The Nineteenth Byte

user

15:08

@Seggan in fact, you can even directly run java files now

PyGamer0

@pxeger what is that answer lol...

user

Although tbh you’re probably using gradlr for everything (which is pretty good compared to all the cpp tools imo (disclaimer: i have no experience with cpp))

PyGamer0

c pre processor?

pxeger

C++

obviously

PyGamer0

lol

DLosc

15:16

@lyxal I say pie-thon because I am a sussy American

user

@PyGamer0 ? It wasn’t a joke

PyGamer0

i know, i simpy said c preprocessor

user

@DLosc me too, and i pronounced it like that when i had a sussy Indian accent too

I don’t see how it’s thin

DLosc

Why run a marathon when you can run a Python?™

user

My dad pronounced it py-thun which is sus but better than thin

@DLosc is that a competition where you eat pies? If so, sign me up!

DLosc

15:27

@user I'm pretty sure that's the pronunciation Lyxal means: /ˈpaɪθən/

pxeger

15:44

@user that's just the Australian / NZ accent

PyGamer0

pai-thon

pxeger

CMQ: "GIF" or "GIF"?

Adám

@pxeger VTC as encouraging violence.

pxeger

sounds like projection to me...

PyGamer0

@pxeger goose

ophact

16:15

@pxeger Neither, I say "gif"

Sandbox Posts

16:37

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Generate a random string of length 8 The challenge is pretty simple. Generate a random ASCII string that is of length 8. All ASCII characters from 33-254 are allowed. (1-32 and 255 aren't included because they don't show up/may cause interference.) Remember that this is code-golf, so shortest ans...

user

17:04

@pxeger really? Sounds like jiff to me

Ginger

"yiff"

ophact

CMQ: "JFIF", "JFIF", or "JFIF"?

Bgil Midol

?

Neil

17:27

@pxeger ZHIFE

DLosc

17:38

@Neil +1 for IdeaChannel reference, -10 for the frustration of watching someone try and fail to hit the play button multiple times :P

Original source

Neil

@DLosc yeah, well that's what Google linked me for some reason (I tried again in a private window and it completely failed to find it, so...)

(also, I should really catch up, last video I watched was 'Does Pop Culture Need To Be "Popular"?')

DLosc

17:54

@Neil Sadly, they're not making videos anymore, but it does look like you (and I) have some more to watch before reaching the end of the line. :)

Neil

@DLosc yeah I'm not surprised it looks like I forgot about that channel over 5 years ago

DLosc

And, of course, after "zhaif" started as an offhand joke, they went and made a whole video about it :D

Ginger

18:38

@ophact "hih"

emanresu A

18:57

@lyxal That was me eight months ago

Ginger

@lyxal just finished fixing it, someone put a plus where there should've been a J

Ginger

19:23

there are two ways to pronounce Lyxal: licks-ull and likes-all

mathcat

you forgot licks-all

ophact

That's how I pronounce it in my mind

"Likes-all" seems a bit weird based on the name Lyxal

but if that's how they want it to be pronounced, then so be it.

Anush

20:08

@Adám I guess that if there were a notation for mathematics that looked more like plain english and one that looked less, I would need some persuading to use the latter

@mathcat that's how I pronounce it

mathcat

Lyxal likes all

Anush

another day, another coding problem.

CMC given a text file of the following form bpa.st/JP2A , where there is a word that follows * sometimes and otherwise numbers, output for each word the minimum of the numbers below it but before the next word.

I had to do this today and I hate my code for doing it

I want to see how someone good would do it!

Ginger

@Anush Python 3, 71 bytes: lambda x:[[min(int(i)for i in t.split("\n")[1:]])for t in x.split("\n*")]

DLosc

@Anush How I would do it in Pip (not really golfed yet): {[bMNc@+XD]}MR`\*(\w+) ([\d ]+)`gJs

Anush

@Ginger trying to understand this!

DLosc

20:21

(Unclear whether the words should be output with the minimum numbers, or just the numbers themselves)

Anush

@DLosc preferably "word number"

on the same line

Ginger

@Anush ah, one sec

DLosc

@Anush Ok, that's essentially what I did. To get that exact format, change the p flag to S.

Anush

@DLosc could you explain this black magic?

DLosc

Yes, one moment

Anush

20:22

it is amazing

Ginger

@Anush Python 3, 87 bytes: lambda x:{t.split("\n")[0]:min([int(i)for i in t.split("\n")[1:]])for t in x.split("\n*")}

Anush

@Ginger TIO?

Ginger

just copy and paste it

Fmbalbuena

@Anush Try it online!

@Ginger ^

Anush

I guess it needs the input as a single string. It splits by "\n*". That part I understand. then each part is split by "\n".

I don't really understand TIO tio.run/##VcuxCoAgEIDhVxEnryGKNqEnMYeirAM9pW4oomc3aonm7//…

how do I provide the input?

