Knapsack Paragraph, Format For A Phone
There are several paragraph formatting questions already on the site, where a string of text is split on space or other boundaries in order to fit into a rectangle; but they usually involve specifying a particular width for the formatted paragraph in additio...
Speaking from zero experience with handling flags, it might be nice if we could get the auto-flag thresholds raised (changed to flag less) for the site
Not sure how useful that'd be in removing some workload from the mods, but could be worth it
wrt complex numbers being useful in jelly, it helps that the linear algebra builtins aren't the best and then depending on the context it can also just be directly helpful that complex numbers are scalars rather than arrays for when you're vectorizing stuff over them
in short they're good to have but far from essential
Maximal hexagonal dot pattern code-golf math ascii-art hexagonal-grid
Challenge
Imagine a hexagonal grid as shown below. Let's call such a grid has size \$n\$ if it has \$n\$ dots on one side. The following is one of size 3:
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Then, pick as many dots as ...
@SandboxPosts I thought finding the number of dots was an interesting problem, wrote a brute-force program, plugged into OEIS, wondered why it kept giving a trivial sequence, found a relevant image deep in the middle of the page, I thought ascii-art must be less trivial, so went with it
We're occasionally getting questions which ask people to write harmful code. This used to be big when code trolling was a thing, but it's not limited to that. Every now and then there are underhanded challenges or popularity-contests which ask participants to write malicious code (which may or ma...
@AviFS This is done from memory (and rereading my code), so take it with a pinch of salt: ? moves to the left child if the current node is truthy, else it moves to the right child. # moves to the top of the tree if the current node is truthy. = gets all nodes that descend from the current node, and runs them all (or, is supposed to, it's currently broken).
( and ) are a bit weird. Essentially, Yggdrasil reads from the linear code between the two, then recursively runs the commands in the brackets on the memory tree. It gets slightly more complex than that depending on the tree, and nested brackets, but that's the gist of it
Hi, I'm Troy Mcclure. You Might Remember Me From Such Public Service Videos As Designated Drivers: The Lifesaving Nerds and Phony Tornado Alarms Reduce Readiness. — Troy McClureyesterday
Find the moves that bring a chess squad to a given destination.
You control a chess squad consisting of a king and several other pieces, on a larger chess board. Your army is placed so that no piece is further than K=8 squares away (horizontally and vertically) from your king. You will receive a ...
@AviFS I quite like Add++ because it's the most usable; I wrote Adjust in Add++ so that's a pretty cool one for me; Rutger's quite nice, I'd just prefer it if I could be bothered to add more builtins :P
@cairdcoinheringaahing This keeps happening to us, haha. I think I’m drawn towards conceptual langs with a minimalist core, and I think being usable is a higher priority for you
though not entirely, since you’re still esolanging :p
CMC: How would you describe your taste in (eso)langs?
@AviFS The new mod/staff markers on metas. Yaakov was testing them on our meta yesterday and was hanging around here to see if anyone noticed (we didn't). Not sure why he's still here, might be getting a bit addicted to TNB :P
@AviFS I typically discover a concept I like/find interesting, then design a language around that. I then get annoyed when I go to use that language and it requires a significant amount of effort to use because the builtin set is so limited
@AviFS Whispers (and then Uno and No) is based on the concept of "line programming" where each line in the program does a single thing, and programs are made by referencing other line's and their results. Whispers is the one with all the mathematical builtins, so I use it more than either No or Uno
@cairdcoinheringaahing I think I might have noticed yesterday, but I can't remember if it would have been before or after the change went live on all other metas
@AviFS Jelly Hypertraining (the room for learning Jelly) has a list of exercises for people to try to learn Jelly on. The JHT rating a-b: a is number of those exercises I've managed to do in that lang, b is the length. Maximise a, minimise b` for a usable golfy lang
@AviFS No, there are a couple of the exercises that I don't count :P
@AviFS That's currently in dev on my laptop:P
@lyxal But then I can't just pass off that thing I said I'd do, but it's harder than I expected so I won't bother as "unexpected behaviour" or a "feature, not a bug" :P
I thought the new mod and staff labels were a bit distracting, so I made a userscript to change them. However, if I expand comments, the comments have the new labels. Is there a way to make it also work on the comments, or have it run again when the comments are expanded, or something like that?
@PyGamer0 Actually, I made a mistake on a test in 8th grade, evaluating something from left to right (rather than abiding by classical precedence rules), possibly by trying to counteract my natural tendency towards APL's right-to-left rule.
"TIMMMM!!!! I got a list for you to sort! Get me a cup of coffee before you do that, you lazy idiot. And make sure you sort them in ASCENDING ORDER this time, numbskull. Another mistake and I'll fire you this time. You hear that? NO MISTAKES!!! Now get your ugly face out of here and get to work!"
Feel free to make edits with your concepts or ideas for a better sandboxing system
I really feel like this is something that not only CGCC, but a few other oddball sites (like worldbuilding or puzzling) could massively benefit from
Wish I hadn't been so busy last night, I didn't manage to finish writing this until now so I've probably missed a lot of casual passerby to give this upvotes :p
a potentially hacky and unreliable solution is to take the mod badge, remove it, find the username element relative to it, and then just append a diamond to it
alternatively, turn the badge into a diamond and give it whatever HTML class normal names have, but that doesn't work if the username is different colors in different places
@hyper-neutrino It looks like the color of the name comes from it being a link, so I suppose I could either do like you said and append the diamond to the person's name, or I could make the diamond a link to nowhere, which sounds really cursed in my head, but I think I might actually be a good solution.
oh they killed the custom 404 pages, which also means "post not found" (whether self-removed or "for reasons of moderation") are now just the same network-wide and look boring :/
Code-Golf caddy Eddie Brackets was getting tired of quine challenges, which appeared to be much too easy for the grand poobahs. He has this idea to spice up things and is sending quines to the car crusher.
Challenge:
Write a quine of that prints itself "squeezed" for output purposes into an n x n...
It's generally a preference thing tbh. Some people prefer you delete them, others that you just edit them to a stub
Editing down, then linking to the Sandbox post when posted to main is the best way to a) show that you did use the Sandbox and stop comments like pxegers, and b) allow people to see what feedback what given, and if you actually paid attention to that
Posts have revision histories that show basically all edits / versions of the post, don't worry :)
This is a good "stub" format to use IMO. You replace the entire body with # <link to main challenge> (it autoformats the title, so # https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/2329421 is enough)
It's pretty cursed, but I updated the simple badges userscript to have the right colors by doing the "link to nowhere" thing that HN and I were talking about.
Maximal hexagonal dot pattern code-golf math ascii-art hexagonal-grid
Challenge
Imagine a hexagonal grid as shown below. Let's call such a grid has size \$n\$ if it has \$n\$ dots on one side. The following is one of size 3:
- - -
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- - - -
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Then, pick as many dots as ...
