The Nineteenth Byte

Steffan

01:14

...since when were there codidact webhooks in here?

or have they been in here all along?

caird coinheringaahing

10

Q: Should new challenges on Codidact be posted into The Nineteenth Byte?

Codidact is a related network of sites to Stack Exchange, created in the aftermath of behaviour by Stack Exchange in late 2019, in an effort to create a better Q&A network. One of the sites in their network is Code Golf, where a large number of CGCC users have started to contribute. The site has ...

TL;DR, a year

emanresu A

Since then we've had maybe one every few months

Radvylf Programs

01:42

@thejonymyster It was probably just the blog of some swedish dude named phil

thejonymyster

02:06

@RadvylfPrograms tbh i also was thrown off by the header that said Meta, i was like, what kind of weird SE is this? has it not fully loaded in yet?

Seggan

02:32

@emanresuA well see about that

my aim tomorrow: outgolf vyxal

Steffan

02:42

@emanresuA port of jelly be 4 bytes

Aiden Chow

Knight v2, 40 bytes (takes input 1-indexed): ;=nP;=b,=a@;W=n-EnT;=t a;=a b=b+@+,t,aDa

wait actually

36 bytes: ;=nP;=b,=a@;W=n-EnT=b+@+,=t a,=a bDa

bruh wait why am i even using a temporary var lol

33 bytes: ;=nP;=b,=a@;W=n-EnT=b+@+,a,=a bDa

shorter to print indefinitely but the website seems to get stuck if i try to do that

Steffan

you don't need the +@ lmao

you don't need to convert an array to an array

Aiden Chow

@Steffan shit u right, i was used to putting that there for numbers lol

itll be 31 bytes in that case

emanresu A

@Steffan smort

Steffan

for what numbers lol

Aiden Chow

02:54

@Steffan i meant converting numbers to list of digits

just subconscious put the +@ there lol

Steffan

yeah but there's no number to convert to a list of digits. its arg is just a list

Aiden Chow

@Steffan ok ya ik that but like i just put it there out of habit anyways lol

Steffan

lol

@emanresuA you can actually get 3 bytes with Ṁ/mM flag

emanresu A

Ooh

Steffan

i feel like vectorized recursion should be one byte in a golflang

also you shouldn't need a lambda, so that would make flaggy 1 byte

Aiden Chow

02:58

da hell is vectorized recursion

Steffan

recurse on each

Aiden Chow

@Steffan ohhh that makes more sense

Unrelated String

i feel like that's more mapped recursion
like vectorization carries the implication of implicit and known-depth

DLosc

03:14

@cairdcoinheringaahing Maybe, yeah. It certainly feels familiar.

@cairdcoinheringaahing Wait, this is incorrect. Every sequence element after the first two should be a list containing exactly two lists.

emanresu A

Oops

DLosc

@emanresuA Nice, I was vaguely thinking there had to be a better way than while 1

Unrelated String

03:31

@emanresuA 36

~~the single thing i can do in python golf~~

emanresu A

smort

Unrelated String

thank

Aiden Chow

@UnrelatedString that looked hella confusing until i looked at the previous golfs lol

i was like tf is b,a,b

DLosc

Pip -p, infinite output, 14 bytes: Y[l]W1Y[Pll:y]

emanresu A

That's clever

DLosc

03:35

Wish there were a shorter way to get [[]]

@emanresuA I started with the Fibonacci program and tweaked it until it worked

though this one is rather easier to understand, methinks

att

04:35

@UnrelatedString 32

Unrelated String

oooh nice

Aiden Chow

@att lol wtf is going on here

att

last element of s(n) is s(n-1)

mathematica take on that is 25: Nest[{p,p=#}&,{Set@p},#]&

DLosc

05:44

@att Ooh! Though, IDK how I feel about tuples... but it's still 34 with list output.

Parcly Taxel

06:46

(Awaiting Sandbox update...)

Sandbox Posts

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Count Futoshiki row solutions code-golfgamecombinatoricspuzzle-solver Futoshiki is a logic puzzle where an \$n×n\$ Latin square using numbers from \$1\$ to \$n\$ must be completed based on given numbers and inequalities between adjacent cells. In a solved Futoshiki puzzle any row (or column) for...

