The Nineteenth Byte

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noodle person

00:45

Why characters over bytes? It is generally a bad choice since characters have nothing to do how information is stored. What stops submissions from choosing ASCII and maximising the characters per byte? — FryAmTheEggman Oct 3, 2023 at 18:57

I still think about this comment sometimes...What were they talking about?

Neil

01:28

@Themoonisacheese ... isn't it the same print spooler service for all Windows computers?

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New Posts

02:54

Q: Determine Centrosymmetric String

Let's define a centrosymmetric string as follows: First, add spaces to the end of each line to make the input a rectangle \$ A_{m×n} \$, the number of spaces added should be minimized and possible be zero. The input is "centrosymmetric" string if and only if you get the original rectangle if you...

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ATaco

03:55

@NewPosts This has to be like a 3 byter in Charcoal

rydwolf

04:48

I've never used await on a promise that isn't a function call and it feels so cursed

if (await logInSuccessfulPromise) { ... }

ATaco

05:01

Could be worse, it could be indexed.

rydwolf

05:18

Honestly I feel like that would still feel better

Rate my UI

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mousetail 'he-him'

07:40

Themoonisacheese

08:17

@Neil no, active directory controllers come bundled with a multi-user print spooler that actually functions

it's not nicer than other options on the market but it's leagues ahead of the one that's in windows because at least it works

@mousetail'he-him' needs to be in beta

Neil

@ATaco actually Charcoal doesn't even know how to rotate around the centre of a side, it can only do the corners of a rectangle

@Themoonisacheese I tried to verify this and all I could find was that a) running the print spooler on an AD controller is a security risk and b) the only difference is that the print spooler on an AD controller also checks for stale print queue ad objects

Themoonisacheese

08:33

oh neat

l4m2

09:21

Does it generally make string longer or shorter, applying punycode idea on English text?

maybe in base-16

Test on punycode document

DanielOnMSE

09:55

Could I please request some feedback on this Sandbox post? Is it too boring, does it need more examples, clearer explanation etc..

https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/a/26327/101226

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11:49

Q: The Graphing Calculator 4: The Final Challenge

PT 1 PT 2 PT 3 PT 4 Look how time flies! Long time, no see. This is the final post in my "Graphing Calculator" Series, designed to be a series of 4 increasingly complex code golf challenges... This time, can you put together your PT 3 solution, and add a general input field? So instead of passing...

code-golf math

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Ginger

13:54

@rydwolf the humble webauthn:

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Rosario

15:46

I prefer always to write a<b /\ b<c than b>a /\ b<c

mousetail 'he-him'

I think everyone does?

Unrelated String

yeah

Seggan

16:26

@rydwolf which is why kotlin did away with await

all suspending functions are awaited implicitly by default, unless wrapped in async

Ginger

I keep forgetting that async is a language feature

and apparently so did GitHub's syntax highlighter :p

Seggan

its not a language feature lol, at least in kotlin

Ginger

oh right

lmao

Seggan

its a function part of kotlinx.coroutines

Ginger

yeah I know that

unsure why I thought otherwise for a bit there lol

rolled a critical failure on my kotlin comprehension check

Seggan

16:30

heretic

@Ginger monies go brr

rydwolf

16:46

@Seggan I've had this idea for how to do async/await for SO LONG

So cool to see a lang actually does it

This is just like doritos tacos

Seggan

17:20

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Sandbox Posts

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Parse a dollcode Challenge Dollcode is a trinary encoding system for numbers and text using unicode block drawing characters. The encoding scheme is defined as such (from the website): Numbers are encoded by looping through and checking each modulus 3 result, then replacing it with one of the th...