The Nineteenth Byte

New Loophole Proposal

00:04

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A: Loopholes that are forbidden by default

Too many Empty arguments Example ArgUnary, 0 + 0 bytes ( + ... + ) Outputs Hello world!

hyper-neutrino

what does this mean

Redwolf Programs

Am I missing something lol

What kind of computer has infrared (and infrared what?)

This was on the search page for "laptop"

Fmbalbuena

@hyper-neutrino uh using too many empty arguments.

lyxal

@RedwolfPrograms IR wireless exists

Redwolf Programs

@Fmbalbuena This isn't using "too many" empty arguments, it's using the arguments to contain data

That's already a loophole, just with a more direct encoding

hyper-neutrino

00:08

yeah this is literally MGS

Niko

TV remote use IR wireless

i don't know how laptop work but probably similar

Fmbalbuena

@NewLoopholeProposal Useless?

CMQ: What is the most downvoted bountied (50 rep) answer in code golf?

lyxal

In other news: I forgot to cd out of my vyxal directory and ended up cloning Jelly into vyxal.

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Niko

lol

hyper-neutrino

nice

Niko

00:14

vyxal jelly

TNB specialty dish

Redwolf Programs

@lyxal ~~Interesting direction to take the language~~

Idea: Language where every other character is a built-in from one of two golfing languages

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Seggan

hehe, im working on a similar idea

its a language that (mostly) combines the semantics of others

Niko

Another idea: Language that can switch between languages

Redwolf Programs

Python-with-jelly-imported where you at

user

That sounds like hell to both make and work with

Unrelated String

00:22

jelly is a python package so it shouldn't be too jank

user

No I meant like a general thing where you combine stuff from multiple languages, not specifically Jelly with Python

Unrelated String

oh yeah

you'd definitely want the languages to have *very *similar syntax and data models

Bubbler

CMQ: If I want to organize an event with many (10+ or even 20+) challenges, is it OK to sandbox the challenges publicly but in a separate meta post?

user

Will they have a common element?

Bubbler

They're all AoC revamps, if that counts

user

00:25

If they're just normal challenges that happen to be used for that event (is this for advent of code golf?), then idk if you really need a new post

Redwolf Programs

Well so far my first attempt to comment on an OEIS sequence has been eventful lol

Neil

@RedwolfPrograms did anyone identify this as the Cartesian product for you?

Redwolf Programs

Ohh, that's what I was thinking of. Not used to thinking of it for more than two arrays. Thanks!

Neil

@RedwolfPrograms I remember having to copy network drivers from my desktop to my laptop by IR because it had no other connectivity on it. (this was back when I had a) a laptop b) a desktop with IR)

Redwolf Programs

Oh, so that's an actual thing?

Neil

00:31

well, it was at the time

we're talking about 20 years ago

everyone uses memory sticks these days

user

Huh, is infrared cheaper/stronger than whatever frequencies wifi uses?

Redwolf Programs

Well, it doesn't interfere with wifi, which is a plus lol

Although, was wifi much of a thing that long ago?

user

Oh true

Redwolf Programs

@RedwolfPrograms (20 years ago was a while before I was born lol)

user

@Neil May I ask why you don't have a laptop anymore?

Fmbalbuena

00:38

@Adám Hey

Adám

Hello.

Neil

@user its screen packed in

Fmbalbuena

I posted question and got 1k views, 11 votes and 6 answers without closing.

Neil

@user ... which network drivers did you think I was trying to copy?

user

I don't know? I have no idea how that stuff works lol

@Neil oof

Fmbalbuena

00:42

@Adám I followed small changes

Adám

@Fmbalbuena Yes, good for you :-) If you had left the challenge in the sandbox a little longer, you might also have avoided all the follow-up questions on the post. Oh well, lesson learned for next time.

Fmbalbuena

@Adám And became hot question.

Bubbler

Being hot network question is extremely easy on Code Golf anyway

Fmbalbuena

@Bubbler yeah

user

Congratulations, though, writing good challenges isn't easy

Redwolf Programs

00:47

^

Fmbalbuena

@user this took me 4 days to upload challenge. first i uploaded CMC and i think this is good and then i reuploaded to sandbox.

