The Nineteenth Byte

Radvylf Programs

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And now we can put 4k in a 13" laptop

(Which by the way, even as someone who loves really stupidly high pixel densities, that's stupid. There is literally no upside.)

Unrelated String

yep lmao

nitsua60

(It's the only way to fit in enough subliminal advertising.)

OldSandboxPosts

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Sandbox posts last active a week ago: Test cases, Test cases, TODO title

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thejonymyster

02:44

@Ginger i reckon that's for accessibility purposes you silly billy

mathcat

07:07

This seems like a really dumb question, but

If something gets "compiled to java bytecode", I'm assuming e.g. a Java program compiles code to java bytecode, not that the compiler is written in java bytecode itself.

mousetail

Yes

mathcat

How would that be faster than directly compiling the code to java, which is compiled to bytecode by the java compiler?

mousetail

That greatly depends how similar your language is to Java

If it is very different there might not always be a convenient Java equivalent syntax, requiring a ton of code to emulate simple things. While in bytecode this might just be a handfull of instructions

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Q: Remove a given substring 'n' number of times from the end of a string

The user inputs a string and a substring. It also input a positive integer 'n'. Remove the 'n' duplicates of substring from the end of the string. If the substring is not present in the string or the number of times the substring appear is less than 'n', then the output is the original string. No...

string

mathcat

ah

Bubbler

07:10

I've never heard of anything that compiles to java source code, while I have for C and java bytecode

mathcat

So that means if I write a language in java, it's not necessarily slower than compiling it to bytecode?

mousetail

I mean you need to parse every intruction instead of just executing it

A compiled language, not nececairly

Kotlin exists, it's not slower as far as I'm aware

Bubbler

07:42

hmm, conda update is trying to install jellyfish

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🤔

DialFrost

Hiya

DialFrost

08:41

Darn WhatsApp is down

PyGamer0

@DialFrost lol.

Ginger

11:16

eval()

lyxal

error: you cannot unrickroll the pizza.

Ginger

-> (()=>tar((,))())()

mousetail

eval("eval()")

Neil

12:11

@Ginger ... but that's the most useful part of Firefox

Ginger

what kinda firefox yall got in britain

Ginger

12:27

just learned about Python f-strings and all I can say is how tf did I not know about these earlier

I will never use another string-replacement method again

mousetail

I've not used anything except f strings for years

It's good for golfing too, str(x) vs f"{x}"

Ginger

ooh, clever

mousetail

Especially when cocatenating multiple things, like str(a)+str(b) vs f"{a}{b}"

graffe

anyone here use OS X? I have done "brew install texstudio" but I don't know how to run texstudio now it is installed!

Feeling very dim

Ginger

Simple: Use Debian instead and install it from apt /s

graffe

12:37

@Ginger hmm... :)

which *.se should I use to ask this stupid question?

Ginger

Ask Different

mousetail

Won't ./texstudio work?

Or without the ./

graffe

@mousetail sadly it can't find it

mousetail

Very sad. Lets observe a moment of silence

graffe

that's not going to help me!

:(

Ginger

12:48

neither of us use Mac I think

py3_and_c_programmer

@DialFrost seems like people don't like :3 ig

:(

@Ginger windows is life

graffe

I have spent my life on linux

Ginger

imagine not using linux

graffe

but the only computer here is an OS X machine

Ginger

so you don't have a choice?

graffe

12:49

exactly

Ginger

okay, good

I was a bit worried for a second there :p

graffe

:)

py3_and_c_programmer

the prequel to the current OS in apple is um... NeXT's kernel right?

or something like that

why does the room get quiet when i message

Ginger

because we don't have anything to say

py3_and_c_programmer

Well i see

Ginger

12:54

From the chattiquette:

py3_and_c_programmer

bet none are researching right now

Ginger

> Sometimes, there isn't anybody talking in chat. That's perfectly fine. Don't send messages just because the room is quiet.

py3_and_c_programmer

thats the second time somebody sent me this now

mousetail

... maybe it's time to read it then

That message really shouldn't be starred since it's slightly rude

Ginger

^

lyxal

12:57

would you like the star removed?

