The Nineteenth Byte

> Why is Caird so Caird?

Caird is named after the artist Robert Caird. He is also the patron spirit of artists. This is why his spirit shows up here.

What does the Caird spirit look like?

In a picture he looks like a tall man with long hair wearing a white tunic(robe).

How did Caird get his powers?

Caird is very old. He got his powers from other people who came before him. He has a lot of experience.

What does his spirit do?

Caird's spirit acts like an artist. He loves to paint pictures. He also has a great sense of humor.

> Caird is named after the artist Robert Caird. He is also the patron spirit of artists. This is why his spirit shows up here.

it's perfectly canonical for caird to be awake at the beginning of the universe

user

> Caird is very old

Understatement of the year

caird coinheringaahing

Believe it or not, I was alive last year

As well as a number of years before then

lyxal

I had the realisation last night that I'll be 20 this year and I don't think I like that

caird coinheringaahing

12:36 AM

I had the same realisation :P

Redwolf Programs

I realized not too long ago that I'll be old enough to vote in the next US election

caird coinheringaahing

I was "lucky" - I turned 18 about a month after the last UK election

pajonk already has +200 rep this year :P

user

1:02 AM

They and WW got bounties

caird coinheringaahing

Are you telling me that pajonk didn't get 20 upvotes in under an hour???

user

Of course not edits all their posts to undo votes

I love how Dennis is still earning loads of rep

DLosc

@cairdcoinheringaahing Similar story here--there was a US election about 6 months before I turned 18

hyper-neutrino

1:25 AM

@lyxal I am now having the same realization and do not like that fact

minus the fact that it's another 3h30 until it's actually 2022 for me but oh well

caird coinheringaahing

@hyper-neutrino So long as the first digit is 1, it's not weird. Once you reach 20, something changes :P

hyper-neutrino

yeah 19→20 seems more significant than 17→18 somehow

caird coinheringaahing

Give it a fwe months, and I can legit say that I've been alive for multiple decades O.o

user

If you're 19 and >~6 months old (number depends on your definition of alive), you can already say you've been alive for multiple decades at that point

lyxal

@cairdcoinheringaahing maybe it's the fact that you can't claim to be a teenager anymore and that you're classified as a young shudders adult

@user you can thank redwolf's random question userscript for that

I was looking for random questions to answer to get on that rep grind and some were Dennis' questions

I'm also on the vote cap grind

user

1:40 AM

@lyxal Ok boomer

Also, pretty sure "young adult" is also used to refer to teenagers

lyxal

iirc young adult is 18-25

at least that's my understanding of the term

user

idk, might be a cultural thing? Because the public libraries here classify children's/teen books as YA

lyxal

Young adult

A young adult is generally a person in the years following adolescence. Definitions and opinions on what qualifies as a young adult vary, with works such as Erik Erikson's stages of human development significantly influencing the definition of the term; generally, the term is often used to refer to adults in approximately the 20s and 30s age range. The young adult stage in human development precedes middle adulthood. == Time co-ordinates == For a variety of reasons, timelines on young adulthood cannot be exactly defined—producing different results according to the different mix of overlap...

user

Me and my homies at the library would like to disagree :P

I've heard people refer to kids as "young man" or "young woman" before

lyxal

2:06 AM

hey so what's the LoTM?

caird coinheringaahing

I believe it's Add++?

lyxal

looks like it

where meta post?

caird coinheringaahing

Writing up now

lyxal

good

because I need link so I can snake the edit on the nominations post ;p

New Posts

2:22 AM

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Q: Language of the Month for January 2022: Add++

In accordance with our meta agreement, since one candidate received more votes than the others, we have a new featured language! Throughout January 2022, our Language of the Month will be: Add++ What's a Language of the Month? See the meta post for nominations. In short, during January, those w...

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Q: Tips for golfing in Add++

Add++ is the Language of the Month for January 2022, and so I'm asking for tips for golfing in it. Please stick to tips specific to Add++, and avoid general tips such as "remove whitespace" or "avoid comments"s

code-golf tips

caird coinheringaahing

@NewPosts Tip: Don't try to use ; in strings, cause it broke and thinks its a comment

Aww, why the downvote? :(

lyxal

not from me

user

@cairdcoinheringaahing Hmm, did someone make their parser detect whitespace and comments before passing on read characters on to other functions? (because I've certainly done that before) :P

caird coinheringaahing

 for index, line in enumerate(code):
            if comment.search(line):
                line = line.split(';')[0].strip()
                self.code[-1] += line

            else:
                line = line.split(';')[0].strip()
                self.code.append(line)