Adám

Speaking of upgrading CMCs to main: Any feedback?

hyper-neutrino

HNQ algorithm is largely based on answer count

and so like half of CGCC questions get HNQ if they don't get closed/deleted lol

Seggan

@Fmbalbuena same story here, except i got a lot more answers and 17 votes

Fmbalbuena

@Seggan but 1 day is passed.

@Seggan *19 votes*

@hyper-neutrino what is the most downvoted bountied answer?

OldSandboxPosts

01:00

Sandbox posts last active a week ago: There is a string, format is like this:, Examples

lyxal

haha nerds my first question has 29 votes, 28 answers and 6k views

Fmbalbuena

@lyxal because you are popular.

lyxal

@OldSandboxPosts There isn't a trickle, format isn't like that

@Fmbalbuena this was before then

Fmbalbuena

lyxal

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@OldSandboxPosts What examples?

user

I will never understand why people star stuff the way they do :P

Fmbalbuena

01:05

my most starred message was "@Adám Are you Fan of APL?"

Has 6 stars

user

That I can understand lol

lyxal

I got 4 stars for adding Israel to my club penguin inventory

Sep 16 at 13:17, by lyxal

Adám

@Fmbalbuena Yeah, because that question has an implied understatement of the decade.

@lyxal No idea what that means, but I'd never add Israel to my inventory ;-)

lyxal

@Adám you can get little pins on club penguin that represent the flags of counties. I got it ironically for the screenshot

Adám

Hasn't Club Penguin been discontinued?

lyxal

01:12

Club penguin rewritten

user

I thought it was a kids' game?

Adám

@user Hey, be nice!

lyxal

@user not if you play it ironically

user

@Adám lol I'm just curious as to why lyxal's playing it, I have no idea what it's really about

@lyxal Playing it for the stars? :P

lyxal

@user for the sh*tposting

user

01:16

As good a reason as any

You know what they say: Nothing's fair in love or war or life, so shitp○st all you can because you can just make socks if you're banned

@Mayube Only booleans should be truthy IMO

Fmbalbuena

01:48

@RedwolfPrograms this?

to get this?

Fmbalbuena

02:03

@lyxal hey

Redwolf Programs

02:26

@Fmbalbuena Could you write some documentation or a description of the language first?

I don't have much to go off of to determine if I think it's interesting :p

lyxal

Oh heck I just realised I didn't watch this week's wheel of fugitives with Sheriff Wayne Ivey

Wheel Of Fugitive With Sheriff Wayne Ivey

►

It's actually entertaining af

Pls no spoilers

New Bounties With No Deadlines

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A: List of bounties with no deadline

100 rep for the first answer to One OEIS after another using a language that starts with I This challenge was started 4 years ago, has more than 300 answers, but none of these answers uses a language that starts with I. After my Zephyr answer, I becomes the last initial letter that has not been u...

Redwolf Programs

03:08

Hmm, it's not sock² that's the problem. I've been using it here at home for the last hour or so, and I've forgotten multiple times it's enabled. Seems the school wifi is the issue.

lyxal

You sure? When I tried to use sock², it just sat there not doing anything. Didn't even get internet from it

Redwolf Programs

@RedwolfPrograms Yeah, I'm playing music rn and there's no stuttering or anything. Couldn't even get TNB or Reddit to work reliably when I was at school.

Wonder if that's them trying to filter stuff, or just an extremely slow filtering system

lyxal

You really don't want to take my joke bait do you.

Redwolf Programs

Okay fine. I'll take your joke bait :p

lyxal

you sure I'm using the right sock²?

Redwolf Programs

03:15

I don't know, do explain in more detail (I sure hope I don't get epically joked upon)

lyxal

well I would if I had good internet

one second

I'll share a picture of my setup

3

there we go

is this what you mean by sock²?

because I don't think it's working.