mousetail

I would

py3_and_c_programmer

i would

lyxal

done

mousetail

TY

lyxal

first time I've gotten to click the "cancel stars" button on a post here :p

Fatalize

12:59

So you consider your message slightly rude but also consider that the problem is the person starring it and not you writing it?

py3_and_c_programmer

Is anyone reviewing this rn: codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/253732/…

mousetail

@Fatalize I mean there is a difference between pointing something out at the moment and drawing attention to it for days

Sʨɠɠan

a = "eval()"
a = "eval(" + a + ")"

if only it worked that way

py3_and_c_programmer

~~Actually, it doesn't~~

~~escape sequences are so tiresome~~

~~which is why I use ' instead of \"~~

Sʨɠɠan

no sequences need to be escaped there

py3_and_c_programmer

13:07

My bad, the thing is that I just get so used to ~~escaping~~ " so much that for code-golf reasons, I switched

to using '

mousetail

But ' escaping is exactly the same as " escaping

py3_and_c_programmer

as in, "We are the \"Vikings\" from the north" = "We are the 'Vikings' from the north"

mousetail

'We are the \'Vikings\' of the north' vs "We are the 'vikings' of the north"

Especially usefull with contractions

"This won't hurt" vs 'this won\'t hurt"

py3_and_c_programmer

@mousetail don't you recognise the source?

mousetail

I do not, sorry

py3_and_c_programmer

13:13

w3schools.com/python/python_strings_escape.asp

Scroll through the entire thing

mousetail

Yes

If a string contains single quotes PEP8 recomends surrounding it with double quotes, else if it contains double quotes suround it with single quotes

py3_and_c_programmer

I used w3schools for learning c

mousetail

w3schoolds is kinda terrible though

They produced this gem: w3schools.com/howto/howto_js_sort_table.asp

Ginger

MY EYES

py3_and_c_programmer

@mousetail I totally disagree

mousetail

13:15

This would be a good submission to code-trolling yet it's a example for students

To think people actually copied this code to their website

The quotes example is also a good example of w3schoold being terrible actually, since it somehow implies that single quotes require less escaping even though they work the same

py3_and_c_programmer

What would you recommend them to change it as?

mousetail

Cite PEP8 and include some examples for both single and double quoted strings

Also explain what hex and oct values are

py3_and_c_programmer

why?

mousetail

The escape codes are not really explained at all

What use is a list of escape codes if they have vague descriptions? Might as well not include them

It can link to a page about character encoding/unicode maybe. A link is good no full explanation needed

py3_and_c_programmer

im out

graffe

13:31

one day an OS X user will be in this chat room

mousetail

Don't hold your breath

Ginger

I highly doubt it :p

graffe

so prejudiced! :)

mousetail

Can't you ask in one of the askDifferent chat rooms?

Ginger

ninja'd

graffe

13:32

this is the only working chatroom in the world.. but I'll try

Ginger

ooh, they don't have very many rooms

mousetail

@graffe What a honor

Ginger

their main room is currently completely empty

graffe

@mousetail yes! And deserved

mousetail

For chat rooms it's quality over quantity

graffe

13:32

@Ginger cough... my point exactly

Ginger

I have an idea, just a second

graffe

k....

Ginger

What if we invite someone from Ask Different into this room? they'll get notified so they're sure to see it

mousetail

You just said there was nobody in that room though

Ginger

alternately, you can ping someone in the ask different room

I think that'd work better

mousetail

13:35

That seems 1000% easier

Does the "ping everyone" hack still work?