This is the comment regex

user

Beautiful

I wonder if one could abuse Add++'s parsing to make it more golfy

caird coinheringaahing

2:36 AM

Quite possibly, it's parser is an unholy mix between regex parsing and code parsing

DLosc

@user I feel like the YA designation for books basically means "teen." It's confusing. I wouldn't consider a 15-year-old a "young adult," but I would expect them to be reading YA books.

caird coinheringaahing

@cairdcoinheringaahing Even better, I don't actually use index in this loop ಠ_ಠ

hyper-neutrino

nice

lyxal

2:52 AM

@cairdcoinheringaahing looks like you just stole the general structure from jelly and tried to modify it lol

caird coinheringaahing

@lyxal I wrote the source code of Add++ before I started learning Jelly lol :P

I;m just not a good coder :P

Redwolf Programs

3:07 AM

Well, redwolfprograms.com is working now

hyper-neutrino

ooh, nice!

Redwolf Programs

Now I just need to move three more over

I'll just get NP/SP and OSP set up tonight, and do the rest tomorrow

hyper-neutrino

your zombie game has a weird bug

if you try to melee when it would hit two zombies it ends up hitting neither

Redwolf Programs

Huh

I've been working on a newer version of the game recently just for fun, I suppose I might as well add a link to it

redwolfprograms.com/indev/games/zombies_2021

hyper-neutrino

3:26 AM

oh you can control direction with mouse

nice

Redwolf Programs

The shotgun is totally broken, but the rest should work fine. The controls are reasonable now, r for reload and q/e for switching weapons

The zombies also don't clump up like they did in the original

caird coinheringaahing

oh wait theres more than one weapon?

Redwolf Programs

The plan was for you to start with the pistol and a small amount of ammo and you'd loot buildings to find better weapons, although I'm not sure if I'll ever get around to adding that much to the game

caird coinheringaahing

WAIT, you can move?! I just thought it was a "stay in place, defend yourself" kinda game :P

Redwolf Programs

Lol how did it take you this long to discover that

I suppose I should add a tutorial or something

caird coinheringaahing

3:36 AM

I expect tutorial levels, ok :P

Also, it's a lot easier if you just stay in place and wait for zombies to appear :P

Redwolf Programs

It feels like there's too few zombies, I'm going to increase the difficulty a bit

Also only the dark green ones have AI right now

Razetime

3:48 AM

happy new year to y'all

add++ lotm, never thought this day would come

maybe we will finally get an answer to flattening the CUBE

pxeger

@Razetime codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/236077?

Razetime

@pxeger in Add++

pxeger

oh

Razetime

as a side note holy shit

PyGamer0

4:17 AM

@RedwolfPrograms x

pxeger

@RedwolfPrograms £: I simply bribe my opponent to let me win

PyGamer0

lol

lyxal

4:41 AM

Click her?

I barely know her!

PyGamer0

lol

lyxal

For context I found it in the spam folder

PyGamer0

that looks like a scam

lyxal

1 min ago, by lyxal

For context I found it in the spam folder

You think?

PyGamer0

scam spam

Unrelated String

5:00 AM

hny y’all in est

user

2022 kinda disappointing ngl

6

null

5:25 AM

@lyxal I back

I can't find anything I can do here tho

HNY

lyxal

HNY to you too old friend

PyGamer0

I made something

actually i hate python .replace

null

> old friend that cannot do anything useful

PyGamer0

a loop

now a gh repo

Redwolf Programs

5:45 AM

15m to 2022 in CST

null

Hello Dotcomma Programs

Redwolf Programs

Oh hi! Haven't seen you in a while

null

That's because I can't find anything useful to do here

DLosc

Can any of us? ;)

null

6:01 AM

Well on this topic I have a few points

...

Neil

@cairdcoinheringaahing yeah well I've been alive in multiple millennia...

caird coinheringaahing

@user The trick is to drink a lot of champagne and beer :P

DLosc

Happy New Year

caird coinheringaahing

@Neil Neil is eldritch being confirmed???!

DLosc

@Neil Me too :3

null

6:14 AM

Attempt at HNY cop

DLosc

@DLosc [old man voice] "Why, I remember when floppy discs were actually floppy! I remember when we bought our first color monitor! I remember when you couldn't use the phone and the internet at the same time! I remember when you had to type the H-T-T-P-colon-slash-slash!"

