The Nineteenth Byte

There was some Top 40 song in the 00s that had Texas in the lyrics. When I went on vacation, as I traveled across Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, I found out they replaced the state name in every state.

Anonymous

I can whine about how people stole Nirvana from us when I'm living in Seattle

TimmyD

Wait, do you get tag badges for question votes, now?

Geobits

@Rainbolt Nice

DJMcMayhem

@TimmyD unfortunately no

Geobits

@Mego Don't forget to complain about Starbucks, too.

DJMcMayhem

1:11 PM

Otherwise, I'd have a lot more tag badges

Anonymous

@Geobits I complain about Starbucks enough as it is. Their coffee is tasty but not worth the price. Local coffee houses are way better

TimmyD

I got a bronze ascii-art badge awarded today, but it's been well over 24 hours since my last answer updoot (sorry, not sorry, Dennis).

Anonymous

Or better yet, work for Google and take advantage of the fact that they have a coffee machine or a coffee bar around every corner in their offices

Geobits

@Mego Sure, but now you can do it with the authority of Seattle by your side. I mean, if someone from Seattle complains about Starbucks, it must be a legitimate complaint :P

Anonymous

> if someone from Seattle complains ... it must be a legitimate complaint

Geobits

1:12 PM

It's like someone from Atlanta complaining about Coca Cola.

DJMcMayhem

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Q: Count question score toward tag badges

Related: Increase reputation awarded for questions It has recently came to my attention that tag badges are only awarded based on answer votes. For a site like Stack Overflow, that makes sense, as providing good answers is the perfect way to demonstrate that you know what you're talking about in...

TimmyD

Huh.

Geobits

> Dennis the Menace and other characters from the comic strip appeared in Dairy Queen marketing as a spokestoon from 1971 until December 2002, when he was dropped because Dairy Queen felt children could no longer relate to him.

Poor Dennis :(

Anonymous

@DJMcMayhem I'd be fine with either that or what Martin suggested (separate tag badges for challenges). It's a double slap in the face to challenge authors that 1) challenge votes are worth so much less than answer votes, and 2) there aren't any badges to be earned from writing good challenges.

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Q: Folding Numbers

Given a number determine if it is a folding number. A folding number is a number such that if you take it binary representation and "fold" it in half, That is take the result of XNOR multiplication of the first half of the number and the second half with it digits in reverse, you will get zero....

code-golf number base-conversion binary bitwise

trichoplax

1:16 PM

I'd definitely prefer separate badges. Challenge writing is a totally different skill

DJMcMayhem

@Mego Yeah, I agree. I'm bummed that it looks like it'll never happen

Anonymous

SEDE wizards, I have a request for a query: number of challenges where there is an answer with a higher total score than the challenge itself. Better yet: number of challenges where there is an answer that awarded more rep to the answerer (ignoring the rep cap) than the challenge did to the asker.

DJMcMayhem

Even with the +5 for questions, most of my rep comes from challenges

trichoplax

In the absence of a query, my guess would be the majority of challenges are outscored by one of their answers

Anonymous

Yeah, that's what I'm trying to prove

trichoplax

1:21 PM

I'm thinking even by vote count, but almost definitely if you count rep instead

trichoplax

1:31 PM

Just checked my own challenges. Only two have an answer that outscores the challenge, and one of those was the broken challenge I didn't sandbox. Maybe it's not as bad as I thought

El'endia Starman

@Mego 1478 questions have an answer with a higher score.

And then for rep just change AND P2.Score > P1.Score to AND P2.Score*2 > P1.Score. (I got 3471 for that.)

Technically that isn't right since downvotes on both questions and answers are -2, but that shouldn't mess up the count by more than a couple dozen or so, if that.

Fatalize

1:48 PM

I'm probably not gonna get much approval again, but I have this to say:

Returning different values depending on the input that should both be true (or false) is ridiculous

El'endia Starman

@Fatalize Context?