Ginger

nope, the user I had in mind hasn't logged on for long enough that they're unpingable

mousetail

Wow Apple really is dead

I guess the USB-C thing hit them harder than expected

Ginger

lmao

graffe

I tell you, this is the only working chatroom left on the planet

Ginger

TNB is one of if not the most active SE chatroom

...that's a weird sentence

I actually have to think about parsing it

mousetail

13:38

There's plenty of discords I'm chatting in right now though

graffe

it made sense to me

@mousetail I never found a useful discord

Ginger

@mousetail discord is a different beast entirely

mousetail

@graffe What about this one? discord.gg/VtXcQawp

graffe

can you explain it to me. I think I don't get it

mousetail

Explain what?

graffe

13:40

@mousetail discord

mousetail

it's just chatting just like here, except you can add reactions under messages

mathcat

*burn*

graffe

I can never log into it. It is now saying I already have the email address but I don't know the password. I used a different address and it wants an administrator password to install the app.

is there an OS X channel on discord?

mousetail

There are literally millions of discord servers

Not like here where there are a few about specific topics

graffe

well I can't log in to any of them :)

mathcat

13:44

@graffe There probably even is one about Harry Potters's left toenail.

mousetail

I can 100% guarentee it

Not really because discord but because Harry Potter fans are totally insane

Ginger

can confirm, unfortunately (the insane part not the toenail part)

mathcat

ಠ_ಠ

graffe

ok one step towards running texstudio taken

I have found it but it says "“texstudio” cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified."

Ginger

f

mousetail

13:46

Can't you just ignore that?

Ginger

not sure there's anything you can do about that

mousetail

Windows always warns me about every single program but you can just click ignore

Imagine using Mac or Windows lol

graffe

@mousetail it won't run at all currently

ok cracked it

what a pain

the secret is to ctrl click the icon for texstudio and then choose open

who knew

amazingly apple.se gave a useful answer

mousetail

14:18

Why was this edit approved? It singificantly changes the rules of the post: codegolf.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/66566

Ginger

good question

mousetail

Also I'm not convinced formatting the whole test cases section as code improves readabiltiy

Ginger

14:44

remind me: if you draw a card in Uno do you have to keep drawing until you get a playable one?

wikipedia doesn't seem to say

mousetail

Depends on house rules

Ginger

hmmm

should Schrodinger's Uno do that?

I'm going to go with yes

Sandbox Posts

15:35

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Increment, decrement, undo, peek code-golf code-generation Write a program or function (hereafter "function") that returns or prints the source code of four new functions: Increment, decrement, undo, and peek. The initial function has an internal integer value of 0. Each of the returned functions...

DLosc

15:48

I just got a suggested edit for one of my Pip answers, changing the ATO link to a DSO link (since ATO's Pip interpreter is currently broken). Not sure how I feel about that. On the one hand, it's true that DSO currently works and ATO doesn't. On the other hand, I expect ATO will be fixed at some point in the future, so is it really a necessary edit? What do y'all think?

Ginger

Update: Schrodinger's Uno is rapidly becoming one of the most complex projects I've ever made

DLosc

@Ginger feature-request s/Schrodinger/Schrödinger/g

Ginger

I'll gö back and replace all the os önce the cöde works

Sʨɠɠan

16:13

should we add a feed for new AoCG sandbox posts?

caird coinheringaahing

No

It's pretty easy to keep track of new ones, there's at most 25

Ginger

17:32

I think I have just written the worst piece of code of my life

Sʨɠɠan

was it written in rust

Ginger

no, it's python

here it is: gist.github.com/GingerIndustries/…

that function is responsible for dynamically making the image that the Schrodinger's Uno bot sends to the players

it's full of garbage but I think the worst offender is line 17:

im.paste(card.image.resize((128, 256)), (((c % 7) * 128), (((c // 7) * 260) + 25)))

that's like 7 magic constants in one single line

Code Review would have a seizure if they saw this

Sʨɠɠan

18:00

why so many unnecessary parentheses

honestly you can remove most of them

Ginger

18:28

order of operations has bitten me in the ass many times before

I'm making sure it never will again

Radvylf Programs

Yeah I would consider parentheses around *//////% operations reasonable, since treating them as left-to-right and the same precedence isn't super natural

Ginger

around what operations

Radvylf Programs

Ginger

you must have some userscript installed

Radvylf Programs

I do

Chat Monospace Fix

Mar 21 at 17:17, by Radvylf Programs

@Ginger Do you not have chat monospace fix?