Ginger

20:28

@Anush one sec

Anush

k

Fmbalbuena

@Anush just put input to docstrings ("""...""") in something

or

DLosc

@Anush In this situation, I'd put the input in a multiline string and pass that to the function.

Anush

@Fmbalbuena that worked

Ginger

@DLosc ninja'd

Anush

20:30

tiny bug :) {'*apple': 3, 'pear': 1, 'banana': 4}

(the * before apple but not pear and banana)

DLosc

@Anush The -r flag sets g to a list of lines read from stdin. Then:

                                gJs  Join those lines on spaces
            MR                       To each regex match
              `                `     of this regex:
               \*                      Literal asterisk
                 (   )                 Capture group 1:
                  \w+                    1 or more word characters
                      _                Space (represented here as _ so you can see it)
                       (      )        Capture group 2:
                        [\d ]+           Digit or space, 1 or more times

Anush

@DLosc wow

Ginger

@Anush that's negligible

Anush

@Ginger yes!

DLosc

Can we assume the words will not contain digits?

Anush

20:33

@DLosc :(

it's the * that tells you where the word is

DLosc

Can the words contain symbols? Or spaces? (If so, I need to tweak my solution a bit)

Anush

@DLosc I don't think so. Maybe I don't know what you mean by symbols

as in ?>! ?

yes they contain any printable ASCII

not new lines :)

@Ginger I see how your code works now

DLosc

@Anush :( Okay

Anush

it's cool

no *'s can occur anywhere else apart from a word line and you only get the one * on a word line

Newly Featured Posts

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Q: Reveal all clues of Black Box

Black Box is a board game, Your task is to reveal all clues. What is black box Black box is a board game with hidden atoms, Your task is given input, All atoms, reveal all clues. I/O Input The atoms can be any 1-char that is not newline (Used for separator) Like this. O.... ...O. ..O.. ..... .......

DLosc

20:41

Are the numbers always positive?

Fmbalbuena

@DLosc ?

If you mean this question, Then yes if the output is ascii-art

Anush

@DLosc yes!

@Ginger are you working on an expanded version?

DLosc

All right, updated version (still not particularly golfed): {[bMN||c^n]}MR`\*(.+)\n([^*]+)`gJn

Ginger

@Anush no

Anush

@Ginger oh :(

@DLosc very impressive

DLosc

20:54

Turns out a non-regex solution is much shorter:

Pip, 26 bytes: {[aMN Sg]}MU S(gJn)^n.'*^n

Anush

needs a new explanation :)

DLosc

I will, still golfing it

Anush

cool!

DLosc

25 bytes: {[POaMNa]}M S(gJn)^n.'*^n

              g            Due to -r flag, list of lines of stdin
               Jn          Join together on newlines
            S(   )         All but first character (the initial asterisk)
                  ^        Split on:
                   n.'*      Newline followed by asterisk
                       ^n  Split (each of) the results on newlines
                           We now have a list of lists of lines
{        }M                Map this function:
 [      ]                    Return a list containing

Actually, 23 bytes: PO_AEMN_M S(gJn)^n.'*^n

Anush

@DLosc now I wish I had asked it on main!

DLosc

21:03

xAEy puts x and y in a list (not 100% accurate, but true in this case), so PO_AEMN_ is equivalent to {POaAEMNa} is equivalent to {[POaMNa]}

@Anush I don't know how it would be received, but you can certainly sandbox it and find out. Some challenges on main started out as CMCs.

Anush

@DLosc I am a little fearful from my previous experience of the downvoters

DLosc

That's the nice thing about the sandbox: downvotes don't cost you rep, they're just a way for people to say "Nah, don't post this to main." My first sandboxed challenge wasn't well-received (in hindsight, I agree: it wasn't very good). I deleted it and tried again with a different idea.

Anush

fair enough

Sandbox Posts

21:20

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Draw the Ukrainian Flag As you will probably know, there is a war going on in Ukraine. I noticed that it seems nobody has posted a Ukrainian flag challenge yet, so I thought I'd do it myself in support of Ukraine. The Challenge Here is the flag: The flag is divided horizontally down the middle ...

emanresu A

tfw your html editor is Vyxal Ḣ

Bgil Midol

@emanresuA what does that flag do?

emanresu A

render output as HTML

Ginger

tfw wft

emanresu A

21:43

@SandboxPosts I have 42 bytes of cursed svg for this

<svg viewbox=3,-5.88,1.5,1 ><text>🇺🇦 lol - zooming in on the emoji

I just realised you're just Ginger now

Ginger

@emanresuA oy that's illegal

emanresu A

:(

Ginger

@emanresuA yea

emanresu A

21:58

Time to manually create a png

Neil

22:16

bah, the downtime meant that my questions tab stopped updating and I didn't notice a new question

emanresu A

23:20

tfw you write a whole program from scratch and it works first try

Seggan

23:33

@user jshell?

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