The Nineteenth Byte

lyxal

12:21 AM

@RadvylfPrograms may I suggest cookies?

emanresu A

Then you can donate them to Vyxal

lyxal

Precisely

emanresu A

@NewPosts I do hate zero-padding, and I do love finding clever ways around it

lyxal

Hmm if only there were something that padded one string to the length of another with spaces and then something else that changed those spaces to 0s :p

emanresu A

I know about that, but it doesn't do list

Idea: Scratch *= Lisp

Unrelated String

12:41 AM

oh yes

caird coinheringaahing

1:19 AM

@hyper-neutrino for the last 10mins, the voting fluctuated between being tied, 1 vote apart and 2 votes apart :P

Made it very annoying for the announcement post, as I had to be change the "dead tie" bit in case it wasnt

lyxal

2:27 AM

one of these is not the like other

one of these things doesn't belong

can you tell which thing is not like the others?

New Posts

2:44 AM

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Q: Generate All 8 Knight's Moves

Introduction In chess, Knights can move two squares in one direction, and then one square in an orthogonal direction. On an x/y plane, these can be thought of as being a relative change of coordinates, such as (+1, -2). Challenge Your task is to output all 8 possible moves as pairs of relative x/...

code-golf

caird coinheringaahing

3:03 AM

@lyxal there isn't a way to get reputation quick, duh :P

lyxal

Precisely what I meant! 4 years and I still don't have the optimised rep grind :p

Unrelated String

q:

caird coinheringaahing

@lyxal I do, I just can't be bothered to use it :P

3:39 AM

Kinda sus

Very sus

in other news my school will start in 9 days

*sad PyGamer0 noises*

emanresu A

In other news my school will start in 17 hours

lyxal

Y'all nerds going to school. Smh

@PyGamer0 you said you were in the codespaces beta. Have you had a chance to try it out yet?

emanresu A

3:50 AM

Hey, we don’t have a Daniel

lyxal

@PyGamer0 lol I now know where this is from

ATaco

4:15 AM

I’m in deep, implemented groups to the fork of a portable Regex library for c.

Unrelated String

oh boy

lyxal

yikes

emanresu A

yikes I'm expected to actually do stuff in app inventor

ATaco

“I just want it to do exactly what I want, is that so much to ask”

Unrelated String

riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip[

PyGamer0

4:35 AM

@lyxal where :P

@lyxal no..

lyxal

@PyGamer0 codespaces

PyGamer0

@lyxal nah...

it was Protip: Great commit messages should never be more than 50 characters..........

PyGamer0

4:52 AM

@lyxal i am going to use codespaces now..

(yes i installed the vim plugin)

hey look i did a commit from codespaces

emanresu A

5:12 AM

in canvas, 34 secs ago, by emanresu A

Anyone want to help me draw a giant donut?

PyGamer0

7:38 AM

i need help with regex

this

i want it to recognise the three lambdas separately..

nvm

i did it

import re
def transpile(x):
  x = re.sub(r"λ([a-zA-Z0-9_,=]+)\.", r"lambda \1:", x)
  exec(x)

ATaco

You can use [^λ] to specify “anything but lambda”

PyGamer0

@ATaco i guess that is more cleaner...

and better

ATaco

Also, you probably want to use non-greedy match instead

So λ(.+?)\.

Which will match everything up to the first dot

PyGamer0

@ATaco i also have to replace in the group

so i have to take that group and replace in lambda \1:

ATaco

Edited

PyGamer0

7:49 AM

@ATaco ok that works thanks

@ATaco and i think i will change that + to *

ATaco

Up to you

PyGamer0

8:14 AM

and i think i am done for now

lyxal

@DLosc say, how did you go about launching and spreading Pip? Transcript diving doesn't seem to have any introductory message, and it doesn't have a chat room either.