Redwolf Programs

No no no, you need a sock that is in itself square :p

lyxal

ah ah of course, of course

Redwolf Programs

It's not socks²

lyxal

well that explains why it doesn't work ;p

Redwolf Programs

03:17

I usually glue an antenna to the sock for additional range

lyxal

I've waited around 4 hours to make that joke and the wait was worth it.

Redwolf Programs

lol

lyxal

heck, I even had a backup version of that image with a square border drawn around it to make it a bit more obvious

here

also, I just got this wonderful suggestion from github copilot:

"""Element 𝕃
(any) -> infinite sequence of caridnals"""
return LazyList(
    [
        [1, 1],
        [1, 0],
        [0, 1],
        [0, 0],
    ]
)

> infinite sequence

> returns a finite list

Redwolf Programs

[[1, 1], [1, 0], [0, 1], [0, 0]] (or more likely the reversed one) might actually be a good diagraph constant

Not to mention it's infinite ;p

Does anyone here have windows 11? Any onions about it?

lyxal

26 secs ago, by Redwolf Programs

Does anyone here have windows 11? Any onions about it?

> onions

No redwolf it's an operating system, not food.

Redwolf Programs

03:26

Dang, now I'm in the mood to rewatch a bunch of old Ceave Gaming videos

emanresu A

03:37

@lyxal caridnals, by favorite :P

lyxal

shhh

emanresu A

03:51

@Mayube not punny :P

@RedwolfPrograms x=>Math.min(...x+"")

Redwolf Programs

04:06

Ooh, smart!

emanresu A

Not as golfy as a regex, but neat :P

DLosc

04:49

Beat that, Vyxal :P

emanresu A

It's easiily golfable (For example, BF commands -> kT in the rewrite) :P

Bubbler

For the OEIS bounty thing, I first had an answer in Idris but it was way too short, so I threw it away and went for Iota just to bloat everything :P

hyper-neutrino

in Vyxal, Oct 31 at 13:01, by lyxal

yeah I figured that we should stop overspecialising for just fizzbuzz, and start overspecialising for more challenges :p (that's a joke please don't quote this out of context lol)

emanresu A

You're quoting this out of context

DLosc

@emanresuA I'll be more impressed if it's golfable in other ways. But yes, I fully expect to lose this challenge. :P

Razetime

04:55

@DLosc neat

my idea was longer due to pip rustiness lmao

i'm half sure theres a way to shuffle the yank somewhere

hyper-neutrino

i will try to beat vyxal with jelly in a string challenge

wish me luck, i'll need it lol

Razetime

good luck

which string challenge

hyper-neutrino

BF explainer

Razetime

you should be able to

at least in the current one's ungolfed form

emanresu A

^

Razetime

04:58

it can probably beat stax but the regex escaping seems to be too long

in stax :x just escapes regex special chars

DLosc

@Razetime Yeah, there's a lot of assignments... I think I have the yank in the best place given the current program structure, since it's the operand of a unary operator, which saves two bytes instead of one (z:...(^z) -> (^Y...))

Currently trying some ideas with map. It seems like maybe a language such as MATL could profitably use an identity matrix to format the code-with-spaces, but I have a feeling that would end up too long in Pip.

Redwolf Programs

AI Misalignment is basically drug addiction for robots

It's actially a fascinatingly similar scenario: a reward function (in humans, dopamine) being tricked by finding an unintended way to optimize the returns

lyxal

05:43

@DLosc but did you really win if you didn't get 69 bytes? :p

Aaroneous Miller

07:21

> drug addiction for robots

Bubbler

Okay, I gathered 25 different challenge ideas from previous AoC events. I guess I'll write up those into concrete challenges under a separate meta post. — Bubbler 16 mins ago

AoCG2021 is becoming real, guys

hyper-neutrino

oh, wow, nice. do you want any help with that or do you have a solid idea for them all already and just need to formalize yourself?

emanresu A

Is it going to be 25 separate questions or a single event?

Bubbler

I'll (at least try to) write most of them, though any kind of further refinements are welcome.

