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00:11

Q: CGAC2022 Day 4: Can Santa fit down the chimney?

Part of Code Golf Advent Calendar 2022 event. See the linked meta post for details. Christmas is coming up, and Santa hasn't kept to his diet very well this year. Due to his size, he is getting the elves to collect a list of all the chimneys he will be able to fit down. Unfortunately, chimneys t...

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00:23

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Write a program that prints a program that's almost quine. code-golfquine Your task is to make a program in L that takes n as an input number, output a program p in L that prints the first n characters. Rules You can't make a program that outputs a program p, if you removed a substring of p and ...

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close the window and nuke your browser history
it's the only way to be sure

Radvylf Programs

00:51

@mousetail What are the specs?

Aiden Chow

O_O

-_-

:((((

lyxal

is that :( because you're so close or because you once passed the milestone and got downvoted?

Aiden Chow

nah i didnt pass the milestone yet

lyxal

would you like to?

Aiden Chow

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

very tempting

lyxal

01:03

haha just kidding you don't get a choice

welcome to the club

Aiden Chow

LOL LETS GOOO

10k club yessssss

ok now i gotta see some juicy deleted posts

u got any off the top of ur head

lyxal

one second

I actually have 2 such posts

gotta find the links

Radvylf Programs

You gotta avocad

lyxal

codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/60206/…

found it in my post saves :p

also codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5828/78850

Aiden Chow

haha this is hilarious stuff

Radvylf Programs

01:16

Jan 25, 2016 at 23:51, by Alex A.

The adovocad makes a polite request. Do we choose to achnowledge it?

lyxal

I thik so

Aiden Chow

wtf this is strange, on meta im still at 9999 rep

-_-

lyxal

caching

Radvylf Programs

Caching

we love it

Aiden Chow

im getting trolled by caching :\

Radvylf Programs

01:21

I am going to juic an avocad one day

All I'll need is a sledgehammer, a coffee filter, and commitment

Adám

lyxal

this is so sad

Radvylf Programs

02:20

That is a defeatist attitude

We will juice an avocado

Adám

Radvylf Programs

02:58

What do y'all think about codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/a/25367/79857

I intuitively feel like the first rule makes the challenge either trivial or difficult and very interesting and I can't figure out which

Since it's basically asking you to make an infinite slice of a program which can have some boilerplate tacked on the end to print how long that slice is

I think the irreducibility requirement is basically a dead letter

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graffe

05:20

Anyone using the new C23 features?

PyGamer0

where?

has it been released?

graffe

Coming in gcc 13

I mean it exists in gcc 13 already I think

PyGamer0

graffe

gcc.gnu.org/gcc-13/changes.html

I didn’t know auto had been in gcc since version 11

I guess clang will have c23 support too

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PyGamer0

06:45

@graffe new c standard looks good

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lyxal

09:10

→ 1 under-sized orange cob of corn moved to The Nineteenth Bakery

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that's
oddly specific, even by bakery move message standards

emanresu A

Don't vtc, flag as spam

lyxal

@UnrelatedString I still have a bit of bill wurtz energy from interacting with gpt chat :p

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lmao

lyxal

For example: gist.github.com/Lyxal/8c0b5b8d90862b51e0c8fd37142e3531

You've probably seen it but it's where the corn idea came from

emanresu A

09:20

lmao

emanresu A

09:38

@lyxal Maybe should've waited until it was dealt with

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oh i did not realize that it's an actual (low quality) programming question

all i saw was turkish and a link so i just flagged as spam lmao

Aiden Chow

@UnrelatedString but the link goes to some law consultancy website, pretty sure it’s spam

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the question seems to be for help making the law consultancy website :P

~~they can spam it later once the menus have subtitles~~

Aiden Chow

09:55

@UnrelatedString ~~in stack overflow~~

Wtf is my phone doing lmfao

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i know iphones try to smart emdash

not really sure how to avoid it beyond insrting then deleting extra stuff in between

Aiden Chow

@UnrelatedString ok that worked, pretty annoying tho

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yeah

real pain in the ass

Aiden Chow

Wish I could turn that off

lyxal

@emanresuA even still, it's low quality and would have been moved whether spam or just vlq

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Ginger

12:35

immensely disappointed to find out my headphones don't fit over my santa hat

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13:07

A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Merging strings Not sure if this is already done Basically, take two strings of reasonable length (like <32 chars) of numbers and X's and find the shortest superposition of those strings such that there's no 2 numbers at the same position. Number+X or X+X is allowed. Print the result.

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14:19

Q: Output the length of (the length plus a message)

The task is simple. You're given an arbitrary string message. Return that message prefixed with a number, such that the length of that number plus the message equals the number. In other words, the length in your output must be the total length of your output. If multiple candidates exist, you ca...

code-golf math base-conversion encoding recursion

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graffe

21:53

Hello!

Ginger

22:27

yeah sex is great but have you ever replaced 30 lines of awful kludges with 3 lines of streamlined perfection

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i have done neither 😎

lyxal

Same

Ginger

22:43

skill issue

user

@Ginger I've replaced 30 lines of streamlined perfection with 3 lines of awful kludges :P

Ginger

~~although for it to be a fair comparison I'd have to have an idea of what both things are like, not just one~~

user

23:08

It'd also depend greatly based on the circumstances

For example, turning 30 lines of awful Java kludges into 3 lines of streamlined perfection won't feel like a huge difference because 30 and 3 are basically the same in the Java world and you'll still have 30k lines of awful kludges left

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it really just means you hid 100 lines of awful kludges somewhere else

user

Or that someone else's library did it for you

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user

I think at least a couple of really nice Java libraries I used had an ungodly amount of reflection inside

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no surprise there :P

reflection seems like a godawful idea for what java seems like it should be
but considering java is actually java, it borders on necessary

user

23:14

You kinda need reflection in a statically typed language with a type system that restrictive

If Java had better compile-time reflection we wouldn't need as much runtime reflection

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yep lmao

user

But it doesn't even have a proper unified interface for annotation processors that want to do modify code. I think stuff like Lombok has to detect which compiler's being used and use specific approaches based on that

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holy shit

user

Although apparently there's only like two compilers that everyone uses (source (SO answer by one of the devs))

lyxal

CMC: given a positive integer, return a string of that many characters with a charcode sum that is divisible by that number

So for n = 5, you'd want to return a string where sum(map(ord, s)) % 5 == 0

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23:28

am i missing something or would any string of that many of all the same character work

lyxal

Not for n = 1

Nonwait

It would

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yeah

lmao

lyxal

CM-addendum: characters must be unique. If no such string exists, don't worry about it

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there we go

Neil

what do most golfing languages do when you pass an array and a list to the indexing operator?

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23:34

probably vectorize

i.e. pray that the one that's expected to be an index is full of numbers, and return a list of items at those indices

Neil

so there's usually a separate operator for multidimensional indexing?

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at least in jelly there is

and i feel like vectorized indexing is more generally useful, but that's also within jelly's very array oriented model

(and even multidimensional indexing vectorizes, if you have a list of lists)

user

APL has multiple indexing operators, I think (at least) one of them vectorizes and one does multidimensional indexing. You might want to ask in the APL Orchard

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