The Nineteenth Byte

Steffan

00:00

@Deadcode I usually just forget to upvote even if I think it's cool

@Deadcode Yes, if a question has a score of -4 or less, it doesn't show on the home page. It does still appear on /active tho

Deadcode

@Zionmyceliaadamancy No, it does not appear on active.

Zion mycelia adamancy

@Deadcode Personally, I'll leave a welcoming comment, including saying "Nice first answer"/"Nice first question" but won't necessarily upvote it because, while I like seeing new users take part in the site, I often don't know enough about a language to see if it's actually a good answer, or just a solid first attempt.

@Deadcode That's not active, this is

(Tho I suppose they both are, I refer to the page I linked when I mean /active)

NoHaxJustRadvylf

@Zionmyceliaadamancy I always upvote new users' posts, even if they're below average.

Deadcode

@Zionmyceliaadamancy Well technically they both are, but... anyway I doubt that one you linked gets viewed much

NoHaxJustRadvylf

00:08

Better to have a few bad answers early on and be encouraged to keep trying than to just post a few bad answers early on

Zion mycelia adamancy

@Deadcode Personally, I spend more time on the page I linked, because it shows all the posts (plus the layout of the home pages is blech). Tho, I can't speak for everyone

Deadcode

Fair enough.

Zion mycelia adamancy

I do also think that, while I will downvote any post that I have reason to, I will always leave a comment explaining why I've voted, and I by no means encourage others to vote the same way. If you agree with me, then sure, downvote as well, but I strongly disagree with downvoting just cause someone else has.

My vote is simply my own singular opinion, I can't speak for what other users will do

thejonymyster

00:35

@Zionmyceliaadamancy i use both pages, in a sort of "maybe theres a new post on the other front page"/"cat wants to go outside actually it wants to come back inside" object-impermanent haze

OldSandboxPosts

01:00

Sandbox posts last active a week ago: Runs Between Values, All\$^{\dagger}\$ 3-character expressions, Infinite Fibonacci word [code-golf] [sequence] [fibonacci] [string]

NoHaxJustRadvylf

01:40

Y'know I never actually thought about which of JS's four equality algorithms switch statements use

Just now thought about it since I has a switch statement of normal numbers, then converted the whole program to use bigints (a hellish process)

Sandbox Posts

03:43

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Rearrange to a palindrome Given a string, shuffle it so that it becomes a palindrome. For example, adadbcc can be arranged into dacbcad, or dcabacd, acdbdca and more. Any of these (or all) is acceptable, and duplicates are allowed if outputting all. Something like abc cannot be shuffled into a pa...

Unrelated String

04:52

wait
*four*?

what are the ones other than what == and === use

New Posts

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Q: Generate an arbitrary half of a string

Given a string \$ x \$, we say another string \$ y \$ is half of it, if both of the following properties are true: \$ y \$ is a (not necessarily continuous) subsequence of \$ x \$ - there exists a strictly increasing sequence \$ a_i \$ such that \$ y_i = x_{a_i} \$ Each character appears in \$ x...

emanresu A

@UnrelatedString Object.is and something else I forgot

Unrelated String

05:23

i just found out about carbon and i absolutely love how the readme on github straight up says that in any case where any other modern language can be used it should be used because carbon exists purely to make it possible to phase existing codebases out of c++

emanresu A

Lol

Link?

Unrelated String

github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang#why-build-carbon

emanresu A

C++ is always gonna be around

Like COBOL and similar

Unrelated String

come to think of it i wonder why there's no similar project for cobol

emanresu A

Because people don't write new stuff in it nowadays

@UnrelatedString Looks like rust but less arcane

Unrelated String

05:52

yeah it seems to be heavily rust-inspired

PyGamer0

06:03

^^

@UnrelatedString why not just use rust lol

Unrelated String

interoperates better with c++ and is easier to translate from c++

has the tradeoff of being like c++, but still possesses the key virtue of not being c++

att

that is indeed an important virtue

PyGamer0

06:48

what does flat_map do?

emanresu A

07:13

TIL chat censors credit card numbers

Neil

07:33

@emanresuA I think Array.includes uses the other one

@PyGamer0 same as [].concat(...foo.map(...)) I think

emanresu A

Or foo.map(...).flat()

Neil

(in even older versions of JS, you have to emulate it using reduce)

emanresu A

This is what Babel's for

pxeger

08:13

CMC: print the first n numbers which are not multiples of 11

pxeger

08:34

in fact, more interesting CMC: print all two-digit numbers between which are not multiples of 11

lyxal

08:50

@emanresuA ooh let me try

4863 8273 1847 2937

Hey wait a minute...

emanresu A

@lyxal This isn't your real credit card number, right?

... it passes the algorithm

lyxal

Sheet really

Lol

@emanresuA no lmao

The only major cards used here are Visa and Mastercard. Visa starts with 4564 and Mastercard starts with a 5x number.

Other cards aren't really used here

emanresu A

Imagine having a credit card

lyxal

*debit

emanresu A

Imagine having any sort of bank card

lyxal