We've discussed this before :p

Ginger

18:31

it just looks like *//////% to me (which I believe is ASCII C syntax for the bitwise norxor gorgondax)

@RadvylfPrograms I would if I could :b

Sʨɠɠan

im.paste(card.image.resize((128, 256)), (c % 7 * 128, c // 7 * 260 + 25))

to me it looks fine and clear :P

ihavenoidea

Hello :) Just a quick Python question. To get a submatrix (in my toycode, getting a "box" from a sudoku board), I can get the first box by running sudoku_board[np.ix_([0, 1, 2], [0, 1, 2])]. Is there a way to do this without having to explicitly note all columns (0,1,2)? I'm thinking in a notation like 0:3

Ginger

hmmmmmmmm

I mean you could use list(range(2)) but I don't think that's what you want :p

@ihavenoidea does 0:3 not work?

mathcat

@Ginger 3* :P

Ginger

ffs

ihavenoidea

18:46

Unless I did something wrong, it doesn't work with np.ix_(). If I do sudoku_board[0:3] or sudoku_board[0:3][0:3] it gives me the first three lines (all of it, not capped until the third column)

Ginger

dunno then, I don't use numpy very much

ihavenoidea

Thanks!

Ginger

I didn't really do anything but ok no problem I guess :b

ihavenoidea

gave me your time, that's more than enough xD

Ginger

oh, got it

np, anytime!

DLosc

18:52

> numpy, anytime!

Ginger

oh no

ihavenoidea

19:16

sudoku_board[0:3, 0:3] does what I want, derp

Ginger

nice

ihavenoidea

was using your range suggestion, but it was bothering me lol

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Binary as Base 10 [OEIS A008559] Computers like binary. Humans like base 10. Assuming users are humans, why not find the best of both worlds? Your task is to find the Nth term in the sequence here where each term is the binary representation of the previous number interpreted as a base 10 number....

thejonymyster

CMC: Given a list of permutations of the same list/string(whatever), output the one that is missing. example: [[1,2,3],[1,3,2],[2,3,1],[2,1,3],[3,1,2]] => [3,2,1]

tybocopperkettle

19:35

@thejonymyster Vyxal: 3 bytes (you can add the s flag if outputting in a singleton list isn't allowed)

Sandbox Posts

20:12

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Render an Ideographic Description Sequence codegolf graphical-output unicode There are 12 characters in Unicode that can be used to describe any CJK character, which are often made up of reoccurring parts ("radicals") composed in different ways. For example, U+86D9 蛙 can be described as U+2FF0 U+...

Ginger

20:25

ok who wants to play Schrodinger's Uno?

I'm pretty sure I got it working

Ginger

20:40

cc @emanresuA

Sʨɠɠan

@Ginger whaz that

like quantum chess?

Ginger

@Sʨɠɠan it's a chatbot that lets you play Uno against other users

I call it Schrodinger's Uno because it uses magic trickery to show each player their hand using only one image

do you want to play?

Sʨɠɠan

i might not have time?

doing school rn

Ginger

understandable

a game usually takes 5-ish minutes and as long as you don't leave chat you can take as long as you want on your turn

Sʨɠɠan

fine ill just hide this tab behind my giant circle of dead pixels

Ginger

20:51

u wot

(also the bot is in the sandbox)

Sʨɠɠan

@Ginger i conveniently have a giant circle of dead pixels right on top of the reload button

so if i pin this tab i can hide it

Ginger

lmao

lyxal

22:34

@Ginger wait it actually works?

Hell yeah!

Sʨɠɠan

CMM: whats our consensus on posting answers that are longer than another answer (in the the same language), but uses a different tactic?

emanresu A

Go for it

Unrelated String

^

Sʨɠɠan

ive done it a few times but i thought it might violate the "no effort put into golfing" bit

emanresu A

Sometimes multiple people are drafting answers in the same language and one posts first

Unrelated String

22:40

did you golf it within the constraint of "interesting and meaningfully different approach"

emanresu A

^

Sʨɠɠan

@UnrelatedString yeah

i think its as golfy as it can get with my algo

Unrelated String

go fo it

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