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Duga

12:08 AM

REFRESH! There are 7400 unanswered questions (90.3336 answered)

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Captain Obvious

1:15 AM

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Q: Beginner guess-the-number game in Python

I'm a total Python beginner and made a number guessing game as first project. The user has to guess the number the computer is thinking of. Please give me feedback! print("Guess a number") import random x = random.randint(-999, 999) g1=int(input('Enter your guess:')) while x != g1: if x > g...

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Captain Obvious

3:22 AM

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Q: Increase efficiency of simulated samples

I am trying to help students visualize the central limit theorem and wanted to do this with simulated data. I created a population dataset with three variables: from random import seed from numpy.random import normal, negative_binomial, binomial import pandas as pd data = pd.DataFrame({ "Var...

python

Feeds

5:59 AM

stackoverflow.blog/2023/02/10/…

Duga

7:47 AM

If your code works and you're looking for recommendations to improve it, it's probably a better fit on Code Review — Damien_The_Unbeliever 15 secs ago

Duga

8:55 AM

You may want to present your code on codereview.stackexchange.com, too. It looks horribly inefficient to me to repeatedly copy that string. — Ulrich Eckhardt 37 secs ago

Captain Obvious

10:06 AM

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Q: N-Queen puzzle algorithm

Considering that in the puzzle of the N-Queens the n queens occupy n different diagonals, I thought of using the different combinations of the diagonals to find the solution. Therefore starting from the k-permutations of n with in this case n=n_diag the number of diagonals of the chessboard and k...

algorithm n-queens

Duga

10:27 AM

Is it a code review you are looking for? If so, post it at google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://…). — Haris 24 secs ago

Duga

11:37 AM

Okay, I see a description of a task, and some code. What is your question? Please read How to Ask. If you just want people to C&C the code, we don't do that here - consider Code Review instead. If something goes wrong with the code, then it is your responsibility to: 1) identify what is wrong; 2) look for a cause; 3) check for existing Q&A; 4) explain the problem precisely with a minimal reproducible example; 5) ask explicitly. — Karl Knechtel 31 secs ago

skiwi

12:23 PM

Monking

Feeds

1:35 PM

stackoverflow.blog/2023/02/10/…

Duga

2:13 PM

What made you share the code with us? Is there something wrong with it? Please describe the problem/question you would like answered. If there's nothing wrong with it and you would just like feedback, that's better suited for codereview.stackexchange.com — teapot418 30 secs ago

Captain Obvious

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Q: making output lines format nicely

I have a script that tells me about SPF, DMARC and DKIM. The part that bothers me and I want to do better with is the MX line of the output. I want the titles of the output to line up with the output MX : name pref ttl smtpin.vvv.facebook.com 10 3600 Should be MX : name ...

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pacmaninbw

@TobySpeight thank you for the grammar and spelling corrections.

@Mast @SᴀᴍOnᴇᴌᴀ What does committing mean in terms of a new site?

Toby Speight

@pacmaninbw Happy to - nice to know my work is appreciated, rather than being annoying!

pacmaninbw

2:28 PM

:)

Sᴀᴍ Onᴇᴌᴀ

2:52 PM

@pacmaninbw see step 2 on area51.stackexchange.com/faq

> Commit! When a proposal enters the "Commitment" phase, we will present a petition for the site's creation. Interested users are asked to digitally "sign" the proposal with their full name to help assure that site will have an active community in those critical early days. While your full name is never shown, you may add an optional comment which is displayed alongside your username in the list of committers. To ensure that commitment is taken seriously, you may only commit to three sites….

TBH I haven’t been involved with Area 51 though I’ve answered a few MetaSE questions about it after reading through the FAQ and the A51 meta

E.g. this question about proposing a site again

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A: Can one propose a new SE site for a topic which has been already closed as a beta?

In this meta Area 51 answer Robert states: Closing a site does not mean folks cannot try again… if they have reason to believe they can make a better go of it the second time around. I'm not speculating whether this particular subject is ready to try again, but we could just as easily have close...

pacmaninbw

@SᴀᴍOnᴇᴌᴀ Thanks for the info!

Mast

3:57 PM

> Commit! When a proposal enters the "Commitment" phase, we will present a petition for the site's creation. Interested users are asked to digitally "sign" the proposal with their full name to help assure that site will have an active community in those critical early days. While your full name is never shown, you may add an optional comment which is displayed alongside your username in the list of committers. To ensure that commitment is taken seriously, you may only commit to three sites at any one time.

It gets you an invite when the site launches private beta.

I've successfully participated in 1 private beta, years ago.

Honestly, it's not that special.

