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Cops' Challenge In this cops-and-robbers challenge, you (the cops) must write a program which prints out a certain string (to STDOUT) when run (and does not error or print to STDERR). Then, remove a string of consecutive characters from the code so that it still runs (without erroring or printing...

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Q: What's the Missing Code? (Robbers)

Robbers' Challenge Read the cops' challenge first. In this cops-and-robbers challenge, you (the robbers) must find the correct string of characters, which, when added into the cop's code, will make it produce the correct (case-sensitive) output (except that there may also be an extra trailing new...

string cops-and-robbers

Ginger

13:18

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Radvylf Programs

Impostor syndrome more like amogus

Workplace.se is pretty sus today

Ginger

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Q: My uncle likes toast but not cereal

My uncle likes some things but not others. He likes toast but not cereal. He likes bicycles but not motorbikes. He likes ice but not water. He likes lamps but not lava lamps. He likes claw hammers but not spirit levels. What types of things does he like?

pattern

I created a program that screams into the void forever

very pround of self

Radvylf Programs

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🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

mathcat

1 hour ago, by mathcat

haha

I am smort

Ginger

>pv
^>OtA;
^<<

Radvylf Programs

13:32

@mathcat Or just lucky :p

mathcat

*looks at guess distribution* okay true

Ginger

CMQ: Is Makina ready enough to post a Hello World?

PyGamer0

14:01

idk

how on earth is /// tc ?!!

Mayube

@PyGamer0 magic

We had a /// LYAL a while back and it's capable of performing most math operations in unary

though it's certainly non-trivial

Radvylf Programs

14:57

> How to explain to a five year old why "DFT with local exchange–correlation functionals do(es) not describe van der Waals interactions accurately"?

Someone over at matter modeling must have a very intelligent five year old on their hands :p

Ginger

._.

pxeger

15:22

@PyGamer0 A proof of a highly related problem is given in this video: youtube.com/watch?v=8_npHZbe3qM

DLosc

@AviFS Try it yourself: replit.com/@dloscutoff/pip :D

Mayube

@RadvylfPrograms Jokes on them, I live with all of my friends and none of us got covid B)

user

15:38

This doesn’t contradict that

You were taking a real risk, you should be like the rest of us introverts (is that the word?)

Mayube

Sure it does. We have friends (each-other) and we didn't get covid

@user oh we're definitely introverts

we all stayed home and played vidya games for 2 years

user

@Mayube the doctor didn’t say everyone who hasn’t had covid doesn’t have friends

You are a rare exception

Begone, exception

mathcat

eyy I have non-internet friends too

user

Suuuuuure

Are thry imaginary or complex?

Mayube

@user Me and all of my friends B)

user

15:42

Cause they sure aint real

mathcat

huh, what an irrational thought

user

@Mayube your ryes are freaking me out :p

Mayube

@user BD

user

Aaaaa

Why are your body parts swelling

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Mayube

they're either sunglasses, or sonic the hedgehog eyes. Your call

user

15:43

But your mouth too

Mayube

@user From the lack of covid BP

user

Frick that’s starred now

Should’ve expected it

@Mayube oh no will it happen to me too 😱

mathcat

Starboard Inc.

Wezl - y izl

use my rule of thumb: if you send a message, it may or may not be starred

user

Thanks

Also welcome back wezl

Wezl - y izl

15:45

also hello nineteenth golfers

ninja'd me >:|

mathcat

> Every message in this room is starred, or it's not starred

user

@Wezl-yizl a tradition we have here that you forgot %D

Wezl - y izl

i forgive you because you have presented me with new emoticon

user

OO my eyes are merging

mathcat

OD

user

15:47

O now my mouth has merged into them

Mayube

@user ∞ mine already did

Radvylf Programs

Working on a controller for a new KotH

Or actually, a very old KotH

Mayube

@RadvylfPrograms You said that last week

user

Is it a bang bang controller?

Radvylf Programs

@Mayube I say a lot of things last week

Mayube

15:48

If only you did things last week instead

user

OOF

Ginger

welcome back wezl!

user

(That’s my mouth enlarging to the size of my stomach and my feet merging)

mathcat

Mar 22 at 20:10, by Radvylf Programs

"Hi! I am Radvylf."