Redwolf Programs

6:28 AM

Okay, NPSP's finally running on my server

Good night o/

DLosc

\o

Finished writing another chapter of the new-and-improved Pip tutorial, and I'm calling it a night as well.

Razetime

6:47 AM

@DLosc omggg

PyGamer0

7:02 AM

@RedwolfPrograms o/

emanresu A

8:11 AM

@cairdcoinheringaahing Actually same lol, but only because of a certain hospital visit

We at Vyxal Corp ™️ were joking about several things starting work in 2022, but now we have to do work…

hyper-neutrino

@cairdcoinheringaahing since i have once stayed up from sometime in the morning to 6AM and then woke up the same day at 7AM and went to sleep at night, that's already 23 of 24 hours within just 2 days

and i have stayed up until past 7 at some point so same :P

lyxal

8:38 AM

@emanresuA it's not that bad it's only language planning this month

pxeger

9:04 AM

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A: Guess my password (cops' thread)

Python, 57 bytes exec(input(),{"__builtins__":{"if":__import__(input())}}) Attempt This Online! Works in CPython 3.10. Inputs via STDIN, and should print Hello world! with a trailing newline to standard output.

PyGamer0

9:22 AM

imma go do my cyber ~~Olympics~~ olympiad

PyGamer0

9:44 AM

@pxeger i cracked it

did i do it right?

link

here it is as an answer

lyxal

12:02 PM

@pxeger looks like ATO hasn't installed libgolf for tictac

here's what I mean

which is kinda ironic seeing as how the golflang you made errors on the online execution environment you made because it doesn't have access to the library you also made

also breaks on the staging site

good job gamer.

user

3:05 PM

@null You can learn a new language

PyGamer0

or make one (or make more)

user

3:31 PM

CMP: Speaking of which, I'm looking at MPS, which lets you make languages that use projectional editing, and I want to make a small language to learn the basics. Any suggestions?

guess who's back

Schwarzenegger?

close enough

@GingerIndustries drae?

setheverman?

PyGamer0

4:10 PM

lambda calculus (part 1): i did it!!

i might actually turn that into a proper language

user

4:37 PM

I love how you used the rupee symbol lol

Feels weird that currency symbols are allowed as identifiers

DLosc

@user :(

Cents and pounds don't work either

Wait, neither does the rupee 0_o

user

Wait really?

Must be a Java thing then

@DLosc :)

DLosc

I see

user

4:54 PM

This is just amazing, I've signed up to be an election worker and I just got my username and password sent in an email ಠ_ಠ

DLosc

I hope it's a temporary password

user

They didn't imply a timeout or even mention changing it >:(

Wow, I can't even figure out how to change it :( (although that's probably just a me problem)

DLosc

5:09 PM

@Razetime On the subject of Pip documentation: do you happen to know why the just-the-docs theme on the Pipdoc site started erroring sometime between September and now? I got it working again by configuring it as a remote_theme instead of a theme, but I assume that's a less than ideal setup.

Sandbox Posts

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

# Cumulatively increment each integer in groups of identical integers Given a sorted array of ascending, possibly negative, possibly duplicated integers, your goal is to increment each integer cumulatively within each consecutive group. To demonstrate: [1, 1, 1, 1, 10, 10, 20, 20, 20, 30, 40, 40,...

richardec

Hi everyone! I have a pretty simple (though not too simple!) challenge, and I'd like to post it. The Sandbox post recommends "to leave your posts in the sandbox for at least several days", but I want to post it today, because Winter Bash is about to end and it'd be fun to get some hats from it. May I please get some reviews? :)

It's that one ^^ :)

DLosc

5:25 PM

@richardec Sure, I'll take a look at it.

First thing I noticed: integers are "possibly negative," so there should be a test case that has negative integers.

user

Looks like a nice simple challenge. Is it guaranteed that the groups of integers increase? (because all your testcases have that) (I assume not though)

Also, I'm not sure "cumulative" is the right word for it, but I'm not a grammar person

Oh it's a sorted array nvm

richardec

Yes @user, the array will be pre-sorted.

@DLosc good call, I'll do that.