I'm not sure why that message got pinned. Is anyone from CR involved there lately?

pacmaninbw

@Mast thanks, I don't think I'm interested in participating

Mast

There's a handful of people who have committed that have posted on CR in the past, but no one still active it seems.

@pacmaninbw IIUC a lot of their audience is active on PPCG.

We'll see if they make it.

I hardly do anything with esolangs anymore, let alone try writing my own.

pacmaninbw

I wrote compilers professionally for 5 years, not really interested in returning.

C based compilers in C for automatic chip testing.

@Duga And it will be interesting to see how it looks on Sunday after the next roomba

Sᴀᴍ Onᴇᴌᴀ

4:19 PM

@Mast perhaps I incorrectly presumed there was discussion about that here years ago... now I see that user joined CR in the past couple days

Mast

@SᴀᴍOnᴇᴌᴀ One of their users had a discussion with me a while ago, that's it.

Duga

5:44 PM

A few things that might help. You have random backticks that serve no purpose. In your conical_slice method, min should be xmin. Once you correct those issues, try reducing the number of iterations to test if you get the desired result. You should reduce the iterations because the loop in your mandelbrot_set method is overflowing. If that works for you, I would recommend looking at this post to optimize your loop. Hope that helps. — mike.slomczynski 17 secs ago

If the code works and you're looking for advice on improving it, Code Review is the appropriate place. But see codereview.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5777/… first. — Barmar 47 secs ago

Duga

6:03 PM

For working code that you want feedback on, use codereview.stackexchange.com instead of Stack Overflow. — Sean 43 secs ago

pacmaninbw

6:14 PM

Zombie Hunting.

@SᴀᴍOnᴇᴌᴀ What is it you want me to do about this. I VTC because the code isn't working.

Sᴀᴍ Onᴇᴌᴀ

@pacmaninbw The OP did not claim this... perhaps they believed it worked as intended to the best of their knowledge

there is a meta about it...

Sᴀᴍ Onᴇᴌᴀ

6:33 PM

@pacmaninbw I mostly replied to your comment about the first statement "Asking for alternate solutions is off-topic on Code Review."

Captain Obvious

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Q: Building a function that uses a regex to extract data and time and returns a datetime object

The code works, but I think can be simplified, I don't know which specific steps, but my version seems to me quite complicated I build a function that takes a specific string format and returns a datetime.datetime object. This is the string format "Fri Oct 11 15:09:30 GMT+01:00 2019" that I want ...

python strings datetime regex

Sᴀᴍ Onᴇᴌᴀ

For the topic of "Code Not Working as intended" - I believe I was looking for this meta answer

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A: The close reason for this question seems vague

Deleted my previous answer, it does not actually address your question.... I noticed the likely reason was vaguely stated: To the best of my knowledge, does the code work? Is it work as intended, or run without errors? Neither. It is somewhat intentionally loose. Defining...

> Defining exactly what 'working code' is will never be successful. What's important here is the 'best of my knowledge'. If you believe the code works, then you also believe the code is ready for review.

@skiwi occasionally I hear about "too many browser tabs" leading to issues like mental fatigue - e.g. as is mentioned in this blog post

I've had a tab open to that blog post since yesterday - now I'm going to close it for the sake of my mental state

skiwi

6:50 PM

@SᴀᴍOnᴇᴌᴀ Haha.. ha.. ha.

Mast

@pacmaninbw We have plenty of Magic number discussions on CR as well.

Your Usage of Title Casing in Answers Still Hurts My Eyes.

But I'm hoping I'll ever get used to that.

> Supposedly there's a special obstacle - the slalom - that circumvents the rules: if a dog makes a mistake while performing the slalom, it can then also refuse to go through it (and this would result in 2 points of penalty). My code does not consider this special obstacle.

Emphasis mine.

Seems like they have a known edge case.

That the code would fail on.

@pacmaninbw I've edited your comment to remove the line about alternative implementations. You're correct, but the solution here is to reword the question so it's no longer a problem. If a minor rewording fixes the issue, it's grounds for an edit instead of closure.

Toby Speight

8:35 PM

@Mast I'm happy to review code that has known limitations - that's different to code that doesn't work in any circumstance, or is accompanied by a request to provide the missing functionality.

I'm sure exactly what constitutes "working code" will continue to be a discussion point here, as we all have slightly different takes on it. :-)

Duga

8:47 PM

I think this post belongs to codereview? — Aleksandar 29 secs ago

Duga

9:30 PM

There may be a better way to address this if those are in an RDB (and you can change the schema). But that would be more of a review codereview.stackexchange.com — Kenny Ostrom 45 secs ago

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