Wezl - y izl

about time to change my name

mathcat

15:49

to weasly

Mayube

@user you got a real fascination with body-merging horror eh?

user

Yes because i have now turned into a big OOF

Mayube

@user now that's a big oof

Seggan

Seems that bracket-based challenges are getting quite popular

DLosc

@user Why would grains freak you out? :P

PyGamer0

15:54

now what the hell happened here

looking at the starboard ... err ...

11 mins ago, by user

Why are your body parts swelling

lmao what

Ginger

@user C03

amogus

Mayube

@Ginger idk that's kinda sus bro

Wezl - y izl

@user this is snowruler

Ginger

@Mayube it's like that's the joke

Seggan

kS

Mayube

15:57

@Ginger your pre-pandemic jokes have no power here

Ginger

>:Ɑ

jesus that's cursed

Wezl - y izl

@Wezl-yizl it's the grand OOF

Mayube

@Wezl-yizl Looks like a bored king of the snowmen

or a disapproving king of the snowmen

Wezl - y izl

all its subjects have melted

Mayube

@Wezl-yizl is it annoyed by that fact or just bored that it has nobody to boss around anymore?

Wezl - y izl

16:05

both *shrug*

Ginger

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PyGamer0

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Ginger

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Bgil Midol

Feedback?

mathcat

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Mayube

16:30

oh woah I just got my 2nd gold badge :O

graffe

CMQ what is the golfiest way to tell which numpy version you have from the command line?

pxeger

pip freeze|grep numpy?

Should I accept a suggested edit which would reopen a question but which significantly changes the content of the challenge?

"clearly conflicts with the author's intent"?

Ginger

hmm

graffe

@pxeger ooh... That never occurred to me!

Radvylf Programs

@pxeger No

graffe

16:38

python -c "import numpy; print(numpy.__version__)" is not very golfed

Bgil Midol

@graffe does python-c"import numpy;print(numpy.__version__)" work?

Radvylf Programs

@Mayube Nice!

Okay this is hard to write a semi-optimized (time wise) solution too

Things were going great and then I realized greedily filling the appliances with clothes won't always work.

Actually, it might...

If I do dishwashers last

Wait no

Wait yes?

Mayube

16:58

I wish my dishwasher could clean and dry clothes

Radvylf Programs

Inspired by xkcds 1066 and and 2420

(Specifically 1066's title text)

Mayube

my dishwasher might be able to make some attempt at cleaning clothes, but it can't even dry dishes properly

Radvylf Programs

dishwasherflamethrower

Patent pending

Mayube

Now that's just a toaster incident all over again

graffe

@BgilMidol I haven't had a chance to test it. Do you think it might not?

Ginger

17:12

hmmm wot dis

weird-ass xkcd chatroom

Bgil Midol

@graffe it probably doesn't work

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Q: What happened to Doorknob?

Before anyone asks this question I'd like to get it out of the way: If I go to the moderators tab I don't see Doorknob any more: He used to be a moderator here, but now he's not. What happened?

discussion moderators

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Ginger

doorknob is gone

Mayube

@Ginger yes, that's the point of the post

Radvylf Programs

17:34

@WheatWizard Should Doorknob be removed as an RO of TNB too?

Wheat Wizard

Maybe. It's not like a big deal imo.

Radvylf Programs

IIRC we removed a few other old ROs at one point, and only left Doorknob since they were a mod.

graffe

18:27

@BgilMidol why???

Bgil Midol

i didn't test it

emanresu A

18:49

hi

mathcat

ih

Bgil Midol

hi

Mayube

h_

mathcat

@NewPosts how long has doorknob been inactive?

Radvylf Programs

Hasn't been seen in >6 months

And hasn't posted in much longer

mathcat

18:59

oh

> If Dennis would return, there would arise a new golden era of CGCC.

that sounds oddly off

Mayube

"On the 5th day, look for me to the east" - Dennis

Radvylf Programs

@mathcat Source?

mathcat

https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/60765431#60765431

@mathcat okay wait I realised that's dumb

SE would have oneboxed it

@RadvylfPrograms I made it myself 😎

Radvylf Programs

As a joke or actual opinion?

mathcat

joke, idk much about Dennis as I was less active at the site when they were still here

Mayube

19:17

I just hope Dennis is doing alright

Ginger

Dennis will return at CGCC's darkest hour

^ official prophecy

mathcat

Experts say, even today the so-called Dennis Mystery hasn't been solved yet.