Fatalize

e.g. this, the answer depends on the input

and to him [1,1,1] and [1,1,1,1,1,1] are both true

That's stupid. You choose one value for true and one for false

DJMcMayhem

TBF, they are both true in MATL.

El'endia Starman

How is that different from all strings (except the empty string) being truthy?

Fatalize

It's not different, it's as ridiculous

"test" is only considered truthy here because of that argument

but when I see "test" as an output to a program I don't see "true"

El'endia Starman

1:53 PM

Eliminating "test" as a truthy output means removing an avenue of creativity. For my lipogram challenge, at least one answer returned nothing for falsy and the input sentence for truthy.

Fatalize

It means removing an avenue of cheating

in the example I linked he returns true by negating the result of his operation

so in a sense he's not even checking in his program the trueness of what is asked

but simply exploiting the fact that inputs that should be truthy results will lead to intermediary results that share a common property

El'endia Starman

Exploitation is practically the name of the game in code golf. :P

Fatalize

in "code" golf

not in "output" golf

but I already argued that some time ago and basically no one cares here :p

DJMcMayhem

Relevant:

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A: Keep your golfing in your code, not in inputs and outputs

I tend to agree that there are a lot of rules for new users to "discover", and that this is a bad thing (in general). However, I don't agree with your solution, because I don't see how it's any clearer at all. For many challenges and many languages, there isn't a single most "natural" representat...

But you've probably already seen that. :P

Geobits

Since he asked it, probably :P

Fatalize

1:59 PM

^ clever

DJMcMayhem

@Geobits Have you seen this awesome answer? I think you might like it. He talks about Java.

:P

Geobits

Ooooh, lemme check it out

Fatalize

I think I might be retarded, I just realized that Geobits' avatar is a downvote

Geobits

It is?

TimmyD

I thought it was a paper airplane, sailing gently to the upper-right.

Geobits

2:04 PM

Ugh. I know Java is teh suck for golf and all, but 38 bytes to change an integer to a char[] of binary digits is just plain terrible :/

@TimmyD I've always seen it as a play button at an angle.

TimmyD

@Geobits 33 bytes in PowerShell -- [char[]][convert]::ToString($a,2)

Geobits

Oh god it's worse than powershell? :P

3

TimmyD

Yeah, I'm surprised, too.

DJMcMayhem

@Geobits You should just give up Java and start golfing in Rust.

Fatalize

I don't even understand how that syntax makes any kind of sense

DJMcMayhem

2:07 PM

It's pretty golfy from what I've heard. :P

Geobits

@TimmyD toCharArray() is pretty verbose though, tbf, compared to a straight cast

TimmyD

Jun 29 at 15:23, by TimmyD

powershell-feature-request A B numeric format specifier for binary conversion so I can do "{0:B}"-f$a rather than [convert]::ToString($a,2) ...

Geobits

@DJMcMayhem Coffee tastes better than rust though

DJMcMayhem

Coffee tastes better than almost everything.

Fatalize

^ incorrect

DJMcMayhem

2:10 PM

47 secs ago, by Fatalize

^ incorrect

Fatalize

47 secs ago is incorrect?

DJMcMayhem

Well, it is know...

Dang it my plan was foiled...

Fatalize

To be fair, I have never tasted coffee

DJMcMayhem

Wha????? I'm so sorry...

Fatalize

I don't like drugs

Geobits

2:13 PM

So no sodas either then?

Or tea?

Or chocolate?

DJMcMayhem

There are sodas without caffeine.

Geobits

Some, yes, but not the majority.

Root beer and/or Sprite come to mind.

El'endia Starman

I semi-purposefully avoid caffeine. :P

Geobits

But then again you can get coffee without caffeine, too. Or at least "decaf", which is basically caffeine-free.

DJMcMayhem

But that's no longer coffee, so at that point why bother?

Downgoat

2:17 PM

^

El'endia Starman

@DJMcMayhem ...for the taste?