Parcly Taxel

Yes, that one. As usual I'd like to see if there's anything I need to fix with this proposal

Niko

07:59

should we delete this answer? so many thing went wrong in that answer

mousetail

Is there a good way to quickly search for all submissions on a specific language?

Niko

direct search for answer that contains the language name, language name should be put on top of most of the answer

Jo King

and hope that it is not an unsearchable name

Bubbler

^ really

otherwise you need to do some SEDE hackery abusing links or whatever

Feeds

08:31

1

Q: Should rust anonymous functions fully specify parameter types?

Context Rust does a lot of smart things to determine the types of variables. This is why you rarely need to define the types of a variable explicitly. Rust can search very far to find a type for a function. For example, this is invalid: let i; but this is: let i; i=5 These lines do not need to ...

discussion

lyxal

09:00

@Niko give them a week or two to fix it - JoKing left a comment asking them to make the answer valid, so they need time to read the comment and act upon it

Niko

@lyxal ok, also the code can’t even run because of it’s indent is wrong lol

emanresu A

09:59

Ostrich algorithm

In computer science, the ostrich algorithm is a strategy of ignoring potential problems on the basis that they may be exceedingly rare. It is named after the ostrich effect which is defined as "to stick one's head in the sand and pretend there is no problem". It is used when it is more cost-effective to allow the problem to occur than to attempt its prevention. == Use with deadlocks == This approach may be used in dealing with deadlocks in concurrent programming if they are believed to be very rare and the cost of detection or prevention is high. For example, if each PC deadlocks once per 10 years...

Number Basher

10:31

was there a lyal?

lyxal

10:46

No

Number Basher

why

@lyxal why, what are we supposed to learn

lyxal

I suppose it just wasn't remembered

Number Basher

right fine

Anyone still want to do LYAL?

Ginger

11:27

|:

mathcat

\:

Adám

@Ginger That means transpose in J

@mathcat And that means sort/grade descending.

Ginger

...thanks for the info??? what do I do with this knowledge

mousetail

J:

mathcat

@Ginger go learn J

mousetail

11:29

Is J the LYAL today?

Fatalize

@Adám why doesn’t transpose use \ which actually looks like a diagonal…?

Ginger

we'll go with yes it is now

sound good?

I assume so, so:

Welcome to the twenty-fifth Learn You A Lang for Great Good! Today, we'll be learning J. During the event, feel free to post CMCs to practice J (JMCs), ask questions about the language, and so on.

Adám

@Ginger Feel its awesome power:

4

mousetail

I vote kill

CMC If all the programing languages where playing among us, who would be the impostors?

Fatalize

@mousetail This one

Adám

11:33

@Fatalize Because J started as an ASCII transliteration of APL. APL has a mnemonic set of ⌽ reverse and ⍉ transpose. J kept the visual pairing, but had to compromise.

Number Basher

@Fatalize lol

Adám

@mousetail Well, APL is the only language I know where ⍝ has meaning…

Number Basher

This is cooooooooool

mousetail

@Adám Wouldn't that make it a crewmate though?

@NumberBasher Why is the S so weird?

Adám

@mousetail That's traditional.

mousetail

11:36

There are a few normal S too

Adám

Yes, at the end of words and word-parts.

Long s

The long s ⟨ſ⟩, also known as the medial s or initial s, is an archaic form of the lowercase letter ⟨s⟩. It replaced the single s, or one or both of the letters s in a 'double s' sequence (e.g., "ſinfulneſs" for "sinfulness" and "poſſeſs" or "poſseſs" for "possess"—but never *"poſſeſſ"). The long s is the basis of the first half of the grapheme of the German alphabet ligature letter ⟨ß⟩, which is known as the Eszett. The modern ⟨s⟩ letterform is known as the 'short', 'terminal', or 'round' s. In typography, it is known as a type of swash letter, commonly referred to as a "swash s". == Rules... ==

mousetail

Odd

Also the definition of a line there is actually a line segment

Number Basher

@Adám true

mathcat

@mousetail vyxal

Number Basher

@mousetail tell Euclid

mousetail

11:37

@NumberBasher I mean Euclid was a long time ago, so it makes sense his work is out of date but that makes the info here kinda useless

@mathcat Ok Vyxal sus for sure

Adám

@Ginger JMC: Write a dyadic function which takes an integer left argument ≤ the integer right argument, and generates the inclusive range. E.g. _4 f 2 gives _4 _3 _2 _1 0 1 2