Radvylf Programs

@Ginger I'm not a fan of, even as a joke, saying things like this because it puts pressure on, or creates an expectation for, him to come back

Ginger

jeez sorry

mathcat

oh right

Mayube

19:21

@RadvylfPrograms yeah given the circumstances under which he left, I really don't think him coming back to find CGSE in its darkest hour would be good for him

Ginger

Dennis will return whenever he feels like it

^ official prophecy v2

Mayube

much better

Radvylf Programs

And I think our darkest hour has already come and gone :p

Ginger

musta missed it

mathcat

^

Radvylf Programs

19:23

Losing almost all of our most dedicated users, which came right after the end of the era of dozens of questions a day, and at the same time as the monica situation

Ginger

o no

clearly we need new recruits

mathcat

@RadvylfPrograms oh yeah vaguely remember it

Radvylf Programs

@Ginger We've been slowly recovering

Mayube

I think I might've left just before that, which I guess made me the start of it :P

Radvylf Programs

Some of the massive posts-per-day rate we were getting at the time was from lower quality questions though, like popcons and underhanded

Ginger

19:25

mathcat

I'm heading off to bed o/

Ginger

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo/oooooooooo\\\/\/\\//\o

pxeger

19:43

TIL Google Search has a builtin search feature for statistical datasets: google.com/search?q=car+pollution+dataset

emanresu A

Dec 8, 2021 at 10:13, by emanresu A

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Also o/ now

pxeger

@pxeger WTF, it's stopped showing me it now

hmm, I was searching in a private browsing window

I guess it's A/B testing

You can also use it directly at datasetsearch.research.google.com

Unrelated String

19:59

@RadvylfPrograms wasn't underhanded gone for like a year or two before then

Radvylf Programs

Might've been. I think the drop in questions was slightly more gradual, for like a year prior to the monica stuff

Mayube

yeah underhanded was gone when i was around, and popcon was heavily discouraged

Radvylf Programs

IIRC underhanded, popcons, the loss of lots of good challenge authors, the decline in number of KotHs, etc. all came around the same time

("IIRC" from looking at graphs and reading meta stuff, was like ten years old when that happened :p)

Mayube

I joined in mid 2017 and left in late 2018

Ginger

and then returned 4 years later

Sandbox Posts

20:11

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Shuffle an array, a little bit code-golfrandomarrayshuffle Given some input array a = [a1, a2, ..., an] and a positive integer k, shuffle the input array a such that no entry is farther than k from its initial position. Example Given the array [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] and k = 1, this means the entry 3 ...

flawr

I'd love t ohear some feedback on this ^ if anyone has a minute.

Radvylf Programs

Looks good, I'm worried it's a dupe though

Ginger

^

flawr

20:27

Same, I have yet to find anything though.

@pxeger I just wanted to say I quite like your ATO! Just recently I used it for the first time. It's a pity that TIO is no longer really up to date with certain language (but understandable given the circumstances), so I'm happy there is a nice alternative.

Radvylf Programs

It's not at all ready for use yet, but AviFS and I are working on one too, which will allow people to submit their own languages (as an additional protection against another TIO situation where nobody's around to update it)

flawr

@RadvylfPrograms can you share a link?

oh you're Redwolf :) (are you?)

Radvylf Programs

rto.run

It's got some practical languages running, but no performance optimizations or...well, features yet lol

@flawr Yeah, I am. I changed my username to avoid the letter "e" :p

flawr

What's wrong with e?

Radvylf Programs

It's a long story. I've got synesthesia, and see letters as colors, and "e" is a pretty ugly shade of yellow.

Not sure if I dislike it because of its color or if it's colored that way because I dislike it.