Geobits

@DJMcMayhem Haha, well I agree with that, but if your main complaint about coffee is the caffeine, then it would make sense I'd think.

Downgoat

@El'endiaStarman what taste :P

El'endia Starman

9 mins ago, by DJMcMayhem

Coffee tastes better than almost everything.

@Downgoat But I agree, incidentally.

DJMcMayhem

@El'endiaStarman Amen brother.

El'endia Starman

2:19 PM

My best friend had me try some coffee a few months ago, and I didn't really taste much of anything. It wasn't either good or bad, just nicely neutral.

Downgoat

@El'endiaStarman swap almost everything and coffee

Fatalize

@Geobits I only drink water

DJMcMayhem

@Downgoat Wait, if you don't like coffee, why'd you caret?

Downgoat

Because you cannot code golf sleeping

Geobits

@Fatalize It feels like we've had this conversation before :)

DJMcMayhem

2:20 PM

That awesome moment when you recognize someone from PPCG on the HNQ (on a different site), and then you can use the knowledge you have gained from PPCG to answer their question.

Fatalize

@Geobits I only drink water

DJMcMayhem

And then they tell you they were asking because of a challenge they were thinking of writing, haha

Geobits

@Fatalize So no sodas then? Or tea?

Fatalize

@Geobits I don't like drugs

anyway :p

El'endia Starman

@Fatalize What about milk?

Nectar of the gods! (Especially if the gods are cows.)

Geobits

2:22 PM

You don't need milk if you eat a lot of dairy products :)

Downgoat

S\cow/goat

Fatalize

@El'endiaStarman …why would you ever drink milk all by itself

Downgoat

@Fatalize ....

it is very good fir you

Geobits

I pretty much agree. It's really rare that I'll just drink a glass of white milk.

El'endia Starman

@Fatalize ...because it's delicious and nutritious?

Fatalize

2:23 PM

I don't understand why anyone would ever find something better than water

Geobits

I get plenty of milk in my diet, but by itself it just isn't all that good.

Downgoat

prevents even more of the population from becoming lactose intolerant

Fatalize

@Downgoat Do you drink goat milk?

DJMcMayhem

Alright, enough talking about coffee. I'm gonna go get some.

Goodbye

Downgoat

When I was a wee little small downgoat, yes

@DJMcMayhem O_O are you implying coffee will kill you by saying goodbye? ;_;

Sherlock9

2:26 PM

@Mego There are Dairy Queens in Jakarta

DJMcMayhem

@Downgoat no, I'm implying I'm leaving my computer

Geobits

@DJMcMayhem That response implies you didn't.

Downgoat

@DJMcMayhem ;_; stupid English teacher :P

Fatalize

Dairy Queens is a pretty strange name for a store…

Geobits

Not plural, just Dairy Queen

Fatalize

2:27 PM

still weird

Sherlock9

Ah, then "There are Dairy Queen (establishments, stores, eateries; pick one) in Jakarta"

Downgoat

Wat

Geobits

He goths

DJMcMayhem

@Geobits no, I just hopped on my phone instead. :P

Downgoat

:O you deleted a message !!!1!!122 omg chat abuse eleven, brb flagging :P

DJMcMayhem

2:29 PM

Friggin autocorrect and phone keyboard

Geobits

@DJMcMayhem That implies the "Goodbye" was a bit unnecessary then :P

DJMcMayhem

Yes, I goths

Downgoat

@DJMcMayhem [taf:blame-paws]?

Sherlock9

> seriously -c 3:42R╪ < nul
[[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9], [10, 11, 12], [13, 14, 15], [16, 17, 18], [19, 20, 21], [22, 23, 24], [25, 26, 27], [28, 29, 30], [31, 32, 33], [34, 35, 36], [37, 38, 39], [40, 41, 42]]

@Mego the above result in Windows for ╪ vs the result in TIO: actually.tryitonline.net/#code=Mzo0MlLilao&input=

DJMcMayhem

@Geobits I suppose

Geobits

2:31 PM

@Sherlock9 Everyone knows Windows is backwards. Now we have proof :D

Sherlock9

Hm, perhaps I shouldn't have left C:\Users\Student2014 in and shown that the university that issued my laptop was lazy in the naming of the user folder :D

Geobits

Is there a difference between running it with seriously on win and actually on TIO?

