth post i've just given up

they should be qblocked by now anyway with how many negatively voted questions they've posted (and deleted) this quickly

caird coinheringaahing

Any% CGCC Q ban

7

hyper-neutrino

i wonder if mods can get question banned

~~only one way to find out~~

caird coinheringaahing

16:45

Probably not :P

Redwolf Programs

Let's just hope they don't turn to sockpuppeting

caird coinheringaahing

Pretty sure you guys can manually lift q bans, so you'd just be able to unban yourself if so

hyper-neutrino

i don't think i can?

pppery

If a mod posts enough low-quality questions that they would be Q-banned (or someone who is Q-banned is elected as a mod), then something is horribly wrong

hyper-neutrino

oh hi pppery. congrats on your (upcoming) marshal badge :P (just need to wait for SE to update)

caird coinheringaahing

16:47

> 500 helpful flags

Damn, that's impressive @pppery :D

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Q: Compare positions of integers in this sequence

A001057 is one way to represent an integer as a natural number. It lists them according to the following pattern: 0, 1, -1, 2, -2, 3, -3, 4, -4, ... In this challenge, you'll take two distinct integers as input and return which is at a higher index in this enumeration. Take -2 and 1 as an exampl...

code-golf math decision-problem integer

pppery

it took me almost two years

hyper-neutrino

this question is tagged both status-declined and status-completed

pppery

although there were long periods during those two years when I wasn't actively flagging

hyper-neutrino

moderators can neither impose nor lift post bans (either question or answer)

pxeger

16:51

@cairdcoinheringaahing post and immediately delete your answer any% speedrun wr

caird coinheringaahing

It was invalid :P

pxeger

ik lol

caird coinheringaahing

@hyper-neutrino Fixed (I think)

hyper-neutrino

still returns 1 for -1, 1 and -1 for 1, -1

pxeger

if I flag a post/comment made by a mod, can that mod act on it?

hyper-neutrino

16:55

yes

i don't think just using A will work because you need to be able to distinguish that -x is higher than x

pppery

I wish I could say "but people who posted posts/comments that need to be flagged won't be elected moderator", but I've personally flagged one invalid answer by a mod and am aware of two other invalid answers by moderators (but not brave enough to flag them)

Redwolf Programs

Invalid answers and other things that need flags are totally different

Moderators aren't expected to be any better at golfing than a non-moderator

hyper-neutrino

Is there any way we can make it less intimidating / scary to flag a mod's post? In terms of invalidity, we're all human, we all may make mistakes and even miss comments indicating that one of our answers is invalid, and I at least will not mind receiving a flag on my post saying it's invalid, and will either fix it or delete it accordingly. In fact, I would argue I am not even particularly good at golfing compared to the community, and that that isn't what's important for being a moderator.

math

Scary?

Redwolf Programs

I've never found it scary, haven't ever needed to but I wouldn't think twice about it just because they're a mod

hyper-neutrino

17:03

(this is just in response for pppery indicating they haven't been brave enough to flag two of our posts)

In terms of other flags, I do think it's reasonable to hold us to higher standards, at least :P

pppery

17:24

The specific instance I was talking about was discussed here six months ago, and there are other complicating factors than just the authors being moderators.

user

17:42

@hyper-neutrino I think it's not just mods but also high-rep users

SE shouldn't show user cards by default - you should need to click to see them (like vote counts)

I've come upon bad answers by high-rep users in the past that I was too scared to leave a comment on and downvote because I trusted them more than me

(of course, I was wrong in a few instances, so there's that :P)

Anush

dear gurus.. I am having problems understanding bash. I have a lot of files with names of the form foo--ext1, foo--ext2, etc. I would like to rename them to be foo-bar-ext1, foo-bar-ext2, etc. How can you do that?

I tried reading mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/030 but I still don't get it :(

anyone got any idea?

Anush

18:08

for f in foo--*; do mv "$f" "${f//foo--/foo-bar-}"; done is the answer :)

pxeger

pure posix sh (+ coreutils): for file in foo--ext*; do ext="$(echo "$file" | tr -d- -f3)"; mv "$file" "foo-bar-$ext"; done

Anush

@pxeger I like that even though it is less golfed

my tr doesn't have -f as an argument it seems

what system has that?

not ubuntu bash it seems

pxeger

18:37

sorry I meant cut, not tr

I always get those the wrong way around for some inexplicable reason

Aaron Miller

20:49

What is the color of the green of the rep increase notification thing?

caird coinheringaahing

Upvote me and I'll find out for you :P

Aaron Miller

Done ;p

caird coinheringaahing

RGB is 72,168,104 :P

Wheat Wizard

@JoKing I found another 38 byte solution and it really seems possible that some modification might make a 37 byte solution. I'm a little burn out though so feel free to snipe it off me :)

Aaron Miller

@cairdcoinheringaahing thx

caird coinheringaahing

20:52

Apparently that's "Ocean Green"

user

@cairdcoinheringaahing Missed opportunity for me to get rep :P

caird coinheringaahing

@user Well, I'm 30 rep away from capping, I can't miss an opportunity that easy :P

user

Time to post a challenge :P

Wait, was that upvote you?

caird coinheringaahing

I'd like to say yes, but unfortunately not :/

Redwolf Programs

If you mean the one on your newest answer, it was me since it was to my challenge

user

20:59

Oh ok, just seemed a bit sus that it happened just as ~~I noticed your voting fraud~~ we were talking about upvotes

Redwolf Programs

I just found my own question in Random Question, first try :o

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