DLosc

I remembered answering a similar challenge before--turns out I was thinking of this, which is not a duplicate.

richardec

@user yeah, the description I had trouble with. I wanted to just write lorem ipsum for the title and run straight for the examples, but...

negative test case added

user

And maybe also a testcase where the the last number in a group goes above the first number of the next group? (e.g. [1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2] -> [1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 3]) (i.e. the output isn't sorted)

DLosc

5:34 PM

The negative numbers testcase does that

user

Oh right, didn't see that

richardec

added it anyway

user

I've been kinda sleepy this entire year :P

4

DLosc

But adding another one doesn't hurt, yeah

richardec

@user LOL!!

hmm, there's something odd: my sandbox post was upvoted but I didn't get any rep?

user

5:35 PM

Btw there's a minor typo where the second-to-last testcase has - > instead of -> . I'd edit but I don't want 2 edits to happen at once

@richardec You don't get rep on Meta

DLosc

@richardec Yeah, you don't get rep for posts on meta (ninja'd :P)

richardec

oh, haha, sorry, I didn't even notice that was meta!! :P

user

On Meta, there's often polls and stuff, and you don't want rep from upvotes/downvotes to influence that

(I think that's the motivation?)

richardec

yeah, right, I'm familiar with meta, but I just didn't realize that it was meta at all

user

I think I see the inspiration for this challenge :P

richardec

5:38 PM

you're sure right @user, sharp you are indeed!

user

Uh, sharp isn't something I'd call myself but thanks :P

DLosc

I think the only thing that still needs improvement is the description.

richardec

I asked that Q originally because I was working on the pb for a few days, but I hoped there was some builtin numpy func, there are so many

I've wanted to post a challenge here for a while, and I suddenly though that would make a great one

@DLosc yeah, it's not too good.

DLosc

The "group of identical integers" language ("group of identical numbers" is probably easier to read once you've established that they're integers) would be a good phrase to use in the body of the challenge.

richardec

Can you think of anything better?

Ok

DLosc

5:41 PM

I'd probably try to split the description up into multiple sentences, too

Helps readability

richardec

Lemme work it

DLosc

(I've been writing a tutorial for the past two days, so I've got readability on the brain :P)

richardec

haha, yes, when writing stuff like this you need to pay attention! :)

@DLosc @user check it again ;)

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Unflatten groups of identical integers Given an ascending-sorted array of possibly negative, possibly duplicated integers, your goal is to increment each integer within each group of identical numbers. To demonstrate: [1, 1, 1, 1, 10, 10, 20, 20, 20, 30, 40, 40, 40, 40] should become this [1, 2,...

DLosc

It's more readable, but I don't think it says what you want it to.

"Increment each integer" sounds like "+1 to each integer," not +0, +1, +2, etc.

richardec

Yeah, that's what it seemed like as well...

Do you think "cumulatively" would be fine to use?

DLosc

5:53 PM

Also "flatten" in the context of a list means [[1, 2], [3, [4, 5]]] -> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], so I wouldn't use "unflatten" in the title

@richardec That doesn't communicate to me either. You're not accumulating the integers into some combined value like you do with a cumulative sum.

"Disambiguate groups of identical integers" is a bit quirky and maybe not the best word choice, but it gets closer.

richardec

Okay, good points. Let me try again.

perhaps "elucidate" or "revive"?

At least they're more eye-catching.

DLosc

@richardec Neither of those options communicate to me.

The basic idea is that you're taking each group of identical numbers and incrementing some of them until they're all different. The difficulty is communicating that 1) each group isn't in a separate sublist, and 2) there could still be cross-group duplicates in the result.

(Minor note: I think it's better to mention "possibly negative" in a separate sentence so as not to clutter up the main problem description.)

richardec

Do you think "Incrementally increment" sounds okay?

iteration 3, check again :)

DLosc

6:08 PM

It's a bit repetitiously repetitive... but actually, in the title I like it. Alliteration is good. ^_^

richardec

haha, you're funny

DLosc

And the description is much better, too. Just a couple of typos: "by a counter, starting at 0"

richardec

I'm slightly uncomfortable with the title, but it describes it pretty well...

oops

DLosc

And don't forget to put the mention of "integers may be negative" back in somewhere

richardec

oops again

wizzwizz4

6:17 PM

What would the converse challenge be?

Decrementally decrement distinct d…?

doubles?

richardec

haha, I didn't even notice the acronym for the title would be IIII :P

So should I post it?

@DLosc @user @wizzwizz4 ^^

DLosc

@richardec I personally think it's clear enough, though maybe someone else has ideas for further improvement.

wizzwizz4

6:36 PM

@richardec It's clear enough that I don't think people will misunderstand the challenge. I say go for it.

Redwolf Programs

7:06 PM

On first read it seems clear enough to me (I just woke up). I'd go ahead and post it.