Sherlock9

Did Mego go to bed already? He may know.

Geobits

He might have gone to get a pretzel.

Sherlock9

He definitely wasn't happy that I was using Seriously with Windows. Too many parsing problems apparently

Geobits, do you have python3 on linux?

Geobits

2:35 PM

Yeah

Sherlock9

Can you run pip3 install seriously && echo | seriously -c 3:42R╪ real quick?

I think that's what you need to avoid implicit input problems

Geobits

Hmm. I get a blinking cursor. No output (after the pip install that is). Gimme a sec...

TimmyD

@Sherlock9 That's not a double-dagger ... what's the symbol?

Maybe it's a codepage issue.

Sherlock9

From the Actually docs: D8 (╪): pop [a],b: push a list containing each non-overlapping b-length sublist of [a] (chunk by length)

Geobits

I get the same if the code is in a file, just no output and a cursor

Sherlock9

2:41 PM

Try seriously -c ,3:42R╪

Geobits

Same

Sherlock9

Alright. Try seriously -c ,,R╪, enter, 42, enter, 3, enter

Geobits

Maybe I'm confused, but what's the diff between Seriously and Actually? You seem to be using them interchangeably.

Sherlock9

Seriously is v1 and Actually is v2

Fatalize

From what I know Actually is Seriously 2.0

Geobits

2:44 PM

@Sherlock9 [[1, 2, 3]]

Sherlock9

Oh shoot, I got the operands in the wrong order. 3 then 42?

Geobits

Yeah, that shows the output you got on win, not the TIO order

Sherlock9

Hooray! Mystery partially solved.

TimmyD

3:18 PM

I love the ridiculously verbose errors that PowerShell spits out.

DJMcMayhem

Then you would love C++!

Poke

Not sure ~~who is more sarcastic~~ if @TimmyD is being sarcastic or not

confusedandamused

For performance and best practice using C# is it better to use multiple if statements in a row or is it beneficial to use else if's

TimmyD

@Poke Slightly. I mean, they're descriptive, so that's good, but when the error is longer than the program ...

Nathan Merrill

@confusedandamused needless optimization

confusedandamused

3:32 PM

@NathanMerrill Just comes down to preference at that point then I'm guessing?

Nathan Merrill

I mean, if you can use else ifs, do it, as its clearer

well, it really depends on what the if statements contain

confusedandamused

In the current instance - just comparing string values

Nathan Merrill

for example, if you're doing if x == 2, if x == 3, and so on, the compiler could easily convert that into else if, or a jump table

but fundamentally, else if is different than if

because that second if statement will never execute

so code according to what you are trying to say

also, doesn't c# have string switch statements?

Geobits

And if you want a jump table, consider a switch instead (C# can switch on strings, yes?)

damninja

Nathan Merrill

:)

TimmyD

3:35 PM

switch(username){Nathan{"ninja-er"}Geobits{"ninja-ee"}}

confusedandamused

I've never heard of a jump table - I just dislike switch statements most of the time :)

Geobits

I'd rather see a switch than a big ol chain of if/else for sure. Just not in golf. Never in golf :P

Nathan Merrill

I wouldn't want to see a chain of if/else in golf either

Geobits

Well, chained ternaries are okay, and I think they'd count.

I wonder if there's a language that has golfy switches?

betseg

Ternary isn't golfy?

Geobits

3:39 PM

Ternaries you have to repeat the comparison each time (at least IME).

Like b=a==1?x:a==2?y:a==3?z:w

I meant something more like b=(a)1:x,2:y,3:z,w or something where it knows what to compare.