Feeds

11:55

0

Q: Fix the dead LYAL

Like last time, LYAL is dead. Source. As documented here, there were no LYALs for 6 weeks. I agree with what caird says: If people aren't engaging with an event anymore, the proper thing to do is let it die. It was fun when it started, and that's great, but there's nothing wrong with saying "Wel...

discussion chat chat-events

Seggan

12:07

LYAL dead?

only 1 jmc no answers

Number Basher

@Seggan true

Seggan

12:18

o wait i just realized joking is a mod

Ginger

It's actually the twenty-seventh one lol

I forgor to change the number

Jo King

@Seggan maybe i should apply to the election to make doubly sure

Ginger

so you can get SE Nitro :p

mousetail

Would you get 2 diamonds after your name if you became mod twice?

Ginger

you'd get a heart

lyxal

12:21

@mousetail no, that already happens

mousetail

I see only 1

@Ginger My life goal would be to get a club

lyxal

@mousetail (the joke is that a chat improvement userscript I use places an extra diamond for some reason)

Ginger

@mousetail become mod(mod(moderator)erator)erator)

Jo King

@mousetail i actually rank up to the omega ranking

Ginger

Are YOU a SIGMA MOD? Take THIS personality quiz to FIND OUT!

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Jo King

12:24

if i don't do enough flags i get demoted down to gold

mousetail

@Ginger 1 question: Are you Jo King (Y/N)

Ginger

@mousetail I am not Jo King, in both senses of the word

2

mousetail

I'm usually Joking but never as good as Jo King

2

Ginger

tfw you do do doing it wrong wrong wrong

mathcat

Mar 30 at 12:50, by lyxal

it's a result of every 12-year-old's favourite browser hacking tool

Ginger

12:28

a very belated welcome back to mathcat

mathcat

a very belated hi

Parcly Taxel

12:52

Would also like reviews of this codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2140/…

lyxal

→ 152 parallel lines moved to Off-Topic TNB

ighto back to writing an answer to the "fix the dead lyal" meta post

Number Basher

ok

mousetail

Nobody is wrong

What if the lines identify as parallel even if they are born intersecting?

Number Basher

Which is sort of ironic, because once my name was "Nobody"

@mousetail shrug

lyxal

← 1 mismoved sandbox review request moved back from Off-Topic TNB

Parcly Taxel

12:59

I know, this place is as brilliant as ever

Number Basher

@lyxal lol

@lyxal would've wanted to move it to a new room but the conversation is sort of over

lyxal

@ParclyTaxel I'm sorry for accidentally moving your sandbox message btw - it accidentally got caught up in the parallel lines discussion

mousetail

Our opinions would stay equidistant, we are paralel

Number Basher

(tbh it happens all the time when you've got to move... 151 messages

@mousetail and we would never meet... for good.

mousetail

...or for evil

Number Basher

13:01

lol

Parcly Taxel

My working title was "Count linear extensions of an inequality chain" – drier

Number Basher

I'm looking forward to @lyxal 's Meta answer

lyxal

it's taken half an hour to research it

and I'm still going

Number Basher

hmm..

ok

@lyxal btw, there's more if you scroll up

mousetail

LDW isn't that active either

Number Basher

13:08

most of those

@mousetail true...

@mousetail but nobody forgets it (for now)

lyxal

@NumberBasher I figured those would be okay to keep

mousetail

It's always the same though, so you can just post the same thing

For LDW you actually need to read the thread to figure out what the L is

Number Basher

@lyxal ok

@mousetail true

Number Basher

13:21

@lyxal @ me when you are done and I got to go

lyxal

okie doke

Radvylf Programs

13:54

Which of these language version selectors look better:

lyxal

second

Radvylf Programs

That's what I'm thinking, though I'm worried it might look weird for languages with a lot of implementations

mousetail

@RadvylfPrograms Why not align them all the way?