Actually I'd appreciate some help with the posting schedule (I'll have problem on weekends with 99% chance)

emanresu A

What's the posting schedule?

Bubbler

07:27

The said meta post will be a single question containing the announcement, with 25 answers, each answer containing a challenge body

emanresu A

As in what time every day do you want them to be posted?

@Bubbler How would you answer these?

Bubbler

I'm thinking of midnight UTC

emanresu A

Ok, that's at a convenient time for me on (most) weekends - 1pm, so if you need someone to do them on the weekends I can help

Bubbler

@emanresuA It's just a sandbox, each challenge will go live (be moved to main) at a specific time every day from Dec 1 to 25

emanresu A

@Bubbler Oh ok. I can write up some drafts if necessary, although we have a fair amount of time.

PyGamer0

07:35

final feedback?

yesterday, by PyGamer0

guys is this a tacit lang

emanresu A

Feedback? (Recently edited)

New Posts

07:57

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Q: Announcing Advent of Code Golf 2021! (+ Event challenge sandbox)

Originally from caird coinheringaahing's idea, I thought about how we could do it this year with such a short time before December, and I decided to gather some ideas from previous AoC events. (There's an explicit permission from Eric Wastl, the one who runs the AoC event.) As I found 25 potentia...

Bubbler

@PyGamer0 @emanresuA Both look good enough to me

emanresu A

Ok. Not gonna post it for a bit, but thanks.

Wait, is this caird?

(From the permission link in the post)

Adám

@emanresuA No.

emanresu A

08:14

Oh, it's pppery

The explicit permission you are looking for is twitter.com/ericwastl/status/699455417768923137 — The Fifth Marshal Nov 13 at 4:26

pxeger

@PyGamer0 absolutely no idea, because the code you linked is unreadable and undocumented

If you give a description of how the language works, we might be able to tell you if it's tacit

emanresu A

Jelly's parser is 90% regex sphagetti.

pxeger

but it has documentation, at least

hyper-neutrino

i don't get how that's relevant anyway, and jelly's parser is much more readable cuz it's not fucking golfed lol

and regex makes sense at least

emanresu A

I guess.

Reason: github.com/chunkybanana/Velay

5

You can probaly tell where I'm going with this

It might even turn out to be kinda golfy :P

pxeger

08:28

uhhhhhhhhhhhhh

all I can say is good luck

lol

hyper-neutrino

oh unlucky timing then, mb. i thought you were trying to respond to pxeger lol

and yeah good luck

i'm not exactly sure how you plan to merge a tacit functional lang with a stack-based lang and make it golfier than either but GL :P

emanresu A

Jelly chaining combined with Vyxal functions.

hyper-neutrino

you know that has some potential to work

emanresu A

5 mins ago, by emanresu A

It might even turn out to be kinda golfy :P

lyxal

So basically jelly with actual strings

And also type overloads too

hyper-neutrino

08:36

you'd be better off updating jelly and modernizing some of its builtins :P

emanresu A

Nah, this is way ~~more cursed~~ more fun.

lyxal

Nah that wouldn't have the same effect as a cursed mix of vyxal and jelly.

emanresu A

^

lyxal

@hyper-neutrino It wouldn't be overly specialised for anything, and it wouldn't have tons of lazylist bugs either /s

Which is like half the fun of vyxal /s

(for legal reasons the above 2 messages are jokes)

emanresu A

Right now I'm trying to get Jelly's parser to accept backtick strings

Problem is, it keeps erroring out before printing any debug info.

It didn't help that I was trying to call console.log

Wtf the file isn't saving???

It's trying to call code that doesn't exist

Ugh it's importing from the main package :(

lyxal

09:31

Hmm yes single file interpreter go brrr

emanresu A

How to break number theory / data compression theory:

Theorem: Every number can be described in at most 60 characters.

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Proof: Suppose there is a smallest number that can't be described in 60 characters.

Then this can be described as "the smallest number that can't be described in 60 characters", which is 60 characters long.

Therefore, there is no smallest number that can't be described in 60 characters.