(Note: that syntax is terrible)

mınxomaτ

@Geobits b=(a<4&&a)?array[a]:w, storing the values in an array? This uses the 1-3 inclusive range from your example (assuming 0 == false).

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Q: CodeGolf Statistics - First 10 FrontPage sides

I was bored so i wrote a program in Mathematica to download all posts from the first 10 frontpages (=155 posts) and parse all entries to gather data from the languages and to make a Top-List for CodeGolfing. The place is determined with the quotient of total bytes by posts. So it can be interpre...

discussion code-golf statistics

Geobits

@mınxomaτ It was meant to just be an example of the repeated conditionals needed for ternary chains in general (if you're using them like a switch, that is). I knew I shouldn't have used consecutive numbers in the example ;)

mınxomaτ

@Geobits This doesn't need consecutive numbers, as long as the highest number doesn't exceed the maximum array (or even Object) size.

Geobits

True, but you still have to pack the array, no?

You'd also have to use some sort of map to switch on strings if your lang treats arrays/maps differently.

mınxomaτ

3:54 PM

Initialize the array to some false value, e.g. -1, and replace (a<4&&a) with (a<4&&a&&~array[a]).

Of course this varies greatly with the data used, but using an array/object selector is always shorter (given enough values) than the switch in these specific situations.

Geobits

But with non-consecutive numbers you lose the golfiness of a<4&&a since you have to check each one either way.

mınxomaτ

@Geobits Yes. Then use an object and string values (keys) to select.

betseg

hi

Geobits

I'm sure there's a size where creating the object and then selecting from it would be shorter than a golfy switch syntax, but it would depend, like you said.

betseg

4:16 PM

> Programs will take input. When they take input of "0", or a specific input of your choosing, they will output a setup for the game. when they take input "1", or a specific input of your choosing, they will then receive input of the board, and output a move. (the program will be run multiple times)

@DestructibleWatermelon ^ if 0 setup both sides?

TimmyD

4:34 PM

Oh man, @Geobits ... My PowerShell answer for the folding numbers challenge is (so far) at 148

Geobits

Ouch.

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Q: How can I count pentagon with programming?

I am trying to solve a problem which is about counting pentagons but I could not figure out how. Could someone show me a way to do that which will also show all possibilities? For example; this is one pentagon. But there are over 50 pentagons but it is really pain in ... to do this manually!

counting

Shebang

Hey y'all

I have sort of a unique opportunity here which I need some input on

I started at a new job and I've been given the opportunity to give myself my own title

I can pick anything I want as long as it isn't a lie (President, Manager, etc)

DJMcMayhem

@NewMainPosts Why are people voting this as a general programming question?

@Shebang what do you do there?

Shebang

I'm in "IT", I am designing Crystal Reports, but I am neck deep in the mess of a DB they have most of the time

DJMcMayhem

4:44 PM

@Shebang "Supreme overlord of Database Management"

Shebang

Hehe

DJMcMayhem

I'm an intern at an engineering company, and they hired some interns over the summer, so I asked for "Senior Intern".

Then my manager was like "Why stop there? You need to think big. 'Intern overlord!'"

TimmyD

@Shebang Database Scryer

Shebang

Overlord would be pretty funny to see on a resume

DJMcMayhem

"Grand Ruler of Software Development"

Shebang

4:50 PM

Unfortunately the only thing I seem to develop is convoluted DB2 SQL statements

DJMcMayhem

On a more serious note, you could go with something like "database administrator/engineer". Whichever you prefer

Nathan Merrill

I'm debating leaving out titles on my resume

simply put the tasks I worked on

DJMcMayhem

I don't even have a resume, lol

confusedandamused

5:16 PM

Can anyone explain a jump table is simple terms c# related? Or point me in the direction of some decent reading on it

mınxomaτ

VS 2015 -> VS15

Martin Ender

Visual Studio's double versioning system is pretty annoying...

confusedandamused

Isn't the reason they do that so that is stays in sync with .NET releases? (right?)

mınxomaτ

I just realized that I even have VS2015 installed, but never opened it on this machine, because of Rider.