New Posts

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Q: Incrementally Increment Identical Integers

Given an ascending-sorted array of possibly duplicated integers, your goal is to increment each number by a counter, starting at 0, that resets for each group. Spec: Any numbers may be negative (but if so, they'll be at the beginning, because the array is sorted), The array will have at least on...

code-golf array

richardec

Thank you guys!! :D Posted.

emanresu A

7:55 PM

See y'all in three days

o/

DLosc

\\\o

DLosc

8:06 PM

@Jelly programmers: Why does this not result in [-2, -2, -4]? I thought Lƙ would be treated as a monad and so LƙN as a monadic chain would be composed of two monads, but apparently there's something I'm missing about the chaining rules.

pxeger

@lyxal ah frick

wizzwizz4

8:19 PM

@DLosc LƙNN does what you want it to, but I don't know why.

hyper-neutrino

@DLosc key returns a dyad

DLosc

Oh.

:/

hyper-neutrino

jht.hyper-neutrino.xyz/quicks/key-map

key is probably one of the hardest jelly built-ins to learn and use correctly

at least IMO

DLosc

It's the only one I'm very familiar with, as it happens.

But I didn't remember that it creates a dyad

hyper-neutrino

ah

DLosc

8:24 PM

So I could do Lƙ`N for +1 byte.

hyper-neutrino

uh, what exactly are you trying to do here lol

pxeger

0

A: Guess my password (cops' thread)

Python, 62 bytes exec(input(),{"__builtins__":{"if":dir(__import__(input()))}}) Attempt This Online! Let's try again. Inputs via STDIN, output should be Hello world! printed to STDOUT with a trailing newline. Works in CPython 3.10.

Redwolf Programs

Hmm...my server's download/upload speed are both in the hundreds of Mbps, same with my laptop, and my laptop has an SSD and my server's drives' read/write speeds should both the be pretty high. And yet I still get 2 MB/s when rsyncing stuff.

wizzwizz4

@RedwolfPrograms rsync is a wonderful program, isn't it?

Adám

@hyper-neutrino That's just APL's ⌸ (except it seems to group any unkeyed elements together).

DLosc

8:35 PM

@hyper-neutrino Just playing around trying to figure out the chaining. Ultimately I was expecting that this could alternately have been something like LƙḶF+. Instead it would have to be Lƙ`ḶF+.

hyper-neutrino

ah, I see

New Posts

8:53 PM

Best Of CGCC 2021 - Call for categories

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caird coinheringaahing

Was very confused as to how I got +2 rep from an upvote, until I realised that I've gotten +200 rep today, but gave out a -50 bounty, so it was telling me +150 rep gained

wizzwizz4

9:25 PM

@RedwolfPrograms Have you tried tarring / untarring before / after the rsync?

Redwolf Programs

No, I think it's my server's CPU that's the main thing limiting how fast it is, so compressing likely wouldn't help much

wizzwizz4

@RedwolfPrograms Tar doesn't have compression.

If it's lots of files, rsync can't get into the fast path.

(Also, rsync does do compression iirc.)

Redwolf Programs

Ohh yeah I forgot you can not add the z flag when using tar lol

caird coinheringaahing

10:36 PM

@NewPosts Could a mod 11 this into a pinnable message? Maybe [Best Of CGCC 2021 - Call for categories](https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/q/24225)?

wizzwizz4

@cairdcoinheringaahing Do you mean a CGCC mod?

Adám

@cairdcoinheringaahing Why not simply post that as a separate message and we pin that?

caird coinheringaahing

@wizzwizz4 No, any mod will do :P

@Adám ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I guess I'm used to HN 11ing the Important meta posts for pinning

Also, the "by New Posts" bit in the pin

Adám

true

caird coinheringaahing

Thanks @wizzwizz4 :)

wizzwizz4

10:43 PM

@cairdcoinheringaahing Any vaguely-justifiable mod abuse is good in my book.

Er, I mean… I am responsible.

caird coinheringaahing

Why become a mod if you don't do mild mod abuse? :P

wizzwizz4

Bragging to your internet friends, duh.

I swear there's a third reason, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

New Posts

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Q: How to get the argument in code.golf for Swift?

7 Segment Code Golf challenge for Swift I've tried to look this up, but I cannot find a definitive answer anywhere. All I've seen is the argument is called "argv". Do I make a function with an "argv" parameter? What type is it? I've tried this with various types. No go. Not sure how to get the re...