Radvylf Programs

@mousetail As in line up the versions?

mousetail

yes

Radvylf Programs

13:55

Because they won't necessarily be using the same versioning schemes

E.g., Node.js's versions are totally different from V8's

mousetail

Also why does python only go up to 2.0

Radvylf Programs

Because that's where the good Python is /s

Nah I just typed in numbers that looked nice, and then added in the language name later

mousetail

It's actually really hard to find any info on python 1.x

lyxal

@RadvylfPrograms what's the maximum number of versions allowed?

mousetail

@RadvylfPrograms Not necessarily line up the same version numbers but use grid to they are paralel to a version, maybe two for long versions

lyxal

13:58

@NumberBasher done

Radvylf Programs

@lyxal No hard maximum, but there's going to be guidelines. The number of versions you'd be expected to stay within reasonably is roughly proportional to how popular the language is and how large it is disk-wise

E.g., we don't need 40 different versions and implementations of Brain-flak, but 20 Pythons or 10 Vyxals would be fine

lyxal

@RadvylfPrograms so 103 releases of a language would be a no-no?

Sandbox Posts

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Given an input, print it out but removing every character that is the letter e, either uppercase or lowercase. The string must be the exact same (minus the removed letters), and you can assume the input will be non-empty. Example Input: This is a sentence. Output: This is a sntnc.

Seggan

> Add some more languages to the language pool

0

A: Fix the dead LYAL

A Diagnosis of LYAL Forgive me if this is a little incoherent - I wrote this at 11pm while feeling a tad bit tired and incoherent myself While I disagree with the statement that LYAL is dead, I do agree that it is slowly dying. This answer will look at the symptoms that indicate LYAL is dying and...

Think I should nominate Fig?

Radvylf Programs

@lyxal Yeah, you wouldn't be able to include all of those, unless you came up with a really cool layering system to save space and had a good reasom.

lyxal

14:00

@RadvylfPrograms would previous releases ever be deleted?

because that could be a problem if they aren't

@Seggan yes

Radvylf Programs

Speaking of LYAL, Trianguish was nominated a while back and I'm willing to teach it

@lyxal Whenever a new one's added, the person adding it (or bot) would be expected to get rid of any that are no longer needed

E.g., a new patch of the same minor version would probably just replace the old one

Or, maybe you'd want to keep around the most recent one, and replace the second most recent one, for bug-finding purposes

Maybe if the storage wasn't an issue, I could add an option (enabled by default) to show only the most important versions, and you could go in and see the whole list if you needed them all

I've only got 800 GB of storage right now, but maybe I'll hit my head really hard and drop $4k on 64 TB worth of SSDs and it won't be an issue :p

This UI doesn't look super good, but I can't think of a way to make the byte count and options dropdown look nice next to each other:

mousetail

@RadvylfPrograms Looks fine

Radvylf Programs

Idk, the gray non-bold text just looks out of place next to the bold byte count to me

mousetail

I'd maybe swap the grey and black

but I don't think it looks out of place

mousetail

14:35

Lol meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/420571/…

Never heared of CGSE where every post has <h1>

Radvylf Programs

For accessibility it's better to use <h2> but a title is defiantly helpful — mousetail 10 mins ago

defiantly helpful...when you're helpful and you will not stop being helpful

:p

mousetail

I can never spell definatly

Radvylf Programs

Yeah me neither

mousetail

and my computer always corrects it to definatly

Radvylf Programs

It's got a weird combination of like, double is which are hard enough, then I can never remember what it is in def.n.t.?ly

Number Basher

14:42

@lyxal oh ok

and it looks amazing to me

I'm not gonna look at it today (which for me is probably 2 hours) and of course not until a reasonable time tommorow (for sleep) cuz I've got a test day tommorow

DISCUSS THE LYAL PROBLEM HERE

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Radvylf Programs

I think chat events kind of have a natural life cycle

It happened with BMG, it'll happen with LYAL

Then we just move on to a new event, and circle back to it some time in the future when there's interest again

I think for now we can squeeze more juice out of this avocado though

Number Basher

15:04

@RadvylfPrograms true

@RadvylfPrograms hhh

This is epic: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/x2ft84lche

Seggan

wow

PyGamer0

wow

thats so cool

Radvylf Programs

i squish the body:

Seggan

desmos.com/calculator/mmbzbkfixw

the original version ^

Fig has been nominated

New Posts

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Q: Solve Cubic Using Cubic Formula

Description All cubic equations can be solved, and every cubic has at least one solution. The goal of this challenge is to solve a given cubic using the inputs, and (obviously) the smallest program size. Rules The solution must solve a cubic correctly, using any method. Scoring The score is based...