Anonymous

@Sherlock9 That's actually correct. I fixed a bug. I forgot to ask Dennis to pull.

Anonymous

5:28 PM

@Dennis pull actually please?

Dennis

Seriously? :P

Just did.

mınxomaτ

5:40 PM

Well, the VS15 installer is a bit anticlimactic. It said "give us a minute" and then disappeared completely.

PhiNotPi

@mınxomaτ I wanted to ask you, any podcast updates?

Nathan Merrill

@confusedandamused Consider a language with only gotos. you could do: "If A == 1, Goto _", "If A == 2, Goto _", and so on

alternatively you could do Goto 4+A, and then on lines 5,6, and so on, put the appropriate gotos there

the latter is called a jump table, because you jump to the right goto, without making a bunch of if-statement checks

mınxomaτ

@PhiNotPi Not yet, I have some work to do. Also, I need to prepare the next alwsl release.

PhiNotPi

okay

DJMcMayhem

5:55 PM

Today I've made more rep on infosec.SE than on ppcg.

0_0

PhiNotPi

0 rep on infosec and -2 on ppcg?

mınxomaτ

hah

DJMcMayhem

No, 110 on infosec, 25 on PPCG

Wheat Wizard

@DJMcMayhem Same I have 300 on infosec and 75 on PPCG

(although 100 came from the association bonus)

PhiNotPi

I'm trying to figure out a good algorithm for creating a random tree with N nodes (rooted, ordered, arbitrary number of children).

Nathan Merrill

5:59 PM

are nodes identical?

PhiNotPi

I can easily assign values to the nodes after creating the tree.

This is for creating random brain-flak programs of a given length.

Anonymous

@Dennis Thanks

Nathan Merrill

the simple way I see it is to generate a random number between 0 and N+1 where N is the number of children at the current node

if you get N, then create a new child

if you get anything less than that, then descend, and repeat

DJMcMayhem

Is this for the autogolfer?

PhiNotPi

yes

Wheat Wizard

6:03 PM

@PhiNotPi The easiest (might not be best) is to create a random set of parentheses (via insertion) which can be converted to a tree.

DJMcMayhem

What if you just enumerated them, instead of randomizing them?

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Q: Build a nest

The challenge is simple: write a program or function that, when given a finite non-negative integer, outputs a nested array. The rules Your code must produce a unique valid nested array for every integer 0 ‌≤ n ‌< 231. Every possible nested array with up to 16 open brackets must be outputted w...

code-golf array-manipulation balanced-string

Somewhat related

PhiNotPi

I think I'll do something similar to that top answer.

As in... count through binary numbers.

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Q: Get dimension of a list

Find out the dimension of a simple nested list: [] -> 1 [[]] -> 2 [[[]]] -> 3 ... List taken as input, dimension as output. No counting length of strings - list manipulation and loops only. Any language is permitted. Get golfing!

code-golf counting

confusedandamused

@NathanMerrill Thanks for the explanation :)

Nathan Merrill

yep :)

DJMcMayhem

Is base conversion encoding generally more or less efficient than Huffman-encoding?

TimmyD

@Geobits Oh goody! I found a completely different approach ... that is the same 148 bytes.

Geobits

6:34 PM

Nice! Now you just need to golf 14 more to tie Java!

Martin Ender

@TimmyD if you think that's crazy check out Mitch's solutions here golf.shinh.org/p.rb?One+Pass+of+Bubble+Sort#Python

TimmyD

@MartinEnder Sorry, I don't really grok Anarchy Golf. My brain just doesn't process its layout for some reason.

Martin Ender

each line is a submission. you can click the name to see the code. the point here is that Mitch had five different 60-byte solutions

DJMcMayhem

Their layout is better than ours, at least for code golf.