I can't seem to find anything about the history of it

Aiden Chow

wats pip

lyxal

golfing language

Not to be confused with the python package manager also called pip

Aiden Chow

@lyxal lmao precisely why i was confused :P

dang it was made 7 years ago

PyGamer0

8:36 AM

github.com/PyGamer0/TheTLanguage/blob/main/test.tlang

lol i made that

PyGamer0

8:48 AM

i made a (dumb) language

emanresu A

@lyxal It's quite difficult to search but I don't think it's widely used - DLosc and Razetime are all I can find

And I get stuff like:

1

A: Garden architecture - ASCII style

dc, 210 197 bytes [256r^1-255/]sx?dddI/dsT9r-sYI%ddIr-sqdsesm-I/sN[[lNlxx124*PIlN-lxx35*PIPlq1-dsq0<o]dsoxlN1+sNledsq0<oq]sJ50!<J[Ilxx35*PIPlY1-dsY0<E]sElY0<E[lmlxx45*PIlm-lxx35*PIP]sClTI>C[Ilxx45*PIPlT1-dsT0<Z]dsZx Try it online!

Hm

lyxal

I've seen other people using it from searching for it

So it's popular enough to qualify for studying for my blog post

emanresu A

yeah :P

500/800ish of the answers are DLosc's

Although most have 0/1 score

71 are Razetime's and 129 are from Add a Language To A Polyglot

Unrelated String

other people trying it is probably at least in part because of the emphasis on true precedence-based infix, and it overall being golfy without reliably keeping up with the big dogs--or trying to

lyxal

I more want to see if it somewhat follows my hypothesis of popularity/how it matches my theories

Because the mote data points the better :p

Unrelated String

9:05 AM

in other news i might need to give dropout regularization a try for this nn i'm training because i can't help but feel like maybe i shouldn't have this many weights on the order of 10^-315
and maybe tune the size of each layer/number of layers while i'm at it :P

emanresu A

Maybe do some research into Jelly from back in the day

@UnrelatedString One day I wanted to learn about neural networks so I looked up a tutorial. "with your basic understanding of multivariable calculus" - Hm, yeah nah

Unrelated String

you only need the calculus for training them but you don't actually have to understand the calculus to implement the backpropagation

you also don't have to implement the backpropagation :P

there are... a lot of libraries

lyxal

@emanresuA I already am

emanresu A

What have you found?

I'd think it would be pretty revolutionary and kinda scary to those who were used to second-generation golflangs.

lyxal

It matches my ideas of pre-launch, and fits some of the theories of post-launch

Unrelated String

9:10 AM

and it sounds like it would be complicated to even describe mathematically, until you realize that running one layer is literally just multiplying a vector by a single matrix then applying a scalar function to each entry of the result

that second step sounds fancy when you call it an "activation function" like you have some physical neuron processing inputs but you're literally just throwing some nonlinearity in the mix so your whole net doesn't reduce to just one matrix multiplication

@lyxal ooh

lyxal

@UnrelatedString I'd share an overview of what my theories on the best post-launch marketing practices are, but I don't know what they are yet :p

Those are for me to figure out later tonight lol

But as linked in the draft gist, they fall under the categories of initial engagement, expansion and maintenance

Initial engagement being the first weeks and months after launch, engagement being how new users are drawn in, and maintenance being how to ensure things don't fall apart once you've grown

And that's all I have that's concrete at this stage

Unrelated String

9:42 AM

i'm looking forward to especially your conclusions about maintenance, because jelly's a very weird case with that
it's going strong despite not having updates in years, but in its early stages it was updated *heavily*--although it was competitive with the other golflangs of the era even when half of the most obvious builtins were missing, it kept getting refined from there

emanresu A

Jelly's a weird case because it was the start of its own generation

Unrelated String

yeah

emanresu A

And I feel like we're on the verge of a new generation of golflangs with Radvylf's and pxeger's ideas

Speaking of which, @pxeger are you going to tell us what your golflang idea is? (radvylf has)

Unrelated String

10:23 AM

if i ever get around to actually making perhaps i feel like it'll very solidly sit between generations
the idea is like 70% just making systematic improvements over jelly but then the remaining 30% might be a bit on the wonky side

lyxal

10:43 AM

@UnrelatedString the way I see it, Jelly had what I'll be terming an external factor - influencers

