@Ginger Here's something that is probably unrelated to the pronouns.page issue: If I click "load to my last message" it doesn't even add the slash to the old messages it loads
Also, for a workaround to the pronouns.page issue, you could presumably spread in he/she/they at least, like { he: 'he/him', she: 'she/her', they: 'they/them', ...pronounsPageData }
Regarding "modern" C++, I'll quote user on this one:
> Some people get a fancy new car every few years. Others keep fixing up and modifying their decades-old car until it's simultaneously a race car, monster truck, tank, and spaceship. In their hands, that is: every time they hand over the keys to a friend, the friend either can't start it or ends up igniting the rocket fuel and burning themselves alive.
so I've been thinking more about what I like about golf and I think the things I enjoy the most are trying to improve others' answers (and seeing mine get improved) and come up with novel approaches to problems; I really don't get the competitive part. SE does this fine, but I think the concept could be brought to an even more community oriented system
would anyone be interested in a site where the "goal" is not only to golf your own stuff, but also to improve others' solutions, and there is like one answer per approach per language that everyone works on?
after a challenge closes on YQ (name TBD), it will be a bit like that. All solutions are revealed and now you can try to combine the best aspects of all solutions to colaborativly try to get an even better one.
@mousetail hmm okay, I guess I just want that from the beginning, also already expressed my dislike for full program golfing which takes away the interesting (to me) part
A issue is collaborative solutions tend to be very low quality. Just look at this site. To get good golf answers you need to know a better solution exists and spend a lot of time alone trying to find it.
I suppose my problem is that I golf for learning smart and concise approaches to doing things, not directly for shortest in bytes, which is more of a consequence
which is why I don't like full program golfing and also why I don't like competitive sites, which focus on the wrong (to me) aspects
I'd also want a discussion space where people can together come up with new approaches or discuss cross-language potential saves
The whole point of automated testing is to ensure solutions are valid. If you let people control that, why have automated testing in the first place
In fact, here and code golf codidact are pretty much the only code golf sites without automated testing, and from my experience that lenience just leads to so much more creativity and clever golfing, especially since you can actually see what other people have done
the main problem of loophole abuse anywhere is that it's very fun to learn about loophole abuse for the first time, which means that as long as there are new users, there are users for who loophole abuse is still fun
take https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/252082/reconstruct-matrix-from-its-diagonals as example, since it's at the top of hot and happens to have somewhat heavy use of flexible IO:
i see no issue with any IO requirements imposed by answers. they're all very reasonable ways of requiring IO to a matrix-related function
@mousetail I think it is fair. i see no reason why one must be locked into an IO standard once they submit one answer with it. would you rather they submit another answer if they change IO formats?
One aspect of this site is it allows literally every language to participate, no matter how esoteric. I think that's great. But that requires flexible IO that makes it less fair when using a normal-ish language
all challenges here are secretly half popcons anyways, you don't win anything by writing the shortest answer, you do win rep by writing the shortest interesting answer
Yes, I do consider golfs by changing I/O methods to be somewhat "cheap", but having those options of flexible I/O available lets you actually focus on the problem at hand instead of spending seventy bytes parsing it from stdin
yeah so that's why I want my points to be awarded based on improving stuff while keeping the same basic idea, you both incentive "outgolfing" but also cool solutions
@mousetail on the other hand consider that competition is per-language anyway (other why bother with anything but golflangs), and that the winner in any language is very likely to be the only participant
I feel here the sol that gets the most votes is rarely the most "cool" solution. Neither is it the best explained solution, or the shortest. Often it's a solution that doesn't even work. It's just arbitrary
@Themoonisacheese yeah sometimes in like python there's multiple solutions but mostly there's one approach and when improvements come from someone else it's encouraged to comment them
which does sometimes not give you enough recognition, I think, and it's part of the reason why I think scoring on improvements could be useful
On code.golf, it's incredibly satisfying to find a byte save and go from #11th place to #10th place. That's what makes golfing fun for me. On this site people mostly don't even bother posting if it's not better than the existing answer
The default sorting for answers (by votes) seems somewhat inappropriate here on PPCG. In any case it tends to put early answers over late answers, because once a few are there, few people scroll to the bottom to see newer answers and even fewer people sort by activity.
If you consider that bette...
@RubenVerg I like it but I don't like this one-solution-per-language thing
Part of the fun of this site is multiple people will approach the same problem with different ideas in the same language, and some will be shorter but that doesn't mean the longer idea shouldn't be there
Name that logic gate
(Is this a duplicate? Seems very basic...)
Given the truth table of a non-trivial symmetric 2-input logic gate, output its name. The 6 possible input/output pairs are:
0001 -> AND
1110 -> NAND
0111 -> OR
1000 -> NOR
0110 -> XOR
1001 -> XNOR
(where the 4 symbols represent t...
it's fairly straightforward to get (cr)^r minimal at r if c*r=1/e at r=1.5, c=1/(1.5 e)~=0.245 and (1c)^1>(2c)^2 so I rounded c up to 0.25 (making r<1.5) but 0.25=(0.5)^2 so anything between 1/(1.5e) and 0.25 should do
One of the most known ones is Rust, but what others implement this?
Name that logic gate
(Is this a duplicate? Seems very basic...)
Given the truth table of a non-trivial symmetric 2-input logic gate, output its name. The 6 possible input/output pairs are:
0001 -> AND
1110 -> NAND
0111 -> OR
1000 -> NOR
0110 -> XOR
1001 -> XNOR
(where the 4 symbols represent t...
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