code-golf math

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Q: Cut along the lines

In this challenge you will take as input a non-empty list of binary values (these can be booleans or integers on the range 0-1), you should output all the ways to partition the list into non-empty sections such that no two adjacent equal values in the initial list are separated into different sec...

code-golf binary set-partitions

Ginger

15:15

with every update desmos comes closer to an actual programming language. I wonder how long it'll be until we get "Implement Tetris in Desmos" :p

LYaL Nominations

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A: Language nominations for the "Learn You a Lang for Great Good" chat event

Fig Fig is a functional, pure ASCII, hypercondensed Lisp. That is, its a Lisp will all parentheses and whitespace removed. Here is a more in-depth explanation of how Fig was derived. Fig is also one of the golfiest languages on this site, thanks to its irrational (!) byte scoring system. In the c...

Ginger

I do love the 4 pinned messages :b

Seggan

@LYaLNominations wait we have this

desmos.com/calculator/w0mbh5n8wc lol love how it just jiggles then blows up

Ginger

that's what being divided by zero feels like

Aiden Chow

15:35

@Ginger lol thats already implemented in desmos smh

Seggan

this ones fun too desmos.com/calculator/z4wesnnhos

vertical lines act as teleporters

argh too many pins

i cant get to my rooms

Aiden Chow

@Seggan lmao cant u just press the show more button to show more of ur favorite rooms

Shaggy

16:03

@WheatWizard, finally got around to updating this - could you undelete it, please?

Ginger

18:30

I did it

I actually got a bytecode to scan

hell. yes.

mathcat

you ... what?

are you implementing a qr code scanner?

Ginger

in a sense

let's discuss in ottnb

emanresu A

18:56

@Ginger Given lyaln't, I think we can unpin it

Ginger

ok

Seggan

21:35

gotta love google destroying your search results :P google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=dart+mission

Radvylf Programs

23:21

Does anyone know any important constants that start with 2.147899?

Bubbler

OEIS has none

Ginger

nyet

caird coinheringaahing

Where does the constant come from?

Could be some combination of other constants (e.g. addition of pi and e :P)

Ginger

maybe it's new and we can name it the Redwolf constant

Bubbler

@cairdcoinheringaahing not so related but OEIS has a ton of sequences for decimal expansion of some combination of pi and e :P

Radvylf Programs

23:25

@cairdcoinheringaahing it's what a(n + 2) / a(n) approaches, where a is the Narayana cows sequence (like fibonacci but you sum the last numbers and the one two numbers before it)

Ginger

why on earth did you calculate that?

I want to know what prompted this

Radvylf Programs

Has to do with my compression algorithm

Long story

caird coinheringaahing

> a(n+1)/a(n) tends to x = 1.465571... (decimal expansion given in A092526) in the limit n -> infinity. This is the real solution of x^3 - x^2 -1 = 0

Ginger

WHAT

caird coinheringaahing

That's interesting

Ginger

23:26

I want the whole story

Radvylf Programs

Will tell it in OTTNB later

caird coinheringaahing

@Bubbler A01960X just is 2 * pi * e / each odd number :P

Ginger

is this "later" as in tomorrow later or "later" as in radvylf will fix his website later

caird coinheringaahing

> Decimal expansion of the power tower of the ratio E/Pi.

> This infinite tetration limit of (E/Pi)^^n is also the only solution of x*(Pi/E)^x = 1

Ah yes, glad we have that written down

> Decimal expansion of e + Pi + e*Pi + e^Pi + Pi^e + Pi*sqrt(e) + e*sqrt(Pi).

Bubbler

@RadvylfPrograms Yeah it's basically the square of asymptotic ratio of a(n+1)/a(n)

Ginger

23:29

A????????: The decimal expansion of e(pi)pi^2(e)pi^e^e pi pi(e) e(e)^e(2) log(pi e)e

Bubbler

@RadvylfPrograms Also it happens to be the real solution to another cubic x^3-x^2-2x-1 = 0

Radvylf Programs

@Ginger Later as in next few days

Bubbler

because a_n = a_(n-1) + a_(n-3) = a_(n-2) + a_(n-3) + a_(n-4) = a_(n-2) + 2a_(n-4) + a_(n-6)

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