It had the full force of Dennis' moderacy until 2019 and prominent users who are able to actively recruit others kept it going during 2020 and beyond

PyGamer0

~~social media~~ jelly influencers

Unrelated String

10:54 AM

oh yeah having dennis's clout behind it definitely helped it grow lmao

active moderator and praclang golfer makes a strong golflang, what do you do, not try it

lyxal

Precisely

That's one of the reasons I was extremely happy when hyper joined vyxal lol

Unrelated String

lol

lyxal

Mod affiliation is like winning the lottery and busting everyone else at a poker table lol

Both at the same time

Ginger

Unrelated String

very insightful, thanks

PyGamer0

11:03 AM

@lyxal lol

New Posts

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Q: Can a run ascending list be made?

A run ascending list is a list such that runs of consecutive equal elements are strictly increasing in length. For example [1,1,2,2,1,1,1] can be split into three runs [[1,1],[2,2],[1,1,1]] with lengths [2,2,3], since two runs are the same length this is not a run ascending list. Similarly [2,2...

code-golf decision-problem

lyxal

@UnrelatedString forgive me for this but is that /srs or /j

Unrelated String

11:18 AM

> <div></div>

guess

lyxal

Oh wait you meant that

Unrelated String

yea h lmao

lyxal

Lol I thought you were saying that about my observations about jelly lol

That's why I couldn't read the tone lmao

Unrelated String

lmao

PyGamer0

lol

lyxal

11:23 AM

Gotta love adding lmao to things that have no humour at all and somehow making it funny lmao

PyGamer0

lmao

user

@UnrelatedString took me a while to figure out but now i see that it means “everything with a start has an end”. Truly insightful

@lyxal there were jelly tiktokers? :o

PyGamer0

i hanged my terminal with PW halp

i just closed the terminal..

user

@PyGamer0 please don’t do this

This mangles strings containing lambda

PyGamer0

@user umm i realised that very late..

user

11:30 AM

Regex is not the tool for parsing complicated stuff

PyGamer0

#https:////www.hexatlas.com//entries//7

#bools
☺=lambda x: lambda y: x
☺=lambda x: lambda y: y

#logic
☺=lambda p: lambda q: p(q)(p)
☺=lambda p: lambda q: p(p)(q)
☺=lambda p: lambda x: lambda y: p(y)(x)
☺=lambda p: lambda q: ________not(p(q)(p))

#test
def fn2bool(b):
    return b("True")("False")

pr________int("\t".jo________in(["x","y","&","|","~&"]))
f________or i in [true, false]:
    f________or j in [true, false]:
        pr________int("\t".jo________in([
            fn2bool(i),
            fn2bool(j),

@user you should have warned me earlier ^ :P

user

There are good libraries out there to help you

Oh god what did you do

Unrelated String

oh no

Ginger

oh no

user

What rule inserts those underscores?

Ginger

11:31 AM

and this is why you don't use regex for that. use a library which covers up the regex instead!

Unrelated String

@user several rules individually

PyGamer0

@user just a few replaces

Unrelated String

before lambda, and, or, and not

user

A \b can fix that

But this is still incredibly cursed

PyGamer0

whats a \b ?

Unrelated String

11:33 AM

@user ^

just because you can fix it, doesn't mean you should

user

Word boundary

@UnrelatedString i mean the whole thing can’t be fixed

Only tiny parts

Unrelated String

yeah

PyGamer0

@NewPosts i need more brain cells to solve this

user

Unless you use an insanely powerful regex flavor

But then you’ll probably go crazy even if you succeed

Unrelated String

@PyGamer0 yeah it's deceptively hard to do without going max naive brute force

user

11:34 AM

@PyGamer0 you a zombie?

PyGamer0

@user no i was diagnosed with Zwei-smadzenes-cellules :P

(guess what that means :P)

@UnrelatedString thing is i cant figure out how to brute force it ...

