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5 hours later…
tsh
6:01 AM
Seems that SE had changed url parameter answertab=active into answertab=modifieddesc. And the link to sandbox in the info box is now broken. Any moderators may help to fix the link?
 
 
2 hours later…
7:59 AM
A very short sed puzzle that has me confused: Try it online!
 
8:26 AM
@Jonah there's more than one match for a*
 
9:18 AM
@Jonah a* also matches the empty string at the start of the input
 
9:55 AM
@hyper-neutrino @JoKing @WheatWizard ^^^^
 
10:21 AM
does brian still work at SE?
 
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Q: Fix the sandbox link in our info box

Wheat WizardDue to changes in sorting the sandbox link in our info box no longer works as intended. It should sort by active, but it doesn't. The existing link is: https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2140/sandbox-for-proposed-challenges?answertab=active The fixed link should be: https://codeg...

 
10:35 AM
@NoHaxJustRadvylf no lol, its been 2 years since we had any physical exam
 
10:50 AM
@pxeger Hey! If you have the time. Could you explain some of the issues with running attempt-this-online under docker?
 
 
1 hour later…
11:55 AM
I'm back guis
just had to save the world
 
12:41 PM
lmao me too
for some reason the world is a .sty file
 
The world is Latex
 
Ew is that Insiders?
 
@lyxal lol
 
@user you non-beta nerd
 
That's right I'm an alpha male
I'm untested and unstable
 
12:52 PM
You frick that's the opposite of standard
 
Insiders is too stable for my tastes. I prefer compiling nightlies by hand
 
1:26 PM
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Q: Next digit of rational number

JiříStory: The π was recently computed with accuracy to 100 trillions digits, but it is useless to us. We can't do accurate enough math, because rational numbers are too boring and so we don't know that much digits of them! Challenge: Your task will be to write program or function which takes string ...

 
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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

cheemsSpecial String We call a binary string \$S\$ of length \$N\$ special if : substring \$S[0:i+1]\$ is lexicographically strictly smaller than substring \$S[i+1:N]\$ for \$ 0\leq i\leq N-1\$ Given a binary string \$T\$ of length \$N\$ we are interested in the first special binary string of length ...

 
1:56 PM
@awagga I'd imagine there could br some nested virtualization issues
 
 
1 hour later…
Make sense as in?
Is it correct? Would it be helpful to someone new to calculus? Does it makes sense to someone who already knows a less technical definition of derivatives/integrals?
 
kind of curious why "does this make sense" got asked on CGCC.se and not math.se
 
Because the math chat rooms are roughly comparable to a sewer
And in TNB most people know one another and you're likely to get a quick and somewhat helpful response
 
i didn't say chat ;)
they could post it on math.se :p
just sayin.
anyways, greetings TNB.
lurks in the shadows
 
@NoHaxJustRadvylf the first one, is it correct?
@ThomasWard because people respond faster :P
 
3:24 PM
Yes, unless there's some subtle mistake
 
@NoHaxJustRadvylf okok thanks
for anyone wondering: the n=a,h is just n starts at a, step size is h
@NoHaxJustRadvylf i am trying to learn calculus an year early :P
 
Ah. Good luck!
Calculus is fun
 
i was watching 3b1b
 
Yeah I was actually about to recommend those videos lol
 
lol
@ThomasWard why do you lurk in the shadows :P
 
3:32 PM
@PyGamer0 would you prefer i stand right in front of your face and breathe heavily in your face?
:p
the shadows are my domain >:D
 
lol
 
@PyGamer0 Not sure I get the n = a,h notation in the sum
At least, it isn't very intuitive as h -> 0 what "step size" means
 
4:02 PM
@Zionmyceliaadamancy think: range(a,b,h)
as h goes to zero
 
@NoHaxJustRadvylf You forgot to put an "/s" there
Calculus is interesting but it's also pain
 
@user Because I legitimately enjoy calculus (when it's not annoying stuff like anything involving surface area)
 
It's usually annooying stuff though
I hated having to memorize theorems and figure out ways to apply them
 
Maybe IRL, but at least for me it was mostly fun parts
It's also in most ways very elegant which makes it fun to learn
 
We must've had very different teachers then :P
 
 
2 hours later…
5:49 PM
@Neil @JoKing: Okay, so what is happening is that a* is matching the beginning of the string, and that match has 0 characters. But with the g flag, it matches that one as well as the aaa one, which it matches greedily. That makes sense.
 
@awagga the main problem is that ATO runs its own containers, which isn't possible in Docker without the --privileged flag
 
Gotta love visiting a site and it immediately downloads an audio file called ghost_in_the_shell to your computer ಠ_ಠ
 
only a problem if it's the live action
 
6:20 PM
This in a $3000 course
 
6:32 PM
JAVA
 
6:58 PM
Also Go, which is very much not a client-side scripting language
 
7:15 PM
@user wait really????
that's really dumb
also who writes Java in all caps
 
I've seen a lot of people new to Java do it, not sure why
Go to StackOverflow or Code Review and you'll probably find a few questions titled "JAVA: ..."
 
7:32 PM
huh
 
I don't think JAVA in all caps is a new thing
I mainly see it in old, outdated tutorials
 
i guess a lot of people new to java might be new to programming overall and just think every programming language is in all caps because of fortran and cobol
except i've never seen PYTHON
 
@NoHaxJustRadvylf might that be because of SQL?
 
att
7:46 PM
most the other languages in that list aren't all-caps either
 
@UnrelatedString Java is short and not a recognizable word to many, unlike Python which is more clearly not an acronym
 
8:08 PM
Fun fact: Although rSNBATWPL is intended to be run right-to-left, and most of its built-ins play nice with this, it's possible to write one or more built-ins which override this
 
8:38 PM
blyat I am still alive
 
9:31 PM
F
 

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