So every number can be described in at most 60 characters.

emanresu A

09:58

Can someone tell me whether this is valid?

Newly Featured Posts

10:10

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Q: Gravity simulator

Statement You are given a still of a series of balls falling in a 2D grid. This grid is surrounded by immutable and unbreakable walls so all the action in contained within them. Your task is to determine what will the state of the scenario be after gravity does all it's work. Elements inside gr...

code-golf ascii-art grid simulation

emanresu A

o/

lyxal

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A: List of bounties with no deadline

100 rep for the first answer to One OEIS after another using a language that starts with I (claimed) This challenge was started 4 years ago, has more than 300 answers, but none of these answers uses a language that starts with I. After my Zephyr answer, I becomes the last initial letter that has ...

Gosh dang it

I shoulda made a quick vyxal fork and called it iyxal

/s

Bubbler

Lol

PyGamer0

10:40

how does jelly tacit work?

like how it arranges functions

Adám

@PyGamer0 jht.hyper-neutrino.xyz/beginners

Neil

11:11

bah, all that time I spent outgolfing Stax, and the answer isn't even valid

lyxal

11:47

AICMC: Check whether an array is monotonically increasing

PyGamer0

@lyxal wdym

lyxal

monotonically increasing.

PyGamer0

how does jelly interpret this

Adám

@lyxal Extended Dyalog APL: ∧≡∪

user

@lyxal Scala: _.sliding(2)forall(t=>t(0)<=t(1))

New Posts

12:14

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Q: Animate a noisey ASCII Screamface

Create a program that outputs an aimanted Noisey ascii screamface: Reference implementation Challenge Rules: All face part types must remain visiually Distinct while animating the screamface, observing the following implementation of Noise: Allow background characters to overlap the outer peri...

code-golf ascii-art random animation

lyxal

12:51

AICMC: Given a list of numbers, count how many are posititve & negative as well and return both counts.

rak1507

@lyxal ,∘≢⌸× APL

pxeger

@lyxal Zsh, 24 bytes: grep -c - i;grep -cv - i ato.pxeger.com/…

lyxal

Thank you phone for the excellent rendering of Unicode

(and yes I know that's a known issue with some renderers)

Adám

13:16

@lyxal It is actually due to a HarfBuzz setting.

Aaroneous Miller

@lyxal Vyxal, 2 bytes: ±Ċ

Aaroneous Miller

13:46

@lyxal Vim, 43 bytes: Try it online!

Mayube

14:08

@RedwolfPrograms well I do now :P

@emanresuA what about the second smallest number that can't be described in 60 characters?

PyGamer0

@lyxal on a tablet its fine

Neil

... and then it outgolfs me again anyway, why did I bother

Mayube

14:24

@AaroneousMiller Of the 3 I tested, this is the only one that correctly identifies 0 as neither positive nor negative. Both the Vim and Zsh answers treat it as positive

Redwolf Programs

@Bubbler Why'd you have to take the name though? AoCG was supposed to be unrelated to AoC from what I can tell.

pxeger

I don't think it's too late to rename it, if we need to

Redwolf Programs

I don't see why the sandbox revamp wouldn't have worked

And it's a super cool idea, we have tons of great sandbox challenges that will never see the light of day

We could start with some near-finished ones for the first few days of december, to give us some extra time, but we've still got multiple weeks to prepare

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A: Advent of code golf?

This could totally work The sandbox has thousands of challenges, many of which are good, and many of which will never see the light of day. Cleaning up 25 of these and adding some winter theming on top shouldn't take too much work, especially since we can work on the later ones throughout early d...

Remember, we're not writing 25 challenges in two weeks, we're writing one per day, with two weeks of additional time at the start. We can overlap tasks.

Even an especially rough challenge can't take more than two weeks to clean up, plenty of time for it to be one of the later ones.

