@DLosc Not totally related, but one of my pet peeves is when people put stuff like "tomorrow" on notices and stuff where the date is unclear
I've also come upon some data where one of the properties has a name that's similar to isCurrentlyActive and it's true for people who were last around in like 2020
@RadvylfPrograms I mean, that's fine, because this is chat. You can look at the time the message was posted and that message is probably going to be forgotten pretty soon
I attended a spelling bee when I was in 2nd grade, I just remember I got 43 points in the first round, my neighbour got 43 too and I spelt milk as milc.
the one time I've tried one it was single elimination (except in the last round where the last two survivors both got their words wrong and we had to have an extension)
I remember the prep more than the bee itself. "Business" and "bureau" gave me some problems. And apparently "smith" (person who works with metal) and "Smith" (last name) were considered separate words, and you had to give the correct one (spelling the latter "capital S, M, I, T, H"). I think the only way to disambiguate was to ask for the definition.
@DLosc Did the person reading the word say it weird or something? (I lost a spelling bee once because I heard "embarrass" as "amberous" since the person reading had an accent)
@user They expect you to know that it's ambiguous and that you have to ask for the definition. I agree that it's dumb that they included proper nouns, but having to ask for a definition makes more sense if it's something like bare/bear.
CMC: Given a list X of positive integers, return a binary string Y such that the nth digit of Y has the same parity as the number of times n appears in X
You can have two parallel instruction pointers which end up on the opposite side of each other if they go off the "edge" of the program (i.e., over the poles)
I think it was kind of weak to not just name it Mondrian. It's survival of the fittest out there in the esolang world, if you don't make a good esolang, someone should just steal your language's name and replace it with a better one.
No I just mean that unlike a normal 2D lang on an integer grid, you can't put an operator (expressed as a character) in a fractional column position in a grid of source code
@RadvylfPrograms if you propose this as a question (and I get elected), I will step down as mod on your 18th birthday, call for an election, then run against you and win
Given a set of letter grades, output the GPA (grade point average) of those grades, rounded to one decimal place.
Valid grades and their corresponding value are the following:
A = 4 grade points
A- = 3.7 grade points
B+ = 3.3 grade points
B = 3 grade points
B- = 2.7 grade points
C+ = 2.3 grade po...
Technically y'all were elected 2 weeks from now, 2 years ago, but this works as well :P
In fact, the proper 2 year anniversary for the current mods will happen during the nominations, so whoever wins will get their Sheriff badge ~20 days after the other 3 mods have their anniversary :P
@cairdcoinheringaahing Not sure. I like that I have a counter on my website that has just been steadily ticking away for two years without realizing it's totally useless, but maybe it's worth giving its life purpose again
Redwolf turns 18 in 2024 IIRC, but I'm expecting pxeger or lyxal to win in 2024, then the other one of them to win in 2026, then Bubbler in 2028, and finally Redwolf in 2030, except Glorfindel comes in in the last second to sweep a win :P
Because the current TNB ROs are, for sure, going to be the most active members here in 8 years time
3045 AD: Glorfindel is the sole, unchallenged moderator of all the Stack Exchange sites. Prosus has bowed down to him. Jon Skeet has been absorbed into him. Glorfindel has acquired 1000 mod diamonds and 100 staff diamonds. Despite the lack of democracy, it is a time of peace. The community's input is always taken into account. High rep users get unicorns. Each achievement gives you a waffle. Stack Overflow has lost its reputation for toxicity. People asking homework questions get skewered by unicorns. There is no more need for moderation because the Glorfindel entity is omniscient, omnipres…
Given that Glorfindel was born in the Blessed Lands under the light of the Two Trees, and he's the only elf so special that he was sent back to Middle Earth a second time after he died, it's fair to say he deserves all the diamonds.
The power ratings in the Tolkien world, basically, go "Older = more powerful", and, of the beings alive in the Third Age, only Sauron, Durin's Bane, Galadriel, Cirdan and maybe Thranduil are older, and, of those, only Galadriel and Sauron have seen the light of the Two Trees and could rival Glorfindel in power
@user If you're a mod on 8 sites, clearly you enjoy engaging with SE sites through a moderation aspect, so working for SE could very reasonably be a good job
@cairdcoinheringaahing 1) Depending how you count age, Gandalf and the other Istari are pretty old since they are Maiar. 2) Tom Bombadil is an enigma, of course, but he is called "oldest" IIRC; he may be as old as Middle Earth itself. 3) Treebeard is also super old; I don't remember the exact quote, but some character says something about him being one of the oldest beings you could meet.
You could argue that Durin's Bane is older than Glorfindel, but, Glorfindel has been residing in the Halls of Mandos, whereas Durin's Bane has been wasting away in Middle Earth
@DLosc Good point, Tom, Treebeard and the Istari are indisputably older
Though, I would argue that Glorfindel would win in a fight vs Treebeard, or against Radagast or Gandalf the Grey. Saruman, or Gandalf the White would beat Glorfindel, and we don't know about the Blue Wizards
And you're absolutely right that Glorfindel don't need no ring, as proven by the fact that Frodo can see him just fine when he's partway to becoming a wraith and most everything else is getting fuzzy. :D
And, from Of Aule and Yavanna, we know that the Ents awoke before the Elves, and Glorfindel wasn't one of the first to awake, so we can assume the Ents are older than the Elves
This is one of the things I love about the Lord of the Rings: there are some things about the world that nobody knows, in- or out-of-universe, and we can only speculate. Rather like the real world.
@DLosc Tolkien got bored of all Christopher's questions and just responded with "They don't know" :P
But also, the way he told the story - as a translator, rather than as an author - meant that he could do that, as people in the world genuinely didn't know, so he couldn't know either
Oh man... now I almost want to write an essay about Tom Bombadil and why the fact that such a person exists in Middle Earth is actually super important to the themes of the story.
if someone took 200ish random good challenges from the site and turned them all into 1 byte builtins and used the rest as the rest of the lang's structure, do you think itd be any good at any other challenges
CMC: Given a list of integers, return a list of the indices that correspond to nonzero values in the original list. The indices can be 0-based or 1-based, your choice. Ex: [5,0,-1,0,0,42,0] -> [0,2,5] (0-based) or [1,3,6] (1-based).
@Bubbler Idk what you're talking about, I had no idea about this challenge, I just thought that the thickness of a number would be a helpful builtin. And also, ThicknessOfAStringAccordingToTheDefinitionThatBubblerSuggestedAWhileBackInTheNineteenthByteAFewMonthsOrMaybeYearsAgo is just a common builtin :P