@RadvylfPrograms I've been meaning to add all sorts of stuff to RTO recently but all of a sudden I'm having to do tons of school work, I've got AP tests coming up, and a bunch of other stuff, so it'll be a while

Ginger

20:37

and I need to do frontend stuff

because that is the responsibility I gave myself

Radvylf Programs

20:48

Ooh I'm reading latin and actually understanding it!

Probably because it's using Latin IIy latin and not Latin IVy latin

Ginger

oOOO

Radvylf Programs

Isn't "Oooo" normal "oooo" and "oOOO" sarcastic "oooo"?

Wait no

Actually idk how I'd pronounce oOOO

Ginger

"cheese"

Radvylf Programs

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Ginger

correct

hyper-neutrino

20:59

I removed all of the ROs except xnor after we selected new ones last year because all of them were inactive, so to keep the list clean and not let it pile up again

Feeds

hyper-neutrino has removed Doorknob from the list of this room's owners.

Ginger

oh mah gawd

Sylvester Kruin

What does RO stand for? I feel like it should be obvious, but I haven't seen it on SO, only here on CGSE.

Ginger

<- star

hyper-neutrino

it's room owner

they can schedule events, control access (i.e. grant write access to gallery rooms or I think grant read access to private rooms, although only mods can create those), manage feeds, timeout the room, and move messages

Sylvester Kruin

21:07

@Ginger I did, but then someone removed it. I'm guessing starring comments here is not like upvoting comments on the main site...

Ginger

it is not

stars are for especially ~~amusing~~ interesting or useful messages

Sylvester Kruin

@Ginger Ah, I must have missed the especially part.

user

@Mayube The bored part fits, at least

emanresu A

22:34

Tfw software updates

"About -2184973456 years remaining"

DLosc

Just to clarify, 7 + 5 ≠ 13 — Dominic van Essen 2 hours ago

Obligatory Tom Lehrer: youtu.be/UIKGV2cTgqA?t=97

Thomas Ward

@emanresuA obligatory "That's Windows for you!" :p

lyxal

22:59

I saw this on reddit and it definitely needs a few extra commas

Unless of course there is actually someone scheduling a war to happen in Istanbul on Tuesday :p

Thomas Ward

or written better:

"New round of talks aimed at stopping the war in Ukraine scheduled for Tuesday in Istanbul"

just needs a couple extra words ;)

but the category notice there is "War in ukraine" so context is key here

allxy

23:14

@hyper-neutrino JHT's down and pointing to some anime thing

lyxal

So is vyxapedia

Again.

But not in Tor

Only when I'm accessing it from normal browsers going through Australian routers

Can't believe I have to use the dark Web to get info on jelly and Vyxal

allxy

@lyxal you might be interested in codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/245722/110449

lyxal

I would if I had a mac

But I don't.

Neil

crap I just accidentally cancelled a major edit

user

@lyxal Adding commas wouldn't make it grammatical though

What it needs is parentheses, if English had parentheses

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"(New round of talks aimed at stopping the war) are scheduled for Tuesday in Istanbul"

Thomas Ward

23:28

@user it does have parentheses, but not for that use

user

You know what I mean

And now someone's starred my message :(

):

Aiden Chow

can a 2d matrix be inputted as the one dimensional list representing the flattened matrix, along with its dimensions, or is that not allowed

Unrelated String

that's pretty standard

Aiden Chow

@UnrelatedString ah ok, thanks

Aiden Chow

23:46

so remember that freehand circle website a while back: vladgotlib.com/circular

i got bored and tried to get a high disbalance again

3 TRILLION, no scripts whatsoever

bruh i literally got like the same disbalance again

Unrelated String

nice

allxy

LYAL?

Unrelated String

good question

Aiden Chow

what is the lyal this time?

bitcycle???

Bgil Midol

277 million

Aiden Chow

23:55

also next lotm is curry right?

Bubbler

Did we do Piet for LYAL?

Bgil Midol

i don't think so

Bubbler

Then I think that's the highest-scoring one

Aiden Chow

huh ok piet seems interesting, never seen a programming lang with the programs being images

Bubbler

followed by Flobnar and tinylisp

Aiden Chow

23:58

tinylisp goes first right cuz its posted first?

Radvylf Programs

@AidenChow it's extremely biased toward smaller circles

So it's not practically useful :(

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