Martin Ender

yeah

Anonymous

6:51 PM

@DJMcMayhem Typically less. IIRC in the worst case, they break even.

Anonymous

But don't take that as hard truth

Anonymous

It's been a while since college :P

Martin Ender

sounds about right

unless you count the dictionary needed for Huffman

DJMcMayhem

OK. I'm wondering about the most efficient possible encoding of brainfuck. Obviously you can just use three-bit but then that gets screwed up when you need to think about padding

Anonymous

3-bit encoding BF and doing PKCS-style padding would probably be the best way

DJMcMayhem

6:55 PM

I was thinking of some kind of terminator, so you know when to stop reading.

@Mego what's PKCS?

Martin Ender

I think sesos is doing a pretty good job

Anonymous

Padding (cryptography)

In cryptography, padding refers to a number of distinct practices. == Classical cryptography == Official messages often start and end in predictable ways: My dear ambassador, Weather report, Sincerely yours, etc. The primary use of padding with classical ciphers is to prevent the cryptanalyst from using that predictability to find known plaintext that aids in breaking the encryption. Random length padding also prevents an attacker from knowing the exact length of the plaintext message. Many classical ciphers arrange the plaintext into particular patterns (e.g., squares, rectangles, etc.) and if...

DJMcMayhem

@MartinEnder Yeah, but sesos is more than just an encoding, it's also a compiler of sorts

flawr

heya

the mechanical puzzles subreddit is trending!

Martin Ender

if you ignore the additional features it adds, it's just an encoding

for instance runs of +s and -s or < and > are encoded in binary, because there's no good reason to pair them up

DJMcMayhem

6:57 PM

@Mego padding with whole bytes? That's just wasteful

How about left pad with zeroes, and add a one to signal start of transmission?

It occasionally adds one whole byte of padding, but rarely

@MartinEnder so like run-length encoding?

Anonymous

@DJMcMayhem I didn't mean to actually pad it with whole bytes. I meant to use the same concept employed in PKCS#7

Martin Ender

@DJMcMayhem yeah, pretty much.

Anonymous

Another way you could deal with padding is to add NOPs to the end or beginning

El'endia Starman

@flawr Looking at the sidebar, looks like you're a pretty active member of that community.

Anonymous

e.g. for 6 bits of padding you could use ><

Martin Ender

7:00 PM

@DJMcMayhem left pad with zeros and make zero represent < or >

oh right

that's what Mego just said

Anonymous

@MartinEnder Actually that would be better if the tape doesn't wrap to the left

TimmyD

Ah, heck. I got the two solutions down to 143 each. I'm just going to post 'em as a pair and shrug that Java is beating PowerShell.

DJMcMayhem

Oh that's even better than my solution. I forgot bf has NOPS

Anonymous

So pad with 0 (aka <) 0, 1, or 2 times to the left, and then pad with whatever to the right, and read chunks of 3 bits, ignoring any trailing bits.

flawr

@El'endiaStarman =) right

Anonymous

7:02 PM

Mixing up write with right? Jeez I'm not even drunk

DJMcMayhem

That's a great solution since you'll never need to an extraneous byte

mınxomaτ

Oh, Alex is alive.

DJMcMayhem

Man, I love information theory

A year or two ago I wrote a Huffman compressor in C++ and it's one of my favorite things I've ever written

Anonymous

Alex is alive?

mınxomaτ

@Mego He did a thing on GitHub.

betseg

7:42 PM

@DestructibleWatermelon i dont understand how io will work on your challenge ;_;

TimmyD

TIL -- Windows (since Vista) has a /g flag on shutdown to automatically restart any open applications after reboot. source

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How old is that map? kolmogorov-complexity Referencing xkcd 1688: Your task is to deduct the age of a map by asking the user questions. These question must be exactly the same as in the xkcd guide, except from the capitalisation and additional newline(s). Additionally, you should give the use...

betseg

^^ woah nice

Downgoat

7:59 PM

@Mego if it was a sign of drunkenness I would be dead by now

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