Unrelated String

i mean you can just generate a list described by the given element counts and then test every single permutation for ascending run lengths

PyGamer0

@UnrelatedString yeah i was thinking about that...

Unrelated String

i thought i might be on to something until i noticed that the run lengths don't have to be consecutive lmao

actually maybe you could do something close to the intuitive explanations in the spec
like you could specifically split numbers around other numbers

PyGamer0

11:53 AM

does jelly have a builtin to check if the input is sorted?

Unrelated String

you can do it in two bytes :P

lyxal

If only there were a quick that returned whether or not something stayed the same after applying an atom to it

PyGamer0

well i forogt that exists

Unrelated String

that sure would be useful in a variety of circumstances due to its interactions with vectorization and ability to be used with other quicks among other things

lyxal

yeah, that sure would be useful

but that'd be asking too much of Dennis

Unrelated String

11:56 AM

reminds me just want to make sure all of y'all saw ß€NÐeSµ)Ƒ¡ on the deep alternating sums challenge

part of me is sad that it works

lyxal

> Bendesufi

Sounds like a cheap knock-off of emanresuA

PyGamer0

@UnrelatedString i think S⁼#'Ġ¥ᵟᶠW brute forces it giving all possibilities

(you can obviously guess the language)

Unrelated String

if name == "Ben"
    echo "Benです";
fi;

i don't think that's valid in any actual shell but you get the idea

@PyGamer0 pog

PyGamer0

idk if it works lol

lyxal

@UnrelatedString Benare?

is Ben?

Unrelated String

12:01 PM

try not translating it

also the highlight is the fucking µ)Ƒ

like that is just not how i'm used to thinking about )

lyxal

@UnrelatedString you're gonna need to explain the joke to me then

my humour detector seems to be broken tonight

Unrelated String

> Ben desu

anyways i am way the fuck too sleepy to actually implement the number-splitting idea for the run lengths challenge so uh yeah

o/

\。

lyxal

o/

mathcat

Hey guis

o/

lyxal

@mathcat hello

mathcat

12:05 PM

I'm getting better at nerdle

it's far more interesting than wordle

lyxal

@mathcat that means you're a nerd.

mathcat

thx

lyxal

you're welcome

mathcat

I'm actually going to post a challenge now

lyxal

that's what I call gaming

PyGamer0

12:07 PM

@UnrelatedString explanation:

S⁼#'Ġ¥ᵟᶠW

        W  ⍝ N copies of sequential indices of elements
      ᵟᶠ   ⍝ filter keep over permutations
     ¥     ⍝ last 3 links as monad
    Ġ      ⍝ group adjacent elements which are equal
  #'       ⍝ length of each
S⁼         ⍝ is sorted?

(if i know chaining properly)

Ginger

someone doesn't like lyxal as much as they like pxeger and emanresu

mathcat

Oh wait, new room owners!

lyxal

yes

I'm italic now :p

mathcat

congratulations, emanresu A, lyxal and pxeger!

@lyxal epic

Ginger

@lyxal no, you're lyxal

lyxal

12:26 PM

now for the hard part of my blog post - the post-launch era

PyGamer0

12:45 PM

@lyxal how is it hard? you are the creator of vyxal which has 100 stars on github

lyxal

yes, but do I look like I know what worked and what didn't?

the pre-launch is easy to manage. it's post-launch that is touch-and-go

PyGamer0

@lyxal ... yes ... ?

lyxal

wrong.

there have been things that have happened without interference on my part

PyGamer0

i mean i guess the vyxal bounty drew some people into vyxal ... ?

lyxal

e.g. vyxal somehow getting the 12 votes it needed to get LoTM this time last year in just 2 weeks

and there's been parts that were not my doing at all

PyGamer0

12:49 PM

@lyxal like?

lyxal

a) moderator affiliation, b) Chris Pressey (creator of befunge) starring vyxal, following me on github, c) expansion into code review, d) obtaining 100 stars

PyGamer0

a) hyper joins vyxal

mathcat

@lyxal woah

PyGamer0

b) Chris Pressey's followers see vyxal

c) .... i have no words ....

d) very cool

mathcat

I don't know why but I have some weird github followers.

lyxal

12:56 PM

I can explain about half of those

mathcat

really?

lyxal

these users are from a rickroll language I starred once

this user seems to have found one of us and followed through with the rest of vyxal

and the last one is me

also cookie.

mathcat

ah

PyGamer0

Very funny joke.