Onions?

pxeger

14:40

I'm ambivalent

Redwolf Programs

I'd like either, they both sound fun, I'd just rather have a slightly cleaner sandbox instead of even more AoC lol

Mayube

@pxeger likewise

We already have policy in place for adopting abandoned sandbox posts, so I don't know that we need an event dedicated to it, but at the same time that's also not a reason not to do it

Redwolf Programs

Nobody does adopt sandbox posts, though

We have a policy allowing it, not a policy saying that people regularly do so

pxeger

@RedwolfPrograms I think "cleaning" the sandbox shouldn't be the aim of this project - is the sandbox really unclean? The aim should be finding the diamonds that got left behind in order to have some good challenges, not in order to clean up

Redwolf Programs

Well yeah, that's part of what I mean. Cleaning out good challenges and making them useful instead of leaving them there to rot.

Redwolf Programs

15:01

> I don't think regular expressions are the best way to extract data from a binary cryptographic protocol.

I think we found something worse than parsing HTML with regex

pxeger

source?

Redwolf Programs

I don't think regular expressions are the best way to extract data from a binary cryptographic protocol. The Client Hello message includes 32 bytes of random data that might match your regexp. — dlundquist Feb 21 '14 at 6:35

Dang, can't find any Node libraries that do SNI-related stuff. Trying to debug sock², and seeing what connections are doing what would be useful.

pxeger

can't you use wireshark?

Oh I'm guessing it doesn't work on a chromebook

Redwolf Programs

Not sure. That'd involve doing some reasonable though, instead of chaining together a bunch of awful hacks.

Aaroneous Miller

Can't have that :P

Redwolf Programs

15:05

Ooh, tcpdump might be what I'm looking for

pxeger

wireshark is based on tcpdump iirc

Mayube

chaining together a bunch of awful hacks is the JSer way

Redwolf Programs

Ooh, node's pcap library will do what I want

nitsua60

Okay, real coders: am I crazy, or does the last xkcd have the core of a PPCG challenge in it?

Could be worse. In some towns north of here, it's already December, and the 21st will last for nearly a week.

(I think I'm crazy, actually.)

pxeger

@nitsua60 you mean you think you remember an extant PPCG challenge that is contained within this comic? Or the comic contains something which has potential to be a challenge?

nitsua60

15:11

The latter.

pxeger

@nitsua60 (also, that's only the second-last one: xkcd.com/2543)

nitsua60

(Full disclosure: I've participated in one challenge ever, and am by no means a programmer, nor a coder, never mind a golfer!)

pxeger

@nitsua60 not crazy, I think. That certainly could work

nitsua60

@pxeger No, because I live in the Northeast US and it's not that day for me yet =)

Mayube

CMC: Given a list of sunrise and sunset times, output the number of days the times cover, where a day ends only at a sunset after a period of at least 12 hours of daylight.

pxeger

15:13

@pxeger I'm not sure how interesting it would be though, because it'd probably boil down to just maths

nitsua60

(What's "CMC"?)

Mayube

@pxeger implying 80% of CGCC challenges don't boil down to just maths :P

pxeger

@nitsua60 Chat Mini Challenge

Mayube

@nitsua60 "Chat Mini-Challenge"

nitsua60

ty

I was vaguely thinking "given start date/time of XKCD epoch and location, output ~~current~~ date of this posting"?

But that somehow involves finding & parsing sunsets/sunrises for a location, which may not be interesting?

pxeger

15:15

you could just input a list of sunset and sunrise times

Redwolf Programs

@nitsua60 the-nineteenth-byte.fandom.com/wiki/Chat_Mini_Challenge

Mayube

@nitsua60 Given CGSE's rules prohibit answers from fetching data from the internet, it would have to be passed in as input

nitsua60

@Mayube That's good to know =)

Mayube

Although PHP probably has some builtin to get sunrise/sunset times for a given day

and mathematica probably has GetXKCDDate[] or something dumb like that

nitsua60

@Mayube At which point it just boils down to modulo(sum(pairwise time subtraction), 12), which doesn't seem that interesting?