50 mins ago, 48 minutes total – 3 messages, 2 users, 0 stars

Bookmarked 12 secs ago by PyGamer0

Bgil Midol

lol

PyGamer0

1:00 PM

@lyxal github.com/boa-lang

lyxal

what about it?

PyGamer0

what is that

lyxal

what was supposed to be a python like language made by some people from a discord (truttle) server

lyxal

2:19 PM

hey wow they made a decent stack status page

stackstatus.net is finally useful

but of course still no news on any quarterly community roadmaps for 2022

DLosc

3:11 PM

@lyxal I basically just started using it. My first mention of it in chat is from five months later (and immediately garnered a "Why'd you name it the same as Python's package manager" comment... sigh).

Got it on TIO about a year after first release.

I've never done much advertising, which is probably why Pip has never become popular (that, and the fact that it rarely beats other golflangs). I'm hoping that LYAL and eventually LotM will help. I think the people who have tried it have liked it.

DLosc

3:26 PM

Aug 26, 2016 at 20:16, by Rohan Jhunjhunwala

Im so happy for the new room owners

PyGamer0

yes but currency ¥€$

caird coinheringaahing

4:02 PM

That's interesting: the messages in chat about new ROs have 13 stars each, but the actual meta announcement only has 10 votes

(of course, as soon as I say that, it's score becomes 11 :P)

Radvylf Programs

I didn't know there was a meta announcement

I figured the link was to the voting

caird coinheringaahing

Ah, that makes sense

Nah, I followed tradition from the last 2 RO elections and posted an announcement, just to make it 100% clear who ended up being appointed

pxeger

5:15 PM

Today on Why Is JavaScript?: destructuring in rest arguments! ato.pxeger.com/…

Radvylf Programs

What's the code?

ATO's blocked for me

pxeger

function foo(...{2: third, ...rest}) {
  console.log({ third })
  console.log({ rest })
}
foo('a', 'b', 'c', 'd')

Radvylf Programs

Interesting

Semi-reasonable if you think through what it's doing though

pxeger

it kinda makes sense as a generalisation of both ... and destructuring features, but their intersection is still weird

It does have its use-cases though: ato.pxeger.com/…

// typescript
function foo1(x: number, y: boolean, z: string[]) {
  // pretend this does something interesting
  console.log({ x, y, z })
}
function foo2(...[firstArg, ...rest]: Parameters<typeof foo1>) {
  return foo1(firstArg + 1, ...rest)
}
foo2(3, true, ['hello', 'world'])

an easy way to do a type-safe wrapper function which modifies some specific arguments

Pyautogui

Non-sequitur: My congratulations to @lyxal for becoming an RO!!

pxeger

5:30 PM

and not the other two of us?

/hj

Pyautogui

No, all of you of course.

@lyxal is awesome because they invented Vyxal though, and Vyxal is my fav lang.

So first to mind.

Ginger

5:43 PM

tfw replit decides that your repl is experiencing a DDOS even though it's not

pxeger

@Ginger Do you never program on your own computer?

Ginger

I often can't because reasons

plus replit does free site hosting :p

Radvylf Programs

5:59 PM

@Ginger School/work computer sort of reasons, or potat comput reasons?

@pxeger Doesn't this kinda defeat the point of static typing?

It's far less readable and more likely to contain bugs than the non-statically-typed way to do this

(Assuming TS lets you tell it to ignore the typing when it's convenient, which I'd hope it does)

Ginger

@RadvylfPrograms school/work

Radvylf Programs

Ah, rip

Ginger

(promise me you won't use that to doxx me lol)

Radvylf Programs

Breaking news: Ginger goes to a school and/or works somewhere!

Ginger

nOOO

Pyautogui

7:10 PM

Should Leaky Nun still be an RO after their extended absence? IDK much about RO protocol.

Radvylf Programs

They're not an RO

You might be looking at "frequently in room"

Pyautogui

Got it. Yeah; the chattiquete link confused me.

Sorry.

Foolish of me.

Radvylf Programs

Chat's UI isn't the best, not your fault :p

And it's not like "frequently in room" is a particularly memorable festure of it either

Ginger

7:30 PM

List of absurd GitHub issue titles #6627:

> Fixed a bug that made - do addition instead of subtraction

2

pxeger

8:11 PM

@RadvylfPrograms Not at all; it means you can change foo1's parameter types and foo2 doesn't need changing at all, but the call site still has to change

If you did foo2(x: number, y, boolean, z: string[]), then if foo1 changes, you'd have to change both foo2 and its call site

it's much more convenient, but you still get safety when calling the function

Radvylf Programs

Hmm, I guess. It seems a bit to "look how cool this is" at the cost of readability, although tbf I do that all the time

pxeger

Typescript's type system is honestly pretty great

If they fleshed interfaces out into full Haskell type classes (with derivability and default implementations), it would be close to a my idea of a perfect type system

That and higher-kinded types

thejonymyster

8:27 PM

what do we think of a challenge about detecting various number classes using only regex

i know you can do, say, primes, evens, multiples of five, but i wonder if theres a way to make it interesting

ive got one rough idea but its not like, great,
something like "it has to match strings that are the class of the number followed by the number it is, and youre scored on both shortness and how many number classes you can do"

its got two metrics so its bad

but the concept intriques me :Pc

Radvylf Programs

CMC: Is it a fibonacci number?

DLosc

@RadvylfPrograms Pip, 14 bytes: Wi<ai::o+:ii=a

emanresu A

8:54 PM

@RadvylfPrograms Vyxal, 3 bytes

Honestly I have no idea how it terminates for non-fibonacci

That's "is it in the infinite list of Fibonacci numbers" and I don't know how it determines that something isn't.

Unrelated String

any chance the search knows it's ascending

DLosc

I expect Contains with a lazy list assumes the list is ordered, so it keeps looking until the elements get bigger than the value it's looking for and then it returns false.

Unrelated String

oh yeah it could also assume that lmao

DLosc

Try negating every other element and see if it breaks :P

emanresu A

Correct

DLosc

9:08 PM

That approach in Haskell, 54 bytes

36 bytes (can be 35 if True & False can be switched): f 0 1;f a b n|a<n=f b(a+b)n|1>0=a==n

Unrelated String

34 with infix: 0#1;(a#b)n|a<n=(b#(a+b))n|1>0=a==n

emanresu A

9:36 PM

JS, 41 bytes: x=>(s=v=>(v**.5)**2==v)(g=5*x*x-4)|s(g+8)

DLosc

9:55 PM

Hmm, that's unintuitive. x is a Fibonacci number iff one (or both) of 5x^2-4 or 5x^2+4 is a perfect square?

emanresu A

Yeah :P

Radvylf Programs

10:11 PM

CMQ: How many times have you been shocked by mains voltage (120/240)?

emanresu A

concerning

Radvylf Programs

Well, probably more concerning in 240-land. Three times here.

Once when I was like 6 and putting up christmas lights, and then twice recently, which were sort of..."second hand shocks" from being too close to my idiot dad while he tries to fix outlets with the breaker still on

lol nice

Oof

Oof

10:15 PM

The first time was the only "real" sock I've gotten, where it feels like you're getting poked by needles all over. It doesn't really hurt, but it's a bit...shocking (no pun intended)

emanresu A

> sock

user

I remember touching the metal prongs of the television's power thingy as I was taking it out of the extension cord thing and it hurt but also felt kinda nice and tingly at the same time?