Mayube

15:17

@nitsua60 welcome to the frustrating world of "it's all just math"

nitsua60

@Mayube You're telling me--I'm literally proctoring a math exam as we chat =D

Mayube

It's a weekly occurrence for me to come up with a cool challenge idea, then realise that when you strip all the context away it's just basic math

nitsua60

So I'm just, like, N-1 weeks behind you on that learning curve =)

Mayube

Here in canada though I don't think we've had 12 hours of contigious sunlight in at least a month, so really it's all just 1 long day :P

Redwolf Programs

That's not how I interpret the XKCD

E.g., if you had 6 hours of sunlight every 24 hours, it'd be 96 hours per day

Not just one single day

Mayube

15:21

that's true, the XKCD doesn't specify contigious daylight

Sandbox Posts

15:44

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Plan my factory "Factory games", such as Factorio, Mindustry, and Satisfactory are my favourite genre of video games, and the way I play them involve a lot of ratio calculations to make sure the factory is running as efficiently as possible. Given a list of recipe specifications, and a desired pr...

DLosc

@lyxal Pip, 3 bytes: $<g

Chaining, foldable comparison operators FTW

PyGamer0

CMC: Sum along the last axis of the input array. Your code should work for higher / lower dimension arrays.

Aaroneous Miller

@PyGamer0 example?

PyGamer0

 1  2  3  4  5
 6  7  8  9 10
11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20

21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30
31 32 33 34 35
36 37 38 39 40

41 42 43 44 45
46 47 48 49 50
51 52 53 54 55
56 57 58 59 60

becomes

 15  40  65  90
115 140 165 190
215 240 265 290

(totally didnt use apl)

DLosc

16:06

@PyGamer0 Pip -xp, 12 bytes: @a>=l?fMa$+a

If first element of the argument is a list, map this function recursively to each element; otherwise, sum the argument

Redwolf Programs

Ugh, YT's removed the dislike count

DLosc

Let me guess: you... dislike that change?

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New Posts

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Q: ASCII Art of the Language Abbreviation

(This is my first time posting here so suggestions on how to improve the question are greatly appreciated) For this challenge, you must output ASCII art of the language abbreviation (file extension, etc.) or the language name. For example, the abbreviation of Javascript is js, Python is py, 05AB1...

code-golf ascii-art

pxeger

16:23

frick how do I change the reason for a close vote?

Redwolf Programs

Can you retract and re-VTC? I can't remember

pxeger

I'm pretty sure that once you've retracted you can't vote again

@pxeger (I initially voted unclear, but really it's opinion-based)

Redwolf Programs

NDC works fine for this

It needs details about how to make ASCII art and what abbreviations are allowed

pxeger

...and now it's too late to edit my comment

I'll just delete it

DLosc

Obligatory "I love Worldbuilding.SE" quote of the week:

> If my intuition is at least somewhat correct, our hero will, in their reference frame, be immediately bathed by cosmic microwave background blueshifted to deadly energies, as well as quite a lot of hydrogen atoms (also blueshifted to ridiculous masses), as well all of Mars's atmosphere in their path all at once. Since c-1e-24 is higher than the speed of nerve impulses, the good news they literally won't know what hit them. They simply cease to exist as a coherent structure.

(Ref)

PyGamer0

17:05

@RedwolfPrograms probably to hide the fact that youtube rewind 2018 was the most disliked video on the internet :P

Redwolf Programs

I wonder if there's a video announcing this, so I can go disl...oh wait

hyper-neutrino

17:21

they say it's to "protect small content creators from targeted downvoting" but I don't think that's ever been a major enough issue and it's really just to protect corporations and large revenue-producing channels like 5MC that only produce shitty at best and dangerous at worst content

and since you can no longer gauge if said content is harmful or not because you can only see likes (and of course large channels will have more likes even if they have horrible +/- ratios) it's harder to avoid it

also now's a great time to scam people cuz you don't have to care if you get downvoted into oblivion anymore

pxeger

I wonder if the dislike number is still available via the API

Mayube

17:47

I apparently picked a bad day to get timmies for lunch... there were like 100 highschool kids there

which is odd given it's a timmies within an office tower

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