Unrelated String

y'all are fucking wild

emanresu A

Sensible plug design and parents here

Radvylf Programs

One of the times it was pretty minor since it was a GFCI outlet, and we'd gotten lucky since it was the load side. So I just got a metallic taste in my mouth. If it had been the line side things would have been more interesting.

user

10:16 PM

As Radvylf said, it's less concerning in the US

Radvylf Programs

Yeah, but a lot more common since our plugs are garbage

Unrelated String

for a split second i read that as ghci

Radvylf Programs

I've luckily managed to avoid that sort of shock since I'm really careful when unplugging stuff, but I have witnessed some...interesting things

ATaco

I touched an electric fence, but that’s about it

user

Oh this just reminded me, I went to this science park (?) once and there was this thing with lit up handprints on it. Being a stupid kid, I went up and immediately pressed my hands to it very hard. It hurt like hell and I fell from the shock (pun intended). Got up and read that the exhibit was supposed to give you an electric shock

Unrelated String

10:19 PM

nice

user

I don't know why they even had it there

Unrelated String

to give you an electric shock

user

@ATaco Whoa, did it hurt a lot?

@UnrelatedString Oh that solves the mystery, thanks

Unrelated String

yw

Radvylf Programs

What really scares me are our dryer plugs though...just as unsafe as the normal ones, except scaled up by two, and often even harder to get a grip on (and also 240v and up to 50 amps)

emanresu A

10:21 PM

Has a answer-chaining been done where you can only insert/append/prepend characters into the previous answer?

ATaco

@user wasn’t actually very painful at all, but it sent me hurling backwards

Radvylf Programs

@emanresuA What would the goal be?

emanresu A

Idk, just an idea

user

Could be interesting but I don't think I've ever seen one

ATaco

Probably have to enforce a language restriction as well, such as enforcing a different language each answer

emanresu A

10:24 PM

yeah :P

ATaco

That or it’s all going to be the same language, most likely

user

@ATaco Or you could enforce one single language (perhaps made up for the challenge) for all the answers

emanresu A

Nah

that'd get too trivial :P

ATaco

“Write the previous answer’s language name”

Radvylf Programs

@user Once someone figures out how to sneak a comment in it's game over

ATaco

10:26 PM

Unless the language doesn’t have comments

user

I really want more challenges with languages specifically made for them

You could totally make your own language without any comments

emanresu A

At the same time you'd want to avoid 1, 1+1, 1+1+1 etc

ATaco

I want more challenges that ask you to make a language

user

^ too

ATaco

Like the “make a seemingly unusable language” c&r

CMC: Given two points, calculate the M and C values of the line between them, assuming P1 and P2 is not perfectly vertical

emanresu A

10:32 PM

Ooh, idea: add a language to a polyglot but the language you add is hidden

ATaco

C&R answer chaining..?

emanresu A

In other words, pretty much this:

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Q: Overlapping Polyglots

Unlike many C&R challenges, this does not require a separate robbers post; the goal of the robbers is to crack the previous answer and then post a new one as a cop. As answerers, you will write a series of polyglots that look like this (each column is a language, and each entry is the output of ...

cops-and-robbers polyglot obfuscation answer-chaining

ATaco

Well then do I have the challenge for you

emanresu A

But I think having all the languages as opposed to just 3 will make for a very different one

Opinions on whether it'd be a dupe?

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10:51 PM

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Q: Divisible subset sums

Inspired by the recent 3Blue1Brown video Consider, for some positive integer \$n\$, the set \$\{1, 2, ..., n\}\$ and its subsets. For example, for \$n = 3\$, we have $$\emptyset, \{1\}, \{2\}, \{3\}, \{1,2\}, \{1,3\}, \{2,3\}, \{1,2,3\}$$ If we take the sum of these subsets, we can then ask ourse...

code-golf math combinatorics set-partitions

emanresu A

@NewPosts Does the mathjax on this render properly for y'all?

caird coinheringaahing

Does for me

user

Works for me too

Very funny joke.

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